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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 207 298
Rank change year-on-year -20 +91 -17
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 111 101 59
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.96% 0.99% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.79% 3.02% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 46 40
10th Percentile £331 £325 £398
25th Percentile £463 £444 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £535 £575
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% -6.96% +2.45%
75th Percentile £750 £630 £700
90th Percentile - £850 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £564
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.21% +2.50%
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 £16.00 £68.05 £61.65
% change year-on-year -76.49% +10.39% -0.97%

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 3,978 3,342 4,619
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.56% 32.77% 28.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,491 2,274 3,088
10th Percentile £350 £350 £313
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £536
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.71% -2.64%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 68 190
10th Percentile £17.85 £18.42 £15.40
25th Percentile £24.41 £22.66 £22.67
Median hourly rate £50.00 £41.00 £41.31
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -0.74% -34.95%
75th Percentile £68.50 £64.57 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.78 £75.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.32 £32.50 £27.75
% change year-on-year +11.75% +17.12% +23.33%

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 18 March 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 6 (5.41%) IIS
2 3 (2.70%) Apache
2 3 (2.70%) Confluence
3 1 (0.90%) CMS
3 1 (0.90%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.90%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.90%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (0.90%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Primavera
2 1 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.90%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 70 (63.06%) Azure
2 53 (47.75%) AWS
3 44 (39.64%) GCP
4 21 (18.92%) Entra ID
5 8 (7.21%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (7.21%) Serverless
6 7 (6.31%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.60%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.60%) PaaS
7 4 (3.60%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.60%) SaaS
8 3 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.70%) Azure AKS
8 3 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.70%) Mimecast
8 3 (2.70%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.01%) DNS
2 7 (6.31%) Firewall
3 5 (4.50%) DHCP
4 1 (0.90%) HTTP
4 1 (0.90%) LAN
4 1 (0.90%) Network Security
4 1 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.90%) SSL
4 1 (0.90%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.90%) VPN
4 1 (0.90%) WAN
4 1 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.50%) NoSQL
1 5 (4.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (2.70%) DynamoDB
2 3 (2.70%) Oracle Database
2 3 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.80%) Power BI
4 1 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.90%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.90%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.90%) DocumentDB
4 1 (0.90%) MySQL
4 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (6.31%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.41%) Git
2 6 (5.41%) JIRA
3 4 (3.60%) GitLab
4 2 (1.80%) Postman
5 1 (0.90%) AdminStudio
5 1 (0.90%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.90%) InstallShield
5 1 (0.90%) Introscope
5 1 (0.90%) JMeter
5 1 (0.90%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.90%) MLflow
5 1 (0.90%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.90%) Selenium
5 1 (0.90%) WebDriver
General
1 67 (60.36%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.02%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.01%) Finance
4 7 (6.31%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.50%) Banking
6 4 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.60%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.70%) Legal
8 2 (1.80%) Automotive
8 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.90%) Electronics
9 1 (0.90%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.90%) Marketing
9 1 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.90%) Police
9 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (42.34%) Architect
2 34 (30.63%) CyberArk Architect
3 14 (12.61%) Developer
4 9 (8.11%) Senior
5 6 (5.41%) Project Manager
6 5 (4.50%) .NET Developer
6 5 (4.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (3.60%) Analyst
7 4 (3.60%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (3.60%) C# Developer
7 4 (3.60%) Consultant
8 3 (2.70%) Applications Manager
8 3 (2.70%) Azure Architect
8 3 (2.70%) Backend Developer
8 3 (2.70%) Firewall Engineer
8 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Engineer
8 3 (2.70%) Network Engineer
8 3 (2.70%) Python Developer
8 3 (2.70%) Security Engineer
8 3 (2.70%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (37.84%) REST
2 36 (32.43%) LDAP
3 35 (31.53%) SOAP
4 9 (8.11%) .NET
5 7 (6.31%) OAuth
6 6 (5.41%) Node.js
6 6 (5.41%) React
6 6 (5.41%) RESTful
7 5 (4.50%) OpenID
8 4 (3.60%) .NET Framework
8 4 (3.60%) SAML
9 3 (2.70%) ARM Templates
9 3 (2.70%) CSS
9 3 (2.70%) HTML
9 3 (2.70%) JSON
9 3 (2.70%) Kafka
9 3 (2.70%) Middleware
9 3 (2.70%) OAuth2
9 3 (2.70%) WinForms
10 2 (1.80%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 38 (34.23%) Security Posture
2 12 (10.81%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.60%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.70%) BYOD
4 3 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.70%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.80%) CMDB
5 2 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.80%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.80%) PMI
6 1 (0.90%) Clustering
6 1 (0.90%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.90%) FMCG
6 1 (0.90%) iPhone
6 1 (0.90%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 21 (18.92%) Windows
2 10 (9.01%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.50%) Linux
4 2 (1.80%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.80%) Unix
5 1 (0.90%) Android
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.90%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.90%) VMS
5 1 (0.90%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (54.05%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (37.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 39 (35.14%) Integration Patterns
4 37 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
5 36 (32.43%) ITSM
5 36 (32.43%) SIEM
5 36 (32.43%) Task Automation
6 35 (31.53%) Technical Leadership
7 34 (30.63%) Presales
8 27 (24.32%) CI/CD
9 24 (21.62%) DevOps
10 23 (20.72%) Agile
11 12 (10.81%) Identity Access Management
11 12 (10.81%) ITIL
11 12 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (9.91%) Migration
13 10 (9.01%) Containerisation
13 10 (9.01%) ERP
13 10 (9.01%) Test Automation
14 9 (8.11%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 46 (41.44%) PowerShell
1 46 (41.44%) Python
2 14 (12.61%) SQL
3 9 (8.11%) C#
4 7 (6.31%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.50%) Bash
5 5 (4.50%) Java
6 3 (2.70%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.70%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.80%) Bicep
7 2 (1.80%) Swift
7 2 (1.80%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.90%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.90%) C
8 1 (0.90%) Jython
8 1 (0.90%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.90%) Perl
8 1 (0.90%) PHP
8 1 (0.90%) Scala
8 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 51 (45.95%) Security Cleared
2 49 (44.14%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.71%) Degree
4 7 (6.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (5.41%) CISSP
6 5 (4.50%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.60%) PMI Certification
8 3 (2.70%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.70%) PMP
9 2 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.90%) CCSP
10 1 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.90%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.50%) QA
2 3 (2.70%) GDPR
2 3 (2.70%) SLA
3 2 (1.80%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.80%) GRC
3 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.90%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (0.90%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.90%) GAMP
4 1 (0.90%) GMP
4 1 (0.90%) GxP
4 1 (0.90%) ISO 13485
4 1 (0.90%) ITGC
4 1 (0.90%) NIST
4 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.90%) PSD2
4 1 (0.90%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (45.05%) Active Directory
2 14 (12.61%) Docker
3 4 (3.60%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.80%) Firmware
4 2 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (8.11%) Ansible
1 9 (8.11%) Kubernetes
1 9 (8.11%) Terraform
2 3 (2.70%) Grafana
2 3 (2.70%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.70%) SCCM
3 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.90%) CA Wily
4 1 (0.90%) Fluentd
4 1 (0.90%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.90%) logstash
4 1 (0.90%) Puppet
4 1 (0.90%) QRadar
4 1 (0.90%) Salt
4 1 (0.90%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 34 (30.63%) BeyondTrust
1 34 (30.63%) Centrify
1 34 (30.63%) CyberArk
2 26 (23.42%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.31%) Oracle
4 5 (4.50%) Citrix
5 4 (3.60%) Cisco
5 4 (3.60%) Google
5 4 (3.60%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.60%) SAP
6 3 (2.70%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.70%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.70%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.70%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.80%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.80%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.80%) Splunk
7 2 (1.80%) VMware
7 2 (1.80%) Workday
8 1 (0.90%) Ariba