The first table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Middleware
Rank 77 65 61
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -4
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 9 24 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 1.079% 2.609% 1.603%
As % of the Application Development category 2.703% 7.101% 3.984%
Number of salaries quoted 9 24 10
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
UK excluding London average salary £47,000 £47,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year
-1.05% +2.15%
All Application Development
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
333 338 251
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 39.93% 36.74% 40.22%
Number of salaries quoted 310 324 234
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £46,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Middleware
Hampshire

Middleware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton Middleware Salary Trend

Middleware
Salary Histogram

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

Southampton Middleware Salary Histogram

Middleware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 12 (48.00%) Oracle
1 12 (48.00%) WebLogic
2 9 (36.00%) Linux
3 8 (32.00%) C
3 8 (32.00%) Python
4 7 (28.00%) Telecoms
5 6 (24.00%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (24.00%) DVB
5 6 (24.00%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (24.00%) STB
5 6 (24.00%) Java EE
5 6 (24.00%) Red Hat
5 6 (24.00%) Shell Script
5 6 (24.00%) SOA
5 6 (24.00%) Java
5 6 (24.00%) UNIX
5 6 (24.00%) Computer Science
5 6 (24.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (24.00%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (20.00%) SQL
6 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 5 (20.00%) Scrum
7 4 (16.00%) Regression Testing
7 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
7 4 (16.00%) Windows
7 4 (16.00%) ITIL
7 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
7 4 (16.00%) JMS
7 4 (16.00%) Digital Media
7 4 (16.00%) Oracle SOA Suite

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 6 (24.00%) Java EE
2 4 (16.00%) JMS
2 4 (16.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (16.00%) Apache CXF
3 3 (12.00%) POSIX
3 3 (12.00%) XML
4 1 (4.000%) RESTful
4 1 (4.000%) JPA
4 1 (4.000%) XHTML
4 1 (4.000%) J2EE
4 1 (4.000%) CSS
4 1 (4.000%) Web Services
4 1 (4.000%) Hibernate
4 1 (4.000%) Spring
4 1 (4.000%) JSF
4 1 (4.000%) Tapestry
4 1 (4.000%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 12 (48.00%) WebLogic
2 4 (16.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (8.000%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (8.000%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) DVB
2 3 (12.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.000%) RDBMS
General
1 7 (28.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (16.00%) Retail
3 3 (12.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Software Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Systems Support
2 6 (24.00%) Linux Support
3 4 (16.00%) Test Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Middleware Specialist
4 3 (12.00%) Embedded C Software Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Integration Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Software Integration Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Embedded C Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) C Software Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (8.000%) Oracle Applications DBA
5 2 (8.000%) DBA
6 1 (4.000%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 1 (4.000%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.000%) Developer
6 1 (4.000%) Support Specialist
6 1 (4.000%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.000%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) STB
1 6 (24.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (16.00%) Digital Media
3 3 (12.00%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (12.00%) DTV
4 1 (4.000%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Linux
2 6 (24.00%) UNIX
2 6 (24.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (24.00%) Oracle Linux
3 4 (16.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) Agile Software Development
1 6 (24.00%) SOA
2 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (20.00%) Scrum
3 4 (16.00%) Regression Testing
3 4 (16.00%) ITIL
3 4 (16.00%) Web Testing
4 3 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (12.00%) Software Architecture
5 2 (8.000%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (8.000%) Data Management
5 2 (8.000%) TDD
5 2 (8.000%) RUP
5 2 (8.000%) ICONIX
5 2 (8.000%) Use Case
6 1 (4.000%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) C
1 8 (32.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) Shell Script
2 6 (24.00%) Java
3 5 (20.00%) SQL
4 3 (12.00%) Embedded C
5 2 (8.000%) Ruby
5 2 (8.000%) C#
5 2 (8.000%) C++
6 1 (4.000%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.000%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) Oracle
2 6 (24.00%) Red Hat
3 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.000%) Google
5 1 (4.000%) TIBCO