Enterprise Software Contract Job Trends in London

Enterprise Application Software
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 245 293
Rank change year-on-year +21 +48 +6
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 186 111 100
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.07% 0.87% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.98% 2.44% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 80 66
10th Percentile £400 £313 £375
25th Percentile £495 £463 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £580 £598
Median % change year-on-year +16.38% -2.93% -0.42%
75th Percentile £750 £813 £719
90th Percentile - £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £564 £556
% change year-on-year -6.83% +1.30% +1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £70.24 £32.98
25th Percentile £55.81 £72.40 £37.06
Median hourly rate £57.77 £78.40 £45.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +71.37% -27.95%
75th Percentile £59.72 £82.00 £55.06
90th Percentile - £82.72 £59.53
England median hourly rate £16.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -74.40% +4.17% -7.69%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,233 4,540 5,924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.85% 35.73% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,997 3,073 4,206
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £848 £838
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 72 162
10th Percentile £18.07 £15.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £23.94 £23.26 £18.83
Median hourly rate £32.87 £34.75 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.40% +33.65% -25.71%
75th Percentile £59.52 £50.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.60 £80.52 £66.58
England median hourly rate £45.46 £36.48 £28.38
% change year-on-year +24.62% +28.56% +26.20%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Enterprise Software job vacancy trend in London

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Software in London over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Software in London

Enterprise Software
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Enterprise Software.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Enterprise Software

Enterprise Software
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 19 April 2026. 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
Central London -3 18 £363 -33.18% 40
West London - 5 £400 - 8
South London -15 2 £525 -
Enterprise Software
England

