The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Middleware over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

Middleware
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank168167143
Rank change year-on-year
Down-1Down-24
Matching permanent IT job ads187518441592
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.555 %1.504 %1.667 %
As % of the Application Development category3.720 %3.754 %4.372 %
Number of salaries quoted145315291181
Average salary£57,500£57,500£52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+9.52 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£40,000£37,500£37,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£85,000£81,900£80,000
UK excluding London average salary£47,500£46,500£45,000
% change year-on-year
+2.15 %+3.33 %
IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
504084911936413
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK41.80 %40.06 %38.14 %
Number of salaries quoted447934339731363
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

Middleware
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Middleware within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Middleware Demand Trend

Middleware
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Middleware within the UK.

Middleware Salary Trend

Middleware
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Middleware over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Middleware Salary Histogram

Middleware
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-91719£58,500+1.73 %
LondonDown-23942£67,500+3.84 %
South EastUp+46287£48,000+20.00 %
City of LondonDown-31238£65,000-
HampshireUp+47141£44,000+17.33 %
North WestDown-27121£45,000+5.88 %
CheshireDown-1478£47,500+11.76 %
South WestUp+1476£42,500+1.19 %
YorkshireDown-1374£40,000-1.23 %
East of EnglandDown-3369£50,000-
BerkshireDown-1953£50,000-13.04 %
West YorkshireDown-352£40,000-
West MidlandsDown-4148£42,500-22.72 %
SurreyDown-1346£47,500+26.66 %
East MidlandsDown-442£52,500+12.90 %
KnutsfordDown-837£40,000-2.43 %
LeedsDown-1335£40,000-37.25 %
BasingstokeDown-431£50,000+25.00 %
Canary WharfUp+1628£75,000+15.38 %
ManchesterUp+528£40,000-9.09 %
ScotlandDown-1528£45,000-14.28 %
HertfordshireUp+526£59,320-15.25 %
NottinghamshireUp+2525£46,500+24.00 %
CambridgeshireDown-725£45,000-10.00 %
StainesUp+2424£45,000+20.00 %
SouthamptonDown-1424£40,000+6.66 %
NottinghamUp+2223£46,500+55.00 %
CambridgeUp+819£50,000+11.11 %
EdinburghUp+2418£42,500-39.28 %
DevonNew entry-18£48,750-

Middleware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

11865 (47.65 %)Java
21715 (43.82 %)Oracle
31070 (27.34 %)UNIX
4975 (24.91 %)Finance
5949 (24.25 %)Linux
6910 (23.25 %)SOA
7752 (19.21 %)SQL
8723 (18.47 %)WebSphere
9699 (17.86 %)J2EE
10645 (16.48 %)Windows
11623 (15.92 %)Web Services
12587 (15.00 %)WebLogic
13586 (14.97 %)Banking
14580 (14.82 %)XML
15577 (14.74 %)Oracle Fusion
16543 (13.87 %).NET
17464 (11.85 %)Tomcat
18462 (11.80 %)IBM
19447 (11.42 %)C#
20437 (11.17 %)Degree
21402 (10.27 %)Microsoft
22380 (9.709 %)C++
23368 (9.402 %)TIBCO
24367 (9.377 %)SQL Server
24367 (9.377 %)E-Commerce
25364 (9.300 %)OO
26363 (9.274 %)Apache
27351 (8.968 %)Perl
28315 (8.048 %)Oracle EBS
29310 (7.920 %)Spring

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1723 (18.47 %)WebSphere
2699 (17.86 %)J2EE
3623 (15.92 %)Web Services
4580 (14.82 %)XML
5577 (14.74 %)Oracle Fusion
6543 (13.87 %).NET
7310 (7.920 %)Spring
8270 (6.898 %)JMS
9222 (5.672 %)HTML
10207 (5.289 %)Java EE
11199 (5.084 %)CSS
12197 (5.033 %)SOAP
13190 (4.854 %)Hibernate
14148 (3.781 %)JSP
15142 (3.628 %)JDBC
16135 (3.449 %)Ajax
17111 (2.836 %)Servlets
18108 (2.759 %)XSLT
1994 (2.402 %).NET Framework
2092 (2.351 %)EJB
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1587 (15.00 %)WebLogic
2464 (11.85 %)Tomcat
3363 (9.274 %)Apache
4224 (5.723 %)ESB
5223 (5.697 %)WebSphere MQ
6216 (5.519 %)WebSphere Application Server
6216 (5.519 %)Oracle SOA Suite
7176 (4.497 %)IIS
8140 (3.577 %)MQSeries
9121 (3.091 %)Oracle Coherence
10114 (2.913 %)Oracle Service Bus
1183 (2.121 %)SharePoint
1281 (2.069 %)WebSphere Message Broker
1380 (2.044 %)Rendezvous
1479 (2.018 %)GlassFish
1578 (1.993 %)Oracle Workflow
1673 (1.865 %)JCAPS
1769 (1.763 %)IBM HTTP Server
1855 (1.405 %)TIBCO EMS
1942 (1.073 %)BizTalk Server
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1134 (3.424 %)MS Excel
299 (2.529 %)MS Visio
349 (1.252 %)MS Office
417 (0.434 %)MS Project
53 (0.077 %)MS PowerPoint
62 (0.051 %)MATLAB
71 (0.026 %)Doxygen
71 (0.026 %)Photoshop
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1315 (8.048 %)Oracle EBS
2227 (5.800 %)Oracle BPM
3159 (4.062 %)Oracle EBS R12
490 (2.299 %)Oracle Applications
570 (1.788 %)Oracle ERP
649 (1.252 %)Oracle 11i
745 (1.150 %)RMDS
829 (0.741 %)Dynamics CRM
829 (0.741 %)SAP CRM
925 (0.639 %)BusinessWorks
1016 (0.409 %)Oracle CRM
1016 (0.409 %)Maximo
1114 (0.358 %)BASE24
1213 (0.332 %)Oracle Financials
1310 (0.255 %)SAP CCM
1310 (0.255 %)CA Clarity
1310 (0.255 %)SunGard Stream Clearvision
149 (0.230 %)TIBCO iProcess
149 (0.230 %)SAP SRM
158 (0.204 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1200 (5.110 %)Internet
2187 (4.778 %)TCP/IP
3182 (4.650 %)LDAP
4146 (3.730 %)SAN
5143 (3.654 %)SSL
6126 (3.219 %)HTTP
7122 (3.117 %)Firewall
890 (2.299 %)DMZ
965 (1.661 %)NAS
1057 (1.456 %)WAN
1156 (1.431 %)LAN
1241 (1.048 %)AMQP
1330 (0.766 %)DNS
1422 (0.562 %)VoIP
1520 (0.511 %)FTP
1619 (0.485 %)Intranet
1619 (0.485 %)Extranet
1716 (0.409 %)BSS
1814 (0.358 %)Network Security
1912 (0.307 %)OSPF
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1367 (9.377 %)SQL Server
2221 (5.646 %)Oracle 11g
3199 (5.084 %)DB2
4167 (4.267 %)Oracle 10g
5151 (3.858 %)RDBMS
6144 (3.679 %)Data Warehouse
793 (2.376 %)Oracle BI EE
887 (2.223 %)MySQL
985 (2.172 %)Oracle Reports
985 (2.172 %)Oracle 8/8i
1075 (1.916 %)ETL
1159 (1.507 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1159 (1.507 %)Oracle Exadata
1249 (1.252 %)Oracle Discoverer
1345 (1.150 %)GIS
1439 (0.996 %)Oracle 9i
1534 (0.869 %)NoSQL
1632 (0.818 %)KDB
1632 (0.818 %)OLTP
1728 (0.715 %)SQL Server 2008
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1145 (3.705 %)Subversion
2117 (2.989 %)Ant
396 (2.453 %)Maven
493 (2.376 %)JDeveloper
577 (1.967 %)Eclipse
666 (1.686 %)Oracle Forms
745 (1.150 %)ClearCase
842 (1.073 %)Selenium
941 (1.048 %)JUnit
941 (1.048 %)TeamCity
1033 (0.843 %)Git (software)
1130 (0.766 %)Hudson
1229 (0.741 %)NUnit
1327 (0.690 %)JIRA
1426 (0.664 %)LSMW
1524 (0.613 %)QuickTest Pro
1623 (0.588 %)Visual Studio
1623 (0.588 %)Mercurial
1720 (0.511 %)TortoiseSVN
1819 (0.485 %)Bugzilla
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1975 (24.91 %)Finance
2586 (14.97 %)Banking
3238 (6.081 %)Retail
4205 (5.238 %)Investment Banking
5151 (3.858 %)Telecoms
6100 (2.555 %)Front Office
791 (2.325 %)Games
875 (1.916 %)Manufacturing
974 (1.891 %)Back Office
1066 (1.686 %)Marketing
1128 (0.715 %)Financial Institution
1227 (0.690 %)Retail Banking
1227 (0.690 %)Publishing
1322 (0.562 %)French Language
1416 (0.409 %)German Language
1416 (0.409 %)Italian Language
1416 (0.409 %)Online Betting
1416 (0.409 %)Electronics
1515 (0.383 %)Legal
1515 (0.383 %)General Ledger
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1964 (24.63 %)Architect
2941 (24.04 %)Developer
3432 (11.04 %)Analyst
4379 (9.683 %)Java Developer
5307 (7.844 %)Consultant
6305 (7.793 %)Solutions Architect
7217 (5.544 %)Technical Architect
8192 (4.905 %)Oracle Architect
9161 (4.113 %)Senior Developer
10152 (3.883 %)Support Analyst
11144 (3.679 %)Software Engineer
11144 (3.679 %)Administrator
12139 (3.551 %)Technical Analyst
13133 (3.398 %)Applications Support
14128 (3.270 %)C# Developer
15119 (3.040 %)Middleware Engineer
16118 (3.015 %)Designer
17105 (2.683 %)Oracle Technical Architect
1897 (2.478 %)Senior Java Developer
1993 (2.376 %)DBA
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1191 (4.880 %)Open Source
2136 (3.475 %)Computer Science
391 (2.325 %)PKI
486 (2.197 %)Management Information System
577 (1.967 %)Clustering
577 (1.967 %)Derivative
669 (1.763 %)Client/Server
768 (1.737 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
866 (1.686 %)Mainframe
961 (1.559 %)Hedge funds
1060 (1.533 %)N-Tier
1147 (1.201 %)Equities
1147 (1.201 %)Visualisation
1244 (1.124 %)SWIFT
1343 (1.099 %)Fixed Income
1442 (1.073 %)Oracle Exalogic
1539 (0.996 %)Cloud Computing
1637 (0.945 %)Online Games
1733 (0.843 %)Spread Betting
1832 (0.818 %)Mathematics
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11070 (27.34 %)UNIX
2949 (24.25 %)Linux
3645 (16.48 %)Windows
4280 (7.154 %)Solaris
5172 (4.394 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6123 (3.143 %)AIX
766 (1.686 %)HPUX
826 (0.664 %)Android
925 (0.639 %)zOS
925 (0.639 %)Windows Server 2003
1023 (0.588 %)Windows 2000 Server
1121 (0.537 %)Windows NT
1219 (0.485 %)Windows Server 2008
1316 (0.409 %)Apple iOS
1411 (0.281 %)VxWorks
1510 (0.255 %)Embedded Linux
1510 (0.255 %)Oracle Linux
169 (0.230 %)Windows Phone 7
178 (0.204 %)Windows CE
187 (0.179 %)Ubuntu
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1910 (23.25 %)SOA
2367 (9.377 %)E-Commerce
3364 (9.300 %)OO
4307 (7.844 %)UML
5301 (7.690 %)Agile Software Development
6274 (7.001 %)ITIL
7251 (6.413 %)Project Management
8248 (6.336 %)Business Intelligence
9229 (5.851 %)CRM
10203 (5.187 %)Enterprise Architecture
11190 (4.854 %)Multithreading
12186 (4.752 %)BPEL
12186 (4.752 %)Change Management
13185 (4.727 %)Scrum
13185 (4.727 %)Technical Architecture
14184 (4.701 %)Workflow
15183 (4.676 %)ERP
16181 (4.624 %)EAI
17163 (4.165 %)Continuous Integration
18141 (3.602 %)Service Delivery
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11865 (47.65 %)Java
2752 (19.21 %)SQL
3447 (11.42 %)C#
4380 (9.709 %)C++
5351 (8.968 %)Perl
6294 (7.511 %)JavaScript
7265 (6.771 %)PL/SQL
8246 (6.285 %)Python
9237 (6.055 %)Shell Script
10170 (4.343 %)C
11153 (3.909 %)Ruby
1280 (2.044 %)VB
1369 (1.763 %)PHP
1460 (1.533 %)Bash shell
1558 (1.482 %)Embedded C
1644 (1.124 %)VBScript
1740 (1.022 %)Korn
1839 (0.996 %)AWK
1936 (0.920 %)ABAP
2033 (0.843 %)XPath
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1437 (11.17 %)Degree
2309 (7.895 %)Security Cleared
3176 (4.497 %)SC Cleared
462 (1.584 %)Oracle Certification
545 (1.150 %)ISEB
629 (0.741 %)IBM Certification
726 (0.664 %)ITIL Certification
825 (0.639 %)ISEB Practitioner
825 (0.639 %)Cisco Certification
913 (0.332 %)PMI Certification
1012 (0.307 %)PMP
1012 (0.307 %)Microsoft Certification
1012 (0.307 %)ISTQB
1110 (0.255 %)OCP
1110 (0.255 %)CISSP
1110 (0.255 %)CIMA
129 (0.230 %)CCIE
129 (0.230 %)DV Cleared
138 (0.204 %)MCSE
138 (0.204 %)CCNA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1129 (3.296 %)QA
219 (0.485 %)SLA
313 (0.332 %)PCI DSS
412 (0.307 %)ISO 8583
59 (0.230 %)COBIT
59 (0.230 %)HL7
65 (0.128 %)COSO
74 (0.102 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
74 (0.102 %)ISO 9000
83 (0.077 %)ISO 9001
92 (0.051 %)DO-178B
92 (0.051 %)Data Quality
101 (0.026 %)FATCA
101 (0.026 %)BS7799
101 (0.026 %)ISO/IEC 27001
101 (0.026 %)WAI
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1123 (3.143 %)Active Directory
2100 (2.555 %)VMware Infrastructure
362 (1.584 %)Oracle RAC
434 (0.869 %)Oracle RMAN
527 (0.690 %)Xen
622 (0.562 %)VMware ESX
716 (0.409 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
814 (0.358 %)Hyper-V
912 (0.307 %)vSphere
1011 (0.281 %)ClearTrust
118 (0.204 %)Squid
118 (0.204 %)XenDesktop
126 (0.153 %)vCloud
135 (0.128 %)Postfix
144 (0.102 %)XenApp
153 (0.077 %)XenServer
153 (0.077 %)OpenSSO
161 (0.026 %)Veritas Cluster Server
161 (0.026 %)SRDF
161 (0.026 %)Citrix Presentation Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1112 (2.862 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
273 (1.865 %)Tivoli
334 (0.869 %)HP Quality Center
433 (0.843 %)CA Wily
524 (0.613 %)Data Guard
621 (0.537 %)Control-M
718 (0.460 %)OpenView
817 (0.434 %)Tivoli Monitoring
817 (0.434 %)Puppet
913 (0.332 %)Netcool
109 (0.230 %)NetBackup
109 (0.230 %)Splunk
118 (0.204 %)ZABBIX
118 (0.204 %)Netcool/Proviso
118 (0.204 %)BMC PATROL
118 (0.204 %)Tivoli NetView
118 (0.204 %)MOM
126 (0.153 %)BladeLogic
126 (0.153 %)OMEGAMON
126 (0.153 %)McAfee ePO
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11715 (43.82 %)Oracle
2462 (11.80 %)IBM
3402 (10.27 %)Microsoft
4368 (9.402 %)TIBCO
5295 (7.537 %)JBoss
6190 (4.854 %)Sun
7147 (3.756 %)Red Hat
8139 (3.551 %)HP
9136 (3.475 %)SAP
10132 (3.373 %)VMware
1190 (2.299 %)Siebel
1289 (2.274 %)Cisco
1370 (1.788 %)29West
1463 (1.610 %)Sybase
1557 (1.456 %)BEA
1655 (1.405 %)Informatica
1753 (1.354 %)ATG
1851 (1.303 %)Bloomberg
1950 (1.277 %)Reuters
2045 (1.150 %)Hyperion