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 30 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 154 242
Rank change year-on-year -30 +88 +8
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Software 18 5 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.27% 0.18% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.30% 0.43% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 13 4 25
10th Percentile - £44,700 £40,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,375 £46,199
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.66% -1.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £51,250 £53,750
90th Percentile £94,500 £55,750 £62,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 1,383 1,171 2,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 20.67% 42.63% 32.68%
Number of salaries quoted 838 605 2,018
10th Percentile £27,707 £30,000 £27,895
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,050 £81,786
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%

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 30 March 2026.

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 30 March 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
Bristol -2 7 £78,750 +54.41% 4
Wiltshire -9 4 £55,000 +17.02% 1
Somerset -22 3 £60,000 - 1
Dorset - 3 £95,000 - 2
Devon - 1 £77,500 -
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 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (5.56%) SAP EWM
1 1 (5.56%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
3 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (16.67%) SaaS
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Stack
5 2 (11.11%) IaaS
5 2 (11.11%) PaaS
5 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) DHCP
1 4 (22.22%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.56%) Unified Communications
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
2 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (5.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) Big Data
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
2 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Law
3 2 (11.11%) Legal
3 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (5.56%) Police
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 4 (22.22%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (22.22%) Architect
1 4 (22.22%) Azure Architect
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Architect
1 4 (22.22%) Field Engineer
1 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Administrator
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Architect
2 2 (11.11%) DBA
2 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Senior
2 2 (11.11%) Senior DBA
2 2 (11.11%) Software Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) Test Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Threat Hunter
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Digital Signage
2 3 (16.67%) Replication
3 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 7 (38.89%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (27.78%) ITIL
4 5 (27.78%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (22.22%) Customer Service
5 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (22.22%) ITSM
5 4 (22.22%) Server Management
5 4 (22.22%) Service Delivery
6 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 2 (11.11%) Business Continuity
7 2 (11.11%) Data Architecture
7 2 (11.11%) Database Security
7 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
7 2 (11.11%) High Availability
7 2 (11.11%) Software Architecture
7 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (11.11%) TOGAF
7 2 (11.11%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.56%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) CEH
4 1 (5.56%) GIAC
4 1 (5.56%) GREM
4 1 (5.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) SLA
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 4 (22.22%) Hyper-V
2 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (22.22%) vSphere
3 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (11.11%) Data Guard
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Incident Response Team
3 1 (5.56%) QRadar
3 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (22.22%) Fortinet
3 4 (22.22%) Palo Alto
3 4 (22.22%) VMware
4 3 (16.67%) Oracle
5 1 (5.56%) SAP
5 1 (5.56%) Splunk
5 1 (5.56%) Thales