Enterprise Software Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Enterprise Application Software
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in contract job vacancies in Leeds. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 59 68
Rank change year-on-year -14 +9 +34
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.66% 0.20% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.93% 0.77% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £444 - -
25th Percentile £468 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £432
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% +15.74% -22.34%
75th Percentile £584 - -
90th Percentile £669 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £538 £500 £432
% change year-on-year +7.50% +15.74% -21.45%

All Generic Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 259 130 195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 34.40% 25.84% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 84 122
10th Percentile £350 £263 £307
25th Percentile £450 £404 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £566 £641 £575
90th Percentile £625 £734 £611
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 7
10th Percentile - £33.28 £12.05
25th Percentile - £35.99 £12.25
Median hourly rate £14.25 £41.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.24% +203.70% -37.21%
75th Percentile £15.29 £69.07 £15.22
90th Percentile £17.60 £85.61 £17.94
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.25 £40.00 £14.63
% change year-on-year -61.88% +173.50% -21.79%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Enterprise Software relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Enterprise Software job vacancy trend in Leeds

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Enterprise Software.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Enterprise Software

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Software in Leeds over the 6 months to 31 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Software in Leeds

Enterprise Software
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
2 3 (60.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Architectural Design
1 3 (60.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (60.00%) Information Security
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (60.00%) SDLC
1 3 (60.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) SIEM
1 3 (60.00%) TOGAF
1 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (40.00%) Application Security
2 2 (40.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Secrets Management
2 2 (40.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (60.00%) CCSP
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (60.00%) CISSP
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
1 3 (60.00%) PCI DSS
1 3 (60.00%) PSD2
2 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) SAP