The first table below looks at the demand for the Middleware Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Middleware Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Job Titles advertised for the City of London 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Middleware Specialist
Rank - 216 234
Contract jobs requiring a Middleware Specialist 0 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London - 0.013% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.014% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
Average daily rate - £375 £513
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -26.82%
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £475 £389
% change year-on-year
-13.15% +22.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5943 7197 8889
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.48% 91.54% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4362 5164 6490
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 183 186
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.50 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Middleware Specialist
London

Middleware Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Middleware Specialist across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Middleware Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Middleware Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Middleware Specialist across the City of London region.

City of London Middleware Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Middleware Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Middleware Specialist in their job title 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 with Middleware Specialist in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VBScript
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) ASP
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSL
1 1 (100.00%) ODBC
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) MS Access
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (100.00%) Unisys
1 1 (100.00%) WSDL
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Sun
1 1 (100.00%) Plumtree

Middleware Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Middleware Specialist in their job title 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 with Middleware Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) ASP
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSL
1 1 (100.00%) ODBC
1 1 (100.00%) WSDL
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) FIXML
1 1 (100.00%) OLE DB
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (100.00%) Alfresco
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) WinDbg
General
1 1 (100.00%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VBScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Unisys
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Sun
1 1 (100.00%) Plumtree
1 1 (100.00%) Lotus