The first table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Middleware over the 3 months to 22 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 West Yorkshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Middleware
Rank 83 70 62
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -8
Contract jobs citing Middleware 8 20 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.628% 1.236% 0.812%
As % of the Application Development category 2.192% 5.510% 3.782%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
Average daily rate £400 £413 £434
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% -4.95%
UK excluding London average daily rate £408 £410 £400
% change year-on-year
-0.60% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £38.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £37.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year
+5.40% -8.64%
All Application Development
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
365 363 238
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 28.67% 22.44% 21.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 214 126
Average daily rate £300 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £213 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 5
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+94.11% -60.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Middleware
Yorkshire

Middleware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Leeds +5 4 - -
Middleware
Yorkshire

Middleware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 26 (56.52%) Oracle
2 20 (43.48%) SOA
3 18 (39.13%) WebLogic
4 16 (34.78%) Linux
5 15 (32.61%) Oracle Service Bus
6 11 (23.91%) Retail
6 11 (23.91%) IBM
7 9 (19.57%) JMS
8 8 (17.39%) MPEG
8 8 (17.39%) UNIX
8 8 (17.39%) SQL
8 8 (17.39%) STB
8 8 (17.39%) BPEL
8 8 (17.39%) Oracle Application Server
8 8 (17.39%) WebSphere
8 8 (17.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (15.22%) ESB
9 7 (15.22%) Java
9 7 (15.22%) C
9 7 (15.22%) C++
9 7 (15.22%) ITIL
9 7 (15.22%) DVB
10 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
10 6 (13.04%) WebSphere Application Server
10 6 (13.04%) Windows
10 6 (13.04%) Perl
10 6 (13.04%) MS Office
10 6 (13.04%) J2EE
10 6 (13.04%) Oracle 11g
10 6 (13.04%) Software Testing

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 (19.57%) JMS
2 8 (17.39%) WebSphere
3 6 (13.04%) J2EE
3 6 (13.04%) GStreamer
4 5 (10.87%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (10.87%) JDBC
5 3 (6.522%) Web Services
5 3 (6.522%) XML
6 2 (4.348%) .NET
7 1 (2.174%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (2.174%) RESTful
7 1 (2.174%) WebCenter
7 1 (2.174%) WinForms
7 1 (2.174%) Java EE
7 1 (2.174%) WCF
7 1 (2.174%) WPF
7 1 (2.174%) ASP.NET
7 1 (2.174%) Swing
7 1 (2.174%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 18 (39.13%) WebLogic
2 15 (32.61%) Oracle Service Bus
3 8 (17.39%) Oracle Application Server
3 8 (17.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (15.22%) ESB
5 6 (13.04%) WebSphere Application Server
5 6 (13.04%) AquaLogic
5 6 (13.04%) AquaLogic Service Bus
6 5 (10.87%) Tomcat
7 4 (8.696%) MQSeries
7 4 (8.696%) IIS
7 4 (8.696%) Oracle 10gAS
7 4 (8.696%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (4.348%) WebLogic Portal
9 1 (2.174%) WebSphere Message Broker
9 1 (2.174%) GlassFish
9 1 (2.174%) Apache
9 1 (2.174%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 6 (13.04%) MS Office
2 2 (4.348%) MS Project
3 1 (2.174%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.348%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (2.174%) SAP CRM
2 1 (2.174%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) DVB
2 5 (10.87%) HTTP
3 4 (8.696%) FTP
4 3 (6.522%) Firewall
4 3 (6.522%) SSL
5 1 (2.174%) Internet
5 1 (2.174%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.174%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (8.696%) Oracle 10g
2 4 (8.696%) DB2
3 1 (2.174%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.174%) Selenium
1 1 (2.174%) JIRA
1 1 (2.174%) Subversion
1 1 (2.174%) Maven
1 1 (2.174%) Eclipse
General
1 11 (23.91%) Retail
2 6 (13.04%) Finance
3 4 (8.696%) Games
3 4 (8.696%) Electronics
4 1 (2.174%) Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (34.78%) Administrator
2 5 (10.87%) Analyst
3 4 (8.696%) Software Engineer
3 4 (8.696%) Operations Analyst
3 4 (8.696%) Support Analyst
3 4 (8.696%) Middleware Administrator
3 4 (8.696%) Operations Support Analyst
4 3 (6.522%) WebLogic Administrator
4 3 (6.522%) Developer
5 2 (4.348%) Architect
5 2 (4.348%) Applications Architect
5 2 (4.348%) Software Team Leader
5 2 (4.348%) Consultant
5 2 (4.348%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (4.348%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 2 (4.348%) Test Engineer
5 2 (4.348%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (4.348%) Team Leader
6 1 (2.174%) Oracle SOA Developer
6 1 (2.174%) SOA Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) MPEG
1 8 (17.39%) STB
2 6 (13.04%) Open Source
3 5 (10.87%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.522%) DataPower
4 3 (6.522%) IPTV
5 2 (4.348%) Firmware
5 2 (4.348%) Computer Science
6 1 (2.174%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 16 (34.78%) Linux
2 8 (17.39%) UNIX
3 6 (13.04%) Windows
4 5 (10.87%) Oracle Linux
4 5 (10.87%) AIX
4 5 (10.87%) HPUX
4 5 (10.87%) Solaris
5 3 (6.522%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (43.48%) SOA
2 8 (17.39%) BPEL
3 7 (15.22%) ITIL
4 6 (13.04%) Software Testing
5 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (10.87%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (10.87%) OO
6 4 (8.696%) Migration
6 4 (8.696%) Change Management
7 3 (6.522%) Multithreading
8 2 (4.348%) CRM
9 1 (2.174%) User Stories
9 1 (2.174%) Test Strategy
9 1 (2.174%) Root Cause Analysis
9 1 (2.174%) Scrum
9 1 (2.174%) CMMI
9 1 (2.174%) Validation
9 1 (2.174%) MVC
9 1 (2.174%) Release Management
9 1 (2.174%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.39%) SQL
2 7 (15.22%) Java
2 7 (15.22%) C
2 7 (15.22%) C++
3 6 (13.04%) Perl
4 5 (10.87%) Bash shell
5 3 (6.522%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
5 3 (6.522%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.522%) Python
6 2 (4.348%) Tcl
6 2 (4.348%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.348%) Jython
7 1 (2.174%) COBOL
7 1 (2.174%) C#
7 1 (2.174%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 2 (4.348%) HND
1 2 (4.348%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.696%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (8.696%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (2.174%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 1 (2.174%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 26 (56.52%) Oracle
2 11 (23.91%) IBM
3 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.348%) HP
5 1 (2.174%) F5
5 1 (2.174%) Perforce
5 1 (2.174%) SAP
5 1 (2.174%) JBoss
5 1 (2.174%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.174%) Sun
5 1 (2.174%) Remedy
West Yorkshire
The role will involve the development of web applications as well as continued development of customer code in Java.Ideally they are seeking a candidate with the following...
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Rate: £300 - £340 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013