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 3 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 124 119
Rank change year-on-year -13 -5 +12
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 60 24 15
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.20% 0.88% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.27% 2.40% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 15 8
10th Percentile £360 £408 £295
25th Percentile £413 £426 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £445
Median % change year-on-year +13.77% -1.24% -23.93%
75th Percentile £626 £559 £465
90th Percentile £671 £600 £529
England median daily rate £525 £525 £506
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -11.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.00 - -
Median hourly rate £18.79 - -
75th Percentile £20.01 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £19.50 £16.00 -
% change year-on-year +21.88% - -

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 1,405 1,002 780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 28.15% 36.93% 29.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 793 631 459
10th Percentile £306 £263 £208
25th Percentile £413 £389 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £607 £578 £625
90th Percentile £700 £669 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 68 20
10th Percentile £12.95 - £15.46
25th Percentile £15.25 £18.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £25.00 £25.11 £32.21
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -22.03% +17.12%
75th Percentile £43.96 £41.35 £55.00
90th Percentile £70.59 £50.00 £57.40
England median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +16.67% -47.69% +24.19%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +3 53 £475 -17.39% 91
East Midlands -26 5 £600 +36.52% 42
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 3 (5.00%) Confluence
1 3 (5.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (5.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.67%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) ContrOCC
2 2 (3.33%) SAP HCM
2 2 (3.33%) SAP HR
2 2 (3.33%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.67%) Teamcenter
3 1 (1.67%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 30 (50.00%) Azure
2 15 (25.00%) AWS
3 13 (21.67%) Entra ID
4 10 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (11.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 7 (11.67%) SaaS
6 6 (10.00%) SuccessFactors
7 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (8.33%) Power Automate
8 4 (6.67%) GCP
8 4 (6.67%) Power Platform
8 4 (6.67%) Serverless
9 3 (5.00%) AWS KMS
9 3 (5.00%) Azure Functions
9 3 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (5.00%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (5.00%) GitHub
9 3 (5.00%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (5.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.33%) Firewall
2 4 (6.67%) Network Security
3 3 (5.00%) DHCP
3 3 (5.00%) DNS
3 3 (5.00%) Internet
3 3 (5.00%) LAN
3 3 (5.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (5.00%) SSL
3 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.00%) VPN
3 3 (5.00%) WAN
4 1 (1.67%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) Metadata
1 4 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.67%) Power BI
3 1 (1.67%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (13.33%) Git
1 8 (13.33%) JIRA
2 6 (10.00%) Maven
3 3 (5.00%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.00%) JUnit
3 3 (5.00%) Mockito
3 3 (5.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.67%) DbUnit
General
1 31 (51.67%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.33%) Public Sector
3 11 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (15.00%) Finance
5 4 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (5.00%) Local Government
6 3 (5.00%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.33%) Aerospace
7 2 (3.33%) Automotive
7 2 (3.33%) Marketing
8 1 (1.67%) Banking
8 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Legal
8 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (18.33%) Architect
2 8 (13.33%) Developer
3 6 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 5 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Senior
5 4 (6.67%) Data Architect
5 4 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.00%) Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) Applications Support
6 3 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Consultant
6 3 (5.00%) IT Manager
6 3 (5.00%) IT Project Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Lead
6 3 (5.00%) Support Officer
7 2 (3.33%) Automation Developer
7 2 (3.33%) Help Desk Support
7 2 (3.33%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
7 2 (3.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) REST
2 6 (10.00%) SOAP
3 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Graph
3 5 (8.33%) SailPoint
3 5 (8.33%) SAML
3 5 (8.33%) Spring
4 4 (6.67%) JSON
4 4 (6.67%) LangChain
4 4 (6.67%) LangGraph
4 4 (6.67%) SAP CAF
4 4 (6.67%) Semantic Kernel
4 4 (6.67%) Spring Boot
4 4 (6.67%) Web Services
5 3 (5.00%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (5.00%) Hibernate
5 3 (5.00%) JPA
5 3 (5.00%) RESTful
6 2 (3.33%) Kafka
6 2 (3.33%) OAuth
6 2 (3.33%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 5 (8.33%) Data Fabric
4 4 (6.67%) AI Agents
4 4 (6.67%) SCADA
5 3 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.33%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.67%) CMDB
7 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.67%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.67%) Windows
2 4 (6.67%) Linux
3 3 (5.00%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (43.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 22 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (31.67%) Agile
4 15 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (23.33%) DevOps
6 13 (21.67%) Translating Business Requirements
7 12 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 11 (18.33%) CI/CD
8 11 (18.33%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
10 9 (15.00%) ITIL
10 9 (15.00%) Roadmaps
11 8 (13.33%) Data Management
11 8 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
11 8 (13.33%) Migration
11 8 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
12 7 (11.67%) AI
12 7 (11.67%) Incident Management
12 7 (11.67%) Scrum
12 7 (11.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.33%) Java
1 8 (13.33%) PowerShell
1 8 (13.33%) SQL
2 4 (6.67%) Python
3 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.67%) ABAP
4 1 (1.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 23 (38.33%) Security Cleared
2 21 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.33%) CISSP
5 2 (3.33%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.67%) CEH
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.67%) CSSLP
6 1 (1.67%) Degree
6 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.67%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.67%) NCSC
3 3 (5.00%) QA
3 3 (5.00%) SLA
4 2 (3.33%) GRC
4 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.33%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (21.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.33%) Docker
3 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (5.00%) Grafana
4 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (21.67%) SAP
3 8 (13.33%) Oracle
3 8 (13.33%) ServiceNow
4 6 (10.00%) OpenAI
5 3 (5.00%) Citrix
5 3 (5.00%) Foundry
5 3 (5.00%) Liquidlogic
5 3 (5.00%) MuleSoft
5 3 (5.00%) Workday
5 3 (5.00%) Zscaler
6 2 (3.33%) Databricks
7 1 (1.67%) Ariba
7 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.67%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (1.67%) DocuSign
7 1 (1.67%) Pega
7 1 (1.67%) Siemens
7 1 (1.67%) Snow
7 1 (1.67%) Thales