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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 260 322
Rank change year-on-year +23 +62 -47
Contract jobs citing Middleware 492 280 211
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.08% 1.01% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.83% 4.60% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 164 151
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 £689 £750
90th Percentile £738 £760 £825
UK median daily rate £575 £523 £600
% change year-on-year +10.05% -12.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 20 0
10th Percentile - £29.00 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £64.25 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £66.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.02% - -
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 -
90th Percentile £66.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £66.50 -
% change year-on-year -6.02% - -

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 8,445 6,082 7,333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.53% 22.00% 21.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,525 4,168 5,030
10th Percentile £365 £350 £359
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 £644 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £501 £550
% change year-on-year +4.90% -9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 155 228
10th Percentile £28.65 £31.25 £24.13
25th Percentile £46.25 £42.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -5.42%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.61 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +42 268 £595 +1.28% 120
North of England -21 82 £534 +10.91% 30
South East -51 52 £503 -13.06% 31
North West -22 43 £525 -11.39% 14
Midlands -32 40 £583 +30.31% 7
Yorkshire -25 32 £575 +26.37% 8
West Midlands -23 28 £583 +94.17% 6
South West -33 28 £575 +14.43% 22
East of England -21 17 £500 -2.44% 7
East Midlands -17 10 £575 +28.64% 1
North East -38 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 27 (5.49%) WebSphere
2 21 (4.27%) WebLogic
3 11 (2.24%) CICS
3 11 (2.24%) Confluence
4 7 (1.42%) Apache
4 7 (1.42%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.42%) Tomcat
5 6 (1.22%) Anypoint
5 6 (1.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
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 (0.81%) JBoss
7 4 (0.81%) SAS
7 4 (0.81%) WordPress
8 3 (0.61%) IBM HTTP Server
8 3 (0.61%) nginx
8 3 (0.61%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
Applications
1 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.61%) Navisworks
3 3 (0.61%) Revit
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.20%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 31 (6.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.63%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (1.42%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (1.42%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (1.02%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.81%) Maximo
6 4 (0.81%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.81%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.81%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.61%) BusinessWorks
7 3 (0.61%) Endur
7 3 (0.61%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.61%) Shopify
7 3 (0.61%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.41%) FLEXCUBE
8 2 (0.41%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.41%) Global One
8 2 (0.41%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 122 (24.80%) Azure
2 74 (15.04%) AWS
3 39 (7.93%) Boomi
4 36 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (6.71%) SaaS
6 29 (5.89%) GCP
7 25 (5.08%) iPaaS
8 24 (4.88%) Power Platform
9 20 (4.07%) GitHub
10 19 (3.86%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (3.05%) Azure Service Bus
11 15 (3.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 14 (2.85%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (2.85%) PaaS
13 13 (2.64%) IaaS
13 13 (2.64%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 13 (2.64%) Serverless
13 13 (2.64%) SuccessFactors
14 11 (2.24%) Power Automate
15 10 (2.03%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.66%) Firewall
1 18 (3.66%) SSL
2 11 (2.24%) HTTP
3 7 (1.42%) 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 (0.81%) DHCP
6 4 (0.81%) Kerberos
6 4 (0.81%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.81%) 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%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.07%) Power BI
2 16 (3.25%) SQL Server
3 15 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.85%) Oracle Database
5 11 (2.24%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.83%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (1.63%) Tableau
8 7 (1.42%) Big Data
8 7 (1.42%) DataStage
8 7 (1.42%) Metadata
9 6 (1.22%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (1.02%) Db2
10 5 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.61%) MySQL
13 2 (0.41%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 33 (6.71%) JIRA
2 21 (4.27%) Git
3 17 (3.46%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.24%) GitLab
5 7 (1.42%) Postman
6 6 (1.22%) JMeter
6 6 (1.22%) LoadRunner
7 5 (1.02%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.81%) eggPlant
8 4 (0.81%) JetBrains Rider
8 4 (0.81%) 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%) ERwin
10 2 (0.41%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.41%) TestRail
General
1 160 (32.52%) Finance
2 122 (24.80%) Social Skills
3 90 (18.29%) Banking
4 70 (14.23%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (5.89%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.89%) Retail
6 24 (4.88%) Legal
7 16 (3.25%) Investment Banking
7 16 (3.25%) Manufacturing
8 14 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.44%) Marketing
10 11 (2.24%) Aerospace
