The first table below looks at the demand for the Middleware Developer 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 Developer in their job title 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Middleware Developer
Rank 504 556 556
Rank change year-on-year
+52 0
Contract jobs requiring a Middleware Developer 9 3 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.022% 0.006% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.006% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 8
Average daily rate £400 £340 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £345 £340 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £340 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate - £380 £475
% change year-on-year
- -20.00%
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
38421 49352 52077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.41% 92.53% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22588 27902 28893
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £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 1983 2412 2765
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 £11.21 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.86 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Middleware Developer
UK

Middleware Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Middleware Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Middleware Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Middleware Developer Daily Rate Trend

Middleware Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Middleware Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Middleware Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Middleware Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Middleware Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware Developer within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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 - 8 £400 -
South West - 1 - -
Middleware Developer
UK

Middleware Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Middleware Developer 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 Developer in their job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Middleware
2 12 (75.00%) Java
3 9 (56.25%) Oracle
3 9 (56.25%) WebSphere
4 8 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
4 8 (50.00%) C#
5 7 (43.75%) SQL Server
5 7 (43.75%) .NET
5 7 (43.75%) WCF
6 6 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
6 6 (37.50%) Windows
6 6 (37.50%) Oracle 8/8i
6 6 (37.50%) Mercator
6 6 (37.50%) IBM
6 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
6 6 (37.50%) .NET Framework
6 6 (37.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (31.25%) Software Testing
7 5 (31.25%) Finance
7 5 (31.25%) SOA
8 4 (25.00%) XML
8 4 (25.00%) ESB
9 3 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
9 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
10 2 (12.50%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (12.50%) REST
10 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
10 2 (12.50%) System Testing

Middleware Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Middleware Developer 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 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (100.00%) Middleware
2 9 (56.25%) WebSphere
3 7 (43.75%) .NET
3 7 (43.75%) WCF
4 6 (37.50%) .NET Framework
5 4 (25.00%) XML
6 2 (12.50%) REST
6 2 (12.50%) Web Services
6 2 (12.50%) XML Schema
7 1 (6.250%) Spring
7 1 (6.250%) SAP BSP
7 1 (6.250%) XML Messaging
7 1 (6.250%) EDI
7 1 (6.250%) JMS
7 1 (6.250%) WSDL
7 1 (6.250%) COM
7 1 (6.250%) SOAP
7 1 (6.250%) J2EE
7 1 (6.250%) XSD
7 1 (6.250%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 8 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 4 (25.00%) ESB
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (6.250%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (6.250%) IIS
4 1 (6.250%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) 3GPP
1 1 (6.250%) HTTP
1 1 (6.250%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) SQL Server
2 6 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
2 6 (37.50%) Oracle 8/8i
2 6 (37.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (6.250%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (6.250%) JDeveloper
1 1 (6.250%) Telelogic TAU
1 1 (6.250%) Rational Rose
1 1 (6.250%) Eclipse
1 1 (6.250%) Hudson
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Financial Institution
2 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.250%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.250%) Banking
3 1 (6.250%) Front Office
3 1 (6.250%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) Mathematics
1 1 (6.250%) Physics
1 1 (6.250%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
2 1 (6.250%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Software Testing
1 5 (31.25%) SOA
2 3 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
3 2 (12.50%) System Testing
3 2 (12.50%) EAI
3 2 (12.50%) BPEL
4 1 (6.250%) Workflow
4 1 (6.250%) Data Management
4 1 (6.250%) MVC
4 1 (6.250%) Scrum
4 1 (6.250%) Data Modelling
4 1 (6.250%) CRM
4 1 (6.250%) ETL
4 1 (6.250%) UML
4 1 (6.250%) OO
4 1 (6.250%) Performance Management
4 1 (6.250%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Java
2 8 (50.00%) C#
3 1 (6.250%) XPath
3 1 (6.250%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.250%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.250%) Degree
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Oracle
2 6 (37.50%) Mercator
2 6 (37.50%) IBM
2 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) SAP
4 1 (6.250%) Intel
4 1 (6.250%) Telelogic
4 1 (6.250%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 1 (6.250%) WSO2
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