Enterprise Software Contracts

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 have cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 360 362
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 -65
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 230 411 643
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.70% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.75% 2.09% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 296 384
10th Percentile £405 £350 £408
25th Percentile £454 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £669
90th Percentile £825 £775 £759
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £510 £513
% change year-on-year +2.94% -0.49% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £43.84 - £36.71
25th Percentile £52.90 £66.25 £39.28
Median hourly rate £60.00 £67.50 £44.71
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +50.98% -18.71%
75th Percentile £62.90 £68.75 £53.44
90th Percentile £63.29 - £59.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.65 - £43.42
% change year-on-year - - -26.42%

All Generic Skills
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,166 19,644 29,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.34% 33.26% 33.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,481 13,496 20,500
10th Percentile £263 £309 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £660 £676 £658
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 905 642 721
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.12 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.96% -18.24% +4.47%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.44 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £22.00 £20.13
% change year-on-year +28.41% +9.29% -16.13%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Enterprise Software as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Software in the UK

Enterprise Software
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Software.

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Software in the UK

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Software over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Software in the UK

Enterprise Software
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Software.

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Software in the UK

Enterprise Software
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Enterprise Software over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Enterprise Software in the UK

Enterprise Software
Top 14 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 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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 +8 204 £556 +1.14% 203
London +35 108 £600 +2.56% 85
UK excluding London +14 95 £525 +2.94% 113
Work from Home +30 86 £575 +4.55% 130
North of England +25 29 £475 -13.64% 29
South East +34 28 £585 +6.36% 31
North West +36 25 £500 -10.31% 18
Midlands +13 22 £513 +10.81% 21
East Midlands +12 13 £445 +27.14% 7
South West +19 8 £670 +31.37% 12
East of England +12 8 £510 -28.92% 10
West Midlands +8 8 £607 +5.57% 14
Scotland +23 5 £506 +1.25% 7
Yorkshire +9 4 £429 -22.09% 6

Enterprise Software
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.04%) CMS
1 7 (3.04%) SAS
2 6 (2.61%) Alfresco
2 6 (2.61%) Appian
2 6 (2.61%) Camunda
2 6 (2.61%) Confluence
3 5 (2.17%) Cloud Foundry
3 5 (2.17%) IBM Notes
4 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) CICS
6 1 (0.43%) IIS
6 1 (0.43%) JBoss
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.74%) InVision
1 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.74%) Sketch
2 1 (0.43%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (0.43%) Blender
2 1 (0.43%) Houdini
2 1 (0.43%) Maya
2 1 (0.43%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.43%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (2.17%) Siebel CRM
2 2 (0.87%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (0.87%) SAP PLM
2 2 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.43%) Carpe Diem
3 1 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.43%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.43%) Magento
3 1 (0.43%) Maximo
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.43%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.43%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.43%) Shopify
3 1 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 52 (22.61%) Azure
2 39 (16.96%) AWS
3 20 (8.70%) SaaS
4 13 (5.65%) GCP
5 8 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (3.48%) Serverless
6 7 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (3.04%) Amazon S3
6 7 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (3.04%) Entra ID
6 7 (3.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (2.61%) Azure AKS
7 6 (2.61%) Figma
8 5 (2.17%) Azure App Service
9 4 (1.74%) npm
9 4 (1.74%) Yarn
10 3 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.30%) GitHub
10 3 (1.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.78%) DNS
2 6 (2.61%) DHCP
3 5 (2.17%) iSCSI
3 5 (2.17%) SAN
3 5 (2.17%) SSH
3 5 (2.17%) VLAN
4 3 (1.30%) BGP
4 3 (1.30%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (1.30%) IOS XR
5 2 (0.87%) IPv6
5 2 (0.87%) LAN
5 2 (0.87%) WAN
6 1 (0.43%) ATM
6 1 (0.43%) Firewall
6 1 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.43%) SSL
6 1 (0.43%) VPN
6 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.70%) Relational Database
2 17 (7.39%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.91%) Oracle Database
3 9 (3.91%) RDBMS
4 8 (3.48%) DB2
5 7 (3.04%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (3.04%) KDB
6 6 (2.61%) Siebel EIM
7 5 (2.17%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.74%) Redis
9 3 (1.30%) MySQL
9 3 (1.30%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.30%) Power BI
10 2 (0.87%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.87%) Metadata
11 1 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.43%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (7.39%) Git
2 14 (6.09%) JIRA
3 10 (4.35%) GitLab
4 8 (3.48%) git-flow
4 8 (3.48%) Maven
5 5 (2.17%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.17%) JUnit
6 4 (1.74%) Axure RP
6 4 (1.74%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.74%) Jasmine
6 4 (1.74%) Karma Test Runner
6 4 (1.74%) Mocha
6 4 (1.74%) webpack
7 3 (1.30%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.87%) Gradle
8 2 (0.87%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.87%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.43%) Selenium
9 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 64 (27.83%) Social Skills
2 46 (20.00%) Finance
3 19 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.39%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.96%) Banking
6 14 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (6.09%) Marketing
7 10 (4.35%) Front Office
8 8 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.17%) Legal
11 4 (1.74%) Law
12 3 (1.30%) Automotive
12 3 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.87%) Advertising
13 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.87%) Retail
13 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (26.09%) Developer
2 44 (19.13%) Architect
3 36 (15.65%) Senior
4 24 (10.43%) Consultant
5 21 (9.13%) Java Developer
6 14 (6.09%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (4.78%) SAP Consultant
8 10 (4.35%) Analyst
9 9 (3.91%) Project Manager
9 9 (3.91%) Senior Developer
9 9 (3.91%) SQL Developer
9 9 (3.91%) Technical Architect
10 8 (3.48%) Designer
10 8 (3.48%) JavaScript Engineer
10 8 (3.48%) UI Engineer
11 7 (3.04%) DBA
11 7 (3.04%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 7 (3.04%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
11 7 (3.04%) Full Stack Developer
11 7 (3.04%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.30%) .NET
2 21 (9.13%) JSON
3 20 (8.70%) React
4 17 (7.39%) REST
5 15 (6.52%) RESTful
6 14 (6.09%) CSS
7 13 (5.65%) Spring
7 13 (5.65%) XML
8 12 (5.22%) AngularJS
8 12 (5.22%) Hibernate
8 12 (5.22%) JPA
9 11 (4.78%) Web Services
10 9 (3.91%) SOAP
11 8 (3.48%) Jest
11 8 (3.48%) LESS
11 8 (3.48%) Material-UI
11 8 (3.48%) OpenFin
11 8 (3.48%) Redux
11 8 (3.48%) Sass
11 8 (3.48%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.43%) Data Structures
2 22 (9.57%) Algorithms
3 16 (6.96%) Fixed Income
4 14 (6.09%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.78%) Management Information System
6 10 (4.35%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.35%) Low-Code
7 9 (3.91%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.48%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (3.04%) Augmented Reality
9 7 (3.04%) Derivative
9 7 (3.04%) Virtual Reality
10 5 (2.17%) CMDB
10 5 (2.17%) Mainframe
11 4 (1.74%) PKI
12 3 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.30%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.57%) Linux
2 12 (5.22%) Windows
3 8 (3.48%) Android
3 8 (3.48%) Unix
4 7 (3.04%) Apple iOS
4 7 (3.04%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.61%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (2.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.30%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.43%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.43%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (32.17%) Agile
2 40 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (15.22%) Microservices
4 32 (13.91%) SDLC
5 28 (12.17%) CI/CD
5 28 (12.17%) Scrum
6 26 (11.30%) User Experience
7 24 (10.43%) DevOps
8 23 (10.00%) Migration
8 23 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 22 (9.57%) CRM
10 21 (9.13%) Project Management
11 20 (8.70%) Design Patterns
12 19 (8.26%) Roadmaps
13 18 (7.83%) Business Strategy
13 18 (7.83%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (7.39%) Mentoring
14 17 (7.39%) Test Automation
15 16 (6.96%) Electronic Trading
15 16 (6.96%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 59 (25.65%) Java
2 55 (23.91%) SQL
3 32 (13.91%) Python
4 25 (10.87%) JavaScript
5 21 (9.13%) C#
6 19 (8.26%) TypeScript
7 15 (6.52%) Go
8 10 (4.35%) Bash
9 8 (3.48%) Perl
10 7 (3.04%) C
10 7 (3.04%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.61%) Ruby
12 5 (2.17%) Bicep
12 5 (2.17%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.74%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.30%) C++
15 2 (0.87%) ABAP
15 2 (0.87%) R
15 2 (0.87%) Scala
15 2 (0.87%) XPath
Qualifications
1 33 (14.35%) Security Cleared
2 27 (11.74%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.52%) Degree
4 10 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.43%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.43%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.43%) MCSA
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.43%) Siebel Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.39%) QA
2 7 (3.04%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.04%) GDPR
3 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.87%) NIST
3 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.87%) SLA
4 1 (0.43%) GRC
4 1 (0.43%) GxP
4 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.43%) ITGC
4 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (8.70%) Docker
2 12 (5.22%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.17%) vSphere
4 1 (0.43%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (10.87%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.96%) Terraform
3 13 (5.65%) Ansible
4 10 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.30%) CA Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.87%) Opsgenie
6 2 (0.87%) TIBCO Hawk
7 1 (0.43%) Control-M
7 1 (0.43%) Nessus
7 1 (0.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.83%) SAP
3 17 (7.39%) Oracle
4 12 (5.22%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.48%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.04%) Databricks
6 7 (3.04%) ION Trading
6 7 (3.04%) Splunk
7 6 (2.61%) Pega
7 6 (2.61%) Siebel
8 5 (2.17%) Lotus
8 5 (2.17%) New Relic
9 4 (1.74%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.74%) Cisco
9 4 (1.74%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.74%) iManage
9 4 (1.74%) TOWER Software
9 4 (1.74%) VMware
10 3 (1.30%) CA
10 3 (1.30%) IBM