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 9 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 179 209
Rank change year-on-year +14 +30 +52
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Software 19 10 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.38% 0.24% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.49% 0.63% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 11 5 9
10th Percentile - £37,250 £39,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £81,875 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,500 £88,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £63,766 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.78% -14.98% +11.11%

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 1,272 1,600 1,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 25.15% 38.10% 35.12%
Number of salaries quoted 824 769 1,203
10th Percentile £27,000 £10,258 £29,440
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -6.54% +1.90%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £69,375
90th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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 +11 8 £77,500 +34.78% 8
Wiltshire +11 4 £55,000 +37.50% 9
Cornwall - 3 - -
Devon - 2 £72,500 - 11
Dorset - 2 £95,000 - 10
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 (21.05%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) SAP EWM
1 1 (5.26%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 17 (89.47%) Azure
2 9 (47.37%) AWS
3 7 (36.84%) Entra ID
3 7 (36.84%) IaaS
3 7 (36.84%) PaaS
3 7 (36.84%) SaaS
4 4 (21.05%) Azure Stack
4 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (21.05%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) DHCP
1 4 (21.05%) DNS
2 1 (5.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Big Data
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Law
2 4 (21.05%) Legal
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Architect
1 6 (31.58%) Azure Architect
1 6 (31.58%) Cloud Architect
2 4 (21.05%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Field Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Software Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) SAP Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Threat Hunter
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Digital Signage
2 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.79%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Windows
2 4 (21.05%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.26%) Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (47.37%) Incident Management
3 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
3 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
3 5 (26.32%) DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) Microservices
3 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (21.05%) Customer Service
4 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (21.05%) ITIL
4 4 (21.05%) ITSM
4 4 (21.05%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (21.05%) Server Management
4 4 (21.05%) Service Delivery
5 3 (15.79%) AI
5 3 (15.79%) Cost Optimisation
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) Integration Patterns
6 2 (10.53%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.79%) Bicep
3 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) CEH
3 1 (5.26%) GIAC
3 1 (5.26%) GREM
3 1 (5.26%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
1 4 (21.05%) Hyper-V
1 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (21.05%) vSphere
2 3 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Incident Response Team
3 1 (5.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Microsoft
2 8 (42.11%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (36.84%) Fortinet
3 7 (36.84%) Palo Alto
4 4 (21.05%) VMware
5 1 (5.26%) SAP
5 1 (5.26%) Splunk
5 1 (5.26%) Thales