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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 106 152
Rank change year-on-year +1 +46 -1
Contract jobs citing Middleware 18 19 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.03% 0.88% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.98% 3.74% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 15
10th Percentile £426 £470 £435
25th Percentile £494 £507 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 £660 £634
Median % change year-on-year -7.01% +4.10% -2.46%
75th Percentile £728 £825 £688
90th Percentile £771 £875 £730
Central London median daily rate £614 £660 £634
% change year-on-year -7.01% +4.10% -2.46%

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 452 508 921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.98% 23.55% 26.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 351 586
10th Percentile £404 £406 £425
25th Percentile £450 £473 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £703 £738
90th Percentile £762 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £625
% change year-on-year -2.22% -10.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - £53.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.58%
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £69.47 - £53.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.58%

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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 25 June 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 (5.56%) Anypoint
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.56%) Magento
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (5.56%) SAP Convergent Charging
1 1 (5.56%) SAP CRM
1 1 (5.56%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 3 (16.67%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) PowerApps
4 2 (11.11%) Boomi
4 2 (11.11%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.56%) Datadog
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.56%) IaaS
5 1 (5.56%) PaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) LAN
1 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) KDB
2 2 (11.11%) Big Data
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (5.56%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.56%) Data Mart
3 1 (5.56%) MemSQL
3 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Eclipse
1 2 (11.11%) IntelliJ
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Banking
3 3 (16.67%) Retail
4 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Front Office
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Back Office
5 1 (5.56%) General Ledger
5 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.56%) International Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Law
5 1 (5.56%) Marketing
5 1 (5.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) CRM Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 2 (11.11%) KDB Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Applications Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Front Office Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Head of Technology
5 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Developer
5 1 (5.56%) SAP CRM Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) SOAP
2 3 (16.67%) REST
3 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 2 (11.11%) HTML
3 2 (11.11%) HTML5
3 2 (11.11%) Kafka
3 2 (11.11%) Spring
4 1 (5.56%) .NET
4 1 (5.56%) JSON
4 1 (5.56%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (5.56%) Murex MxML
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (5.56%) SAP BSP
4 1 (5.56%) Web Services
4 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (11.11%) Equities
3 1 (5.56%) BYOD
3 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.56%) Derivative
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) Unix
3 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (27.78%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) SDLC
4 3 (16.67%) Low Latency
4 3 (16.67%) Workflow
5 2 (11.11%) Algorithmic Trading
5 2 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (11.11%) CRM
5 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
5 2 (11.11%) Data Management
5 2 (11.11%) Data Migration
5 2 (11.11%) Electronic Trading
5 2 (11.11%) ERP
5 2 (11.11%) ETL
5 2 (11.11%) Market Making
5 2 (11.11%) Migration
5 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Java
2 5 (27.78%) Python
3 4 (22.22%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) C++
5 1 (5.56%) ABAP
5 1 (5.56%) Apex Code
5 1 (5.56%) Bash
5 1 (5.56%) Bicep
5 1 (5.56%) C#
5 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) GAAP
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) IFRS
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Argo
2 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Databricks
3 2 (11.11%) MuleSoft
3 2 (11.11%) OpenAI
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) SAP
4 1 (5.56%) Adobe
4 1 (5.56%) Jitterbit
4 1 (5.56%) Murex
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.56%) TIBCO