The first table below looks at the demand for the Middleware Administrator role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Middleware Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Middleware Administrator
Rank 514 563 585
Rank change year-on-year
+49 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Middleware Administrator 19 10 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.041% 0.017% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.019% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 1
Average daily rate £375 £525 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% +27.27%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £525 -
% change year-on-year
-28.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42921 54032 55868
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.62% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24602 29796 30366
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2138 2561 2889
Average hourly rate £18.53 £18.75 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.20% -6.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.74 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Middleware Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Middleware Administrator within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Middleware Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Middleware Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Middleware Administrator within the UK.

Middleware Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Middleware Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Middleware Administrator within the UK.

Middleware Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Middleware Administrator
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware Administrator within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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
England +74 19 £375 -28.57%
Yorkshire +17 17 £375 -28.57%
West Yorkshire -1 2 £400 -23.80%
London +15 1 - -
Leeds +2 1 - -
Reading - 1 £375 -
Berkshire - 1 £375 -
City of London - 1 - -
South East - 1 £375 -

Middleware Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Middleware Administrator in their job title 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 with Middleware Administrator in their job title.

1 36 (100.00%) Middleware
2 32 (88.89%) Oracle
2 32 (88.89%) WebLogic
2 32 (88.89%) SOA
3 31 (86.11%) Oracle Fusion
4 29 (80.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 25 (69.44%) Oracle Service Bus
5 25 (69.44%) Oracle 11g
6 24 (66.67%) Linux
7 23 (63.89%) Oracle 10g
7 23 (63.89%) BPEL
7 23 (63.89%) Oracle Application Server
7 23 (63.89%) ESB
8 22 (61.11%) Oracle 10gAS
8 22 (61.11%) Change Management
8 22 (61.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 22 (61.11%) ITIL
8 22 (61.11%) HPUX
8 22 (61.11%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (13.89%) HTTP
10 4 (11.11%) JMS
10 4 (11.11%) UNIX
10 4 (11.11%) WebCenter
10 4 (11.11%) Oracle BPM
11 3 (8.333%) Shell Script
11 3 (8.333%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 3 (8.333%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
12 2 (5.556%) SSL
12 2 (5.556%) Windows
12 2 (5.556%) Python

Middleware Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Middleware Administrator in their job title 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 with Middleware Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 36 (100.00%) Middleware
2 31 (86.11%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (11.11%) WebCenter
3 4 (11.11%) JMS
4 2 (5.556%) WebSphere
5 1 (2.778%) ISPF
5 1 (2.778%) Web Services
5 1 (2.778%) XML
Application Platforms
1 32 (88.89%) WebLogic
2 29 (80.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 25 (69.44%) Oracle Service Bus
4 23 (63.89%) Oracle Application Server
4 23 (63.89%) ESB
5 22 (61.11%) Oracle 10gAS
6 3 (8.333%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (5.556%) WebLogic Portal
8 1 (2.778%) SAS
8 1 (2.778%) GlassFish
8 1 (2.778%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.89%) HTTP
2 2 (5.556%) SSL
3 1 (2.778%) Internet
3 1 (2.778%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (69.44%) Oracle 11g
2 23 (63.89%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (2.778%) Ant
1 1 (2.778%) JDeveloper
1 1 (2.778%) Subversion
General
1 2 (5.556%) Finance
2 1 (2.778%) Banking
2 1 (2.778%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.778%) Firmware
1 1 (2.778%) Mainframe
1 1 (2.778%) Clustering
1 1 (2.778%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 24 (66.67%) Linux
2 22 (61.11%) Oracle Linux
2 22 (61.11%) HPUX
3 4 (11.11%) UNIX
4 2 (5.556%) Windows
5 1 (2.778%) Solaris
5 1 (2.778%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (88.89%) SOA
2 23 (63.89%) BPEL
3 22 (61.11%) Change Management
3 22 (61.11%) ITIL
4 2 (5.556%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (2.778%) Migration
5 1 (2.778%) Scrum
5 1 (2.778%) Supplier Management
5 1 (2.778%) Load Balancing
5 1 (2.778%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (2.778%) Stress Testing
5 1 (2.778%) System Testing
5 1 (2.778%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.333%) Shell Script
1 3 (8.333%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
2 2 (5.556%) Jython
2 2 (5.556%) Java
2 2 (5.556%) Perl
2 2 (5.556%) PL/SQL
2 2 (5.556%) SQL
2 2 (5.556%) Python
3 1 (2.778%) REXX
3 1 (2.778%) JCL
Systems Management
1 22 (61.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (2.778%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 1 (2.778%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 32 (88.89%) Oracle
2 1 (2.778%) IBM
2 1 (2.778%) Sun
2 1 (2.778%) HP
2 1 (2.778%) CA
2 1 (2.778%) F5