10 11 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.42%) Back Office
13 7 (1.42%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.22%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.02%) Front Office
15 5 (1.02%) Law
Job Titles
1 159 (32.32%) Architect
2 72 (14.63%) Solutions Architect
3 55 (11.18%) Developer
4 40 (8.13%) Lead
5 39 (7.93%) Integration Architect
6 31 (6.30%) Senior
7 30 (6.10%) Technical Architect
8 29 (5.89%) Consultant
9 25 (5.08%) Analyst
10 21 (4.27%) Middleware Engineer
11 20 (4.07%) Administrator
11 20 (4.07%) Salesforce Architect
12 15 (3.05%) Business Analyst
12 15 (3.05%) Linux Engineer
12 15 (3.05%) SAP Architect
13 14 (2.85%) Integration Engineer
13 14 (2.85%) Integration Specialist
14 12 (2.44%) Project Manager
14 12 (2.44%) Software Engineer
15 11 (2.24%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (20.73%) REST
2 71 (14.43%) SOAP
3 50 (10.16%) XML
4 49 (9.96%) JSON
5 39 (7.93%) Kafka
6 33 (6.71%) .NET
7 27 (5.49%) OAuth
8 19 (3.86%) Web Services
9 18 (3.66%) Lightning Web Components
10 16 (3.25%) JWT
11 14 (2.85%) GraphQL
11 14 (2.85%) OAuth2
12 13 (2.64%) ISPF
12 13 (2.64%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (2.44%) React
14 11 (2.24%) EDI
14 11 (2.24%) SAML
14 11 (2.24%) Spring
15 10 (2.03%) Swagger
16 9 (1.83%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.10%) Mainframe
2 29 (5.89%) Onboarding
3 28 (5.69%) Product Ownership
4 26 (5.28%) Data Centre
5 24 (4.88%) Management Information System
6 22 (4.47%) Cloud Native
6 22 (4.47%) Legacy Systems
7 21 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (3.66%) Clustering
9 17 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (3.05%) Data Structures
11 12 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 12 (2.44%) Public Cloud
12 10 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.83%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.83%) CMDB
13 9 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
14 8 (1.63%) IoT
15 7 (1.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 67 (13.62%) Linux
2 30 (6.10%) Unix
3 29 (5.89%) Windows
4 23 (4.67%) zOS
5 14 (2.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (2.64%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.02%) CentOS
7 5 (1.02%) Solaris
7 5 (1.02%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.81%) AIX
9 2 (0.41%) OpenVMS
9 2 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.41%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.41%) VMS
9 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (23.98%) Agile
2 107 (21.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 94 (19.11%) Integration Patterns
4 92 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
5 90 (18.29%) DevOps
6 87 (17.68%) CI/CD
7 76 (15.45%) Migration
8 70 (14.23%) ERP
9 65 (13.21%) Event-Driven
10 59 (11.99%) Enterprise Architecture
10 59 (11.99%) User Acceptance Testing
11 58 (11.79%) Roadmaps
12 50 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 50 (10.16%) CRM
12 50 (10.16%) Data Modelling
12 50 (10.16%) Technical Leadership
13 49 (9.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 40 (8.13%) Data Migration
15 39 (7.93%) Translating Business Requirements
15 39 (7.93%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 97 (19.72%) SQL
2 53 (10.77%) Java
3 42 (8.54%) Python
4 31 (6.30%) JavaScript
5 25 (5.08%) C#
6 18 (3.66%) Apex Code
6 18 (3.66%) Bash
6 18 (3.66%) PL/SQL
7 13 (2.64%) TypeScript
8 12 (2.44%) Shell Script
9 11 (2.24%) Ada
10 8 (1.63%) C++
11 6 (1.22%) Perl
11 6 (1.22%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.02%) ABAP
12 5 (1.02%) X++
13 4 (0.81%) C
13 4 (0.81%) COBOL
13 4 (0.81%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (14.02%) Security Cleared
2 57 (11.59%) SC Cleared
3 34 (6.91%) Degree
4 17 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.03%) TOGAF Certification
6 8 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.42%) 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%) DBS Check
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 38 (7.72%) QA
2 23 (4.67%) GDPR
3 20 (4.07%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.03%) Def Stans
4 10 (2.03%) IEC 61508
5 7 (1.42%) 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%) 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%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.41%) MISRA
9 2 (0.41%) MISRA C
9 2 (0.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 28 (5.69%) Docker
2 14 (2.85%) RACF
3 11 (2.24%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.42%) 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%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.20%) Firmware
8 1 (0.20%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 27 (5.49%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.27%) Ansible
3 14 (2.85%) OMEGAMON
4 12 (2.44%) Grafana
5 9 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (1.83%) Terraform
6 6 (1.22%) ITRS Geneos
7 5 (1.02%) Control-M
7 5 (1.02%) HP ALM
7 5 (1.02%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.02%) systemd
8 4 (0.81%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.81%) Check_MK
8 4 (0.81%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (0.81%) Podman
8 4 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (0.61%) CA Wily
9 3 (0.61%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.41%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.41%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 88 (17.89%) Oracle
2 79 (16.06%) SAP
3 57 (11.59%) MuleSoft
4 55 (11.18%) IBM
5 53 (10.77%) Microsoft
6 50 (10.16%) Salesforce
7 28 (5.69%) Workday
8 27 (5.49%) ServiceNow
9 17 (3.46%) Databricks
10 16 (3.25%) TIBCO
11 15 (3.05%) Google
12 12 (2.44%) VMware
13 10 (2.03%) Red Hat
13 10 (2.03%) Splunk
14 9 (1.83%) Solace
15 7 (1.42%) JD Edwards
15 7 (1.42%) Murex
16 6 (1.22%) Ariba
16 6 (1.22%) Dell
16 6 (1.22%) HP