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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 126 198
Rank change year-on-year +22 +72 +15
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Software 89 47 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.13% 1.46% 0.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.54% 3.63% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 83 19 29
10th Percentile £40,000 £29,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,625 £49,463 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £77,000 £76,000 £91,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £62,783
% change year-on-year -1.66% +5.28% -6.99%

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 1,606 1,295 2,677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.39% 40.31% 31.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,113 753 1,580
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,375 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,925 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 July 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 July 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 +11 36 £60,000 -17.24% 8
Staffordshire +12 31 £60,000 +11.76%
Shropshire -14 3 £55,000 -31.25% 1
Worcestershire - 3 £47,500 -
Willenhall - 3 £37,500 -
Wolverhampton - 3 £59,250 -
Warwickshire -11 2 £60,000 +60.00% 2
Solihull - 1 £50,000 -
Walsall - 1 £60,500 -
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 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (4.49%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.25%) Documentum
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (2.25%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 19 (21.35%) Azure
2 11 (12.36%) Azure DevOps
2 11 (12.36%) Entra ID
2 11 (12.36%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (10.11%) SaaS
4 6 (6.74%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.49%) AWS
5 4 (4.49%) IaaS
5 4 (4.49%) PaaS
6 3 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.37%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.25%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.25%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.25%) Serverless
8 1 (1.12%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.37%) Firewall
1 3 (3.37%) Network Security
1 3 (3.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (4.49%) MongoDB
1 4 (4.49%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.37%) GIS
3 2 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Git
2 3 (3.37%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.37%) JIRA
2 3 (3.37%) Postman
3 2 (2.25%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.25%) SoapUI
3 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.12%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.12%) GitLab
4 1 (1.12%) JMeter
4 1 (1.12%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.12%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.12%) Selenium
General
1 21 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.98%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.99%) Finance
4 6 (6.74%) Advertising
4 6 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.74%) Legal
5 3 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.37%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.25%) Banking
6 2 (2.25%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (30.34%) Senior
2 23 (25.84%) Account Manager
3 22 (24.72%) Developer
4 18 (20.22%) Senior Manager
5 14 (15.73%) Senior Account Manager
6 9 (10.11%) Business Development Manager
6 9 (10.11%) Business Manager
6 9 (10.11%) Development Manager
7 7 (7.87%) Applications Manager
7 7 (7.87%) Architect
8 6 (6.74%) Senior Developer
9 5 (5.62%) Software Developer
10 4 (4.49%) .NET Developer
10 4 (4.49%) Analyst
10 4 (4.49%) Applications Support
10 4 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Senior Business Development Manager
10 4 (4.49%) Senior Business Manager
10 4 (4.49%) Senior Development Manager
10 4 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.11%) Node.js
2 8 (8.99%) REST
3 5 (5.62%) .NET
3 5 (5.62%) React
3 5 (5.62%) RESTful
4 4 (4.49%) .NET Core
4 4 (4.49%) ASP.NET
4 4 (4.49%) ASP.NET Core
4 4 (4.49%) CSS
4 4 (4.49%) Entity Framework
4 4 (4.49%) HTML
4 4 (4.49%) LINQ
4 4 (4.49%) Middleware
5 3 (3.37%) JDBC
5 3 (3.37%) LDAP
5 3 (3.37%) SAML
5 3 (3.37%) Web Services
6 2 (2.25%) OAuth
6 2 (2.25%) Visualforce
7 1 (1.12%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.74%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.37%) Educational Technology
2 3 (3.37%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.25%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.12%) CMDB
4 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.12%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.99%) Windows
2 4 (4.49%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.12%) Linux
3 1 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (16.85%) DevOps
3 14 (15.73%) Agile
4 11 (12.36%) CI/CD
5 10 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (10.11%) Business Development
6 9 (10.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (10.11%) Service Management
7 7 (7.87%) ERP
7 7 (7.87%) ITIL
8 6 (6.74%) API Management
8 6 (6.74%) CRM
8 6 (6.74%) Decision-Making
8 6 (6.74%) Presales
8 6 (6.74%) Roadmaps
8 6 (6.74%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (6.74%) Test Automation
8 6 (6.74%) TOGAF
9 5 (5.62%) Collaborative Culture
9 5 (5.62%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.11%) C#
2 8 (8.99%) SQL
3 5 (5.62%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.49%) Java
5 2 (2.25%) Apex Code
5 2 (2.25%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.12%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (2.25%) AWS Certification
1 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 2 (2.25%) Degree
1 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (2.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.12%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.87%) QA
2 2 (2.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 9 (10.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.37%) Docker
2 3 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (4.49%) Ansible
1 4 (4.49%) Terraform
2 3 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (22.47%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.49%) Facebook
2 4 (4.49%) ServiceNow
2 4 (4.49%) YouTube
3 3 (3.37%) Cisco
3 3 (3.37%) HP
3 3 (3.37%) Oracle
3 3 (3.37%) VMware
4 2 (2.25%) JD Edwards
4 2 (2.25%) OpenText
4 2 (2.25%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.12%) Citrix
5 1 (1.12%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.12%) Epicor
5 1 (1.12%) IFS
5 1 (1.12%) Infor
5 1 (1.12%) QAD
5 1 (1.12%) Sage
5 1 (1.12%) SAP
5 1 (1.12%) Workday