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 24 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 205 254
Rank change year-on-year -13 +49 +51
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 130 98 91
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.06% 1.02% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.01% 3.07% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 58 67
10th Percentile £357 £334 £432
25th Percentile £500 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £537 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.73% -6.61% +4.55%
75th Percentile £750 £691 £688
90th Percentile - £850 £950
UK median daily rate £540 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -4.85% +3.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £36.32 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -41.89% - -
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £62.50 £55.80
% change year-on-year -68.80% +12.01% -17.33%

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 4,325 3,197 4,239
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 35.19% 33.41% 28.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,738 2,158 2,900
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £414 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £626 £688 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £825
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.37% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 73 187
10th Percentile £18.45 £18.28 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.49 £26.25 £25.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £44.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -13.73% -2.86%
75th Percentile £74.38 £64.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £85.39 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.98 £32.05 £32.12
% change year-on-year +27.86% -0.20% +45.98%

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 24 May 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
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 3 (2.31%) Confluence
1 3 (2.31%) IIS
2 2 (1.54%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (1.54%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.54%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (1.54%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.54%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (1.54%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (0.77%) Apache
3 1 (0.77%) CMS
3 1 (0.77%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.54%) Primavera
3 1 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.77%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.77%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 72 (55.38%) Azure
2 58 (44.62%) AWS
3 45 (34.62%) GCP
4 17 (13.08%) Entra ID
5 8 (6.15%) Serverless
6 7 (5.38%) Power Platform
7 6 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (4.62%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.62%) SaaS
8 5 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.08%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.31%) AWS Control Tower
10 3 (2.31%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.31%) GitHub
10 3 (2.31%) PaaS
11 2 (1.54%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.38%) Firewall
2 5 (3.85%) DNS
3 3 (2.31%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (2.31%) SSL
4 2 (1.54%) HTTP
4 2 (1.54%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.77%) DHCP
5 1 (0.77%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.77%) LAN
5 1 (0.77%) NGFW
5 1 (0.77%) WAN
5 1 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.77%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.85%) NoSQL
1 5 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.08%) Power BI
3 3 (2.31%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (2.31%) Amazon QuickSight
3 3 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.31%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.54%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.54%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.77%) DocumentDB
5 1 (0.77%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (6.92%) GitLab
2 8 (6.15%) Git
2 8 (6.15%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.38%) JIRA
4 4 (3.08%) Postman
5 3 (2.31%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.31%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.31%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.54%) Introscope
7 1 (0.77%) AdminStudio
7 1 (0.77%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.77%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.77%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.77%) JMeter
7 1 (0.77%) JUnit
7 1 (0.77%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.77%) Maven
7 1 (0.77%) Mockito
7 1 (0.77%) MSI
7 1 (0.77%) SonarQube
General
1 67 (51.54%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.77%) Public Sector
3 12 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.46%) Finance
5 7 (5.38%) Banking
6 5 (3.85%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.08%) Legal
8 3 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.31%) Military
8 3 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.54%) Law
9 2 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.54%) Police
10 1 (0.77%) Automotive
10 1 (0.77%) German Language
10 1 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.77%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 47 (36.15%) Architect
2 36 (27.69%) CyberArk Architect
3 19 (14.62%) Developer
4 15 (11.54%) Senior
5 6 (4.62%) Project Manager
6 5 (3.85%) Backend Developer
6 5 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (3.85%) Senior Manager
7 4 (3.08%) .NET Developer
7 4 (3.08%) Analyst
7 4 (3.08%) Consultant
7 4 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.08%) Test Engineer
8 3 (2.31%) Account Manager
8 3 (2.31%) C# Developer
8 3 (2.31%) Python Developer
8 3 (2.31%) Senior Account Manager
8 3 (2.31%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (34.62%) REST
2 37 (28.46%) LDAP
2 37 (28.46%) SOAP
3 9 (6.92%) React
4 8 (6.15%) .NET
4 8 (6.15%) RESTful
5 7 (5.38%) Kafka
6 6 (4.62%) Node.js
7 5 (3.85%) Middleware
7 5 (3.85%) OAuth
7 5 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (3.08%) OAuth2
8 4 (3.08%) OpenID
9 3 (2.31%) .NET Framework
9 3 (2.31%) JDBC
9 3 (2.31%) JMS
9 3 (2.31%) JSON
9 3 (2.31%) SailPoint
9 3 (2.31%) Spring
9 3 (2.31%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 35 (26.92%) Security Posture
2 15 (11.54%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.62%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.31%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.31%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.54%) Clustering
7 2 (1.54%) CMDB
7 2 (1.54%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.54%) PMI
7 2 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.54%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.77%) BYOD
8 1 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.77%) Insider Threat
8 1 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.77%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.77%) Windows
2 9 (6.92%) Linux
3 5 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.31%) Unix
6 2 (1.54%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.54%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (1.54%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.77%) Android
7 1 (0.77%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (40.77%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (33.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 38 (29.23%) Technical Leadership
4 37 (28.46%) CI/CD
4 37 (28.46%) Integration Patterns
5 36 (27.69%) DevOps
5 36 (27.69%) Presales
5 36 (27.69%) Task Automation
6 35 (26.92%) Privileged Access Management
6 35 (26.92%) SIEM
7 34 (26.15%) ITSM
8 29 (22.31%) Agile
9 17 (13.08%) ITIL
10 15 (11.54%) AI
10 15 (11.54%) Containerisation
11 14 (10.77%) Test Automation
12 13 (10.00%) ERP
13 12 (9.23%) Migration
13 12 (9.23%) Scrum
13 12 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (38.46%) Python
2 47 (36.15%) PowerShell
3 16 (12.31%) SQL
4 12 (9.23%) Java
5 10 (7.69%) Bash
6 8 (6.15%) C#
6 8 (6.15%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.31%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.54%) Bicep
8 2 (1.54%) Jython
8 2 (1.54%) Perl
8 2 (1.54%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.54%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.54%) Swift
8 2 (1.54%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.54%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.77%) C
9 1 (0.77%) Korn
9 1 (0.77%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.77%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 56 (43.08%) Security Cleared
2 53 (40.77%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.38%) Degree
4 4 (3.08%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.08%) CISSP
5 3 (2.31%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.31%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.54%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.54%) PMP
6 2 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.77%) CISM
7 1 (0.77%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.77%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.77%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.85%) QA
2 3 (2.31%) GDPR
3 2 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.54%) GRC
4 1 (0.77%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (0.77%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.77%) GAMP
4 1 (0.77%) GMP
4 1 (0.77%) GxP
4 1 (0.77%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.77%) ISO 13485
4 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.77%) ITGC
4 1 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.77%) SLA
4 1 (0.77%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.77%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 13 (10.00%) Docker
3 2 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.77%) Firmware
4 1 (0.77%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.77%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (8.46%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.69%) Ansible
2 10 (7.69%) Terraform
3 6 (4.62%) Grafana
4 5 (3.85%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.31%) Puppet
5 3 (2.31%) Salt
5 3 (2.31%) SCCM
6 2 (1.54%) Argo
6 2 (1.54%) CA Wily
6 2 (1.54%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.77%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.77%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.77%) logstash
7 1 (0.77%) QRadar
7 1 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (27.69%) CyberArk
2 34 (26.15%) BeyondTrust
2 34 (26.15%) Centrify
3 22 (16.92%) Microsoft
4 10 (7.69%) Oracle
5 6 (4.62%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.62%) SAP
5 6 (4.62%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.08%) AppDynamics
6 4 (3.08%) Citrix
6 4 (3.08%) Google
6 4 (3.08%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.31%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.31%) Conga
7 3 (2.31%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.31%) GoCardless
8 2 (1.54%) Databricks
8 2 (1.54%) Okta
8 2 (1.54%) Splunk
8 2 (1.54%) Workday