Middleware Contract Job Trends in England

Middleware
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Middleware skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 263 346
Rank change year-on-year +43 +83 -29
Contract jobs citing Middleware 453 213 199
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.20% 0.88% 0.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.75% 3.89% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 118 142
10th Percentile £381 £387 £413
25th Percentile £460 £440 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £614
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -10.39% +5.59%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £719
90th Percentile £775 £750 £799
UK median daily rate £550 £516 £600
% change year-on-year +6.54% -13.96% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 22 3
10th Percentile - £61.25 £54.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £62.75 £58.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% -
75th Percentile - £65.75 £74.38
90th Percentile - £68.68 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,884 5,476 7,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.93% 22.60% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,272 3,775 5,394
10th Percentile £360 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.92% -5.65%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 88 173
10th Percentile £35.13 £27.38 £20.78
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.19 £37.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.27 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £48.72
% change year-on-year +2.77% +29.82% -25.05%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Middleware job vacancy trend in England

Middleware
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Middleware

Middleware
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Middleware in England over the 6 months to 27 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in England

Middleware
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Middleware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Middleware

Middleware
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Middleware in England over the 6 months to 27 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Middleware in England

Middleware
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 27 March 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
London +63 223 £600 +11.63% 46
North of England -22 76 £525 -4.55% 27
Midlands -25 61 £500 +5.26% 15
South West -19 50 £309 -43.82% 15
West Midlands -33 42 £500 - 3
North West -12 39 £469 -14.73% 8
Yorkshire -30 36 £530 +11.58% 10
South East -36 30 £500 - 44
East Midlands -17 17 £402 -12.80% 12
East of England -23 14 £492 -32.14% 15
North East - 1 £500 - 10
Middleware
UK

