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 14 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 127 138
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 +25
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 23 14 10
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.83% 0.53% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.20% 1.83% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 10
10th Percentile £408 £310 £408
25th Percentile £426 £379 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £445 £548
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -18.72% +9.50%
75th Percentile £550 £485 £700
90th Percentile £591 £530 -
England median daily rate £525 £501 £575
% change year-on-year +4.74% -12.83% -11.54%

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 1,045 766 916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 37.89% 28.84% 31.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 455 588
10th Percentile £263 £203 £263
25th Percentile £387 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £624 £606
90th Percentile £663 £713 £700
England median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 20 45
10th Percentile £18.80 £15.46 £17.83
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.30 £20.51
Median hourly rate £25.08 £27.53 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.91% +0.10% +56.61%
75th Percentile £40.46 £51.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.45 £69.50
England median hourly rate £29.50 £53.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -44.34% +14.77% +78.27%

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 14 October 2025.

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 14 October 2025. 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
East Midlands +3 16 £440 -1.24% 6
West Midlands -17 7 £550 - 13
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 (4.35%) CMS
1 1 (4.35%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (4.35%) InDesign
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
1 1 (4.35%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Sprinklr
2 1 (4.35%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) GCP
2 8 (34.78%) AWS
3 6 (26.09%) Azure
4 3 (13.04%) SaaS
5 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.70%) GitHub
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon Neptune
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.35%) Google Gemini
6 1 (4.35%) Lucidchart
6 1 (4.35%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) DHCP
1 1 (4.35%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
1 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (4.35%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Banking
2 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Marketing
3 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Publishing
3 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Consultant
1 4 (17.39%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
1 4 (17.39%) Identity Management Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) Architect
2 3 (13.04%) Implementation Consultant
3 2 (8.70%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) IT Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) IT Support
3 2 (8.70%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Lead
4 1 (4.35%) QA Leader
4 1 (4.35%) Wintel Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Wintel Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Hibernate
1 7 (30.43%) LDAP
1 7 (30.43%) OAuth
1 7 (30.43%) OpenID
1 7 (30.43%) SAML
1 7 (30.43%) Spring
2 3 (13.04%) HTML
3 2 (8.70%) CSS
3 2 (8.70%) Middleware
4 1 (4.35%) CrewAI
4 1 (4.35%) Flash
4 1 (4.35%) LangGraph
4 1 (4.35%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Social Media
2 1 (4.35%) AI Agents
2 1 (4.35%) Blog
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) PKI
2 1 (4.35%) Replication
2 1 (4.35%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
1 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
2 10 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (34.78%) Containerisation
3 8 (34.78%) Identity Access Management
3 8 (34.78%) RBAC
4 7 (30.43%) DevSecOps
5 6 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (17.39%) Analytics
7 4 (17.39%) Customer Service
8 3 (13.04%) Agile
8 3 (13.04%) DevOps
8 3 (13.04%) ITIL
9 2 (8.70%) Content Management
9 2 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (8.70%) CRM
9 2 (8.70%) Identity Management
9 2 (8.70%) Project Management
9 2 (8.70%) Software Deployment
9 2 (8.70%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) Java
2 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
2 3 (13.04%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.35%) MCP
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) GDPR
1 7 (30.43%) HIPAA
2 3 (13.04%) QA
3 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) Kubernetes
2 7 (30.43%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Microsoft
2 7 (30.43%) IBM
2 7 (30.43%) Ping Identity
3 2 (8.70%) Atlassian
3 2 (8.70%) Facebook
3 2 (8.70%) Google
3 2 (8.70%) Instagram
3 2 (8.70%) Twitter
3 2 (8.70%) YouTube
4 1 (4.35%) Adobe
4 1 (4.35%) Autodesk
4 1 (4.35%) Avaya
4 1 (4.35%) Genesys
4 1 (4.35%) SAP
4 1 (4.35%) VMware