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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 225 230
Rank change year-on-year +8 +5 +80
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 149 91 114
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.10% 0.89% 0.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.01% 2.60% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 55 75
10th Percentile £303 £331 £425
25th Percentile £408 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £598 £720 £688
90th Percentile £705 £850 £980
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% -0.91%
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% -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 4,952 3,496 4,361
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.70% 34.16% 29.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,093 2,313 2,926
10th Percentile £363 £340 £325
25th Percentile £437 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £635 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £522 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.62% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 107 181
10th Percentile £21.00 £14.81 £16.85
25th Percentile £30.00 £26.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £44.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% -16.19% -
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £76.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £31.00 £36.02
% change year-on-year +41.81% -13.94% +30.99%

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 9 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
Hourly Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Enterprise Software over the 6 months to 9 July 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 7 (4.70%) Confluence
2 2 (1.34%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (1.34%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.34%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (1.34%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.34%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (1.34%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (0.67%) CMS
3 1 (0.67%) Mendix
3 1 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.03%) Primavera
2 3 (2.01%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.67%) Endur
4 1 (0.67%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.67%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.67%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.67%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.67%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.67%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.67%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.67%) Siebel CRM
4 1 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.67%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 61 (40.94%) Azure
2 38 (25.50%) AWS
3 24 (16.11%) Entra ID
4 15 (10.07%) GCP
5 11 (7.38%) Power Platform
6 9 (6.04%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (6.04%) GitHub
6 9 (6.04%) SaaS
6 9 (6.04%) Serverless
7 8 (5.37%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (5.37%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.37%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (4.70%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (4.03%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.68%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (2.68%) PaaS
11 4 (2.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.70%) Firewall
2 4 (2.68%) DNS
2 4 (2.68%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (2.68%) SSL
3 2 (1.34%) HTTP
3 2 (1.34%) Network Security
3 2 (1.34%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.67%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.67%) LAN
4 1 (0.67%) NGFW
4 1 (0.67%) SSH
4 1 (0.67%) WAN
4 1 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.67%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.40%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.70%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.36%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.36%) Power BI
5 4 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (2.01%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (2.01%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.01%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.01%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.67%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.67%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.67%) Metadata
8 1 (0.67%) Oracle OLAP
8 1 (0.67%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (8.72%) JIRA
2 12 (8.05%) Git
3 9 (6.04%) GitLab
3 9 (6.04%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.36%) Postman
5 3 (2.01%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.01%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.01%) REST Assured
5 3 (2.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (1.34%) Introscope
6 2 (1.34%) JMeter
7 1 (0.67%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.67%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.67%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.67%) JUnit
7 1 (0.67%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.67%) Maven
7 1 (0.67%) Mockito
7 1 (0.67%) MSI
7 1 (0.67%) Visual LANSA
General
1 55 (36.91%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.45%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (15.44%) Public Sector
4 17 (11.41%) Finance
5 8 (5.37%) Legal
6 6 (4.03%) Banking
6 6 (4.03%) Military
7 5 (3.36%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.34%) Law
9 2 (1.34%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.34%) Marketing
9 2 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.34%) Police
9 2 (1.34%) Public Speaking
9 2 (1.34%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.67%) Automotive
10 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (21.48%) Developer
