Hybrid/Remote Enterprise Software Contract 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 contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 234 233
Rank change year-on-year +49 -1 +76
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 210 80 106
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.57% 0.82% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.10% 2.35% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 48 67
10th Percentile £354 £318 £444
25th Percentile £450 £410 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +6.48%
75th Percentile £605 £658 £712
90th Percentile £700 £833 £1,000
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £77.28 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £92.00 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +206.67% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £93.80 - -
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £28.06 -
% change year-on-year -30.51% - -

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 contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,124 3,399 3,869
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 38.22% 34.91% 30.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,080 2,217 2,570
10th Percentile £363 £331 £325
25th Percentile £438 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £813 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +1.45% -5.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 103 106
10th Percentile £16.70 £13.17 £19.92
25th Percentile £31.25 £24.14 £30.20
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.89 £58.70
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -42.27% +11.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £81.85 £72.29 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +31.25% -34.44% +4.65%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Enterprise Software job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Enterprise Software.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Enterprise Software

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Enterprise Software over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Enterprise Software daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Enterprise Software
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Enterprise Software.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Enterprise Software

Enterprise Software
Hourly Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Enterprise Software over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Enterprise Software hourly rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid working 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 8 (3.81%) Confluence
2 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.95%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (0.95%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.95%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.95%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (0.95%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (0.48%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.48%) Mendix
4 1 (0.48%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (3.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.90%) Primavera
4 3 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.95%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.95%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.48%) Endur
6 1 (0.48%) Maximo
6 1 (0.48%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.48%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.48%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.48%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.48%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.48%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 94 (44.76%) Azure
2 44 (20.95%) AWS
3 41 (19.52%) Entra ID
4 22 (10.48%) Power Platform
5 17 (8.10%) SaaS
6 15 (7.14%) GCP
7 14 (6.67%) Power Automate
8 13 (6.19%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (6.19%) GitHub
9 12 (5.71%) Serverless
10 11 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (3.33%) Amazon S3
14 7 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
15 6 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
16 5 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 5 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.76%) Firewall
2 4 (1.90%) DNS
2 4 (1.90%) SSL
3 3 (1.43%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.95%) FTP
4 2 (0.95%) HTTP
4 2 (0.95%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.95%) Network Security
4 2 (0.95%) NGFW
4 2 (0.95%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.48%) SSH
5 1 (0.48%) VPN
5 1 (0.48%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.05%) SQL Server
2 18 (8.57%) Power BI
3 12 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.29%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (2.38%) Metadata
6 5 (2.38%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.90%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.90%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.90%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.43%) MySQL
9 2 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.95%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.95%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.95%) EDRMS
10 1 (0.48%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.48%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 15 (7.14%) JIRA
2 13 (6.19%) Git
3 11 (5.24%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.81%) GitLab
5 4 (1.90%) Postman
6 3 (1.43%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.43%) Maven
6 3 (1.43%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.95%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.95%) Introscope
7 2 (0.95%) JUnit
7 2 (0.95%) Mockito
7 2 (0.95%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.48%) AdminStudio
8 1 (0.48%) DbUnit
8 1 (0.48%) InstallShield
