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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 258 336
Rank change year-on-year +44 +78 -53
Contract jobs citing Middleware 509 242 229
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.17% 0.96% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.15% 4.26% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 148 161
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £475 £446 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £681 £694 £719
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £560 £525 £582
% change year-on-year +6.67% -9.85% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 19 2
10th Percentile £55.95 £64.40 £65.63
25th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £66.56
Median hourly rate £65.00 £68.00 £71.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -4.56% +9.62%
75th Percentile - - £74.69
90th Percentile - £68.75 £74.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £68.00 £71.25
% change year-on-year -4.41% -4.56% +9.62%

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 8,282 5,682 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.07% 22.64% 21.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,471 3,948 5,519
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £538
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 116 263
10th Percentile £30.61 £31.78 £22.96
25th Percentile £51.25 £49.06 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +4.67% -13.46%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.14 £81.01 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +49 253 £600 +3.00% 38
North of England -19 94 £525 +5.00% 19
Midlands -14 58 £550 +22.22% 4
North West -8 51 £525 -4.55% 6
South West -27 44 £595 +19.00% 5
West Midlands -26 40 £601 +30.00% 2
Yorkshire -31 39 £576 +19.61% 8
South East -58 36 £530 -1.17% 20
East of England -10 22 £492 -21.28% 10
East Midlands -6 15 £463 +3.47% 2
North East -33 4 £500 +3.90% 5
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 (5.30%) WebSphere
2 17 (3.34%) WebLogic
3 13 (2.55%) CICS
4 10 (1.96%) Apache
4 10 (1.96%) Tomcat
5 8 (1.57%) Apache Geronimo
5 8 (1.57%) Apache ServiceMix
5 8 (1.57%) Confluence
5 8 (1.57%) Red Hat Fuse
6 5 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.98%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (0.79%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.79%) SAS
7 4 (0.79%) WordPress
8 3 (0.59%) IBM HTTP Server
8 3 (0.59%) JBoss
8 3 (0.59%) Mule
8 3 (0.59%) nginx
9 2 (0.39%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.59%) Navisworks
3 3 (0.59%) Revit
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.20%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 31 (6.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.77%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.18%) NetSuite
4 6 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (1.18%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (0.98%) Maximo
5 5 (0.98%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (0.79%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 4 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.79%) Shopify
7 3 (0.59%) Bloomberg AIM
7 3 (0.59%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.59%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.59%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.39%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.39%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 114 (22.40%) Azure
2 59 (11.59%) AWS
3 32 (6.29%) SaaS
4 31 (6.09%) Boomi
5 28 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (5.11%) GCP
7 22 (4.32%) Power Platform
8 15 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (2.95%) iPaaS
9 13 (2.55%) Serverless
10 12 (2.36%) SuccessFactors
11 11 (2.16%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (2.16%) OCI
11 11 (2.16%) PaaS
12 8 (1.57%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (1.57%) Entra ID
12 8 (1.57%) GitHub
12 8 (1.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 7 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (1.38%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.32%) Firewall
2 12 (2.36%) SSL
3 6 (1.18%) HTTP
4 5 (0.98%) LAN
4 5 (0.98%) WAN
5 3 (0.59%) DNS
5 3 (0.59%) IPv4
5 3 (0.59%) IPv6
5 3 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.59%) SAN
5 3 (0.59%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.39%) MQTT
6 2 (0.39%) NAS
6 2 (0.39%) Network Security
7 1 (0.20%) DHCP
7 1 (0.20%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.20%) Multicast
7 1 (0.20%) TETRA
7 1 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.73%) Power BI
2 17 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (3.34%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.95%) DataStage
4 10 (1.96%) Oracle Database
5 9 (1.77%) Data Lake
5 9 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (1.57%) Metadata
7 7 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (1.38%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.98%) Big Data
9 5 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.98%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.79%) MySQL
10 4 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.59%) Tableau
12 2 (0.39%) Redis
12 2 (0.39%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 26 (5.11%) JIRA
2 24 (4.72%) Git
3 20 (3.93%) GitLab
4 18 (3.54%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.18%) JUnit
6 5 (0.98%) Jaeger
7 3 (0.59%) Introscope
7 3 (0.59%) Mockito
7 3 (0.59%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.39%) Ant
8 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.39%) ERwin
8 2 (0.39%) Gradle
8 2 (0.39%) Hudson
8 2 (0.39%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.39%) Maven
8 2 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.39%) Selenium
8 2 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 175 (34.38%) Finance
2 135 (26.52%) Social Skills
3 92 (18.07%) Banking
4 67 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (7.86%) Public Sector
6 30 (5.89%) Retail
7 21 (4.13%) Legal
8 20 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
8 20 (3.93%) Investment Banking
