The first table below looks at the demand for the Middleware Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Middleware Engineer
Rank 501 522 554
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Middleware Engineer 9 36 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.022% 0.067% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.073% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 20 1
Average daily rate £388 £450 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.88% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £475 £400
% change year-on-year
-26.31% +18.89%
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
38474 49443 52336
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.56% 92.67% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 22637 27972 29016
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 2002 2393 2764
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Middleware Engineer
UK

Middleware Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Middleware Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Middleware Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Middleware Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Middleware Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Middleware Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Middleware Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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 0 4 £475 +5.55%
East Midlands - 4 £350 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Middleware Engineer
UK

Middleware Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Middleware Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Middleware
2 9 (56.25%) Oracle
2 9 (56.25%) WebSphere
3 8 (50.00%) Java
3 8 (50.00%) WebLogic
3 8 (50.00%) Apache
4 7 (43.75%) Tomcat
5 6 (37.50%) Linux
5 6 (37.50%) SharePoint
5 6 (37.50%) IIS
5 6 (37.50%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
6 5 (31.25%) JMS
6 5 (31.25%) SSL
6 5 (31.25%) Windows
6 5 (31.25%) Shell Script
6 5 (31.25%) Change Management
6 5 (31.25%) Spring
7 4 (25.00%) Finance
7 4 (25.00%) UNIX
8 3 (18.75%) SharePoint 2010
8 3 (18.75%) Release Management
8 3 (18.75%) IBM HTTP Server
8 3 (18.75%) Jython
8 3 (18.75%) Banking
8 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
8 3 (18.75%) WebTrends
8 3 (18.75%) WebSphere MQ
8 3 (18.75%) JBoss
8 3 (18.75%) HTTP

Middleware Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Middleware Engineer 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 Engineer 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 5 (31.25%) Spring
3 5 (31.25%) JMS
4 3 (18.75%) .NET
4 3 (18.75%) Web Services
5 2 (12.50%) XML
5 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
5 2 (12.50%) Java EE
5 2 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (6.250%) ISPF
6 1 (6.250%) HTML
6 1 (6.250%) XSD
6 1 (6.250%) XSLT
6 1 (6.250%) J2EE
6 1 (6.250%) SOAP
6 1 (6.250%) WSDL
6 1 (6.250%) XML Schema
Application Platforms
1 8 (50.00%) Apache
1 8 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 7 (43.75%) Tomcat
3 6 (37.50%) SharePoint
3 6 (37.50%) IIS
3 6 (37.50%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (18.75%) Documentum
4 3 (18.75%) WebSphere MQ
4 3 (18.75%) IBM HTTP Server
4 3 (18.75%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (12.50%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (6.250%) SAS
6 1 (6.250%) Alfresco
6 1 (6.250%) Liferay
6 1 (6.250%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) MS Project
1 2 (12.50%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) WebTrends
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) SSL
2 3 (18.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.250%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (6.250%) Hudson
2 1 (6.250%) Visual Studio
2 1 (6.250%) ClearCase
2 1 (6.250%) Eclipse
2 1 (6.250%) Maven
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
3 1 (6.250%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.250%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.250%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.250%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Clustering
1 2 (12.50%) DataPower
2 1 (6.250%) Hedge funds
2 1 (6.250%) FMCG
2 1 (6.250%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Windows
3 4 (25.00%) UNIX
4 2 (12.50%) Solaris
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Change Management
2 3 (18.75%) Release Management
3 2 (12.50%) ITIL V2
3 2 (12.50%) Change Control
3 2 (12.50%) Service Desk Management
3 2 (12.50%) Problem Management
3 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
3 2 (12.50%) ITIL
3 2 (12.50%) Project Management
3 2 (12.50%) Quality Management
3 2 (12.50%) Process Management
4 1 (6.250%) SOA
4 1 (6.250%) Load Balancing
4 1 (6.250%) BPEL
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (31.25%) Shell Script
3 3 (18.75%) Jython
4 2 (12.50%) Korn
4 2 (12.50%) C-shell
4 2 (12.50%) Bash shell
5 1 (6.250%) XPath
5 1 (6.250%) JCL
5 1 (6.250%) SQL
5 1 (6.250%) REXX
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.250%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.250%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (6.250%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) Business Objects
2 3 (18.75%) JBoss
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) IBM
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 2 (12.50%) Remedy
4 1 (6.250%) Google
4 1 (6.250%) F5
4 1 (6.250%) SAP
4 1 (6.250%) CA