The first table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham 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 Nottingham 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 28 31 23
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -8
Contract jobs citing Middleware 8 1 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 2.797% 0.448% 2.553%
As % of the Application Development category 9.639% 1.111% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £375 - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £406 £410 £400
% change year-on-year
-0.91% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £37.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year
+5.40% -8.64%
All Application Development
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
83 90 60
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 29.02% 40.36% 25.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 53 24
Average daily rate £325 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.83% -4.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £263 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £435 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 2
Average hourly rate £30.00 £8.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+252.94% -78.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Middleware
Nottinghamshire

Middleware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham Middleware Daily Rate Trend

Middleware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 9 (81.82%) XML
1 9 (81.82%) SOA
2 7 (63.64%) Web Services
3 6 (54.55%) TIBCO
3 6 (54.55%) InterSystems
3 6 (54.55%) Subversion
3 6 (54.55%) ESB
3 6 (54.55%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (45.45%) Scrum
4 5 (45.45%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (36.36%) InterSystems Cache
6 3 (27.27%) BPEL
6 3 (27.27%) XPath
6 3 (27.27%) Finance
6 3 (27.27%) WSDL
6 3 (27.27%) SOAP
7 2 (18.18%) SSL
7 2 (18.18%) IBM
7 2 (18.18%) WS-I
7 2 (18.18%) HP
7 2 (18.18%) QuickTest Pro
7 2 (18.18%) LoadRunner
7 2 (18.18%) WebSphere MQ
7 2 (18.18%) Project Management
7 2 (18.18%) JMS
7 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (18.18%) WebSphere
7 2 (18.18%) Time Management
7 2 (18.18%) DataPower
8 1 (9.091%) Maven

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 9 (81.82%) XML
2 7 (63.64%) Web Services
3 3 (27.27%) WSDL
3 3 (27.27%) SOAP
4 2 (18.18%) WS-I
4 2 (18.18%) JMS
4 2 (18.18%) WebSphere
5 1 (9.091%) XML Schema
5 1 (9.091%) XSD
5 1 (9.091%) XSLT
5 1 (9.091%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (54.55%) ESB
2 2 (18.18%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (9.091%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) SSL
2 1 (9.091%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Subversion
2 2 (18.18%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (18.18%) LoadRunner
3 1 (9.091%) Maven
3 1 (9.091%) Hudson
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 1 (9.091%) Publishing
2 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) SOA Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Middleware Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Test Architect
4 1 (9.091%) Test Environment Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Environment Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (18.18%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) SOA
2 5 (45.45%) Scrum
2 5 (45.45%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (27.27%) BPEL
4 2 (18.18%) Project Management
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) Time Management
5 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) XPath
2 1 (9.091%) C
2 1 (9.091%) Java
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) TIBCO
1 6 (54.55%) InterSystems
2 2 (18.18%) IBM
2 2 (18.18%) HP