Enterprise Software Contracts in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Application Software
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 219 306 325
Rank change year-on-year +87 +19 -11
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 117 93 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.92% 0.45% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.76% 1.52% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 53 102
10th Percentile £298 £415 £350
25th Percentile £412 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% +0.74%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £574
90th Percentile £663 £735 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 0
10th Percentile £28.00 - -
25th Percentile £34.13 £52.90 -
Median hourly rate £58.75 £61.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% - -
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.29 -
90th Percentile £73.48 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% -11.11% +68.40%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,241 6,126 7,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.22% 29.49% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,665 5,276
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £378 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £598 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 723 439
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.00 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Enterprise Software as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Software in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Software
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Software in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Software in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Software in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Software in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Software
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Software in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Software in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Software
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Enterprise Software in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Enterprise Software in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Software
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
Scotland +41 32 £525 -8.70% 14
North of England +21 31 £425 -10.53% 83
South East +40 21 £575 -4.96% 138
North West +13 21 £500 - 52
Midlands +15 15 £600 +17.07% 67
West Midlands +18 12 £600 -1.15% 32
South West +46 8 £550 -17.91% 33
East of England +28 6 £600 +17.65% 42
Yorkshire +10 6 £370 -13.65% 24
North East - 4 £450 - 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £425 - 9
East Midlands -1 2 £600 +34.83% 33
Wales - 1 £725 - 10
Enterprise Software
UK

Enterprise Software
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (5.98%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.27%) Jupyter
3 4 (3.42%) Skype for Business
4 2 (1.71%) IIS
4 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.71%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.85%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.85%) Apache
5 1 (0.85%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.85%) Confluence
5 1 (0.85%) Mule
5 1 (0.85%) SAS
5 1 (0.85%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.85%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.27%) EngageOne
2 5 (4.27%) InfoPath
3 3 (2.56%) Revit
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.56%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.24%) AWS
1 19 (16.24%) Azure
2 11 (9.40%) Serverless
3 9 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (7.69%) SaaS
4 7 (5.98%) GCP
4 7 (5.98%) Power Platform
5 6 (5.13%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (4.27%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 5 (4.27%) Amazon S3
6 5 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (4.27%) Azure Functions
6 5 (4.27%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (4.27%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (4.27%) OpenShift
6 5 (4.27%) PaaS
6 5 (4.27%) Power Automate
6 5 (4.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.55%) DNS
2 9 (7.69%) DHCP
3 6 (5.13%) Firewall
3 6 (5.13%) VPN
4 4 (3.42%) iSCSI
4 4 (3.42%) SAN
4 4 (3.42%) Skype
4 4 (3.42%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.42%) VLAN
5 1 (0.85%) GPON
5 1 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.85%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.97%) KDB
1 14 (11.97%) Kdb+
2 7 (5.98%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (5.98%) NoSQL
2 7 (5.98%) Power BI
3 5 (4.27%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.27%) RDBMS
3 5 (4.27%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.42%) Couchbase
4 4 (3.42%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.56%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.71%) InfluxDB
6 2 (1.71%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.71%) Redis
7 1 (0.85%) Big Data
7 1 (0.85%) HBase
7 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.13%) Git
2 5 (4.27%) GitLab
3 4 (3.42%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.42%) JIRA
4 3 (2.56%) Xcode
5 2 (1.71%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.71%) GCC
5 2 (1.71%) Maven
5 2 (1.71%) Postman
5 2 (1.71%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.71%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.85%) ERwin
6 1 (0.85%) JUnit
6 1 (0.85%) Zephyr
General
1 56 (47.86%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.80%) Finance
3 20 (17.09%) Banking
4 19 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (16.24%) Investment Banking
5 12 (10.26%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.13%) French Language
7 4 (3.42%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.56%) Retail
9 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Electronics
9 1 (0.85%) Front Office
9 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.85%) Marketing
9 1 (0.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (23.08%) Developer
2 24 (20.51%) Architect
3 16 (13.68%) Python Developer
3 16 (13.68%) Senior
4 15 (12.82%) Analyst
5 14 (11.97%) C++ Developer
6 12 (10.26%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (9.40%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
7 11 (9.40%) Linux Developer
7 11 (9.40%) Senior C++ Developer
7 11 (9.40%) Senior Developer
7 11 (9.40%) Senior Python Developer
8 7 (5.98%) Service Analyst
8 7 (5.98%) Service Desk Analyst
8 7 (5.98%) Support Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Data Architect
9 6 (5.13%) Designer
9 6 (5.13%) IT Support
9 6 (5.13%) Java Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.69%) .NET
2 7 (5.98%) CSS
2 7 (5.98%) HTML
3 6 (5.13%) .NET Framework
4 5 (4.27%) ASP.NET
4 5 (4.27%) ASP.NET MVC
4 5 (4.27%) AWS CDK
4 5 (4.27%) Entity Framework
4 5 (4.27%) HTML5 Canvas
4 5 (4.27%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (3.42%) Java EE
5 4 (3.42%) JSON
5 4 (3.42%) Middleware
5 4 (3.42%) React
5 4 (3.42%) RESTful
6 3 (2.56%) JMS
6 3 (2.56%) Kafka
6 3 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.56%) REST
6 3 (2.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.98%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (4.27%) Enterprise Cloud
3 5 (4.27%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.27%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.42%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.56%) Credit Risk
5 3 (2.56%) iPad
5 3 (2.56%) iPhone
5 3 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (2.56%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.56%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.71%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.71%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.85%) Equities
7 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 35 (29.91%) Windows
2 28 (23.93%) Linux
3 5 (4.27%) MVS
3 5 (4.27%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.42%) Unix
5 3 (2.56%) Android
5 3 (2.56%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.56%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.85%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (29.06%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (24.79%) Containerisation
3 27 (23.08%) Agile
4 23 (19.66%) SDLC
5 18 (15.38%) Data Science
6 17 (14.53%) Scrum
7 16 (13.68%) Migration
8 13 (11.11%) CI/CD
9 11 (9.40%) CRM
10 10 (8.55%) Data Modelling
10 10 (8.55%) DevOps
10 10 (8.55%) ITIL
11 9 (7.69%) Customer Service
11 9 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (7.69%) Data Protection
12 8 (6.84%) Business Intelligence
12 8 (6.84%) Computer Science
12 8 (6.84%) ITSM
12 8 (6.84%) MVC
12 8 (6.84%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (28.21%) Python
2 20 (17.09%) SQL
3 18 (15.38%) Java
4 15 (12.82%) C++
5 11 (9.40%) C#
6 10 (8.55%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.98%) Bash
8 5 (4.27%) R
9 4 (3.42%) Perl
9 4 (3.42%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.56%) Groovy
10 3 (2.56%) Objective-C
10 3 (2.56%) Swift
11 2 (1.71%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.85%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.85%) Magik
12 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (17.09%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.68%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.82%) Degree
4 7 (5.98%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (4.27%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.42%) A+ Certification
6 4 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.56%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.56%) CISM
7 3 (2.56%) CISSP
8 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.85%) CRISC
8 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (0.85%) OCP
8 1 (0.85%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.85%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.84%) SLA
2 4 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.42%) QA
3 3 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.56%) NIST
4 2 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.71%) GDPR
4 2 (1.71%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.71%) PMO
5 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.85%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (20.51%) Docker
2 8 (6.84%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.42%) vSphere
5 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 29 (24.79%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (3.42%) Ansible
4 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.71%) Grafana
5 2 (1.71%) Kibana
6 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.85%) SCOM
6 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.11%) Oracle
3 6 (5.13%) Google
3 6 (5.13%) SAP
4 5 (4.27%) VMware
5 3 (2.56%) Autodesk
5 3 (2.56%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.71%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.71%) Imperva
6 2 (1.71%) New Relic
6 2 (1.71%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.71%) Sybase
7 1 (0.85%) Cisco
7 1 (0.85%) Citrix
7 1 (0.85%) IBM
7 1 (0.85%) Informatica
7 1 (0.85%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.85%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.85%) Veeam
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