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 19 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 123 111
Rank change year-on-year -17 -12 +12
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 55 23 21
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.12% 0.87% 0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.04% 2.37% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 16 13
10th Percentile £360 £408 £307
25th Percentile £413 £427 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.42% -11.05% -
75th Percentile £626 £577 £550
90th Percentile £650 £600 £570
England median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £17.17 - -
25th Percentile £17.43 - -
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 1,363 969 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 27.73% 36.48% 28.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 780 617 471
10th Percentile £306 £243 £240
25th Percentile £413 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £626
90th Percentile £688 £663 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 66 22
10th Percentile £12.83 - £15.13
25th Percentile £13.86 £18.87 £17.10
Median hourly rate £23.65 £26.67 £26.23
Median % change year-on-year -11.31% +1.65% -4.61%
75th Percentile £43.96 £43.12 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.59 £50.00 £57.05
England median hourly rate £37.50 £33.03 £57.35
% change year-on-year +13.55% -42.41% +25.00%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -11 49 £500 -16.67% 78
East Midlands -22 4 £600 +36.52% 34
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 (5.45%) WebLogic
2 2 (3.64%) Confluence
2 2 (3.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Chatbot
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.64%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.82%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (5.45%) ContrOCC
2 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.82%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.82%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 28 (50.91%) Azure
2 14 (25.45%) AWS
3 13 (23.64%) Entra ID
4 8 (14.55%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (12.73%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (12.73%) SaaS
6 6 (10.91%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (7.27%) Power Automate
7 4 (7.27%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (5.45%) AWS KMS
8 3 (5.45%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (5.45%) GCP
8 3 (5.45%) Power Platform
8 3 (5.45%) Serverless
9 2 (3.64%) Azure AI
9 2 (3.64%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.64%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (3.64%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (3.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.09%) Firewall
2 4 (7.27%) Network Security
3 3 (5.45%) DHCP
3 3 (5.45%) DNS
3 3 (5.45%) Internet
3 3 (5.45%) LAN
3 3 (5.45%) SD-WAN
3 3 (5.45%) SSL
3 3 (5.45%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.45%) VPN
3 3 (5.45%) WAN
4 1 (1.82%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.27%) Metadata
1 4 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.64%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.64%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.64%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (14.55%) Git
1 8 (14.55%) JIRA
2 6 (10.91%) Maven
3 3 (5.45%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (5.45%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.45%) JUnit
3 3 (5.45%) Mockito
3 3 (5.45%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.82%) DbUnit
General
1 27 (49.09%) Social Skills
2 13 (23.64%) Public Sector
3 10 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.73%) Finance
5 4 (7.27%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (5.45%) Local Government
6 3 (5.45%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.64%) Aerospace
7 2 (3.64%) Automotive
8 1 (1.82%) Banking
8 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Legal
8 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (18.18%) Architect
2 8 (14.55%) Developer
3 6 (10.91%) Java Developer
4 5 (9.09%) Senior
5 4 (7.27%) Analyst
5 4 (7.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Data Architect
5 4 (7.27%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.45%) Applications Support
6 3 (5.45%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Consultant
6 3 (5.45%) Lead
6 3 (5.45%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.45%) Support Officer
7 2 (3.64%) Automation Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Digital Business Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Java Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.73%) REST
2 5 (9.09%) SailPoint
2 5 (9.09%) SAML
2 5 (9.09%) Spring
3 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Graph
3 4 (7.27%) SAP CAF
3 4 (7.27%) SOAP
3 4 (7.27%) Spring Boot
3 4 (7.27%) Web Services
4 3 (5.45%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (5.45%) Hibernate
4 3 (5.45%) JPA
4 3 (5.45%) JSON
4 3 (5.45%) LangChain
4 3 (5.45%) LangGraph
4 3 (5.45%) RESTful
4 3 (5.45%) Semantic Kernel
5 2 (3.64%) Kafka
5 2 (3.64%) OAuth
5 2 (3.64%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.73%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.09%) Data Fabric
3 4 (7.27%) Onboarding
3 4 (7.27%) SCADA
4 3 (5.45%) AI Agents
4 3 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.64%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.64%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.82%) CMDB
6 1 (1.82%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.91%) Windows
2 4 (7.27%) Linux
3 3 (5.45%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
2 23 (41.82%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (34.55%) Agile
4 14 (25.45%) DevOps
5 13 (23.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 11 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 11 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 10 (18.18%) Data Management
7 10 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
8 9 (16.36%) Impact Assessments
8 9 (16.36%) ITIL
8 9 (16.36%) Scrum
8 9 (16.36%) Validation
9 8 (14.55%) AI
9 8 (14.55%) Enterprise Architecture
9 8 (14.55%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (12.73%) Analytics
10 7 (12.73%) Incident Management
10 7 (12.73%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.55%) Java
1 8 (14.55%) SQL
2 7 (12.73%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.45%) Python
4 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.64%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.64%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.82%) C#
Qualifications
1 23 (41.82%) Security Cleared
2 21 (38.18%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) Azure Certification
3 4 (7.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.64%) CISSP
5 1 (1.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.82%) CEH
5 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.82%) CSSLP
5 1 (1.82%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.82%) Degree
5 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.82%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.36%) Data Quality
2 5 (9.09%) QA
3 4 (7.27%) NCSC
4 3 (5.45%) SLA
5 2 (3.64%) GRC
5 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (3.64%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (21.82%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.09%) Docker
3 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (10.91%) Kubernetes
1 6 (10.91%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (5.45%) Grafana
2 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (29.09%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.55%) Oracle
2 8 (14.55%) SAP
3 7 (12.73%) ServiceNow
4 5 (9.09%) OpenAI
5 3 (5.45%) Citrix
5 3 (5.45%) Liquidlogic
5 3 (5.45%) MuleSoft
5 3 (5.45%) Zscaler
6 2 (3.64%) Databricks
6 2 (3.64%) Foundry
6 2 (3.64%) Workday
7 1 (1.82%) Ariba
7 1 (1.82%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.82%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (1.82%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.82%) DocuSign
7 1 (1.82%) Siemens
7 1 (1.82%) Snow
7 1 (1.82%) Thales