Enterprise Software Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Enterprise Software over the 3 months to 25 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Enterprise Application Software UK
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	245	257	309
Rank change year-on-year	+12	+52
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software	426	513	392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.92%	0.97%	0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	2.77%	2.91%	2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted	259	318	227
Median daily rate	£450	£438	£438
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.85%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£310	£330
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£575	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£438	£400	£425
% change year-on-year	+9.37%	-5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	3	0
Median hourly rate	£45.00	£40.00	-
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+12.50%	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	£40.00	-

Enterprise Software is in the generic IT skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Generic IT Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	15365	17649	17726
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	33.20%	33.26%	31.63%
Number of daily rates quoted	9982	11571	11114
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£420
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+1.19%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£260	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£600	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£390	£375
% change year-on-year	+2.56%	+4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	485	579	649
Median hourly rate	£22.50	£22.50	£19.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-	+18.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.27	£12.50	£12.34
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£47.39	£46.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£25.00	£23.00	£18.90
% change year-on-year	+8.69%	+21.69%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Enterprise Software as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Miscellaneous category.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Software in the UK

Enterprise Software
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Enterprise Software.

Contractor daily rate trend for Enterprise Software in the UK

Enterprise Software
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Enterprise Software over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Enterprise Software in the UK

Enterprise Software
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Software.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Enterprise Software in the UK

Enterprise Software
Top 30 Contract Locations

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 over the 3 months to 25 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+18	395	£465	+5.68%	178
London	-18	198	£500	+6.66%	76
South East	+27	68	£425	+13.33%	21
City of London	+9	37	£450	+2.85%	16
East of England	-5	30	£458	-8.95%	13
West Sussex	+30	24	£424	+41.25%
Scotland	+11	24	£388	-3.12%	8
South West	+15	23	£500	-	15
Berkshire	+32	22	£525	+11.58%	7
Essex	+7	21	£468	+167.14%
North West	+15	20	£450	-	15
East Midlands	+1	17	£408	-32.08%	9
Edinburgh	+21	15	£400	-10.11%	5
West Midlands	+17	15	£550	+41.93%	11
Southend-on-Sea	-	14	£470	-
Yorkshire	+17	13	£350	-30.00%	14
Reading	+21	11	£525	+19.31%	2
Manchester	+8	11	£450	-10.00%	12
Surrey	+5	10	£400	+19.40%	6
Bristol	-	10	£350	-	11
Tyne and Wear	+67	8	£500	+51.51%	4
North East	+59	8	£500	+51.51%	4
Glasgow	-10	8	£375	-6.25%	2
Shropshire	-	8	£550	-
Derbyshire	-	8	£405	-
Derby	-	8	£405	-
Telford	-	8	£550	-
Bath	-	7	£550	-
Somerset	-	7	£550	-
Suffolk	+15	6	£420	-26.95%

Enterprise Software
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Enterprise Software also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Enterprise Software.

1	354 (47.14%)	Agile Software Development
2	267 (35.55%)	Java
3	192 (25.57%)	Finance
4	191 (25.43%)	Oracle
5	180 (23.97%)	SQL
6	156 (20.77%)	JavaScript
7	148 (19.71%)	Scrum
8	147 (19.57%)	TDD
8	147 (19.57%)	Spring
9	136 (18.11%)	Web Services
10	131 (17.44%)	Linux
11	127 (16.91%)	HTML
12	120 (15.98%)	CSS
13	116 (15.45%)	Analytical Skills
14	111 (14.78%)	.NET

15	109 (14.51%)	SOA
16	105 (13.98%)	Python
17	99 (13.18%)	Banking
18	98 (13.05%)	Unix
19	95 (12.65%)	Windows
20	94 (12.52%)	C#
21	90 (11.98%)	AngularJS
22	89 (11.85%)	Relational Database
23	88 (11.72%)	Jenkins
23	88 (11.72%)	MVC
24	87 (11.58%)	Microsoft
25	86 (11.45%)	Continuous Integration
26	84 (11.19%)	Git (software)
27	83 (11.05%)	RESTful
27	83 (11.05%)	XML

