Hybrid/Remote Enterprise Software Job Trends

Enterprise Application Software
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 324 284
Rank change year-on-year +197 -40 +30
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Software 399 181 260
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.47% 0.78% 1.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.88% 2.32% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 99 120 228
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £45,915
25th Percentile £38,125 £43,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,091 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -15.38% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £81,850 £88,750 £98,625
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% +7.69%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,789 7,790 10,530
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 41.95% 33.60% 41.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,487 4,786 8,514
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £39,294
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £106,289
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -

Enterprise Software
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Enterprise Software as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Enterprise Software trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Enterprise Software
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Enterprise Software.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Enterprise Software

Enterprise Software
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Enterprise Software over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Enterprise Software salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Enterprise Software
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 159 (39.85%) Confluence
2 12 (3.01%) IIS
3 10 (2.51%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.26%) Tomcat
5 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.75%) Apache
7 1 (0.25%) JBoss
7 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (4.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (3.01%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 309 (77.44%) Azure
2 276 (69.17%) AWS
3 162 (40.60%) GCP
4 35 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
5 30 (7.52%) Entra ID
6 21 (5.26%) SaaS
7 20 (5.01%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (3.01%) GitHub
8 12 (3.01%) OCI
9 10 (2.51%) Power Automate
10 9 (2.26%) Microsoft Copilot
10 9 (2.26%) Power Platform
11 8 (2.01%) Serverless
12 6 (1.50%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.25%) Datadog
13 5 (1.25%) iPaaS
13 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (1.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.26%) DMARC
1 9 (2.26%) SSL
2 7 (1.75%) Firewall
3 5 (1.25%) VPN
4 4 (1.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.75%) DNS
5 3 (0.75%) Internet
6 1 (0.25%) DHCP
6 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 270 (67.67%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.01%) Power BI
5 7 (1.75%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.50%) Tableau
7 5 (1.25%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.25%) SAP HANA
8 4 (1.00%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.75%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.25%) GIS
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 260 (65.16%) JIRA
2 252 (63.16%) Cucumber
2 252 (63.16%) GitLab
2 252 (63.16%) Maven
3 247 (61.90%) Bitbucket
3 247 (61.90%) Selenium
3 247 (61.90%) SonarQube
3 247 (61.90%) Sonatype Nexus
4 17 (4.26%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.01%) Git
5 12 (3.01%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (1.25%) IntelliJ
6 5 (1.25%) JUnit
6 5 (1.25%) Mockito
6 5 (1.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 285 (71.43%) Finance
2 249 (62.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 248 (62.16%) Banking
4 90 (22.56%) Corporate Banking
4 90 (22.56%) Investment Banking
4 90 (22.56%) Retail
5 62 (15.54%) Social Skills
6 22 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.76%) Marketing
10 9 (2.26%) Czech Language
11 8 (2.01%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.75%) Advertising
13 5 (1.25%) Legal
13 5 (1.25%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.50%) Law
15 1 (0.25%) German Language
15 1 (0.25%) Mandarin Language
15 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 247 (61.90%) Software Engineer
2 27 (6.77%) Developer
3 23 (5.76%) Architect
4 17 (4.26%) Senior
5 13 (3.26%) Administrator
