Enterprise Software Contracts in the South East

Enterprise Application Software
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in contract job vacancies in the South East. 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 138 178 205
Rank change year-on-year +40 +27 +8
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 21 27 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.70% 0.49% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.08% 1.71% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 14
10th Percentile £343 £425 £441
25th Percentile £482 £462 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +10.00% +15.79%
75th Percentile £611 £709 £689
90th Percentile £663 £795 £734
England median daily rate £575 £563 £550
% change year-on-year +2.22% +2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 £61.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -54.58% - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% -11.11% +55.48%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,009 1,583 1,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 33.52% 28.48% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 936 1,323
10th Percentile £211 £205 £213
25th Percentile £360 £363 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £661 £688 £725
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 154 90
10th Percentile £16.95 £11.74 £18.23
25th Percentile £23.50 £18.35 £20.48
Median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%
75th Percentile £64.13 £61.30 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.50 £65.00 £75.00
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Software in the South East

Enterprise Software
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Software in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Software in the South East

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Software in the South East

Enterprise Software
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Software in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Software in the South East

Enterprise Software
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
West Sussex - 6 £328 - 2
Thames Valley +36 5 £481 -11.34% 41
Hampshire +22 5 £575 - 14
Surrey +17 4 £650 +1.96% 14
Berkshire +24 3 £480 -17.95% 20
Buckinghamshire +17 2 £725 - 10
Sussex - 1 £500 - 3
Enterprise Software
England

Enterprise Software
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (9.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (4.76%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (4.76%) IIS
2 1 (4.76%) Smallworld
Applications
1 5 (23.81%) EngageOne
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) DHCP
1 4 (19.05%) DNS
1 4 (19.05%) iSCSI
1 4 (19.05%) SAN
1 4 (19.05%) VLAN
2 1 (4.76%) GPON
2 1 (4.76%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (4.76%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
1 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) GIS
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) GCC
1 2 (9.52%) GitLab
1 2 (9.52%) Maven
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.76%) Electronics
4 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Architect
2 3 (14.29%) Designer
3 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Architect
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Data Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Data Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Java Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) BizTalk Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Desktop Support
4 1 (4.76%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (4.76%) GIS Architect
4 1 (4.76%) IAM Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Service Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Support Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Java EE
1 2 (9.52%) JSON
1 2 (9.52%) React
1 2 (9.52%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Linux
1 5 (23.81%) MVS
2 4 (19.05%) Windows
3 3 (14.29%) Windows 10
4 2 (9.52%) Unix
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) Migration
1 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (23.81%) Translating Business Requirements
2 4 (19.05%) ITIL
2 4 (19.05%) RBAC
3 3 (14.29%) Customer Service
3 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (14.29%) ETL
3 3 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (14.29%) Scrum
4 2 (9.52%) Analytics
4 2 (9.52%) Data Architecture
4 2 (9.52%) Data Governance
4 2 (9.52%) Data Migration
4 2 (9.52%) Performance Engineering
4 2 (9.52%) Service Delivery
4 2 (9.52%) Service Management
4 2 (9.52%) SOA
4 2 (9.52%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Java
2 6 (28.57%) SQL
3 4 (19.05%) Python
4 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.76%) Bash
6 1 (4.76%) C#
6 1 (4.76%) Magik
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) vSphere
2 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (4.76%) Citrix
2 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.76%) IBM
2 1 (4.76%) SAP
2 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.76%) Sparx
2 1 (4.76%) VMware