Enterprise Software
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (7.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (6.45%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.69%) IIS
4 4 (2.15%) JBoss
5 3 (1.61%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.08%) Confluence
7 1 (0.54%) Appian
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.54%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.08%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.08%) AutoCAD
2 2 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.08%) Revit
2 2 (1.08%) Sketch
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 93 (50.00%) Azure
2 64 (34.41%) AWS
3 45 (24.19%) GCP
4 22 (11.83%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (10.22%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (9.68%) Entra ID
7 15 (8.06%) SaaS
8 12 (6.45%) Serverless
9 9 (4.84%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (4.30%) IaaS
10 8 (4.30%) PaaS
11 7 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (3.76%) Power Platform
12 6 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (3.23%) GitHub
12 6 (3.23%) SuccessFactors
13 5 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (2.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (2.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.76%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (3.23%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (3.23%) Wireless
3 5 (2.69%) DNS
4 4 (2.15%) DHCP
4 4 (2.15%) Firewall
5 3 (1.61%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.08%) LAN
6 2 (1.08%) WAN
7 1 (0.54%) HTTP
7 1 (0.54%) Internet
7 1 (0.54%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.53%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.76%) Oracle Database
3 5 (2.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (2.15%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (1.61%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.08%) Metadata
6 2 (1.08%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.08%) Pinecone
6 2 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.08%) Power BI
7 1 (0.54%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.54%) NewSQL
7 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.54%) Redis
7 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.54%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 12 (6.45%) Git
2 6 (3.23%) GitLab
2 6 (3.23%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.23%) JIRA
3 3 (1.61%) Artifactory
3 3 (1.61%) MLflow
4 2 (1.08%) Axure RP
4 2 (1.08%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.54%) AdminStudio
5 1 (0.54%) Ant
5 1 (0.54%) InstallShield
5 1 (0.54%) JUnit
5 1 (0.54%) Mocha
5 1 (0.54%) MSI
5 1 (0.54%) Selenium
5 1 (0.54%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.54%) TestDirector
5 1 (0.54%) Toad
5 1 (0.54%) Vite
5 1 (0.54%) webpack
General
1 96 (51.61%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.28%) Finance
3 21 (11.29%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (5.38%) Law
7 9 (4.84%) Banking
8 8 (4.30%) Legal
9 6 (3.23%) Marketing
9 6 (3.23%) Retail
10 4 (2.15%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.15%) Local Government
11 3 (1.61%) Aviation
11 3 (1.61%) Military
11 3 (1.61%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.08%) Electronics
12 2 (1.08%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (1.08%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 70 (37.63%) Architect
2 34 (18.28%) CyberArk Architect
3 24 (12.90%) Developer
4 13 (6.99%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (6.45%) Analyst
5 12 (6.45%) Senior
6 11 (5.91%) Applications Architect
7 8 (4.30%) IT Support
7 8 (4.30%) Lead
8 7 (3.76%) Azure Architect
9 6 (3.23%) .NET Developer
9 6 (3.23%) C# Developer
9 6 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (3.23%) IT Support Technician
9 6 (3.23%) IT Technician
9 6 (3.23%) Support Technician
10 5 (2.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (2.69%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (2.15%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (2.15%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (23.66%) REST
2 40 (21.51%) SOAP
3 37 (19.89%) LDAP
4 19 (10.22%) .NET
5 12 (6.45%) React
6 11 (5.91%) OAuth
7 9 (4.84%) RESTful
8 8 (4.30%) Node.js
9 7 (3.76%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.76%) XML
10 6 (3.23%) JSON
10 6 (3.23%) Kafka
10 6 (3.23%) Vue
10 6 (3.23%) Web Services
10 6 (3.23%) X-Windows
11 5 (2.69%) .NET Framework
12 4 (2.15%) ASP.NET Web API
12 4 (2.15%) J2EE
12 4 (2.15%) Middleware
12 4 (2.15%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.35%) Security Posture
2 16 (8.60%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.84%) Virtual Team
5 8 (4.30%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.76%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.15%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.61%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.61%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (1.08%) BYOD
10 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.08%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.08%) Multi-touch
10 2 (1.08%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 28 (15.05%) Windows
2 11 (5.91%) Windows 10
3 7 (3.76%) Mac OS X
3 7 (3.76%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.61%) VMS
5 2 (1.08%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.54%) AIX
6 1 (0.54%) Android
6 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.54%) Linux
6 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.54%) Unix
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (31.18%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (30.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 51 (27.42%) Integration Patterns
4 40 (21.51%) Agile
4 40 (21.51%) ITSM
4 40 (21.51%) Technical Leadership
5 38 (20.43%) CI/CD
5 38 (20.43%) DevOps
6 36 (19.35%) Privileged Access Management
6 36 (19.35%) Task Automation
7 35 (18.82%) SIEM
8 34 (18.28%) Presales
9 28 (15.05%) Roadmaps
10 22 (11.83%) AI
11 21 (11.29%) Migration
12 20 (10.75%) User Experience
13 19 (10.22%) CRM
13 19 (10.22%) Enterprise Architecture
14 17 (9.14%) Decision-Making
15 16 (8.60%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (32.26%) Python
2 41 (22.04%) PowerShell
3 20 (10.75%) SQL
4 19 (10.22%) C#
5 10 (5.38%) Java
5 10 (5.38%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.76%) PL/SQL
7 6 (3.23%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.69%) Bash
8 5 (2.69%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.08%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.08%) Korn
10 1 (0.54%) Perl
10 1 (0.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 58 (31.18%) Security Cleared
2 56 (30.11%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.29%) Degree
4 12 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.30%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.69%) CISSP
8 3 (1.61%) CISM
8 3 (1.61%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.61%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.61%) PMP
8 3 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.08%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.54%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.54%) CCNA
10 1 (0.54%) CCNP
10 1 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.91%) QA
2 4 (2.15%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.15%) GDPR
3 3 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.08%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.54%) GRC
5 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.54%) PMO
5 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (32.26%) Active Directory
2 16 (8.60%) Docker
3 2 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (7.53%) Terraform
2 10 (5.38%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.30%) Ansible
4 6 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (3.23%) SCCM
5 5 (2.69%) Grafana
5 5 (2.69%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.61%) Puppet
6 3 (1.61%) Salt
7 1 (0.54%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 49 (26.34%) Microsoft
2 34 (18.28%) BeyondTrust
2 34 (18.28%) Centrify
2 34 (18.28%) CyberArk
3 18 (9.68%) SAP
4 11 (5.91%) Salesforce
5 10 (5.38%) Intapp
5 10 (5.38%) Oracle
6 7 (3.76%) iManage
7 6 (3.23%) Adobe
7 6 (3.23%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.15%) Aderant
8 4 (2.15%) Citrix
8 4 (2.15%) Databricks
9 3 (1.61%) Autodesk
9 3 (1.61%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.61%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.61%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.08%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.08%) VMware