The first table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Middleware 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 of the Application Development category for the Manchester 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
Rank 61 39 59
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +20
Contract jobs citing Middleware 14 46 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.501% 3.560% 1.248%
As % of the Application Development category 4.730% 12.11% 4.514%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 9
Average daily rate £297 £388 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.48% -6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £273 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £414 £475 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £406 £410 £400
% change year-on-year
-0.91% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £19.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £37.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year
+5.40% -8.64%
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
296 380 288
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 31.73% 29.41% 27.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 219 155
Average daily rate £295 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.66% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £235 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 12
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.57% -36.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.32 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Middleware
North West

Middleware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Middleware Daily Rate Trend

Middleware
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Manchester Middleware Daily Rate Histogram

Middleware
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Middleware Hourly Rate Trend

Middleware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 18 (47.37%) Banking
2 16 (42.11%) LDAP
2 16 (42.11%) IBM
3 15 (39.47%) Windows
4 14 (36.84%) WebSphere
5 13 (34.21%) Java
5 13 (34.21%) UNIX
6 10 (26.32%) Tivoli
6 10 (26.32%) Mainframe
6 10 (26.32%) Oracle
6 10 (26.32%) AIX
6 10 (26.32%) Firewall
7 9 (23.68%) Retail
7 9 (23.68%) Shell Script
8 8 (21.05%) SQL
8 8 (21.05%) XML
8 8 (21.05%) Finance
8 8 (21.05%) Migration
8 8 (21.05%) Management Information System
9 7 (18.42%) Change Management
9 7 (18.42%) WebSphere Application Server
9 7 (18.42%) Internet
10 6 (15.79%) Tivoli Identity Manager
10 6 (15.79%) X.509
10 6 (15.79%) Project Management
10 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
10 6 (15.79%) Perl
10 6 (15.79%) C
10 6 (15.79%) HPUX
10 6 (15.79%) Solaris

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 14 (36.84%) WebSphere
2 8 (21.05%) XML
3 6 (15.79%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
3 6 (15.79%) SPNEGO
4 5 (13.16%) Web Services
5 3 (7.895%) Drools
5 3 (7.895%) Esper
5 3 (7.895%) Spring
5 3 (7.895%) Hibernate
5 3 (7.895%) HTML
5 3 (7.895%) XSD
5 3 (7.895%) XSLT
6 2 (5.263%) Spring Web Flow
6 2 (5.263%) JSR 168
6 2 (5.263%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (5.263%) JSR 286
7 1 (2.632%) J2EE
7 1 (2.632%) CSS
7 1 (2.632%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 7 (18.42%) WebSphere Application Server
2 4 (10.53%) WebLogic
2 4 (10.53%) WebSphere MQ
2 4 (10.53%) CICS
3 3 (7.895%) TIBCO EMS
3 3 (7.895%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (5.263%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (2.632%) ESB
5 1 (2.632%) CMS
5 1 (2.632%) SonicMQ
Applications
1 3 (7.895%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (10.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (7.895%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
3 3 (7.895%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (5.263%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 16 (42.11%) LDAP
2 10 (26.32%) Firewall
3 7 (18.42%) Internet
4 6 (15.79%) X.509
4 6 (15.79%) SMS
4 6 (15.79%) Kerberos
4 6 (15.79%) Network Security
5 4 (10.53%) RFID
5 4 (10.53%) Extranet
5 4 (10.53%) Intranet
5 4 (10.53%) SAN
6 3 (7.895%) TCP/IP
6 3 (7.895%) SNA
7 1 (2.632%) SSH
7 1 (2.632%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (13.16%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (7.895%) DB2
5 2 (5.263%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (2.632%) MySQL
General
1 18 (47.37%) Banking
2 9 (23.68%) Retail
3 8 (21.05%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (15.79%) Architect
2 5 (13.16%) Technical Architect
3 4 (10.53%) Developer
3 4 (10.53%) Java Developer
3 4 (10.53%) Lead Architect
3 4 (10.53%) Technical Leader
4 3 (7.895%) Designer
4 3 (7.895%) TIBCO Support
4 3 (7.895%) Analyst
4 3 (7.895%) Support Engineer
4 3 (7.895%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.263%) Administrator
5 2 (5.263%) CRM Business Analyst
5 2 (5.263%) CRM Analyst
6 1 (2.632%) Technical Design Leader
6 1 (2.632%) 3rd Line Server Support
6 1 (2.632%) 3rd Line Technical Support
6 1 (2.632%) Java Software Developer
6 1 (2.632%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (2.632%) Solutions Designer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (26.32%) Mainframe
2 8 (21.05%) Management Information System
3 4 (10.53%) IBM Mainframe
3 4 (10.53%) VSAM
3 4 (10.53%) PKI
4 3 (7.895%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (7.895%) Online Banking
4 3 (7.895%) Computer Science
4 3 (7.895%) Equities
4 3 (7.895%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (5.263%) Oracle Exalogic
6 1 (2.632%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 15 (39.47%) Windows
2 13 (34.21%) UNIX
3 10 (26.32%) AIX
4 6 (15.79%) HPUX
4 6 (15.79%) Solaris
4 6 (15.79%) Linux
5 4 (10.53%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (10.53%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.632%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.05%) Migration
2 7 (18.42%) Change Management
3 6 (15.79%) Project Management
3 6 (15.79%) Identity Management
3 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (15.79%) Project Planning
4 5 (13.16%) Service Delivery
4 5 (13.16%) SOA
5 4 (10.53%) ETL
5 4 (10.53%) CRM
5 4 (10.53%) Finite Element Analysis
5 4 (10.53%) Zachman Framework
5 4 (10.53%) TOGAF
5 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (7.895%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (7.895%) Data Migration
6 3 (7.895%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (7.895%) Problem Management
6 3 (7.895%) Data Management
6 3 (7.895%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (34.21%) Java
2 9 (23.68%) Shell Script
3 8 (21.05%) SQL
4 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 6 (15.79%) Perl
4 6 (15.79%) C
5 3 (7.895%) JCL
6 1 (2.632%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.895%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.632%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 4 (10.53%) Active Directory
1 4 (10.53%) Hyper-V
1 4 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.263%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) Tivoli
2 6 (15.79%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 3 (7.895%) TIBCO Hawk
4 2 (5.263%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (2.632%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 16 (42.11%) IBM
2 10 (26.32%) Oracle
3 4 (10.53%) CheckPoint
3 4 (10.53%) Cisco
3 4 (10.53%) HP
3 4 (10.53%) Citrix
3 4 (10.53%) CA
3 4 (10.53%) VMware
3 4 (10.53%) Brocade
4 3 (7.895%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.895%) TIBCO
4 3 (7.895%) Business Objects
5 2 (5.263%) Red Hat