The first table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Middleware over the 3 months to 23 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Middleware
Rank 176 146 152
Rank change year-on-year
-30 +6
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 13 29 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.319% 0.796% 0.472%
As % of the Application Development category 0.611% 1.652% 1.105%
Number of salaries quoted 10 9 17
Average salary £48,750 £40,000 £44,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.87% -9.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £37,300 £37,400
10% offered a salary of more than £52,250 £48,500 £71,000
UK excluding London average salary £47,000 £47,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year
-1.05% +2.15%
All Application Development
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2126 1755 1720
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 52.20% 48.19% 42.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1946 1603 1592
Average salary £35,000 £33,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Middleware
North West

Middleware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Middleware Salary Trend

Middleware
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Middleware across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Manchester Middleware Salary Histogram

Middleware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 11 (32.35%) Oracle
2 9 (26.47%) Web Services
2 9 (26.47%) Finance
3 8 (23.53%) SQL Server
3 8 (23.53%) SQL
4 7 (20.59%) Linux
4 7 (20.59%) Windows
4 7 (20.59%) SOA
4 7 (20.59%) Mainframe
4 7 (20.59%) IBM
5 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
5 6 (17.65%) Citrix
5 6 (17.65%) UNIX
5 6 (17.65%) .NET
5 6 (17.65%) Firewall
6 5 (14.71%) Migration
6 5 (14.71%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (14.71%) Banking
6 5 (14.71%) WebSphere
6 5 (14.71%) WCF
6 5 (14.71%) Oracle 11g
6 5 (14.71%) C#
6 5 (14.71%) Java
6 5 (14.71%) OOP
6 5 (14.71%) MS Excel
6 5 (14.71%) E-Commerce
6 5 (14.71%) Internet
6 5 (14.71%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (14.71%) REST
6 5 (14.71%) Mobile App

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 9 (26.47%) Web Services
2 6 (17.65%) .NET
3 5 (14.71%) WebSphere
3 5 (14.71%) WCF
3 5 (14.71%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (14.71%) REST
4 4 (11.76%) XML
5 3 (8.824%) J2EE
5 3 (8.824%) SOAP
6 2 (5.882%) XSLT
6 2 (5.882%) JSON
6 2 (5.882%) Spring
7 1 (2.941%) Hibernate
7 1 (2.941%) Java EE
7 1 (2.941%) ASP.NET
7 1 (2.941%) XSD
7 1 (2.941%) XSL
7 1 (2.941%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 4 (11.76%) WebSphere MQ
2 3 (8.824%) WebLogic
2 3 (8.824%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (5.882%) Magento
3 2 (5.882%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (5.882%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 2 (5.882%) ESB
4 1 (2.941%) GlassFish
4 1 (2.941%) Apache
4 1 (2.941%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (14.71%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (11.76%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) Firewall
2 5 (14.71%) Internet
3 4 (11.76%) Intranet
4 2 (5.882%) Unified Communications
4 2 (5.882%) Q.931
4 2 (5.882%) QSIG
4 2 (5.882%) CTI
4 2 (5.882%) DPNSS
4 2 (5.882%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.882%) ATM
4 2 (5.882%) ISDN
4 2 (5.882%) VoIP
4 2 (5.882%) Ethernet
5 1 (2.941%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.71%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (8.824%) MySQL
4 1 (2.941%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.941%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (2.941%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (5.882%) MSI
2 1 (2.941%) JIRA
2 1 (2.941%) Selenium
2 1 (2.941%) JUnit
2 1 (2.941%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (2.941%) LoadRunner
2 1 (2.941%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (26.47%) Finance
2 5 (14.71%) Banking
3 3 (8.824%) Retail
4 2 (5.882%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.941%) Games
5 1 (2.941%) Electronics
5 1 (2.941%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.941%) Advertising
5 1 (2.941%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Architect
2 9 (26.47%) Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Designer
4 4 (11.76%) Consultant
4 4 (11.76%) SOA Architect
4 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Manager
4 4 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.824%) Solutions Designer
5 3 (8.824%) C# Developer
5 3 (8.824%) Lead Architect
5 3 (8.824%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Oracle Architect
6 2 (5.882%) .NET Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Junior
6 2 (5.882%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.882%) PHP Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Junior Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Technical Consultant
7 1 (2.941%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Mainframe
2 5 (14.71%) Mobile App
3 4 (11.76%) N-Tier
4 2 (5.882%) Open Source
4 2 (5.882%) Cryptography
4 2 (5.882%) IVR
5 1 (2.941%) Replication
5 1 (2.941%) Tandem
5 1 (2.941%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.941%) HACMP
5 1 (2.941%) ASIC
5 1 (2.941%) Oracle Exalogic
5 1 (2.941%) iSeries
5 1 (2.941%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (2.941%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Linux
1 7 (20.59%) Windows
2 6 (17.65%) UNIX
3 4 (11.76%) AIX
4 2 (5.882%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (20.59%) SOA
2 5 (14.71%) Migration
2 5 (14.71%) OOP
2 5 (14.71%) E-Commerce
3 4 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (8.824%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (8.824%) Project Management
4 3 (8.824%) Test Management
5 2 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (5.882%) Unit Testing
5 2 (5.882%) WFM
5 2 (5.882%) TOGAF
5 2 (5.882%) Service Management
5 2 (5.882%) Validation
5 2 (5.882%) Business Continuity
6 1 (2.941%) Identity Management
6 1 (2.941%) Scrum
6 1 (2.941%) Information Security
6 1 (2.941%) Programme Management
6 1 (2.941%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) SQL
2 5 (14.71%) C#
2 5 (14.71%) Java
3 3 (8.824%) T-SQL
4 2 (5.882%) PHP
5 1 (2.941%) XPath
5 1 (2.941%) C++
5 1 (2.941%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 2 (5.882%) Degree
2 1 (2.941%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.941%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.882%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.941%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (2.941%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (2.941%) PowerHA
1 1 (2.941%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.941%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Oracle
2 7 (20.59%) IBM
3 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 6 (17.65%) Citrix
4 2 (5.882%) Nortel
4 2 (5.882%) Cisco
4 2 (5.882%) Avaya
5 1 (2.941%) VMware
5 1 (2.941%) Google
5 1 (2.941%) JBoss
5 1 (2.941%) Cognizant
5 1 (2.941%) TIBCO
Manchester, North West
My Financial client based in Manchester is looking for a Senior Network Architect to join their team... You will be based in the heart of the City Centre...
Computer Futures
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013