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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 251 312
Rank change year-on-year +2 +61 -25
Contract jobs citing Middleware 515 305 228
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.10% 1.08% 0.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.15% 4.24% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 172 139
10th Percentile £419 £400 £413
25th Percentile £471 £444 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -10.64% -2.08%
75th Percentile £628 £673 £725
90th Percentile £724 £762 £805
UK median daily rate £559 £525 £558
% change year-on-year +6.48% -5.91% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 30 2
10th Percentile - £32.60 £61.93
25th Percentile - £62.75 £62.94
Median hourly rate £38.25 £65.00 £65.25
Median % change year-on-year -41.15% -0.38% +0.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £66.94
90th Percentile £65.60 - £67.58
UK median hourly rate £51.63 £65.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year -20.58% -0.38% +0.38%

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 9,997 7,191 7,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.34% 25.54% 24.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,576 4,855 5,186
10th Percentile £381 £358 £361
25th Percentile £447 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -5.91% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 171 157
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £32.10
25th Percentile £53.90 £41.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +10.94%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.00 £73.85
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
% change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +10.11%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +35 281 £575 -6.16% 169
North of England -4 100 £525 +10.53% 50
South East -39 63 £500 -12.66% 43
Yorkshire +4 59 £500 +5.26% 19
North West -28 34 £588 +17.50% 24
Midlands -49 29 £563 +25.84% 18
West Midlands -38 21 £575 +27.78% 8
South West -56 19 £550 +708.82% 21
East of England -36 11 £483 -8.10% 22
East Midlands -18 8 £525 +17.45% 10
North East -32 7 £501 +5.37% 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 28 (5.44%) WebLogic
1 28 (5.44%) WebSphere
2 14 (2.72%) Confluence
3 12 (2.33%) SharePoint
4 11 (2.14%) Tomcat
5 10 (1.94%) Apache
5 10 (1.94%) CICS
5 10 (1.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 8 (1.55%) nginx
7 7 (1.36%) WebSphere Application Server
8 6 (1.17%) WebLogic Portal
9 5 (0.97%) IBM HTTP Server
9 5 (0.97%) IBM Transformation Extender
9 5 (0.97%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 5 (0.97%) WebSphere Portal
10 4 (0.78%) Anypoint
10 4 (0.78%) JBoss
10 4 (0.78%) Mule
10 4 (0.78%) SAS
10 4 (0.78%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.58%) Navisworks
3 3 (0.58%) Revit
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.19%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 30 (5.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (2.14%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (1.55%) NetSuite
4 7 (1.36%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (1.36%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (1.17%) SAP GRC
5 6 (1.17%) SAP MDG
6 5 (0.97%) Maximo
6 5 (0.97%) Oracle EBS R12
7 4 (0.78%) Oracle Cash Management
7 4 (0.78%) SAP MM
7 4 (0.78%) Teamcenter
7 4 (0.78%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.58%) BusinessWorks
8 3 (0.58%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.58%) iTrent
8 3 (0.58%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 134 (26.02%) Azure
2 85 (16.50%) AWS
3 47 (9.13%) Boomi
4 46 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (7.96%) GCP
6 32 (6.21%) SaaS
7 31 (6.02%) GitHub
8 28 (5.44%) iPaaS
9 26 (5.05%) Power Platform
10 23 (4.47%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (3.88%) Azure Service Bus
12 19 (3.69%) Azure Logic Apps
12 19 (3.69%) SuccessFactors
13 17 (3.30%) Serverless
14 16 (3.11%) Azure Functions
14 16 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (3.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 14 (2.72%) Entra ID
16 13 (2.52%) Azure Monitor