Middleware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 15 (3.31%) WebSphere
2 13 (2.87%) Confluence
3 11 (2.43%) Apache
3 11 (2.43%) Tomcat
4 8 (1.77%) Apache Geronimo
4 8 (1.77%) Apache ServiceMix
4 8 (1.77%) CICS
4 8 (1.77%) Red Hat Fuse
5 6 (1.32%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (1.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.88%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (0.66%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.66%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.66%) IBM HTTP Server
8 3 (0.66%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.44%) CMS
9 2 (0.44%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.44%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.44%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 7 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.88%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 22 (4.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.77%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (1.55%) Oracle General Ledger
3 7 (1.55%) Shopify
4 6 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.88%) Bloomberg AIM
6 4 (0.88%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.88%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.66%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.66%) Oracle 11i
7 3 (0.66%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.44%) CODA-Financials
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.44%) SAP EWM
8 2 (0.44%) SAP Payroll
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 127 (28.04%) Azure
2 60 (13.25%) AWS
3 40 (8.83%) GCP
4 30 (6.62%) SaaS
5 19 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (3.75%) Boomi
7 16 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (2.87%) Power Platform
9 12 (2.65%) OCI
9 12 (2.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 11 (2.43%) Serverless
11 10 (2.21%) Datadog
12 9 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (1.99%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 8 (1.77%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (1.77%) iPaaS
13 8 (1.77%) SuccessFactors
14 7 (1.55%) Entra ID
14 7 (1.55%) GitHub
14 7 (1.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.74%) Firewall
2 11 (2.43%) HTTP
3 8 (1.77%) LAN
3 8 (1.77%) TCP/IP
3 8 (1.77%) WAN
4 5 (1.10%) DNS
4 5 (1.10%) Multicast
5 4 (0.88%) tcpdump
5 4 (0.88%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.66%) DHCP
6 3 (0.66%) IPv4
6 3 (0.66%) IPv6
7 2 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.44%) Network Security
7 2 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.44%) SAN
7 2 (0.44%) SSL
7 2 (0.44%) VPN
8 1 (0.22%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.22%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.09%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.43%) Power BI
3 10 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (2.21%) DataStage
4 8 (1.77%) Oracle Database
5 7 (1.55%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (0.88%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.88%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.66%) Big Data
8 3 (0.66%) Data Hub
8 3 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.66%) Metadata
8 3 (0.66%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.66%) Oracle Database 10g
8 3 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.44%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (5.74%) JIRA
2 24 (5.30%) GitLab
3 19 (4.19%) Git
4 18 (3.97%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.99%) Jaeger
6 7 (1.55%) JUnit
7 5 (1.10%) Ant
7 5 (1.10%) Gatling
7 5 (1.10%) JMeter
7 5 (1.10%) Rational Rhapsody
8 4 (0.88%) SoapUI
9 3 (0.66%) Introscope
10 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.44%) Gradle
10 2 (0.44%) Hudson
10 2 (0.44%) Mockito
10 2 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.44%) Postman
10 2 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
General
1 142 (31.35%) Finance
2 130 (28.70%) Social Skills
3 64 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (13.47%) Banking
5 35 (7.73%) Public Sector
6 25 (5.52%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (4.42%) Retail
8 17 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (3.53%) Investment Banking
10 13 (2.87%) Financial Institution
10 13 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.43%) Front Office
11 11 (2.43%) Law
11 11 (2.43%) Legal
12 10 (2.21%) Aerospace
12 10 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (2.21%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.77%) Marketing
14 7 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.10%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 158 (34.88%) Architect
2 83 (18.32%) Solutions Architect
3 42 (9.27%) Developer
4 36 (7.95%) Senior
5 34 (7.51%) Lead
5 34 (7.51%) Software Engineer
6 25 (5.52%) Technical Architect
7 24 (5.30%) Analyst
8 23 (5.08%) Integration Architect
9 20 (4.42%) C++ Software Engineer
10 18 (3.97%) Consultant
11 17 (3.75%) Java Engineer
12 15 (3.31%) Project Manager
13 14 (3.09%) Salesforce Architect
13 14 (3.09%) SAP Architect
14 13 (2.87%) Integration Analyst
14 13 (2.87%) Payments Architect
14 13 (2.87%) Payments Solutions Architect
14 13 (2.87%) SAP Solutions Architect
14 13 (2.87%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (13.25%) REST
2 41 (9.05%) Kafka
3 34 (7.51%) SOAP
4 22 (4.86%) Lightning Web Components
5 21 (4.64%) XML
6 18 (3.97%) Qt
7 15 (3.31%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (3.31%) Visualforce
8 14 (3.09%) .NET
8 14 (3.09%) Spring Boot
9 13 (2.87%) JMS
9 13 (2.87%) RESTful
10 11 (2.43%) FIX Protocol
11 10 (2.21%) Apache Camel
11 10 (2.21%) OpenTelemetry
11 10 (2.21%) RabbitMQ
11 10 (2.21%) Web Services
12 9 (1.99%) React
13 8 (1.77%) EDI
13 8 (1.77%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.73%) Management Information System
2 27 (5.96%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.86%) Data Centre
3 22 (4.86%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (4.64%) Public Cloud
5 17 (3.75%) Product Ownership
6 16 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.87%) Onboarding
9 10 (2.21%) Mainframe
10 8 (1.77%) BYOD
10 8 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.77%) VSAM
11 7 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.55%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.32%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.32%) Clustering
12 6 (1.32%) CMDB
12 6 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 65 (14.35%) Linux
2 36 (7.95%) Windows
3 23 (5.08%) Unix
4 15 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.87%) AIX
6 11 (2.43%) Solaris
7 8 (1.77%) CentOS
8 7 (1.55%) Windows Server
9 5 (1.10%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.44%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.44%) zOS
12 1 (0.22%) Rocky
12 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (28.26%) Agile
2 106 (23.40%) DevOps
3 87 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
4 83 (18.32%) CI/CD
5 79 (17.44%) Integration Patterns
6 78 (17.22%) Microservices
7 66 (14.57%) Migration
8 64 (14.13%) Roadmaps
8 64 (14.13%) Stakeholder Management
9 62 (13.69%) Technical Leadership
10 58 (12.80%) Software Engineering
11 56 (12.36%) ERP
12 47 (10.38%) Data Modelling
13 46 (10.15%) Validation
14 43 (9.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 42 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
16 39 (8.61%) Waterfall
17 38 (8.39%) Computer Science
17 38 (8.39%) Observability
18 36 (7.95%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 76 (16.78%) SQL
2 67 (14.79%) Java
3 40 (8.83%) Python
4 36 (7.95%) Ada
5 29 (6.40%) C++
6 22 (4.86%) Apex Code
7 20 (4.42%) PowerShell
8 17 (3.75%) Bash
8 17 (3.75%) C#
8 17 (3.75%) JavaScript
8 17 (3.75%) PL/SQL
9 14 (3.09%) Shell Script
10 11 (2.43%) C
11 9 (1.99%) Rust
11 9 (1.99%) SOQL
12 8 (1.77%) COBOL
12 8 (1.77%) Perl
13 7 (1.55%) MATLAB
14 5 (1.10%) Korn
15 4 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (14.79%) Security Cleared
2 55 (12.14%) SC Cleared
3 46 (10.15%) Degree
4 23 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.75%) Master's Degree
6 12 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (2.21%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.21%) PMI Certification
8 9 (1.99%) PMP
9 6 (1.32%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.10%) SAP Certification
10 5 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.88%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.17%) Def Stans
1 37 (8.17%) IEC 61508
2 31 (6.84%) GDPR
3 19 (4.19%) QA
4 17 (3.75%) MISRA
4 17 (3.75%) MISRA C
5 12 (2.65%) Data Quality
6 10 (2.21%) SLA
7 9 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.55%) NIST
9 6 (1.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (1.10%) GAAP
10 5 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.88%) HL7
11 4 (0.88%) SEPA
12 3 (0.66%) IFRS
12 3 (0.66%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.66%) PSD2
13 2 (0.44%) IFRS 9
13 2 (0.44%) PMO
System Software
1 38 (8.39%) Docker
2 14 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.44%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.22%) GPFS
7 1 (0.22%) Lustre
7 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 49 (10.82%) Kubernetes
2 29 (6.40%) Grafana
3 25 (5.52%) Prometheus
4 17 (3.75%) Ansible
5 9 (1.99%) Kiali
6 7 (1.55%) Check_MK
6 7 (1.55%) Podman
6 7 (1.55%) Red Hat Satellite
7 6 (1.32%) Terraform
8 5 (1.10%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (1.10%) SCCM
9 3 (0.66%) CA Wily
9 3 (0.66%) Control-M
10 2 (0.44%) Avamar
10 2 (0.44%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.44%) SCOrch
10 2 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.44%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.22%) Istio
Vendors
1 65 (14.35%) Oracle
2 62 (13.69%) Microsoft
3 47 (10.38%) SAP
4 42 (9.27%) Salesforce
5 39 (8.61%) MuleSoft
6 31 (6.84%) IBM
7 21 (4.64%) VMware
8 20 (4.42%) Splunk
8 20 (4.42%) Workday
9 16 (3.53%) Red Hat
10 15 (3.31%) Databricks
10 15 (3.31%) ServiceNow
11 13 (2.87%) AppDynamics
12 12 (2.65%) Dynatrace
12 12 (2.65%) Software AG
12 12 (2.65%) TIBCO
13 9 (1.99%) Google
14 6 (1.32%) BMC
14 6 (1.32%) Solace
15 5 (1.10%) Dell