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 27 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 219 232
Rank change year-on-year +16 +13 +79
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 164 94 109
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.22% 0.92% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.29% 2.68% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 57 69
10th Percentile £335 £315 £443
25th Percentile £431 £418 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +3.14%
75th Percentile £599 £700 £725
90th Percentile £700 £850 £1,000
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £540
% change year-on-year -2.78% - -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile - £54.25 -
25th Percentile - £56.88 -
Median hourly rate £92.00 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +47.20% - -
75th Percentile £92.75 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £94.10 - -
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £41.50 £45.75
% change year-on-year -53.01% -9.29% -32.22%

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 4,992 3,501 4,093
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.07% 34.32% 30.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,090 2,282 2,772
10th Percentile £364 £343 £325
25th Percentile £438 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £663 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 113 136
10th Percentile £20.70 £14.78 £19.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £24.77 £30.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.89 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -38.39% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £87.66 £75.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% +12.68%

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 27 July 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 7 (4.27%) Confluence
2 2 (1.22%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (1.22%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (1.22%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.22%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (1.22%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (0.61%) Mendix
Applications
1 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (3.66%) Primavera
1 6 (3.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.83%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.61%) Endur
5 1 (0.61%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.61%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.61%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.61%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.61%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.61%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.61%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.61%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.61%) TrackWise
5 1 (0.61%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 73 (44.51%) Azure
2 41 (25.00%) AWS
3 30 (18.29%) Entra ID
4 15 (9.15%) Power Platform
5 14 (8.54%) GCP
6 11 (6.71%) Serverless
7 10 (6.10%) GitHub
7 10 (6.10%) SaaS
8 9 (5.49%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (5.49%) Power Automate
9 8 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (4.88%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (4.27%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (4.27%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.66%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (3.05%) Azure AI
13 4 (2.44%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.88%) Firewall
2 4 (2.44%) DNS
2 4 (2.44%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (2.44%) SSL
3 2 (1.22%) HTTP
3 2 (1.22%) Network Security
3 2 (1.22%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.61%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.61%) LAN
4 1 (0.61%) NGFW
4 1 (0.61%) SSH
4 1 (0.61%) VPN
4 1 (0.61%) WAN
4 1 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.61%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.54%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.10%) Power BI
3 7 (4.27%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (2.44%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (1.83%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (1.83%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.83%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.83%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.61%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.61%) Db2
7 1 (0.61%) OLAP
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (0.61%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 14 (8.54%) JIRA
2 12 (7.32%) Git
3 9 (5.49%) GitLab
3 9 (5.49%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.05%) Postman
5 3 (1.83%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.83%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.83%) REST Assured
5 3 (1.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (1.22%) Introscope
6 2 (1.22%) JMeter
7 1 (0.61%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.61%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.61%) JUnit
7 1 (0.61%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.61%) Maven
7 1 (0.61%) Mockito
7 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.61%) Visual LANSA
General
1 61 (37.20%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (15.24%) Public Sector
3 23 (14.02%) Finance
4 8 (4.88%) Legal
5 7 (4.27%) Banking
6 6 (3.66%) Military
6 6 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.05%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.44%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.44%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.83%) Police
10 2 (1.22%) Automotive
10 2 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.22%) Law
10 2 (1.22%) Marketing
10 2 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.22%) Public Speaking
10 2 (1.22%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 35 (21.34%) Developer
2 29 (17.68%) Senior
3 23 (14.02%) Architect
4 11 (6.71%) Analyst
5 10 (6.10%) Project Manager
6 9 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (4.88%) Senior Developer
8 7 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (4.27%) Senior Manager
9 5 (3.05%) .NET Developer
9 5 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (3.05%) Backend Developer
9 5 (3.05%) Consultant
9 5 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.05%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (3.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.05%) Java Developer
9 5 (3.05%) Technical Analyst
9 5 (3.05%) Technical Architect
10 4 (2.44%) Senior Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (15.85%) REST
2 21 (12.80%) .NET
3 17 (10.37%) React
4 15 (9.15%) RESTful
5 14 (8.54%) Middleware
6 11 (6.71%) OAuth
6 11 (6.71%) OpenID
7 10 (6.10%) JSON
8 9 (5.49%) Kafka
8 9 (5.49%) OAuth2
8 9 (5.49%) SOAP
9 8 (4.88%) AngularJS
9 8 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (4.88%) SailPoint
10 7 (4.27%) ASP.NET
10 7 (4.27%) Spring
10 7 (4.27%) XML
11 5 (3.05%) LDAP
12 4 (2.44%) .NET Framework
12 4 (2.44%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 30 (18.29%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.15%) Product Ownership
3 10 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.10%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.66%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.44%) CMDB
6 4 (2.44%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.44%) SCADA
7 3 (1.83%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.83%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.83%) PKI
7 3 (1.83%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.22%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.22%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.37%) Windows
2 14 (8.54%) Linux
3 6 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.44%) Unix
5 2 (1.22%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.22%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.61%) Android
6 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (39.02%) CI/CD
2 60 (36.59%) Agile
3 57 (34.76%) DevOps
4 46 (28.05%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (18.90%) AI
6 30 (18.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 27 (16.46%) Stakeholder Management
8 25 (15.24%) Containerisation
8 25 (15.24%) ITIL
9 24 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (14.63%) Migration
10 22 (13.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (13.41%) Test Automation
11 20 (12.20%) Identity Access Management
12 19 (11.59%) Enterprise Architecture
12 19 (11.59%) Scrum
13 18 (10.98%) Microservices
14 17 (10.37%) RBAC
14 17 (10.37%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (9.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 26 (15.85%) Java
1 26 (15.85%) SQL
2 23 (14.02%) Python
3 21 (12.80%) JavaScript
4 20 (12.20%) C#
4 20 (12.20%) PowerShell
5 11 (6.71%) Bash
6 6 (3.66%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.44%) Apex Code
7 4 (2.44%) Bicep
7 4 (2.44%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.44%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.83%) Perl
8 3 (1.83%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.22%) ABAP
9 2 (1.22%) BeanShell
9 2 (1.22%) Jython
9 2 (1.22%) Swift
10 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 41 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 37 (22.56%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.54%) Degree
4 11 (6.71%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.05%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.05%) PMI Certification
7 4 (2.44%) CISSP
8 3 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.83%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.83%) PMP
9 2 (1.22%) CISM
9 2 (1.22%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.22%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.88%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.27%) QA
3 6 (3.66%) GDPR
4 4 (2.44%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.83%) ITGC
5 3 (1.83%) NCSC
5 3 (1.83%) NIST
5 3 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.22%) GxP
6 2 (1.22%) WCAG
7 1 (0.61%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.61%) GAMP
7 1 (0.61%) GMP
7 1 (0.61%) GRC
7 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.61%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.61%) SLA
7 1 (0.61%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 29 (17.68%) Active Directory
2 26 (15.85%) Docker
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.61%) OpenSSH
3 1 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (16.46%) Kubernetes
2 17 (10.37%) Terraform
3 11 (6.71%) Ansible
4 6 (3.66%) Grafana
5 5 (3.05%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.83%) Puppet
7 3 (1.83%) Salt
8 2 (1.22%) Argo
8 2 (1.22%) CA Wily
8 2 (1.22%) SCCM
8 2 (1.22%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.61%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.61%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.61%) logstash
9 1 (0.61%) QRadar
Vendors
1 48 (29.27%) Microsoft
2 20 (12.20%) SAP
3 17 (10.37%) Oracle
4 15 (9.15%) ServiceNow
5 10 (6.10%) Salesforce
6 7 (4.27%) Google
7 5 (3.05%) CyberArk
7 5 (3.05%) IBM
7 5 (3.05%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.44%) OpenAI
8 4 (2.44%) Workday
9 3 (1.83%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.83%) Conga
9 3 (1.83%) Databricks
9 3 (1.83%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.83%) GoCardless
9 3 (1.83%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.83%) Okta
9 3 (1.83%) Siebel
10 2 (1.22%) JD Edwards