Enterprise Software Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Enterprise Application Software
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 115 130
Rank change year-on-year -8 +15 +35
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 23 21 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.88% 0.77% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.41% 2.71% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 19
10th Percentile £408 £307 £443
25th Percentile £428 £445 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -14.53%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £659
90th Percentile - £570 £700
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -6.12%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 954 774 947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 36.38% 28.51% 31.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 470 606
10th Percentile £245 £250 £263
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.50% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £633 £600
90th Percentile £653 £738 £719
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 22 41
10th Percentile £18.73 £15.13 £18.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £17.10 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £26.23 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.13% -4.61% +56.61%
75th Percentile £42.23 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.05 £70.00
England median hourly rate £32.89 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.65% +25.00% +73.13%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Software in the Midlands

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Enterprise Software

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Software in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Software in the Midlands

Enterprise Software
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Enterprise Software

Enterprise Software
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
East Midlands -1 12 £440 -1.24% 18
West Midlands -11 11 £600 +14.29% 26
Enterprise Software
England

Enterprise Software
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (4.35%) CMS
1 1 (4.35%) Mule
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Revit
2 1 (4.35%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (4.35%) InDesign
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.35%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Maximo
1 3 (13.04%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) GCP
2 8 (34.78%) AWS
3 5 (21.74%) Azure
4 3 (13.04%) SaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Neptune
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) Google Gemini
5 1 (4.35%) Lucidchart
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.35%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (4.35%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Banking
3 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Marketing
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Publishing
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Architect
2 5 (21.74%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Consultant
3 4 (17.39%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Identity Management Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Data Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Implementation Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) IT Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Lead
6 1 (4.35%) QA Leader
6 1 (4.35%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Hibernate
1 7 (30.43%) LDAP
1 7 (30.43%) OAuth
1 7 (30.43%) OpenID
1 7 (30.43%) SAML
1 7 (30.43%) Spring
2 3 (13.04%) HTML
3 2 (8.70%) CSS
4 1 (4.35%) CrewAI
4 1 (4.35%) Flash
4 1 (4.35%) LangGraph
4 1 (4.35%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Social Media
2 1 (4.35%) AI Agents
2 1 (4.35%) Blog
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) PKI
2 1 (4.35%) Replication
2 1 (4.35%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
1 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (34.78%) RBAC
3 7 (30.43%) Containerisation
3 7 (30.43%) DevSecOps
3 7 (30.43%) Identity Access Management
4 6 (26.09%) Agile
5 5 (21.74%) Building Information Modelling
5 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (17.39%) Scrum
6 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (13.04%) Analytics
7 3 (13.04%) Data Architecture
7 3 (13.04%) Data Integration
7 3 (13.04%) Data Modelling
7 3 (13.04%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (13.04%) Software Architecture
7 3 (13.04%) TOGAF
8 2 (8.70%) Regulatory Compliance
8 2 (8.70%) Social Media Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) Java
2 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
2 3 (13.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
1 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.35%) MCP
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) GDPR
1 7 (30.43%) HIPAA
2 3 (13.04%) QA
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Kubernetes
2 7 (30.43%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 7 (30.43%) IBM
2 7 (30.43%) Ping Identity
3 4 (17.39%) Autodesk
4 3 (13.04%) SAP
5 2 (8.70%) Facebook
5 2 (8.70%) Google
5 2 (8.70%) Instagram
5 2 (8.70%) Twitter
5 2 (8.70%) YouTube
6 1 (4.35%) Adobe
6 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
6 1 (4.35%) Avaya
6 1 (4.35%) Genesys