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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 304 281
Rank change year-on-year +40 -23 +68
Contract jobs citing Middleware 319 213 308
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.06% 0.69% 0.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.62% 3.16% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 130 225
10th Percentile £400 £423 £393
25th Percentile £450 £500 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -1.63% +1.69%
75th Percentile £700 £722 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 2 11
10th Percentile £32.60 £61.93 £56.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £62.94 £61.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +0.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £67.50 £66.94 £66.25
90th Percentile £68.20 £67.58 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +0.38% -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 6,900 6,750 8,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.85% 21.76% 22.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,657 4,304 6,350
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £638 £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 181 97 181
10th Percentile £30.75 £26.40 £36.84
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +18 145 £625 +1.01% 90
South West +9 37 £68 -87.64% 26
North of England -21 34 £475 -9.52% 21
South East +16 31 £550 -3.51% 42
Midlands -11 31 £450 -14.29% 15
East of England 0 20 £500 -37.50% 14
North West -15 17 £525 +23.53% 14
East Midlands +4 16 £447 -14.86% 4
West Midlands -18 15 £500 -18.37% 11
Yorkshire -25 15 £475 - 7
North East -8 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 (7.84%) WebSphere
2 20 (6.27%) WebLogic
3 12 (3.76%) Apache
3 12 (3.76%) Confluence
4 6 (1.88%) IIS
4 6 (1.88%) Tomcat
5 5 (1.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (1.25%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.25%) JBoss
7 3 (0.94%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.94%) CMS
7 3 (0.94%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.94%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.94%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.94%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.94%) Smallworld
8 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.63%) CICS
8 2 (0.63%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.63%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (1.25%) 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 11 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.94%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.63%) CODA-Financials
4 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.63%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.63%) Primavera
5 1 (0.31%) Endur
5 1 (0.31%) Maximo
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.31%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 86 (26.96%) Azure
2 40 (12.54%) AWS
3 31 (9.72%) GCP
4 19 (5.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 19 (5.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 14 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (4.39%) OpenShift
6 13 (4.08%) SaaS
7 10 (3.13%) Boomi
8 9 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (2.51%) GitHub
9 8 (2.51%) PaaS
9 8 (2.51%) Serverless
10 7 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (2.19%) IaaS
10 7 (2.19%) Power Platform
11 6 (1.88%) Salesforce Einstein
12 5 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.57%) iPaaS
12 5 (1.57%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.96%) Firewall
1 19 (5.96%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.39%) Multicast
2 14 (4.39%) SAN
3 11 (3.45%) WAN
4 8 (2.51%) DNS
4 8 (2.51%) LAN
5 7 (2.19%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.88%) tcpdump
6 6 (1.88%) Wireshark
7 5 (1.57%) HTTP
7 5 (1.57%) SSL
8 4 (1.25%) DHCP
8 4 (1.25%) NAS
8 4 (1.25%) VLAN
9 2 (0.63%) NetScaler
9 2 (0.63%) VPN
10 1 (0.31%) FTP
10 1 (0.31%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.31%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.27%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.82%) GIS
3 8 (2.51%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.88%) Data Lake
4 6 (1.88%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.57%) Oracle Database
5 5 (1.57%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (1.25%) MemSQL
6 4 (1.25%) OLTP
6 4 (1.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (1.25%) Power BI
6 4 (1.25%) Redis
6 4 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.94%) Data Hub
7 3 (0.94%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.94%) Spatial Data
8 2 (0.63%) DataStage
8 2 (0.63%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 24 (7.52%) Jenkins
2 22 (6.90%) JIRA
3 18 (5.64%) Git
4 14 (4.39%) GitLab
5 8 (2.51%) GCC
5 8 (2.51%) GDB
6 6 (1.88%) Gatling
6 6 (1.88%) JMeter
7 3 (0.94%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.63%) Ant
8 2 (0.63%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.63%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.63%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.63%) JUnit
8 2 (0.63%) Postman
8 2 (0.63%) TestPartner
9 1 (0.31%) Crucible
9 1 (0.31%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
General
1 85 (26.65%) Social Skills
2 65 (20.38%) Finance
3 33 (10.34%) Banking
4 27 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.84%) Front Office
6 18 (5.64%) Public Sector
7 16 (5.02%) Marketing
8 15 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.82%) International Banking
10 7 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.88%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.88%) Local Government
11 6 (1.88%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.57%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.57%) Retail
