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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 260 320
Rank change year-on-year +17 +60 -41
Contract jobs citing Middleware 490 280 212
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.07% 1.01% 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.80% 4.61% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 163 151
10th Percentile £425 £400 £419
25th Percentile £475 £447 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £691 £750
90th Percentile £728 £761 £825
UK median daily rate £575 £524 £600
% change year-on-year +9.79% -12.71% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 21 0
10th Percentile - £29.00 -
25th Percentile £38.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 -
90th Percentile £66.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 8,443 6,076 7,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.52% 21.99% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,521 4,157 5,030
10th Percentile £364 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 157 227
10th Percentile £28.72 £31.25 £24.67
25th Percentile £46.39 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -3.93% -6.53%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.44 £55.00
% change year-on-year +19.40% -1.02% -8.33%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +55 266 £590 -1.67% 120
North of England -22 83 £530 +10.13% 31
South East -59 52 £503 -13.06% 31
North West -20 43 £525 -11.39% 13
Midlands -27 40 £583 +30.31% 8
Yorkshire -23 33 £568 +24.73% 10
West Midlands -33 28 £583 +94.17% 7
South West -43 28 £575 +14.43% 21
East of England -20 17 £500 -2.44% 7
East Midlands -21 10 £575 +28.64% 1
North East -39 7 £500 +5.26% 8
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 26 (5.31%) WebSphere
2 20 (4.08%) WebLogic
3 11 (2.24%) CICS
3 11 (2.24%) Confluence
4 7 (1.43%) Apache
4 7 (1.43%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.22%) Anypoint
5 6 (1.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (1.22%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.02%) Apache Geronimo
6 5 (1.02%) Apache ServiceMix
6 5 (1.02%) Mule
6 5 (1.02%) Red Hat Fuse
6 5 (1.02%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (0.82%) JBoss
7 4 (0.82%) SAS
7 4 (0.82%) WordPress
8 3 (0.61%) IBM HTTP Server
8 3 (0.61%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
9 2 (0.41%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.61%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.61%) Revit
3 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.20%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 33 (6.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.63%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (1.43%) NetSuite
4 7 (1.43%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (1.43%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.82%) Maximo
5 4 (0.82%) Oracle Cash Management
5 4 (0.82%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.82%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.61%) BusinessWorks
6 3 (0.61%) Endur
6 3 (0.61%) SAP GRC
6 3 (0.61%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.61%) Shopify
6 3 (0.61%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.41%) Finacle
7 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.41%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 120 (24.49%) Azure
2 72 (14.69%) AWS
3 39 (7.96%) Boomi
4 36 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (6.73%) SaaS
6 29 (5.92%) GCP
7 24 (4.90%) iPaaS
7 24 (4.90%) Power Platform
8 20 (4.08%) GitHub
9 19 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (3.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 14 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
11 14 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
11 14 (2.86%) PaaS
12 13 (2.65%) IaaS
12 13 (2.65%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 13 (2.65%) SuccessFactors
13 12 (2.45%) Serverless
14 11 (2.24%) Power Automate
15 10 (2.04%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.67%) Firewall
1 18 (3.67%) SSL
2 9 (1.84%) HTTP
3 7 (1.43%) DNS
4 6 (1.22%) LAN
4 6 (1.22%) WAN
5 5 (1.02%) Multicast
5 5 (1.02%) NAS
5 5 (1.02%) SAN
6 4 (0.82%) DHCP
6 4 (0.82%) Kerberos
6 4 (0.82%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.82%) VPN
7 3 (0.61%) IPv4
7 3 (0.61%) IPv6
7 3 (0.61%) Network Security
8 2 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.41%) MQTT
9 1 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.08%) Power BI
2 16 (3.27%) SQL Server
3 15 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (2.65%) Oracle Database
5 12 (2.45%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.84%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (1.63%) Tableau
8 7 (1.43%) Big Data
8 7 (1.43%) DataStage
8 7 (1.43%) Metadata
9 6 (1.22%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (1.02%) Db2
10 5 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.61%) MySQL
13 2 (0.41%) Ataccama
Development Applications
1 33 (6.73%) JIRA
2 20 (4.08%) Git
3 16 (3.27%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.24%) GitLab
5 7 (1.43%) Postman
6 6 (1.22%) JMeter
6 6 (1.22%) LoadRunner
7 5 (1.02%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.82%) eggPlant
8 4 (0.82%) JetBrains Rider
8 4 (0.82%) SoapUI
9 3 (0.61%) Introscope
9 3 (0.61%) JUnit
9 3 (0.61%) Selenium
9 3 (0.61%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.41%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.41%) ERwin
10 2 (0.41%) Hudson
10 2 (0.41%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
General
1 163 (33.27%) Finance
2 125 (25.51%) Social Skills
3 91 (18.57%) Banking
4 73 (14.90%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (5.71%) Retail
6 27 (5.51%) Public Sector
7 24 (4.90%) Legal
8 16 (3.27%) Investment Banking
8 16 (3.27%) Manufacturing
9 14 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.45%) Marketing
11 11 (2.24%) Aerospace
11 11 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.43%) Back Office
14 7 (1.43%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.22%) Telecoms
16 5 (1.02%) Front Office
16 5 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 156 (31.84%) Architect
2 72 (14.69%) Solutions Architect
