The first table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Middleware over the 3 months to 20 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 Leicestershire 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Middleware
Rank 34 - 22
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Middleware 2 0 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 0.913% - 2.817%
As % of the Application Development category 2.381% - 7.595%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
Average daily rate £438 - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £413 £393
% change year-on-year
- +5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +14.28%
All Application Development
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
84 58 79
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 38.36% 25.33% 37.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 21 28
Average daily rate £313 £300 £240
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £185 £201 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £410 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 8
Average hourly rate £35.00 £30.50 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.75% -16.43%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Middleware
East Midlands

Middleware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire Middleware Daily Rate Trend

Middleware
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leicestershire Middleware Hourly Rate Trend

Middleware
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Extreme Programming
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) BDD

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 (100.00%) WebSphere
General
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Coach
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Extreme Programming
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat