The first table below looks at the demand for the Middleware Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Middleware Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 London 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Middleware Specialist
Rank 382 389 409
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Middleware Specialist 7 16 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.032% 0.059% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.064% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 6
Average daily rate £475 £375 £473
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.66% -20.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £375 £404
10% offered a daily rate of more than £485 £375 £513
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £475 £389
% change year-on-year
-13.15% +22.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20317 24960 28380
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.22% 92.51% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13701 16102 18232
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 621 671
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Middleware Specialist
England

Middleware Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Middleware Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Middleware Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Middleware Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Middleware Specialist
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware Specialist within the London region over the 3 months to 21 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
Croydon - 2 £463 -
Middleware Specialist
England

Middleware Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Middleware Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Middleware
2 12 (92.31%) WebSphere
3 8 (61.54%) JBoss
4 7 (53.85%) WebLogic
5 6 (46.15%) WebSphere MQ
5 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
6 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
6 5 (38.46%) Finance
6 5 (38.46%) zOS
6 5 (38.46%) Banking
6 5 (38.46%) MQSeries
7 2 (15.38%) Apache
7 2 (15.38%) Tomcat
7 2 (15.38%) J2EE
7 2 (15.38%) Java
8 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
8 1 (7.692%) SQL
8 1 (7.692%) VBScript
8 1 (7.692%) .NET
8 1 (7.692%) MySQL
8 1 (7.692%) Oracle
8 1 (7.692%) IIS
8 1 (7.692%) MS Office
8 1 (7.692%) ASP
8 1 (7.692%) JSP
8 1 (7.692%) XML
8 1 (7.692%) XSL
8 1 (7.692%) ODBC
8 1 (7.692%) Windows
8 1 (7.692%) Solaris

Middleware Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Middleware Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (100.00%) Middleware
2 12 (92.31%) WebSphere
3 2 (15.38%) J2EE
4 1 (7.692%) .NET
4 1 (7.692%) ASP
4 1 (7.692%) JSP
4 1 (7.692%) XML
4 1 (7.692%) XSL
4 1 (7.692%) ODBC
4 1 (7.692%) WSDL
4 1 (7.692%) FIXML
4 1 (7.692%) OLE DB
4 1 (7.692%) .NET Framework
4 1 (7.692%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (53.85%) WebLogic
2 6 (46.15%) WebSphere MQ
3 5 (38.46%) MQSeries
4 2 (15.38%) Apache
4 2 (15.38%) Tomcat
5 1 (7.692%) IIS
5 1 (7.692%) SharePoint
5 1 (7.692%) Alfresco
5 1 (7.692%) iPlanet
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Office
1 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
1 1 (7.692%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) MySQL
1 1 (7.692%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) WinDbg
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
1 5 (38.46%) Banking
2 1 (7.692%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Mainframe
1 1 (7.692%) Open Source
1 1 (7.692%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) zOS
2 1 (7.692%) Windows
2 1 (7.692%) Solaris
2 1 (7.692%) Linux
2 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (7.692%) Document Management
1 1 (7.692%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Java
2 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.692%) SQL
2 1 (7.692%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) JBoss
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle
2 1 (7.692%) Unisys
2 1 (7.692%) IBM
2 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.692%) Sun
2 1 (7.692%) Plumtree
2 1 (7.692%) Lotus