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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 111 108
Rank change year-on-year +26 -3 +19
Contract jobs citing Middleware 10 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.86% 0.059% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.85% 0.32% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile £378 - £350
25th Percentile £419 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.00%
75th Percentile £591 - £700
90th Percentile £716 - £701
South East median daily rate £536 £591 £450
% change year-on-year -9.19% +31.22% -21.74%

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 260 317 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.43% 18.82% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 214 171
10th Percentile £350 £363 £313
25th Percentile £410 £450 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +6.02%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £644
90th Percentile £638 £663 £701
South East median daily rate £472 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -10.10% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 3
10th Percentile - £50.87 £24.68
25th Percentile - - £36.45
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £56.06
Median % change year-on-year -47.55% +9.88% -18.31%
75th Percentile - - £67.63
90th Percentile - £64.25 £74.56
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -4.00%

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
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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 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 +29 5 £438 - 1
Maidenhead - 1 - -
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 (30.00%) ArcGIS
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle Spatial
1 3 (30.00%) Smallworld
2 1 (10.00%) Anypoint
2 1 (10.00%) Gunicorn
2 1 (10.00%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (10.00%) SaaS
1 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (30.00%) GIS
1 3 (30.00%) Spatial Data
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 1 (10.00%) Local Government
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) GIS Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Migration Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Django Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) GIS Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) PostGIS
2 2 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (10.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (10.00%) Django
3 1 (10.00%) jQuery
3 1 (10.00%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) SOAP
3 1 (10.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) CentOS
2 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Unix
3 1 (10.00%) VMS
3 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (40.00%) TOGAF
4 3 (30.00%) Architectural Design
4 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (30.00%) Data Migration
4 3 (30.00%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (30.00%) Migration
4 3 (30.00%) Open Source
5 2 (20.00%) Benchmarking
5 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) ITIL
5 2 (20.00%) Network Design
5 2 (20.00%) Validation
6 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
6 1 (10.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Magik
2 1 (10.00%) Apex Code
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) vSphere
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) ESRI
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow