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 6 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 103 119
Rank change year-on-year -45 +16 +19
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 34 11 17
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.84% 0.58% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.74% 1.89% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 7 14
10th Percentile £253 £432 £389
25th Percentile £285 £508 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £525 - £611
90th Percentile £619 £615 -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%

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 1,241 582 839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.77% 30.86% 30.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 763 389 542
10th Percentile £241 £185 £220
25th Percentile £374 £363 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £494
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +1.21% +4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £669 £657 £700
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 25 71
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.81 £10.93
25th Percentile £17.12 £15.09 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.91 £18.13 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +26.34% +2.31% -14.42%
75th Percentile £30.00 £28.18 £26.98
90th Percentile £69.78 £31.33 £58.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £34.25 £28.00
% change year-on-year +31.39% +22.32% +24.44%

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 6 April 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 6 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
West Midlands -36 28 £400 -33.33% 19
East Midlands -30 5 - - 7
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 (2.94%) Confluence
1 1 (2.94%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (23.53%) AWS
3 7 (20.59%) Datadog
3 7 (20.59%) GCP
4 6 (17.65%) Entra ID
4 6 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (8.82%) SaaS
7 2 (5.88%) Lucidchart
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.94%) GitHub
8 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.59%) VPN
2 4 (11.76%) DNS
2 4 (11.76%) Firewall
3 3 (8.82%) DHCP
3 3 (8.82%) Internet
3 3 (8.82%) SSL
4 2 (5.88%) LAN
4 2 (5.88%) Network Security
4 2 (5.88%) SD-WAN
4 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) IDMS
1 1 (2.94%) Power BI
1 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (5.88%) Selenium
2 2 (5.88%) WebDriver
3 1 (2.94%) AdminStudio
3 1 (2.94%) CA Gen
3 1 (2.94%) InstallShield
3 1 (2.94%) MSI
General
1 14 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 10 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.88%) Legal
5 1 (2.94%) Advertising
5 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.94%) Finance
5 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (11.76%) Analyst
2 3 (8.82%) Architect
2 3 (8.82%) Consultant
2 3 (8.82%) CyberArk Architect
2 3 (8.82%) IT Engineer
2 3 (8.82%) IT Support
2 3 (8.82%) IT Support Engineer
2 3 (8.82%) Senior
2 3 (8.82%) Support Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) Applications Manager
3 2 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) Business Analyst
3 2 (5.88%) Digital Analyst
3 2 (5.88%) Digital Business Analyst
3 2 (5.88%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) QA Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) Senior QA Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (5.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (32.35%) Middleware
2 3 (8.82%) SAML
3 2 (5.88%) .NET
3 2 (5.88%) LDAP
3 2 (5.88%) WebCenter
4 1 (2.94%) OAuth
4 1 (2.94%) REST
4 1 (2.94%) SailPoint
4 1 (2.94%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.94%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.94%) PKI
3 1 (2.94%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 10 (29.41%) Windows
2 3 (8.82%) Linux
2 3 (8.82%) Windows 10
3 2 (5.88%) Mac OS
3 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) DevOps
2 14 (41.18%) CI/CD
3 13 (38.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (32.35%) ITIL
5 10 (29.41%) Change Management
6 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (26.47%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (23.53%) Microservices
7 8 (23.53%) Performance Management
8 7 (20.59%) Application Performance Management
8 7 (20.59%) Mentoring
8 7 (20.59%) Observability
8 7 (20.59%) Problem Management
9 6 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (14.71%) Analytics
11 4 (11.76%) Business Strategy
11 4 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (11.76%) Integration Testing
11 4 (11.76%) Privileged Access Management
11 4 (11.76%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 15 (44.12%) PowerShell
2 12 (35.29%) Python
3 8 (23.53%) Bash
4 6 (17.65%) SQL
5 2 (5.88%) C#
5 2 (5.88%) Java
6 1 (2.94%) BeanShell
6 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.94%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 15 (44.12%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (8.82%) Azure Certification
4 3 (8.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.88%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.94%) Degree
6 1 (2.94%) PMP
6 1 (2.94%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (11.76%) NIST
1 4 (11.76%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) ITGC
3 1 (2.94%) GDPR
3 1 (2.94%) GRC
3 1 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Active Directory
1 8 (23.53%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Kubernetes
1 8 (23.53%) Prometheus
2 7 (20.59%) Grafana
3 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (8.82%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.94%) CASB
5 1 (2.94%) SCCM
5 1 (2.94%) Terraform
5 1 (2.94%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.59%) AppDynamics
2 7 (20.59%) Dynatrace
2 7 (20.59%) Splunk
3 4 (11.76%) CyberArk
4 3 (8.82%) Citrix
4 3 (8.82%) Oracle
5 2 (5.88%) Salesforce
5 2 (5.88%) Zscaler
6 1 (2.94%) F5
6 1 (2.94%) Netskope
6 1 (2.94%) SAP
6 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.94%) VMware
6 1 (2.94%) Workday