16 13 (2.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.30%) HTTP
2 16 (3.11%) SSL
3 9 (1.75%) Firewall
4 5 (0.97%) DNS
4 5 (0.97%) Multicast
4 5 (0.97%) NAS
4 5 (0.97%) SAN
5 4 (0.78%) DHCP
5 4 (0.78%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.78%) VPN
6 3 (0.58%) Internet
6 3 (0.58%) WAN
7 2 (0.39%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.39%) LAN
7 2 (0.39%) MQTT
7 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.39%) X.509
8 1 (0.19%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.66%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.50%) Oracle Database
3 17 (3.30%) Relational Database
4 15 (2.91%) Power BI
5 14 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (2.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (1.75%) Tableau
8 7 (1.36%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.36%) Db2
8 7 (1.36%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.17%) Metadata
10 5 (0.97%) Big Data
10 5 (0.97%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.58%) DataStage
13 2 (0.39%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (6.21%) JIRA
2 28 (5.44%) Git
3 18 (3.50%) Postman
4 16 (3.11%) Jenkins
5 11 (2.14%) JMeter
5 11 (2.14%) LoadRunner
6 10 (1.94%) SoapUI
7 9 (1.75%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.36%) eggPlant
8 7 (1.36%) Selenium
9 6 (1.17%) GitLab
9 6 (1.17%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.97%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.78%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.78%) Fiddler
11 4 (0.78%) Gatling
11 4 (0.78%) JetBrains Rider
11 4 (0.78%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
13 2 (0.39%) TestRail
General
1 171 (33.20%) Finance
2 139 (26.99%) Social Skills
3 83 (16.12%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (15.73%) Banking
5 37 (7.18%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.27%) Retail
7 20 (3.88%) Legal
8 19 (3.69%) Manufacturing
9 13 (2.52%) Aerospace
10 12 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (2.14%) Marketing
12 9 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.36%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.17%) Billing
14 6 (1.17%) Law
15 5 (0.97%) Aviation
15 5 (0.97%) General Ledger
15 5 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 125 (24.27%) Architect
2 68 (13.20%) Developer
3 54 (10.49%) Lead
4 49 (9.51%) Solutions Architect
5 43 (8.35%) Senior
6 36 (6.99%) Integration Architect
7 35 (6.80%) Consultant
8 25 (4.85%) Analyst
9 22 (4.27%) Technical Architect
10 21 (4.08%) Integration Engineer
11 19 (3.69%) Automation Engineer
11 19 (3.69%) Linux Engineer
12 17 (3.30%) Middleware Engineer
13 16 (3.11%) Administrator
13 16 (3.11%) Salesforce Architect
14 15 (2.91%) Integration Specialist
15 14 (2.72%) Business Analyst
16 12 (2.33%) Project Manager
17 11 (2.14%) Functional Consultant
17 11 (2.14%) Integration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (21.94%) REST
2 80 (15.53%) SOAP
3 61 (11.84%) XML
4 59 (11.46%) JSON
5 43 (8.35%) .NET
6 41 (7.96%) Kafka
7 40 (7.77%) OAuth
8 32 (6.21%) Web Services
9 26 (5.05%) JWT
10 24 (4.66%) OAuth2
11 20 (3.88%) Swagger
12 19 (3.69%) SAML
13 17 (3.30%) GraphQL
13 17 (3.30%) Lightning Web Components
14 16 (3.11%) EDI
14 16 (3.11%) OpenAPI
14 16 (3.11%) Terraform
15 15 (2.91%) RESTful
16 14 (2.72%) RabbitMQ
17 13 (2.52%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.16%) Enterprise Software
2 38 (7.38%) Mainframe
3 35 (6.80%) Onboarding
4 32 (6.21%) Cloud Native
4 32 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (4.66%) Product Ownership
6 19 (3.69%) Management Information System
7 18 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (3.30%) Data Structures
9 16 (3.11%) Clustering
10 14 (2.72%) Data Centre
11 11 (2.14%) Legacy Applications
12 10 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.94%) Low-Code
13 9 (1.75%) Replication
13 9 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 8 (1.55%) AI Agents
15 7 (1.36%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 79 (15.34%) Linux
2 38 (7.38%) Windows
3 30 (5.83%) Unix
4 24 (4.66%) zOS
5 15 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (2.52%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.17%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.78%) CentOS
