Middleware Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Middleware
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Middleware skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 60 69
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 +26
Contract jobs citing Middleware 16 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.87% 0.28% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.66% 1.56% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 2
10th Percentile £407 - £933
25th Percentile £430 £488 £944
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £525 £975
Median % change year-on-year -14.86% -46.15% +95.00%
75th Percentile £461 £563 £994
90th Percentile £623 - £998
England median daily rate £550 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% +1.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 209 128 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 24.47% 17.61% 18.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 98 127
10th Percentile £269 £309 £300
25th Percentile £359 £340 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £442 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.95% -
75th Percentile £500 £510 £569
90th Percentile £625 £577 £650
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £21.21 - £27.86
25th Percentile £22.64 - £38.41
Median hourly rate £25.08 - £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +184.77%
75th Percentile £25.13 - £60.50
90th Percentile £25.14 - £63.20
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Middleware relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Middleware job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Middleware
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Middleware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Middleware

Middleware
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Middleware in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in the East Midlands

Middleware
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Middleware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Middleware

Middleware
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Northamptonshire +2 14 £447 - 3
Nottinghamshire - 2 - -
Middleware
England

Middleware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 8 (50.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) AtomSphere
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Boomi
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 9 (56.25%) Marketing
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Architect
2 8 (50.00%) Salesforce Architect
3 2 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) IT Support
3 2 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) ERP Manager
4 1 (6.25%) ERP Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Healthcare Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Healthcare Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) Lightning Web Components
1 9 (56.25%) REST
1 9 (56.25%) SOAP
1 9 (56.25%) Visualforce
2 1 (6.25%) FHIR
2 1 (6.25%) JSON
2 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 4 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 2 (12.50%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Agile
2 11 (68.75%) Migration
3 10 (62.50%) Data Migration
3 10 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (56.25%) Architecture Roadmap
4 9 (56.25%) Data Modelling
4 9 (56.25%) Integration Patterns
4 9 (56.25%) Roadmaps
5 8 (50.00%) Data Flow Diagram
5 8 (50.00%) Data Governance
5 8 (50.00%) Data Security
5 8 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 8 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (43.75%) Computer Science
6 7 (43.75%) Data Management
7 6 (37.50%) Design Patterns
7 6 (37.50%) Workshop Facilitation
8 3 (18.75%) Validation
9 2 (12.50%) Data Mapping
9 2 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Apex Code
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Degree
2 5 (31.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (31.25%) Master's Degree
3 2 (12.50%) PMI Certification
3 2 (12.50%) PMP
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (56.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 9 (56.25%) GDPR
2 8 (50.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.25%) HL7
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) Dell
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
2 1 (6.25%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) Workday