Enterprise Software Job Trends

Enterprise Application Software
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 209 393
Rank change year-on-year +8 +184 -87
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Software 1,084 740 444
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.92% 1.49% 0.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.43% 3.64% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 779 246 227
10th Percentile £42,100 £30,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +11.57% -13.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,795 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.47% +14.17% -10.57%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 31,628 20,323 23,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.83% 40.83% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 19,396 10,249 11,659
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.44% -14.29% -4.55%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Enterprise Software job vacancy trend in the UK

Enterprise Software
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Enterprise Software.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Enterprise Software

Enterprise Software
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Software over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Enterprise Software in the UK

Enterprise Software
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Software within the UK over the 6 months to 9 October 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
England +34 1,004 £70,000 - 1,656
UK excluding London -39 611 £62,500 -0.47% 624
London +50 418 £90,000 +16.13% 1,085
Work from Home -52 351 £60,604 -1.06% 662
South East +63 165 £65,000 +88.41% 162
North of England -52 159 £60,000 -4.00% 164
Midlands -24 130 £60,000 -13.67% 116
North West -22 110 £57,500 +35.29% 95
West Midlands -4 100 £60,000 -17.24% 85
East of England -28 61 £60,100 -7.54% 41
South West -35 53 £65,000 -3.70% 61
East Midlands -57 30 £67,500 +6.30% 31
Yorkshire -24 29 £60,000 -20.00% 47
Wales -61 22 £40,000 -20.00% 12
North East -52 20 £67,500 - 22
Scotland -58 17 £67,500 +170.00% 43
Northern Ireland -77 4 £60,000 - 28

Enterprise Software
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 25 (2.31%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.57%) Oracle Workflow
4 16 (1.48%) Confluence
5 12 (1.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 10 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.65%) CICS
8 6 (0.55%) IIS
9 4 (0.37%) Documentum
9 4 (0.37%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.28%) CMS
10 3 (0.28%) JBoss
11 2 (0.18%) Apache
11 2 (0.18%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.092%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.092%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.092%) nginx
12 1 (0.092%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.092%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 35 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (0.92%) Acrobat
3 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.37%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.18%) Windchill
7 1 (0.092%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.092%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.092%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.092%) Trello
Business Applications
1 47 (4.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (2.21%) Oracle EBS
3 17 (1.57%) Oracle Payables
4 15 (1.38%) Oracle Cash Management
4 15 (1.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 7 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
5 7 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
6 6 (0.55%) Primavera
7 5 (0.46%) Elite 3E
7 5 (0.46%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 5 (0.46%) NEC Housing
7 5 (0.46%) Oracle Retail
8 4 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
8 4 (0.37%) Infor CloudSuite
8 4 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.37%) SAP HR
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle SCM
10 2 (0.18%) Maximo
10 2 (0.18%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 342 (31.55%) Azure
2 137 (12.64%) AWS
3 131 (12.08%) SaaS
4 94 (8.67%) Azure DevOps
5 88 (8.12%) Microsoft 365
6 78 (7.20%) Entra ID
7 77 (7.10%) Power Platform
8 51 (4.70%) GitHub
9 44 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 38 (3.51%) GCP
11 36 (3.32%) Dynamics 365
12 32 (2.95%) Serverless
13 31 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
14 26 (2.40%) Azure API Management
14 26 (2.40%) Microsoft Copilot
14 26 (2.40%) OCI
15 24 (2.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 24 (2.21%) Azure Service Bus
16 23 (2.12%) Power Automate
17 22 (2.03%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.68%) Firewall
2 24 (2.21%) DNS
3 21 (1.94%) Network Security
4 14 (1.29%) DHCP
5 13 (1.20%) Kerberos
5 13 (1.20%) VPN
6 11 (1.01%) WAN
7 10 (0.92%) BIG-IP
7 10 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 10 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 10 (0.92%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.65%) Internet
8 7 (0.65%) LAN
9 6 (0.55%) VLAN
9 6 (0.55%) Wireless
10 5 (0.46%) RFID
11 4 (0.37%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.37%) VoIP
12 3 (0.28%) 3GPP
12 3 (0.28%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (7.75%) SQL Server
2 66 (6.09%) MongoDB
3 59 (5.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 54 (4.98%) NoSQL
5 41 (3.78%) Power BI
6 39 (3.60%) Relational Database
7 26 (2.40%) Oracle Reports
8 23 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
9 22 (2.03%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 20 (1.85%) MySQL
11 19 (1.75%) Metadata
12 15 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (0.92%) Redis
14 9 (0.83%) Amazon QuickSight
14 9 (0.83%) DynamoDB
14 9 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
14 9 (0.83%) Star Schema
15 8 (0.74%) Db2
16 7 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 80 (7.38%) JIRA
2 65 (6.00%) Git
3 40 (3.69%) GitLab
3 40 (3.69%) Jenkins
4 29 (2.68%) Cucumber
5 12 (1.11%) Selenium
6 10 (0.92%) Oracle Forms
7 8 (0.74%) NUnit
8 6 (0.55%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.55%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.55%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.46%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.46%) Jasmine
9 5 (0.46%) JUnit
9 5 (0.46%) Mocha
9 5 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.37%) Maven
11 3 (0.28%) git-flow
11 3 (0.28%) JMeter
11 3 (0.28%) Postman
General
1 281 (25.92%) Finance
2 271 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 155 (14.30%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (8.30%) Public Sector
5 77 (7.10%) Law
6 58 (5.35%) Legal
7 57 (5.26%) Retail
8 50 (4.61%) Marketing
9 38 (3.51%) Aerospace
9 38 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
10 36 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
11 35 (3.23%) Banking
11 35 (3.23%) Manufacturing
12 34 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 31 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
14 22 (2.03%) Advertising
15 17 (1.57%) General Ledger
16 14 (1.29%) Telecoms
17 13 (1.20%) Health Technology
18 9 (0.83%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 275 (25.37%) Senior
2 220 (20.30%) Developer
3 158 (14.58%) Architect
4 81 (7.47%) Consultant
5 75 (6.92%) Solutions Architect
6 69 (6.37%) Senior Developer
7 67 (6.18%) Analyst
8 56 (5.17%) .NET Developer
9 55 (5.07%) IT Manager
10 53 (4.89%) Lead
11 50 (4.61%) Project Manager
12 47 (4.34%) Senior Manager
13 40 (3.69%) Applications Support
13 40 (3.69%) Oracle Consultant
14 37 (3.41%) Senior Consultant
15 36 (3.32%) Senior Oracle Consultant
16 34 (3.14%) Business Manager
16 34 (3.14%) Principal Engineer
17 33 (3.04%) Cloud Consultant
17 33 (3.04%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (15.87%) .NET
2 101 (9.32%) REST
3 76 (7.01%) Spring
4 74 (6.83%) Spring Boot
5 71 (6.55%) ASP.NET
6 67 (6.18%) RESTful
7 63 (5.81%) .NET Core
8 61 (5.63%) Terraform
9 52 (4.80%) Kafka
10 48 (4.43%) Entity Framework
11 47 (4.34%) AngularJS
12 46 (4.24%) ASP.NET Core
13 45 (4.15%) HTML
14 40 (3.69%) CSS
14 40 (3.69%) React
15 39 (3.60%) LINQ
16 37 (3.41%) OAuth
17 36 (3.32%) OpenID
17 36 (3.32%) SAML
18 33 (3.04%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 125 (11.53%) Cloud Native
2 92 (8.49%) Product Ownership
3 62 (5.72%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (3.97%) Onboarding
5 42 (3.87%) Driving Licence
6 35 (3.23%) Management Information System
7 34 (3.14%) Public Cloud
8 33 (3.04%) Legacy Applications
9 31 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
10 27 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
11 26 (2.40%) Data Centre
11 26 (2.40%) e-Learning
12 21 (1.94%) Virtual Team
13 19 (1.75%) AI Agents
14 18 (1.66%) Mainframe
15 15 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
15 15 (1.38%) NHS
16 14 (1.29%) IoT
17 13 (1.20%) Social Media
18 12 (1.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 52 (4.80%) Windows
2 22 (2.03%) Linux
3 20 (1.85%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.92%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.65%) Unix
6 5 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.092%) Android
8 1 (0.092%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.092%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (30.72%) Agile
2 264 (24.35%) CI/CD
3 257 (23.71%) DevOps
4 229 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
5 212 (19.56%) Stakeholder Management
6 201 (18.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 190 (17.53%) ERP
8 187 (17.25%) AI
9 183 (16.88%) Mentoring
10 152 (14.02%) Roadmaps
11 133 (12.27%) Microservices
12 132 (12.18%) Software Engineering
13 115 (10.61%) CRM
14 112 (10.33%) Migration
15 109 (10.06%) Test Automation
16 107 (9.87%) Decision-Making
17 100 (9.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 100 (9.23%) Technical Leadership
18 97 (8.95%) Architectural Patterns
19 92 (8.49%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 233 (21.49%) SQL
2 179 (16.51%) C#
3 100 (9.23%) Java
4 94 (8.67%) Python
5 62 (5.72%) JavaScript
6 54 (4.98%) TypeScript
7 52 (4.80%) PowerShell
8 42 (3.87%) PL/SQL
9 23 (2.12%) T-SQL
10 18 (1.66%) COBOL
10 18 (1.66%) JCL
11 16 (1.48%) Delphi
12 10 (0.92%) Bicep
13 9 (0.83%) ActionScript
13 9 (0.83%) PHP
14 7 (0.65%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.65%) Go
15 6 (0.55%) SOQL
16 5 (0.46%) Bash
16 5 (0.46%) C++
Qualifications
1 88 (8.12%) Degree
2 82 (7.56%) Security Cleared
3 46 (4.24%) SC Cleared
4 36 (3.32%) AWS Certification
5 34 (3.14%) Azure Certification
6 27 (2.49%) CISSP
7 25 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 25 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (1.85%) DV Cleared
9 16 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.29%) CISM
10 14 (1.29%) PMI Certification
11 13 (1.20%) PMP
12 12 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (1.01%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.74%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.74%) MBA
15 8 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (0.55%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.18%) QA
2 43 (3.97%) GDPR
3 34 (3.14%) Data Quality
4 25 (2.31%) Accessibility
5 22 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.29%) PMO
7 12 (1.11%) SLA
8 10 (0.92%) NIST
9 9 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.65%) GRC
12 6 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.55%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.18%) GxP
13 2 (0.18%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.18%) WCAG
14 1 (0.092%) COBIT
System Software
1 77 (7.10%) Active Directory
2 57 (5.26%) Docker
3 7 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.28%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.18%) vSphere
7 1 (0.092%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 63 (5.81%) Kubernetes
2 36 (3.32%) Single Sign-On
3 21 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.85%) Grafana
5 15 (1.38%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.29%) Ansible
7 5 (0.46%) FortiGate
7 5 (0.46%) SCCM
8 2 (0.18%) CASB
8 2 (0.18%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 1 (0.092%) Argo
9 1 (0.092%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.092%) Oracle Flashback
9 1 (0.092%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.092%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.092%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 271 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 148 (13.65%) Oracle
3 77 (7.10%) SAP
4 51 (4.70%) ServiceNow
5 31 (2.86%) Salesforce
6 23 (2.12%) Facebook
7 21 (1.94%) Okta
7 21 (1.94%) YouTube
8 20 (1.85%) Splunk
9 19 (1.75%) Intapp
10 16 (1.48%) Adobe
11 15 (1.38%) Informatica
12 14 (1.29%) ForgeRock
12 14 (1.29%) iManage
13 13 (1.20%) Dynatrace
13 13 (1.20%) VMware
13 13 (1.20%) Workday
14 12 (1.11%) Broadcom
15 10 (0.92%) F5
15 10 (0.92%) Google