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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 268 346
Rank change year-on-year +50 +78 -43
Contract jobs citing Middleware 460 213 201
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.16% 0.87% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.80% 3.87% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 123 146
10th Percentile £394 £384 £419
25th Percentile £450 £445 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £686 £719
90th Percentile £775 £748 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £520 £600
% change year-on-year +5.77% -13.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 25 3
10th Percentile - £61.25 £54.00
25th Percentile £61.25 - £58.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £74.38
90th Percentile - £68.45 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +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 7,926 5,499 7,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.04% 22.43% 20.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,294 3,812 5,298
10th Percentile £359 £367 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.51%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 93 189
10th Percentile £32.50 £29.31 £20.81
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £82.79 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 +71 227 £600 +6.19% 50
North of England -17 78 £525 -2.33% 20
Midlands -25 61 £500 +5.26% 13
South West -25 51 £640 +16.36% 10
North West -24 43 £469 -14.73% 10
West Midlands -35 43 £500 - 10
Yorkshire -43 34 £549 +15.53% 6
South East -37 31 £450 -22.15% 32
East Midlands -22 15 £402 -12.80% 3
East of England -23 14 £492 -21.28% 3
North East - 1 £500 - 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 17 (3.70%) WebSphere
2 13 (2.83%) Apache
3 11 (2.39%) Tomcat
4 10 (2.17%) Confluence
5 9 (1.96%) CICS
6 8 (1.74%) Apache Geronimo
6 8 (1.74%) Apache ServiceMix
6 8 (1.74%) Red Hat Fuse
7 6 (1.30%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (1.30%) WebLogic
7 6 (1.30%) WebSphere Application Server
8 5 (1.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.65%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.65%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.65%) IBM HTTP Server
9 3 (0.65%) JBoss
9 3 (0.65%) nginx
10 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.43%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.43%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 8 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.87%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 24 (5.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.74%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (1.52%) Oracle General Ledger
3 7 (1.52%) Shopify
4 6 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.87%) Bloomberg AIM
6 4 (0.87%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.87%) Maximo
6 4 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.87%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.65%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.65%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.65%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.43%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.43%) Global One
8 2 (0.43%) Magento
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle 11i
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.43%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 120 (26.09%) Azure
2 53 (11.52%) AWS
3 33 (7.17%) GCP
4 31 (6.74%) SaaS
5 19 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (4.13%) Boomi
6 14 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (3.04%) Power Platform
7 13 (2.83%) OCI
8 12 (2.61%) SuccessFactors
9 10 (2.17%) Datadog
10 9 (1.96%) iPaaS
10 9 (1.96%) PaaS
10 9 (1.96%) Serverless
11 8 (1.74%) OpenShift
11 8 (1.74%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 8 (1.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 7 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (1.52%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.43%) Firewall
2 9 (1.96%) HTTP
3 8 (1.74%) LAN
3 8 (1.74%) WAN
4 4 (0.87%) DNS
5 3 (0.65%) IPv4
5 3 (0.65%) IPv6
5 3 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.65%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.43%) DHCP
6 2 (0.43%) Network Security
6 2 (0.43%) SAN
6 2 (0.43%) SSL
7 1 (0.22%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.22%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.22%) MQTT
7 1 (0.22%) SMS
7 1 (0.22%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.26%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (2.61%) DataStage
2 12 (2.61%) Power BI
3 9 (1.96%) Oracle Database
3 9 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (1.30%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.09%) Metadata
5 5 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (0.87%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.87%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.87%) MySQL
7 3 (0.65%) Big Data
7 3 (0.65%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.65%) Redis
7 3 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (5.65%) JIRA
2 19 (4.13%) GitLab
3 18 (3.91%) Git
4 17 (3.70%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.96%) Jaeger
6 7 (1.52%) JUnit
7 6 (1.30%) Rational Rhapsody
8 4 (0.87%) Ant
9 3 (0.65%) Introscope
9 3 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.65%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.43%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.43%) Gradle
10 2 (0.43%) Hudson
10 2 (0.43%) Mockito
10 2 (0.43%) Postman
10 2 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
General
1 159 (34.57%) Finance
2 122 (26.52%) Social Skills
3 68 (14.78%) Banking
4 66 (14.35%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (7.39%) Public Sector
6 24 (5.22%) Retail
7 23 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (4.13%) Investment Banking
9 16 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (3.26%) Legal
