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 17 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 218 221
Rank change year-on-year +32 +3 +79
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 194 86 114
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.44% 0.86% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.82% 2.44% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 53 72
10th Percentile £358 £305 £444
25th Percentile £447 £410 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -14.89% +3.07%
75th Percentile £595 £663 £712
90th Percentile £696 £850 £995
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £77.28 - -
25th Percentile - £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £92.00 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +47.20% - -
75th Percentile - £63.75 -
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 5,080 3,518 3,894
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.62% 34.99% 30.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,095 2,298 2,625
10th Percentile £375 £339 £325
25th Percentile £440 £413 £445
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 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 108 114
10th Percentile £19.34 £13.60 £19.00
25th Percentile £32.17 £22.69 £30.20
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.89 £61.30
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -44.72% +22.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £83.48 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +47.46% -34.44% +10.86%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 (4.12%) Confluence
2 2 (1.03%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (1.03%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.03%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (1.03%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.03%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.03%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (1.03%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (0.52%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.52%) Mendix
3 1 (0.52%) Mule
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (4.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.09%) Primavera
2 6 (3.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.55%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.03%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.52%) Endur
5 1 (0.52%) iTrent
5 1 (0.52%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.52%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.52%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.52%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.52%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.52%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.52%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 89 (45.88%) Azure
2 46 (23.71%) AWS
3 36 (18.56%) Entra ID
4 22 (11.34%) Power Platform
5 16 (8.25%) GCP
6 13 (6.70%) Power Automate
7 12 (6.19%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (6.19%) SaaS
8 11 (5.67%) GitHub
8 11 (5.67%) Serverless
9 9 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.64%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (4.12%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.09%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.58%) OCI
14 4 (2.06%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.15%) Firewall
2 4 (2.06%) DNS
2 4 (2.06%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (2.06%) SSL
3 2 (1.03%) FTP
3 2 (1.03%) HTTP
3 2 (1.03%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.03%) Network Security
3 2 (1.03%) NGFW
3 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.52%) SSH
4 1 (0.52%) VPN
4 1 (0.52%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.76%) Power BI
2 16 (8.25%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.64%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.55%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (1.55%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.55%) Metadata
7 3 (1.55%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.55%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.03%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.03%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.52%) AlloyDB
9 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle OLAP
9 1 (0.52%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 15 (7.73%) JIRA
2 14 (7.22%) Git
3 9 (4.64%) GitLab
3 9 (4.64%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.58%) Postman
5 3 (1.55%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.55%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.55%) Maven
5 3 (1.55%) REST Assured
5 3 (1.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (1.03%) Introscope
6 2 (1.03%) JMeter
6 2 (1.03%) JUnit
6 2 (1.03%) Mockito
6 2 (1.03%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.52%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.52%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.52%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.52%) MSI
General
1 78 (40.21%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.98%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (15.98%) Public Sector
3 26 (13.40%) Finance
4 8 (4.12%) Legal
5 7 (3.61%) Banking
6 6 (3.09%) Military
6 6 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.58%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.58%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.58%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.55%) Police
10 2 (1.03%) Automotive
10 2 (1.03%) Law
10 2 (1.03%) Marketing
10 2 (1.03%) Public Speaking
