Enterprise Software Contracts in Northern Ireland

Enterprise Application Software
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in contract job vacancies in Northern Ireland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 26 26
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 6 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 3.23% 1.69% 1.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.11% 7.69% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £303 - -
25th Percentile £349 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £545 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550

All Generic Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 74 39 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 39.78% 22.03% 28.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 6 26
10th Percentile £155 £149 £148
25th Percentile £311 £163 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £320 £400
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% -20.00% -1.54%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £475
90th Percentile £604 £519 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 21 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.78 £12.25 -
Median hourly rate £15.05 £15.63 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% - -
75th Percentile £15.33 £23.94 -
90th Percentile - £31.88 -
UK median hourly rate £32.85 £35.50 £22.45
% change year-on-year -7.46% +58.15% -18.37%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Enterprise Software as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Software in Northern Ireland

Enterprise Software
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Software in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Software in Northern Ireland

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Software in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Software in Northern Ireland

Enterprise Software
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
County Antrim -2 6 £425 - 68
Enterprise Software
UK

Enterprise Software
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (16.67%) Anypoint
1 1 (16.67%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) HTTP
1 3 (50.00%) Internet
1 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) DB2
1 3 (50.00%) MySQL
1 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Account Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Account Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Banking Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JMS
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) JWT
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
1 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (16.67%) RAML
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) SAML
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
1 1 (16.67%) Swagger
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Application Security
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) API Development
2 1 (16.67%) API Management
2 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) ETL
2 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) IT Governance
2 1 (16.67%) Microservices
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Perl
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) DataWeave
3 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow