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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 257 298
Rank change year-on-year +31 +41 -22
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Software 582 624 564
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.98% 1.17% 1.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.85% 3.15% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 271 208 478
10th Percentile £33,250 £41,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,641 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.75% -13.60% +11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £112,944 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -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 20,441 19,816 20,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.27% 37.14% 36.56%
Number of salaries quoted 10,264 9,266 14,883
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,744
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.28% -4.10%

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 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Enterprise Software in the UK

Enterprise Software
Top 18 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 13 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
England +12 479 £70,000 +8.11% 490
UK excluding London -5 343 £65,000 +13.04% 473
London +108 214 £76,250 -10.29% 67
Work from Home +97 190 £70,000 +12.00% 219
North of England -18 84 £75,000 +11.11% 80
Midlands -36 79 £64,250 +28.50% 59
Scotland +54 64 £26,000 -38.82% 19
West Midlands -24 59 £70,000 +45.83% 19
Yorkshire -55 48 £75,000 +20.00% 33
South East -9 47 £55,000 -8.33% 154
North West +42 31 £42,500 -38.18% 35
East of England +26 31 £60,100 +14.48% 79
East Midlands -28 20 £45,000 -30.50% 40
South West +18 19 £67,500 +31.71% 60
Northern Ireland -11 12 - - 13
Wales 0 6 £50,000 -21.88% 22
North East +4 5 £67,500 - 12
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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 52 (8.93%) SharePoint
2 36 (6.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (2.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (1.20%) CMS
5 4 (0.69%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.34%) IIS
6 2 (0.34%) JBoss
6 2 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Apache
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.17%) Appian
7 1 (0.17%) Confluence
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 59 (10.14%) Maya
2 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 41 (7.04%) Oracle ERP
2 32 (5.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 29 (4.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 16 (2.75%) SAP IBP
5 14 (2.41%) SAP CO
5 14 (2.41%) SAP FI
5 14 (2.41%) SAP FI/CO
6 10 (1.72%) SAP FSCM
7 9 (1.55%) SAP FS
7 9 (1.55%) SAP IS-U
8 7 (1.20%) Oracle Applications
8 7 (1.20%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.69%) Endur
10 3 (0.52%) SAP CX
10 3 (0.52%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.34%) NetSuite
11 2 (0.34%) SAP MDG
12 1 (0.17%) SAP EWM
12 1 (0.17%) Siebel CRM
12 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 252 (43.30%) Azure
2 128 (21.99%) AWS
3 87 (14.95%) Entra ID
4 83 (14.26%) Microsoft 365
5 78 (13.40%) Power Platform
6 67 (11.51%) SaaS
7 65 (11.17%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (8.93%) OCI
9 44 (7.56%) PaaS
10 43 (7.39%) IaaS
11 38 (6.53%) GitHub
11 38 (6.53%) Serverless
12 27 (4.64%) GCP
13 22 (3.78%) Cloud Computing
14 19 (3.26%) Microsoft Purview
15 17 (2.92%) GitHub Copilot
16 14 (2.41%) Boomi
16 14 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
16 14 (2.41%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
17 13 (2.23%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 35 (6.01%) DNS
2 33 (5.67%) DHCP
3 29 (4.98%) Firewall
4 26 (4.47%) TCP/IP
5 23 (3.95%) VPN
6 21 (3.61%) LAN
6 21 (3.61%) WAN
7 11 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (1.72%) SAN
8 10 (1.72%) VLAN
9 9 (1.55%) Wireless
10 5 (0.86%) WLAN
11 4 (0.69%) Broadband
11 4 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (0.69%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.69%) MPLS
11 4 (0.69%) PSTN
11 4 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (0.69%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (7.39%) Power BI
2 32 (5.50%) SQL Server
3 31 (5.33%) Tableau
4 30 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (3.09%) Data Lake
5 18 (3.09%) SAP BW
6 15 (2.58%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.03%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.86%) Big Data
10 3 (0.52%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.52%) MySQL
11 2 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.34%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.34%) Impala
11 2 (0.34%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.34%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.34%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 43 (7.39%) Jenkins
2 37 (6.36%) Oracle Forms
3 34 (5.84%) JIRA
4 22 (3.78%) Git
5 4 (0.69%) MLflow
6 3 (0.52%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.52%) JMeter
7 2 (0.34%) Appium
7 2 (0.34%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.34%) Gatling
7 2 (0.34%) GitLab
7 2 (0.34%) HP UFT
7 2 (0.34%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.34%) Ranorex
7 2 (0.34%) Selenium
7 2 (0.34%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.34%) Tricentis qTest
7 2 (0.34%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.17%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.17%) MSI
General
1 247 (42.44%) Social Skills
2 198 (34.02%) Finance
3 133 (22.85%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (17.53%) Law
5 79 (13.57%) Games
6 55 (9.45%) Marketing
7 38 (6.53%) Retail
8 34 (5.84%) Presentation Skills
9 31 (5.33%) French Language
9 31 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (5.33%) Public Sector
10 29 (4.98%) Dutch Language
