Enterprise Software Contracts in the North West

Enterprise Application Software
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in contract job vacancies in the North West. 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 99 112 140
Rank change year-on-year +13 +28 +3
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 21 25 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.07% 0.91% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.75% 3.37% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 10
10th Percentile £177 £445 £499
25th Percentile £245 £463 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £547
Median % change year-on-year - -8.63% +18.32%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £568
90th Percentile £735 £730 £609
England median daily rate £575 £563 £550
% change year-on-year +2.22% +2.27% -

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 560 742 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.46% 26.93% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 493 722
10th Percentile £203 £289 £296
25th Percentile £360 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £584 £625
90th Percentile £653 £672 £675
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 77 47
10th Percentile £22.05 £13.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.00 £20.74
Median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%
75th Percentile £33.75 £37.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £57.50 £70.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Software in the North West

Enterprise Software
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Software in the North West

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Software in the North West

Enterprise Software
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Software in the North West

Enterprise Software
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +10 13 £500 -16.67% 36
Cheshire +4 7 £178 -60.11% 8
Enterprise Software
England

Enterprise Software
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (19.05%) Skype for Business
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.76%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) GCP
2 3 (14.29%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (9.52%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.76%) AWS
4 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) DHCP
1 4 (19.05%) DNS
1 4 (19.05%) Skype
1 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
1 4 (19.05%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Couchbase
1 4 (19.05%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Hive
2 1 (4.76%) Big Data
2 1 (4.76%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.76%) HBase
2 1 (4.76%) Metadata
2 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) Pentaho
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) ERwin
General
1 13 (61.90%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
4 4 (19.05%) French Language
5 1 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Analyst
1 7 (33.33%) Service Analyst
1 7 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
2 5 (23.81%) IT Support
3 4 (19.05%) DBA
3 4 (19.05%) IT Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Project Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Service Management Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) IT Support Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Lead
5 1 (4.76%) Lead Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (4.76%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (38.10%) ITSM
3 5 (23.81%) Customer Service
4 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
4 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
4 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (19.05%) ITIL
4 4 (19.05%) Process Improvement
4 4 (19.05%) Project Management
4 4 (19.05%) Service Delivery
4 4 (19.05%) Service Management
5 3 (14.29%) CRM
6 2 (9.52%) Agile
6 2 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (9.52%) DevOps
6 2 (9.52%) E-Discovery
6 2 (9.52%) Migration
6 2 (9.52%) User Experience
7 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (4.76%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Bash
1 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
1 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 8 (38.10%) Degree
2 8 (38.10%) SC Cleared
3 4 (19.05%) A+ Certification
3 4 (19.05%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
1 4 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) Google
2 4 (19.05%) VMware
3 1 (4.76%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.76%) Informatica
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle