Middleware Contracts in the City of London

Middleware
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 111 147
Rank change year-on-year +6 +36 -2
Contract jobs citing Middleware 14 15 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.80% 0.68% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.92% 3.12% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 17
10th Percentile £445 £525 £440
25th Percentile £522 £575 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £725 £875 £700
90th Percentile £770 £895 £793
Central London median daily rate £630 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -6.67% +8.00% -2.72%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 480 481 1,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.32% 21.89% 28.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 344 669
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £551 £625
% change year-on-year +4.45% -11.92% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Middleware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Middleware in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Middleware in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Middleware in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Middleware in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Middleware in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (7.14%) Anypoint
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (7.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Boomi
2 3 (21.43%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 3 (21.43%) PowerApps
3 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Big Data
2 2 (14.29%) KDB
3 1 (7.14%) Data Mart
3 1 (7.14%) DB2
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Front Office
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Retail
4 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Law
4 1 (7.14%) Marketing
4 1 (7.14%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Architect
2 5 (35.71%) Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Data Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Data Integration Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Integration Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) CRM Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Front Office Developer
5 1 (7.14%) IT Architect
5 1 (7.14%) RPG Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) REST
1 3 (21.43%) SOAP
2 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 2 (14.29%) HTML
2 2 (14.29%) HTML5
3 1 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (7.14%) JSON
3 1 (7.14%) Kafka
3 1 (7.14%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (7.14%) Murex MxML
3 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Equities
1 2 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.14%) AS400
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) API Integration
4 3 (21.43%) Data Security
4 3 (21.43%) Microservices
4 3 (21.43%) Workflow
5 2 (14.29%) Algorithmic Trading
5 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 2 (14.29%) Data Integration
5 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
5 2 (14.29%) ERP
5 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (14.29%) Market Making
5 2 (14.29%) Migration
5 2 (14.29%) SDLC
5 2 (14.29%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Java
1 3 (21.43%) Python
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Apex Code
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) Bicep
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) R
2 1 (7.14%) RPG
2 1 (7.14%) RPG IV
2 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) MOM
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Argo
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) MuleSoft
2 2 (14.29%) Databricks
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) OpenAI
3 1 (7.14%) Adobe
3 1 (7.14%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) Jitterbit
3 1 (7.14%) Murex
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.14%) TIBCO