Middleware Contracts in the East Midlands

Middleware
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 53 62 59
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 +33
Contract jobs citing Middleware 3 4 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.56% 0.52% 2.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.57% 3.28% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 26
10th Percentile £449 £282 £313
25th Percentile £451 £297 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £418 £350
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% +19.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £477 £544 £484
90th Percentile £483 £555 £538
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -0.86%

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 84 122 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.67% 15.78% 22.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 81 224
10th Percentile £259 £250 £308
25th Percentile £320 £325 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £563 £538
90th Percentile £540 £625 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.67 £10.90 -
Median hourly rate £23.41 £23.37 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% - -
75th Percentile £25.16 £28.44 -
90th Percentile - £35.93 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Middleware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in the East Midlands

Middleware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Middleware in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Middleware in the East Midlands

Middleware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Middleware in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Middleware in the East Midlands

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 1 May 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
Leicestershire +8 2 £475 -13.64% 2
Northamptonshire -2 1 £447 +53.61% 3
Middleware
England

Middleware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) ETL Development
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Apex Code
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 1 (33.33%) SAP