The first table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills in IT jobs advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Middleware over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Liverpool region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Middleware
Rank 44 59 44
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -15
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 13 4 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 3.066% 0.789% 3.012%
As % of the Application Development category 6.468% 1.569% 6.173%
Number of salaries quoted 12 3 6
Average salary £50,000 £38,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+29.87% +22.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,800 £38,500 £31,250
10% offered a salary of more than £54,500 £41,300 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £47,000 £48,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year
-3.09% +1.04%
All Application Development
Liverpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
201 255 162
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 47.41% 50.30% 48.80%
Number of salaries quoted 186 233 131
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £28,500 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
Middleware
Merseyside

Middleware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool Middleware Salary Trend

Middleware
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Middleware across the Liverpool region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Liverpool Middleware Salary Histogram

Middleware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 19 (100.00%) Oracle
2 12 (63.16%) SOA
2 12 (63.16%) WebLogic
2 12 (63.16%) Oracle Fusion
3 11 (57.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 11 (57.89%) Oracle Service Bus
3 11 (57.89%) SQL
4 10 (52.63%) PL/SQL
4 10 (52.63%) Oracle 11g
5 9 (47.37%) Java
6 7 (36.84%) Oracle 10g
7 6 (31.58%) JMS
7 6 (31.58%) Web Services
7 6 (31.58%) UNIX
7 6 (31.58%) ESB
8 5 (26.32%) Perl
8 5 (26.32%) WSDL
8 5 (26.32%) Shell Script
9 4 (21.05%) Logistics
10 3 (15.79%) Retail
10 3 (15.79%) BPEL
10 3 (15.79%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (15.79%) Oracle BPM
11 2 (10.53%) Oracle 8/8i
11 2 (10.53%) Finance
12 1 (5.263%) Manufacturing
12 1 (5.263%) Management Information System
12 1 (5.263%) Microsoft
12 1 (5.263%) Project Management
12 1 (5.263%) Uniface

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 12 (63.16%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (31.58%) JMS
2 6 (31.58%) Web Services
3 5 (26.32%) WSDL
4 1 (5.263%) CSS
4 1 (5.263%) HTML
4 1 (5.263%) .NET
4 1 (5.263%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (5.263%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.263%) WCF
4 1 (5.263%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 12 (63.16%) WebLogic
2 11 (57.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 11 (57.89%) Oracle Service Bus
3 6 (31.58%) ESB
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) Oracle 11g
2 7 (36.84%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (5.263%) Informix
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle APEX
General
1 3 (15.79%) Retail
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 1 (5.263%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Developer
2 11 (57.89%) Oracle Developer
3 6 (31.58%) Middleware Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Oracle SOA Developer
4 4 (21.05%) SOA Developer
5 2 (10.53%) IT Development Manager
5 2 (10.53%) SQL Developer
5 2 (10.53%) PL/SQL Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Development Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Systems Development Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Systems Manager
6 1 (5.263%) Analyst
6 1 (5.263%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (5.263%) Graduate
6 1 (5.263%) Head of Testing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.263%) Mathematics
1 1 (5.263%) Physics
1 1 (5.263%) Computer Science
1 1 (5.263%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) SOA
2 4 (21.05%) Logistics
3 3 (15.79%) BPEL
4 1 (5.263%) Project Management
4 1 (5.263%) Business Analysis
4 1 (5.263%) Software Testing
4 1 (5.263%) Web Development
4 1 (5.263%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) SQL
2 10 (52.63%) PL/SQL
3 9 (47.37%) Java
4 5 (26.32%) Perl
4 5 (26.32%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.263%) Uniface
5 1 (5.263%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.263%) C
5 1 (5.263%) C#
5 1 (5.263%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.263%) VB
5 1 (5.263%) Ruby
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.263%) Microsoft