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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 221 233
Rank change year-on-year +24 +12 +54
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 186 89 113
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.37% 0.88% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.64% 2.54% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 54 71
10th Percentile £350 £308 £444
25th Percentile £440 £412 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +6.19%
75th Percentile £595 £661 £725
90th Percentile £700 £850 £1,000
UK median daily rate £525 £537 £541
% change year-on-year -2.23% -0.79% -5.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 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 £45.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -56.91% -24.58% -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 5,107 3,502 3,909
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.49% 34.79% 29.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,143 2,295 2,630
10th Percentile £375 £340 £325
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 107 119
10th Percentile £20.36 £14.41 £18.90
25th Percentile £31.25 £23.13 £29.19
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.89 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -45.35% +24.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £64.76 £72.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £43.10 £29.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +44.88% -33.89% +12.98%

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 8 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 8 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 (4.30%) Confluence
2 2 (1.08%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (1.08%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.08%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (1.08%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.08%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (1.08%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (0.54%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.54%) Mendix
3 1 (0.54%) Mule
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (4.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.23%) Primavera
2 6 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.61%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.08%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.54%) Endur
5 1 (0.54%) iTrent
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.54%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.54%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.54%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.54%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.54%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.54%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.54%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.54%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 84 (45.16%) Azure
2 44 (23.66%) AWS
3 33 (17.74%) Entra ID
4 22 (11.83%) Power Platform
5 15 (8.06%) GCP
6 13 (6.99%) Power Automate
7 12 (6.45%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (6.45%) SaaS
8 11 (5.91%) GitHub
8 11 (5.91%) Serverless
9 9 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.84%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (4.30%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (2.15%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.38%) Firewall
2 4 (2.15%) DNS
2 4 (2.15%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (2.15%) SSL
3 2 (1.08%) HTTP
3 2 (1.08%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.08%) Network Security
3 2 (1.08%) NGFW
3 2 (1.08%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.54%) FTP
4 1 (0.54%) LAN
4 1 (0.54%) SSH
4 1 (0.54%) VPN
4 1 (0.54%) WAN
4 1 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.54%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.14%) Power BI
2 15 (8.06%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.76%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.61%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (1.61%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.61%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.61%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.08%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.08%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.08%) Metadata
9 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.54%) Oracle OLAP
9 1 (0.54%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.54%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 15 (8.06%) JIRA
2 13 (6.99%) Git
3 9 (4.84%) GitLab
3 9 (4.84%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.69%) Postman
5 3 (1.61%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.61%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.61%) Maven
5 3 (1.61%) REST Assured
5 3 (1.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (1.08%) Introscope
6 2 (1.08%) JMeter
6 2 (1.08%) JUnit
6 2 (1.08%) Mockito
6 2 (1.08%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.54%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.54%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.54%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.54%) LoadRunner
General
1 75 (40.32%) Social Skills
2 30 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (16.13%) Public Sector
3 25 (13.44%) Finance
4 8 (4.30%) Legal
5 7 (3.76%) Banking
6 6 (3.23%) Military
6 6 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.69%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.69%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.15%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.61%) Police
10 2 (1.08%) Automotive
