Enterprise Software Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Enterprise Application Software
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 101 112
Rank change year-on-year -24 +11 +22
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 12 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.54% 0.24% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.52% 0.83% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile £269 - £389
25th Percentile £285 - £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.18%
75th Percentile £584 - £463
90th Percentile £701 - £485
England median daily rate £513 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +2.50% -16.67% -7.69%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 791 484 669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 35.31% 29.10% 36.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 301 418
10th Percentile £250 £213 £275
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £624
90th Percentile £650 £713 £716
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.37% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 18 38
10th Percentile £18.50 £18.77 £16.95
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.88 £17.79
Median hourly rate £23.05 £30.23 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.74% +31.41% +27.48%
75th Percentile £31.00 £44.95 £67.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.85 £67.88
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -21.62% -15.60% +25.16%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Enterprise Software job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Software in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Software in the West Midlands

Enterprise Software
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Enterprise Software
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Warwickshire -2 8 £435 - 2
Birmingham -2 2 £613 - 14
Shropshire - 1 - - 2
Staffordshire - 1 £300 - 1
Enterprise Software
England

Enterprise Software
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) Datadog
3 3 (25.00%) GCP
4 2 (16.67%) SaaS
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Lucidchart
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) AdminStudio
1 1 (8.33%) InstallShield
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) MSI
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) Applications Manager
1 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) CyberArk Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Lead
2 1 (8.33%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Middleware
2 2 (16.67%) WebCenter
3 1 (8.33%) LDAP
3 1 (8.33%) OAuth
3 1 (8.33%) SAML
3 1 (8.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) ITIL
3 4 (33.33%) Microservices
3 4 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 4 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (25.00%) Application Performance Management
4 3 (25.00%) Change Management
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (25.00%) Observability
4 3 (25.00%) Problem Management
5 2 (16.67%) Budget Management
5 2 (16.67%) Business Strategy
5 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 2 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
5 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (41.67%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (16.67%) ITGC
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Grafana
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (8.33%) SCCM
3 1 (8.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (25.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (25.00%) Splunk
2 2 (16.67%) CyberArk
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (8.33%) Autodesk