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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 208 240
Rank change year-on-year -6 +32 +70
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 148 93 107
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.13% 0.95% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.10% 2.80% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 55 73
10th Percentile £305 £331 £426
25th Percentile £431 £425 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £720 £688
90th Percentile £750 £850 £950
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £58.59 £54.25 -
25th Percentile - £56.88 -
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 £55.00 £55.80
% change year-on-year -64.55% -1.43% +24.00%

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 4,767 3,322 4,323
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.43% 33.90% 29.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,993 2,204 2,930
10th Percentile £363 £338 £325
25th Percentile £435 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 92 184
10th Percentile £19.89 £16.63 £15.84
25th Percentile £28.00 £26.13 £25.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £44.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% -11.88% -3.81%
75th Percentile £76.38 £64.64 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £78.63 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.10 £31.04 £36.50
% change year-on-year +38.86% -14.96% +62.22%

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 June 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 27 June 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 6 (4.05%) Confluence
2 2 (1.35%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (1.35%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.35%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (1.35%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.35%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (1.35%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (0.68%) CMS
3 1 (0.68%) Mendix
3 1 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.05%) Primavera
2 3 (2.03%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.68%) Endur
4 1 (0.68%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.68%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.68%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.68%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.68%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.68%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.68%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.68%) Siebel CRM
4 1 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.68%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 64 (43.24%) Azure
2 44 (29.73%) AWS
3 23 (15.54%) GCP
4 22 (14.86%) Entra ID
5 9 (6.08%) Power Platform
5 9 (6.08%) SaaS
6 8 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (5.41%) Amazon S3
6 8 (5.41%) Serverless
7 7 (4.73%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.05%) GitHub
9 5 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.38%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.70%) OCI
10 4 (2.70%) PaaS
10 4 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (2.03%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.73%) Firewall
2 4 (2.70%) DNS
2 4 (2.70%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (2.70%) SSL
3 2 (1.35%) HTTP
3 2 (1.35%) Network Security
3 2 (1.35%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.68%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.68%) LAN
4 1 (0.68%) NGFW
4 1 (0.68%) SSH
4 1 (0.68%) WAN
4 1 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.68%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.43%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.08%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.05%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.38%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.38%) Power BI
5 4 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.03%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (2.03%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.03%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.03%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.35%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.68%) Db2
8 1 (0.68%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.68%) Metadata
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle OLAP
8 1 (0.68%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (8.11%) JIRA
2 10 (6.76%) Git
3 9 (6.08%) GitLab
4 8 (5.41%) Jenkins
5 5 (3.38%) Postman
6 3 (2.03%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.03%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.03%) REST Assured
6 3 (2.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (1.35%) Introscope
7 2 (1.35%) JMeter
8 1 (0.68%) DbUnit
8 1 (0.68%) InstallShield
8 1 (0.68%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.68%) JUnit
8 1 (0.68%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.68%) Maven
8 1 (0.68%) Mockito
8 1 (0.68%) MSI
8 1 (0.68%) Visual LANSA
General
1 60 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (14.19%) Public Sector
4 16 (10.81%) Finance
5 7 (4.73%) Legal
6 6 (4.05%) Banking
7 5 (3.38%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.38%) Military
7 5 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.35%) Law
9 2 (1.35%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.35%) Marketing
9 2 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.35%) Police
9 2 (1.35%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.68%) Automotive
10 1 (0.68%) German Language
10 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (19.59%) Developer
2 26 (17.57%) Architect
