The first table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Middleware over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Canary Wharf region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Middleware
Rank 44 39 43
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +4
Contract jobs citing Middleware 7 11 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 1.813% 2.910% 3.495%
As % of the Application Development category 5.833% 8.871% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 14
Average daily rate £550 £500 £508
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -1.47%
UK excluding London average daily rate £406 £410 £400
% change year-on-year
-0.91% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £37.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year
+5.40% -8.64%
All Application Development
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
120 124 164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 31.09% 32.80% 31.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 78 135
Average daily rate £600 £525 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £400 £418
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Middleware
London

Middleware
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Middleware across the Canary Wharf region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Canary Wharf Middleware Jobs Demand Trend

Middleware
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Middleware across the Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Middleware Daily Rate Trend

Middleware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Middleware also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Middleware.

1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 7 (77.78%) Sybase
3 6 (66.67%) Front Office
4 4 (44.44%) Finance
4 4 (44.44%) Swing
4 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
4 4 (44.44%) Java
4 4 (44.44%) Multithreading
5 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Performance Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Fixed Income
5 3 (33.33%) Global One
5 3 (33.33%) UniData
5 3 (33.33%) Banking
5 3 (33.33%) Automated Testing
5 3 (33.33%) TIBCO EMS
5 3 (33.33%) Perl
5 3 (33.33%) JMS
5 3 (33.33%) UNIX
5 3 (33.33%) Linux
5 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
5 3 (33.33%) TIBCO
6 2 (22.22%) Oracle
6 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
7 1 (11.11%) WCF
7 1 (11.11%) Data Mart
7 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (11.11%) Wholesale Banking
7 1 (11.11%) Zachman Framework
7 1 (11.11%) TOGAF

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Middleware also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Middleware. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (44.44%) Swing
2 3 (33.33%) JMS
3 1 (11.11%) WCF
3 1 (11.11%) JDBC
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) TIBCO EMS
Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Global One
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 3 (33.33%) UniData
3 1 (11.11%) Data Mart
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) ERwin
General
1 6 (66.67%) Front Office
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Banking
4 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
5 1 (11.11%) Wholesale Banking
5 1 (11.11%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Java Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Analyst Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Analyst
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Java Swing Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Fixed Income
2 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) UNIX
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Multithreading
2 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Automated Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Zachman Framework
3 1 (11.11%) TOGAF
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Cash Management
3 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
3 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
3 1 (11.11%) SOA
3 1 (11.11%) TQM
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) Six Sigma
3 1 (11.11%) RUP
3 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) Perl
3 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CCIE
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Sybase
2 3 (33.33%) TIBCO
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft