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 20 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 175 178
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 +41
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Software 30 19 85
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.36% 0.50% 1.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.98% 1.54% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 12 14 75
10th Percentile £37,750 £62,000 £44,250
25th Percentile £44,834 £63,938 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,604 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +3.57% +33.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,125 £86,250
90th Percentile £88,625 £90,375 £100,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -1.52% -0.75%

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 3,060 1,232 2,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 36.61% 32.16% 32.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,142 787 2,063
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £34,550 £40,875 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,550 £83,759
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Enterprise Software job vacancy trend 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 20 March 2026.

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 20 March 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +4 24 £68,750 -1.79% 13
Lancashire - 5 £48,445 - 7
Cheshire -32 1 £67,500 -15.63% 7
Enterprise Software
England

Enterprise Software
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.33%) CICS
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (3.33%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (70.00%) Azure
2 16 (53.33%) SaaS
3 13 (43.33%) Entra ID
4 12 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (26.67%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (26.67%) Microsoft Purview
5 8 (26.67%) OneDrive
5 8 (26.67%) PaaS
5 8 (26.67%) Power Platform
6 7 (23.33%) IaaS
7 3 (10.00%) AWS
8 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (6.67%) OCI
9 1 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (3.33%) Figma
9 1 (3.33%) GCP
9 1 (3.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.33%) DB2
2 1 (3.33%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (3.33%) IntelliJ
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) NUnit
General
1 18 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (26.67%) Finance
3 8 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) German Language
5 1 (3.33%) Law
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Architect
1 8 (26.67%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Azure Architect
2 6 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (16.67%) Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Lead
4 3 (10.00%) Support Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) IT Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Applications Support Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Deskside Support
6 1 (3.33%) IT Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Product Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Systems Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) .NET
1 4 (13.33%) AngularJS
2 3 (10.00%) React
3 2 (6.67%) RESTful
4 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.33%) CSS
4 1 (3.33%) CSS3
4 1 (3.33%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.33%) HTML
4 1 (3.33%) HTML5
4 1 (3.33%) J2EE
4 1 (3.33%) JMS
4 1 (3.33%) Kafka
4 1 (3.33%) Middleware
4 1 (3.33%) OpenAPI
4 1 (3.33%) REST
4 1 (3.33%) RxJS
4 1 (3.33%) SOAP
4 1 (3.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.33%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.33%) IoT
4 1 (3.33%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (46.67%) Agile
3 13 (43.33%) DevOps
4 11 (36.67%) RBAC
5 9 (30.00%) AI
5 9 (30.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 9 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 9 (30.00%) User Experience
6 8 (26.67%) BPR
6 8 (26.67%) Change Management
6 8 (26.67%) Data Loss Prevention
6 8 (26.67%) E-Discovery
6 8 (26.67%) Identity Access Management
6 8 (26.67%) Incident Response
6 8 (26.67%) Observability
6 8 (26.67%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (26.67%) Proactive Monitoring
6 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (20.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) Java
2 3 (10.00%) SQL
3 2 (6.67%) Bash
3 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.33%) Bicep
4 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.33%) Python
4 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (43.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 10 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (26.67%) Terraform
3 1 (3.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (26.67%) New Relic
2 8 (26.67%) Splunk
3 6 (20.00%) BiZZdesign
4 2 (6.67%) CyberArk
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle
5 1 (3.33%) DevExpress
5 1 (3.33%) Genesys
5 1 (3.33%) Pega
5 1 (3.33%) Siebel