The first table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills 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 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Middleware
Rank 103 79 92
Rank change year-on-year
-24 +13
Contract jobs citing Middleware 108 170 180
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.693% 2.161% 1.837%
As % of the Application Development category 5.931% 8.433% 6.567%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 118 132
Average daily rate £525 £477 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.17% -4.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £343 £353
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £608 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £406 £410 £400
% change year-on-year
-0.91% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Average hourly rate £32.58 £40.75 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.04% -9.44%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £37.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year
+5.40% -8.64%
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1821 2016 2741
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.55% 25.63% 27.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1439 1499 2137
Average daily rate £405 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.70% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 28 22
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £43.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -42.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.58 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £75.00 £45.00 £119.00
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 City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Middleware Daily Rate Trend

Middleware
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Middleware across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Middleware Daily Rate Histogram

Middleware
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Middleware Hourly Rate Trend

Middleware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 95 (49.74%) Oracle
2 74 (38.74%) Finance
3 68 (35.60%) Banking
4 59 (30.89%) Java
5 51 (26.70%) Windows
6 46 (24.08%) SQL
7 40 (20.94%) Linux
8 39 (20.42%) SQL Server
9 34 (17.80%) Investment Banking
10 33 (17.28%) .NET
11 31 (16.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 30 (15.71%) UNIX
13 29 (15.18%) C#
13 29 (15.18%) SOA
14 28 (14.66%) XML
15 25 (13.09%) C++
16 24 (12.57%) Front Office
17 23 (12.04%) TIBCO
17 23 (12.04%) Agile Software Development
18 21 (10.99%) WebLogic
18 21 (10.99%) Microsoft
18 21 (10.99%) Oracle Fusion
19 20 (10.47%) Multithreading
19 20 (10.47%) Python
19 20 (10.47%) E-Commerce
20 19 (9.948%) WebSphere
21 18 (9.424%) HTTP
22 16 (8.377%) JavaScript
23 15 (7.853%) J2EE
23 15 (7.853%) TDD

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 33 (17.28%) .NET
2 28 (14.66%) XML
3 21 (10.99%) Oracle Fusion
4 19 (9.948%) WebSphere
5 15 (7.853%) J2EE
6 14 (7.330%) HTML
7 13 (6.806%) Web Services
8 10 (5.236%) XSLT
8 10 (5.236%) JMS
9 9 (4.712%) .NET Framework
9 9 (4.712%) WCF
9 9 (4.712%) Spring
10 7 (3.665%) REST
11 5 (2.618%) CSS
11 5 (2.618%) Hibernate
11 5 (2.618%) jQuery
12 4 (2.094%) FIX Protocol
13 3 (1.571%) JDBC
13 3 (1.571%) XSL
13 3 (1.571%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 21 (10.99%) WebLogic
2 14 (7.330%) Apache
3 11 (5.759%) IIS
4 9 (4.712%) WebSphere MQ
4 9 (4.712%) ESB
5 8 (4.188%) Rendezvous
6 6 (3.141%) Oracle Coherence
6 6 (3.141%) Oracle Application Server
6 6 (3.141%) CMS
6 6 (3.141%) SharePoint
7 5 (2.618%) WebLogic Portal
7 5 (2.618%) Liferay
7 5 (2.618%) Alfresco
8 4 (2.094%) WebSphere Message Broker
8 4 (2.094%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (2.094%) MS Exchange
8 4 (2.094%) Lotus Notes
8 4 (2.094%) Tomcat
9 3 (1.571%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (1.571%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 10 (5.236%) MS Excel
2 5 (2.618%) MS Office
3 3 (1.571%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.047%) MS Project
4 2 (1.047%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (3.665%) RMDS
2 4 (2.094%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.571%) Kondor+
4 2 (1.047%) Oracle BRM
4 2 (1.047%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (1.047%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.524%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.524%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.524%) Endur
5 1 (0.524%) Oracle HRMS
5 1 (0.524%) Global One
5 1 (0.524%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.524%) Aligne
5 1 (0.524%) ZaiNet
5 1 (0.524%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.524%) FLEXCUBE
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.424%) HTTP
