Enterprise Software Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Enterprise Application Software
Wales > South Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in contract job vacancies in South Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.23% 1.69% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.75% 4.08% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £455 £230 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £278 -
Median % change year-on-year +65.77% - -
75th Percentile £465 £328 -
90th Percentile - £334 -
Wales median daily rate £530 £278 -
% change year-on-year +90.99% - -

All Generic Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 134 98 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 30.59% 41.53% 39.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 66 98
10th Percentile £276 £160 £136
25th Percentile £306 £252 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £328 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.54% -34.38% -4.37%
75th Percentile £516 £446 £550
90th Percentile £709 £494 £577
Wales median daily rate £425 £346 £500
% change year-on-year +22.98% -30.88% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 5
10th Percentile £24.28 £13.08 £14.61
25th Percentile £29.57 £18.95 £18.89
Median hourly rate £43.96 £37.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.23% -28.57% +189.42%
75th Percentile £50.00 £45.00 £73.75
90th Percentile - £46.25 £81.10
Wales median hourly rate £43.96 £29.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year +50.29% +53.95% +5.20%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Enterprise Software relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Enterprise Software job vacancy trend in South Wales

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Enterprise Software.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Enterprise Software

Enterprise Software
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 23 June 2026. 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
Cardiff -11 1 £460 +65.77% 2
Enterprise Software
Wales

Enterprise Software
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Test Leader
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft