The first table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills in IT contracts advertised for the Halifax region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Middleware over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Halifax 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Middleware
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Middleware 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £413 £395
% change year-on-year
- +4.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -1.23%
All Application Development
Halifax
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
8 17 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 5.000% 7.556% 7.143%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 8
Average daily rate £313 £275 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% -38.88%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Middleware
West Yorkshire

Middleware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax Middleware Daily Rate Trend

Middleware
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 7 (100.00%) IBM
2 5 (71.43%) Management Information System
2 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (57.14%) Retail
3 4 (57.14%) QA
3 4 (57.14%) SOA
4 3 (42.86%) DataPower
5 2 (28.57%) SSL
5 2 (28.57%) Web Services
5 2 (28.57%) XML
5 2 (28.57%) UNIX
5 2 (28.57%) Firmware
5 2 (28.57%) Firewall
6 1 (14.29%) Finance
6 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Message Broker
6 1 (14.29%) Time Management
6 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
6 1 (14.29%) Banking

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 2 (28.57%) Web Services
1 2 (28.57%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Message Broker
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SSL
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
General
1 4 (57.14%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Management Information System
2 3 (42.86%) DataPower
3 2 (28.57%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (57.14%) SOA
3 1 (14.29%) Time Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) IBM