8 1 (0.48%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.48%) MSI
General
1 84 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.24%) Finance
3 31 (14.76%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (14.76%) Public Sector
4 10 (4.76%) Legal
5 7 (3.33%) Banking
5 7 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (2.86%) Military
7 5 (2.38%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.38%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.90%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.43%) Police
10 2 (0.95%) Automotive
10 2 (0.95%) Law
10 2 (0.95%) Marketing
10 2 (0.95%) Public Speaking
10 2 (0.95%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.48%) German Language
Job Titles
1 44 (20.95%) Developer
2 42 (20.00%) Architect
3 40 (19.05%) Senior
4 20 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (6.19%) Consultant
5 13 (6.19%) Senior Developer
6 11 (5.24%) Analyst
7 10 (4.76%) Project Manager
8 7 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (3.33%) ERP Architect
8 7 (3.33%) Java Developer
8 7 (3.33%) Lead
9 6 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (2.86%) Technical Architect
9 6 (2.86%) Technical Consultant
10 5 (2.38%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (2.38%) Senior Architect
10 5 (2.38%) Senior Manager
10 5 (2.38%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (17.62%) REST
2 28 (13.33%) .NET
3 20 (9.52%) React
4 17 (8.10%) OAuth
4 17 (8.10%) Terraform
5 16 (7.62%) Middleware
5 16 (7.62%) OAuth2
6 15 (7.14%) SOAP
7 14 (6.67%) RESTful
8 13 (6.19%) JSON
8 13 (6.19%) OpenID
8 13 (6.19%) SailPoint
9 11 (5.24%) AngularJS
9 11 (5.24%) XML
10 9 (4.29%) Spring
11 8 (3.81%) Web Services
12 7 (3.33%) ASP.NET
12 7 (3.33%) Kafka
12 7 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 35 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.48%) Product Ownership
3 13 (6.19%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (4.29%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.90%) CMDB
8 4 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.90%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.90%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.90%) SCADA
9 3 (1.43%) Clustering
9 3 (1.43%) PKI
10 2 (0.95%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.95%) NHS
10 2 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.57%) Windows
2 14 (6.67%) Linux
3 5 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.90%) Unix
5 2 (0.95%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (0.95%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.48%) Android
6 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (37.14%) CI/CD
2 70 (33.33%) Agile
3 62 (29.52%) DevOps
3 62 (29.52%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (25.24%) Stakeholder Management
5 40 (19.05%) AI
5 40 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 32 (15.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 32 (15.24%) Migration
7 30 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 26 (12.38%) Enterprise Architecture
8 26 (12.38%) Identity Access Management
9 25 (11.90%) Scrum
10 24 (11.43%) ERP
10 24 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (10.95%) Containerisation
11 23 (10.95%) ITIL
11 23 (10.95%) Technical Leadership
11 23 (10.95%) Test Automation
12 22 (10.48%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 31 (14.76%) Java
2 29 (13.81%) JavaScript
2 29 (13.81%) SQL
3 25 (11.90%) C#
4 24 (11.43%) Python
5 20 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 10 (4.76%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.29%) Bash
8 5 (2.38%) Bicep
9 4 (1.90%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.90%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.90%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.43%) C++
10 3 (1.43%) Perl
11 2 (0.95%) ABAP
11 2 (0.95%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.95%) Jython
11 2 (0.95%) Rust
11 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.48%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 53 (25.24%) Security Cleared
2 48 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.62%) Degree
4 11 (5.24%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.43%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.43%) CISM
7 3 (1.43%) CISSP
7 3 (1.43%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.43%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.43%) PMP
8 2 (0.95%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.95%) MCSE
8 2 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.48%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.62%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.76%) QA
3 6 (2.86%) GDPR
3 6 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.43%) ITGC
5 3 (1.43%) NCSC
5 3 (1.43%) NIST
6 2 (0.95%) WCAG
7 1 (0.48%) GxP
7 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.48%) SLA
7 1 (0.48%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 37 (17.62%) Active Directory
2 28 (13.33%) Docker
3 2 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.48%) OpenSSH
4 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.76%) Ansible
3 7 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (2.86%) Grafana
5 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.38%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.95%) Argo
6 2 (0.95%) CA Wily
6 2 (0.95%) Puppet
6 2 (0.95%) Salt
6 2 (0.95%) SCCM
6 2 (0.95%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 71 (33.81%) Microsoft
2 32 (15.24%) SAP
3 26 (12.38%) Oracle
4 19 (9.05%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.76%) Google
5 10 (4.76%) Salesforce
6 9 (4.29%) Databricks
7 7 (3.33%) Workday
8 6 (2.86%) CyberArk
8 6 (2.86%) MuleSoft
9 5 (2.38%) IBM
9 5 (2.38%) JD Edwards
9 5 (2.38%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.90%) Okta
10 4 (1.90%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.43%) Ariba
11 3 (1.43%) Conga
11 3 (1.43%) GoCardless
11 3 (1.43%) Siebel
12 2 (0.95%) AppDynamics