9 15 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (2.95%) Manufacturing
10 14 (2.75%) Aerospace
11 13 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (2.36%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.57%) Marketing
13 8 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.38%) Back Office
14 7 (1.38%) General Ledger
14 7 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 166 (32.61%) Architect
2 83 (16.31%) Solutions Architect
3 44 (8.64%) Developer
4 40 (7.86%) Lead
5 34 (6.68%) Integration Architect
6 33 (6.48%) Senior
7 29 (5.70%) Consultant
8 27 (5.30%) Technical Architect
9 25 (4.91%) Analyst
10 24 (4.72%) Administrator
10 24 (4.72%) Software Engineer
11 19 (3.73%) SAP Architect
12 17 (3.34%) Java Engineer
13 16 (3.14%) Payments Architect
13 16 (3.14%) Payments Solutions Architect
14 15 (2.95%) Business Analyst
14 15 (2.95%) Middleware Engineer
15 14 (2.75%) Integration Specialist
15 14 (2.75%) Linux Engineer
15 14 (2.75%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (16.11%) REST
2 50 (9.82%) SOAP
3 40 (7.86%) XML
4 38 (7.47%) Kafka
5 33 (6.48%) JSON
6 20 (3.93%) .NET
7 15 (2.95%) Lightning Web Components
7 15 (2.95%) OAuth
8 14 (2.75%) Spring Boot
9 13 (2.55%) RESTful
10 12 (2.36%) LDAP
11 11 (2.16%) Apache Camel
11 11 (2.16%) OAuth2
11 11 (2.16%) Qt
11 11 (2.16%) Spring
11 11 (2.16%) Web Services
12 10 (1.96%) ISPF
12 10 (1.96%) Node.js
12 10 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
12 10 (1.96%) React
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.45%) Management Information System
2 34 (6.68%) Data Centre
3 27 (5.30%) Mainframe
3 27 (5.30%) Onboarding
4 21 (4.13%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (3.54%) Public Cloud
7 17 (3.34%) Clustering
8 15 (2.95%) Cloud Native
8 15 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (2.16%) CMDB
9 11 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.96%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
11 9 (1.77%) BYOD
11 9 (1.77%) VSAM
12 8 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.57%) IoT
13 7 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 76 (14.93%) Linux
2 28 (5.50%) Windows
3 24 (4.72%) Unix
4 18 (3.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (3.34%) zOS
6 13 (2.55%) Ubuntu
7 12 (2.36%) CentOS
8 11 (2.16%) Solaris
9 10 (1.96%) AIX
10 3 (0.59%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.20%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.20%) Rocky
12 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (25.15%) Agile
2 102 (20.04%) Integration Patterns
3 94 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
4 92 (18.07%) DevOps
5 84 (16.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 77 (15.13%) CI/CD
6 77 (15.13%) Migration
7 73 (14.34%) ERP
8 63 (12.38%) Roadmaps
9 61 (11.98%) Technical Leadership
10 60 (11.79%) Microservices
11 54 (10.61%) Enterprise Architecture
12 52 (10.22%) Data Modelling
12 52 (10.22%) User Acceptance Testing
13 48 (9.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 47 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 44 (8.64%) CRM
16 42 (8.25%) SDLC
16 42 (8.25%) Validation
16 42 (8.25%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 97 (19.06%) SQL
2 64 (12.57%) Java
3 33 (6.48%) Python
4 25 (4.91%) Ada
5 24 (4.72%) JavaScript
6 18 (3.54%) C#
7 17 (3.34%) PL/SQL
7 17 (3.34%) Shell Script
8 16 (3.14%) Bash
9 15 (2.95%) C++
10 14 (2.75%) Apex Code
11 11 (2.16%) MATLAB
12 9 (1.77%) COBOL
13 8 (1.57%) PowerShell
13 8 (1.57%) TypeScript
14 7 (1.38%) SOQL
15 6 (1.18%) Perl
15 6 (1.18%) Rust
16 4 (0.79%) ABAP
16 4 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (13.36%) Security Cleared
2 54 (10.61%) SC Cleared
3 42 (8.25%) Degree
4 26 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.75%) Master's Degree
6 11 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
7 10 (1.96%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.38%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.18%) PMP
11 5 (0.98%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.98%) SAP Certification
12 3 (0.59%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.39%) IIBA
13 2 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.20%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.70%) GDPR
2 27 (5.30%) Def Stans
2 27 (5.30%) IEC 61508
3 23 (4.52%) QA
4 18 (3.54%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.55%) SLA
6 10 (1.96%) MISRA
6 10 (1.96%) MISRA C
7 9 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.38%) ISO 20022
9 6 (1.18%) NIST
9 6 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.98%) GAAP
10 5 (0.98%) HL7
11 3 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.59%) IFRS
11 3 (0.59%) PMO
12 2 (0.39%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.39%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 26 (5.11%) Docker
2 15 (2.95%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.16%) RACF
4 6 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.79%) vSphere
6 2 (0.39%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.20%) GPFS
7 1 (0.20%) Lustre
7 1 (0.20%) NFS
7 1 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.20%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 29 (5.70%) Kubernetes
2 28 (5.50%) Ansible
3 13 (2.55%) Grafana
4 11 (2.16%) Check_MK
4 11 (2.16%) Podman
4 11 (2.16%) Red Hat Satellite
4 11 (2.16%) Terraform
5 10 (1.96%) OMEGAMON
6 9 (1.77%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.98%) Kiali
8 5 (0.98%) systemd
9 4 (0.79%) Control-M
9 4 (0.79%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.59%) CA Wily
10 3 (0.59%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.39%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.39%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (0.39%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 80 (15.72%) SAP
2 79 (15.52%) Oracle
3 55 (10.81%) Microsoft
4 46 (9.04%) IBM
5 42 (8.25%) Salesforce
6 39 (7.66%) MuleSoft
7 32 (6.29%) ServiceNow
7 32 (6.29%) Workday
8 22 (4.32%) VMware
9 21 (4.13%) Databricks
10 17 (3.34%) Red Hat
11 11 (2.16%) Google
11 11 (2.16%) Splunk
12 9 (1.77%) TIBCO
13 7 (1.38%) Dell
14 6 (1.18%) AppDynamics
14 6 (1.18%) Bloomberg
14 6 (1.18%) JD Edwards
14 6 (1.18%) Murex
14 6 (1.18%) Software AG