5 13 (3.26%) IT Manager
5 13 (3.26%) SAP Developer
6 12 (3.01%) Applications Engineer
6 12 (3.01%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (3.01%) Enterprise Architect
7 11 (2.76%) Analyst
8 9 (2.26%) Applications Support
8 9 (2.26%) Business Development Manager
8 9 (2.26%) Business Manager
8 9 (2.26%) Development Manager
8 9 (2.26%) IT Administrator
8 9 (2.26%) IT Development Manager
8 9 (2.26%) IT Services Manager
8 9 (2.26%) IT Support
8 9 (2.26%) New Business Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 255 (63.91%) HTML
2 252 (63.16%) Spring
2 252 (63.16%) Spring Boot
3 248 (62.16%) CSS
3 248 (62.16%) React
4 247 (61.90%) JPA
4 247 (61.90%) Kafka
4 247 (61.90%) Redux
5 157 (39.35%) Hibernate
6 118 (29.57%) REST
7 109 (27.32%) RESTful
8 97 (24.31%) HTML5
9 90 (22.56%) CSS3
9 90 (22.56%) Jest
9 90 (22.56%) Sass
10 32 (8.02%) SOAP
11 20 (5.01%) SAML
12 19 (4.76%) OAuth
13 18 (4.51%) JMS
13 18 (4.51%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 255 (63.91%) Product Ownership
2 19 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (3.26%) Cloud Native
4 10 (2.51%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.01%) Security Posture
6 7 (1.75%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.25%) Credit Derivative
7 5 (1.25%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.25%) NHS
8 3 (0.75%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.50%) Culture of Ownership
9 2 (0.50%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.50%) PKI
10 1 (0.25%) LIMS
10 1 (0.25%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.25%) PMI
10 1 (0.25%) Podcast
10 1 (0.25%) Robotics
10 1 (0.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.26%) Windows
2 14 (3.51%) Linux
3 9 (2.26%) Unix
4 5 (1.25%) Mac OS
4 5 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.75%) VMS
6 2 (0.50%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.25%) Android
7 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (74.69%) Agile
2 276 (69.17%) DevOps
3 269 (67.42%) CI/CD
4 265 (66.42%) Microservices
5 260 (65.16%) Test Automation
6 256 (64.16%) SDLC
7 255 (63.91%) Full-Stack Development
7 255 (63.91%) Software Engineering
8 251 (62.91%) Performance Optimisation
9 248 (62.16%) Containerisation
9 248 (62.16%) Front End Development
10 166 (41.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 163 (40.85%) Clean Code
12 157 (39.35%) TDD
13 121 (30.33%) Migration
14 110 (27.57%) Mentoring
15 97 (24.31%) Strategic Thinking
16 92 (23.06%) User Experience
17 90 (22.56%) Responsive Web Design
18 42 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 287 (71.93%) SQL
2 277 (69.42%) Java
3 268 (67.17%) JavaScript
4 93 (23.31%) TypeScript
5 20 (5.01%) Python
6 13 (3.26%) PowerShell
7 12 (3.01%) C#
7 12 (3.01%) PL/SQL
7 12 (3.01%) Shell Script
8 9 (2.26%) VBA
9 5 (1.25%) ABAP
9 5 (1.25%) C++
10 4 (1.00%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.75%) Bash
Qualifications
1 19 (4.76%) Degree
2 12 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.51%) Master's Degree
4 9 (2.26%) SAP Certification
5 5 (1.25%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.25%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.00%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.00%) PMP
6 4 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.25%) CBAP
9 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.25%) MCP
9 1 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 253 (63.41%) QA
2 91 (22.81%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.25%) NIST
5 3 (0.75%) GDPR
6 2 (0.50%) SLA
7 1 (0.25%) COSO
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
System Software
1 247 (61.90%) Docker
2 24 (6.02%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.75%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 247 (61.90%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.27%) Terraform
3 22 (5.51%) Single Sign-On
4 17 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (2.01%) Ansible
6 5 (1.25%) SCCM
7 1 (0.25%) Nessus
7 1 (0.25%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 247 (61.90%) Solace
2 55 (13.78%) Microsoft
3 33 (8.27%) SAP
4 27 (6.77%) Oracle
5 23 (5.76%) IBM
6 7 (1.75%) Facebook
6 7 (1.75%) Palo Alto
6 7 (1.75%) YouTube
7 6 (1.50%) Okta
8 5 (1.25%) Databricks
8 5 (1.25%) Google
8 5 (1.25%) N-able
9 4 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (1.00%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.00%) Teradata
10 3 (0.75%) Cisco
10 3 (0.75%) Concur
10 3 (0.75%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.75%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.25%) Ariba