Middleware Contracts in Cardiff

Middleware
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 32 34
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 +21
Contract jobs citing Middleware 3 3 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.88% 1.42% 3.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.71% 4.69% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £501 £423
25th Percentile - £503 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year -24.65% +13.16% +9.20%
75th Percentile - £584 £513
90th Percentile - £594 £528
South Wales median daily rate £405 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -24.65% +2.38% +13.51%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 28 64 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 17.50% 30.19% 36.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 56 93
10th Percentile £196 £369 £300
25th Percentile £312 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% -6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £539 £586
90th Percentile £588 £623 £650
South Wales median daily rate £405 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -14.29% -

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in Cardiff

Middleware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Middleware in Cardiff

Middleware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (100.00%) WebLogic
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) JBoss
3 1 (33.33%) nginx
3 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (33.33%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) OCI
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) JWT
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) SOA
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) LXC
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat