Middleware Contracts in the East of England

Middleware
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 76 102 115
Rank change year-on-year +26 +13 +17
Contract jobs citing Middleware 6 10 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.64% 0.52% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.03% 3.47% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 6
10th Percentile £419 £463 £525
25th Percentile £525 £567 £669
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £581 £819
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -29.10% +45.56%
75th Percentile £725 £582 £927
90th Percentile £738 £585 £950
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +60.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 149 288 277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.88% 15.09% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 148 165
10th Percentile £336 £325 £327
25th Percentile £425 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £499 £520
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% -4.09% +4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £630
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 57 23
10th Percentile £65.00 - £21.00
25th Percentile £66.25 - £21.75
Median hourly rate £80.68 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +87.62% -33.85% +32.65%
75th Percentile £81.35 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £82.10 £66.25 £74.50
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Middleware in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Middleware in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Middleware in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Cambridgeshire +9 4 £700 +20.27% 3
Bedfordshire -1 1 £575 +21.05%
Essex - 1 £325 -
Middleware
England

Middleware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) iPaaS
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Gerrit
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (16.67%) POSIX
1 1 (16.67%) Visualforce
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
1 1 (16.67%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Device Driver
1 1 (16.67%) STB
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
1 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) API Design
2 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (16.67%) ERP
2 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (16.67%) Product Requirements
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Debt
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
2 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (16.67%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Apex Code
1 1 (16.67%) C
1 1 (16.67%) C++
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (16.67%) SnapLogic