Enterprise Software Contracts

Enterprise Application Software
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 357 360
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -56
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 223 388 646
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.68% 0.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.73% 2.04% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 282 382
10th Percentile £417 £363 £405
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £669
90th Percentile £825 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £506 £500
% change year-on-year +5.19% +1.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £37.05 - £36.71
25th Percentile £47.24 £66.25 £39.28
Median hourly rate £55.80 £67.50 £44.71
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% +50.98% -18.71%
75th Percentile £59.65 £68.75 £53.44
90th Percentile £61.36 - £59.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.80 - £43.42
% change year-on-year - - -26.42%

All Generic Skills
UK

Enterprise Software is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,885 18,988 28,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.28% 33.25% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,301 13,052 20,257
10th Percentile £269 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £674 £676 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 890 627 724
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.14 £10.63 £17.23
Median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.98% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.04
% change year-on-year +29.55% +4.56% -12.33%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Enterprise Software as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Software in the UK

Enterprise Software
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Software.

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Software in the UK

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Software over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Software in the UK

Enterprise Software
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Software.

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Software in the UK

Enterprise Software
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Enterprise Software over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Enterprise Software in the UK

Enterprise Software
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Software within the UK over the 6 months to 15 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -2 192 £556 +1.14% 193
London +25 108 £595 +1.71% 76
Work from Home +41 89 £575 +4.55% 141
UK excluding London +4 85 £533 +5.19% 110
South East +29 24 £605 +12.56% 32
North of England +14 24 £475 -13.64% 31
North West +25 22 £488 -11.36% 21
Midlands +17 20 £513 +12.33% 22
East Midlands +8 12 £445 +27.14% 9
East of England +15 8 £510 -28.92% 9
Scotland +32 7 £506 +2.53% 7
West Midlands +10 7 £607 +12.93% 13
South West +14 6 £750 +47.06% 7
Yorkshire +7 2 £432 -21.45% 6