2 14 (7.330%) SAN
3 10 (5.236%) NAS
4 5 (2.618%) LDAP
5 4 (2.094%) Internet
5 4 (2.094%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.094%) FTP
6 3 (1.571%) POP3
6 3 (1.571%) SMTP
6 3 (1.571%) SSL
6 3 (1.571%) SNMP
7 2 (1.047%) AMQP
7 2 (1.047%) DNS
7 2 (1.047%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.047%) DHCP
7 2 (1.047%) WAN
7 2 (1.047%) LAN
8 1 (0.524%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.524%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.524%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (20.42%) SQL Server
2 14 (7.330%) Oracle 11g
3 9 (4.712%) Oracle 8/8i
4 8 (4.188%) SQL Server 2008
5 7 (3.665%) Oracle 10g
6 6 (3.141%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (3.141%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.618%) MySQL
8 4 (2.094%) DB2
9 3 (1.571%) Oracle 9i
9 3 (1.571%) MS Access
9 3 (1.571%) SQL Server 2012
9 3 (1.571%) MarkLogic
9 3 (1.571%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.571%) Oracle BI EE
10 2 (1.047%) QlikView
10 2 (1.047%) SQL Server 2005
10 2 (1.047%) Siebel EIM
10 2 (1.047%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.047%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 13 (6.806%) Subversion
2 7 (3.665%) Maven
3 6 (3.141%) JIRA
3 6 (3.141%) SpecFlow
3 6 (3.141%) ClearCase
4 4 (2.094%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.094%) Eclipse
4 4 (2.094%) JUnit
5 3 (1.571%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.571%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.571%) WebDriver
5 3 (1.571%) NUnit
5 3 (1.571%) Selenium
6 2 (1.047%) CruiseControl
6 2 (1.047%) WinDbg
6 2 (1.047%) Git (software)
6 2 (1.047%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.047%) JMeter
6 2 (1.047%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.524%) Oracle Forms
General
1 74 (38.74%) Finance
2 68 (35.60%) Banking
3 34 (17.80%) Investment Banking
4 24 (12.57%) Front Office
5 10 (5.236%) Back Office
6 7 (3.665%) Financial Institution
6 7 (3.665%) Marketing
7 6 (3.141%) Retail
8 5 (2.618%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.618%) Wholesale Banking
9 4 (2.094%) Billing
9 4 (2.094%) Games
10 2 (1.047%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.524%) Publishing
11 1 (0.524%) Music
11 1 (0.524%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (32.98%) Developer
2 47 (24.61%) Architect
3 22 (11.52%) Solutions Architect
4 20 (10.47%) Java Developer
5 17 (8.901%) Analyst
6 14 (7.330%) Senior Developer
7 11 (5.759%) Infrastructure Architect
8 10 (5.236%) Senior Java Developer
8 10 (5.236%) C# Developer
9 9 (4.712%) C++ Developer
10 7 (3.665%) Consultant
10 7 (3.665%) Middleware Developer
11 6 (3.141%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.141%) DBA
11 6 (3.141%) Test Analyst
12 5 (2.618%) Technical Architect
12 5 (2.618%) Project Manager
12 5 (2.618%) Oracle DBA
12 5 (2.618%) SOA Architect
13 4 (2.094%) Oracle Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (7.330%) Fixed Income
3 11 (5.759%) Derivative
4 7 (3.665%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.665%) SWIFT
5 6 (3.141%) Open Source
6 5 (2.618%) Mathematics
7 4 (2.094%) IPTV
7 4 (2.094%) Grid Computing
8 3 (1.571%) Computer Science
9 2 (1.047%) CCTV
9 2 (1.047%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.047%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.047%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.524%) MPEG
10 1 (0.524%) Blackberry
10 1 (0.524%) Streaming Video
10 1 (0.524%) Equities
10 1 (0.524%) Clustering
10 1 (0.524%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 51 (26.70%) Windows
2 40 (20.94%) Linux
3 30 (15.71%) UNIX
4 9 (4.712%) Solaris
5 7 (3.665%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (3.141%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.141%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.524%) AIX
7 1 (0.524%) HPUX
7 1 (0.524%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.524%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.524%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.524%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (15.18%) SOA
2 23 (12.04%) Agile Software Development
3 20 (10.47%) Multithreading
3 20 (10.47%) E-Commerce
4 15 (7.853%) TDD
5 11 (5.759%) ITIL
5 11 (5.759%) OO
6 10 (5.236%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (4.712%) CRM
8 8 (4.188%) TOGAF
9 7 (3.665%) Data Modelling
9 7 (3.665%) Migration
9 7 (3.665%) BDD
9 7 (3.665%) Complex Event Processing
9 7 (3.665%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (3.665%) Performance Testing
9 7 (3.665%) Web Development
10 6 (3.141%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (3.141%) Scrum
10 6 (3.141%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (30.89%) Java
2 46 (24.08%) SQL
3 29 (15.18%) C#
4 25 (13.09%) C++
5 20 (10.47%) Python
6 16 (8.377%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.188%) Perl
8 7 (3.665%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.141%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.094%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.094%) VBScript
10 4 (2.094%) VB
10 4 (2.094%) VBA
11 3 (1.571%) PHP
11 3 (1.571%) Ruby
12 2 (1.047%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (1.047%) Bash shell
12 2 (1.047%) XQuery
12 2 (1.047%) C
12 2 (1.047%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 7 (3.665%) Security Cleared
2 5 (2.618%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.094%) Degree
3 4 (2.094%) ISEB
3 4 (2.094%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 3 (1.571%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.047%) CCNA
6 1 (0.524%) HND
6 1 (0.524%) CCIE
6 1 (0.524%) OCP
6 1 (0.524%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.524%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.524%) PMP
6 1 (0.524%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.524%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.236%) QA
2 2 (1.047%) SLA
3 1 (0.524%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (3.665%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.047%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.047%) XenDesktop
2 2 (1.047%) VMware ESX
3 1 (0.524%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (4.188%) Splunk
2 6 (3.141%) BladeLogic
3 2 (1.047%) Puppet
4 1 (0.524%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.524%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.524%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.524%) BMC Performance Manager
Vendors
1 95 (49.74%) Oracle
2 23 (12.04%) TIBCO
3 21 (10.99%) Microsoft
4 12 (6.283%) Sybase
4 12 (6.283%) IBM
5 10 (5.236%) DataSynapse
5 10 (5.236%) EMC
6 9 (4.712%) Citrix
7 8 (4.188%) 29West
7 8 (4.188%) Cisco
7 8 (4.188%) Siebel
8 6 (3.141%) NetApp
8 6 (3.141%) Lotus
9 5 (2.618%) JBoss
9 5 (2.618%) SAP
9 5 (2.618%) HP
9 5 (2.618%) Mercator
9 5 (2.618%) VMware
10 4 (2.094%) Altiris
10 4 (2.094%) Sitecore
City of London
The role is heavily focussed on the Middleware and Integration of various applications and systems using JMS related technologies... It is therefore imperative that this Java and JMS...
harringtonstarr
Rate: £400 - £430 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
The role is heavily focussed on the Middleware and Integration of various applications and systems using JMS related technologies... It is therefore imperative that this Java and JMS...
Harrington Starr
Rate: £400 - £430 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
Key Skills and Previous Experiences: Advanced knowledge of Windows operating systems with a strong understanding of Linux OS. Configuration and management of deployment toolsets Altiris and Bladelogic... Middleware...
ComputAppoint
Rate: £400 - £470 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
C# Developer required immediately who has CRM experience for a client based in the financial industry and be working on the CRM Dynamics middleware. The ideal candidate will...
Marcus Donald People
Rate: £320 to £330 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
Montash is currently retained by a Global Investment Bank to source and Secure a Senior JAVA Developer. Overview: As the JAVA Developer you will be part of the...
Montash
Rate: £650 - £750 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
The successful candidate will have Proven Solution Design experience in addition to the following SAN, BLADE, EMC, Oracle database and Oracle Middleware application products... Or Oracle DBA's...
Aston Carter
Rate: market rate
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
The role requires the C++ Developer to have worked recently with Linux. The C++ Developer will join a talented team developing a platform for FX Cash and FX...
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
City of London
You will have extensive experience with Middleware technologies such as Java, J2SE, TIBCO EMS, JMS, and bridged bus configuration. Also you will need to be highly skilled with...
harringtonstarr
Rate: £400 - £430 per day
Posted: 25 May 2013
City, London
Knowledge of Spring, AOP, and Spring security... Experience with Python, especially object oriented programming using Python. Experience with relational database technologies including Oracle, Sybase etc. Experience of middleware.
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
Solution Data Architect with experience of business analysis and data modelling. Key Experience Required Global organisation project experience - Must have Data Modeling/Logical Data Models - Must have Data...
Aston Carter
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013