Middleware Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Middleware
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Middleware skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 63 92
Rank change year-on-year -1 +29 +30
Contract jobs citing Middleware 1 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.16% 0.95% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.78% 3.59% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - - £570
25th Percentile - £463 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £565 -
90th Percentile - £579 -
Scotland median daily rate £513 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +7.89% -20.83% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 128 195 276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 20.58% 26.42% 27.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 115 191
10th Percentile £416 £380 £400
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £480
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.07% +0.95%
75th Percentile £545 £533 £550
90th Percentile £610 £625 £600
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £57.72
% change year-on-year - -4.70% +40.14%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Middleware relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Middleware job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Middleware
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Middleware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Middleware

Middleware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Diagram
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) VMware