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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 261 310
Rank change year-on-year +13 +49 -34
Contract jobs citing Middleware 491 288 234
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.06% 1.04% 0.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.99% 4.08% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 156 153
10th Percentile £415 £401 £414
25th Percentile £473 £447 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £694 £700
90th Percentile £724 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £565 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +7.67% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 30 0
10th Percentile - £32.60 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £62.75 -
Median hourly rate £51.63 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% - -
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 -
90th Percentile £67.70 - -
UK median hourly rate £51.63 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -20.58% - -

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 9,837 7,066 8,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.44% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,467 4,807 5,471
10th Percentile £380 £355 £363
25th Percentile £441 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -5.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £664
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 170 180
10th Percentile £29.72 £31.57 £27.68
25th Percentile £52.97 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -12.60% -0.12%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
% change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% -1.44%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +44 276 £575 -7.26% 234
North of England -20 81 £556 +17.11% 62
South East -39 61 £500 -12.66% 60
North West -24 37 £588 +6.82% 30
Yorkshire -26 37 £525 +15.38% 24
Midlands -43 31 £550 +22.63% 21
West Midlands -39 22 £583 +66.43% 12
South West -48 21 £563 +11.94% 22
East of England -30 15 £483 -5.85% 25
East Midlands -20 8 £525 +16.67% 8
North East -38 7 £500 +5.26% 9
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 23 (4.68%) WebLogic
2 22 (4.48%) WebSphere
3 9 (1.83%) CICS
3 9 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (1.22%) Confluence
6 5 (1.02%) JBoss
6 5 (1.02%) Mule
7 4 (0.81%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.81%) IBM Transformation Extender
7 4 (0.81%) SAS
7 4 (0.81%) WordPress
8 3 (0.61%) Apache
8 3 (0.61%) nginx
8 3 (0.61%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
8 3 (0.61%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.41%) Camunda
9 2 (0.41%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.20%) FactoryTalk
10 1 (0.20%) Mendix
Applications
1 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.61%) Navisworks
3 3 (0.61%) Revit
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.20%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 32 (6.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (2.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (2.04%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (1.63%) NetSuite
5 7 (1.43%) Maximo
5 7 (1.43%) Oracle Payables
5 7 (1.43%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (1.22%) SAP GRC
7 5 (1.02%) Oracle EBS R12
7 5 (1.02%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.81%) Oracle Cash Management
8 4 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.81%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.61%) BusinessWorks
9 3 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.61%) Endur
9 3 (0.61%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (0.61%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.61%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.61%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 122 (24.85%) Azure
2 79 (16.09%) AWS
3 49 (9.98%) Boomi
4 40 (8.15%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (7.33%) GCP
6 31 (6.31%) SaaS
7 27 (5.50%) GitHub
7 27 (5.50%) iPaaS
8 24 (4.89%) Power Platform
9 22 (4.48%) Dynamics 365
10 18 (3.67%) SuccessFactors
11 17 (3.46%) Azure Logic Apps
11 17 (3.46%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (3.26%) Serverless
13 15 (3.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 14 (2.85%) Azure Functions
14 14 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (2.65%) IaaS
15 13 (2.65%) Power Automate
15 13 (2.65%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.46%) SSL
2 13 (2.65%) Firewall
2 13 (2.65%) HTTP
3 6 (1.22%) DNS
4 5 (1.02%) Multicast
4 5 (1.02%) NAS
4 5 (1.02%) SAN
5 4 (0.81%) DHCP
5 4 (0.81%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.81%) VPN
5 4 (0.81%) WAN
6 3 (0.61%) LAN
6 3 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (0.61%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.41%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.41%) MQTT
7 2 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.20%) Network Security
8 1 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.07%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.46%) Power BI
3 16 (3.26%) Oracle Database
4 15 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (3.05%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (1.63%) Oracle Reports
6 8 (1.63%) Tableau
7 7 (1.43%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.43%) Metadata
8 6 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.02%) DataStage
9 5 (1.02%) Db2
9 5 (1.02%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.81%) Big Data
11 3 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.61%) MySQL
11 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 31 (6.31%) JIRA
2 26 (5.30%) Git
3 15 (3.05%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.44%) Postman
5 9 (1.83%) GitLab
6 8 (1.63%) JMeter
6 8 (1.63%) LoadRunner
6 8 (1.63%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.22%) Selenium
7 6 (1.22%) SoapUI
7 6 (1.22%) Visual Studio
8 5 (1.02%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.81%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.81%) eggPlant
9 4 (0.81%) JetBrains Rider
10 3 (0.61%) Gatling
10 3 (0.61%) JUnit
10 3 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.41%) Fiddler
11 2 (0.41%) IntelliJ
General
1 167 (34.01%) Finance
2 126 (25.66%) Social Skills
3 85 (17.31%) Banking
4 73 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (5.50%) Public Sector
6 23 (4.68%) Retail
7 21 (4.28%) Legal
8 15 (3.05%) Aerospace
8 15 (3.05%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.44%) Marketing
10 11 (2.24%) Investment Banking
10 11 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.22%) Back Office
15 5 (1.02%) General Ledger
16 4 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.81%) Law
16 4 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 135 (27.49%) Architect
2 63 (12.83%) Developer
3 60 (12.22%) Solutions Architect
4 41 (8.35%) Integration Architect
5 39 (7.94%) Lead
6 35 (7.13%) Consultant
7 34 (6.92%) Senior
8 25 (5.09%) Analyst
9 22 (4.48%) Technical Architect
10 20 (4.07%) Administrator
11 18 (3.67%) Linux Engineer
11 18 (3.67%) Middleware Engineer
12 17 (3.46%) Salesforce Architect
13 16 (3.26%) Integration Specialist
14 15 (3.05%) Business Analyst
14 15 (3.05%) Integration Engineer
15 14 (2.85%) Automation Engineer
16 13 (2.65%) Functional Consultant
16 13 (2.65%) Integration Manager
17 12 (2.44%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (22.00%) REST
2 79 (16.09%) SOAP
3 59 (12.02%) XML
4 57 (11.61%) JSON
5 40 (8.15%) .NET
5 40 (8.15%) Kafka
6 37 (7.54%) OAuth
7 27 (5.50%) Web Services
8 24 (4.89%) JWT
9 21 (4.28%) OAuth2
10 20 (4.07%) GraphQL
11 17 (3.46%) Lightning Web Components
11 17 (3.46%) SAML
11 17 (3.46%) Swagger
12 15 (3.05%) EDI
12 15 (3.05%) OpenAPI
13 14 (2.85%) RabbitMQ
14 13 (2.65%) ISPF
14 13 (2.65%) RESTful
15 12 (2.44%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.52%) Enterprise Software
1 32 (6.52%) Onboarding
2 31 (6.31%) Mainframe
3 30 (6.11%) Cloud Native
4 28 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (4.89%) Product Ownership
6 22 (4.48%) Management Information System
7 21 (4.28%) Data Centre
8 17 (3.46%) Clustering
8 17 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (3.05%) Data Structures
10 11 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
12 9 (1.83%) Low-Code
12 9 (1.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 8 (1.63%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.63%) IoT
14 7 (1.43%) CMDB
14 7 (1.43%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 74 (15.07%) Linux
2 36 (7.33%) Windows
3 30 (6.11%) Unix
4 22 (4.48%) zOS
5 14 (2.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (2.65%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.02%) CentOS
7 5 (1.02%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.61%) Solaris
9 2 (0.41%) AIX
9 2 (0.41%) OpenVMS
9 2 (0.41%) VMS
10 1 (0.20%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (26.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 116 (23.63%) Agile
3 99 (20.16%) CI/CD
4 97 (19.76%) DevOps
5 94 (19.14%) Problem-Solving
6 87 (17.72%) Migration
7 85 (17.31%) Integration Patterns
8 84 (17.11%) Event-Driven
9 83 (16.90%) ERP
10 65 (13.24%) User Acceptance Testing
11 64 (13.03%) Enterprise Architecture
12 59 (12.02%) Roadmaps
13 57 (11.61%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 55 (11.20%) Validation
15 53 (10.79%) Data Modelling
16 50 (10.18%) Test Automation
17 47 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
17 47 (9.57%) CRM
18 46 (9.37%) Translating Business Requirements
19 44 (8.96%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 96 (19.55%) SQL
2 51 (10.39%) Python
3 48 (9.78%) Java
4 37 (7.54%) JavaScript
5 32 (6.52%) C#
6 23 (4.68%) Bash
7 18 (3.67%) PL/SQL
8 17 (3.46%) Apex Code
8 17 (3.46%) TypeScript
9 13 (2.65%) Shell Script
10 12 (2.44%) PowerShell
11 10 (2.04%) C++
12 5 (1.02%) ABAP
12 5 (1.02%) Ada
12 5 (1.02%) C
13 4 (0.81%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.81%) Perl
13 4 (0.81%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.81%) X++
14 3 (0.61%) Korn
Qualifications
1 89 (18.13%) Security Cleared
2 75 (15.27%) SC Cleared
3 40 (8.15%) Degree
4 16 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.63%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.02%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.61%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.61%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.61%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.61%) SAP Certification
9 2 (0.41%) ACCA
9 2 (0.41%) CIMA
9 2 (0.41%) CISSP
9 2 (0.41%) ISEB
9 2 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.41%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (8.76%) QA
2 21 (4.28%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.04%) GDPR
4 8 (1.63%) ISO 20022
5 7 (1.43%) PMO
6 6 (1.22%) GRC
6 6 (1.22%) SLA
7 5 (1.02%) HL7
7 5 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.81%) Def Stans
8 4 (0.81%) IEC 61508
8 4 (0.81%) SEPA
9 3 (0.61%) ISO 15022
9 3 (0.61%) MISRA
9 3 (0.61%) MISRA C
10 2 (0.41%) GMP
10 2 (0.41%) GxP
10 2 (0.41%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.41%) JSP 440
System Software
1 29 (5.91%) Docker
2 14 (2.85%) RACF
3 8 (1.63%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.81%) NFS
6 4 (0.81%) vSphere
7 2 (0.41%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.41%) IAG
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 29 (5.91%) Ansible
2 26 (5.30%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.85%) OMEGAMON
4 12 (2.44%) Grafana
5 7 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.02%) Control-M
6 5 (1.02%) HP ALM
6 5 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (1.02%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (1.02%) Podman
6 5 (1.02%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (1.02%) systemd
6 5 (1.02%) Tivoli
7 4 (0.81%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.81%) Check_MK
7 4 (0.81%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.81%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 3 (0.61%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.61%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.41%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 91 (18.53%) Oracle
2 85 (17.31%) SAP
3 70 (14.26%) IBM
4 60 (12.22%) MuleSoft
5 52 (10.59%) Microsoft
6 45 (9.16%) Salesforce
7 29 (5.91%) ServiceNow
8 26 (5.30%) Workday
9 24 (4.89%) Google
10 15 (3.05%) TIBCO
11 14 (2.85%) Splunk
12 12 (2.44%) Databricks
13 10 (2.04%) Dell
13 10 (2.04%) Informatica
14 9 (1.83%) Dynatrace
14 9 (1.83%) Red Hat
14 9 (1.83%) Solace
14 9 (1.83%) VMware
14 9 (1.83%) WSO2
15 7 (1.43%) JD Edwards