Enterprise Software
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	60 (7.99%)	Confluence
2	48 (6.39%)	JBoss
3	36 (4.79%)	Oracle SOA Suite
4	26 (3.46%)	WebLogic
5	22 (2.93%)	Tomcat
6	19 (2.53%)	Mule
7	18 (2.40%)	Apache
7	18 (2.40%)	CMS
7	18 (2.40%)	WebSphere
8	16 (2.13%)	SharePoint
9	14 (1.86%)	MS Exchange
10	12 (1.60%)	IIS
11	9 (1.20%)	Umbraco
12	8 (1.07%)	Exchange Server 2010
12	8 (1.07%)	Exchange Server 2013
12	8 (1.07%)	Mule ESB
13	7 (0.93%)	WinCC
14	6 (0.80%)	BizTalk Server
14	6 (0.80%)	Sitecore CMS
14	6 (0.80%)	WebSphere Application Server

Applications
1	20 (2.66%)	Microsoft Excel
2	17 (2.26%)	Microsoft Office
3	9 (1.20%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	6 (0.80%)	Microsoft Project
5	5 (0.67%)	MS Visio
6	2 (0.27%)	Adobe Illustrator
6	2 (0.27%)	InVision
6	2 (0.27%)	UXPin
7	1 (0.13%)	S-PLUS

Business Applications
1	18 (2.40%)	Payment Gateway
2	16 (2.13%)	Dynamics CRM
3	8 (1.07%)	JDE EnterpriseOne
4	7 (0.93%)	Teamcenter
5	5 (0.67%)	Dynamics AX
6	4 (0.53%)	Eloqua
7	3 (0.40%)	Oracle EBS
8	2 (0.27%)	Global One
8	2 (0.27%)	Oracle Applications
8	2 (0.27%)	Oracle EBS R12
8	2 (0.27%)	Pega PRPC
8	2 (0.27%)	Primavera
8	2 (0.27%)	Salesforce.com CRM
8	2 (0.27%)	SAP ERP
8	2 (0.27%)	SAP Oil and Gas
8	2 (0.27%)	SunGard Martini
8	2 (0.27%)	Unit4 Business World
9	1 (0.13%)	iTrent
9	1 (0.13%)	PeopleSoft HCM
9	1 (0.13%)	SAP GTS

Cloud Services
1	49 (6.52%)	Amazon AWS
2	46 (6.13%)	Microsoft Azure
3	34 (4.53%)	SaaS
4	22 (2.93%)	Office 365
5	16 (2.13%)	GitHub
6	12 (1.60%)	Cloud Computing
6	12 (1.60%)	PaaS
7	11 (1.46%)	OpenShift
8	7 (0.93%)	AWS Lambda
9	6 (0.80%)	Amazon EC2
9	6 (0.80%)	IaaS
10	5 (0.67%)	Salesforce Service Cloud
11	4 (0.53%)	Adobe Analytics
11	4 (0.53%)	BPaaS
12	3 (0.40%)	Azure Active Directory
12	3 (0.40%)	G Suite
12	3 (0.40%)	Google Cloud Platform
12	3 (0.40%)	Slack
13	2 (0.27%)	OneDrive
14	1 (0.13%)	AWS CloudTrail

