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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 182 192
Rank change year-on-year +40 +10 +28
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 15 22 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.49% 0.39% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.52% 1.36% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 13
10th Percentile £255 £425 £414
25th Percentile £377 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £605 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +15.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £709 £719
90th Percentile £719 £795 £724
England median daily rate £575 £545 £550
% change year-on-year +5.50% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.90 £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £55.80 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.82% +148.00% -48.17%
75th Percentile - £58.70 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £58.75 £55.80 £45.00
% change year-on-year +5.29% +24.00% +0.65%

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 990 1,619 1,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 32.46% 28.36% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 947 1,327
10th Percentile £202 £212 £213
25th Percentile £350 £364 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £617 £629
90th Percentile £659 £688 £721
England median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 178 97
10th Percentile £15.13 £11.79 £16.94
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.82 £20.50
Median hourly rate £33.89 £54.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.25% +2.86% +153.68%
75th Percentile £62.24 £61.30 £66.74
90th Percentile £85.50 £75.16 £75.00
England median hourly rate £33.05 £37.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year -10.68% +64.55% -15.15%

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 24 June 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 24 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
Thames Valley +26 6 £488 -16.67% 31
Surrey +25 4 £638 +2.00% 8
Buckinghamshire +18 4 £525 - 7
Hampshire +30 3 £600 - 22
Berkshire +22 2 £250 -59.51% 17
West Sussex - 2 £299 - 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 (13.33%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (13.33%) IIS
2 1 (6.67%) Anypoint
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (6.67%) Smallworld
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) SAN
2 1 (6.67%) DHCP
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) GPON
2 1 (6.67%) iSCSI
2 1 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (6.67%) Softphone
2 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.67%) VLAN
2 1 (6.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (6.67%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
1 2 (13.33%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Maven
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (13.33%) Support Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Support
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Support Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) BizTalk Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Desktop Support
4 1 (6.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Java Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
1 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
1 2 (13.33%) Middleware
1 2 (13.33%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) Java EE
2 1 (6.67%) JSON
2 1 (6.67%) React
2 1 (6.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (6.67%) CentOS
4 1 (6.67%) Debian
4 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.67%) Unix
4 1 (6.67%) VMS
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (26.67%) ITIL
3 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Architectural Design
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
4 2 (13.33%) Desktop Virtualisation
4 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (13.33%) Scrum
4 2 (13.33%) Security Hardening
4 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (13.33%) TOGAF
5 1 (6.67%) Asset Management
5 1 (6.67%) Change Control
5 1 (6.67%) High Availability
5 1 (6.67%) Service Management
5 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Java
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) Magik
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (13.33%) vSphere
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) SCOM
2 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) IBM
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Dynatrace
3 2 (13.33%) SAP
3 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (6.67%) Citrix
4 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft
4 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.67%) Sparx