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 16 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 88 166
Rank change year-on-year -37 +78 +87
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Software 55 131 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.94% 3.34% 1.09%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.78% 8.98% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 32 32 39
10th Percentile £48,650 £36,995 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £40,626 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £48,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.81% -36.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £74,063 £57,500 £80,625
90th Percentile £76,800 £62,125 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +0.80%

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 1,975 1,459 1,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.63% 37.19% 36.45%
Number of salaries quoted 689 605 1,503
10th Percentile £26,375 £32,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,640 £66,967 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,950 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,440
% change year-on-year -12.00% +12.73% -14.71%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 +12 30 £70,000 +40.00% 10
Warwickshire -19 13 - -
Coventry -10 2 £65,000 - 1
Staffordshire -14 2 £62,500 +65.02% 1
Wolverhampton - 2 £59,250 - 1
Worcestershire - 1 £57,500 -
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 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (10.91%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (29.09%) Azure
2 13 (23.64%) Power Platform
3 12 (21.82%) Entra ID
4 10 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (14.55%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (14.55%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (10.91%) PowerApps
7 5 (9.09%) SaaS
8 4 (7.27%) IaaS
8 4 (7.27%) PaaS
8 4 (7.27%) Power Automate
9 3 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (5.45%) Amazon S3
9 3 (5.45%) AWS
9 3 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (5.45%) Serverless
9 3 (5.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (3.64%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.91%) Firewall
2 4 (7.27%) SSL
2 4 (7.27%) VPN
3 2 (3.64%) DNS
3 2 (3.64%) HTTP
3 2 (3.64%) Internet
3 2 (3.64%) Network Security
3 2 (3.64%) SSH
3 2 (3.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (5.45%) Power BI
2 2 (3.64%) GIS
Development Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Git
1 3 (5.45%) Jenkins
1 3 (5.45%) JIRA
General
1 19 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.55%) Finance
4 4 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (7.27%) Legal
5 3 (5.45%) Advertising
5 3 (5.45%) Banking
5 3 (5.45%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Electronics
7 1 (1.82%) Law
7 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.82%) Marketing
7 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (30.91%) Applications Manager
2 15 (27.27%) Developer
3 13 (23.64%) Technical Manager
4 8 (14.55%) Architect
5 6 (10.91%) CRM Developer
5 6 (10.91%) Dynamics CRM Developer
5 6 (10.91%) SAP Developer
6 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Integration Developer
7 4 (7.27%) Applications Developer
7 4 (7.27%) Automation Developer
7 4 (7.27%) C# Application Developer
7 4 (7.27%) C# Developer
7 4 (7.27%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
7 4 (7.27%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 4 (7.27%) Integration Specialist
7 4 (7.27%) Power Apps Developer
7 4 (7.27%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.45%) Applications Support
8 3 (5.45%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.36%) REST
2 8 (14.55%) SAML
3 7 (12.73%) SOAP
4 6 (10.91%) .NET
4 6 (10.91%) .NET Framework
4 6 (10.91%) BAPI
4 6 (10.91%) IBM Integration Bus
4 6 (10.91%) JMS
4 6 (10.91%) Middleware
4 6 (10.91%) OAuth
5 3 (5.45%) Web Services
6 2 (3.64%) JDBC
6 2 (3.64%) LDAP
7 1 (1.82%) Node.js
7 1 (1.82%) Spring
7 1 (1.82%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.45%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.64%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (3.64%) PKI
4 1 (1.82%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (25.45%) Migration
2 13 (23.64%) DevOps
3 12 (21.82%) Agile
3 12 (21.82%) API Management
4 10 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 10 (18.18%) CRM
4 10 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 9 (16.36%) High Availability
6 8 (14.55%) Information Security
7 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (10.91%) Architectural Design
8 6 (10.91%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (10.91%) Data Migration
8 6 (10.91%) Event-Driven
8 6 (10.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 6 (10.91%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (10.91%) Project Delivery
8 6 (10.91%) SOA
8 6 (10.91%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (10.91%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.73%) C#
2 6 (10.91%) TypeScript
3 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.82%) ABAP
4 1 (1.82%) Java
4 1 (1.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (5.45%) AWS Certification
1 3 (5.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 3 (5.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (5.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 3 (5.45%) Degree
1 3 (5.45%) PMI Certification
1 3 (5.45%) PMP
2 2 (3.64%) CEH
2 2 (3.64%) CISSP
2 2 (3.64%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (3.64%) GSEC
2 2 (3.64%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) QA
2 5 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.45%) SLA
4 2 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (3.64%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (10.91%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.45%) Docker
3 2 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (10.91%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (5.45%) Ansible
2 3 (5.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.45%) Terraform
3 2 (3.64%) CASB
3 2 (3.64%) Nessus
Vendors
1 8 (14.55%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.73%) SAP
3 6 (10.91%) IBM
4 2 (3.64%) Cisco
4 2 (3.64%) HP
4 2 (3.64%) Netskope
4 2 (3.64%) Qualys
4 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.64%) VMware
5 1 (1.82%) Autodesk