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 16 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 123 221
Rank change year-on-year -37 +98 -56
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Software 93 128 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.74% 2.49% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.51% 5.32% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 73 15 25
10th Percentile £40,500 - £41,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £26,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,850 £45,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.11% -28.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £75,988
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -14.29%

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 2,650 2,405 2,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 21.00% 46.78% 29.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,857 853 1,044
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.44% -10.87%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -6.98%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -24 51 £58,750 -6.00% 103
Lancashire +8 22 £55,000 - 16
Cheshire -34 16 £71,000 +67.06% 8
Merseyside -21 4 £48,000 +77.78% 3
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 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (4.30%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.23%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.08%) Confluence
3 1 (1.08%) IIS
3 1 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.08%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (10.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (11.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (4.30%) NEC Housing
2 4 (4.30%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (3.23%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (3.23%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (3.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 19 (20.43%) Azure
2 12 (12.90%) SaaS
3 10 (10.75%) Entra ID
4 7 (7.53%) IaaS
5 6 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (5.38%) AWS
6 5 (5.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (5.38%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.30%) OneDrive
7 4 (4.30%) PaaS
8 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.08%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.08%) ChatGPT
9 1 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.08%) Figma
9 1 (1.08%) OCI
9 1 (1.08%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.45%) DHCP
1 6 (6.45%) DNS
2 5 (5.38%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.30%) Internet
3 4 (4.30%) Unified Communications
3 4 (4.30%) VLAN
3 4 (4.30%) VoIP
3 4 (4.30%) VPN
3 4 (4.30%) Wireless
4 2 (2.15%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.15%) SNMP
4 2 (2.15%) WAN
5 1 (1.08%) HTTP
5 1 (1.08%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.53%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (5.38%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.30%) Electronic Patient Records
3 4 (4.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 4 (4.30%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (4.30%) Power BI
4 2 (2.15%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (13.98%) JIRA
2 3 (3.23%) NUnit
3 2 (2.15%) MSTest
4 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.08%) Git
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (25.81%) Finance
2 14 (15.05%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.83%) Law
4 10 (10.75%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.75%) Retail
5 7 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.45%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.30%) Health Technology
8 3 (3.23%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.23%) General Ledger
9 2 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Back Office
10 1 (1.08%) Games
10 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Legal
10 1 (1.08%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 24 (25.81%) Developer
2 17 (18.28%) Project Manager
2 17 (18.28%) Senior
3 12 (12.90%) IT Manager
3 12 (12.90%) Senior Developer
4 10 (10.75%) Analyst
4 10 (10.75%) IT Project Manager
5 7 (7.53%) .NET Developer
5 7 (7.53%) Applications Analyst
5 7 (7.53%) Applications Manager
5 7 (7.53%) C# Developer
5 7 (7.53%) Senior C# Developer
5 7 (7.53%) Software Manager
5 7 (7.53%) Software Project Manager
6 6 (6.45%) IT Support
7 5 (5.38%) Applications Support
7 5 (5.38%) Development Manager
8 4 (4.30%) Account Manager
8 4 (4.30%) Applications Development Manager
8 4 (4.30%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.98%) .NET
2 7 (7.53%) XML
3 6 (6.45%) AngularJS
3 6 (6.45%) ASP.NET
3 6 (6.45%) ASP.NET Core
3 6 (6.45%) Entity Framework
3 6 (6.45%) RESTful
4 5 (5.38%) .NET Core
4 5 (5.38%) ASP.NET Web API
4 5 (5.38%) LINQ
4 5 (5.38%) Vue
5 4 (4.30%) HTML
5 4 (4.30%) OpenID
5 4 (4.30%) SAML
6 3 (3.23%) Web Services
7 2 (2.15%) Ninject
7 2 (2.15%) Spring.NET
7 2 (2.15%) Unity DI Container
7 2 (2.15%) WPF
8 1 (1.08%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.05%) Driving Licence
2 9 (9.68%) Onboarding
3 8 (8.60%) EPoS
4 4 (4.30%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.30%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.30%) NHS
5 3 (3.23%) IoT
6 2 (2.15%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.15%) Social Network
7 1 (1.08%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.08%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.08%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.08%) PKI
7 1 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.60%) Windows
2 4 (4.30%) Mac OS
3 3 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.15%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (2.15%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.08%) Linux
5 1 (1.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (34.41%) Agile
2 24 (25.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (21.51%) DevOps
3 20 (21.51%) ERP
4 18 (19.35%) CRM
5 16 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (17.20%) Project Delivery
5 16 (17.20%) Waterfall
6 14 (15.05%) AI
6 14 (15.05%) Data Migration
6 14 (15.05%) Mentoring
6 14 (15.05%) Migration
6 14 (15.05%) Roadmaps
7 13 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (12.90%) Project Management
9 11 (11.83%) Coaching
9 11 (11.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 11 (11.83%) Validation
10 10 (10.75%) Cost Control
10 10 (10.75%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (23.66%) SQL
2 19 (20.43%) C#
3 6 (6.45%) PowerShell
3 6 (6.45%) Python
3 6 (6.45%) TypeScript
4 5 (5.38%) Java
5 4 (4.30%) PHP
5 4 (4.30%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.08%) Bash
6 1 (1.08%) Bicep
6 1 (1.08%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (4.30%) Degree
1 4 (4.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.38%) GDPR
2 3 (3.23%) SLA
3 2 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 8 (8.60%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.15%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.08%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.13%) Oracle
3 12 (12.90%) ServiceNow
4 10 (10.75%) SAP
5 4 (4.30%) NEC
6 3 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (3.23%) Okta
6 3 (3.23%) PeopleSoft
7 2 (2.15%) Facebook
7 2 (2.15%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.15%) VMware
8 1 (1.08%) Apple
8 1 (1.08%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.08%) DevExpress
8 1 (1.08%) iManage
8 1 (1.08%) Meraki
8 1 (1.08%) Splunk