Communications & Networking
1	29 (3.86%)	DNS
2	27 (3.60%)	LDAP
3	23 (3.06%)	HTTP
4	21 (2.80%)	Internet
5	18 (2.40%)	Firewall
5	18 (2.40%)	TCP/IP
6	17 (2.26%)	DHCP
7	9 (1.20%)	Intranet
8	8 (1.07%)	LAN
8	8 (1.07%)	VPN
8	8 (1.07%)	WAN
9	6 (0.80%)	SSL
10	4 (0.53%)	SAN
10	4 (0.53%)	SMTP
11	3 (0.40%)	FTP
11	3 (0.40%)	Skype
12	2 (0.27%)	HTTPS
12	2 (0.27%)	Intrusion Detection
12	2 (0.27%)	MPLS
12	2 (0.27%)	VLAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	89 (11.85%)	Relational Database
2	79 (10.52%)	SQL Server
3	49 (6.52%)	MySQL
4	39 (5.19%)	Big Data
5	33 (4.39%)	NoSQL
6	27 (3.60%)	MariaDB
6	27 (3.60%)	MongoDB
7	24 (3.20%)	Oracle Database
8	22 (2.93%)	RDBMS
9	20 (2.66%)	Data Warehouse
10	19 (2.53%)	Endeca
11	15 (2.00%)	Apache Cassandra
12	14 (1.86%)	PostgreSQL
13	10 (1.33%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
14	9 (1.20%)	DB2
15	8 (1.07%)	KDB
15	8 (1.07%)	Kdb+
15	8 (1.07%)	SQL Server Integration Services
15	8 (1.07%)	Tick Data
16	7 (0.93%)	SQL Server Analysis Services

Development Applications
1	88 (11.72%)	Jenkins
2	84 (11.19%)	Git (software)
3	72 (9.59%)	JIRA
4	54 (7.19%)	JUnit
5	43 (5.73%)	Mockito
6	38 (5.06%)	Maven
6	38 (5.06%)	Selenium
7	35 (4.66%)	Team Foundation Server
8	32 (4.26%)	Subversion
9	20 (2.66%)	Gradle
10	19 (2.53%)	JIRA Agile
11	18 (2.40%)	Spock
12	16 (2.13%)	Visual Studio
13	15 (2.00%)	NUnit
14	14 (1.86%)	Ant
15	13 (1.73%)	Eclipse
16	12 (1.60%)	Oracle Forms
17	11 (1.46%)	Cucumber
18	10 (1.33%)	Oracle APEX
19	8 (1.07%)	Atlassian Bamboo

General
1	192 (25.57%)	Finance
2	99 (13.18%)	Banking
3	32 (4.26%)	Retail
4	13 (1.73%)	Back Office
4	13 (1.73%)	Marketing
5	12 (1.60%)	Investment Banking
6	11 (1.46%)	Legal
7	10 (1.33%)	Manufacturing
7	10 (1.33%)	Telecoms
8	9 (1.20%)	Billing
9	8 (1.07%)	Law
10	7 (0.93%)	Games
11	5 (0.67%)	Retail Banking
12	4 (0.53%)	Advertising
13	3 (0.40%)	Financial Institution
13	3 (0.40%)	Pharmaceutical
14	2 (0.27%)	Electronics
14	2 (0.27%)	Front Office
14	2 (0.27%)	General Ledger
15	1 (0.13%)	Private Banking

Job Titles
1	346 (46.07%)	Developer
2	141 (18.77%)	Architect
3	118 (15.71%)	Java Developer
4	53 (7.06%)	Senior Developer
5	40 (5.33%)	Analyst
6	39 (5.19%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7	37 (4.93%)	Solutions Architect
8	36 (4.79%)	Consultant
8	36 (4.79%)	Python Developer
9	34 (4.53%)	JavaScript Developer
10	33 (4.39%)	.NET Developer
10	33 (4.39%)	Technical Architect
11	27 (3.60%)	Django Developer
11	27 (3.60%)	Python/Django Developer
12	26 (3.46%)	Angular Developer
13	24 (3.20%)	Project Manager
14	23 (3.06%)	Technical Leader
15	22 (2.93%)	Enterprise Architect
16	19 (2.53%)	C# Developer
17	18 (2.40%)	Senior Java Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	147 (19.57%)	Spring
2	136 (18.11%)	Web Services
3	127 (16.91%)	HTML
4	120 (15.98%)	CSS
5	111 (14.78%)	.NET
6	90 (11.98%)	AngularJS
7	83 (11.05%)	RESTful
7	83 (11.05%)	XML
8	73 (9.72%)	REST
9	62 (8.26%)	Hibernate
10	61 (8.12%)	HTML5
11	60 (7.99%)	J2EE
12	55 (7.32%)	JSON
13	50 (6.66%)	Node.js
14	48 (6.39%)	CSS3
15	47 (6.26%)	SOAP
16	46 (6.13%)	ASP.NET
17	44 (5.86%)	Spring MVC
18	39 (5.19%)	JPA
19	38 (5.06%)	Middleware

