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 5 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 79 158
Rank change year-on-year -47 +79 +82
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Software 58 134 64
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.91% 3.62% 1.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.84% 9.51% 3.12%
Number of salaries quoted 35 36 42
10th Percentile £49,100 £36,995 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £40,626 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £48,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.21% -36.00% -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £79,000 £69,375 £87,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +3.70%

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 2,041 1,409 2,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.05% 38.11% 36.27%
Number of salaries quoted 719 632 1,523
10th Percentile £26,375 £31,250 £26,050
25th Percentile £32,125 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,640 £68,375 £64,215
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,175 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,345 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.45% +13.64% -15.38%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 +17 32 £70,000 +40.00% 7
Warwickshire -19 13 - -
Staffordshire -21 3 £62,500 +65.02% 1
Wolverhampton - 3 £59,250 - 3
Coventry -17 2 £65,000 - 2
Worcestershire - 1 £57,500 - 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 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (5.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (8.62%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (37.93%) Azure
2 18 (31.03%) Entra ID
3 15 (25.86%) Power Platform
4 14 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (24.14%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (15.52%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (13.79%) IaaS
6 8 (13.79%) PaaS
7 6 (10.34%) PowerApps
8 4 (6.90%) Power Automate
8 4 (6.90%) SaaS
9 3 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (5.17%) Amazon S3
9 3 (5.17%) AWS
9 3 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (5.17%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (5.17%) Serverless
9 3 (5.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.07%) Firewall
2 5 (8.62%) SSL
3 4 (6.90%) VPN
4 3 (5.17%) Network Security
5 2 (3.45%) DNS
5 2 (3.45%) HTTP
5 2 (3.45%) Internet
5 2 (3.45%) SSH
5 2 (3.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (5.17%) GIS
2 1 (1.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Git
1 3 (5.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.72%) JIRA
General
1 21 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.69%) Finance
3 9 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.79%) Legal
5 5 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.17%) Advertising
6 3 (5.17%) Banking
6 3 (5.17%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (29.31%) Applications Manager
2 15 (25.86%) Developer
3 13 (22.41%) Architect
3 13 (22.41%) Technical Manager
4 8 (13.79%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (10.34%) CRM Developer
5 6 (10.34%) Dynamics CRM Developer
5 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Integration Developer
6 5 (8.62%) SAP Developer
7 4 (6.90%) Automation Developer
7 4 (6.90%) C# Application Developer
7 4 (6.90%) C# Developer
7 4 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
7 4 (6.90%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 4 (6.90%) Integration Specialist
7 4 (6.90%) Power Apps Developer
7 4 (6.90%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.52%) REST
2 8 (13.79%) SAML
3 7 (12.07%) Middleware
4 6 (10.34%) .NET
4 6 (10.34%) .NET Framework
4 6 (10.34%) SOAP
5 5 (8.62%) BAPI
5 5 (8.62%) IBM Integration Bus
5 5 (8.62%) JMS
5 5 (8.62%) OAuth
6 4 (6.90%) Web Services
7 3 (5.17%) JDBC
7 3 (5.17%) LDAP
8 1 (1.72%) Node.js
8 1 (1.72%) Spring
8 1 (1.72%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.17%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.45%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (3.45%) PKI
4 1 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.07%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (29.31%) DevOps
2 16 (27.59%) API Management
3 15 (25.86%) Agile
4 14 (24.14%) CRM
5 13 (22.41%) Migration
6 11 (18.97%) Information Security
6 11 (18.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 10 (17.24%) CI/CD
7 10 (17.24%) Identity Access Management
8 9 (15.52%) Architectural Design
8 9 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (15.52%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (15.52%) TOGAF
9 8 (13.79%) High Availability
9 8 (13.79%) Integration Patterns
10 7 (12.07%) Case Management
10 7 (12.07%) Document Management
11 6 (10.34%) Data Governance
11 6 (10.34%) Data Migration
11 6 (10.34%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.07%) C#
2 6 (10.34%) TypeScript
3 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.72%) Java
4 1 (1.72%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (5.17%) AWS Certification
1 3 (5.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 3 (5.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (5.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 2 (3.45%) CEH
2 2 (3.45%) CISSP
2 2 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (3.45%) GSEC
2 2 (3.45%) OSCP
3 1 (1.72%) Degree
3 1 (1.72%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) QA
2 3 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.45%) NIST
4 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (18.97%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.17%) Docker
2 3 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (12.07%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (5.17%) Ansible
2 3 (5.17%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.17%) Terraform
3 2 (3.45%) CASB
3 2 (3.45%) Nessus
Vendors
1 14 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.62%) IBM
2 5 (8.62%) SAP
3 3 (5.17%) Cisco
3 3 (5.17%) HP
3 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.17%) VMware
4 2 (3.45%) Netskope
4 2 (3.45%) Qualys