13 4 (1.25%) General Ledger
13 4 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.94%) Back Office
14 3 (0.94%) Law
14 3 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (25.08%) Architect
2 61 (19.12%) Developer
3 28 (8.78%) Solutions Architect
4 25 (7.84%) Consultant
5 24 (7.52%) Senior
6 23 (7.21%) Support Engineer
7 20 (6.27%) Lead
7 20 (6.27%) Technical Architect
8 19 (5.96%) Salesforce Architect
9 16 (5.02%) Software Engineer
10 15 (4.70%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (4.39%) C++ Software Engineer
12 13 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (3.45%) Analyst
13 11 (3.45%) Product Engineer
13 11 (3.45%) Products Support Engineer
13 11 (3.45%) Software Support Engineer
14 9 (2.82%) Infrastructure Architect
14 9 (2.82%) Salesforce Developer
14 9 (2.82%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (15.36%) REST
2 43 (13.48%) SOAP
3 29 (9.09%) .NET
4 26 (8.15%) FIX Protocol
4 26 (8.15%) Lightning Web Components
5 24 (7.52%) Kafka
6 21 (6.58%) Web Services
7 20 (6.27%) Visualforce
8 18 (5.64%) Node.js
9 17 (5.33%) HTML
10 16 (5.02%) RESTful
11 15 (4.70%) Qt
11 15 (4.70%) React
12 11 (3.45%) OAuth
13 8 (2.51%) JMS
13 8 (2.51%) OAuth2
13 8 (2.51%) Oracle Fusion
13 8 (2.51%) Spring
13 8 (2.51%) STL
13 8 (2.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.52%) Product Ownership
2 20 (6.27%) Cloud Native
3 19 (5.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (5.33%) Data Centre
5 16 (5.02%) Private Cloud
6 13 (4.08%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.82%) Distributed Architecture
7 9 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.51%) Algorithms
8 8 (2.51%) Derivative
8 8 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.51%) Replication
9 7 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.19%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.19%) Fixed Income
9 7 (2.19%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.88%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (1.88%) Video\Live Streaming
11 5 (1.57%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 80 (25.08%) Linux
2 44 (13.79%) Windows
3 28 (8.78%) Unix
4 17 (5.33%) Ubuntu
5 14 (4.39%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.88%) CentOS
8 4 (1.25%) VMS
9 3 (0.94%) Solaris
10 2 (0.63%) zOS
11 1 (0.31%) MVS
11 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (28.84%) Agile
2 72 (22.57%) CI/CD
3 66 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (18.18%) DevOps
5 52 (16.30%) Migration
6 35 (10.97%) Computer Science
6 35 (10.97%) Software Engineering
7 34 (10.66%) Data Modelling
8 33 (10.34%) Integration Patterns
9 32 (10.03%) Infrastructure as Code
10 29 (9.09%) ERP
10 29 (9.09%) High Availability
11 28 (8.78%) Roadmaps
12 27 (8.46%) Low Latency
12 27 (8.46%) Scrum
12 27 (8.46%) Technical Leadership
13 26 (8.15%) Stakeholder Management
14 25 (7.84%) Data Governance
14 25 (7.84%) Microservices
14 25 (7.84%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 62 (19.44%) Java
2 60 (18.81%) Python
3 58 (18.18%) C++
4 55 (17.24%) SQL
5 33 (10.34%) PowerShell
6 30 (9.40%) C#
7 27 (8.46%) C
8 26 (8.15%) Apex Code
9 25 (7.84%) JavaScript
10 20 (6.27%) Ada
10 20 (6.27%) Bash
11 15 (4.70%) PHP
12 14 (4.39%) Shell Script
13 12 (3.76%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.25%) Groovy
14 4 (1.25%) Scala
14 4 (1.25%) SOQL
14 4 (1.25%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.94%) Korn
15 3 (0.94%) Magik
Qualifications
1 49 (15.36%) Security Cleared
2 43 (13.48%) SC Cleared
3 38 (11.91%) Degree
4 22 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.82%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.19%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.25%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.25%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.25%) PMP
7 4 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.63%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.63%) RHCE
10 1 (0.31%) CCA
10 1 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.31%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.21%) GDPR
2 15 (4.70%) QA
3 13 (4.08%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 10 (3.13%) Def Stans
5 10 (3.13%) IEC 61508
6 9 (2.82%) MISRA
6 9 (2.82%) MISRA C
7 4 (1.25%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.25%) HL7
8 3 (0.94%) GAAP
9 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.63%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.63%) PMO
9 2 (0.63%) WCAG
10 1 (0.31%) IFRS
10 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.31%) SEPA
System Software
1 19 (5.96%) Docker
2 14 (4.39%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (3.13%) vSphere
4 8 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (2.19%) 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 39 (12.23%) Kubernetes
2 29 (9.09%) Ansible
3 15 (4.70%) Prometheus
4 12 (3.76%) Terraform
5 11 (3.45%) ITRS Geneos
6 10 (3.13%) Grafana
7 5 (1.57%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.25%) SCCM
8 4 (1.25%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.94%) vRealize
10 2 (0.63%) Control-M
10 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.63%) Nagios
10 2 (0.63%) Podman
10 2 (0.63%) Puppet
10 2 (0.63%) SCOrch
11 1 (0.31%) Kibana
11 1 (0.31%) logstash
11 1 (0.31%) Packer
11 1 (0.31%) TADDM
Vendors
1 44 (13.79%) Oracle
2 40 (12.54%) Salesforce
3 33 (10.34%) Microsoft
4 28 (8.78%) MuleSoft
5 24 (7.52%) SAP
5 24 (7.52%) Solace
5 24 (7.52%) VMware
6 22 (6.90%) Red Hat
7 18 (5.64%) Dynatrace
8 15 (4.70%) IBM
9 10 (3.13%) Google
9 10 (3.13%) HP
9 10 (3.13%) TIBCO
10 9 (2.82%) Citrix
10 9 (2.82%) F5
11 5 (1.57%) Databricks
11 5 (1.57%) Dell
11 5 (1.57%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.57%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.57%) Splunk