Miscellaneous
1	116 (15.45%)	Analytical Skills
2	36 (4.79%)	Data Centre
3	27 (3.60%)	iPad
4	23 (3.06%)	Greenfield Project
5	22 (2.93%)	Computer Science
5	22 (2.93%)	Social Media
6	21 (2.80%)	Virtual Team
7	19 (2.53%)	Fintech
7	19 (2.53%)	Management Information System
8	18 (2.40%)	Mobile App
9	17 (2.26%)	Linux Command Line
10	16 (2.13%)	Client/Server
11	14 (1.86%)	CMDB
12	12 (1.60%)	Equities
13	11 (1.46%)	User Experience
14	10 (1.33%)	Public Cloud
15	9 (1.20%)	Digital Media
15	9 (1.20%)	Private Cloud
16	8 (1.07%)	TWAP
16	8 (1.07%)	VWAP

Operating Systems
1	131 (17.44%)	Linux
2	98 (13.05%)	Unix
3	95 (12.65%)	Windows
4	40 (5.33%)	Windows Server
5	30 (3.99%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	27 (3.60%)	Apple iOS
7	20 (2.66%)	Mac OS X
8	17 (2.26%)	Solaris
9	15 (2.00%)	Windows Server 2008
10	13 (1.73%)	Android
11	10 (1.33%)	Windows Server 2003
12	9 (1.20%)	Windows 10
12	9 (1.20%)	Windows Server 2012
13	7 (0.93%)	HPUX
14	3 (0.40%)	AIX
14	3 (0.40%)	Mac OS
15	2 (0.27%)	VMS
16	1 (0.13%)	CentOS
16	1 (0.13%)	Oracle Linux
16	1 (0.13%)	Windows 7

Processes & Methodologies
1	354 (47.14%)	Agile Software Development
2	148 (19.71%)	Scrum
3	147 (19.57%)	TDD
4	109 (14.51%)	SOA
5	88 (11.72%)	MVC
6	86 (11.45%)	Continuous Integration
7	81 (10.79%)	Web Development
8	79 (10.52%)	DevOps
9	75 (9.99%)	Microservices
10	71 (9.45%)	Test Automation
11	69 (9.19%)	BDD
12	67 (8.92%)	SDLC
13	60 (7.99%)	OO
14	56 (7.46%)	Configuration Management
14	56 (7.46%)	Open Source
15	55 (7.32%)	Project Management
16	51 (6.79%)	ERP
17	50 (6.66%)	CRM
18	49 (6.52%)	Kanban
19	42 (5.59%)	Analytics

Programming Languages
1	267 (35.55%)	Java
2	180 (23.97%)	SQL
3	156 (20.77%)	JavaScript
4	105 (13.98%)	Python
5	94 (12.52%)	C#
6	47 (6.26%)	PL/SQL
7	31 (4.13%)	Bash Shell
8	23 (3.06%)	Perl
9	20 (2.66%)	T-SQL
9	20 (2.66%)	TypeScript
10	17 (2.26%)	Apple Swift
11	16 (2.13%)	PowerShell
11	16 (2.13%)	Ruby
11	16 (2.13%)	VB.NET
12	13 (1.73%)	Scala
13	12 (1.60%)	C++
14	11 (1.46%)	C
14	11 (1.46%)	ES6
14	11 (1.46%)	Objective-C
15	9 (1.20%)	XAML

