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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 60 63
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 +3
Contract jobs citing Middleware 8 13 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.58% 1.57% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.33% 5.99% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 2
10th Percentile £431 £410 £323
25th Percentile £448 £442 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £447 £418
Median % change year-on-year +17.45% +7.07% -57.18%
75th Percentile £659 £471 £501
90th Percentile £744 £638 £538
England median daily rate £550 £525 £590
% change year-on-year +4.76% -11.05% -1.63%

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 150 217 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.96% 26.24% 18.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 183 104
10th Percentile £381 £268 £307
25th Percentile £409 £358 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £415 £419
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -0.90% -11.84%
75th Percentile £575 £496 £506
90th Percentile £605 £605 £581
England median daily rate £538 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +21.82% -15.38% +8.33%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +7 4 £463 +3.47% 4
Nottinghamshire -14 1 £675 - 4
Derbyshire - 1 - - 2
Leicestershire - 1 £500 - 2
Lincolnshire - 1 £800 - 4
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (12.50%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) OCI
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle APEX
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) DBA
2 2 (25.00%) Integration Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Applications DBA
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Centre Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Chip and PIN
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Migration
1 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
2 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) ERP
2 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (12.50%) Application Rationalisation
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Front End Development
3 1 (12.50%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Line Management
3 1 (12.50%) Microservices
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (12.50%) Target Operating Model
3 1 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Workday