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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 119 109
Rank change year-on-year -23 -10 +16
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 50 24 21
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.06% 0.94% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.81% 2.59% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 18 13
10th Percentile £392 £408 £307
25th Percentile £425 £428 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -
75th Percentile £626 £597 £550
90th Percentile £654 £600 £570
England median daily rate £525 £550 £529
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.97% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.57 - -
Median hourly rate £18.79 - -
75th Percentile £20.01 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £19.50 £28.00 -
% change year-on-year -30.36% - -

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 1,311 927 759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 27.68% 36.35% 28.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 780 589 470
10th Percentile £306 £250 £250
25th Percentile £413 £380 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £523
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.09% +4.50%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £626
90th Percentile £687 £650 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 66 22
10th Percentile £12.83 £18.69 £15.13
25th Percentile £14.00 £18.87 £17.10
Median hourly rate £25.75 £26.67 £26.23
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +1.65% -4.61%
75th Percentile £43.96 £43.12 £49.69
90th Percentile £70.59 £50.00 £55.23
England median hourly rate £38.25 £32.77 £53.25
% change year-on-year +16.72% -38.46% +16.14%

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 4 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 4 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 -16 42 £500 -16.67% 47
East Midlands -29 5 £600 +36.52% 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 2 (4.00%) Confluence
1 2 (4.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.00%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (6.00%) ContrOCC
2 1 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.00%) Teamcenter
2 1 (2.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 23 (46.00%) Azure
2 14 (28.00%) Entra ID
3 12 (24.00%) AWS
4 7 (14.00%) SaaS
5 5 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (8.00%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (6.00%) GCP
8 2 (4.00%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (4.00%) Lucidchart
8 2 (4.00%) Power Automate
8 2 (4.00%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.00%) AWS KMS
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Databricks
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.00%) Google Gemini
9 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.00%) Firewall
2 4 (8.00%) Internet
2 4 (8.00%) Network Security
2 4 (8.00%) SSL
2 4 (8.00%) VPN
3 3 (6.00%) DHCP
3 3 (6.00%) DNS
3 3 (6.00%) LAN
3 3 (6.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (6.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (6.00%) WAN
4 1 (2.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Metadata
1 4 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Git
1 7 (14.00%) JIRA
2 5 (10.00%) Maven
3 3 (6.00%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.00%) JUnit
3 3 (6.00%) Mockito
3 3 (6.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.00%) DbUnit
4 1 (2.00%) Selenium
4 1 (2.00%) WebDriver
General
1 24 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (28.00%) Public Sector
3 9 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.00%) Finance
5 4 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (6.00%) Aerospace
6 3 (6.00%) Local Government
6 3 (6.00%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.00%) Automotive
8 1 (2.00%) Banking
8 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.00%) Legal
8 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (20.00%) Architect
2 7 (14.00%) Developer
2 7 (14.00%) Senior
3 5 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 4 (8.00%) Analyst
4 4 (8.00%) Data Architect
4 4 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.00%) Applications Support
5 3 (6.00%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.00%) Consultant
5 3 (6.00%) Lead
5 3 (6.00%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.00%) Support Officer
6 2 (4.00%) Automation Developer
6 2 (4.00%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Senior IT Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.00%) REST
2 5 (10.00%) SailPoint
2 5 (10.00%) Spring
3 4 (8.00%) SAML
3 4 (8.00%) SAP CAF
3 4 (8.00%) SOAP
3 4 (8.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (8.00%) Web Services
4 3 (6.00%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (6.00%) Hibernate
4 3 (6.00%) JPA
4 3 (6.00%) RESTful
5 2 (4.00%) .NET
5 2 (4.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.00%) FIDO
5 2 (4.00%) Kafka
5 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (4.00%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (2.00%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.00%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 5 (10.00%) Data Fabric
2 4 (8.00%) SCADA
3 3 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.00%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.00%) CMDB
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.00%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.00%) PKI
5 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.00%) Windows
2 3 (6.00%) Linux
2 3 (6.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (38.00%) Agile
3 18 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (24.00%) DevOps
5 11 (22.00%) Data Management
5 11 (22.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 11 (22.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 10 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 10 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (20.00%) Validation
7 9 (18.00%) ITIL
7 9 (18.00%) Scrum
7 9 (18.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (16.00%) Enterprise Architecture
8 8 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (14.00%) Impact Assessments
9 7 (14.00%) Incident Management
9 7 (14.00%) Migration
9 7 (14.00%) RBAC
9 7 (14.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.00%) Java
1 8 (16.00%) SQL
2 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.00%) C#
3 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.00%) BeanShell
4 1 (2.00%) Python
4 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (42.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.00%) PMP
4 1 (2.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (12.00%) QA
3 4 (8.00%) NCSC
4 3 (6.00%) SLA
5 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (22.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.00%) Docker
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (12.00%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.00%) Grafana
4 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.00%) CASB
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (22.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (18.00%) SAP
3 6 (12.00%) ServiceNow
4 5 (10.00%) Oracle
5 3 (6.00%) Citrix
5 3 (6.00%) Liquidlogic
5 3 (6.00%) MuleSoft
5 3 (6.00%) Workday
5 3 (6.00%) Zscaler
6 2 (4.00%) Databricks
7 1 (2.00%) Ariba
7 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.00%) DocuSign
7 1 (2.00%) Netskope
7 1 (2.00%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.00%) Pega
7 1 (2.00%) Siemens
7 1 (2.00%) Snow