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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 254 334
Rank change year-on-year +33 +80 -51
Contract jobs citing Middleware 512 260 226
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.17% 1.01% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.13% 4.48% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 153 160
10th Percentile £401 £378 £412
25th Percentile £475 £447 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £694 £719
90th Percentile £771 £775 £814
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £582
% change year-on-year +9.52% -9.79% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 20 1
10th Percentile £50.64 £64.70 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% -3.21% +7.69%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year -4.06% -3.21% +7.69%

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 8,358 5,803 7,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.05% 22.47% 21.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,512 4,004 5,536
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 124 263
10th Percentile £30.40 £30.55 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.88 £49.06 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +0.99% -10.31%
75th Percentile £74.63 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.89 £80.71 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +48 264 £600 - 68
North of England -21 95 £525 +5.00% 23
Midlands -10 54 £550 +22.22% 9
North West -21 51 £525 -4.55% 13
South West -19 41 £595 +19.00% 14
Yorkshire -20 40 £588 +22.11% 6
West Midlands -33 36 £613 +32.43% 2
South East -59 34 £535 -2.73% 25
East of England -12 20 £487 -15.26% 6
East Midlands -7 15 £463 +3.47% 7
North East -28 4 £500 +3.90% 4
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 28 (5.47%) WebSphere
2 18 (3.52%) WebLogic
3 14 (2.73%) CICS
4 10 (1.95%) Apache
4 10 (1.95%) Confluence
4 10 (1.95%) Tomcat
5 8 (1.56%) Apache Geronimo
5 8 (1.56%) Apache ServiceMix
5 8 (1.56%) Red Hat Fuse
6 5 (0.98%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (0.78%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.78%) JBoss
7 4 (0.78%) SAS
7 4 (0.78%) WordPress
8 3 (0.59%) IBM HTTP Server
8 3 (0.59%) Mule
8 3 (0.59%) nginx
8 3 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.59%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.39%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.59%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.59%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.59%) Revit
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.20%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 30 (5.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.76%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.17%) NetSuite
4 6 (1.17%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (1.17%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (0.98%) Maximo
5 5 (0.98%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (0.78%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.59%) Bloomberg AIM
7 3 (0.59%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.59%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.59%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.59%) Shopify
8 2 (0.39%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.39%) Magento
8 2 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.39%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.39%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 110 (21.48%) Azure
2 61 (11.91%) AWS
3 31 (6.05%) Boomi
3 31 (6.05%) SaaS
4 28 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (4.88%) GCP
6 21 (4.10%) Power Platform
7 16 (3.13%) iPaaS
8 15 (2.93%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (2.54%) Serverless
10 12 (2.34%) SuccessFactors
11 11 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (2.15%) PaaS
12 9 (1.76%) Entra ID
12 9 (1.76%) GitHub
12 9 (1.76%) OCI
12 9 (1.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 8 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (1.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 7 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.30%) Firewall
2 15 (2.93%) SSL
3 6 (1.17%) HTTP
4 4 (0.78%) DNS
4 4 (0.78%) LAN
4 4 (0.78%) Multicast
4 4 (0.78%) WAN
5 3 (0.59%) IPv4
5 3 (0.59%) IPv6
5 3 (0.59%) NAS
5 3 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.59%) SAN
5 3 (0.59%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.59%) VPN
6 2 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.39%) DHCP
6 2 (0.39%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.39%) MQTT
6 2 (0.39%) Network Security
7 1 (0.20%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.52%) Power BI
2 16 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (2.93%) SQL Server
4 14 (2.73%) DataStage
5 11 (2.15%) Oracle Database
6 9 (1.76%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.56%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (1.37%) Metadata
8 7 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.98%) Big Data
10 5 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.98%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.78%) MySQL
11 4 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (0.59%) Tableau
13 2 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.39%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (5.08%) JIRA
2 21 (4.10%) Git
3 17 (3.32%) GitLab
4 15 (2.93%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.17%) JUnit
6 4 (0.78%) Jaeger
7 3 (0.59%) Introscope
7 3 (0.59%) Mockito
8 2 (0.39%) Ant
8 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.39%) ERwin
8 2 (0.39%) Hudson
8 2 (0.39%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.39%) Maven
8 2 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.39%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.39%) Selenium
8 2 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 179 (34.96%) Finance
2 136 (26.56%) Social Skills
3 98 (19.14%) Banking
4 70 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (7.81%) Public Sector
6 32 (6.25%) Retail
7 23 (4.49%) Legal
8 21 (4.10%) Investment Banking
9 17 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (2.93%) Manufacturing
