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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 64 60
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +26
Contract jobs citing Middleware 10 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.27% 0.50% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.03% 2.90% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 9
10th Percentile £431 £279 £425
25th Percentile £447 £289 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £310 £475
Median % change year-on-year +45.16% -34.74% -5.00%
75th Percentile £492 £439 £500
90th Percentile £655 £513 £980
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 199 138 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 25.22% 17.38% 20.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 105 148
10th Percentile £266 £306 £313
25th Percentile £352 £325 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -6.32% -
75th Percentile £488 £550 £538
90th Percentile £571 £620 £650
England median daily rate £512 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.91% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £20.39 - -
25th Percentile £20.60 - -
Median hourly rate £21.96 - £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +230.54%
75th Percentile £24.05 - -
90th Percentile £24.71 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% -3.16%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -6 9 £450 +54.64% 2
Nottinghamshire - 1 - - 1
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 6 (60.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) AtomSphere
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Boomi
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 6 (60.00%) Marketing
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 5 (50.00%) Salesforce Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) ERP Manager
4 1 (10.00%) ERP Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) REST
1 7 (70.00%) SOAP
2 6 (60.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 6 (60.00%) Visualforce
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 2 (20.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
1 8 (80.00%) Migration
2 7 (70.00%) Data Migration
2 7 (70.00%) Integration Patterns
3 6 (60.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (60.00%) Data Flow Diagram
3 6 (60.00%) Data Governance
3 6 (60.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (60.00%) Data Security
3 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (60.00%) Roadmaps
4 5 (50.00%) Data Management
4 5 (50.00%) Design Patterns
4 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (20.00%) Cutover Planning
6 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Apex Code
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (40.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (20.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (20.00%) PMP
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 6 (60.00%) Data Quality
1 6 (60.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) Dell
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Workday