The first table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Middleware
Rank 97 122 128
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +6
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 43 28 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.744% 1.112% 1.127%
As % of the Application Development category 5.041% 2.612% 3.319%
Number of salaries quoted 34 14 17
Average salary £53,500 £59,320 £70,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.81% -15.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £45,750 £44,500
10% offered a salary of more than £63,550 £70,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £47,000 £47,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year
-1.05% +2.15%
All Application Development
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
853 1072 1145
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 34.60% 42.56% 33.95%
Number of salaries quoted 712 882 970
Average salary £42,000 £42,500 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.17% +1.19%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £58,350 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Middleware
East of England

Middleware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Middleware Jobs Demand Trend

Middleware
Salary Trend

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

Hertfordshire Middleware Salary Trend

Middleware
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Middleware across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hertfordshire Middleware Salary Histogram

Middleware
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the Hertfordshire 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Watford +12 6 £42,750 -
Rickmansworth -9 6 £60,000 +33.33%
Hemel Hempstead - 6 £53,500 -
Hitchin - 4 - -
Welwyn Garden City - 4 £32,500 -
Stevenage - 2 £35,000 -
Middleware
East of England

Middleware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 78 (59.54%) UNIX
2 68 (51.91%) Java
2 68 (51.91%) Oracle
3 67 (51.15%) Finance
4 62 (47.33%) Solaris
5 58 (44.27%) WebLogic
6 41 (31.30%) ITIL
6 41 (31.30%) IBM
6 41 (31.30%) WebSphere
7 39 (29.77%) J2EE
8 36 (27.48%) Shell Script
9 31 (23.66%) SAP
9 31 (23.66%) CRM
10 28 (21.37%) Apache
10 28 (21.37%) SOA
11 27 (20.61%) Web Services
12 25 (19.08%) Linux
13 24 (18.32%) HTTP
14 23 (17.56%) ABAP
14 23 (17.56%) HP
15 22 (16.79%) BASE24
16 21 (16.03%) Retail
17 20 (15.27%) SAP BSP
17 20 (15.27%) Tivoli
17 20 (15.27%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
17 20 (15.27%) Ant
18 18 (13.74%) AIX
18 18 (13.74%) Tomcat
18 18 (13.74%) MQSeries
18 18 (13.74%) Red Hat

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 41 (31.30%) WebSphere
2 39 (29.77%) J2EE
3 27 (20.61%) Web Services
4 20 (15.27%) SAP BSP
5 12 (9.160%) JDBC
6 10 (7.634%) XML
7 9 (6.870%) Web Dynpro
8 6 (4.580%) Java EE
9 5 (3.817%) SAP PI
9 5 (3.817%) SAP Basis
10 4 (3.053%) JMS
11 3 (2.290%) JNDI
11 3 (2.290%) HTML
11 3 (2.290%) XSL
11 3 (2.290%) CSS
11 3 (2.290%) SOAP
12 2 (1.527%) Servlets
12 2 (1.527%) Hibernate
12 2 (1.527%) Spring
12 2 (1.527%) JSF
Application Platforms
1 58 (44.27%) WebLogic
2 28 (21.37%) Apache
3 18 (13.74%) Tomcat
3 18 (13.74%) MQSeries
4 14 (10.69%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 12 (9.160%) NetWeaver
6 11 (8.397%) IBM HTTP Server
6 11 (8.397%) WebSphere Application Server
7 10 (7.634%) IIS
7 10 (7.634%) WebSphere MQ
8 3 (2.290%) ESB
8 3 (2.290%) CMS
9 1 (0.763%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.763%) Lync
9 1 (0.763%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.763%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.763%) MS Exchange
9 1 (0.763%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 9 (6.870%) MS Office
2 1 (0.763%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 22 (16.79%) BASE24
2 5 (3.817%) SAP BPC
3 3 (2.290%) Temenos Globus
3 3 (2.290%) SAP R/3
Communications & Networking
1 24 (18.32%) HTTP
2 17 (12.98%) TCP/IP
3 12 (9.160%) ATM
4 9 (6.870%) FTP
5 8 (6.107%) SAN
6 3 (2.290%) Network Security
6 3 (2.290%) SSH
6 3 (2.290%) LDAP
6 3 (2.290%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.45%) DB2
2 14 (10.69%) Oracle 10g
2 14 (10.69%) Oracle 11g
3 13 (9.924%) Oracle 8/8i
4 12 (9.160%) SAP BW
5 5 (3.817%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.763%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (0.763%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (0.763%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (15.27%) Ant
2 3 (2.290%) Log4j
2 3 (2.290%) OpenDeploy
General
1 67 (51.15%) Finance
2 21 (16.03%) Retail
3 18 (13.74%) Games
4 11 (8.397%) Banking
5 10 (7.634%) Advertising
6 4 (3.053%) Marketing
7 1 (0.763%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (23.66%) Architect
1 31 (23.66%) Developer
2 24 (18.32%) SAP Developer
3 19 (14.50%) Middleware Developer
4 16 (12.21%) Solutions Architect
5 15 (11.45%) Administrator
6 14 (10.69%) Analyst
6 14 (10.69%) Service Manager
7 13 (9.924%) Technical Manager
7 13 (9.924%) Technical Services Manager
7 13 (9.924%) ABAP Developer
8 12 (9.160%) Middleware Engineer
9 10 (7.634%) Technical Architect
9 10 (7.634%) Support Analyst
10 9 (6.870%) Operations Analyst
10 9 (6.870%) Operations Support Analyst
11 8 (6.107%) Middleware Administrator
12 7 (5.344%) Infrastructure Architect
13 5 (3.817%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
13 5 (3.817%) SAP Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.45%) SWIFT
2 9 (6.870%) FMCG
3 7 (5.344%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.817%) PKI
5 4 (3.053%) Computer Science
6 3 (2.290%) Statistics
6 3 (2.290%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.763%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.763%) DataPower
7 1 (0.763%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.763%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 78 (59.54%) UNIX
2 62 (47.33%) Solaris
3 25 (19.08%) Linux
4 18 (13.74%) AIX
5 12 (9.160%) Windows
6 4 (3.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.290%) SUSE
7 3 (2.290%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (31.30%) ITIL
2 31 (23.66%) CRM
3 28 (21.37%) SOA
4 17 (12.98%) OO
5 14 (10.69%) Performance Improvement
5 14 (10.69%) Capacity Management
6 11 (8.397%) Process Management
6 11 (8.397%) ERP
7 10 (7.634%) Project Management
7 10 (7.634%) SAP Security
7 10 (7.634%) Web Application Development
8 9 (6.870%) Technical Architecture
8 9 (6.870%) Service Management
9 8 (6.107%) Programme Management
9 8 (6.107%) Service Delivery
10 7 (5.344%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (5.344%) Load Balancing
10 7 (5.344%) E-Commerce
11 6 (4.580%) Migration
11 6 (4.580%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 68 (51.91%) Java
2 36 (27.48%) Shell Script
3 23 (17.56%) ABAP
4 17 (12.98%) Perl
5 16 (12.21%) Bash shell
6 15 (11.45%) SQL
7 13 (9.924%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
7 13 (9.924%) Python
8 7 (5.344%) Korn
9 4 (3.053%) PL/SQL
9 4 (3.053%) Ruby
10 3 (2.290%) SAPscript
11 1 (0.763%) VB6
11 1 (0.763%) PHP
11 1 (0.763%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.763%) C
11 1 (0.763%) C#
11 1 (0.763%) C++
11 1 (0.763%) VB
11 1 (0.763%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (6.107%) Degree
2 3 (2.290%) RHCE
3 1 (0.763%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.69%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (15.27%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 3 (2.290%) Hyper-V
2 3 (2.290%) vSphere
2 3 (2.290%) VMware ESX
3 1 (0.763%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.763%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 20 (15.27%) Tivoli
2 2 (1.527%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 68 (51.91%) Oracle
2 41 (31.30%) IBM
3 31 (23.66%) SAP
4 23 (17.56%) HP
5 18 (13.74%) Red Hat
6 11 (8.397%) Sun
6 11 (8.397%) Microsoft
6 11 (8.397%) JBoss
7 9 (6.870%) Cisco
8 5 (3.817%) BEA
9 4 (3.053%) Intel
9 4 (3.053%) VMware
9 4 (3.053%) VocaLink
10 3 (2.290%) Endeca
10 3 (2.290%) ATG
10 3 (2.290%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.763%) F5
11 1 (0.763%) Citrix
Hertfordshire, South East
This role will include liaisons with other technical teams under IT infrastructure and Networks such as Unix services, Database services, Application Support and Capacity as well as liaison...
Volt
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Total package £59,000
Posted: 24 May 2013
Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire
Implement and test Middleware installs and upgrades. Provide strategy guidance and deliver future Middleware solutions... Oracle Weblogic administration ( 8,9,10). Oracle Weblogic Scripting Tool. Apache HTTP Server...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Rickmansworth, South East
As an experienced Middleware Engineer you will be asked to deliver an outstanding level of Middleware Administration support across all live payment systems, ensuring that the systems meet...
Claremont Consulting
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Hertfordshire, South East
Exciting company in the Financial Services sector are currently recruiting for a Middleware Engineer.Essential skills:3-4 years experience in a demanding, high availability environment Oracle Weblogic...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £60000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, Healthcare
Posted: 18 May 2013
Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire
This role will include liaisons with other technical teams under I.T Infrastructure & Networks such as Unix Services, Database Services, Essential: *3-4 years' experience in a demanding,...
RDF Resources
Salary: £50000 per annum + £59,000 package
Posted: 21 May 2013
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
A major Software Engineering Company based in the Home Counties is currently seeking an Embedded / Middleware developer with expertise in C and or C++. The responsibilities of the...
EXCELerate
Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum Corporate Benefits incl. Health, Pension
Posted: 22 May 2013
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Awareness of Model Based Design and associated tools such as, MATLAB, Simulink, Stateflow... Ada / C / C++ / JAVA... Linux, VxWorks. Requirements management e.g. DOORS. Configuration Management e.g...
MBDA UK Ltd
Posted: 7 May 2013