Enterprise Software Job Trends in the North West

Enterprise Application Software
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 216 158
Rank change year-on-year +90 -58 +96
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Software 127 29 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.49% 0.38% 1.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.31% 1.28% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 15 25 55
10th Percentile - £41,000 £45,381
25th Percentile £26,500 £41,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,968 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,988 £92,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +7.69%

All Generic Skills
North West

Enterprise Software falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,393 2,268 1,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 46.94% 29.41% 42.01%
Number of salaries quoted 840 1,053 1,303
10th Percentile £27,450 £28,750 £32,752
25th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -9.57% +4.55%
75th Percentile £66,563 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Enterprise Software as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Software in the North West

Enterprise Software
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Enterprise Software.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Enterprise Software

Enterprise Software
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Software in the North West over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Enterprise Software in the North West

Enterprise Software
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Software within the North West region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheshire +38 58 £42,500 -46.71% 6
Manchester +50 35 £62,500 - 13
Lancashire +8 20 - - 10
Merseyside +9 14 £27,000 -38.64% 2
Enterprise Software
England

Enterprise Software
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 41 (32.28%) Confluence
2 2 (1.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.79%) Moodle
3 1 (0.79%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 116 (91.34%) Azure
2 112 (88.19%) AWS
3 40 (31.50%) GCP
4 9 (7.09%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.36%) SaaS
6 2 (1.57%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.79%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.79%) Google Gemini
7 1 (0.79%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.79%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.94%) DHCP
1 5 (3.94%) DNS
1 5 (3.94%) Remote Desktop
1 5 (3.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (85.83%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.79%) Power BI
2 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 111 (87.40%) JIRA
2 110 (86.61%) Selenium
3 109 (85.83%) Bitbucket
3 109 (85.83%) Cucumber
3 109 (85.83%) GitLab
3 109 (85.83%) Maven
3 109 (85.83%) SonarQube
3 109 (85.83%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.79%) Postman
General
1 114 (89.76%) Finance
2 110 (86.61%) Banking
2 110 (86.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 71 (55.91%) Retail
4 70 (55.12%) Corporate Banking
4 70 (55.12%) Investment Banking
5 6 (4.72%) Social Skills
6 5 (3.94%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.57%) Marketing
8 1 (0.79%) Cantonese Language
8 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.79%) German Language
8 1 (0.79%) Law
8 1 (0.79%) Legal
8 1 (0.79%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 109 (85.83%) Software Engineer
2 9 (7.09%) Analyst
3 7 (5.51%) Support Analyst
4 6 (4.72%) IT Analyst
5 5 (3.94%) IT Support
5 5 (3.94%) IT Support Analyst
5 5 (3.94%) Junior
5 5 (3.94%) Junior Analyst
5 5 (3.94%) Junior IT Support
5 5 (3.94%) Junior IT Support Analyst
5 5 (3.94%) Junior Support Analyst
6 2 (1.57%) Architect
6 2 (1.57%) Product Manager
6 2 (1.57%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.79%) Applications Manager
7 1 (0.79%) Business Analyst
7 1 (0.79%) Deployment Engineer
7 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.79%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (85.83%) CSS
1 109 (85.83%) HTML
1 109 (85.83%) JPA
1 109 (85.83%) Kafka
1 109 (85.83%) React
1 109 (85.83%) Redux
1 109 (85.83%) Spring
1 109 (85.83%) Spring Boot
2 70 (55.12%) CSS3
2 70 (55.12%) HTML5
2 70 (55.12%) Jest
2 70 (55.12%) REST
2 70 (55.12%) RESTful
2 70 (55.12%) Sass
3 39 (30.71%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 109 (85.83%) Product Ownership
2 1 (0.79%) CCTV
2 1 (0.79%) Data Centre
2 1 (0.79%) e-Learning
2 1 (0.79%) Learning Management System
2 1 (0.79%) Operational Technology
2 1 (0.79%) PMI
2 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
2 1 (0.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.72%) Windows
2 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (87.40%) SDLC
2 110 (86.61%) Agile
2 110 (86.61%) Containerisation
2 110 (86.61%) Test Automation
3 109 (85.83%) CI/CD
3 109 (85.83%) DevOps
3 109 (85.83%) Front End Development
3 109 (85.83%) Full-Stack Development
3 109 (85.83%) Microservices
3 109 (85.83%) Performance Optimisation
3 109 (85.83%) Software Engineering
4 74 (58.27%) Mentoring
5 71 (55.91%) Migration
5 71 (55.91%) User Experience
6 70 (55.12%) Responsive Web Design
6 70 (55.12%) Strategic Thinking
7 39 (30.71%) Clean Code
7 39 (30.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (30.71%) TDD
8 5 (3.94%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 112 (88.19%) SQL
2 109 (85.83%) Java
2 109 (85.83%) JavaScript
3 70 (55.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (2.36%) Degree
2 2 (1.57%) AWS Certification
2 2 (1.57%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (0.79%) CBAP
3 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (85.83%) QA
2 70 (55.12%) Accessibility
System Software
1 109 (85.83%) Docker
2 7 (5.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 109 (85.83%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 109 (85.83%) Solace
2 9 (7.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.79%) Google
3 1 (0.79%) Revolut
3 1 (0.79%) SAP
3 1 (0.79%) Zoho