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 7 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 207 153
Rank change year-on-year +47 -54 +97
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Software 47 23 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.96% 0.33% 1.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.63% 1.10% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 11 19 52
10th Percentile - £41,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £26,500 £53,125 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £46,875 £67,968 £80,625
90th Percentile £50,000 £99,100 £100,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,783 £72,500
% change year-on-year +11.50% -13.40% +11.54%

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 1,785 2,100 1,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 36.58% 30.22% 38.20%
Number of salaries quoted 957 878 1,097
10th Percentile £26,529 £31,250 £32,092
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,500 £57,291
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -8.36% +4.16%
75th Percentile £63,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,125 £85,000
England median annual salary £54,987 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.36% -4.00% -0.79%

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 7 November 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 7 November 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
Manchester +38 15 £45,000 -28.00% 60
Cheshire +5 13 £38,750 -60.05% 14
Lancashire +23 11 - - 18
Merseyside - 8 £27,000 - 2
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 5 (10.64%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (80.85%) Azure
2 31 (65.96%) AWS
3 13 (27.66%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (10.64%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.26%) IaaS
5 2 (4.26%) PaaS
5 2 (4.26%) SaaS
6 1 (2.13%) ChatGPT
6 1 (2.13%) GCP
6 1 (2.13%) Google Gemini
6 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.13%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) DHCP
1 5 (10.64%) DNS
1 5 (10.64%) Remote Desktop
1 5 (10.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (61.70%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 29 (61.70%) Bitbucket
1 29 (61.70%) Cucumber
1 29 (61.70%) GitLab
1 29 (61.70%) JIRA
1 29 (61.70%) Maven
1 29 (61.70%) Selenium
1 29 (61.70%) SonarQube
1 29 (61.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (68.09%) Finance
2 30 (63.83%) Retail
3 29 (61.70%) Banking
3 29 (61.70%) Corporate Banking
3 29 (61.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 29 (61.70%) Investment Banking
4 7 (14.89%) Social Skills
5 5 (10.64%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.26%) German Language
8 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Law
8 1 (2.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 29 (61.70%) Software Engineer
2 14 (29.79%) Analyst
3 10 (21.28%) Support Analyst
4 7 (14.89%) IT Analyst
5 5 (10.64%) IT Support
5 5 (10.64%) IT Support Analyst
5 5 (10.64%) Junior
5 5 (10.64%) Junior Analyst
5 5 (10.64%) Junior IT Support
5 5 (10.64%) Junior IT Support Analyst
5 5 (10.64%) Junior Support Analyst
6 3 (6.38%) Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Applications Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Architect
8 1 (2.13%) Business Analyst
8 1 (2.13%) Deployment Engineer
8 1 (2.13%) Software Deployment Engineer
8 1 (2.13%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (61.70%) CSS
1 29 (61.70%) CSS3
1 29 (61.70%) HTML
1 29 (61.70%) HTML5
1 29 (61.70%) Jest
1 29 (61.70%) JPA
1 29 (61.70%) Kafka
1 29 (61.70%) React
1 29 (61.70%) Redux
1 29 (61.70%) REST
1 29 (61.70%) RESTful
1 29 (61.70%) Sass
1 29 (61.70%) Spring
1 29 (61.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 29 (61.70%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.13%) CCTV
3 1 (2.13%) e-Learning
3 1 (2.13%) Learning Management System
3 1 (2.13%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Windows
2 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (65.96%) Microservices
1 31 (65.96%) Software Engineering
2 30 (63.83%) Agile
2 30 (63.83%) Migration
2 30 (63.83%) Test Automation
3 29 (61.70%) CI/CD
3 29 (61.70%) Containerisation
3 29 (61.70%) DevOps
3 29 (61.70%) Front End Development
3 29 (61.70%) Full-Stack Development
3 29 (61.70%) Mentoring
3 29 (61.70%) Performance Optimisation
3 29 (61.70%) Responsive Web Design
3 29 (61.70%) SDLC
3 29 (61.70%) Strategic Thinking
3 29 (61.70%) User Experience
4 10 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (10.64%) Business Continuity
5 5 (10.64%) Customer Service
5 5 (10.64%) Digital Identity
Programming Languages
1 33 (70.21%) SQL
2 29 (61.70%) Java
2 29 (61.70%) JavaScript
2 29 (61.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (4.26%) Degree
2 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.13%) CBAP
2 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.13%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (63.83%) Accessibility
2 29 (61.70%) QA
System Software
1 29 (61.70%) Docker
2 10 (21.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (61.70%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (61.70%) Solace
2 13 (27.66%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.26%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (2.13%) Genesys
4 1 (2.13%) Siebel