9 3 (0.58%) VMS
10 2 (0.39%) OpenVMS
10 2 (0.39%) Solaris
10 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.19%) AIX
11 1 (0.19%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (27.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 121 (23.50%) Agile
3 119 (23.11%) CI/CD
4 110 (21.36%) DevOps
5 104 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
6 93 (18.06%) Event-Driven
7 90 (17.48%) Migration
8 86 (16.70%) ERP
9 83 (16.12%) Integration Patterns
10 68 (13.20%) Enterprise Architecture
10 68 (13.20%) Roadmaps
10 68 (13.20%) User Acceptance Testing
11 64 (12.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 63 (12.23%) Validation
13 61 (11.84%) Test Automation
14 60 (11.65%) Data Modelling
15 57 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
16 51 (9.90%) Technical Leadership
17 49 (9.51%) Data Migration
18 48 (9.32%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 94 (18.25%) SQL
2 61 (11.84%) Python
3 50 (9.71%) JavaScript
4 43 (8.35%) Java
5 33 (6.41%) C#
6 29 (5.63%) Bash
7 19 (3.69%) PowerShell
8 18 (3.50%) Apex Code
9 17 (3.30%) TypeScript
10 14 (2.72%) PL/SQL
11 13 (2.52%) Shell Script
12 11 (2.14%) C++
13 6 (1.17%) ABAP
14 5 (0.97%) C
15 4 (0.78%) Ada
15 4 (0.78%) Go
15 4 (0.78%) Korn
15 4 (0.78%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.58%) SOQL
16 3 (0.58%) X++
Qualifications
1 106 (20.58%) Security Cleared
2 92 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 41 (7.96%) Degree
4 19 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.94%) TOGAF Certification
6 9 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.17%) CISSP
9 5 (0.97%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.97%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.97%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.78%) SAP Certification
11 3 (0.58%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.39%) ACCA
12 2 (0.39%) CIMA
12 2 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.39%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (9.71%) QA
2 24 (4.66%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.55%) GDPR
3 8 (1.55%) ISO 20022
4 7 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.17%) GRC
5 6 (1.17%) PMO
6 5 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.78%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.78%) SEPA
7 4 (0.78%) SLA
7 4 (0.78%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.58%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.58%) HL7
8 3 (0.58%) IEC 61508
8 3 (0.58%) ISO 15022
8 3 (0.58%) MISRA
8 3 (0.58%) MISRA C
9 2 (0.39%) NCSC
9 2 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 34 (6.60%) Docker
2 14 (2.72%) RACF
3 9 (1.75%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.78%) NFS
6 4 (0.78%) vSphere
7 3 (0.58%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.58%) KVM
8 2 (0.39%) IAG
8 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.19%) Firmware
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 36 (6.99%) Kubernetes
2 28 (5.44%) Ansible
3 16 (3.11%) Grafana
4 14 (2.72%) OMEGAMON
5 7 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.36%) Tivoli
5 7 (1.36%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 6 (1.17%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (0.97%) Control-M
8 4 (0.78%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.78%) Data Guard
8 4 (0.78%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.78%) HP Fortify
8 4 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.78%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.78%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.78%) systemd
9 3 (0.58%) Podman
10 2 (0.39%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.39%) Netcool
Vendors
1 101 (19.61%) Oracle
2 91 (17.67%) SAP
3 83 (16.12%) IBM
4 59 (11.46%) MuleSoft
5 58 (11.26%) Microsoft
6 45 (8.74%) Salesforce
7 28 (5.44%) Workday
8 27 (5.24%) Google
8 27 (5.24%) ServiceNow
9 17 (3.30%) TIBCO
10 15 (2.91%) Splunk
11 14 (2.72%) Dynatrace
12 13 (2.52%) Databricks
13 10 (1.94%) Informatica
13 10 (1.94%) Solace
13 10 (1.94%) WSO2
14 8 (1.55%) Dell
15 7 (1.36%) JD Edwards
15 7 (1.36%) New Relic
15 7 (1.36%) Sybase