Enterprise Software Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Enterprise Application Software
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 203 268 286
Rank change year-on-year +65 +18 +70
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 101 77 195
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.02% 0.50% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.09% 1.75% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 53 142
10th Percentile £328 £420 £425
25th Percentile £447 £445 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% +4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £672 £688 £739
90th Percentile £850 £915 £847
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £54.25 - -
25th Percentile £56.88 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% -11.11% +68.40%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Enterprise Software
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Enterprise Software as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Enterprise Software trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Enterprise Software.

Enterprise Software daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Enterprise Software over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Enterprise Software daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Enterprise Software
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Enterprise Software.

Enterprise Software hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Enterprise Software
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (6.93%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.97%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.99%) Apache
4 1 (0.99%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) InfoPath
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.99%) Notion
1 1 (0.99%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.99%) Maximo
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.99%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.99%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (31.68%) Azure
2 22 (21.78%) AWS
3 11 (10.89%) Entra ID
4 9 (8.91%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (7.92%) GCP
5 8 (7.92%) Serverless
6 6 (5.94%) Google Workspace
7 5 (4.95%) SaaS
8 4 (3.96%) OneDrive
8 4 (3.96%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.97%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.97%) PaaS
9 3 (2.97%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.98%) Firebase
10 2 (1.98%) IaaS
10 2 (1.98%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.98%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.92%) Firewall
2 5 (4.95%) DNS
2 5 (4.95%) VPN
3 4 (3.96%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.98%) SSL
5 1 (0.99%) DHCP
5 1 (0.99%) HTTP
5 1 (0.99%) Internet
5 1 (0.99%) LAN
5 1 (0.99%) Network Security
5 1 (0.99%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.99%) VSAN
5 1 (0.99%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.89%) KDB
1 11 (10.89%) Kdb+
2 9 (8.91%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (8.91%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.95%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.96%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.96%) Hadoop
4 4 (3.96%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.97%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.97%) Couchbase
5 3 (2.97%) OLTP
5 3 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.97%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.98%) Redis
7 1 (0.99%) Big Data
7 1 (0.99%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.99%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.99%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.99%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 16 (15.84%) JIRA
2 8 (7.92%) Git
3 7 (6.93%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.96%) GitLab
4 4 (3.96%) NUnit
5 2 (1.98%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.98%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.99%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.99%) JUnit
6 1 (0.99%) Postman
6 1 (0.99%) ScriptRunner
General
1 40 (39.60%) Social Skills
2 27 (26.73%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (16.83%) Banking
4 16 (15.84%) Investment Banking
5 13 (12.87%) Front Office
6 12 (11.88%) Finance
7 9 (8.91%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.97%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.97%) Retail
9 2 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.98%) French Language
9 2 (1.98%) Marketing
10 1 (0.99%) Advertising
10 1 (0.99%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.99%) Legal
10 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (40.59%) Developer
2 17 (16.83%) Architect
3 15 (14.85%) C# Developer
4 14 (13.86%) .NET Developer
4 14 (13.86%) Python Developer
5 13 (12.87%) Senior
6 12 (11.88%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
6 12 (11.88%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 12 (11.88%) Real Time Developer
7 11 (10.89%) C++ Developer
7 11 (10.89%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
7 11 (10.89%) Linux Developer
7 11 (10.89%) Senior C++ Developer
7 11 (10.89%) Senior Developer
7 11 (10.89%) Senior Python Developer
8 10 (9.90%) C# .NET Developer
9 7 (6.93%) Consultant
9 7 (6.93%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.95%) Data Architect
10 5 (4.95%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (21.78%) .NET
2 16 (15.84%) AngularJS
3 12 (11.88%) Reactive Extensions
4 10 (9.90%) RESTful
5 9 (8.91%) OAuth
6 8 (7.92%) OpenID
7 7 (6.93%) CSS
7 7 (6.93%) HTML
7 7 (6.93%) SAML
8 5 (4.95%) .NET Core
8 5 (4.95%) ASP.NET
8 5 (4.95%) React
8 5 (4.95%) SailPoint
9 4 (3.96%) ARM Templates
9 4 (3.96%) Kafka
9 4 (3.96%) REST
9 4 (3.96%) SOAP
9 4 (3.96%) Spring
10 3 (2.97%) LDAP
10 3 (2.97%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.90%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.96%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.96%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (2.97%) iPad
3 3 (2.97%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.97%) Replication
3 3 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.98%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.98%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.98%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.99%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.99%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (18.81%) Linux
1 19 (18.81%) Windows
2 2 (1.98%) Mac OS
2 2 (1.98%) SUSE
2 2 (1.98%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.99%) Android
3 1 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.99%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (32.67%) Agile
2 24 (23.76%) Containerisation
3 21 (20.79%) CI/CD
4 20 (19.80%) DevOps
4 20 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (17.82%) SDLC
6 15 (14.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (14.85%) Data Science
7 14 (13.86%) OO
8 13 (12.87%) Design Patterns
8 13 (12.87%) Migration
9 12 (11.88%) Economics
9 12 (11.88%) Electronic Trading
9 12 (11.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (11.88%) User Experience
10 11 (10.89%) Computer Science
10 11 (10.89%) Low Latency
11 9 (8.91%) Microservices
11 9 (8.91%) Regulatory Compliance
12 8 (7.92%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (30.69%) Python
2 26 (25.74%) SQL
3 25 (24.75%) C#
4 22 (21.78%) Java
5 16 (15.84%) JavaScript
6 13 (12.87%) TypeScript
7 12 (11.88%) C++
8 8 (7.92%) PowerShell
9 7 (6.93%) Bash
10 4 (3.96%) Perl
11 3 (2.97%) R
11 3 (2.97%) Scala
12 2 (1.98%) Groovy
13 1 (0.99%) BeanShell
13 1 (0.99%) PHP
13 1 (0.99%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (12.87%) Degree
2 10 (9.90%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (9.90%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.92%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.95%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.95%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.95%) CISSP
5 4 (3.96%) CISM
6 2 (1.98%) CEH
6 2 (1.98%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.99%) CISA
7 1 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.99%) GIAC
7 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.99%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.99%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.92%) GDPR
2 6 (5.94%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.94%) QA
3 5 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (3.96%) HIPAA
4 4 (3.96%) NIST
4 4 (3.96%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.99%) FedRAMP
System Software
1 27 (26.73%) Docker
2 6 (5.94%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.99%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.99%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.99%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (31.68%) Kubernetes
2 13 (12.87%) Terraform
3 9 (8.91%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (5.94%) Ansible
5 2 (1.98%) Argo
5 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.99%) CASB
6 1 (0.99%) Grafana
6 1 (0.99%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (20.79%) Oracle
2 13 (12.87%) Microsoft
3 11 (10.89%) SAP
4 8 (7.92%) Google
5 5 (4.95%) Okta
5 5 (4.95%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.96%) Databricks
6 4 (3.96%) Ping Identity
6 4 (3.96%) VMware
7 3 (2.97%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.98%) Imperva
8 2 (1.98%) New Relic
8 2 (1.98%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.98%) Sybase
9 1 (0.99%) Ariba
9 1 (0.99%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.99%) Cisco
9 1 (0.99%) QAD
9 1 (0.99%) SolarWinds