Enterprise Software Job Trends in the West Midlands

Enterprise Application Software
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 121 190
Rank change year-on-year +7 +69 -12
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Software 94 58 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.09% 1.68% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.28% 4.04% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 79 25 16
10th Percentile £40,000 £51,580 £39,375
25th Percentile £47,125 £61,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +20.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £74,063
90th Percentile £80,500 - £81,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +16.67% -14.29%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,781 1,437 1,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.64% 41.59% 29.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,220 837 925
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,375 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% -10.00%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Enterprise Software job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Enterprise Software
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Enterprise Software.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Enterprise Software

Enterprise Software
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Software in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Enterprise Software in the West Midlands

Enterprise Software
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Software within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 August 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
Birmingham -10 45 £62,500 -13.79% 19
Staffordshire +21 29 £60,000 +11.76%
Shropshire -16 5 £52,500 -34.38% 6
Willenhall - 4 £37,500 -
Worcestershire - 3 £47,500 -
Warwickshire -16 2 £60,000 +17.07% 4
Solihull +9 1 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Walsall - 1 £60,500 -
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
Enterprise Software
England

Enterprise Software
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (4.26%) CICS
2 3 (3.19%) Documentum
3 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.13%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.06%) Apache
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (2.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 1 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.06%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 26 (27.66%) Azure
2 20 (21.28%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (12.77%) GitHub
4 10 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (6.38%) SaaS
6 5 (5.32%) AWS
7 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (3.19%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.13%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.13%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.06%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.06%) GCP
9 1 (1.06%) Serverless
9 1 (1.06%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.64%) Relational Database
2 6 (6.38%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (5.32%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.26%) Db2
5 1 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.06%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.06%) Metadata
5 1 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (12.77%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.32%) Git
3 4 (4.26%) Cypress.io
3 4 (4.26%) Postman
4 3 (3.19%) JIRA
5 2 (2.13%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.13%) GitLab
5 2 (2.13%) JMeter
5 2 (2.13%) REST Assured
5 2 (2.13%) Selenium
5 2 (2.13%) SoapUI
5 2 (2.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.06%) Gradle
6 1 (1.06%) JUnit
6 1 (1.06%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.06%) Maven
6 1 (1.06%) TestNG
6 1 (1.06%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 21 (22.34%) Public Sector
3 16 (17.02%) Finance
4 14 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.32%) Advertising
6 4 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.26%) Legal
7 3 (3.19%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.13%) Billing
8 2 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Banking
9 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (28.72%) Senior
2 26 (27.66%) Developer
3 23 (24.47%) Account Manager
4 17 (18.09%) Senior Manager
5 14 (14.89%) Senior Account Manager
6 10 (10.64%) Applications Consultant
6 10 (10.64%) Consultant
6 10 (10.64%) Mainframe Consultant
7 7 (7.45%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.38%) .NET Developer
8 6 (6.38%) Business Development Manager
8 6 (6.38%) Business Manager
8 6 (6.38%) Development Manager
9 5 (5.32%) Analyst
9 5 (5.32%) Applications Support
9 5 (5.32%) Software Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Applications Support Analyst
10 4 (4.26%) COBOL Consultant
10 4 (4.26%) Java Consultant
10 4 (4.26%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.09%) .NET
2 10 (10.64%) ISPF
2 10 (10.64%) Spring
2 10 (10.64%) Spring Boot
3 9 (9.57%) CSS
3 9 (9.57%) HTML
3 9 (9.57%) Node.js
4 8 (8.51%) REST
5 7 (7.45%) RESTful
6 6 (6.38%) Entity Framework
6 6 (6.38%) React
7 5 (5.32%) .NET Core
7 5 (5.32%) ASP.NET
7 5 (5.32%) ASP.NET Core
7 5 (5.32%) LINQ
8 3 (3.19%) Ajax
8 3 (3.19%) LDAP
8 3 (3.19%) Playwright
8 3 (3.19%) Terraform
8 3 (3.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.64%) Legacy Applications
1 10 (10.64%) Mainframe
2 8 (8.51%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.26%) CMDB
4 3 (3.19%) Educational Technology
4 3 (3.19%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.13%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.06%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.38%) Windows
2 4 (4.26%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.13%) Linux
3 2 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (30.85%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (26.60%) CI/CD
2 25 (26.60%) DevOps
3 22 (23.40%) Agile
4 21 (22.34%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (17.02%) Collaborative Culture
6 12 (12.77%) Business Development
7 11 (11.70%) Roadmaps
7 11 (11.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 11 (11.70%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (10.64%) Batch Processing
8 10 (10.64%) ERP
8 10 (10.64%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (10.64%) Re-Platforming
8 10 (10.64%) Service Management
9 9 (9.57%) Migration
10 8 (8.51%) Software Engineering
10 8 (8.51%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (8.51%) Test Automation
11 7 (7.45%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.02%) Java
2 12 (12.77%) SQL
3 11 (11.70%) C#
4 10 (10.64%) COBOL
4 10 (10.64%) JCL
5 5 (5.32%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.19%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.19%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.13%) Apex Code
7 2 (2.13%) Python
8 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (7.45%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.19%) Degree
3 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.13%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.32%) QA
2 4 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.06%) GDPR
3 1 (1.06%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (5.32%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.19%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.13%) Ansible
3 1 (1.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.38%) Broadcom
3 5 (5.32%) Facebook
3 5 (5.32%) Oracle
3 5 (5.32%) YouTube
4 4 (4.26%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.19%) OpenText
6 2 (2.13%) JD Edwards
6 2 (2.13%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.13%) SAP
7 1 (1.06%) Citrix
7 1 (1.06%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.06%) Epicor
7 1 (1.06%) Google
7 1 (1.06%) IFS
7 1 (1.06%) Infor
7 1 (1.06%) Pega
7 1 (1.06%) QAD
7 1 (1.06%) Sage
7 1 (1.06%) Workday