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 28 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 113 181
Rank change year-on-year -3 +68 -14
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Software 100 60 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.11% 1.85% 0.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.01% 4.68% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 77 27 15
10th Percentile £40,000 £53,070 £39,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £67,500 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +45.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,750 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,350 £75,800 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 1,998 1,281 1,771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.13% 39.42% 30.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,305 741 724
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +1.85%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £66,650
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -6.98%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -9 57 £64,038 -11.67% 33
Staffordshire +15 24 £60,000 - 4
Shropshire -17 4 £48,750 -39.06% 3
Willenhall - 4 £37,500 -
Worcestershire - 3 £47,500 - 4
Warwickshire -24 2 £60,000 +17.07% 9
Solihull +4 1 £50,000 -9.09% 9
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 5 (5.00%) CICS
2 3 (3.00%) Documentum
2 3 (3.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.00%) Apache
4 1 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (3.00%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (3.00%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.00%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (3.00%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (2.00%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 1 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.00%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (1.00%) Infor M3
4 1 (1.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 31 (31.00%) Azure
2 24 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (17.00%) GitHub
4 14 (14.00%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (8.00%) SaaS
6 5 (5.00%) AWS
6 5 (5.00%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.00%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (3.00%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.00%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.00%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.00%) GCP
9 1 (1.00%) IaaS
9 1 (1.00%) PaaS
9 1 (1.00%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.00%) Firewall
1 2 (2.00%) VPN
1 2 (2.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.00%) Relational Database
2 8 (8.00%) SQL Server
3 7 (7.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (5.00%) Db2
4 5 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (3.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (2.00%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.00%) Metadata
8 1 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.00%) Git
3 4 (4.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.00%) GitLab
4 2 (2.00%) JIRA
4 2 (2.00%) Postman
4 2 (2.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.00%) Gradle
5 1 (1.00%) JMeter
5 1 (1.00%) JUnit
5 1 (1.00%) Maven
5 1 (1.00%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.00%) Selenium
5 1 (1.00%) TestNG
5 1 (1.00%) WebDriver
General
1 36 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (24.00%) Finance
3 18 (18.00%) Public Sector
4 15 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.00%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.00%) Advertising
7 4 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.00%) Legal
8 3 (3.00%) General Ledger
8 3 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.00%) Billing
9 2 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.00%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.00%) Automotive
10 1 (1.00%) Banking
10 1 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (31.00%) Senior
2 26 (26.00%) Developer
3 19 (19.00%) Account Manager
4 17 (17.00%) Senior Manager
5 14 (14.00%) Applications Consultant
5 14 (14.00%) Consultant
5 14 (14.00%) Mainframe Consultant
5 14 (14.00%) Senior Account Manager
6 7 (7.00%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.00%) .NET Developer
8 5 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Applications Support
8 5 (5.00%) COBOL Consultant
8 5 (5.00%) Java Consultant
8 5 (5.00%) Software Developer
9 4 (4.00%) Analyst
9 4 (4.00%) Architect
9 4 (4.00%) ERP Analyst
9 4 (4.00%) ERP Support
9 4 (4.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (23.00%) .NET
2 14 (14.00%) ISPF
2 14 (14.00%) Spring
2 14 (14.00%) Spring Boot
3 10 (10.00%) CSS
3 10 (10.00%) HTML
3 10 (10.00%) REST
4 8 (8.00%) Node.js
5 7 (7.00%) RESTful
5 7 (7.00%) Web Services
6 6 (6.00%) Entity Framework
6 6 (6.00%) React
6 6 (6.00%) Terraform
7 5 (5.00%) .NET Core
7 5 (5.00%) ASP.NET
7 5 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
7 5 (5.00%) LINQ
8 4 (4.00%) XML
9 3 (3.00%) Ajax
9 3 (3.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.00%) Legacy Applications
1 14 (14.00%) Mainframe
2 11 (11.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.00%) CMDB
4 3 (3.00%) Educational Technology
5 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.00%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.00%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.00%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.00%) Life Science
6 1 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.00%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.00%) SCADA
6 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.00%) Windows
2 5 (5.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.00%) Linux
3 2 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (39.00%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (32.00%) DevOps
3 31 (31.00%) CI/CD
4 24 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (21.00%) Agile
6 20 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
7 14 (14.00%) Batch Processing
7 14 (14.00%) Re-Platforming
7 14 (14.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (13.00%) Business Development
8 13 (13.00%) Performance Tuning
8 13 (13.00%) Roadmaps
8 13 (13.00%) Technical Leadership
9 12 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (11.00%) ERP
10 11 (11.00%) Migration
11 10 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 10 (10.00%) Mentoring
11 10 (10.00%) Service Management
12 9 (9.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.00%) Java
1 19 (19.00%) SQL
2 14 (14.00%) COBOL
2 14 (14.00%) JCL
3 12 (12.00%) C#
4 6 (6.00%) PowerShell
5 5 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.00%) Python
7 3 (3.00%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.00%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.00%) Apex Code
8 2 (2.00%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.00%) Degree
3 3 (3.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.00%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.00%) PMP
5 1 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.00%) QA
3 2 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.00%) WCAG
4 1 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.00%) GDPR
4 1 (1.00%) GxP
System Software
1 6 (6.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.00%) Docker
3 1 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (6.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.00%) Ansible
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (21.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.00%) Broadcom
3 8 (8.00%) Oracle
4 5 (5.00%) Facebook
4 5 (5.00%) YouTube
5 4 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.00%) OpenText
7 2 (2.00%) Infor
7 2 (2.00%) JD Edwards
7 2 (2.00%) Pega
7 2 (2.00%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.00%) SAP
8 1 (1.00%) Citrix
8 1 (1.00%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.00%) Epicor
8 1 (1.00%) Google
8 1 (1.00%) IFS
8 1 (1.00%) QAD
8 1 (1.00%) Sage
8 1 (1.00%) Workday