Middleware Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Middleware
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Middleware skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 87 129
Rank change year-on-year -25 +42 -28
Contract jobs citing Middleware 12 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.65% 0.60% 0.098%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.46% 2.82% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 1
10th Percentile £293 £436 -
25th Percentile £306 £477 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% -16.67% -12.73%
75th Percentile £492 £588 -
90th Percentile £654 £745 -
South East median daily rate £505 £500 £560
% change year-on-year +1.00% -10.71% +14.87%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

Middleware falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 347 248 327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 18.72% 21.31% 16.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 170 160
10th Percentile £373 £366 £325
25th Percentile £418 £423 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £509
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £608
90th Percentile £649 £654 £675
South East median daily rate £503 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -1.95% +2.50% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 15
10th Percentile £56.01 £39.64 £56.56
25th Percentile £73.25 £53.72 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.00 £77.19 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% +25.31% -21.53%
75th Percentile - £84.85 £62.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £89.44 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year -12.00% +1.46% -5.23%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Middleware relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Middleware job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Middleware
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Middleware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Middleware

Middleware
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Middleware in Berkshire over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in Berkshire

Middleware
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Middleware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Middleware

Middleware
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 21 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wokingham - 6 £306 - 1
Reading -23 2 £613 +22.50% 2
Slough - 1 - - 3
Bracknell - 1 - -
Middleware
South East

Middleware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 1 (8.33%) WebSphere
1 1 (8.33%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (8.33%) WebSphere Portal
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) NetSuite
1 1 (8.33%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) GCP
3 4 (33.33%) Datadog
4 3 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (16.67%) Boomi
6 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) HTTP
1 1 (8.33%) SSL
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Introscope
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Law
4 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365 Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (8.33%) ERP Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Middleware Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Middleware Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Middleware Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) JDBC
1 1 (8.33%) JMS
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (8.33%) Web Services
1 1 (8.33%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Clustering
3 1 (8.33%) CMDB
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (8.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) DevOps
1 7 (58.33%) ITIL
2 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Microservices
3 5 (41.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (33.33%) Application Performance Management
4 4 (33.33%) Change Management
4 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 4 (33.33%) Observability
4 4 (33.33%) Performance Management
4 4 (33.33%) Problem Management
4 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
6 2 (16.67%) API Development
6 2 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) ERP
6 2 (16.67%) Migration
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Bash
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
1 5 (41.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Jython
2 1 (8.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) PMO
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Grafana
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 4 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) CA Wily
2 1 (8.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) AppDynamics
2 4 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 4 (33.33%) Splunk
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (8.33%) BMC
4 1 (8.33%) IBM
4 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (8.33%) Remedy