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 24 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 114 111
Rank change year-on-year -41 -3 +5
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 33 22 24
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.71% 0.92% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.50% 2.71% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 16
10th Percentile £347 £416 £309
25th Percentile £399 £430 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.74% +0.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £500 £600 £566
90th Percentile £583 - £611
England median daily rate £518 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -5.91% +3.19% -3.09%
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 £41.50 £45.75
% change year-on-year -53.01% -9.29% -32.22%

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 1,321 811 851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 28.45% 33.76% 30.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 828 512 545
10th Percentile £300 £246 £240
25th Percentile £407 £366 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £645 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 63 38
10th Percentile £13.51 £16.22 £11.23
25th Percentile £17.28 £18.87 £13.23
Median hourly rate £25.88 £28.18 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +48.32% -30.91%
75th Percentile £47.50 £42.23 £47.63
90th Percentile £74.00 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £43.96 £32.89 £42.50
% change year-on-year +33.66% -22.61% +2.98%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -44 27 £425 -29.17% 20
East Midlands -19 4 £600 +36.52% 8
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 (6.06%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.03%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) ContrOCC
2 1 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.03%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (42.42%) Entra ID
2 13 (39.39%) Azure
3 5 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (12.12%) SuccessFactors
5 3 (9.09%) SaaS
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (6.06%) Lucidchart
6 2 (6.06%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (3.03%) AWS
7 1 (3.03%) AWS KMS
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.03%) IaaS
7 1 (3.03%) PaaS
7 1 (3.03%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.18%) VPN
2 5 (15.15%) Firewall
3 4 (12.12%) DNS
3 4 (12.12%) Internet
3 4 (12.12%) Network Security
3 4 (12.12%) SSL
4 3 (9.09%) DHCP
4 3 (9.09%) LAN
4 3 (9.09%) SD-WAN
4 3 (9.09%) TCP/IP
4 3 (9.09%) WAN
5 1 (3.03%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.03%) IDMS
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) JIRA
2 3 (9.09%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (9.09%) Git
2 3 (9.09%) Maven
3 2 (6.06%) Selenium
3 2 (6.06%) WebDriver
4 1 (3.03%) CA Gen
4 1 (3.03%) DbUnit
4 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.03%) JUnit
4 1 (3.03%) Mockito
4 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 5 (15.15%) Finance
4 3 (9.09%) Local Government
5 2 (6.06%) Aerospace
5 2 (6.06%) Automotive
5 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.03%) Advertising
6 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.03%) Legal
6 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (15.15%) Consultant
1 5 (15.15%) Senior
2 4 (12.12%) Developer
3 3 (9.09%) Applications Support
3 3 (9.09%) Java Developer
3 3 (9.09%) Support Officer
4 2 (6.06%) Applications Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Digital Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Digital Business Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Logistics Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Logistics Project Manager
4 2 (6.06%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) QA Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Senior IT Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Senior IT Project Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Project Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) SailPoint
2 4 (12.12%) SAP CAF
3 3 (9.09%) SAML
4 2 (6.06%) .NET
4 2 (6.06%) FIDO
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (6.06%) Spring
5 1 (3.03%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
5 1 (3.03%) Hibernate
5 1 (3.03%) JPA
5 1 (3.03%) LDAP
5 1 (3.03%) REST
5 1 (3.03%) RESTful
5 1 (3.03%) SOAP
5 1 (3.03%) Spring Batch
5 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.03%) Spring Integration
5 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) SCADA
2 3 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) CMDB
4 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.03%) PKI
4 1 (3.03%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Windows
2 3 (9.09%) Linux
2 3 (9.09%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.03%) Unix
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Agile
1 11 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (27.27%) Validation
3 8 (24.24%) ITIL
3 8 (24.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (21.21%) Data Management
4 7 (21.21%) DevOps
4 7 (21.21%) Incident Management
4 7 (21.21%) RBAC
4 7 (21.21%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (15.15%) Analytics
5 5 (15.15%) Translating Business Requirements
5 5 (15.15%) User Experience
6 4 (12.12%) AI
6 4 (12.12%) Compliance Audit
6 4 (12.12%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (12.12%) Integration Testing
6 4 (12.12%) Performance Testing
6 4 (12.12%) Regulatory Compliance
6 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) SQL
2 5 (15.15%) Java
3 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.06%) C#
5 1 (3.03%) BeanShell
5 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (42.42%) Security Cleared
2 12 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.06%) ISTQB
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.03%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) Data Quality
1 4 (12.12%) NCSC
1 4 (12.12%) QA
2 3 (9.09%) SLA
3 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (6.06%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.06%) Docker
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.03%) CASB
3 1 (3.03%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.21%) SAP
3 6 (18.18%) ServiceNow
4 4 (12.12%) Citrix
5 3 (9.09%) Liquidlogic
5 3 (9.09%) MuleSoft
5 3 (9.09%) Oracle
5 3 (9.09%) Workday
5 3 (9.09%) Zscaler
6 1 (3.03%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.03%) Databricks
6 1 (3.03%) DocuSign
6 1 (3.03%) Netskope