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 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 215 295
Rank change year-on-year -17 +80 +21
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 67 115 101
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.68% 0.95% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.95% 3.06% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 60 64
10th Percentile £278 £443 £402
25th Percentile £418 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +0.92% -7.00%
75th Percentile £609 £656 £700
90th Percentile £738 £798 £738
UK median daily rate £475 £520 £575
% change year-on-year -8.65% -9.57% -1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £78.40 £63.15
% change year-on-year -79.59% +24.16% +1.44%

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 3,439 3,760 5,837
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 35.03% 31.03% 30.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,203 2,404 4,131
10th Percentile £329 £325 £338
25th Percentile £415 £419 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £641 £675 £672
90th Percentile £785 £825 £760
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 66 128
10th Percentile £14.78 £18.00 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.92 £22.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £51.25 £45.11
Median % change year-on-year -24.88% +13.62% -17.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £69.06
90th Percentile £71.32 £75.00 £77.88
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £42.88 £43.33
% change year-on-year -38.20% -1.04% +60.60%

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 October 2025.

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 2 (2.99%) Mule
2 1 (1.49%) Alfresco
2 1 (1.49%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.49%) Apache
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.49%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) IIS
2 1 (1.49%) JBoss
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.49%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.49%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (1.49%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 29 (43.28%) Azure
2 20 (29.85%) AWS
3 15 (22.39%) Entra ID
4 11 (16.42%) GCP
5 7 (10.45%) GitHub
6 6 (8.96%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (8.96%) SaaS
7 5 (7.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (7.46%) IaaS
7 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (7.46%) Power Platform
8 4 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.48%) PaaS
9 3 (4.48%) Power Automate
9 3 (4.48%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.99%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.45%) Firewall
2 6 (8.96%) DNS
3 2 (2.99%) DHCP
3 2 (2.99%) Internet
3 2 (2.99%) Network Security
3 2 (2.99%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.99%) VPN
4 1 (1.49%) HTTP
4 1 (1.49%) SAN
4 1 (1.49%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) Power BI
2 4 (5.97%) Data Lake
2 4 (5.97%) MySQL
3 3 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.48%) DB2
3 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.99%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.99%) KDB
4 2 (2.99%) Kdb+
4 2 (2.99%) MemSQL
4 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.99%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.99%) Sybase IQ
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.49%) Big Data
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (10.45%) JIRA
2 4 (5.97%) Git
3 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.49%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.49%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.49%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.49%) GitLab
5 1 (1.49%) JUnit
5 1 (1.49%) Postman
5 1 (1.49%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.49%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (1.49%) Selenium
5 1 (1.49%) TestRail
5 1 (1.49%) WebDriver
General
1 32 (47.76%) Social Skills
2 20 (29.85%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (17.91%) Finance
4 7 (10.45%) Banking
5 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.99%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.99%) Legal
7 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.49%) Marketing
7 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (17.91%) Architect
2 10 (14.93%) Developer
3 6 (8.96%) Senior
3 6 (8.96%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (7.46%) Analyst
5 4 (5.97%) Senior Developer
6 3 (4.48%) Azure Architect
6 3 (4.48%) Consultant
6 3 (4.48%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Java Developer
6 3 (4.48%) Lead
6 3 (4.48%) Python Developer
6 3 (4.48%) Senior Python Developer
7 2 (2.99%) AWS Specialist
7 2 (2.99%) IAM Specialist
7 2 (2.99%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
7 2 (2.99%) Identity Management Engineer
7 2 (2.99%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
7 2 (2.99%) Linux Developer
7 2 (2.99%) Power Apps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.94%) SAML
2 7 (10.45%) OpenID
3 6 (8.96%) OAuth
4 5 (7.46%) Hibernate
4 5 (7.46%) Spring
5 4 (5.97%) LDAP
6 2 (2.99%) CSS
6 2 (2.99%) HTML
6 2 (2.99%) HTML5
6 2 (2.99%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (2.99%) REST
6 2 (2.99%) SailPoint
7 1 (1.49%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.49%) Bootstrap
7 1 (1.49%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.49%) Hugging Face
7 1 (1.49%) Laravel
7 1 (1.49%) Next.js
7 1 (1.49%) Node.js
7 1 (1.49%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.46%) Cloud Native
1 5 (7.46%) Security Posture
2 3 (4.48%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.48%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.99%) AI Agents
3 2 (2.99%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.99%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.99%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.49%) BYOD
4 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.49%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.49%) IoT
4 1 (1.49%) Life Science
4 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.91%) Windows
2 8 (11.94%) Linux
3 5 (7.46%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.99%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.99%) Unix
4 2 (2.99%) VMS
4 2 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.49%) CentOS
5 1 (1.49%) Debian
5 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.49%) SUSE
5 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (43.28%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (31.34%) CI/CD
3 16 (23.88%) Identity Access Management
4 15 (22.39%) Agile
5 12 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (16.42%) DevOps
6 11 (16.42%) Roadmaps
7 10 (14.93%) CRM
7 10 (14.93%) ERP
8 9 (13.43%) Containerisation
8 9 (13.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (11.94%) AI
10 7 (10.45%) Analytics
10 7 (10.45%) RBAC
10 7 (10.45%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (8.96%) Identity Management
11 6 (8.96%) Incident Response
11 6 (8.96%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (8.96%) Mentoring
11 6 (8.96%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.88%) Python
2 11 (16.42%) PowerShell
3 10 (14.93%) SQL
4 9 (13.43%) Java
5 2 (2.99%) C++
5 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.99%) PHP
6 1 (1.49%) Bash
6 1 (1.49%) Bicep
6 1 (1.49%) Go
6 1 (1.49%) Perl
6 1 (1.49%) Ruby
6 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.45%) Degree
4 5 (7.46%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.97%) CISSP
6 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.99%) CRISC
8 1 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.49%) CCSP
8 1 (1.49%) CISA
8 1 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.49%) CISM
8 1 (1.49%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.49%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (1.49%) OSCP
8 1 (1.49%) SANS
8 1 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.93%) GDPR
2 7 (10.45%) HIPAA
3 5 (7.46%) QA
4 4 (5.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (5.97%) NIST
5 3 (4.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.99%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.99%) PSD2
6 2 (2.99%) SLA
7 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.49%) GRC
System Software
1 10 (14.93%) Active Directory
1 10 (14.93%) Docker
2 3 (4.48%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.99%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.49%) Firmware
4 1 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (20.90%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.46%) Terraform
3 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (5.97%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 3 (4.48%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.99%) Ansible
6 1 (1.49%) Argo
6 1 (1.49%) Nexpose
6 1 (1.49%) SCCM
6 1 (1.49%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (34.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.96%) Oracle
2 6 (8.96%) Ping Identity
3 5 (7.46%) IBM
3 5 (7.46%) SAP
3 5 (7.46%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.97%) Atlassian
4 4 (5.97%) Databricks
4 4 (5.97%) Okta
4 4 (5.97%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.48%) VMware
5 3 (4.48%) Workday
6 2 (2.99%) Google
6 2 (2.99%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.99%) Qualys
6 2 (2.99%) Tenable
7 1 (1.49%) Marketo
7 1 (1.49%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.49%) Nintex
7 1 (1.49%) Rapid7