Enterprise Software Contracts in the North of England

Enterprise Application Software
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 156 187
Rank change year-on-year +21 +31 -10
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 31 29 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.94% 0.61% 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.08% 2.23% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 23
10th Percentile £199 £437 £500
25th Percentile £313 £445 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £663 £575
90th Percentile £660 £723 £678
England median daily rate £575 £563 £550
% change year-on-year +2.22% +2.27% -

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,008 1,302 1,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.59% 27.31% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 801 1,220
10th Percentile £220 £263 £285
25th Percentile £367 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £582 £584 £623
90th Percentile £665 £653 £688
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 154 88
10th Percentile £21.00 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.88 £15.14 £18.62
Median % change year-on-year +104.00% -18.70% +0.11%
75th Percentile £44.08 £26.62 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £47.98 £66.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Enterprise Software as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Software in the North of England

Enterprise Software
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Software in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Software in the North of England

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Software in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Software in the North of England

Enterprise Software
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Software in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Software in the North of England

Enterprise Software
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West +13 21 £500 - 52
Yorkshire +10 6 £370 -13.65% 24
North East - 4 £450 - 7
Enterprise Software
England

Enterprise Software
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (12.90%) Skype for Business
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.23%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) Azure
2 5 (16.13%) AWS
2 5 (16.13%) GCP
3 4 (12.90%) Entra ID
4 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (6.45%) OneDrive
5 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.23%) dbt
6 1 (3.23%) GitHub
6 1 (3.23%) SaaS
6 1 (3.23%) Serverless
6 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.23%) Stitch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) DHCP
1 4 (12.90%) DNS
1 4 (12.90%) Skype
1 4 (12.90%) TCP/IP
1 4 (12.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) NoSQL
2 4 (12.90%) Couchbase
3 3 (9.68%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.45%) Power BI
4 2 (6.45%) Redis
5 1 (3.23%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.23%) Big Data
5 1 (3.23%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.23%) Data Vault
5 1 (3.23%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.23%) HBase
5 1 (3.23%) Metadata
5 1 (3.23%) Parquet
5 1 (3.23%) Pentaho
5 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Git
1 2 (6.45%) JIRA
1 2 (6.45%) Visual Studio
1 2 (6.45%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (3.23%) ERwin
2 1 (3.23%) Postman
General
1 16 (51.61%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (19.35%) French Language
4 5 (16.13%) Finance
4 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.45%) Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Retail
6 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Analyst
2 7 (22.58%) Service Analyst
2 7 (22.58%) Service Desk Analyst
3 5 (16.13%) IT Support
4 4 (12.90%) DBA
4 4 (12.90%) IT Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Project Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Support Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Architect
6 2 (6.45%) C# Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Designer
6 2 (6.45%) Developer
6 2 (6.45%) IT Manager
6 2 (6.45%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Lead
6 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Project Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Service Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) .NET
1 2 (6.45%) CSS
1 2 (6.45%) HTML
1 2 (6.45%) RESTful
2 1 (3.23%) JSON
2 1 (3.23%) LDAP
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (3.23%) Middleware
2 1 (3.23%) Node.js
2 1 (3.23%) OpenAPI
2 1 (3.23%) REST
2 1 (3.23%) Swagger
2 1 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Management Information System
2 4 (12.90%) Product Ownership
3 3 (9.68%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.81%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Mac OS
2 1 (3.23%) Unix
2 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (25.81%) ITSM
3 7 (22.58%) Agile
4 6 (19.35%) Computer Science
4 6 (19.35%) Customer Service
4 6 (19.35%) Project Management
5 5 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (16.13%) DevOps
5 5 (16.13%) ITIL
5 5 (16.13%) Process Improvement
6 4 (12.90%) Containerisation
6 4 (12.90%) CRM
6 4 (12.90%) Microservices
6 4 (12.90%) Service Delivery
6 4 (12.90%) Service Management
7 3 (9.68%) Data Protection
7 3 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (6.45%) Business Analysis
8 2 (6.45%) Kanban
8 2 (6.45%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) SQL
2 2 (6.45%) C#
2 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.45%) Python
3 1 (3.23%) Bash
3 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (35.48%) Degree
2 9 (29.03%) Security Cleared
3 8 (25.81%) SC Cleared
4 4 (12.90%) A+ Certification
4 4 (12.90%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
5 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.23%) CISM
6 1 (3.23%) CISSP
6 1 (3.23%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.81%) SLA
2 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.45%) PCI DSS
2 2 (6.45%) PMO
2 2 (6.45%) QA
3 1 (3.23%) GDPR
3 1 (3.23%) NIST
3 1 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
1 4 (12.90%) Docker
1 4 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
3 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Google
2 4 (12.90%) VMware
3 2 (6.45%) CyberArk
3 2 (6.45%) New Relic
4 1 (3.23%) Centrify
4 1 (3.23%) Informatica
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) SAP
4 1 (3.23%) Thycotic
4 1 (3.23%) Veeam