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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 309 297
Rank change year-on-year +52 -12 +43
Contract jobs citing Middleware 318 218 311
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.06% 0.70% 0.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.63% 3.23% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 131 227
10th Percentile £400 £446 £395
25th Percentile £448 £500 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £591 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% -1.58% +1.69%
75th Percentile £713 £719 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £554 £600
% change year-on-year -0.72% -7.67% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 5 10
10th Percentile £33.00 £62.75 £55.75
25th Percentile £61.25 - £61.56
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £67.00 - £66.88
90th Percentile £68.00 £66.80 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

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 6,864 6,746 8,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.84% 21.67% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,631 4,305 6,457
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.56%
75th Percentile £635 £666 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 100 182
10th Percentile £31.20 £26.25 £36.31
25th Percentile £43.00 £42.19 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.50 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.35 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.47%

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025. 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 +17 147 £625 +1.01% 87
South West +12 38 £68 -87.64% 22
Midlands -8 33 £450 -14.29% 12
North of England -23 32 £481 -12.30% 18
South East +14 27 £598 +4.82% 40
East of England +2 20 £500 -37.50% 13
East Midlands +6 17 £447 -14.86% 4
North West -16 17 £525 +5.00% 11
West Midlands -13 16 £500 -18.37% 8
Yorkshire -33 13 £475 - 7
North East -10 2 £469 -14.58%
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 25 (7.86%) WebSphere
2 20 (6.29%) WebLogic
3 12 (3.77%) Confluence
4 11 (3.46%) Apache
5 6 (1.89%) IIS
5 6 (1.89%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.26%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.94%) CMS
7 3 (0.94%) JBoss
7 3 (0.94%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.94%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.94%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.63%) CICS
8 2 (0.63%) nginx
8 2 (0.63%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.63%) WildFly
9 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.31%) Gunicorn
Applications
1 4 (1.26%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.31%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 10 (3.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.63%) CODA-Financials
2 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.63%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.63%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.63%) Primavera
3 1 (0.31%) Endur
3 1 (0.31%) Maximo
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.31%) SAP CAR
3 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.31%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.31%) SAP POS DM
3 1 (0.31%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 88 (27.67%) Azure
2 39 (12.26%) AWS
3 31 (9.75%) GCP
4 20 (6.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 20 (6.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 12 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (3.77%) OpenShift
5 12 (3.77%) SaaS
6 10 (3.14%) Boomi
7 9 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (2.52%) Serverless
9 7 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (2.20%) GitHub
9 7 (2.20%) Power Platform
10 6 (1.89%) PaaS
10 6 (1.89%) Salesforce Einstein
11 5 (1.57%) Azure API Management
11 5 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.57%) IaaS
11 5 (1.57%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.97%) Firewall
1 19 (5.97%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.40%) Multicast
2 14 (4.40%) SAN
3 11 (3.46%) WAN
4 8 (2.52%) DNS
4 8 (2.52%) LAN
5 7 (2.20%) HTTP
5 7 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.89%) tcpdump
6 6 (1.89%) Wireshark
7 5 (1.57%) SSL
8 4 (1.26%) DHCP
8 4 (1.26%) NAS
8 4 (1.26%) VLAN
9 2 (0.63%) NetScaler
9 2 (0.63%) VPN
10 1 (0.31%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.31%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.66%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.52%) NoSQL
3 7 (2.20%) GIS
3 7 (2.20%) Oracle Database
4 6 (1.89%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.57%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (1.26%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.26%) MemSQL
6 4 (1.26%) OLTP
6 4 (1.26%) Power BI
6 4 (1.26%) Redis
7 3 (0.94%) Data Hub
7 3 (0.94%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.63%) DataStage
8 2 (0.63%) EDMS
8 2 (0.63%) KDB
8 2 (0.63%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 21 (6.60%) Jenkins
2 20 (6.29%) JIRA
3 17 (5.35%) Git
4 14 (4.40%) GitLab
5 8 (2.52%) GCC
5 8 (2.52%) GDB
6 6 (1.89%) Gatling
6 6 (1.89%) JMeter
7 3 (0.94%) Ant
7 3 (0.94%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.94%) JUnit
8 2 (0.63%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.63%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.63%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.63%) Postman
8 2 (0.63%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.63%) TestPartner
9 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.31%) Crucible
General
1 86 (27.04%) Social Skills
2 65 (20.44%) Finance
3 35 (11.01%) Banking
4 28 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.86%) Front Office
6 18 (5.66%) Public Sector
7 17 (5.35%) Marketing
8 15 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.52%) International Banking
10 7 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.20%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.89%) Local Government
11 6 (1.89%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.57%) Retail
13 4 (1.26%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.94%) Back Office
14 3 (0.94%) Law
15 2 (0.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 82 (25.79%) Architect
2 62 (19.50%) Developer
3 31 (9.75%) Solutions Architect
4 25 (7.86%) Consultant
5 23 (7.23%) Senior
5 23 (7.23%) Support Engineer
6 20 (6.29%) Lead
6 20 (6.29%) Salesforce Architect
6 20 (6.29%) Technical Architect
7 17 (5.35%) Software Engineer
8 15 (4.72%) C++ Software Engineer
9 14 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (4.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (3.46%) Product Engineer
11 11 (3.46%) Products Support Engineer
11 11 (3.46%) Software Support Engineer
12 10 (3.14%) Analyst
13 9 (2.83%) C++ Developer
13 9 (2.83%) Infrastructure Architect
13 9 (2.83%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (15.72%) REST
2 45 (14.15%) SOAP
3 29 (9.12%) .NET
4 27 (8.49%) Lightning Web Components
5 26 (8.18%) FIX Protocol
5 26 (8.18%) Kafka
6 21 (6.60%) Visualforce
7 19 (5.97%) Web Services
8 18 (5.66%) Node.js
9 17 (5.35%) HTML
10 16 (5.03%) Qt
10 16 (5.03%) RESTful
11 14 (4.40%) React
12 11 (3.46%) OAuth
13 9 (2.83%) XML
14 8 (2.52%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 8 (2.52%) JMS
14 8 (2.52%) OAuth2
14 8 (2.52%) Spring
14 8 (2.52%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.23%) Product Ownership
2 20 (6.29%) Cloud Native
3 18 (5.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (5.35%) Data Centre
5 15 (4.72%) Private Cloud
6 12 (3.77%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.83%) Distributed Architecture
9 8 (2.52%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.52%) Derivative
9 8 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (2.20%) Data Structures
10 7 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (2.20%) Fixed Income
10 7 (2.20%) Onboarding
10 7 (2.20%) Replication
11 6 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (1.89%) Video\Live Streaming
12 5 (1.57%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 80 (25.16%) Linux
2 45 (14.15%) Windows
3 29 (9.12%) Unix
4 17 (5.35%) Ubuntu
5 14 (4.40%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.89%) CentOS
6 6 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.26%) VMS
8 3 (0.94%) Solaris
9 2 (0.63%) AIX
9 2 (0.63%) zOS
10 1 (0.31%) MVS
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (27.99%) Agile
2 70 (22.01%) CI/CD
3 66 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (17.92%) DevOps
5 50 (15.72%) Migration
6 37 (11.64%) Software Engineering
7 36 (11.32%) Computer Science
8 33 (10.38%) Data Modelling
9 32 (10.06%) Integration Patterns
10 30 (9.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (9.43%) Roadmaps
11 29 (9.12%) High Availability
12 28 (8.81%) Technical Leadership
13 27 (8.49%) ERP
13 27 (8.49%) Low Latency
13 27 (8.49%) Scrum
14 26 (8.18%) Microservices
15 25 (7.86%) Stakeholder Management
16 24 (7.55%) Data Governance
16 24 (7.55%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 63 (19.81%) Java
2 59 (18.55%) C++
3 58 (18.24%) Python
4 53 (16.67%) SQL
5 33 (10.38%) PowerShell
6 29 (9.12%) C#
7 27 (8.49%) Apex Code
7 27 (8.49%) C
8 24 (7.55%) JavaScript
9 21 (6.60%) Ada
10 19 (5.97%) Bash
11 15 (4.72%) PHP
12 14 (4.40%) Shell Script
13 12 (3.77%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.57%) Korn
15 4 (1.26%) Perl
15 4 (1.26%) Scala
15 4 (1.26%) SOQL
15 4 (1.26%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.94%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 49 (15.41%) Security Cleared
2 42 (13.21%) SC Cleared
3 38 (11.95%) Degree
4 23 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.14%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.20%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.26%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.26%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.26%) PMP
7 4 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.63%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.63%) RHCE
9 1 (0.31%) CCA
9 1 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.31%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.86%) GDPR
2 14 (4.40%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.40%) QA
3 13 (4.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (3.46%) Def Stans
4 11 (3.46%) IEC 61508
5 10 (3.14%) MISRA
5 10 (3.14%) MISRA C
6 4 (1.26%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.26%) HL7
7 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.63%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.63%) PMO
8 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.63%) SEPA
8 2 (0.63%) WCAG
9 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (5.97%) Docker
2 14 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (3.14%) vSphere
4 8 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (2.20%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.94%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.63%) KVM
8 1 (0.31%) Firmware
8 1 (0.31%) NFS
8 1 (0.31%) SRDF
8 1 (0.31%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.31%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.31%) Xen
Systems Management
1 37 (11.64%) Kubernetes
2 26 (8.18%) Ansible
3 15 (4.72%) Prometheus
4 11 (3.46%) ITRS Geneos
4 11 (3.46%) Terraform
5 10 (3.14%) Grafana
6 5 (1.57%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.26%) SCCM
7 4 (1.26%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.94%) vRealize
9 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.63%) Nagios
9 2 (0.63%) Puppet
9 2 (0.63%) SCOrch
10 1 (0.31%) Control-M
10 1 (0.31%) Kibana
10 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.31%) SCOM
10 1 (0.31%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 41 (12.89%) Oracle
1 41 (12.89%) Salesforce
2 34 (10.69%) Microsoft
3 28 (8.81%) MuleSoft
4 25 (7.86%) SAP
5 24 (7.55%) Solace
5 24 (7.55%) VMware
6 21 (6.60%) Red Hat
7 18 (5.66%) Dynatrace
8 16 (5.03%) IBM
9 10 (3.14%) Google
9 10 (3.14%) HP
9 10 (3.14%) TIBCO
10 9 (2.83%) F5
11 8 (2.52%) Citrix
12 5 (1.57%) Axway
12 5 (1.57%) Dell
12 5 (1.57%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.57%) Splunk
12 5 (1.57%) webMethods