10 2 (1.03%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.52%) German Language
11 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 45 (23.20%) Developer
2 38 (19.59%) Senior
3 35 (18.04%) Architect
4 14 (7.22%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (6.70%) Senior Developer
6 11 (5.67%) Analyst
7 10 (5.15%) Consultant
8 8 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (4.12%) Project Manager
9 7 (3.61%) ERP Architect
9 7 (3.61%) Java Developer
10 6 (3.09%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (3.09%) Lead
10 6 (3.09%) Technical Architect
11 5 (2.58%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (2.58%) Backend Developer
11 5 (2.58%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (2.58%) GCP Architect
11 5 (2.58%) Platform Architect
11 5 (2.58%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (18.04%) REST
2 27 (13.92%) .NET
3 18 (9.28%) React
4 16 (8.25%) OAuth
4 16 (8.25%) RESTful
5 15 (7.73%) Middleware
5 15 (7.73%) SOAP
6 14 (7.22%) JSON
6 14 (7.22%) OAuth2
7 13 (6.70%) OpenID
8 12 (6.19%) XML
9 11 (5.67%) SailPoint
10 9 (4.64%) AngularJS
10 9 (4.64%) Spring
11 8 (4.12%) Kafka
11 8 (4.12%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (4.12%) Web Services
12 7 (3.61%) ASP.NET
13 6 (3.09%) Spring Boot
14 5 (2.58%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.98%) Cloud Native
2 19 (9.79%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.15%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.12%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.58%) CMDB
6 5 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.06%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.06%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (2.06%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (2.06%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.06%) SCADA
8 3 (1.55%) Clustering
8 3 (1.55%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.55%) PKI
9 2 (1.03%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.79%) Windows
2 15 (7.73%) Linux
3 5 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.06%) Unix
5 2 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.03%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.03%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.52%) Android
6 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (39.18%) CI/CD
2 65 (33.51%) Agile
3 62 (31.96%) DevOps
4 58 (29.90%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (19.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 37 (19.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 36 (18.56%) AI
8 32 (16.49%) Migration
9 29 (14.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (13.40%) ITIL
11 24 (12.37%) Infrastructure as Code
12 23 (11.86%) Containerisation
12 23 (11.86%) Identity Access Management
12 23 (11.86%) Test Automation
13 21 (10.82%) Scrum
13 21 (10.82%) Technical Leadership
14 20 (10.31%) Enterprise Architecture
14 20 (10.31%) ERP
14 20 (10.31%) Microservices
14 20 (10.31%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 31 (15.98%) Java
2 30 (15.46%) SQL
3 28 (14.43%) JavaScript
4 26 (13.40%) C#
5 24 (12.37%) Python
6 21 (10.82%) PowerShell
7 10 (5.15%) Bash
8 8 (4.12%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.58%) Bicep
10 4 (2.06%) Apex Code
10 4 (2.06%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.06%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.55%) C++
11 3 (1.55%) Perl
12 2 (1.03%) ABAP
12 2 (1.03%) Jython
12 2 (1.03%) Objective-C
12 2 (1.03%) Rust
12 2 (1.03%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.03%) Swift
Qualifications
1 51 (26.29%) Security Cleared
2 46 (23.71%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.76%) Degree
4 10 (5.15%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.06%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.55%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.55%) CISSP
8 3 (1.55%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.55%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.03%) CISM
9 2 (1.03%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.03%) MCSE
9 2 (1.03%) PMP
9 2 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.22%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.15%) QA
3 6 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.58%) GDPR
5 3 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.55%) ITGC
5 3 (1.55%) NCSC
5 3 (1.55%) NIST
5 3 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.03%) WCAG
7 1 (0.52%) GxP
7 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.52%) SLA
7 1 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 34 (17.53%) Active Directory
2 27 (13.92%) Docker
3 2 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.52%) OpenSSH
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (13.92%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.25%) Terraform
3 11 (5.67%) Ansible
4 7 (3.61%) Grafana
5 6 (3.09%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.55%) Puppet
8 3 (1.55%) Salt
9 2 (1.03%) Argo
9 2 (1.03%) CA Wily
9 2 (1.03%) SCCM
9 2 (1.03%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 65 (33.51%) Microsoft
2 28 (14.43%) SAP
3 22 (11.34%) Oracle
4 17 (8.76%) ServiceNow
5 10 (5.15%) Google
5 10 (5.15%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.09%) CyberArk
6 6 (3.09%) Workday
7 5 (2.58%) IBM
7 5 (2.58%) JD Edwards
7 5 (2.58%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.06%) Databricks
8 4 (2.06%) Okta
8 4 (2.06%) OpenAI
8 4 (2.06%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.55%) Conga
9 3 (1.55%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.55%) GoCardless
9 3 (1.55%) Siebel
10 2 (1.03%) Atlassian