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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 354 349
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 -37
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 226 373 670
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.67% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.74% 2.00% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 261 407
10th Percentile £400 £356 £413
25th Percentile £462 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.85%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £825 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £37.05 - £40.84
25th Percentile £47.24 £66.25 £41.03
Median hourly rate £55.80 £67.50 £44.71
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% +50.98% +11.77%
75th Percentile £59.65 £68.75 £49.03
90th Percentile £61.36 - £49.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.80 - £43.42
% change year-on-year - - -21.06%

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 12,955 18,685 29,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.09% 33.33% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 12,877 20,364
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 612 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £74.93 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%

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 1 June 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 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Enterprise Software in the UK

Enterprise Software
Top 15 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 1 June 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 -2 195 £550 - 222
London +17 110 £575 - 88
Work from Home +50 95 £575 +4.55% 111
UK excluding London +3 85 £525 +5.00% 134
South East +17 23 £605 +15.24% 34
North of England +14 22 £488 -11.36% 30
Midlands +13 22 £525 +16.67% 34
North West +27 21 £500 -10.31% 20
East Midlands +7 13 £445 +27.14% 9
East of England +10 9 £510 -28.92% 14
West Midlands +8 8 £607 +12.93% 25
South West +6 7 £670 +31.37% 10
Scotland +20 6 £506 +2.53% 6
Yorkshire +3 1 £432 -21.45% 8
Northern Ireland +2 1 - - 4

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 (3.54%) Cloud Foundry
1 8 (3.54%) Confluence
2 7 (3.10%) CMS
2 7 (3.10%) SAS
3 6 (2.65%) Alfresco
3 6 (2.65%) Appian
3 6 (2.65%) Camunda
4 5 (2.21%) IBM Notes
4 5 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.33%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.88%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.88%) JBoss
7 1 (0.44%) Apache
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.44%) CICS
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.88%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.44%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (1.33%) Siebel CRM
2 2 (0.88%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (0.88%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.44%) Magento
3 1 (0.44%) Maximo
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.44%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.44%) Relativity
3 1 (0.44%) Shopify
3 1 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.44%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 59 (26.11%) Azure
2 43 (19.03%) AWS
3 21 (9.29%) SaaS
4 14 (6.19%) GCP
5 9 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (3.54%) Entra ID
6 8 (3.54%) Serverless
7 7 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (3.10%) Amazon S3
7 7 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.10%) Azure AKS
7 7 (3.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (2.65%) Azure App Service
9 4 (1.77%) npm
9 4 (1.77%) PaaS
9 4 (1.77%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.77%) Yarn
10 3 (1.33%) GitHub
10 3 (1.33%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.87%) DNS
2 9 (3.98%) SSH
3 6 (2.65%) DHCP
4 5 (2.21%) iSCSI
4 5 (2.21%) SAN
4 5 (2.21%) VLAN
5 3 (1.33%) BGP
5 3 (1.33%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (1.33%) IOS XR
5 3 (1.33%) IPv6
6 2 (0.88%) LAN
6 2 (0.88%) WAN
7 1 (0.44%) ATM
7 1 (0.44%) Firewall
7 1 (0.44%) FTP
7 1 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.44%) SSL
7 1 (0.44%) VPN
7 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.73%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.75%) Relational Database
3 10 (4.42%) Oracle Database
4 8 (3.54%) DB2
5 7 (3.10%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (3.10%) KDB
5 7 (3.10%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.77%) MySQL
6 4 (1.77%) Power BI
6 4 (1.77%) Redis
6 4 (1.77%) Siebel EIM
7 3 (1.33%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.88%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.88%) OLAP
8 2 (0.88%) OLTP
8 2 (0.88%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 21 (9.29%) Git
1 21 (9.29%) JIRA
2 10 (4.42%) git-flow
2 10 (4.42%) GitLab
3 9 (3.98%) Cucumber
3 9 (3.98%) JUnit
4 8 (3.54%) Maven
5 5 (2.21%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.77%) Jasmine
6 4 (1.77%) Karma Test Runner
6 4 (1.77%) Mocha
6 4 (1.77%) webpack
7 3 (1.33%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.88%) Gradle
8 2 (0.88%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.88%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.44%) Selenium
9 1 (0.44%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 56 (24.78%) Social Skills
2 50 (22.12%) Finance
3 25 (11.06%) Banking
4 19 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.08%) Marketing
6 11 (4.87%) Front Office
6 11 (4.87%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.54%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.10%) Legal
9 6 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.33%) Automotive
12 3 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.33%) German Language
12 3 (1.33%) Law
12 3 (1.33%) Retail
12 3 (1.33%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.88%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 68 (30.09%) Developer
2 42 (18.58%) Architect
3 41 (18.14%) Senior
4 25 (11.06%) Java Developer
5 21 (9.29%) Consultant
6 19 (8.41%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (4.42%) Analyst
7 10 (4.42%) JavaScript Engineer
7 10 (4.42%) Senior Developer
7 10 (4.42%) UI Engineer
8 9 (3.98%) SQL Developer
8 9 (3.98%) Technical Architect
9 8 (3.54%) Full Stack Developer
9 8 (3.54%) Project Manager
10 7 (3.10%) DBA
10 7 (3.10%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 7 (3.10%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 7 (3.10%) Oracle DBA
10 7 (3.10%) Oracle Developer
10 7 (3.10%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.95%) .NET
2 25 (11.06%) JSON
3 22 (9.73%) React
4 21 (9.29%) REST
5 19 (8.41%) Spring
6 17 (7.52%) Web Services
6 17 (7.52%) XML
7 16 (7.08%) CSS
7 16 (7.08%) Hibernate
7 16 (7.08%) JPA
8 15 (6.64%) RESTful
8 15 (6.64%) SOAP
9 12 (5.31%) AngularJS
10 11 (4.87%) J2EE
11 10 (4.42%) LESS
11 10 (4.42%) Material-UI
11 10 (4.42%) Redux
11 10 (4.42%) Sass
11 10 (4.42%) Tailwind CSS
11 10 (4.42%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.18%) Algorithms
1 23 (10.18%) Data Structures
2 18 (7.96%) Fixed Income
3 14 (6.19%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.31%) Linux Command Line
4 12 (5.31%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.42%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.42%) Low-Code
6 9 (3.98%) Derivative
6 9 (3.98%) Public Cloud
7 8 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.65%) Augmented Reality
8 6 (2.65%) Virtual Reality
9 5 (2.21%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.77%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.77%) PKI
11 3 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.95%) Linux
2 14 (6.19%) Windows
3 12 (5.31%) Unix
4 8 (3.54%) Android
5 7 (3.10%) Apple iOS
5 7 (3.10%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.10%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (2.65%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (2.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.77%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.44%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.44%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (32.74%) Agile
2 39 (17.26%) SDLC
3 37 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (15.93%) Microservices
5 34 (15.04%) Scrum
6 29 (12.83%) DevOps
7 28 (12.39%) CI/CD
8 26 (11.50%) Software Engineering
9 24 (10.62%) Migration
9 24 (10.62%) Project Management
9 24 (10.62%) User Experience
10 21 (9.29%) TDD
11 19 (8.41%) Roadmaps
12 18 (7.96%) Customer Experience
12 18 (7.96%) Electronic Trading
12 18 (7.96%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (7.96%) Test Automation
12 18 (7.96%) User Acceptance Testing
13 17 (7.52%) Continuous Integration
13 17 (7.52%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 66 (29.20%) Java
2 64 (28.32%) SQL
3 35 (15.49%) Python
4 27 (11.95%) JavaScript
5 23 (10.18%) C#
6 21 (9.29%) TypeScript
7 16 (7.08%) Go
8 11 (4.87%) Bash
9 9 (3.98%) Perl
10 7 (3.10%) PowerShell
10 7 (3.10%) Ruby
11 6 (2.65%) C
12 5 (2.21%) Bicep
13 4 (1.77%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.33%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.88%) ABAP
15 2 (0.88%) C++
15 2 (0.88%) PHP
15 2 (0.88%) Scala
15 2 (0.88%) XPath
Qualifications
1 26 (11.50%) Security Cleared
2 21 (9.29%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.42%) Degree
4 5 (2.21%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.88%) MCSA
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.44%) CISA
7 1 (0.44%) CISM
7 1 (0.44%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.44%) Siebel Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.29%) QA
2 6 (2.65%) GDPR
3 5 (2.21%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.88%) NIST
4 2 (0.88%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.88%) SLA
5 1 (0.44%) GRC
5 1 (0.44%) GxP
5 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (10.62%) Docker
2 14 (6.19%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.21%) vSphere
4 2 (0.88%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.44%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (12.39%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.52%) Terraform
3 13 (5.75%) Ansible
4 12 (5.31%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.33%) CA Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.33%) SCCM
6 2 (0.88%) Opsgenie
6 2 (0.88%) SCDPM
6 2 (0.88%) SCVMM
6 2 (0.88%) TIBCO Hawk
6 2 (0.88%) WSUS
7 1 (0.44%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.44%) Control-M
7 1 (0.44%) HP SIM
7 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.44%) Kibana
7 1 (0.44%) logstash
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.44%) Nessus
7 1 (0.44%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 38 (16.81%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.62%) Oracle
3 10 (4.42%) SAP
4 8 (3.54%) Databricks
4 8 (3.54%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.10%) ION Trading
5 7 (3.10%) Splunk
6 6 (2.65%) Pega
7 5 (2.21%) IBM
7 5 (2.21%) Lotus
7 5 (2.21%) New Relic
7 5 (2.21%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.77%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.77%) Cisco
8 4 (1.77%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.77%) Siebel
8 4 (1.77%) TOWER Software
8 4 (1.77%) VMware
9 3 (1.33%) CA
9 3 (1.33%) iManage