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 17 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 127 226
Rank change year-on-year -47 +99 -57
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Software 82 128 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.69% 2.45% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.32% 5.16% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 68 15 30
10th Percentile £43,650 - £41,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £26,500 £47,503
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,675 £45,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.94% -28.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £75,988
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £97,300
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -3.57% +11.50% -7.57%

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 2,470 2,482 2,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.69% 47.54% 30.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,805 889 1,418
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £33,125 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £81,250 £84,964
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -23 45 £60,208 -3.67% 55
Lancashire +21 19 £55,000 - 5
Cheshire -33 14 £78,000 +83.53% 9
Merseyside -26 4 £48,000 +77.78% 1
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 (2.44%) Confluence
1 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.22%) CICS
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.22%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 10 (12.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (13.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (4.88%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.22%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 20 (24.39%) Azure
2 12 (14.63%) SaaS
3 8 (9.76%) Entra ID
4 7 (8.54%) IaaS
5 6 (7.32%) AWS
6 5 (6.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.88%) PaaS
8 3 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.66%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.44%) Figma
9 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (2.44%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.22%) ChatGPT
10 1 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.22%) GCP
10 1 (1.22%) OCI
10 1 (1.22%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) DHCP
1 4 (4.88%) DNS
2 3 (3.66%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.44%) Internet
3 2 (2.44%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.44%) SNMP
3 2 (2.44%) Unified Communications
3 2 (2.44%) VLAN
3 2 (2.44%) VoIP
3 2 (2.44%) VPN
3 2 (2.44%) WAN
3 2 (2.44%) Wireless
4 1 (1.22%) HTTP
4 1 (1.22%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.54%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (4.88%) Electronic Patient Records
2 4 (4.88%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.44%) Power BI
3 2 (2.44%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.22%) Db2
4 1 (1.22%) Hazelcast
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 14 (17.07%) JIRA
2 4 (4.88%) NUnit
3 3 (3.66%) Git
4 2 (2.44%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.44%) MSTest
5 1 (1.22%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.22%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.22%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.22%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (1.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (18.29%) Finance
2 13 (15.85%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.20%) Retail
4 7 (8.54%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.10%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.88%) Health Technology
6 4 (4.88%) Law
7 3 (3.66%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Back Office
9 1 (1.22%) Games
9 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 26 (31.71%) Developer
2 17 (20.73%) Project Manager
3 15 (18.29%) Senior
4 12 (14.63%) Senior Developer
5 11 (13.41%) IT Manager
6 10 (12.20%) IT Project Manager
7 7 (8.54%) .NET Developer
7 7 (8.54%) C# Developer
7 7 (8.54%) Senior C# Developer
7 7 (8.54%) Software Manager
7 7 (8.54%) Software Project Manager
8 4 (4.88%) Account Manager
8 4 (4.88%) Applications Manager
8 4 (4.88%) Healthcare Manager
8 4 (4.88%) IT Support
8 4 (4.88%) Lead
8 4 (4.88%) Sales Account Manager
8 4 (4.88%) Sales Manager
8 4 (4.88%) Senior Systems Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.29%) .NET
2 8 (9.76%) AngularJS
2 8 (9.76%) RESTful
3 7 (8.54%) ASP.NET
3 7 (8.54%) ASP.NET Core
3 7 (8.54%) Entity Framework
4 5 (6.10%) .NET Core
4 5 (6.10%) ASP.NET Web API
4 5 (6.10%) HTML
4 5 (6.10%) LINQ
4 5 (6.10%) Vue
5 4 (4.88%) OpenID
5 4 (4.88%) SAML
5 4 (4.88%) XML
6 2 (2.44%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.44%) Middleware
6 2 (2.44%) Ninject
6 2 (2.44%) Spring.NET
6 2 (2.44%) Unity DI Container
6 2 (2.44%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.63%) Driving Licence
2 8 (9.76%) EPoS
3 7 (8.54%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.88%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.88%) NHS
5 3 (3.66%) IoT
5 3 (3.66%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.44%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.44%) Social Network
7 1 (1.22%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.22%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.22%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.22%) PKI
7 1 (1.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.32%) Windows
2 3 (3.66%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.44%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (1.22%) Linux
4 1 (1.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (40.24%) Agile
2 23 (28.05%) DevOps
2 23 (28.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (23.17%) CRM
3 19 (23.17%) ERP
4 18 (21.95%) Waterfall
5 17 (20.73%) Roadmaps
6 15 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (15.85%) AI
8 12 (14.63%) Data Migration
8 12 (14.63%) Migration
8 12 (14.63%) Project Delivery
8 12 (14.63%) Project Management
9 11 (13.41%) Mentoring
9 11 (13.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 11 (13.41%) Validation
10 10 (12.20%) Coaching
10 10 (12.20%) Cost Control
10 10 (12.20%) Scrum
10 10 (12.20%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.17%) C#
2 18 (21.95%) SQL
3 7 (8.54%) Java
3 7 (8.54%) Python
3 7 (8.54%) TypeScript
4 4 (4.88%) PHP
4 4 (4.88%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.44%) Bicep
5 2 (2.44%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.22%) Bash
6 1 (1.22%) C++
6 1 (1.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (2.44%) Degree
2 2 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.66%) GDPR
1 3 (3.66%) SLA
2 2 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 7 (8.54%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.44%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (3.66%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.22%) Grafana
Vendors
1 19 (23.17%) Microsoft
2 13 (15.85%) Oracle
3 12 (14.63%) ServiceNow
4 10 (12.20%) SAP
5 4 (4.88%) NEC
6 3 (3.66%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (3.66%) Okta
6 3 (3.66%) PeopleSoft
7 2 (2.44%) DevExpress
7 2 (2.44%) Facebook
7 2 (2.44%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.44%) VMware
8 1 (1.22%) Apple
8 1 (1.22%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.22%) iManage
8 1 (1.22%) Meraki
8 1 (1.22%) Pega
8 1 (1.22%) Splunk