12 11 (2.15%) Financial Institution
12 11 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (1.95%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.56%) Marketing
14 8 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.37%) Back Office
15 7 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (1.37%) Telecoms
16 6 (1.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 165 (32.23%) Architect
2 81 (15.82%) Solutions Architect
3 44 (8.59%) Developer
4 39 (7.62%) Lead
5 34 (6.64%) Integration Architect
6 30 (5.86%) Consultant
6 30 (5.86%) Senior
7 27 (5.27%) Technical Architect
8 25 (4.88%) Analyst
9 24 (4.69%) Administrator
10 21 (4.10%) Software Engineer
11 19 (3.71%) Middleware Engineer
11 19 (3.71%) SAP Architect
12 16 (3.13%) Business Analyst
12 16 (3.13%) Java Engineer
13 15 (2.93%) Payments Architect
13 15 (2.93%) Payments Solutions Architect
14 14 (2.73%) Integration Specialist
14 14 (2.73%) Linux Engineer
15 13 (2.54%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (16.21%) REST
2 53 (10.35%) SOAP
3 38 (7.42%) XML
4 35 (6.84%) JSON
4 35 (6.84%) Kafka
5 20 (3.91%) .NET
6 17 (3.32%) Lightning Web Components
7 15 (2.93%) OAuth
8 13 (2.54%) ISPF
8 13 (2.54%) Spring Boot
9 12 (2.34%) RESTful
10 11 (2.15%) Apache Camel
10 11 (2.15%) OAuth2
10 11 (2.15%) React
10 11 (2.15%) Spring
10 11 (2.15%) Web Services
11 10 (1.95%) LDAP
11 10 (1.95%) Node.js
12 9 (1.76%) Qt
12 9 (1.76%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.42%) Management Information System
2 33 (6.45%) Data Centre
3 32 (6.25%) Mainframe
4 31 (6.05%) Onboarding
5 23 (4.49%) Product Ownership
6 22 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (3.91%) Clustering
8 19 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
9 17 (3.32%) Public Cloud
10 15 (2.93%) Cloud Native
11 13 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (2.34%) Data Structures
13 11 (2.15%) CMDB
13 11 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 10 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.95%) Legacy Applications
15 9 (1.76%) BYOD
15 9 (1.76%) VSAM
16 8 (1.56%) IoT
16 8 (1.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 74 (14.45%) Linux
2 28 (5.47%) Unix
3 27 (5.27%) Windows
4 21 (4.10%) zOS
5 17 (3.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (2.73%) Ubuntu
7 11 (2.15%) Solaris
8 10 (1.95%) AIX
9 9 (1.76%) CentOS
10 3 (0.59%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.39%) OpenVMS
11 2 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.39%) VMS
11 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.20%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (24.80%) Agile
2 102 (19.92%) Integration Patterns
3 95 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
4 89 (17.38%) DevOps
5 85 (16.60%) Stakeholder Management
6 81 (15.82%) Migration
7 76 (14.84%) CI/CD
8 70 (13.67%) ERP
9 65 (12.70%) Roadmaps
10 59 (11.52%) Technical Leadership
11 55 (10.74%) Enterprise Architecture
12 54 (10.55%) Data Modelling
12 54 (10.55%) Microservices
12 54 (10.55%) User Acceptance Testing
13 51 (9.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 47 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
15 46 (8.98%) Event-Driven
16 45 (8.79%) CRM
17 41 (8.01%) Validation
17 41 (8.01%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 98 (19.14%) SQL
2 63 (12.30%) Java
3 34 (6.64%) Python
4 24 (4.69%) JavaScript
5 23 (4.49%) Ada
6 17 (3.32%) C#
7 16 (3.13%) Apex Code
7 16 (3.13%) Bash
7 16 (3.13%) PL/SQL
8 15 (2.93%) Shell Script
9 13 (2.54%) C++
10 9 (1.76%) COBOL
10 9 (1.76%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.56%) MATLAB
12 7 (1.37%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.37%) SOQL
13 6 (1.17%) Perl
14 5 (0.98%) Rust
15 4 (0.78%) ABAP
15 4 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (12.70%) Security Cleared
2 51 (9.96%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.62%) Degree
4 23 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.15%) Master's Degree
5 11 (2.15%) TOGAF Certification
6 10 (1.95%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.98%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.98%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.98%) SAP Certification
9 4 (0.78%) PMP
10 3 (0.59%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.39%) IIBA
11 2 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.66%) GDPR
2 24 (4.69%) Def Stans
2 24 (4.69%) IEC 61508
2 24 (4.69%) QA
3 18 (3.52%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.15%) SLA
5 8 (1.56%) ISO 20022
5 8 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.56%) MISRA
5 8 (1.56%) MISRA C
6 5 (0.98%) HL7
6 5 (0.98%) NIST
7 4 (0.78%) PMO
7 4 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.59%) GAAP
8 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (4.69%) Docker
2 14 (2.73%) RACF
3 13 (2.54%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.78%) vSphere
7 2 (0.39%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.39%) NFS
7 2 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.20%) GPFS
8 1 (0.20%) Lustre
8 1 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.20%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 27 (5.27%) Kubernetes
2 25 (4.88%) Ansible
3 13 (2.54%) OMEGAMON
4 12 (2.34%) Grafana
5 11 (2.15%) Terraform
6 8 (1.56%) Check_MK
6 8 (1.56%) Podman
6 8 (1.56%) Red Hat Satellite
7 7 (1.37%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.98%) ITRS Geneos
9 5 (0.98%) systemd
10 4 (0.78%) Kiali
10 4 (0.78%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (0.59%) CA Wily
11 3 (0.59%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.39%) CA Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.39%) Control-M
12 2 (0.39%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (0.39%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 81 (15.82%) Oracle
2 79 (15.43%) SAP
3 53 (10.35%) Microsoft
4 50 (9.77%) IBM
5 44 (8.59%) Salesforce
6 41 (8.01%) MuleSoft
7 34 (6.64%) ServiceNow
8 30 (5.86%) Workday
9 20 (3.91%) Databricks
10 19 (3.71%) VMware
11 14 (2.73%) Red Hat
12 11 (2.15%) Google
12 11 (2.15%) TIBCO
13 9 (1.76%) Splunk
14 8 (1.56%) Solace
15 7 (1.37%) Bloomberg
15 7 (1.37%) Dell
15 7 (1.37%) JD Edwards
15 7 (1.37%) Murex
16 6 (1.17%) IFS