Enterprise Software Contract Job Trends

Enterprise Application Software
UK

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 cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 273 348
Rank change year-on-year +21 +75 +5
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 492 284 242
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.98% 0.96% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.03% 2.79% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 180 157
10th Percentile £306 £300 £370
25th Percentile £413 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £700 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £813 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £525
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 4
10th Percentile - £28.00 £37.05
25th Percentile £19.25 £40.25 £47.24
Median hourly rate £19.50 £62.50 £55.80
Median % change year-on-year -68.80% +12.01% -17.33%
75th Percentile £59.72 £71.08 £59.65
90th Percentile £92.00 £80.32 £61.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £58.75 £55.80
% change year-on-year -53.19% +5.29% -

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 16,262 10,169 13,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.46% 34.38% 29.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,985 6,390 8,312
10th Percentile £315 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 435 942
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.89 £20.21 £15.39
Median hourly rate £41.00 £33.05 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year +24.05% -7.29% +59.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.40 £82.19 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £32.43 £35.00
% change year-on-year +35.55% -7.34% +59.09%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Enterprise Software job vacancy trend in the UK

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Enterprise Software.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Enterprise Software

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Software over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Software in the UK

Enterprise Software
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Enterprise Software.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Enterprise Software

Enterprise Software
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Enterprise Software over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Enterprise Software in the UK

Enterprise Software
Top 17 Contract Job 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 6 months to 14 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
England +22 417 £525 -4.72% 283
UK excluding London -14 235 £450 - 185
London +1 194 £700 +11.11% 135
Work from Home -10 138 £596 +13.43% 179
South East -5 73 £425 -11.83% 55
North of England -44 52 £450 +21.62% 40
South West +1 41 £500 +61.29% 29
North West -31 31 £358 +2.29% 28
Midlands -47 29 £413 -26.67% 31
West Midlands -39 25 £400 -33.33% 27
East of England -11 23 £500 -16.67% 16
Scotland -23 22 £449 -5.53% 14
Yorkshire -37 18 £514 +38.92% 9
North East -32 5 £400 -13.51% 3
East Midlands -30 2 £850 +70.00% 4
Northern Ireland -3 1 £450 +5.88% 6
Wales -18 1 £460 +65.77% 1

