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 18 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 129 211
Rank change year-on-year -39 +82 +6
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Software 58 125 85
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.53% 2.65% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.62% 5.38% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 50 11 71
10th Percentile £46,446 £51,250 £41,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +11.50% +0.45%
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,500 £81,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £66,100 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% +1.69% -3.70%

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 2,213 2,325 3,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.37% 49.26% 30.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,707 788 2,308
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 18 June 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 18 June 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 26 £62,500 - 16
Lancashire +21 17 £55,000 - 7
Cheshire -37 12 £85,000 +6.25% 4
Merseyside -24 3 £41,000 - 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 2 (3.45%) Confluence
1 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.72%) CICS
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.72%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 9 (15.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (17.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 16 (27.59%) Azure
2 10 (17.24%) SaaS
3 6 (10.34%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.17%) AWS
4 3 (5.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.17%) OCI
4 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.45%) Figma
5 2 (3.45%) IaaS
5 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (3.45%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.72%) GCP
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle CX
6 1 (1.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) DHCP
1 2 (3.45%) DNS
1 2 (3.45%) SD-WAN
1 2 (3.45%) SNMP
1 2 (3.45%) WAN
2 1 (1.72%) HTTP
2 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.72%) Db2
3 1 (1.72%) Hazelcast
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (20.69%) JIRA
2 4 (6.90%) NUnit
3 3 (5.17%) Git
4 2 (3.45%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.45%) MSTest
5 1 (1.72%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.72%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (17.24%) Finance
1 10 (17.24%) Retail
2 6 (10.34%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.17%) Law
4 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.45%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Back Office
6 1 (1.72%) Games
6 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (29.31%) Developer
2 16 (27.59%) Project Manager
3 10 (17.24%) Senior
4 9 (15.52%) IT Manager
4 9 (15.52%) IT Project Manager
5 8 (13.79%) Senior Developer
6 7 (12.07%) C# Developer
6 7 (12.07%) Senior C# Developer
6 7 (12.07%) Software Manager
6 7 (12.07%) Software Project Manager
7 5 (8.62%) .NET Developer
8 4 (6.90%) Analyst
9 3 (5.17%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 3 (5.17%) Architect
9 3 (5.17%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (5.17%) Lead
10 2 (3.45%) Digital Product Owner
10 2 (3.45%) IT Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Senior Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.52%) .NET
2 6 (10.34%) AngularJS
2 6 (10.34%) RESTful
3 5 (8.62%) ASP.NET
3 5 (8.62%) ASP.NET Core
3 5 (8.62%) Entity Framework
4 3 (5.17%) .NET Core
4 3 (5.17%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (5.17%) LINQ
4 3 (5.17%) Vue
5 2 (3.45%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.45%) Ninject
5 2 (3.45%) OpenAPI
5 2 (3.45%) RxJS
5 2 (3.45%) Spring.NET
5 2 (3.45%) Swagger
5 2 (3.45%) Unity DI Container
5 2 (3.45%) Vitest
5 2 (3.45%) WPF
6 1 (1.72%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) Driving Licence
2 8 (13.79%) EPoS
3 4 (6.90%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.17%) IoT
5 2 (3.45%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.45%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.45%) Social Network
6 1 (1.72%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.72%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Windows
2 3 (5.17%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.10%) Agile
2 19 (32.76%) DevOps
3 15 (25.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (24.14%) CRM
5 13 (22.41%) Roadmaps
5 13 (22.41%) Waterfall
6 12 (20.69%) ERP
6 12 (20.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 11 (18.97%) Coaching
7 11 (18.97%) Project Management
8 10 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (15.52%) Cost Control
9 9 (15.52%) Data Migration
9 9 (15.52%) Migration
9 9 (15.52%) Software Delivery
9 9 (15.52%) Validation
10 7 (12.07%) AI
10 7 (12.07%) Mentoring
11 6 (10.34%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (10.34%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.41%) C#
2 9 (15.52%) SQL
3 5 (8.62%) TypeScript
4 3 (5.17%) Java
5 2 (3.45%) Bash
5 2 (3.45%) Bicep
5 2 (3.45%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.45%) Python
6 1 (1.72%) C++
6 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (1.72%) GDPR
1 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (10.34%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.45%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 12 (20.69%) Oracle
3 9 (15.52%) SAP
3 9 (15.52%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.45%) CyberArk
4 2 (3.45%) DevExpress
4 2 (3.45%) Facebook
4 2 (3.45%) New Relic
4 2 (3.45%) SolarWinds
4 2 (3.45%) Splunk
4 2 (3.45%) VMware
5 1 (1.72%) iManage
5 1 (1.72%) Pega