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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 64 56
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 +35
Contract jobs citing Middleware 11 3 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.43% 0.40% 1.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.79% 2.36% 8.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 15
10th Percentile £431 £279 £328
25th Percentile - £289 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £310 £450
Median % change year-on-year +44.19% -31.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £450 £439 £488
90th Percentile £655 £513 £785
England median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -

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 190 127 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 24.64% 16.96% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 95 159
10th Percentile £256 £306 £313
25th Percentile £335 £325 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £474 £550 £538
90th Percentile £541 £621 £652
England median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £20.39 - -
25th Percentile £20.60 £22.50 -
Median hourly rate £21.96 £25.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.18% -61.54% +215.80%
75th Percentile £24.05 £28.13 -
90th Percentile £24.71 £28.50 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £56.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% -

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

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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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Middleware in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in the East Midlands

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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 16 August 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 -7 9 £447 +53.61% 4
Nottinghamshire - 1 - - 1
Leicestershire - 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 (9.09%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 6 (54.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) AtomSphere
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (9.09%) Boomi
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
1 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 6 (54.55%) Marketing
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Architect
2 5 (45.45%) Salesforce Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Project Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analytics Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) ERP Manager
4 1 (9.09%) ERP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) REST
1 7 (63.64%) SOAP
2 6 (54.55%) Lightning Web Components
2 6 (54.55%) Visualforce
3 1 (9.09%) JSON
3 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
2 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
3 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 2 (18.18%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
1 8 (72.73%) Migration
2 7 (63.64%) Data Governance
2 7 (63.64%) Data Migration
2 7 (63.64%) Integration Patterns
3 6 (54.55%) Architecture Roadmap
3 6 (54.55%) Computer Science
3 6 (54.55%) Data Flow Diagram
3 6 (54.55%) Data Modelling
3 6 (54.55%) Data Security
3 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (54.55%) Roadmaps
4 5 (45.45%) Data Management
4 5 (45.45%) Design Patterns
4 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
4 5 (45.45%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (36.36%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (18.18%) Cutover Planning
6 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Apex Code
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Degree
2 4 (36.36%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (36.36%) Master's Degree
3 2 (18.18%) PMI Certification
3 2 (18.18%) PMP
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 6 (54.55%) Data Quality
1 6 (54.55%) GDPR
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Salesforce
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Dell
3 1 (9.09%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) Workday