England Middleware Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Middleware skills within the England region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Middleware over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Ascot Avon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London Clapham County Antrim Crawley Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Rickmansworth Runcorn Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stirling Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Tamworth Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	194	181
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching permanent IT job ads	1845	2606
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.974 %	1.067 %
As % of the category below	3.119 %	3.562 %
Salaries quoted	1364	2007
Average minimum salary	£48,659	£50,166
Average salary	£53,770	£56,055
% change on same period last year	-4.07 %
Average maximum salary	£58,880	£61,944
UK excluding London average salary	£49,732	£51,332
% change on same period last year	-3.11 %
Application Development England
Matching permanent IT job ads	59163	73169
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	31.23 %	29.96 %
Salaries quoted	50929	60404
Average minimum salary	£37,147	£38,948
Average salary	£40,735	£42,773
% change on same period last year	-4.76 %
Average maximum salary	£44,324	£46,598
UK excluding London average salary	£35,873	£36,830
% change on same period last year	-2.59 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Middleware across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Middleware across the England region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Middleware across the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	0	1089	£57,247	-5.76 %
South East	-41	294	£51,892	+1.99 %
North West	-28	159	£45,222	-1.55 %
East of England	+52	105	£50,585	+1.10 %
South West	-1	47	£54,244	+16.24 %
East Midlands	+6	42	£41,500	+9.44 %
West Midlands	-40	37	£44,113	-6.36 %
Yorkshire	-47	31	£39,406	-29.57 %
Midlands	+12	13	£60,938	-20.60 %
North East	-22	13	£43,125	-12.71 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Middleware.

1 1295 (34.41 %) Java 2 1202 (31.94 %) Finance 3 1107 (29.42 %) UNIX 4 1074 (28.54 %) Oracle 5 810 (21.53 %) .NET 6 750 (19.93 %) SQL 7 704 (18.71 %) Banking 8 703 (18.68 %) WebSphere 9 690 (18.34 %) J2EE 10 655 (17.41 %) Windows 11 637 (16.93 %) C# 11 637 (16.93 %) XML 12 553 (14.70 %) SQL Server 13 548 (14.56 %) Linux 14 546 (14.51 %) C++

15 486 (12.92 %) OO 16 453 (12.04 %) TIBCO 17 409 (10.87 %) WebLogic 18 396 (10.52 %) SOA 19 379 (10.07 %) Degree 20 373 (9.912 %) Microsoft 21 359 (9.540 %) WebServices 22 344 (9.142 %) Solaris 23 343 (9.115 %) MQSeries 24 328 (8.716 %) IBM 25 310 (8.238 %) JMS 26 306 (8.132 %) UML 27 293 (7.786 %) C 28 278 (7.388 %) Project Management 29 266 (7.069 %) Investment Banking

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Middleware. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 810 (21.53 %) .NET 2 703 (18.68 %) WebSphere 3 690 (18.34 %) J2EE 4 637 (16.93 %) XML 5 359 (9.540 %) WebServices 6 310 (8.238 %) JMS 7 216 (5.740 %) ASP.NET 8 193 (5.129 %) HTML 9 173 (4.597 %) SOAP 10 158 (4.199 %) Spring 11 156 (4.146 %) JSP 12 146 (3.880 %) JDBC 13 136 (3.614 %) AJAX 13 136 (3.614 %) Hibernate 14 102 (2.711 %) CSS 15 100 (2.657 %) Servlets 16 85 (2.259 %) ASP 17 84 (2.232 %) XSLT 18 77 (2.046 %) WBIMB 19 75 (1.993 %) J2SE	Application Platforms 1 409 (10.87 %) WebLogic 2 343 (9.115 %) MQSeries 3 209 (5.554 %) WebSphere MQ 4 205 (5.448 %) Apache 5 191 (5.076 %) BizTalk Server 6 189 (5.023 %) WebSphere Application Server 7 126 (3.348 %) IIS 8 125 (3.322 %) Tomcat 9 107 (2.843 %) TIBCO EMS 10 81 (2.153 %) JBoss 11 74 (1.967 %) SharePoint 12 61 (1.621 %) Oracle Application Server 13 58 (1.541 %) Oracle Workflow 14 56 (1.488 %) MS Exchange 15 55 (1.462 %) Rendezvous 16 46 (1.222 %) CMS 17 44 (1.169 %) WebSphere Message Broker 18 42 (1.116 %) ESB 19 32 (0.850 %) SAS 20 24 (0.638 %) WPS
Applications 1 204 (5.421 %) MS Excel 2 50 (1.329 %) MS Visio 3 49 (1.302 %) MS Office 4 18 (0.478 %) MS Project 5 17 (0.452 %) Spreadsheet 6 13 (0.345 %) Photoshop 7 11 (0.292 %) MS PowerPoint 8 5 (0.133 %) MATLAB 9 4 (0.106 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 82 (2.179 %) SAP CRM 2 52 (1.382 %) Oracle Applications 3 28 (0.744 %) Oracle EBS 4 26 (0.691 %) Oracle 11i 5 21 (0.558 %) Dynamics CRM 6 11 (0.292 %) Oracle ERP 7 10 (0.266 %) Microsoft CRM 7 10 (0.266 %) Endur 8 8 (0.213 %) Capstone 9 6 (0.159 %) Siebel Analytics 9 6 (0.159 %) SAP MDM 10 5 (0.133 %) Oracle Financials 10 5 (0.133 %) BusinessWorks 10 5 (0.133 %) FRONT ARENA 10 5 (0.133 %) assyst 11 4 (0.106 %) Dynamics NAV 11 4 (0.106 %) Singl.eView 11 4 (0.106 %) SAP R/3 11 4 (0.106 %) Navision 11 4 (0.106 %) MAXIMO
Communications & Networking 1 122 (3.242 %) TCP/IP 2 118 (3.136 %) Internet 3 104 (2.764 %) SAN 4 90 (2.392 %) HTTP 5 65 (1.727 %) Firewall 6 57 (1.515 %) SSL 7 47 (1.249 %) Intranet 8 44 (1.169 %) LDAP 9 42 (1.116 %) DVB 10 37 (0.983 %) FTP 11 36 (0.957 %) Wireless 12 34 (0.904 %) 3G 13 27 (0.718 %) LAN 14 26 (0.691 %) 2G 15 25 (0.664 %) WAN 16 23 (0.611 %) GPRS 17 21 (0.558 %) VPN 18 19 (0.505 %) GSM 19 18 (0.478 %) RTP 20 17 (0.452 %) SSH	Database & Business Intelligence 1 553 (14.70 %) SQL Server 2 177 (4.704 %) DB2 3 162 (4.305 %) RDBMS 4 140 (3.720 %) Oracle 10g 5 112 (2.976 %) SQL Server 2005 6 107 (2.843 %) Datawarehouse 7 105 (2.790 %) ETL 8 88 (2.339 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 80 (2.126 %) SQL Server 2000 10 65 (1.727 %) SQL Server 7 11 60 (1.594 %) Oracle Reports 12 50 (1.329 %) MySQL 13 48 (1.276 %) BusinessObjects 14 42 (1.116 %) Oracle 9i 15 30 (0.797 %) OLAP 16 23 (0.611 %) Star Schema 17 22 (0.585 %) Data Cleansing 18 18 (0.478 %) DataStage 19 17 (0.452 %) Reference Data 19 17 (0.452 %) Oracle 11g
