The first table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Middleware over the 3 months to 18 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 Nottinghamshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Middleware
Rank 35 - 33
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Middleware 4 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 1.159% - 1.278%
As % of the Application Development category 4.819% - 5.128%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £400 - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £413 £400
% change year-on-year
- +3.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £38.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year
+1.29% +1.98%
All Application Development
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
83 109 78
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 24.06% 38.93% 24.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 69 37
Average daily rate £290 £300 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £247 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
Average hourly rate £30.00 £8.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+252.94% -37.03%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
Middleware
East Midlands

Middleware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire Middleware Daily 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 Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 18 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
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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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Middleware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 12 (85.71%) SOA
2 10 (71.43%) XML
3 8 (57.14%) Web Services
4 7 (50.00%) TIBCO
4 7 (50.00%) Subversion
5 6 (42.86%) ESB
5 6 (42.86%) InterSystems
5 6 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (35.71%) Finance
6 5 (35.71%) Scrum
6 5 (35.71%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (28.57%) InterSystems Cache
8 3 (21.43%) WebSphere
8 3 (21.43%) XPath
8 3 (21.43%) BPEL
8 3 (21.43%) WSDL
8 3 (21.43%) UNIX
8 3 (21.43%) WebLogic
8 3 (21.43%) SOAP
9 2 (14.29%) Oracle
9 2 (14.29%) Linux
9 2 (14.29%) Apache
9 2 (14.29%) Project Management
9 2 (14.29%) SSL
9 2 (14.29%) IBM
9 2 (14.29%) WS-I
9 2 (14.29%) HP
9 2 (14.29%) Citrix
9 2 (14.29%) QuickTest Pro
9 2 (14.29%) LoadRunner

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 10 (71.43%) XML
2 8 (57.14%) Web Services
3 3 (21.43%) WSDL
3 3 (21.43%) SOAP
3 3 (21.43%) WebSphere
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (14.29%) WS-I
4 2 (14.29%) WebSphere MQ
4 2 (14.29%) JMS
5 1 (7.143%) XML Schema
5 1 (7.143%) HTML
5 1 (7.143%) XSD
5 1 (7.143%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 6 (42.86%) ESB
2 3 (21.43%) WebLogic
3 2 (14.29%) Apache
4 1 (7.143%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) SSL
2 1 (7.143%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) InterSystems Cache
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Subversion
2 2 (14.29%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (14.29%) LoadRunner
3 1 (7.143%) Maven
3 1 (7.143%) Hudson
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (42.86%) SOA Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Middleware Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Test Architect
4 1 (7.143%) Test Environment Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Test Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Environment Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (14.29%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) UNIX
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (7.143%) Windows
3 1 (7.143%) HPUX
3 1 (7.143%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) SOA
2 5 (35.71%) Scrum
2 5 (35.71%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (21.43%) BPEL
4 2 (14.29%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) Process Management
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) Time Management
5 1 (7.143%) ITIL
5 1 (7.143%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) XPath
2 1 (7.143%) C
2 1 (7.143%) Java
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) TIBCO
2 6 (42.86%) InterSystems
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 2 (14.29%) IBM
3 2 (14.29%) HP
3 2 (14.29%) Citrix
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