3 24 (16.22%) Senior
4 12 (8.11%) CyberArk Architect
5 9 (6.08%) Analyst
6 7 (4.73%) Backend Developer
6 7 (4.73%) Project Manager
6 7 (4.73%) Senior Manager
7 6 (4.05%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (4.05%) Consultant
7 6 (4.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.38%) Technical Analyst
9 4 (2.70%) .NET Developer
9 4 (2.70%) Account Manager
9 4 (2.70%) Escalation Manager
9 4 (2.70%) Java Developer
9 4 (2.70%) Senior Account Manager
9 4 (2.70%) Test Engineer
10 3 (2.03%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.92%) REST
2 18 (12.16%) React
3 16 (10.81%) SOAP
4 14 (9.46%) .NET
4 14 (9.46%) RESTful
5 13 (8.78%) LDAP
6 11 (7.43%) Middleware
7 9 (6.08%) JSON
7 9 (6.08%) Kafka
8 8 (5.41%) OAuth
8 8 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (4.73%) AngularJS
9 7 (4.73%) OpenID
9 7 (4.73%) XML
10 6 (4.05%) OAuth2
10 6 (4.05%) SailPoint
10 6 (4.05%) Spring
11 5 (3.38%) ASP.NET
11 5 (3.38%) Node.js
12 4 (2.70%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.54%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.43%) Security Posture
3 9 (6.08%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.41%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.70%) SCADA
7 3 (2.03%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.03%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.03%) PKI
8 2 (1.35%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.35%) Clustering
8 2 (1.35%) CMDB
8 2 (1.35%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.35%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.35%) PMI
8 2 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.16%) Windows
2 15 (10.14%) Linux
3 6 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.38%) Unix
5 2 (1.35%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.35%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.35%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 2 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.68%) Android
6 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (33.78%) CI/CD
2 49 (33.11%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (32.43%) DevOps
4 45 (30.41%) Agile
5 28 (18.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 25 (16.89%) AI
7 22 (14.86%) Containerisation
7 22 (14.86%) Technical Leadership
7 22 (14.86%) Test Automation
8 21 (14.19%) ITIL
9 20 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (12.16%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (11.49%) Integration Patterns
11 17 (11.49%) Scrum
12 16 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (10.14%) Enterprise Architecture
13 15 (10.14%) ITSM
13 15 (10.14%) Migration
14 14 (9.46%) Microservices
14 14 (9.46%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (20.27%) Python
2 27 (18.24%) PowerShell
3 22 (14.86%) SQL
4 21 (14.19%) Java
5 15 (10.14%) JavaScript
6 13 (8.78%) C#
7 11 (7.43%) Bash
8 5 (3.38%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.70%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.70%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.03%) Apex Code
10 3 (2.03%) Perl
10 3 (2.03%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.35%) ABAP
11 2 (1.35%) Bicep
11 2 (1.35%) Jython
11 2 (1.35%) Swift
12 1 (0.68%) Groovy
12 1 (0.68%) Korn
12 1 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (26.35%) Security Cleared
2 36 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.78%) Degree
4 5 (3.38%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.38%) CISSP
5 4 (2.70%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.03%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.03%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.35%) CISM
7 2 (1.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.35%) PMP
7 2 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.38%) Data Quality
1 5 (3.38%) QA
2 4 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.03%) GDPR
3 3 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.03%) NCSC
4 2 (1.35%) GxP
4 2 (1.35%) NIST
4 2 (1.35%) SLA
4 2 (1.35%) WCAG
5 1 (0.68%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (0.68%) GAMP
5 1 (0.68%) GMP
5 1 (0.68%) GRC
5 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.68%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.68%) ITGC
5 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (20.95%) Active Directory
2 20 (13.51%) Docker
3 2 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.68%) Firmware
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.68%) OpenSSH
4 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (12.84%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.78%) Terraform
3 11 (7.43%) Ansible
4 6 (4.05%) Grafana
5 5 (3.38%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.03%) Puppet
6 3 (2.03%) Salt
6 3 (2.03%) SCCM
7 2 (1.35%) Argo
7 2 (1.35%) CA Wily
7 2 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.35%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.68%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.68%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.68%) logstash
8 1 (0.68%) QRadar
Vendors
1 27 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.14%) CyberArk
2 15 (10.14%) Oracle
3 13 (8.78%) SAP
3 13 (8.78%) ServiceNow
4 10 (6.76%) BeyondTrust
4 10 (6.76%) Centrify
5 7 (4.73%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.05%) Google
7 5 (3.38%) IBM
7 5 (3.38%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.03%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.03%) Conga
8 3 (2.03%) Databricks
8 3 (2.03%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.03%) GoCardless
9 2 (1.35%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.35%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.35%) Okta
9 2 (1.35%) Workday