11 13 (2.83%) Financial Institution
11 13 (2.83%) Manufacturing
12 12 (2.61%) Aerospace
13 11 (2.39%) Law
13 11 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (1.52%) Front Office
15 7 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (1.30%) Back Office
16 6 (1.30%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 158 (34.35%) Architect
2 86 (18.70%) Solutions Architect
3 41 (8.91%) Developer
4 34 (7.39%) Software Engineer
5 33 (7.17%) Lead
6 30 (6.52%) Senior
7 29 (6.30%) Analyst
8 25 (5.43%) Integration Architect
9 23 (5.00%) Technical Architect
10 20 (4.35%) C++ Software Engineer
11 18 (3.91%) Consultant
12 16 (3.48%) Java Engineer
12 16 (3.48%) Project Manager
13 15 (3.26%) Integration Analyst
13 15 (3.26%) Payments Architect
13 15 (3.26%) Payments Solutions Architect
13 15 (3.26%) SAP Architect
14 13 (2.83%) Business Analyst
14 13 (2.83%) SAP Solutions Architect
15 12 (2.61%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (13.26%) REST
2 40 (8.70%) SOAP
3 39 (8.48%) Kafka
4 27 (5.87%) XML
5 18 (3.91%) Lightning Web Components
5 18 (3.91%) Qt
6 16 (3.48%) Oracle Fusion
6 16 (3.48%) Spring Boot
7 14 (3.04%) JSON
8 12 (2.61%) .NET
8 12 (2.61%) RESTful
8 12 (2.61%) Visualforce
8 12 (2.61%) Web Services
9 10 (2.17%) Apache Camel
9 10 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (1.96%) EDI
10 9 (1.96%) LDAP
10 9 (1.96%) Node.js
10 9 (1.96%) React
11 8 (1.74%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.48%) Management Information System
2 28 (6.09%) Data Centre
3 23 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 21 (4.57%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.57%) Public Cloud
5 19 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (3.48%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.04%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (2.61%) Mainframe
9 9 (1.96%) BYOD
9 9 (1.96%) VSAM
10 8 (1.74%) CMDB
10 8 (1.74%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.52%) Clustering
11 7 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.52%) FMCG
12 6 (1.30%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 63 (13.70%) Linux
2 33 (7.17%) Windows
3 22 (4.78%) Unix
4 16 (3.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (3.04%) AIX
6 11 (2.39%) Solaris
7 10 (2.17%) CentOS
8 5 (1.09%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.65%) zOS
10 2 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.43%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.22%) Rocky
11 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (27.17%) Agile
2 104 (22.61%) DevOps
3 83 (18.04%) Integration Patterns
4 81 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
5 80 (17.39%) Microservices
6 73 (15.87%) CI/CD
7 72 (15.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 69 (15.00%) Migration
9 63 (13.70%) Roadmaps
9 63 (13.70%) Technical Leadership
10 59 (12.83%) ERP
11 55 (11.96%) Software Engineering
12 50 (10.87%) Data Modelling
13 49 (10.65%) Validation
14 43 (9.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 43 (9.35%) Waterfall
15 41 (8.91%) Continuous Improvement
15 41 (8.91%) SDLC
16 39 (8.48%) Architectural Design
17 37 (8.04%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 87 (18.91%) SQL
2 71 (15.43%) Java
3 35 (7.61%) Python
4 32 (6.96%) Ada
5 24 (5.22%) C++
6 20 (4.35%) PL/SQL
7 17 (3.70%) Apex Code
8 14 (3.04%) C#
8 14 (3.04%) JavaScript
8 14 (3.04%) Shell Script
9 13 (2.83%) Bash
9 13 (2.83%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.17%) Perl
11 9 (1.96%) COBOL
11 9 (1.96%) MATLAB
11 9 (1.96%) Rust
12 7 (1.52%) C
12 7 (1.52%) SOQL
13 5 (1.09%) TypeScript
14 4 (0.87%) Korn
Qualifications
1 67 (14.57%) Security Cleared
2 54 (11.74%) SC Cleared
3 48 (10.43%) Degree
4 23 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.70%) Master's Degree
6 14 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (2.17%) PMI Certification
8 9 (1.96%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.96%) PMP
9 5 (1.09%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.09%) SAP Certification
10 4 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.65%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.43%) IIBA
12 2 (0.43%) Oracle 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 (8.04%) Def Stans
1 37 (8.04%) IEC 61508
2 35 (7.61%) GDPR
3 17 (3.70%) MISRA
3 17 (3.70%) MISRA C
4 16 (3.48%) QA
5 15 (3.26%) Data Quality
6 12 (2.61%) SLA
7 10 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.52%) NIST
8 7 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (1.30%) HL7
10 5 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (1.09%) GAAP
11 3 (0.65%) IFRS
11 3 (0.65%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.65%) PSD2
11 3 (0.65%) SEPA
12 2 (0.43%) Basel III
12 2 (0.43%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 33 (7.17%) Docker
2 15 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.43%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.22%) GPFS
7 1 (0.22%) Lustre
7 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.22%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 43 (9.35%) Kubernetes
2 25 (5.43%) Grafana
3 21 (4.57%) Prometheus
4 18 (3.91%) Ansible
5 9 (1.96%) Check_MK
5 9 (1.96%) Kiali
5 9 (1.96%) Podman
5 9 (1.96%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (1.09%) Terraform
7 4 (0.87%) Control-M
7 4 (0.87%) SCCM
8 3 (0.65%) CA Wily
8 3 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.43%) Avamar
9 2 (0.43%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.43%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.22%) MOM
10 1 (0.22%) SCOM
Vendors
1 72 (15.65%) Oracle
2 61 (13.26%) Microsoft
3 57 (12.39%) SAP
4 36 (7.83%) IBM
4 36 (7.83%) Salesforce
5 34 (7.39%) MuleSoft
6 25 (5.43%) ServiceNow
7 22 (4.78%) VMware
8 21 (4.57%) Workday
9 20 (4.35%) Splunk
10 16 (3.48%) Databricks
11 15 (3.26%) Red Hat
12 13 (2.83%) AppDynamics
13 12 (2.61%) Dynatrace
13 12 (2.61%) Software AG
14 9 (1.96%) Google
15 8 (1.74%) TIBCO
16 7 (1.52%) Dell
17 5 (1.09%) Ariba
18 4 (0.87%) BMC