Development Applications 1 139 (3.694 %) Ant 2 75 (1.993 %) Eclipse 3 69 (1.834 %) JUnit 4 62 (1.648 %) Subversion 5 32 (0.850 %) Dreamweaver 5 32 (0.850 %) ClearCase 6 25 (0.664 %) NUnit 7 24 (0.638 %) TestDirector 8 23 (0.611 %) Visual Studio 9 22 (0.585 %) VSS/SourceSafe 9 22 (0.585 %) Oracle Forms 10 16 (0.425 %) QuickTest Pro 11 15 (0.399 %) WebLogic Workshop 12 14 (0.372 %) Cactus 13 10 (0.266 %) LoadRunner 14 9 (0.239 %) ERwin 14 9 (0.239 %) WinRunner 14 9 (0.239 %) WATIR 15 7 (0.186 %) JIRA 15 7 (0.186 %) ClearQuest	General 1 1202 (31.94 %) Finance 2 704 (18.71 %) Banking 3 266 (7.069 %) Investment Banking 4 233 (6.192 %) Front Office 5 191 (5.076 %) Pensions 6 140 (3.720 %) Telecoms 7 129 (3.428 %) Health 8 104 (2.764 %) Insurance 9 92 (2.445 %) Retail 10 80 (2.126 %) Back Office 11 70 (1.860 %) Financial Institution 12 57 (1.515 %) Government 13 37 (0.983 %) Electronics 14 31 (0.824 %) Education 15 30 (0.797 %) Publishing 16 28 (0.744 %) Billing 17 19 (0.505 %) Games 17 19 (0.505 %) Construction 18 17 (0.452 %) Marketing 19 14 (0.372 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 950 (25.25 %) Developer 2 709 (18.84 %) Architect 3 423 (11.24 %) Analyst 4 396 (10.52 %) Consultant 5 333 (8.849 %) Java Developer 6 185 (4.916 %) Solutions Architect 7 182 (4.837 %) C# Developer 8 173 (4.597 %) .NET Developer 9 164 (4.358 %) Technical Architect 10 154 (4.092 %) Senior Developer 11 137 (3.641 %) Software Engineer 12 114 (3.029 %) Administrator 13 106 (2.817 %) Project Manager 14 99 (2.631 %) Enterprise Architect 15 92 (2.445 %) Support Analyst 16 89 (2.365 %) Programmer 17 87 (2.312 %) Technical Consultant 17 87 (2.312 %) SAP Consultant 18 84 (2.232 %) .NET Architect 19 83 (2.206 %) Java/J2EE Developer	Miscellaneous 1 181 (4.810 %) Derivative 2 167 (4.438 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 3 134 (3.561 %) Computer Science 4 111 (2.950 %) Fixed Income 5 104 (2.764 %) Mainframe 6 84 (2.232 %) Equities 7 68 (1.807 %) Multithreading 8 62 (1.648 %) N-Tier 9 60 (1.594 %) STB 10 57 (1.515 %) Equity Derivative 11 56 (1.488 %) Clustering 12 50 (1.329 %) Client/Server 13 46 (1.222 %) DTV 14 44 (1.169 %) MPEG 15 39 (1.036 %) Data Extraction 16 38 (1.010 %) Replication 17 36 (0.957 %) Management Information System 18 31 (0.824 %) Spread Betting 19 28 (0.744 %) AS400 20 25 (0.664 %) HACMP
Operating Systems 1 1107 (29.42 %) UNIX 2 655 (17.41 %) Windows 3 548 (14.56 %) Linux 4 344 (9.142 %) Solaris 5 238 (6.325 %) AIX 6 59 (1.568 %) Windows NT 7 55 (1.462 %) Windows 2000 8 52 (1.382 %) HPUX 9 36 (0.957 %) Windows Mobile 10 27 (0.718 %) zOS 11 24 (0.638 %) VxWorks 12 22 (0.585 %) Nucleus RTOS 13 11 (0.292 %) Embedded Linux 14 10 (0.266 %) Windows Server 2003 15 9 (0.239 %) OS/400 16 7 (0.186 %) Windows XP 17 6 (0.159 %) Windows CE 18 2 (0.053 %) Windows Vista 19 1 (0.027 %) OS/390 19 1 (0.027 %) Tru64	Processes & Methodologies 1 486 (12.92 %) OO 2 396 (10.52 %) SOA 3 306 (8.132 %) UML 4 278 (7.388 %) Project Management 5 219 (5.820 %) CRM 6 218 (5.793 %) EAI 7 186 (4.943 %) RUP 8 177 (4.704 %) ITIL 9 174 (4.624 %) Agile Software Development 10 160 (4.252 %) E-Commerce 11 123 (3.269 %) Workflow 12 119 (3.162 %) Security Cleared 13 111 (2.950 %) Technical Architecture 14 107 (2.843 %) Enterprise Architecture 15 102 (2.711 %) Software Engineering 16 96 (2.551 %) Risk Management 17 93 (2.471 %) Scrum 18 90 (2.392 %) Investment Management 19 87 (2.312 %) Data Management 19 87 (2.312 %) ERP
