The first table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills in IT contracts advertised for the Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear 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 27 27 21
Rank change year-on-year
0 -6
Contract jobs citing Middleware 1 15 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 0.532% 4.478% 5.618%
As % of the Application Development category 2.326% 15.00% 20.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 7
Average daily rate £225 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.18% -15.38%
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
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
43 100 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 22.87% 29.85% 26.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 55 45
Average daily rate £275 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £238 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 2
Average hourly rate £13.11 £35.00 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-62.54% +250.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Middleware
North East

Middleware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -5 1 £225 -18.18%
Middleware
North East

Middleware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) HPUX
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
3 1 (33.33%) IIS
3 1 (33.33%) JBoss
3 1 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
3 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
3 1 (33.33%) SOA
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (33.33%) RDF
3 1 (33.33%) Thin Client
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
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%) Oracle RAC

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Rational Performance Tester
1 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
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%) Client/Server
1 1 (33.33%) Thin Client
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) HPUX
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) SOA
2 1 (33.33%) RDF
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) JBoss
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Brocade