Middleware Contracts in Berkshire

Middleware
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Middleware skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Middleware over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 109 107
Rank change year-on-year +27 -2 +16
Contract jobs citing Middleware 9 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.79% 0.051% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.60% 0.31% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile £415 - £508
25th Percentile £438 - £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £744 - £700
90th Percentile £870 - £701
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £438
% change year-on-year - +25.71% -27.08%

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 250 327 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 21.85% 16.68% 16.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 215 217
10th Percentile £350 £334 £345
25th Percentile £413 £455 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £638
90th Percentile £638 £658 £706
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 19 9
10th Percentile £30.87 £56.62 £16.07
25th Percentile £31.80 £56.65 £70.00
Median hourly rate £54.75 £61.60 £78.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.12% -21.53% +124.29%
75th Percentile £81.02 - £80.25
90th Percentile £87.91 £61.68 £80.40
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £63.25
% change year-on-year -18.83% -2.61% +40.56%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Middleware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in Berkshire

Middleware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Middleware in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Middleware in Berkshire

Middleware
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Middleware in Berkshire over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in Berkshire

Middleware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Middleware in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Middleware in Berkshire

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 30 June 2025. 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
Reading - 4 £800 - 15
Maidenhead - 1 - - 4
Middleware
South East

Middleware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) ArcGIS
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle Spatial
1 3 (33.33%) Smallworld
2 1 (11.11%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (11.11%) SaaS
1 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 3 (33.33%) GIS
1 3 (33.33%) Spatial Data
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Local Government
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
2 3 (33.33%) GIS Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Migration Architect
4 1 (11.11%) GIS Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) SAP Architect
4 1 (11.11%) SAP Enterprise Architect
4 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) PostGIS
2 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) CentOS
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Ubuntu
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
2 1 (11.11%) VMS
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (55.56%) TOGAF
4 4 (44.44%) Data Modelling
4 4 (44.44%) DevOps
5 3 (33.33%) Architectural Design
5 3 (33.33%) Data Governance
5 3 (33.33%) Data Migration
5 3 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (33.33%) Migration
5 3 (33.33%) Open Source
6 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (22.22%) Data Management
6 2 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) Network Design
6 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
6 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (22.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Magik
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) vSphere
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) ESRI
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) SAP
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow