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 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 90 122
Rank change year-on-year -7 +32 -19
Contract jobs citing Middleware 21 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.16% 0.34% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.29% 1.66% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 1
10th Percentile £306 £415 -
25th Percentile £372 £438 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £605 £863 -
90th Percentile £694 £885 -
South East median daily rate £503 £578 £500
% change year-on-year -13.06% +15.60% +5.26%

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 288 241 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.90% 20.70% 14.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 159 185
10th Percentile £358 £350 £325
25th Percentile £412 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £619
90th Percentile £686 £663 £675
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 17
10th Percentile £50.15 £39.64 £56.59
25th Percentile £63.34 £53.72 £56.65
Median hourly rate £75.62 £77.19 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +25.31% -21.78%
75th Percentile £82.09 £84.85 -
90th Percentile £82.26 £89.44 £61.76
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +9.09% -10.71% -12.00%

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 May 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 May 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 - 7 £306 - 1
Reading -19 5 £600 -25.00%
Bracknell - 4 £625 -
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 4 (19.05%) WebSphere
1 4 (19.05%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (9.52%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (9.52%) JBoss
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (9.52%) WebSphere Portal
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (4.76%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (4.76%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (4.76%) SAP BRIM
1 1 (4.76%) SAP Convergent Charging
1 1 (4.76%) SAP ERP
1 1 (4.76%) SAP MDG
1 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) AWS
3 4 (19.05%) Datadog
3 4 (19.05%) GCP
4 3 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (9.52%) OpenShift
5 2 (9.52%) SaaS
6 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.76%) Boomi
6 1 (4.76%) Salsify
6 1 (4.76%) SAP Fieldglass
6 1 (4.76%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) DNS
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
1 2 (9.52%) HTTP
1 2 (9.52%) SSL
1 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) GitLab
2 2 (9.52%) Introscope
2 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Finance
4 3 (14.29%) Retail
5 1 (4.76%) Automotive
5 1 (4.76%) Billing
5 1 (4.76%) Law
5 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Middleware Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365 Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
5 2 (9.52%) ERP Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Middleware Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Applications Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Data Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Middleware Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Operations Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.76%) SAP Project Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) JDBC
1 2 (9.52%) JMS
1 2 (9.52%) Kafka
1 2 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (9.52%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.52%) Clustering
3 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.52%) SCADA
4 1 (4.76%) CMDB
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (9.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 2 (9.52%) Unix
2 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) DevOps
2 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 7 (33.33%) ITIL
2 7 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (28.57%) Agile
3 6 (28.57%) Migration
3 6 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (23.81%) Change Management
4 5 (23.81%) ERP
5 4 (19.05%) Application Performance Management
5 4 (19.05%) Integration Patterns
5 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
5 4 (19.05%) Microservices
5 4 (19.05%) Observability
5 4 (19.05%) Performance Management
5 4 (19.05%) Problem Management
6 3 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (14.29%) Event-Driven
6 3 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) Bash
1 8 (38.10%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 4 (19.05%) Perl
4 2 (9.52%) Jython
4 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Ansible
1 4 (19.05%) Grafana
1 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
1 4 (19.05%) Prometheus
2 2 (9.52%) CA Wily
2 2 (9.52%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) AppDynamics
2 5 (23.81%) SAP
3 4 (19.05%) Dynatrace
3 4 (19.05%) IBM
3 4 (19.05%) Oracle
3 4 (19.05%) Red Hat
3 4 (19.05%) Splunk
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 2 (9.52%) MuleSoft
5 2 (9.52%) Salesforce
6 1 (4.76%) Ariba
6 1 (4.76%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (4.76%) BMC
6 1 (4.76%) Concur
6 1 (4.76%) Informatica
6 1 (4.76%) Remedy