Middleware Contracts in the City of London

Middleware
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Middleware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Middleware over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 147 153
Rank change year-on-year +28 +6 -38
Contract jobs citing Middleware 14 26 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.63% 0.70% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.91% 2.42% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 30
10th Percentile £501 £359 £524
25th Percentile £525 £542 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £625 £643
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% -2.72% -4.81%
75th Percentile £775 £700 £719
90th Percentile £895 £791 £744
Central London median daily rate £660 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +5.60% - -7.41%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

Middleware is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 481 1,076 1,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.61% 29.08% 30.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 695 1,062
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £507 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £710
90th Percentile £778 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £551 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -11.88% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £58.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £59.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +25.26% +171.43%
75th Percentile - £60.75 £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £59.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +25.26% +171.43%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Middleware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Middleware in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Middleware in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Middleware in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Middleware in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Middleware in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.14%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (7.14%) IIS
1 1 (7.14%) Tomcat
1 1 (7.14%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (7.14%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (14.29%) IaaS
3 2 (14.29%) PaaS
3 2 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) LAN
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
1 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) KDB
2 1 (7.14%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (7.14%) Parquet
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 2 (14.29%) Selenium
2 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Gradle
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) JMeter
2 1 (7.14%) JUnit
2 1 (7.14%) Maven
2 1 (7.14%) Mocha
2 1 (7.14%) REST Assured
2 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
2 1 (7.14%) TestNG
2 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.14%) Front Office
4 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Support
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Architect
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
3 1 (7.14%) IT Support
3 1 (7.14%) Java Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Middleware Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (7.14%) Programme Director
3 1 (7.14%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared DBA
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Avro
2 1 (7.14%) Chai
2 1 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (7.14%) JAXB
2 1 (7.14%) JAX-RS
2 1 (7.14%) JSON Schema
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) LDAP
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (7.14%) PySpark
2 1 (7.14%) Rendezvous
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) SAML
2 1 (7.14%) SOAP
2 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.14%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) DataPower
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Market Risk
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Unix
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Migration
2 3 (21.43%) Agile
2 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
2 3 (21.43%) Microservices
2 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
3 2 (14.29%) Business Strategy
3 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (14.29%) Customer Service
3 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 2 (14.29%) ETL
3 2 (14.29%) Resource Management
3 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 2 (14.29%) SDET
3 2 (14.29%) SDLC
4 1 (7.14%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 1 (7.14%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Java
1 3 (21.43%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) C
3 1 (7.14%) Scala
3 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
3 1 (7.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) Puppet
3 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) IBM
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (7.14%) Bloomberg
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.14%) Murex
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.14%) Solace
3 1 (7.14%) TIBCO