2 27 (18.12%) Senior
3 18 (12.08%) Architect
4 9 (6.04%) Analyst
5 8 (5.37%) Project Manager
6 7 (4.70%) Backend Developer
6 7 (4.70%) Consultant
6 7 (4.70%) Senior Manager
6 7 (4.70%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (4.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.36%) .NET Developer
8 5 (3.36%) Technical Analyst
9 4 (2.68%) Account Manager
9 4 (2.68%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (2.68%) Escalation Manager
9 4 (2.68%) Senior Account Manager
9 4 (2.68%) Senior Developer
9 4 (2.68%) Technical Architect
9 4 (2.68%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.44%) REST
2 20 (13.42%) React
3 17 (11.41%) .NET
4 15 (10.07%) RESTful
5 12 (8.05%) Middleware
6 10 (6.71%) JSON
7 9 (6.04%) AngularJS
7 9 (6.04%) Kafka
7 9 (6.04%) OAuth
8 8 (5.37%) OpenID
8 8 (5.37%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (4.70%) ASP.NET
9 7 (4.70%) OAuth2
9 7 (4.70%) SailPoint
9 7 (4.70%) SOAP
9 7 (4.70%) XML
10 6 (4.03%) Spring
11 5 (3.36%) Node.js
12 4 (2.68%) .NET Core
12 4 (2.68%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.12%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.38%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.37%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.37%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.68%) AI Agents
4 4 (2.68%) SCADA
4 4 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.01%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.01%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.01%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.01%) PKI
6 2 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.34%) Clustering
6 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.34%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.34%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.34%) PMI
6 2 (1.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.75%) Windows
2 15 (10.07%) Linux
3 6 (4.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.36%) Unix
5 2 (1.34%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.34%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.34%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 2 (1.34%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.67%) Android
6 1 (0.67%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (36.24%) CI/CD
2 53 (35.57%) DevOps
3 50 (33.56%) Agile
4 43 (28.86%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (18.79%) AI
6 23 (15.44%) ITIL
6 23 (15.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 23 (15.44%) Test Automation
7 22 (14.77%) Containerisation
7 22 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (12.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (12.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (11.41%) Enterprise Architecture
9 17 (11.41%) Migration
9 17 (11.41%) Scrum
10 16 (10.74%) Microservices
11 15 (10.07%) Software Testing
12 14 (9.40%) ERP
12 14 (9.40%) TDD
13 13 (8.72%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 25 (16.78%) Java
2 23 (15.44%) Python
2 23 (15.44%) SQL
3 18 (12.08%) JavaScript
3 18 (12.08%) PowerShell
4 16 (10.74%) C#
5 11 (7.38%) Bash
6 7 (4.70%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.68%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.68%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.01%) Apex Code
8 3 (2.01%) Bicep
8 3 (2.01%) Perl
8 3 (2.01%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.34%) ABAP
9 2 (1.34%) Jython
9 2 (1.34%) Swift
10 1 (0.67%) C
10 1 (0.67%) C++
10 1 (0.67%) RPG
Qualifications
1 32 (21.48%) Security Cleared
2 28 (18.79%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.07%) Degree
4 7 (4.70%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.36%) CISSP
5 5 (3.36%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.01%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.01%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.01%) PMP
7 2 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.34%) CISM
7 2 (1.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.34%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.36%) Data Quality
1 5 (3.36%) QA
2 4 (2.68%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.01%) GDPR
3 3 (2.01%) NCSC
3 3 (2.01%) NIST
4 2 (1.34%) GxP
4 2 (1.34%) SLA
4 2 (1.34%) WCAG
5 1 (0.67%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (0.67%) GAMP
5 1 (0.67%) GMP
5 1 (0.67%) GRC
5 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.67%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.67%) ITGC
5 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (15.44%) Active Directory
2 22 (14.77%) Docker
3 1 (0.67%) Firmware
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.67%) OpenSSH
3 1 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (16.11%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.74%) Terraform
3 12 (8.05%) Ansible
4 6 (4.03%) Grafana
5 5 (3.36%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.01%) Puppet
6 3 (2.01%) Salt
6 3 (2.01%) SCCM
7 2 (1.34%) Argo
7 2 (1.34%) CA Wily
7 2 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.34%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.67%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.67%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.67%) logstash
8 1 (0.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 34 (22.82%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.41%) Oracle
3 15 (10.07%) SAP
4 13 (8.72%) ServiceNow
5 8 (5.37%) Google
5 8 (5.37%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.36%) CyberArk
6 5 (3.36%) IBM
6 5 (3.36%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.68%) OpenAI
8 3 (2.01%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.01%) Conga
8 3 (2.01%) Databricks
8 3 (2.01%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.01%) GoCardless
8 3 (2.01%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.34%) Citrix
9 2 (1.34%) JD Edwards
9 2 (1.34%) Okta
9 2 (1.34%) Pega