The first table below looks at the demand for the Middleware Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Middleware Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Middleware Architect
Rank 511 556 559
Rank change year-on-year
+45 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Middleware Architect 3 14 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.007% 0.026% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.028% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 5
Average daily rate £550 £550 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +29.41%
UK excluding London average daily rate £550 - £425
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
39040 50214 51349
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.49% 92.56% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 22971 28392 28508
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £245 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2022 2460 2732
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.13 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Middleware Architect
UK

Middleware Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Middleware Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Middleware Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Middleware Architect Daily Rate Trend

Middleware Architect
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware Architect within the England region over the 3 months to 22 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
London +18 1 - -
North West - 1 £550 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Middleware Architect
UK

Middleware Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Middleware Architect 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 Architect in their job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Middleware
2 6 (66.67%) Oracle
3 4 (44.44%) SOA
3 4 (44.44%) Change Management
3 4 (44.44%) Java
4 3 (33.33%) Spring
4 3 (33.33%) WebSphere
4 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 3 (33.33%) Tomcat
4 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
4 3 (33.33%) JMS
4 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 3 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (33.33%) WebLogic
4 3 (33.33%) IIS
4 3 (33.33%) UNIX
4 3 (33.33%) Windows
4 3 (33.33%) Linux
4 3 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
4 3 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (33.33%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (22.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (22.22%) WebCenter
5 2 (22.22%) BPEL
6 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
6 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
6 1 (11.11%) QA
6 1 (11.11%) TIBCO
6 1 (11.11%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management

Middleware Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Middleware Architect 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 Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) Middleware
2 3 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (33.33%) WebSphere
2 3 (33.33%) JMS
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (22.22%) WebCenter
Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) Tomcat
1 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 3 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
1 3 (33.33%) WebLogic
1 3 (33.33%) IIS
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (11.11%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (11.11%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (11.11%) WebLogic Integration
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (11.11%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
3 1 (11.11%) WebSphere Message Broker
Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (11.11%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
General
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
1 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (11.11%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) UNIX
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) SOA
1 4 (44.44%) Change Management
2 2 (22.22%) BPEL
3 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
3 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
3 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) TIBCO
2 1 (11.11%) JBoss
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) WSO2