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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 215 219
Rank change year-on-year +12 +4 +85
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 178 94 112
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.31% 0.93% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.50% 2.68% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 57 70
10th Percentile £350 £315 £443
25th Percentile £431 £418 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +3.14%
75th Percentile £593 £700 £722
90th Percentile £700 £850 £1,000
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £536
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.56% -6.74%
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 £60.00
% change year-on-year -53.01% -30.83% -11.11%

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 5,091 3,503 3,957
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.41% 34.49% 29.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,136 2,276 2,666
10th Percentile £371 £340 £325
25th Percentile £438 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £656 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 110 120
10th Percentile £20.71 £14.68 £18.95
25th Percentile £31.25 £23.82 £28.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.89 £60.30
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -43.81% +20.60%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £86.30 £75.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £29.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +49.02% -30.59% +15.25%

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 2 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
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 9 (5.06%) Confluence
2 2 (1.12%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (1.12%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.12%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (1.12%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.12%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (1.12%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (0.56%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.56%) Mendix
3 1 (0.56%) Mule
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (4.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.37%) Primavera
2 6 (3.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.69%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.56%) Endur
5 1 (0.56%) iTrent
5 1 (0.56%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.56%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.56%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.56%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.56%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.56%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.56%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.56%) TrackWise
5 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 79 (44.38%) Azure
2 44 (24.72%) AWS
3 31 (17.42%) Entra ID
4 20 (11.24%) Power Platform
5 15 (8.43%) GCP
6 12 (6.74%) Power Automate
6 12 (6.74%) SaaS
7 11 (6.18%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (6.18%) GitHub
7 11 (6.18%) Serverless
8 9 (5.06%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (4.49%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.37%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (2.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.49%) Firewall
2 4 (2.25%) DNS
2 4 (2.25%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (2.25%) SSL
3 2 (1.12%) HTTP
3 2 (1.12%) Network Security
3 2 (1.12%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.56%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.56%) LAN
4 1 (0.56%) NGFW
4 1 (0.56%) SSH
4 1 (0.56%) VPN
4 1 (0.56%) WAN
4 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.56%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.43%) Power BI
2 14 (7.87%) SQL Server
3 11 (6.18%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.93%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.25%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.69%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.69%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.69%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.56%) Db2
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle OLAP
8 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.56%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 16 (8.99%) JIRA
2 13 (7.30%) Git
3 10 (5.62%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.06%) GitLab
5 5 (2.81%) Postman
6 3 (1.69%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.69%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.69%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (1.12%) Introscope
7 2 (1.12%) JMeter
7 2 (1.12%) JUnit
7 2 (1.12%) Maven
7 2 (1.12%) Mockito
7 2 (1.12%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.56%) InstallShield
8 1 (0.56%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.56%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.56%) MSI
8 1 (0.56%) Visual LANSA
General
1 68 (38.20%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (15.73%) Public Sector
4 25 (14.04%) Finance
5 8 (4.49%) Legal
6 7 (3.93%) Banking
7 6 (3.37%) Military
7 6 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.81%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.25%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.25%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.69%) Police
11 2 (1.12%) Automotive
11 2 (1.12%) Law
11 2 (1.12%) Marketing
11 2 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.12%) Public Speaking
11 2 (1.12%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.56%) German Language
Job Titles
1 40 (22.47%) Developer
2 33 (18.54%) Senior
3 28 (15.73%) Architect
4 12 (6.74%) Analyst
4 12 (6.74%) Senior Developer
5 11 (6.18%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (5.62%) Project Manager
7 7 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (3.37%) Java Developer
8 6 (3.37%) Senior Manager
8 6 (3.37%) Technical Architect
9 5 (2.81%) .NET Developer
9 5 (2.81%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (2.81%) Backend Developer
9 5 (2.81%) Consultant
9 5 (2.81%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.81%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (2.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (2.81%) Lead
9 5 (2.81%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.29%) REST
2 25 (14.04%) .NET
3 17 (9.55%) React
4 16 (8.99%) RESTful
5 14 (7.87%) Middleware
6 13 (7.30%) OAuth
7 12 (6.74%) JSON
7 12 (6.74%) OpenID
7 12 (6.74%) SOAP
8 11 (6.18%) OAuth2
9 9 (5.06%) AngularJS
9 9 (5.06%) Kafka
9 9 (5.06%) XML
10 8 (4.49%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (4.49%) SailPoint
10 8 (4.49%) Spring
11 7 (3.93%) ASP.NET
12 5 (2.81%) LDAP
12 5 (2.81%) Spring Boot
13 4 (2.25%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 31 (17.42%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.55%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.62%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.93%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.25%) CMDB
6 4 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.25%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.25%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (2.25%) SCADA
7 3 (1.69%) Clustering
7 3 (1.69%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.69%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.69%) PKI
8 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.12%) NHS
8 2 (1.12%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.67%) Windows
2 14 (7.87%) Linux
3 5 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.25%) Unix
5 2 (1.12%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.12%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.56%) Android
6 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (39.33%) CI/CD
2 62 (34.83%) Agile
3 59 (33.15%) DevOps
4 52 (29.21%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (19.10%) AI
6 32 (17.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 32 (17.98%) Stakeholder Management
7 28 (15.73%) Migration
8 25 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (14.04%) ITIL
9 24 (13.48%) Containerisation
9 24 (13.48%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (12.36%) Test Automation
11 21 (11.80%) Identity Access Management
12 20 (11.24%) Enterprise Architecture
13 19 (10.67%) Microservices
13 19 (10.67%) Scrum
13 19 (10.67%) Technical Leadership
14 18 (10.11%) Change Management
14 18 (10.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.29%) SQL
2 28 (15.73%) Java
3 25 (14.04%) JavaScript
4 24 (13.48%) C#
4 24 (13.48%) Python
5 21 (11.80%) PowerShell
6 11 (6.18%) Bash
7 7 (3.93%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.25%) Apex Code
8 4 (2.25%) Bicep
8 4 (2.25%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.25%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.69%) Perl
10 2 (1.12%) ABAP
10 2 (1.12%) BeanShell
10 2 (1.12%) C++
10 2 (1.12%) Jython
10 2 (1.12%) Objective-C
10 2 (1.12%) Rust
10 2 (1.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (24.72%) Security Cleared
2 39 (21.91%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.87%) Degree
4 10 (5.62%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.81%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.25%) CISSP
6 4 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.25%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.69%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.12%) CISM
8 2 (1.12%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.12%) PMP
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.74%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.93%) QA
3 6 (3.37%) GDPR
4 4 (2.25%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.69%) ITGC
5 3 (1.69%) NCSC
5 3 (1.69%) NIST
5 3 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.12%) GxP
6 2 (1.12%) WCAG
7 1 (0.56%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.56%) GAMP
7 1 (0.56%) GMP
7 1 (0.56%) GRC
7 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.56%) SLA
7 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 30 (16.85%) Active Directory
2 27 (15.17%) Docker
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.56%) OpenSSH
3 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (15.17%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.99%) Terraform
3 11 (6.18%) Ansible
4 7 (3.93%) Grafana
5 6 (3.37%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.69%) Puppet
7 3 (1.69%) Salt
8 2 (1.12%) Argo
8 2 (1.12%) CA Wily
8 2 (1.12%) SCCM
8 2 (1.12%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.56%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.56%) logstash
9 1 (0.56%) QRadar
Vendors
1 56 (31.46%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.36%) SAP
3 19 (10.67%) Oracle
4 16 (8.99%) ServiceNow
5 11 (6.18%) Salesforce
6 9 (5.06%) Google
7 6 (3.37%) Workday
8 5 (2.81%) CyberArk
8 5 (2.81%) IBM
9 4 (2.25%) MuleSoft
9 4 (2.25%) OpenAI
9 4 (2.25%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.69%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.69%) Conga
10 3 (1.69%) Databricks
10 3 (1.69%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.69%) GoCardless
10 3 (1.69%) Okta
10 3 (1.69%) Siebel
11 2 (1.12%) Pega