3 56 (11.43%) Developer
4 39 (7.96%) Lead
5 37 (7.55%) Integration Architect
6 32 (6.53%) Senior
7 30 (6.12%) Technical Architect
8 29 (5.92%) Consultant
9 25 (5.10%) Analyst
10 21 (4.29%) Middleware Engineer
11 20 (4.08%) Administrator
11 20 (4.08%) Salesforce Architect
12 15 (3.06%) Business Analyst
12 15 (3.06%) Integration Specialist
12 15 (3.06%) Linux Engineer
12 15 (3.06%) SAP Architect
13 13 (2.65%) Integration Engineer
14 12 (2.45%) Project Manager
14 12 (2.45%) Software Engineer
15 11 (2.24%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (21.02%) REST
2 72 (14.69%) SOAP
3 50 (10.20%) XML
4 49 (10.00%) JSON
5 37 (7.55%) Kafka
6 33 (6.73%) .NET
7 28 (5.71%) OAuth
8 19 (3.88%) Web Services
9 18 (3.67%) Lightning Web Components
10 17 (3.47%) JWT
11 15 (3.06%) OAuth2
12 13 (2.65%) GraphQL
12 13 (2.65%) ISPF
13 12 (2.45%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (2.45%) SAML
14 11 (2.24%) EDI
14 11 (2.24%) React
14 11 (2.24%) Spring
15 9 (1.84%) Spring Boot
15 9 (1.84%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.33%) Mainframe
2 29 (5.92%) Onboarding
3 27 (5.51%) Product Ownership
4 26 (5.31%) Data Centre
5 24 (4.90%) Management Information System
6 22 (4.49%) Cloud Native
7 21 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
8 19 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (3.67%) Clustering
10 17 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (3.06%) Data Structures
12 12 (2.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (2.45%) Public Cloud
13 10 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.84%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.84%) CMDB
14 9 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.63%) IoT
15 8 (1.63%) Legacy Applications
16 7 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 66 (13.47%) Linux
2 30 (6.12%) Unix
3 28 (5.71%) Windows
4 23 (4.69%) zOS
5 13 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.65%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.02%) CentOS
7 4 (0.82%) AIX
7 4 (0.82%) Solaris
7 4 (0.82%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.41%) OpenVMS
8 2 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.41%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.41%) VMS
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (24.08%) Agile
2 108 (22.04%) Stakeholder Management
3 95 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
4 93 (18.98%) Integration Patterns
5 88 (17.96%) DevOps
6 85 (17.35%) CI/CD
7 78 (15.92%) Migration
8 73 (14.90%) ERP
9 64 (13.06%) Event-Driven
10 61 (12.45%) User Acceptance Testing
11 59 (12.04%) Enterprise Architecture
12 57 (11.63%) Roadmaps
13 51 (10.41%) Data Modelling
14 50 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 50 (10.20%) CRM
14 50 (10.20%) Technical Leadership
15 49 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 42 (8.57%) Data Migration
17 40 (8.16%) Translating Business Requirements
17 40 (8.16%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 97 (19.80%) SQL
2 53 (10.82%) Java
3 42 (8.57%) Python
4 32 (6.53%) JavaScript
5 25 (5.10%) C#
6 18 (3.67%) Apex Code
7 17 (3.47%) Bash
7 17 (3.47%) PL/SQL
8 13 (2.65%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.45%) Shell Script
10 11 (2.24%) Ada
11 8 (1.63%) C++
12 6 (1.22%) Perl
12 6 (1.22%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.02%) ABAP
13 5 (1.02%) X++
14 4 (0.82%) COBOL
14 4 (0.82%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.82%) SOQL
14 4 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (13.88%) Security Cleared
2 56 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 34 (6.94%) Degree
4 17 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.84%) TOGAF Certification
6 8 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.02%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.02%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.61%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.61%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.61%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.41%) IIBA
10 2 (0.41%) ISEB
10 2 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.41%) PMP
10 2 (0.41%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.16%) QA
2 22 (4.49%) GDPR
3 20 (4.08%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.04%) Def Stans
4 10 (2.04%) IEC 61508
5 7 (1.43%) ISO 20022
6 6 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (1.22%) PMO
7 5 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.02%) SLA
8 3 (0.61%) GRC
8 3 (0.61%) HL7
8 3 (0.61%) NIST
8 3 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.41%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.41%) MISRA
9 2 (0.41%) MISRA C
9 2 (0.41%) SEPA
System Software
1 26 (5.31%) Docker
2 14 (2.86%) RACF
3 11 (2.24%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.82%) NFS
6 4 (0.82%) vSphere
7 2 (0.41%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.20%) Firmware
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.20%) Varnish
8 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (5.51%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.08%) Ansible
3 14 (2.86%) OMEGAMON
4 12 (2.45%) Grafana
5 9 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.63%) Terraform
7 6 (1.22%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (1.02%) Control-M
8 5 (1.02%) HP ALM
8 5 (1.02%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.02%) systemd
9 4 (0.82%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.82%) Check_MK
9 4 (0.82%) Podman
9 4 (0.82%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (0.61%) CA Wily
10 3 (0.61%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.61%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.41%) Avamar
11 2 (0.41%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 88 (17.96%) Oracle
2 82 (16.73%) SAP
3 55 (11.22%) Microsoft
3 55 (11.22%) MuleSoft
4 53 (10.82%) IBM
5 51 (10.41%) Salesforce
6 28 (5.71%) Workday
7 27 (5.51%) ServiceNow
8 17 (3.47%) Databricks
9 16 (3.27%) Google
9 16 (3.27%) TIBCO
10 11 (2.24%) VMware
11 10 (2.04%) Splunk
12 9 (1.84%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.84%) Solace
13 7 (1.43%) Dell
13 7 (1.43%) JD Edwards
13 7 (1.43%) Murex
14 6 (1.22%) Sybase
14 6 (1.22%) WSO2