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 21 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 120 112
Rank change year-on-year -28 -8 +9
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 42 21 22
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.89% 0.84% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.21% 2.35% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 15 14
10th Percentile £367 £408 £307
25th Percentile £413 £427 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £473
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -0.53%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £547
90th Percentile £648 £600 £568
England median daily rate £525 £550 £536
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.56% -6.74%
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 £28.06 -
% change year-on-year -30.51% - -

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 1,309 893 787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 27.78% 35.63% 29.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 799 570 500
10th Percentile £300 £250 £269
25th Percentile £408 £371 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £503
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.61% +0.65%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £626
90th Percentile £688 £646 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 63 24
10th Percentile £12.97 £18.10 £15.11
25th Percentile £14.00 £18.87 £16.35
Median hourly rate £25.75 £28.18 £25.94
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +8.65% -5.68%
75th Percentile £47.50 £42.23 £49.06
90th Percentile £71.22 £50.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £42.40 £32.71 £48.00
% change year-on-year +29.62% -31.85% +9.50%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -25 35 £449 -25.25% 19
East Midlands -26 4 £600 +36.52% 6
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 (4.76%) Confluence
1 2 (4.76%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.38%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (7.14%) ContrOCC
2 1 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (40.48%) Azure
2 13 (30.95%) Entra ID
3 7 (16.67%) AWS
4 5 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (9.52%) SuccessFactors
6 3 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (4.76%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.76%) GCP
7 2 (4.76%) Lucidchart
7 2 (4.76%) Power Automate
7 2 (4.76%) SaaS
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.38%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (2.38%) AWS KMS
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.38%) Google Gemini
8 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) Firewall
2 4 (9.52%) Internet
2 4 (9.52%) Network Security
2 4 (9.52%) SSL
2 4 (9.52%) VPN
3 3 (7.14%) DHCP
3 3 (7.14%) DNS
3 3 (7.14%) LAN
3 3 (7.14%) SD-WAN
3 3 (7.14%) TCP/IP
3 3 (7.14%) WAN
4 1 (2.38%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.38%) IDMS
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Git
1 7 (16.67%) JIRA
2 5 (11.90%) Maven
3 3 (7.14%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.14%) JUnit
3 3 (7.14%) Mockito
3 3 (7.14%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.76%) Selenium
4 2 (4.76%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.38%) CA Gen
5 1 (2.38%) DbUnit
General
1 16 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.90%) Finance
4 3 (7.14%) Local Government
5 2 (4.76%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.76%) Automotive
5 2 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.38%) Advertising
6 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (19.05%) Developer
1 8 (19.05%) Senior
2 5 (11.90%) Java Developer
3 4 (9.52%) Analyst
4 3 (7.14%) Applications Support
4 3 (7.14%) Architect
4 3 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 3 (7.14%) Consultant
4 3 (7.14%) Support Officer
5 2 (4.76%) Automation Developer
5 2 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Digital Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) Digital Business Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) Java Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Logistics Project Manager
5 2 (4.76%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.76%) QA Automation Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Senior IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) REST
1 5 (11.90%) SailPoint
1 5 (11.90%) Spring
2 4 (9.52%) SAP CAF
2 4 (9.52%) Spring Boot
2 4 (9.52%) Web Services
3 3 (7.14%) .NET
3 3 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (7.14%) Hibernate
3 3 (7.14%) JPA
3 3 (7.14%) RESTful
3 3 (7.14%) SAML
3 3 (7.14%) SOAP
4 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.76%) FIDO
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (4.76%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (2.38%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.38%) LangChain
5 1 (2.38%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Cloud Native
1 4 (9.52%) SCADA
2 3 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.38%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.38%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.38%) CMDB
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.38%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.38%) PKI
4 1 (2.38%) Robotics
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Windows
2 3 (7.14%) Linux
2 3 (7.14%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.38%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (40.48%) Agile
2 16 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (30.95%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (26.19%) Translating Business Requirements
4 11 (26.19%) Validation
5 10 (23.81%) DevOps
6 9 (21.43%) CI/CD
6 9 (21.43%) ITIL
6 9 (21.43%) Scrum
6 9 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (16.67%) Data Management
7 7 (16.67%) Incident Management
7 7 (16.67%) RBAC
8 6 (14.29%) AI
9 5 (11.90%) ERP
9 5 (11.90%) Manual Testing
9 5 (11.90%) Microservices
9 5 (11.90%) SDLC
9 5 (11.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (11.90%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.81%) SQL
2 8 (19.05%) Java
3 4 (9.52%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.14%) C#
5 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.38%) BeanShell
6 1 (2.38%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.38%) Python
6 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (45.24%) Security Cleared
2 17 (40.48%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.76%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.38%) Degree
5 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.67%) QA
2 6 (14.29%) Data Quality
3 4 (9.52%) NCSC
4 3 (7.14%) SLA
5 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (26.19%) Active Directory
2 5 (11.90%) Docker
3 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (11.90%) Kubernetes
1 5 (11.90%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (7.14%) Grafana
3 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.38%) CASB
Vendors
1 10 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 9 (21.43%) SAP
3 6 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 5 (11.90%) Oracle
5 3 (7.14%) Citrix
5 3 (7.14%) Liquidlogic
5 3 (7.14%) MuleSoft
5 3 (7.14%) Workday
5 3 (7.14%) Zscaler
6 1 (2.38%) Ariba
6 1 (2.38%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.38%) Databricks
6 1 (2.38%) DocuSign
6 1 (2.38%) Netskope
6 1 (2.38%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.38%) Snow