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 16 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 118 124
Rank change year-on-year -21 +6 +29
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 28 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.86% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.49% 0.79% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 4
10th Percentile £218 £408 £389
25th Percentile £270 £419 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £306 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -31.94% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £613 £494 £528
90th Percentile £619 £513 £577
England median daily rate £550 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -2.44%

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 1,126 630 774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.47% 28.87% 30.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 701 369 498
10th Percentile £205 £180 £255
25th Percentile £358 £363 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £513 £498
Median % change year-on-year -8.29% +3.02% +8.15%
75th Percentile £575 £605 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £691
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 24 48
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.14 £16.54
25th Percentile £18.10 £18.13 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.52 £23.89 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.92% +3.87% +30.53%
75th Percentile £27.00 £32.21 £51.50
90th Percentile £30.80 £55.18 £67.50
England median hourly rate £28.06 £37.25 £37.75
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.32% +58.68%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Enterprise Software job vacancy trend 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 16 January 2026.

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 16 January 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
West Midlands -20 20 £306 - 12
East Midlands -19 8 £467 -6.70% 21
Enterprise Software
England

Enterprise Software
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (3.57%) Confluence
1 1 (3.57%) Mule
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 15 (53.57%) Azure
2 9 (32.14%) AWS
2 9 (32.14%) GCP
3 7 (25.00%) Datadog
4 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.71%) GitHub
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (7.14%) SaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon Neptune
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.57%) Google Gemini
6 1 (3.57%) Lucidchart
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.57%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) VPN
2 1 (3.57%) DHCP
2 1 (3.57%) DNS
2 1 (3.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) BigQuery
1 1 (3.57%) Power BI
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) AdminStudio
2 1 (3.57%) InstallShield
2 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.57%) MSI
2 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.57%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Finance
5 1 (3.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) Architect
2 4 (14.29%) Analyst
2 4 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) IT Support
2 4 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) CyberArk Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Applications Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Active Directory Specialist
5 1 (3.57%) Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) SCCM Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Security Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Solutions Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Technical Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Wintel Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Wintel Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (42.86%) Middleware
2 2 (7.14%) WebCenter
3 1 (3.57%) CrewAI
3 1 (3.57%) LangGraph
3 1 (3.57%) LDAP
3 1 (3.57%) OAuth
3 1 (3.57%) SAML
3 1 (3.57%) Semantic Kernel
3 1 (3.57%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.57%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (3.57%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (10.71%) Linux
2 3 (10.71%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) CI/CD
2 14 (50.00%) DevOps
3 13 (46.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (35.71%) ITIL
4 10 (35.71%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (32.14%) Change Management
5 9 (32.14%) Microservices
6 8 (28.57%) Observability
6 8 (28.57%) Performance Management
7 7 (25.00%) Application Performance Management
7 7 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 7 (25.00%) Problem Management
8 4 (14.29%) Business Continuity
8 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (14.29%) Customer Service
8 4 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
8 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (14.29%) Task Automation
9 3 (10.71%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) PowerShell
2 13 (46.43%) Python
3 9 (32.14%) Bash
4 2 (7.14%) SQL
5 1 (3.57%) Java
5 1 (3.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.57%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) MCP
5 1 (3.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (14.29%) NIST
2 2 (7.14%) ITGC
2 2 (7.14%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) GRC
3 1 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) Docker
2 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (39.29%) Kubernetes
2 9 (32.14%) Prometheus
3 7 (25.00%) Grafana
4 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (7.14%) Terraform
6 1 (3.57%) SCCM
6 1 (3.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) AppDynamics
1 7 (25.00%) Dynatrace
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (25.00%) Splunk
2 4 (14.29%) CyberArk
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle
3 2 (7.14%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.57%) Autodesk
4 1 (3.57%) F5
4 1 (3.57%) Google
4 1 (3.57%) VMware