Enterprise Software Job Trends in the South West

Enterprise Application Software
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 208 209
Rank change year-on-year +45 +1 +82
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Software 16 7 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.41% 0.11% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.21% 0.40% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 12 3 11
10th Percentile - £35,500 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £81,563 £81,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,000 £95,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,641 £72,500
% change year-on-year +11.75% -13.60% +11.54%

All Generic Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,318 1,736 1,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 33.52% 28.52% 39.15%
Number of salaries quoted 795 936 1,357
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £29,626
25th Percentile £30,750 £34,851 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,750 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.50% -9.09% +9.48%
75th Percentile £58,625 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,125 £85,000
England median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.17% -4.00% -0.79%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Enterprise Software job vacancy trend in the South West

Enterprise Software
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Enterprise Software.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Enterprise Software

Enterprise Software
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Software in the South West over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Enterprise Software in the South West

Enterprise Software
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Wiltshire +25 4 £55,000 +69.23% 1
Bristol +31 3 £77,500 - 4
Cornwall - 3 - - 1
Dorset - 3 £95,000 - 1
Devon - 2 £72,500 -
Somerset - 1 £65,000 - 4
Enterprise Software
England

Enterprise Software
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (87.50%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Entra ID
2 7 (43.75%) IaaS
2 7 (43.75%) PaaS
2 7 (43.75%) SaaS
3 6 (37.50%) AWS
4 4 (25.00%) Azure Stack
4 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.25%) Apigee
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) DHCP
1 4 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Big Data
2 1 (6.25%) CockroachDB
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JUnit
1 1 (6.25%) Mockito
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Law
3 4 (25.00%) Legal
4 2 (12.50%) Finance
5 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.25%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Architect
1 6 (37.50%) Azure Architect
1 6 (37.50%) Cloud Architect
2 4 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Software Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Integration Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) gRPC
1 1 (6.25%) Kafka
1 1 (6.25%) Protocol Buffers
1 1 (6.25%) React
1 1 (6.25%) RESTful
1 1 (6.25%) Spring
1 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (12.50%) Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
2 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
2 5 (31.25%) DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) Microservices
3 4 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) ITIL
3 4 (25.00%) ITSM
3 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (25.00%) Server Management
4 3 (18.75%) AI
4 3 (18.75%) Cost Optimisation
4 3 (18.75%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Data Architecture
5 2 (12.50%) IT Strategy
5 2 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
2 3 (18.75%) Bicep
3 1 (6.25%) C++
3 1 (6.25%) Go
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) Rust
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) CEH
3 1 (6.25%) GIAC
3 1 (6.25%) GREM
3 1 (6.25%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (25.00%) vSphere
2 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Incident Response Team
3 1 (6.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
2 4 (25.00%) VMware
3 3 (18.75%) Fortinet
3 3 (18.75%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.25%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) Thales