Programming Languages 1 1295 (34.41 %) Java 2 750 (19.93 %) SQL 3 637 (16.93 %) C# 4 546 (14.51 %) C++ 5 293 (7.786 %) C 6 221 (5.873 %) Shell Script 7 164 (4.358 %) VB 8 152 (4.039 %) JavaScript 9 148 (3.933 %) PL/SQL 10 141 (3.747 %) Perl 11 104 (2.764 %) VBA 12 72 (1.913 %) Transact-SQL 13 58 (1.541 %) ABAP 14 42 (1.116 %) Embedded C 15 40 (1.063 %) VB.NET 16 35 (0.930 %) Korn 17 29 (0.771 %) Python 18 22 (0.585 %) VC++ 18 22 (0.585 %) PHP 19 20 (0.531 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 379 (10.07 %) Degree 2 31 (0.824 %) ITIL Certification 3 26 (0.691 %) CISSP 4 23 (0.611 %) ISEB 5 19 (0.505 %) Microsoft Certification 6 16 (0.425 %) HND 7 12 (0.319 %) Sun Certification 8 10 (0.266 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 8 (0.213 %) Oracle Certification 9 8 (0.213 %) Cisco Certification 10 6 (0.159 %) MCSE 10 6 (0.159 %) MCP 10 6 (0.159 %) CISM 10 6 (0.159 %) PMP 10 6 (0.159 %) PMI Certification 11 5 (0.133 %) SCNA 11 5 (0.133 %) CCNP 11 5 (0.133 %) MCSA 12 4 (0.106 %) HNC 12 4 (0.106 %) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 59 (1.568 %) SLA 2 33 (0.877 %) QA 3 17 (0.452 %) ISO27001 4 12 (0.319 %) ISO17799 5 10 (0.266 %) PCI DSS 6 9 (0.239 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 7 5 (0.133 %) COBIT 8 3 (0.080 %) ISO9000 8 3 (0.080 %) HL7 9 2 (0.053 %) Basel II 10 1 (0.027 %) BS7799 10 1 (0.027 %) JTAG 10 1 (0.027 %) SNOMED CT	System Software 1 36 (0.957 %) Active Directory 2 34 (0.904 %) Oracle RAC 3 33 (0.877 %) AquaLogic 4 18 (0.478 %) MSMQ 5 15 (0.399 %) MetaFrame 6 12 (0.319 %) VMware Infrastructure 7 10 (0.266 %) Oracle RMAN 8 8 (0.213 %) VMware ESX 9 7 (0.186 %) LiteSpeed 10 6 (0.159 %) NetBackup 10 6 (0.159 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 11 5 (0.133 %) NFS 11 5 (0.133 %) NDS 12 4 (0.106 %) Terminal Services 12 4 (0.106 %) RACF
Systems Management 1 57 (1.515 %) Tivoli 2 25 (0.664 %) Tivoli Monitoring 3 19 (0.505 %) AutoSys 4 18 (0.478 %) OpenView 5 10 (0.266 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 10 (0.266 %) OMEGAMON 6 5 (0.133 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 7 4 (0.106 %) BMC PATROL 8 3 (0.080 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 9 2 (0.053 %) MOM 10 1 (0.027 %) Unicenter 10 1 (0.027 %) CONTROL-M 10 1 (0.027 %) CA SiteMinder 10 1 (0.027 %) Norton AntiVirus 10 1 (0.027 %) ServiceCenter 10 1 (0.027 %) AssetCenter	Vendors 1 1074 (28.54 %) Oracle 2 453 (12.04 %) TIBCO 3 373 (9.912 %) Microsoft 4 328 (8.716 %) IBM 5 193 (5.129 %) Sybase 6 192 (5.102 %) SAP 7 120 (3.189 %) BEA 8 109 (2.897 %) Sun 9 83 (2.206 %) Red Hat 10 63 (1.674 %) webMethods 11 53 (1.408 %) Siebel 12 52 (1.382 %) HP 13 49 (1.302 %) Cisco 14 48 (1.276 %) Business Objects 14 48 (1.276 %) EMC 15 42 (1.116 %) VMware 16 39 (1.036 %) Citrix 17 31 (0.824 %) SeeBeyond 18 30 (0.797 %) GoldenSource 19 28 (0.744 %) VERITAS