Enterprise Software
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (3.59%) Confluence
2 7 (3.14%) CMS
2 7 (3.14%) SAS
3 6 (2.69%) Alfresco
3 6 (2.69%) Appian
3 6 (2.69%) Camunda
4 5 (2.24%) Cloud Foundry
4 5 (2.24%) IBM Notes
5 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.45%) Apache
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.45%) CICS
6 1 (0.45%) IIS
6 1 (0.45%) JBoss
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.90%) InVision
2 2 (0.90%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.90%) Sketch
3 1 (0.45%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.45%) Blender
3 1 (0.45%) Houdini
3 1 (0.45%) Maya
3 1 (0.45%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.45%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Siebel CRM
2 2 (0.90%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (0.90%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.45%) Carpe Diem
3 1 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.45%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.45%) Magento
3 1 (0.45%) Maximo
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.45%) Relativity
3 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.45%) Shopify
3 1 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.45%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 54 (24.22%) Azure
2 40 (17.94%) AWS
3 21 (9.42%) SaaS
4 13 (5.83%) GCP
5 9 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.59%) Serverless
7 7 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (3.14%) Amazon S3
7 7 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.14%) Azure AKS
7 7 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (3.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (2.69%) Azure App Service
8 6 (2.69%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.79%) Figma
9 4 (1.79%) npm
9 4 (1.79%) PaaS
9 4 (1.79%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.79%) Yarn
10 3 (1.35%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.93%) DNS
2 7 (3.14%) SSH
3 6 (2.69%) DHCP
4 5 (2.24%) iSCSI
4 5 (2.24%) SAN
4 5 (2.24%) VLAN
5 3 (1.35%) BGP
5 3 (1.35%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (1.35%) IOS XR
6 2 (0.90%) IPv6
6 2 (0.90%) LAN
6 2 (0.90%) WAN
7 1 (0.45%) ATM
7 1 (0.45%) Firewall
7 1 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.45%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.45%) SSL
7 1 (0.45%) VPN
7 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.97%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.83%) Relational Database
3 10 (4.48%) Oracle Database
4 8 (3.59%) DB2
5 7 (3.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (3.14%) KDB
5 7 (3.14%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.24%) Siebel EIM
7 4 (1.79%) MySQL
7 4 (1.79%) Power BI
7 4 (1.79%) Redis
8 3 (1.35%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.90%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.90%) OLAP
9 2 (0.90%) OLTP
9 2 (0.90%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (8.97%) Git
2 18 (8.07%) JIRA
3 10 (4.48%) GitLab
4 9 (4.04%) git-flow
5 8 (3.59%) Maven
6 7 (3.14%) Cucumber
6 7 (3.14%) JUnit
7 4 (1.79%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.79%) Jasmine
7 4 (1.79%) Karma Test Runner
7 4 (1.79%) Mocha
7 4 (1.79%) webpack
8 3 (1.35%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.90%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.90%) Gradle
9 2 (0.90%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.90%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (26.46%) Social Skills
2 49 (21.97%) Finance
3 23 (10.31%) Banking
4 16 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.73%) Marketing
6 13 (5.83%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.48%) Front Office
8 9 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.14%) Legal
10 6 (2.69%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.79%) Law
12 4 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.35%) Automotive
13 3 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.35%) German Language
14 2 (0.90%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.90%) Korean Language
14 2 (0.90%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 65 (29.15%) Developer
2 40 (17.94%) Architect
3 37 (16.59%) Senior
4 23 (10.31%) Java Developer
5 21 (9.42%) Consultant
6 17 (7.62%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (4.48%) Senior Developer
8 9 (4.04%) Analyst
8 9 (4.04%) JavaScript Engineer
8 9 (4.04%) Project Manager
8 9 (4.04%) SQL Developer
8 9 (4.04%) Technical Architect
8 9 (4.04%) UI Engineer
9 8 (3.59%) Full Stack Developer
10 7 (3.14%) DBA
10 7 (3.14%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 7 (3.14%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 7 (3.14%) Oracle DBA
10 7 (3.14%) SAP Consultant
10 7 (3.14%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (12.56%) .NET
2 23 (10.31%) JSON
3 21 (9.42%) React
4 19 (8.52%) REST
5 17 (7.62%) Spring
6 15 (6.73%) CSS
6 15 (6.73%) RESTful
6 15 (6.73%) Web Services
6 15 (6.73%) XML
7 14 (6.28%) Hibernate
7 14 (6.28%) JPA
8 13 (5.83%) SOAP
9 12 (5.38%) AngularJS
10 9 (4.04%) J2EE
10 9 (4.04%) LESS
10 9 (4.04%) Material-UI
10 9 (4.04%) Redux
10 9 (4.04%) Sass
10 9 (4.04%) Tailwind CSS
10 9 (4.04%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.87%) Algorithms
1 22 (9.87%) Data Structures
2 17 (7.62%) Fixed Income
3 14 (6.28%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.93%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.48%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.48%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (4.48%) Low-Code
6 9 (4.04%) Derivative
6 9 (4.04%) Public Cloud
7 8 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (3.14%) Augmented Reality
8 7 (3.14%) Virtual Reality
9 5 (2.24%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.79%) PKI
11 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.35%) Social Media
11 3 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.76%) Linux
2 12 (5.38%) Windows
3 10 (4.48%) Unix
4 8 (3.59%) Android
5 7 (3.14%) Apple iOS
6 6 (2.69%) Windows Server
7 5 (2.24%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (2.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.35%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.45%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.45%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (33.63%) Agile
2 37 (16.59%) Microservices
3 36 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (15.70%) SDLC
5 34 (15.25%) Scrum
6 28 (12.56%) CI/CD
7 27 (12.11%) DevOps
8 26 (11.66%) Software Engineering
8 26 (11.66%) User Experience
9 23 (10.31%) Migration
10 22 (9.87%) Project Management
11 21 (9.42%) Roadmaps
12 19 (8.52%) TDD
13 18 (8.07%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (8.07%) Test Automation
14 17 (7.62%) Electronic Trading
14 17 (7.62%) OO
15 16 (7.17%) Customer Experience
15 16 (7.17%) Software Architecture
16 15 (6.73%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 64 (28.70%) Java
2 61 (27.35%) SQL
3 33 (14.80%) Python
4 26 (11.66%) JavaScript
5 24 (10.76%) C#
6 20 (8.97%) TypeScript
7 15 (6.73%) Go
8 10 (4.48%) Bash
9 8 (3.59%) Perl
10 7 (3.14%) C
10 7 (3.14%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.69%) Ruby
12 5 (2.24%) Bicep
12 5 (2.24%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.79%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.35%) C++
15 2 (0.90%) ABAP
15 2 (0.90%) PHP
15 2 (0.90%) Scala
15 2 (0.90%) XPath
Qualifications
1 28 (12.56%) Security Cleared
2 23 (10.31%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.48%) Degree
4 7 (3.14%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.45%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.45%) MCSA
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.45%) Siebel Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.52%) QA
2 6 (2.69%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.69%) GDPR
3 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.90%) NIST
3 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.90%) SLA
4 1 (0.45%) GRC
4 1 (0.45%) GxP
4 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (10.31%) Docker
2 11 (4.93%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.24%) vSphere
4 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (12.11%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.17%) Terraform
3 13 (5.83%) Ansible
4 12 (5.38%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.35%) CA Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.90%) Opsgenie
6 2 (0.90%) TIBCO Hawk
7 1 (0.45%) Control-M
7 1 (0.45%) Kibana
7 1 (0.45%) logstash
7 1 (0.45%) Nessus
7 1 (0.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 35 (15.70%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.42%) Oracle
3 13 (5.83%) SAP
4 8 (3.59%) Databricks
4 8 (3.59%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.14%) ION Trading
5 7 (3.14%) Splunk
6 6 (2.69%) Pega
7 5 (2.24%) IBM
7 5 (2.24%) Lotus
7 5 (2.24%) New Relic
7 5 (2.24%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.24%) Siebel
8 4 (1.79%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.79%) Cisco
8 4 (1.79%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.79%) iManage
8 4 (1.79%) TOWER Software
8 4 (1.79%) VMware
9 3 (1.35%) CA