Middleware Contracts in the South East

Middleware
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Middleware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Middleware over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 191 184 203
Rank change year-on-year -7 +19 -67
Contract jobs citing Middleware 8 40 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.14% 0.69% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.08% 3.82% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 32 53
10th Percentile £360 £363 £422
25th Percentile £413 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -29.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £541 £650
90th Percentile £595 £700 £675
England median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £40.62
% change year-on-year +7.69% +60.04% -29.37%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

Middleware is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 738 1,047 1,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.30% 17.94% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 743 1,032
10th Percentile £313 £363 £353
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £600
90th Percentile £668 £725 £673
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 36 41
10th Percentile £35.00 £39.75 £21.00
25th Percentile £56.13 £54.38 £31.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +55.56% +4.05%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.72 £67.80
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Middleware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Middleware in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Middleware in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Middleware in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Middleware in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Middleware in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Sussex -5 2 £425 -
Thames Valley -11 2 £600 +23.08% 9
Berkshire -18 2 £600 +23.08% 6
Middlesex - 2 £325 -
Surrey - 1 - - 2
Middleware
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) NAS
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
General
1 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
1 2 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Graphics Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Graphics Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) ITSM Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Service Operations Manager
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) DirectX
1 1 (12.50%) OpenGL
1 1 (12.50%) OpenGL ES
1 1 (12.50%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 3 (37.50%) ITSM
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Embedded Software Development
4 1 (12.50%) ETL
4 1 (12.50%) Memory Management
4 1 (12.50%) Multithreading
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Release Management
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Debt
4 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
4 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C
1 1 (12.50%) Perl
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (25.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Snow