Enterprise Software Contracts in England

Enterprise Application Software
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 346 353
Rank change year-on-year +61 +7 +12
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 209 198 336
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.86% 0.53% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.51% 1.73% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 121 253
10th Percentile £313 £400 £353
25th Percentile £463 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £734 £688 £700
90th Percentile £838 £825 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 1
10th Percentile £28.00 £43.84 -
25th Percentile £40.25 £52.90 £66.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -11.11% +55.48%
75th Percentile £71.08 £62.90 £68.75
90th Percentile £80.32 £63.29 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% -11.11% +68.40%

All Generic Skills
England

Enterprise Software falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Enterprise Software as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Software in England

Enterprise Software
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Software in England.

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Software in England

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Software in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Software in England

Enterprise Software
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Software in England.

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Software in England

Enterprise Software
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Enterprise Software in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Enterprise Software in England

Enterprise Software
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Software within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +46 111 £625 +4.17% 311
North of England +21 31 £425 -10.53% 83
South East +40 21 £575 -4.96% 138
North West +13 21 £500 - 52
Midlands +15 15 £600 +17.07% 67
West Midlands +18 12 £600 -1.15% 32
South West +46 8 £550 -17.91% 33
East of England +28 6 £600 +17.65% 42
Yorkshire +10 6 £370 -13.65% 24
North East - 4 £450 - 7
East Midlands -1 2 £600 +34.83% 33
Enterprise Software
UK

Enterprise Software
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (5.74%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.91%) Confluence
3 4 (1.91%) Skype for Business
4 3 (1.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.96%) CMS
5 2 (0.96%) IIS
5 2 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.48%) Apache
6 1 (0.48%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.48%) SAS
6 1 (0.48%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (4.78%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.39%) EngageOne
2 5 (2.39%) InfoPath
3 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.44%) Revit
4 2 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.48%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.48%) Notion
5 1 (0.48%) ProjectWise
5 1 (0.48%) Sketch
5 1 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.44%) Maximo
3 2 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.48%) BambooHR
4 1 (0.48%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.48%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.48%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (24.40%) Azure
2 40 (19.14%) AWS
3 23 (11.00%) Entra ID
4 21 (10.05%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (7.18%) GCP
6 14 (6.70%) SaaS
7 10 (4.78%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.83%) Serverless
9 7 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (3.35%) Power Automate
9 7 (3.35%) PowerApps
10 6 (2.87%) Google Workspace
10 6 (2.87%) OneDrive
11 5 (2.39%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.39%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.39%) IaaS
11 5 (2.39%) PaaS
12 4 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.91%) Figma
12 4 (1.91%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.22%) VPN
2 12 (5.74%) DNS
3 11 (5.26%) Firewall
4 9 (4.31%) DHCP
5 6 (2.87%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.91%) iSCSI
6 4 (1.91%) SAN
6 4 (1.91%) Skype
6 4 (1.91%) VLAN
7 2 (0.96%) Internet
7 2 (0.96%) LAN
7 2 (0.96%) Network Security
7 2 (0.96%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.96%) SSL
7 2 (0.96%) WAN
8 1 (0.48%) GPON
8 1 (0.48%) HTTP
8 1 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.48%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.22%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 11 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.83%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.35%) Couchbase
4 7 (3.35%) Power BI
5 6 (2.87%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.87%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.39%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.44%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.44%) OLTP
8 2 (0.96%) IDOL
8 2 (0.96%) KDB
8 2 (0.96%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (11.48%) JIRA
2 9 (4.31%) Git
3 6 (2.87%) GitLab
4 4 (1.91%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.44%) Postman
6 2 (0.96%) GCC
6 2 (0.96%) HP UFT
6 2 (0.96%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.96%) Maven
6 2 (0.96%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.48%) ERwin
7 1 (0.48%) Gradle
7 1 (0.48%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.48%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.48%) Zephyr
General
1 88 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 47 (22.49%) Finance
3 45 (21.53%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.18%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.22%) Front Office
6 11 (5.26%) Banking
7 6 (2.87%) French Language
7 6 (2.87%) Marketing
7 6 (2.87%) Retail
8 5 (2.39%) Back Office
8 5 (2.39%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.91%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.96%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.96%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Legal
Job Titles
1 47 (22.49%) Architect
2 32 (15.31%) Developer
3 18 (8.61%) Senior
4 17 (8.13%) Analyst
4 17 (8.13%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (6.70%) C# Developer
6 13 (6.22%) Consultant
6 13 (6.22%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 12 (5.74%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
7 12 (5.74%) Real Time Developer
8 10 (4.78%) .NET Developer
8 10 (4.78%) C# .NET Developer
8 10 (4.78%) Designer
8 10 (4.78%) Lead
8 10 (4.78%) Support Engineer
9 8 (3.83%) Data Architect
9 8 (3.83%) DBA
9 8 (3.83%) IAM Specialist
10 7 (3.35%) Service Analyst
10 7 (3.35%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.40%) .NET
2 16 (7.66%) REST
3 15 (7.18%) AngularJS
4 14 (6.70%) HTML
5 13 (6.22%) CSS
6 12 (5.74%) Reactive Extensions
6 12 (5.74%) SAML
7 11 (5.26%) React
7 11 (5.26%) RESTful
7 11 (5.26%) SailPoint
8 10 (4.78%) OAuth
9 9 (4.31%) OpenID
9 9 (4.31%) SOAP
10 8 (3.83%) Kafka
10 8 (3.83%) Middleware
10 8 (3.83%) Spring
11 7 (3.35%) Web Services
12 6 (2.87%) .NET Framework
12 6 (2.87%) Oracle Fusion
13 5 (2.39%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.78%) Data Structures
2 9 (4.31%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.83%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.39%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.39%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.39%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (2.39%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.91%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.91%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.91%) Replication
6 3 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.44%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.44%) iPad
7 2 (0.96%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.96%) IVR
7 2 (0.96%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 26 (12.44%) Windows
2 19 (9.09%) Linux
3 9 (4.31%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.39%) MVS
5 4 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.91%) Unix
6 3 (1.44%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.96%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.96%) SUSE
8 1 (0.48%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (29.19%) Agile
1 61 (29.19%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (14.35%) Migration
3 28 (13.40%) DevOps
4 25 (11.96%) CI/CD
5 23 (11.00%) CRM
6 19 (9.09%) Computer Science
6 19 (9.09%) OO
7 18 (8.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (8.13%) Electronic Trading
8 17 (8.13%) Microservices
8 17 (8.13%) Project Management
8 17 (8.13%) Scrum
9 16 (7.66%) Design Patterns
9 16 (7.66%) Roadmaps
10 15 (7.18%) Analytics
10 15 (7.18%) Identity Access Management
10 15 (7.18%) ITIL
11 14 (6.70%) Customer Service
11 14 (6.70%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 48 (22.97%) Java
2 44 (21.05%) SQL
3 35 (16.75%) Python
4 29 (13.88%) JavaScript
5 26 (12.44%) C#
6 17 (8.13%) TypeScript
7 13 (6.22%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.87%) C++
9 5 (2.39%) Bash
9 5 (2.39%) C
10 3 (1.44%) Scala
11 2 (0.96%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.96%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.48%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.48%) Groovy
12 1 (0.48%) Magik
12 1 (0.48%) Perl
12 1 (0.48%) PHP
Qualifications
1 39 (18.66%) Security Cleared
2 31 (14.83%) SC Cleared
3 29 (13.88%) Degree
4 13 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.35%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.87%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.91%) A+ Certification
7 4 (1.91%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.91%) CISM
7 4 (1.91%) CISSP
7 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.44%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.44%) PMP
9 2 (0.96%) CRISC
9 2 (0.96%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.48%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.74%) GDPR
2 10 (4.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 8 (3.83%) HIPAA
3 8 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.83%) SLA
4 6 (2.87%) NIST
5 4 (1.91%) QA
6 3 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.96%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.96%) PMO
8 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.48%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 15 (7.18%) Docker
2 13 (6.22%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.91%) vSphere
5 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
2 17 (8.13%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.83%) Terraform
4 6 (2.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.39%) Ansible
6 2 (0.96%) Argo
6 2 (0.96%) CASB
7 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.48%) SCOM
Vendors
1 43 (20.57%) Oracle
2 36 (17.22%) Microsoft
3 16 (7.66%) SAP
4 14 (6.70%) Google
5 11 (5.26%) Salesforce
6 9 (4.31%) Okta
6 9 (4.31%) ServiceNow
7 8 (3.83%) VMware
8 7 (3.35%) Ping Identity
9 3 (1.44%) Autodesk
9 3 (1.44%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.96%) Adobe
10 2 (0.96%) Apple
10 2 (0.96%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.96%) Genesys
10 2 (0.96%) IBM
10 2 (0.96%) ION Trading
10 2 (0.96%) New Relic
10 2 (0.96%) Thunderhead
10 2 (0.96%) TIBCO