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 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 384 306
Rank change year-on-year +135 -78 -15
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Software 549 432 547
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 0.64% 1.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.87% 1.97% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 278 213 479
10th Percentile £31,175 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £79,000 £87,500 £90,625
90th Percentile £91,625 £109,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,295 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.08% -11.54% +4.00%

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 19,113 21,932 20,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.52% 32.57% 38.76%
Number of salaries quoted 10,519 10,552 15,536
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £35,854 £45,500 £45,726
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% -

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 November 2025.

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 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
England +124 448 £70,000 +11.50% 712
UK excluding London +78 298 £63,295 +10.08% 515
London +129 216 £77,500 -8.82% 336
Work from Home +102 199 £67,500 +12.50% 385
North of England +73 83 £66,250 +6.00% 100
Midlands +52 61 £70,000 +33.33% 27
Scotland +44 59 £25,000 +2.04% 19
North West +49 49 £40,000 -36.00% 78
West Midlands +45 48 £72,500 +45.00% 20
South East -29 35 £34,500 -40.00% 303
East of England +31 31 £76,000 +38.18% 46
Yorkshire +33 29 £75,000 +30.43% 19
South West +43 17 £67,500 +22.73% 11
East Midlands +13 13 £45,000 -28.00% 7
Wales +3 8 £50,000 -17.83% 8
North East +6 5 £67,500 +13.45% 4
Northern Ireland -7 4 - - 12

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 44 (8.01%) SharePoint
2 36 (6.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (1.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (1.09%) nginx
5 4 (0.73%) IIS
6 3 (0.55%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.36%) CMS
7 2 (0.36%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.18%) Appian
8 1 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.18%) Confluence
8 1 (0.18%) JBoss
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 51 (9.29%) Maya
2 10 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 39 (7.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (4.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (4.74%) Oracle ERP
4 20 (3.64%) SAP IBP
5 15 (2.73%) SAP CO
5 15 (2.73%) SAP FI
5 15 (2.73%) SAP FI/CO
6 14 (2.55%) SAP FSCM
7 12 (2.19%) SAP IS-U
8 8 (1.46%) SAP FS
9 6 (1.09%) SAP PP
10 3 (0.55%) Endur
10 3 (0.55%) NetSuite
11 2 (0.36%) SAP CX
12 1 (0.18%) Lorenzo
12 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
12 1 (0.18%) SAP MDG
12 1 (0.18%) Shopify
12 1 (0.18%) Siebel CRM
12 1 (0.18%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 233 (42.44%) Azure
2 143 (26.05%) AWS
3 78 (14.21%) Microsoft 365
4 68 (12.39%) Entra ID
4 68 (12.39%) Power Platform
5 48 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
6 45 (8.20%) SaaS
7 35 (6.38%) GCP
8 33 (6.01%) IaaS
8 33 (6.01%) PaaS
9 30 (5.46%) OCI
10 25 (4.55%) GitHub
11 22 (4.01%) Serverless
12 18 (3.28%) Boomi
12 18 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
13 17 (3.10%) Cloud Computing
13 17 (3.10%) PowerApps
14 15 (2.73%) Power Automate
15 14 (2.55%) Microsoft Purview
16 12 (2.19%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 41 (7.47%) DNS
2 34 (6.19%) DHCP
3 25 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 22 (4.01%) Firewall
5 21 (3.83%) LAN
6 18 (3.28%) VPN
6 18 (3.28%) WAN
7 10 (1.82%) SAN
7 10 (1.82%) VLAN
8 9 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (1.28%) Network Security
10 6 (1.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 6 (1.09%) Remote Desktop
11 5 (0.91%) Intranet
12 4 (0.73%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (0.73%) WLAN
13 3 (0.55%) Internet
13 3 (0.55%) SSL
13 3 (0.55%) Wireless
13 3 (0.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (16.39%) SQL Server
2 43 (7.83%) Power BI
3 31 (5.65%) Relational Database
4 23 (4.19%) Tableau
5 21 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (3.83%) SAP BW
6 16 (2.91%) Data Lake
7 13 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (1.64%) RDBMS
9 8 (1.46%) NoSQL
9 8 (1.46%) Oracle Database
10 7 (1.28%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.91%) Redis
13 4 (0.73%) CockroachDB
13 4 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.73%) InterSystems Cache
13 4 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
14 3 (0.55%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 64 (11.66%) JIRA
2 47 (8.56%) GitLab
3 42 (7.65%) Cucumber
4 38 (6.92%) Selenium
5 37 (6.74%) Maven
6 36 (6.56%) Bitbucket
6 36 (6.56%) SonarQube
6 36 (6.56%) Sonatype Nexus
7 28 (5.10%) Jenkins
8 23 (4.19%) Oracle Forms
9 16 (2.91%) Git
10 6 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 5 (0.91%) JUnit
11 5 (0.91%) Mockito
12 3 (0.55%) JMeter
13 2 (0.36%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.36%) NeoLoad
13 2 (0.36%) Ranorex
13 2 (0.36%) SpecFlow
13 2 (0.36%) WebDriver
General
1 225 (40.98%) Social Skills
2 221 (40.26%) Finance
3 125 (22.77%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (20.58%) Law
5 70 (12.75%) Banking
5 70 (12.75%) Games
6 64 (11.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 61 (11.11%) Retail
8 46 (8.38%) Marketing
9 41 (7.47%) Legal
10 37 (6.74%) Investment Banking
11 36 (6.56%) Corporate Banking
12 34 (6.19%) Presentation Skills
13 30 (5.46%) Public Sector
14 27 (4.92%) French Language
15 25 (4.55%) Dutch Language
15 25 (4.55%) Manufacturing
16 13 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (2.37%) Telecoms
17 10 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 101 (18.40%) Senior
2 90 (16.39%) Architect
3 60 (10.93%) Consultant
4 56 (10.20%) Software Engineer
5 45 (8.20%) Analyst
6 42 (7.65%) Lead
7 39 (7.10%) Developer
8 36 (6.56%) IT Architect
9 35 (6.38%) Support Analyst
10 28 (5.10%) Applications Support
10 28 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
11 27 (4.92%) Senior Architect
12 26 (4.74%) Applications Engineer
13 22 (4.01%) IT Support
14 20 (3.64%) Senior Consultant
15 19 (3.46%) SAP Consultant
16 18 (3.28%) IT Consultant
17 17 (3.10%) Applications Support Analyst
18 16 (2.91%) IT Analyst
18 16 (2.91%) Senior IT Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (13.84%) RESTful
2 65 (11.84%) REST
3 52 (9.47%) React
4 51 (9.29%) Spring
5 48 (8.74%) Kafka
6 47 (8.56%) Spring Boot
7 46 (8.38%) HTML
8 44 (8.01%) HTML5
9 41 (7.47%) CSS
10 38 (6.92%) .NET
10 38 (6.92%) Sass
11 36 (6.56%) CSS3
11 36 (6.56%) Jest
11 36 (6.56%) JPA
11 36 (6.56%) Redux
12 33 (6.01%) SOAP
13 27 (4.92%) Middleware
13 27 (4.92%) SAML
14 24 (4.37%) OAuth
15 16 (2.91%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 57 (10.38%) Cloud Native
2 55 (10.02%) Product Ownership
3 24 (4.37%) Onboarding
4 18 (3.28%) Security Posture
5 16 (2.91%) Public Cloud
6 15 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
7 14 (2.55%) Blockchain
7 14 (2.55%) e-Learning
8 13 (2.37%) Hedge funds
8 13 (2.37%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.37%) NHS
9 10 (1.82%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.82%) PMI
9 10 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.64%) Reinsurance
11 6 (1.09%) Clustering
11 6 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.09%) Educational Technology
11 6 (1.09%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 73 (13.30%) Windows
2 36 (6.56%) Windows Server
3 16 (2.91%) Mac OS
4 15 (2.73%) Linux
5 13 (2.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (0.91%) Android
6 5 (0.91%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.55%) VMS
7 3 (0.55%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (33.15%) Agile
2 145 (26.41%) Cybersecurity
3 131 (23.86%) DevOps
4 127 (23.13%) Microservices
5 124 (22.59%) Mentoring
6 120 (21.86%) CI/CD
7 117 (21.31%) Migration
8 103 (18.76%) Business Strategy
9 95 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
10 89 (16.21%) AI
11 88 (16.03%) ERP
12 79 (14.39%) Test Automation
13 76 (13.84%) Software Engineering
14 75 (13.66%) Roadmaps
15 74 (13.48%) Analytics
15 74 (13.48%) SDLC
16 72 (13.11%) Risk Management
17 70 (12.75%) Strategic Thinking
18 67 (12.20%) Containerisation
19 66 (12.02%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 141 (25.68%) SQL
2 101 (18.40%) Java
3 75 (13.66%) JavaScript
4 66 (12.02%) Python
5 63 (11.48%) TypeScript
6 42 (7.65%) C#
7 36 (6.56%) PowerShell
8 31 (5.65%) PL/SQL
9 23 (4.19%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.91%) ABAP
10 5 (0.91%) Bash
10 5 (0.91%) C++
11 4 (0.73%) Bicep
11 4 (0.73%) Go
11 4 (0.73%) Rust
11 4 (0.73%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.55%) C
12 3 (0.55%) COBOL
13 2 (0.36%) R
13 2 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 156 (28.42%) Degree
2 43 (7.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 23 (4.19%) AWS Certification
5 21 (3.83%) PMI Certification
6 19 (3.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 18 (3.28%) Security Cleared
8 15 (2.73%) TOGAF Certification
9 14 (2.55%) Azure Certification
9 14 (2.55%) Master's Degree
10 11 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (2.00%) PMP
11 10 (1.82%) CCNA
11 10 (1.82%) CCNP
11 10 (1.82%) SC Cleared
12 8 (1.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (1.09%) CEH
13 6 (1.09%) MCP
14 5 (0.91%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (10.20%) QA
2 39 (7.10%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (3.28%) GDPR
5 13 (2.37%) NIST
5 13 (2.37%) SLA
6 8 (1.46%) IFRS
6 8 (1.46%) IFRS 17
6 8 (1.46%) Solvency II
7 4 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.55%) EMIR
9 2 (0.36%) COBIT
9 2 (0.36%) GRC
9 2 (0.36%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.18%) DICOM
10 1 (0.18%) HL7
10 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 74 (13.48%) Active Directory
2 46 (8.38%) Docker
3 18 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.73%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (1.46%) vSphere
6 4 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.18%) Postfix
8 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 59 (10.75%) Terraform
2 51 (9.29%) Kubernetes
3 42 (7.65%) Single Sign-On
4 23 (4.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (3.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 8 (1.46%) SCCM
7 6 (1.09%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (0.73%) Ansible
8 4 (0.73%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.73%) Nessus
9 3 (0.55%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 3 (0.55%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.55%) QRadar
10 1 (0.18%) Grafana
10 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 186 (33.88%) Microsoft
2 83 (15.12%) SAP
3 76 (13.84%) Oracle
4 36 (6.56%) Solace
5 35 (6.38%) CrowdStrike
6 32 (5.83%) Fortinet
6 32 (5.83%) Palo Alto
7 24 (4.37%) Dell
8 23 (4.19%) IBM
9 22 (4.01%) VMware
10 17 (3.10%) Okta
10 17 (3.10%) Salesforce
11 13 (2.37%) Bloomberg
11 13 (2.37%) MuleSoft
11 13 (2.37%) Reuters
12 12 (2.19%) Adobe
12 12 (2.19%) Google
13 11 (2.00%) Guidewire
14 10 (1.82%) Duck Creek
14 10 (1.82%) Veeam