The first table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills in IT contracts advertised for the North East 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 North East 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 33 28 27
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -1
Contract jobs citing Middleware 2 20 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 0.664% 3.630% 4.158%
As % of the Application Development category 3.846% 16.13% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 13 9
Average daily rate £225 £275 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.18% -21.42%
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
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
52 124 117
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 17.28% 22.50% 25.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 66 59
Average daily rate £310 £330 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.06% +3.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £246 £238 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £420 £521
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 6
Average hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +105.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.62 £35.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £35.00 £20.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Middleware
England

Middleware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region.

North East Middleware Hourly Rate Trend

Middleware
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the North East region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Tyne and Wear -3 2 £225 -18.18% 1
Middleware
England

Middleware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Clustering
3 1 (33.33%) Brocade
3 1 (33.33%) ESB
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Solaris
3 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
3 1 (33.33%) IIS
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) JBoss
3 1 (33.33%) Apache

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) ESB
1 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle 10g
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) 1st Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Support
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) SAN Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Solaris
3 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) RDF
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (33.33%) OpenView
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Brocade
3 1 (33.33%) JBoss
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
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