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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 263 263
Rank change year-on-year +41 0 +25
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Software 179 129 349
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.07% 1.01% 1.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.02% 2.38% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 116 83 310
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £49,375 £46,250 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,154 £64,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.10% -0.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £111,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

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 5,921 5,415 11,379
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.36% 42.27% 36.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,678 3,605 9,091
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,563 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.94% -8.38%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £78,046
90th Percentile £103,750 £118,750 £98,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Enterprise Software and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Enterprise Software job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Enterprise Software
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Enterprise Software
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Enterprise Software over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Enterprise Software salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Enterprise Software
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 9 (5.03%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.12%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (8.94%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (3.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (2.79%) Elite 3E
4 3 (1.68%) SAP ERP
5 2 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.12%) SAP CO
5 2 (1.12%) SAP FI
5 2 (1.12%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (1.12%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.56%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 81 (45.25%) Azure
2 55 (30.73%) AWS
3 27 (15.08%) Entra ID
4 24 (13.41%) OCI
5 23 (12.85%) Serverless
6 22 (12.29%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (11.73%) Power Platform
8 17 (9.50%) GitHub
8 17 (9.50%) SaaS
9 13 (7.26%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (5.59%) GCP
11 8 (4.47%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (2.79%) Figma
13 4 (2.23%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (2.23%) IaaS
13 4 (2.23%) OneDrive
13 4 (2.23%) PaaS
14 3 (1.68%) Datadog
14 3 (1.68%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.15%) VPN
2 10 (5.59%) TCP/IP
3 8 (4.47%) WAN
4 7 (3.91%) DNS
5 5 (2.79%) DHCP
5 5 (2.79%) SD-WAN
5 5 (2.79%) SSL
6 4 (2.23%) Wireless
6 4 (2.23%) Wireshark
7 3 (1.68%) Firewall
8 2 (1.12%) LAN
8 2 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.56%) HTTP
9 1 (0.56%) Internet
9 1 (0.56%) Network Security
9 1 (0.56%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.56%) SSH
9 1 (0.56%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.94%) Power BI
2 15 (8.38%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.47%) Tableau
4 6 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (3.35%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.68%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.68%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.12%) MySQL
7 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.56%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.56%) Redis
8 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (9.50%) Jenkins
2 16 (8.94%) Oracle Forms
3 12 (6.70%) Git
4 11 (6.15%) JIRA
5 2 (1.12%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.12%) NUnit
6 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.56%) JMeter
6 1 (0.56%) Postman
6 1 (0.56%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 70 (39.11%) Social Skills
2 59 (32.96%) Finance
3 28 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.47%) Legal
7 6 (3.35%) Banking
7 6 (3.35%) Law
8 5 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.23%) Publishing
10 3 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.12%) Advertising
11 2 (1.12%) Marketing
11 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.56%) Police
12 1 (0.56%) Retail
12 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (18.44%) Architect
2 31 (17.32%) Senior
3 26 (14.53%) Applications Manager
4 24 (13.41%) Developer
5 17 (9.50%) Applications Engineer
6 16 (8.94%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (8.94%) Lead
6 16 (8.94%) Technical Manager
7 9 (5.03%) Applications Architect
7 9 (5.03%) Senior Manager
8 8 (4.47%) Analyst
8 8 (4.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (4.47%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 8 (4.47%) Software Architect
9 7 (3.91%) Applications Support
9 7 (3.91%) Consultant
9 7 (3.91%) Development Manager
9 7 (3.91%) IT Engineer
9 7 (3.91%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (3.91%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (14.53%) RESTful
2 16 (8.94%) .NET
3 14 (7.82%) SAML
4 13 (7.26%) SOAP
5 12 (6.70%) REST
6 11 (6.15%) OAuth
7 10 (5.59%) ASP.NET
8 9 (5.03%) JSON
8 9 (5.03%) Middleware
8 9 (5.03%) XML
9 8 (4.47%) OAuth2
10 7 (3.91%) AngularJS
10 7 (3.91%) Web Services
11 5 (2.79%) React
12 4 (2.23%) .NET Core
12 4 (2.23%) ASP.NET Core
12 4 (2.23%) ASP.NET MVC
12 4 (2.23%) Entity Framework
12 4 (2.23%) Spring
12 4 (2.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 35 (19.55%) Cloud Native
2 22 (12.29%) Onboarding
3 14 (7.82%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.03%) Legacy Applications
5 8 (4.47%) Driving Licence
6 7 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.91%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (3.91%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.91%) Virtual Team
7 6 (3.35%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.79%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (2.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (2.23%) iPad
9 4 (2.23%) iPhone
9 4 (2.23%) NHS
9 4 (2.23%) Replication
10 3 (1.68%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.68%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.38%) Windows
2 7 (3.91%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.79%) Linux
3 5 (2.79%) Mac OS
4 4 (2.23%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (33.52%) Agile
2 53 (29.61%) Mentoring
3 49 (27.37%) Migration
4 48 (26.82%) Microservices
5 44 (24.58%) DevOps
6 41 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (20.67%) ERP
8 36 (20.11%) CI/CD
9 34 (18.99%) Coaching
10 32 (17.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 32 (17.88%) Stakeholder Management
11 31 (17.32%) Architectural Patterns
11 31 (17.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (14.53%) TOGAF
13 24 (13.41%) AI
13 24 (13.41%) Computer Science
13 24 (13.41%) Enterprise Architecture
13 24 (13.41%) Event-Driven
14 22 (12.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 22 (12.29%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 42 (23.46%) Java
2 40 (22.35%) Python
3 37 (20.67%) SQL
4 32 (17.88%) C#
5 24 (13.41%) JavaScript
6 22 (12.29%) TypeScript
7 17 (9.50%) PL/SQL
8 16 (8.94%) Shell Script
9 13 (7.26%) PowerShell
10 8 (4.47%) Bash
11 2 (1.12%) Bicep
11 2 (1.12%) C
11 2 (1.12%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.56%) Delphi
12 1 (0.56%) Korn
Qualifications
1 29 (16.20%) Degree
2 21 (11.73%) Computer Science Degree
2 21 (11.73%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (11.73%) TOGAF Certification
3 20 (11.17%) AWS Certification
3 20 (11.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 20 (11.17%) Azure Certification
4 11 (6.15%) DBS Check
4 11 (6.15%) Security Cleared
5 7 (3.91%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.79%) CEH
6 5 (2.79%) OSCP
7 4 (2.23%) GIAC
7 4 (2.23%) GREM
8 3 (1.68%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.68%) PMP
9 2 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.12%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.15%) QA
2 5 (2.79%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.79%) SLA
3 4 (2.23%) PMO
4 3 (1.68%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.12%) GAAP
5 2 (1.12%) GDPR
5 2 (1.12%) IFRS
5 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.12%) WCAG
6 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.56%) GxP
6 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.56%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (13.41%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.35%) Hyper-V
3 5 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.56%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 28 (15.64%) Single Sign-On
2 17 (9.50%) Terraform
3 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (2.79%) SCCM
5 4 (2.23%) Computer Incident Response Team
5 4 (2.23%) QRadar
6 3 (1.68%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.12%) Data Guard
7 2 (1.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.56%) CASB
8 1 (0.56%) Grafana
8 1 (0.56%) Kibana
8 1 (0.56%) Nessus
8 1 (0.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 57 (31.84%) Microsoft
2 32 (17.88%) Oracle
3 14 (7.82%) SAP
4 10 (5.59%) Okta
5 7 (3.91%) CyberArk
5 7 (3.91%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.35%) Workday
7 5 (2.79%) Splunk
7 5 (2.79%) VMware
8 4 (2.23%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (2.23%) HubSpot
8 4 (2.23%) IBM
9 3 (1.68%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.68%) iManage
9 3 (1.68%) Intapp
10 2 (1.12%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (1.12%) DevExpress
10 2 (1.12%) Facebook
10 2 (1.12%) Sparx
10 2 (1.12%) YouTube