Enterprise Software
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (3.46%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (2.85%) IIS
4 13 (2.64%) Appian
5 7 (1.42%) Confluence
6 6 (1.22%) CMS
6 6 (1.22%) Sitecore CMS
7 5 (1.02%) JBoss
7 5 (1.02%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (1.02%) Tomcat
7 5 (1.02%) WebLogic
8 4 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.61%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.41%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.41%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.41%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.41%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.41%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.20%) Apache
11 1 (0.20%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 7 (1.42%) AutoCAD
1 7 (1.42%) Revit
2 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.81%) Acrobat
4 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.63%) Primavera
2 7 (1.42%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (1.42%) Siebel CRM
3 5 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.02%) Maximo
3 5 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.41%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.20%) ContrOCC
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.20%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.20%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.20%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.20%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.20%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 175 (35.57%) Azure
2 126 (25.61%) AWS
3 69 (14.02%) GCP
4 59 (11.99%) Entra ID
5 49 (9.96%) SaaS
6 45 (9.15%) Microsoft 365
7 27 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (3.86%) Power Platform
9 17 (3.46%) PaaS
10 16 (3.25%) Serverless
11 15 (3.05%) IaaS
12 13 (2.64%) OCI
13 12 (2.44%) GitHub
14 11 (2.24%) Azure Key Vault
14 11 (2.24%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (2.03%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (1.63%) Amazon S3
16 8 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
16 8 (1.63%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.25%) Firewall
2 15 (3.05%) VPN
3 13 (2.64%) DNS
4 11 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (2.03%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.83%) LAN
6 9 (1.83%) WAN
7 8 (1.63%) Internet
8 7 (1.42%) SSL
9 6 (1.22%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (1.22%) Wireless
10 5 (1.02%) DHCP
11 4 (0.81%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.61%) HTTP
12 3 (0.61%) Network Security
12 3 (0.61%) NGFW
12 3 (0.61%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 1 (0.20%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.28%) SQL Server
2 16 (3.25%) NoSQL
3 13 (2.64%) Oracle Database
3 13 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (2.44%) Power BI
5 10 (2.03%) MongoDB
5 10 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (1.83%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.83%) Siebel EIM
7 8 (1.63%) Oracle BI EE
8 6 (1.22%) Metadata
8 6 (1.22%) MySQL
9 5 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.81%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.81%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (9.15%) JIRA
2 22 (4.47%) Git
3 19 (3.86%) GitLab
4 15 (3.05%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.83%) Cucumber
6 7 (1.42%) JUnit
6 7 (1.42%) Postman
7 6 (1.22%) Browser DevTools
8 5 (1.02%) REST Assured
9 4 (0.81%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.81%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.81%) Gradle
9 4 (0.81%) InstallShield
9 4 (0.81%) MLflow
10 3 (0.61%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.61%) Fiddler
10 3 (0.61%) Maven
10 3 (0.61%) MSI
10 3 (0.61%) Selenium
10 3 (0.61%) SpecFlow
General
1 200 (40.65%) Social Skills
2 62 (12.60%) Public Sector
3 58 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (11.18%) Finance
5 20 (4.07%) Legal
6 19 (3.86%) Banking
7 16 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (1.63%) Law
9 7 (1.42%) Aviation
9 7 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.02%) Local Government
11 5 (1.02%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.02%) Military
11 5 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.02%) Retail
12 4 (0.81%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.81%) Marketing
13 3 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 125 (25.41%) Architect
2 78 (15.85%) Developer
3 50 (10.16%) Senior
4 34 (6.91%) Analyst
4 34 (6.91%) CyberArk Architect
5 25 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
6 22 (4.47%) Lead
7 18 (3.66%) Java Developer
8 17 (3.46%) Technical Architect
8 17 (3.46%) Test Engineer
9 15 (3.05%) Support Engineer
10 14 (2.85%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (2.85%) Consultant
11 13 (2.64%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (2.44%) Support Analyst
13 11 (2.24%) Administrator
13 11 (2.24%) IT Support
14 10 (2.03%) Applications Architect
14 10 (2.03%) Enterprise Architect
15 9 (1.83%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (16.67%) REST
2 44 (8.94%) SOAP
3 40 (8.13%) LDAP
4 35 (7.11%) .NET
4 35 (7.11%) React
5 23 (4.67%) Middleware
5 23 (4.67%) RESTful
6 21 (4.27%) Kafka
6 21 (4.27%) OAuth
7 18 (3.66%) AngularJS
7 18 (3.66%) Node.js
7 18 (3.66%) Spring
8 16 (3.25%) OpenID
8 16 (3.25%) SAML
8 16 (3.25%) Spring Boot
9 13 (2.64%) CSS
9 13 (2.64%) HTML
9 13 (2.64%) JSON
10 12 (2.44%) OAuth2
10 12 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 56 (11.38%) Cloud Native
2 39 (7.93%) Onboarding
3 31 (6.30%) Security Posture
4 24 (4.88%) Product Ownership
5 22 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (3.46%) Virtual Team
7 13 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (2.03%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.83%) SCADA
11 8 (1.63%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.42%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.42%) CMDB
12 7 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (1.02%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.02%) Web Conferencing
14 4 (0.81%) Client/Server
14 4 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (0.81%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 84 (17.07%) Windows
2 25 (5.08%) Linux
2 25 (5.08%) Windows 10
3 18 (3.66%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.44%) Android
4 12 (2.44%) Mac OS
5 11 (2.24%) Apple iOS
6 10 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.63%) Unix
8 6 (1.22%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.61%) VMS
9 3 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.41%) Solaris
10 2 (0.41%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.41%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (26.42%) Agile
2 128 (26.02%) Problem-Solving
3 119 (24.19%) DevOps
4 115 (23.37%) CI/CD
5 78 (15.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 75 (15.24%) ITIL
7 63 (12.80%) Stakeholder Management
8 62 (12.60%) Integration Patterns
9 60 (12.20%) Migration
10 59 (11.99%) ITSM
11 58 (11.79%) AI
12 54 (10.98%) Technical Leadership
12 54 (10.98%) Test Automation
13 50 (10.16%) Roadmaps
14 49 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
15 48 (9.76%) Microservices
16 45 (9.15%) Enterprise Architecture
17 43 (8.74%) Scrum
18 37 (7.52%) Analytics
18 37 (7.52%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 88 (17.89%) Python
2 80 (16.26%) PowerShell
3 66 (13.41%) SQL
4 58 (11.79%) Java
5 33 (6.71%) C#
6 22 (4.47%) Bash
6 22 (4.47%) JavaScript
7 11 (2.24%) PL/SQL
8 10 (2.03%) Bicep
8 10 (2.03%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.63%) Apex Code
10 6 (1.22%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.02%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.81%) BeanShell
13 3 (0.61%) ABAP
13 3 (0.61%) C++
13 3 (0.61%) Groovy
13 3 (0.61%) Perl
13 3 (0.61%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.41%) Jython
Qualifications
1 130 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 113 (22.97%) SC Cleared
3 29 (5.89%) Degree
4 20 (4.07%) Azure Certification
5 15 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (2.85%) CISSP
7 12 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.83%) CISM
8 9 (1.83%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.42%) ISTQB
10 6 (1.22%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.02%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 4 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.81%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.61%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.28%) QA
2 13 (2.64%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.03%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.03%) NIST
5 9 (1.83%) SLA
6 8 (1.63%) GDPR
7 5 (1.02%) NIST 800
8 4 (0.81%) GRC
9 3 (0.61%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.41%) GMP
10 2 (0.41%) GxP
10 2 (0.41%) WCAG
11 1 (0.20%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 1 (0.20%) COBIT
11 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.20%) GAMP
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 106 (21.54%) Active Directory
2 41 (8.33%) Docker
3 8 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.61%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) Firmware
6 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 49 (9.96%) Kubernetes
2 38 (7.72%) Terraform
3 24 (4.88%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (4.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (3.86%) Ansible
6 18 (3.66%) Grafana
7 16 (3.25%) Prometheus
8 11 (2.24%) SCCM
9 6 (1.22%) Puppet
10 5 (1.02%) Argo
11 4 (0.81%) Salt
12 3 (0.61%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.41%) CA Wily
13 2 (0.41%) Tivoli
14 1 (0.20%) AirWatch
14 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.20%) Kubeflow
14 1 (0.20%) logstash
14 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 100 (20.33%) Microsoft
2 47 (9.55%) Oracle
3 43 (8.74%) CyberArk
4 32 (6.50%) ServiceNow
5 30 (6.10%) BeyondTrust
5 30 (6.10%) Centrify
6 29 (5.89%) SAP
7 25 (5.08%) Salesforce
8 14 (2.85%) Red Hat
9 12 (2.44%) Conga
9 12 (2.44%) MuleSoft
9 12 (2.44%) Okta
10 11 (2.24%) Adobe
11 10 (2.03%) VMware
12 9 (1.83%) AppDynamics
12 9 (1.83%) Google
12 9 (1.83%) Siebel
13 8 (1.63%) Dynatrace
13 8 (1.63%) IBM
13 8 (1.63%) Splunk