10 29 (4.98%) Legal
11 28 (4.81%) Banking
12 20 (3.44%) Manufacturing
13 16 (2.75%) Telecoms
14 13 (2.23%) Local Government
15 11 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (1.55%) Advertising
17 8 (1.37%) Billing
Job Titles
1 118 (20.27%) Senior
2 117 (20.10%) Architect
3 59 (10.14%) Consultant
4 46 (7.90%) Analyst
5 45 (7.73%) Developer
6 44 (7.56%) Applications Engineer
6 44 (7.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 42 (7.22%) Lead
8 39 (6.70%) IT Architect
9 37 (6.36%) Support Analyst
10 31 (5.33%) Applications Manager
11 30 (5.15%) Senior Architect
12 24 (4.12%) Applications Support
13 23 (3.95%) Senior Consultant
14 21 (3.61%) IT Support
14 21 (3.61%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 21 (3.61%) Technical Manager
15 18 (3.09%) IT Consultant
15 18 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
16 17 (2.92%) Applications Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (8.76%) RESTful
2 34 (5.84%) SOAP
3 29 (4.98%) Middleware
3 29 (4.98%) OAuth
4 28 (4.81%) .NET
4 28 (4.81%) SAML
5 26 (4.47%) REST
6 23 (3.95%) JSON
7 22 (3.78%) XML
8 19 (3.26%) React
9 18 (3.09%) OAuth2
10 13 (2.23%) AngularJS
11 12 (2.06%) CSS
12 11 (1.89%) ASP.NET
12 11 (1.89%) BAPI
12 11 (1.89%) HTML
12 11 (1.89%) IBM Integration Bus
12 11 (1.89%) JMS
13 10 (1.72%) .NET Framework
14 9 (1.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 78 (13.40%) Cloud Native
2 28 (4.81%) Onboarding
3 23 (3.95%) Management Information System
4 21 (3.61%) Analytical Mindset
4 21 (3.61%) Blockchain
5 20 (3.44%) Security Posture
6 18 (3.09%) NHS
6 18 (3.09%) Product Ownership
7 13 (2.23%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.06%) e-Learning
8 12 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.55%) Hedge funds
10 8 (1.37%) Clustering
10 8 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.37%) Reinsurance
10 8 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.20%) Educational Technology
11 7 (1.20%) PMI
12 6 (1.03%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 72 (12.37%) Windows
2 40 (6.87%) Windows Server
3 11 (1.89%) Mac OS
4 9 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (1.37%) Linux
6 6 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.86%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.52%) VMS
9 1 (0.17%) Android
9 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (29.04%) Agile
2 164 (28.18%) Cybersecurity
3 128 (21.99%) Business Strategy
3 128 (21.99%) Microservices
4 124 (21.31%) DevOps
5 123 (21.13%) AI
6 120 (20.62%) Mentoring
7 119 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
8 107 (18.38%) CI/CD
9 104 (17.87%) ERP
10 100 (17.18%) Migration
11 88 (15.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 83 (14.26%) Analytics
13 80 (13.75%) Roadmaps
14 79 (13.57%) Risk Management
15 78 (13.40%) IT Strategy
16 73 (12.54%) Computer Science
17 70 (12.03%) Business Intelligence
18 68 (11.68%) Asset Management
19 67 (11.51%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 99 (17.01%) SQL
2 87 (14.95%) Python
3 76 (13.06%) Java
4 53 (9.11%) C#
5 51 (8.76%) JavaScript
6 42 (7.22%) TypeScript
7 39 (6.70%) PL/SQL
8 38 (6.53%) PowerShell
9 37 (6.36%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.03%) R
11 5 (0.86%) Bash
12 4 (0.69%) ABAP
12 4 (0.69%) Bicep
12 4 (0.69%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.34%) C
13 2 (0.34%) COBOL
14 1 (0.17%) Korn
Qualifications
1 182 (31.27%) Degree
2 60 (10.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 43 (7.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 33 (5.67%) AWS Certification
4 33 (5.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 28 (4.81%) Azure Certification
5 28 (4.81%) TOGAF Certification
6 25 (4.30%) Security Cleared
7 18 (3.09%) PMI Certification
8 14 (2.41%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.89%) PMP
9 11 (1.89%) SC Cleared
10 9 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 7 (1.20%) CCNA
12 7 (1.20%) CEH
12 7 (1.20%) MCP
13 6 (1.03%) CCNP
14 5 (0.86%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.44%) GDPR
2 19 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.92%) QA
4 15 (2.58%) SLA
5 14 (2.41%) NIST
6 11 (1.89%) IFRS
7 9 (1.55%) IFRS 17
7 9 (1.55%) Solvency II
8 4 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.69%) EMIR
9 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.34%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.34%) GAAP
9 2 (0.34%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.17%) GRC
10 1 (0.17%) PMO
10 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 93 (15.98%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (3.44%) Hyper-V
4 17 (2.92%) Docker
5 9 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.37%) vSphere
7 3 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.17%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 74 (12.71%) Terraform
2 58 (9.97%) Single Sign-On
3 33 (5.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (2.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 13 (2.23%) Kubernetes
5 7 (1.20%) SCCM
6 6 (1.03%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (0.86%) Ansible
7 5 (0.86%) Nessus
8 4 (0.69%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.52%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 3 (0.52%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.52%) QRadar
10 2 (0.34%) CASB
11 1 (0.17%) Grafana
11 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.17%) Kibana
11 1 (0.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 208 (35.74%) Microsoft
2 99 (17.01%) Oracle
3 86 (14.78%) SAP
4 47 (8.08%) CrowdStrike
5 45 (7.73%) Palo Alto
6 44 (7.56%) Fortinet
7 27 (4.64%) VMware
8 21 (3.61%) Dell
9 20 (3.44%) Okta
10 19 (3.26%) IBM
11 18 (3.09%) Salesforce
12 15 (2.58%) Adobe
12 15 (2.58%) MuleSoft
13 13 (2.23%) Duck Creek
13 13 (2.23%) Splunk
14 12 (2.06%) Guidewire
15 11 (1.89%) Databricks
15 11 (1.89%) ServiceNow
16 10 (1.72%) Veeam
17 9 (1.55%) Reuters