Qualifications
1	47 (6.26%)	Degree
2	42 (5.59%)	Security Cleared
3	33 (4.39%)	SC Cleared
4	12 (1.60%)	Computer Science Degree
4	12 (1.60%)	Microsoft Certification
5	11 (1.46%)	CISSP
6	10 (1.33%)	AWS Certification
6	10 (1.33%)	BPSS Clearance
7	7 (0.93%)	MCP
8	6 (0.80%)	PMI Certification
8	6 (0.80%)	RHCA
8	6 (0.80%)	RHCE
9	5 (0.67%)	Cisco Certification
9	5 (0.67%)	ITIL Certification
9	5 (0.67%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
10	4 (0.53%)	GCIH
10	4 (0.53%)	GIAC
10	4 (0.53%)	PMP
11	3 (0.40%)	CEH
11	3 (0.40%)	MCSE

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	39 (5.19%)	QA
2	13 (1.73%)	SLA
3	9 (1.20%)	Disclosure Scotland
4	5 (0.67%)	PCI DSS
5	4 (0.53%)	ISO/IEC 27001
6	3 (0.40%)	Data Quality
6	3 (0.40%)	Solvency II
7	1 (0.13%)	ISO 9000
7	1 (0.13%)	ISO/IEC 20000
7	1 (0.13%)	MiFID
7	1 (0.13%)	PMO
7	1 (0.13%)	Sarbanes-Oxley

System Software
1	56 (7.46%)	Docker
2	42 (5.59%)	Active Directory
3	21 (2.80%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	5 (0.67%)	ISA Server
4	5 (0.67%)	Virtual Machines
5	4 (0.53%)	Hyper-V
6	3 (0.40%)	VMware ESXi
7	2 (0.27%)	Apache ZooKeeper
7	2 (0.27%)	KVM
8	1 (0.13%)	Firmware
8	1 (0.13%)	HDFS
8	1 (0.13%)	Oracle RAC
8	1 (0.13%)	Sendmail
8	1 (0.13%)	Squid
8	1 (0.13%)	vCloud
8	1 (0.13%)	vSphere
8	1 (0.13%)	Xen

Systems Management
1	46 (6.13%)	Ansible
2	31 (4.13%)	Puppet
3	30 (3.99%)	Kubernetes
4	21 (2.80%)	Opscode Chef
5	9 (1.20%)	SCCM
6	7 (0.93%)	Rsyslog
7	6 (0.80%)	SCOM
8	5 (0.67%)	OpenAM
9	4 (0.53%)	HP Quality Center
9	4 (0.53%)	MOM
9	4 (0.53%)	OpenIDM
9	4 (0.53%)	SCOrch
9	4 (0.53%)	SELinux
10	3 (0.40%)	Mesos
10	3 (0.40%)	Microsoft Clustering
10	3 (0.40%)	Microsoft Intune
10	3 (0.40%)	Red Hat Satellite
10	3 (0.40%)	vMotion
10	3 (0.40%)	vRealize
10	3 (0.40%)	ZABBIX

Vendors
1	191 (25.43%)	Oracle
2	87 (11.58%)	Microsoft
3	37 (4.93%)	Red Hat
4	28 (3.73%)	VMware
5	22 (2.93%)	Salesforce.com
5	22 (2.93%)	SAP
6	20 (2.66%)	ATG
6	20 (2.66%)	ServiceNow
7	15 (2.00%)	IBM
7	15 (2.00%)	Sitecore
8	14 (1.86%)	Splunk
9	13 (1.73%)	HP
10	12 (1.60%)	TIBCO
11	11 (1.46%)	JD Edwards
12	10 (1.33%)	Cisco
12	10 (1.33%)	MuleSoft
13	9 (1.20%)	Informatica
13	9 (1.20%)	Xamarin
14	8 (1.07%)	Adobe
14	8 (1.07%)	Pega