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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 47 59
Rank change year-on-year -17 +12 +11
Contract jobs citing Middleware 19 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.88% 0.56% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.42% 3.33% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 2
10th Percentile £383 - £515
25th Percentile £395 £463 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year -15.37% -11.63% +53.57%
75th Percentile £479 £488 £556
90th Percentile £598 - £560
England median daily rate £563 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% +4.35%

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 153 90 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.12% 16.73% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 71 68
10th Percentile £360 £311 £239
25th Percentile £402 £350 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £444 £409
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +8.62% -3.82%
75th Percentile £550 £510 £525
90th Percentile £625 £550 £625
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 12
10th Percentile £15.84 - -
25th Percentile £19.29 - £10.90
Median hourly rate £25.08 - £23.64
75th Percentile £25.13 - £29.88
90th Percentile £25.14 - £53.73
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year +1.56% +31.36% -25.05%

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

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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 9 March 2026.

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 9 March 2026. 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 -13 12 £402 - 2
Nottinghamshire - 7 £550 - 1
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 6 (31.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 4 (21.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
General
1 11 (57.89%) Finance
2 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
3 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
4 5 (26.32%) Marketing
5 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (10.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Architect
2 6 (31.58%) SAP Architect
2 6 (31.58%) SAP Solutions Architect
2 6 (31.58%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (26.32%) Salesforce Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Designer
5 2 (10.53%) IT Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) IT Support
5 2 (10.53%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Designer
6 1 (5.26%) Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Business Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Healthcare Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Healthcare Business Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Integration Architect
6 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (47.37%) Lightning Web Components
1 9 (47.37%) Visualforce
2 5 (26.32%) REST
2 5 (26.32%) SOAP
3 1 (5.26%) FHIR
3 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Public Cloud
2 4 (21.05%) Product Ownership
3 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Integration Patterns
2 9 (47.37%) Data Modelling
2 9 (47.37%) Mentoring
2 9 (47.37%) Technical Leadership
3 8 (42.11%) Agile
3 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (36.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (31.58%) Analytics
6 5 (26.32%) Architecture Roadmap
6 5 (26.32%) Data Governance
6 5 (26.32%) Data Migration
6 5 (26.32%) Migration
6 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
7 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
7 4 (21.05%) Data Flow Diagram
7 4 (21.05%) Data Management
7 4 (21.05%) Data Security
7 4 (21.05%) DevOps
7 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (21.05%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Apex Code
2 4 (21.05%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) SAP Certification
2 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 5 (26.32%) GDPR
2 4 (21.05%) Data Quality
3 3 (15.79%) QA
4 1 (5.26%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Salesforce
2 6 (31.58%) SAP
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft