The first table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Middleware over the 3 months to 20 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 East of England 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Middleware
Rank 92 118 85
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -33
Contract jobs citing Middleware 23 18 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 1.065% 0.613% 1.549%
As % of the Application Development category 3.789% 2.190% 5.277%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 18
Average daily rate £425 £488 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.82% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £419 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £560 £575 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £410 £404
% change year-on-year
+0.60% +1.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
Average hourly rate - £47.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £37.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year
+5.40% -8.64%
All Application Development
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
607 822 758
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 28.11% 27.98% 29.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 434 344
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 56 65
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £27.50 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Middleware
England

Middleware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England Middleware Hourly Rate Trend

Middleware
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the East of England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridgeshire +29 18 £450 +11.11%
Hertfordshire +4 3 £250 -47.36%
Bedfordshire +1 1 £325 -39.53%
Essex - 1 £300 -
Middleware
England

Middleware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 27 (60.00%) Finance
2 23 (51.11%) Oracle
3 20 (44.44%) WebLogic
4 19 (42.22%) Financial Institution
5 18 (40.00%) Oracle Fusion
5 18 (40.00%) Hedge funds
6 13 (28.89%) Web Services
7 12 (26.67%) Information Security
8 11 (24.44%) IIS
9 9 (20.00%) Java
9 9 (20.00%) WebSphere
9 9 (20.00%) WebCenter
10 8 (17.78%) VMware
11 7 (15.56%) Incident Management
11 7 (15.56%) UNIX
11 7 (15.56%) Windows
11 7 (15.56%) Linux
11 7 (15.56%) Oracle Identity Manager
12 6 (13.33%) BMC
12 6 (13.33%) Apache
12 6 (13.33%) SOA
13 5 (11.11%) SharePoint
13 5 (11.11%) Tomcat
13 5 (11.11%) JBoss
13 5 (11.11%) SAN
13 5 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
14 4 (8.889%) Talend Open Studio
14 4 (8.889%) NAS
14 4 (8.889%) Talend
14 4 (8.889%) Infrastructure Management

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 18 (40.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 13 (28.89%) Web Services
3 9 (20.00%) WebSphere
3 9 (20.00%) WebCenter
4 3 (6.667%) .NET
4 3 (6.667%) J2EE
5 2 (4.444%) XML
5 2 (4.444%) JRules
6 1 (2.222%) Spring
6 1 (2.222%) SAP BSP
6 1 (2.222%) JSON
6 1 (2.222%) JPA
6 1 (2.222%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.222%) JDBC
6 1 (2.222%) REST
Application Platforms
1 20 (44.44%) WebLogic
2 11 (24.44%) IIS
3 6 (13.33%) Apache
4 5 (11.11%) Tomcat
4 5 (11.11%) SharePoint
5 4 (8.889%) WebSphere MQ
5 4 (8.889%) WebSphere Message Broker
6 3 (6.667%) Amazon AWS
6 3 (6.667%) NetWeaver
7 2 (4.444%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (2.222%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (2.222%) WebLogic Portal
8 1 (2.222%) WebLogic Integration
Business Applications
1 3 (6.667%) SAP CRM
1 3 (6.667%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.222%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.11%) SAN
2 4 (8.889%) BIG-IP
2 4 (8.889%) NAS
2 4 (8.889%) DHCP
2 4 (8.889%) TCP/IP
2 4 (8.889%) DNS
3 1 (2.222%) HTTP
3 1 (2.222%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.667%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (4.444%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.222%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 4 (8.889%) Talend Open Studio
2 2 (4.444%) Subversion
2 2 (4.444%) ClearCase
2 2 (4.444%) ClearQuest
3 1 (2.222%) MSI
3 1 (2.222%) AdminStudio
3 1 (2.222%) PowerBuilder
3 1 (2.222%) Wise Package Studio
General
1 27 (60.00%) Finance
2 19 (42.22%) Financial Institution
3 3 (6.667%) Back Office
3 3 (6.667%) Banking
4 1 (2.222%) Retail
4 1 (2.222%) Billing
Job Titles
1 16 (35.56%) Support Engineer
2 8 (17.78%) Administrator
2 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (17.78%) Senior Support Engineer
2 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 7 (15.56%) Architect
4 6 (13.33%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Web Support Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Web Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (8.889%) SAP Developer
7 3 (6.667%) Programme Manager
7 3 (6.667%) Consultant
7 3 (6.667%) Test Manager
7 3 (6.667%) CRM Developer
7 3 (6.667%) SAP CRM Developer
7 3 (6.667%) Test Programme Manager
8 2 (4.444%) Messaging Support Engineer
8 2 (4.444%) Messaging Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (40.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.222%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.222%) NHS
2 1 (2.222%) Clustering
2 1 (2.222%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.56%) UNIX
1 7 (15.56%) Windows
1 7 (15.56%) Linux
2 3 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.222%) Windows 7
3 1 (2.222%) Windows XP
3 1 (2.222%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.222%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.67%) Information Security
2 7 (15.56%) Incident Management
3 6 (13.33%) SOA
4 4 (8.889%) ITIL
4 4 (8.889%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (8.889%) CRM
4 4 (8.889%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (6.667%) Test Strategy
5 3 (6.667%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (6.667%) System Testing
5 3 (6.667%) Time Management
5 3 (6.667%) Integration Testing
5 3 (6.667%) Test Management
5 3 (6.667%) Configuration Management
5 3 (6.667%) Project Management
5 3 (6.667%) Service Delivery
6 2 (4.444%) Service Management
6 2 (4.444%) BPMN
6 2 (4.444%) Waterfall
6 2 (4.444%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.00%) Java
2 4 (8.889%) Perl
2 4 (8.889%) ABAP
2 4 (8.889%) Shell Script
3 3 (6.667%) SQL
4 1 (2.222%) VBScript
4 1 (2.222%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (4.444%) Degree
1 2 (4.444%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.444%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.222%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.222%) HL7
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.444%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (15.56%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 3 (6.667%) BMC PATROL
2 3 (6.667%) Control-M
2 3 (6.667%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (6.667%) Puppet
3 1 (2.222%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (51.11%) Oracle
2 8 (17.78%) VMware
3 6 (13.33%) BMC
4 5 (11.11%) JBoss
5 4 (8.889%) IBM
5 4 (8.889%) Microsoft
5 4 (8.889%) HP
5 4 (8.889%) SAP
5 4 (8.889%) Talend
6 3 (6.667%) Akamai
6 3 (6.667%) Remedy
6 3 (6.667%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.222%) CODA
7 1 (2.222%) TIBCO
7 1 (2.222%) webMethods
7 1 (2.222%) Ab Initio
7 1 (2.222%) Informatica
7 1 (2.222%) NetApp
7 1 (2.222%) EMC
7 1 (2.222%) BEA
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