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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 88 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing Middleware 20 10 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.04% 0.83% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.60% 3.73% -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 0
10th Percentile £420 £378 -
25th Percentile £450 £419 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £609 £691 -
90th Percentile £703 £865 -
South East median daily rate £500 £578 £591
% change year-on-year -13.49% -2.12% +31.22%

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 263 268 302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.64% 22.33% 17.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 172 204
10th Percentile £344 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £580
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% -13.75% +5.45%
75th Percentile £619 £595 £638
90th Percentile £738 £638 £668
South East median daily rate £525 £475 £528
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.95% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 10
10th Percentile £65.99 £30.66 £53.76
25th Percentile £71.00 £31.28 -
Median hourly rate £79.91 £32.31 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +147.32% -47.55% +9.88%
75th Percentile £87.16 £62.63 -
90th Percentile £87.32 £80.55 £62.93
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +40.00% -18.83% +5.14%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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
Reading -23 7 £530 -11.67% 1
Wokingham - 5 £450 -
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 (20.00%) WebSphere
1 4 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (10.00%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (10.00%) JBoss
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (10.00%) WebSphere Portal
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (5.00%) SAP BRIM
1 1 (5.00%) SAP Convergent Charging
1 1 (5.00%) SAP ERP
1 1 (5.00%) SAP MDG
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (10.00%) GitHub
2 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (10.00%) SaaS
2 2 (10.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) SAP Fieldglass
2 2 (10.00%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) Salsify
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) DNS
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) HTTP
1 2 (10.00%) SSL
1 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) GitLab
2 2 (10.00%) Introscope
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Retail
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Automotive
5 1 (5.00%) Billing
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
1 6 (30.00%) Senior
2 5 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Middleware Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
4 2 (10.00%) ERP Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Salesforce Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Middleware Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Salesforce Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Grid Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) SAP Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) REST
1 4 (20.00%) SOAP
2 2 (10.00%) JDBC
2 2 (10.00%) JMS
2 2 (10.00%) Kafka
2 2 (10.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (10.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (20.00%) SCADA
4 2 (10.00%) AI Agents
4 2 (10.00%) Clustering
5 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (10.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 2 (10.00%) Unix
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Agile
2 6 (30.00%) ERP
2 6 (30.00%) Migration
3 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (25.00%) DevOps
3 5 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 4 (20.00%) Defect Management
4 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (20.00%) Test Management
5 3 (15.00%) CRM
5 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) Scrum
5 3 (15.00%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (10.00%) Architecture Governance
6 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (10.00%) Sprint Retrospective
6 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Bash
1 4 (20.00%) Perl
1 4 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) Apex Code
2 2 (10.00%) Jython
2 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) SAP Certification
3 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) IAG
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (10.00%) CA Wily
2 2 (10.00%) Tivoli
3 1 (5.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle
1 6 (30.00%) SAP
2 4 (20.00%) IBM
2 4 (20.00%) MuleSoft
2 4 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (10.00%) AppDynamics
3 2 (10.00%) Ariba
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (5.00%) Concur
4 1 (5.00%) HP
4 1 (5.00%) Informatica