10 2 (1.08%) Law
10 2 (1.08%) Marketing
10 2 (1.08%) Public Speaking
10 2 (1.08%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.54%) German Language
11 1 (0.54%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 42 (22.58%) Developer
2 37 (19.89%) Senior
3 32 (17.20%) Architect
4 13 (6.99%) Senior Developer
4 13 (6.99%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (6.45%) Analyst
6 9 (4.84%) Project Manager
7 8 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (3.23%) Consultant
8 6 (3.23%) ERP Architect
8 6 (3.23%) Java Developer
8 6 (3.23%) Lead
8 6 (3.23%) Technical Architect
9 5 (2.69%) .NET Developer
9 5 (2.69%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (2.69%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.69%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (2.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (2.69%) Senior Manager
9 5 (2.69%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (16.13%) REST
2 27 (14.52%) .NET
3 17 (9.14%) React
4 15 (8.06%) Middleware
4 15 (8.06%) OAuth
4 15 (8.06%) RESTful
5 14 (7.53%) SOAP
6 13 (6.99%) JSON
6 13 (6.99%) OAuth2
6 13 (6.99%) OpenID
7 11 (5.91%) XML
8 9 (4.84%) AngularJS
9 8 (4.30%) Kafka
9 8 (4.30%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (4.30%) SailPoint
9 8 (4.30%) Spring
10 7 (3.76%) ASP.NET
11 5 (2.69%) LDAP
11 5 (2.69%) Spring Boot
11 5 (2.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 18 (9.68%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.84%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.30%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.69%) CMDB
7 5 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.15%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.15%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (2.15%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (2.15%) SCADA
9 3 (1.61%) Clustering
9 3 (1.61%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.61%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.61%) PKI
10 2 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.08%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.22%) Windows
2 14 (7.53%) Linux
3 5 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.15%) Unix
5 2 (1.08%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.08%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.08%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.54%) Android
6 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (39.25%) CI/CD
2 63 (33.87%) Agile
3 60 (32.26%) DevOps
4 53 (28.49%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (19.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 36 (19.35%) AI
7 35 (18.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 30 (16.13%) Migration
9 27 (14.52%) ITIL
10 26 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
12 23 (12.37%) Containerisation
13 22 (11.83%) Identity Access Management
14 21 (11.29%) Test Automation
15 20 (10.75%) Enterprise Architecture
15 20 (10.75%) Roadmaps
15 20 (10.75%) Technical Leadership
16 19 (10.22%) Change Management
16 19 (10.22%) Microservices
16 19 (10.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.13%) Java
2 29 (15.59%) SQL
3 26 (13.98%) C#
3 26 (13.98%) JavaScript
4 24 (12.90%) Python
5 21 (11.29%) PowerShell
6 10 (5.38%) Bash
7 8 (4.30%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.69%) Bicep
9 4 (2.15%) Apex Code
9 4 (2.15%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.15%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.61%) C++
10 3 (1.61%) Perl
11 2 (1.08%) ABAP
11 2 (1.08%) BeanShell
11 2 (1.08%) Jython
11 2 (1.08%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.08%) Rust
11 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (25.27%) Security Cleared
2 42 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.06%) Degree
4 10 (5.38%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.15%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.61%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.61%) CISSP
8 3 (1.61%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.08%) CISM
9 2 (1.08%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.08%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.08%) MCSE
9 2 (1.08%) PMP
9 2 (1.08%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.53%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.76%) QA
3 6 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.69%) GDPR
5 3 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.61%) ITGC
5 3 (1.61%) NCSC
5 3 (1.61%) NIST
5 3 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.08%) WCAG
7 1 (0.54%) GxP
7 1 (0.54%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.54%) SLA
7 1 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 31 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 27 (14.52%) Docker
3 2 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.54%) OpenSSH
4 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (14.52%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.60%) Terraform
3 11 (5.91%) Ansible
4 7 (3.76%) Grafana
5 6 (3.23%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.61%) Puppet
8 3 (1.61%) Salt
9 2 (1.08%) Argo
9 2 (1.08%) CA Wily
9 2 (1.08%) SCCM
9 2 (1.08%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 61 (32.80%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.44%) SAP
3 21 (11.29%) Oracle
4 17 (9.14%) ServiceNow
5 11 (5.91%) Salesforce
6 9 (4.84%) Google
7 6 (3.23%) Workday
8 5 (2.69%) CyberArk
8 5 (2.69%) IBM
8 5 (2.69%) MuleSoft
9 4 (2.15%) Databricks
9 4 (2.15%) JD Edwards
9 4 (2.15%) OpenAI
9 4 (2.15%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.61%) Conga
10 3 (1.61%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.61%) GoCardless
10 3 (1.61%) Okta
10 3 (1.61%) Siebel
11 2 (1.08%) Atlassian