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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 265 317
Rank change year-on-year +13 +52 -31
Contract jobs citing Middleware 466 264 218
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 0.96% 0.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.76% 3.86% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 148 152
10th Percentile £425 £395 £419
25th Percentile £475 £447 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.20% +2.08%
75th Percentile £650 £694 £744
90th Percentile £735 £779 £825
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £595
% change year-on-year +9.52% -11.80% +1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 21 0
10th Percentile - £29.00 -
25th Percentile £38.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 -
90th Percentile £67.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 9,788 6,843 8,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.38% 24.84% 24.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,447 4,702 5,580
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 164 185
10th Percentile £29.35 £31.25 £27.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.24 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.71% -13.04% -3.85%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.72 £75.00 £74.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -1.83%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +43 260 £590 -3.32% 192
North of England -28 75 £575 +19.48% 41
South East -41 56 £500 -12.66% 39
North West -25 38 £581 -1.90% 26
Midlands -36 35 £575 +28.64% 10
Yorkshire -31 30 £569 +25.00% 6
West Midlands -40 25 £583 +79.23% 8
South West -32 21 £575 +13.86% 20
East of England -21 16 £491 -4.15% 13
East Midlands -21 8 £550 +22.63% 2
North East -35 7 £500 +5.26% 9
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 24 (5.15%) WebSphere
2 19 (4.08%) WebLogic
3 9 (1.93%) CICS
4 7 (1.50%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.29%) Confluence
5 6 (1.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (1.07%) Mule
6 5 (1.07%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (0.86%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.86%) Apache
7 4 (0.86%) JBoss
7 4 (0.86%) SAS
7 4 (0.86%) WordPress
8 3 (0.64%) IBM HTTP Server
8 3 (0.64%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
8 3 (0.64%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.43%) Apache ServiceMix
9 2 (0.43%) nginx
9 2 (0.43%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.43%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.64%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.64%) Revit
3 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.21%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 32 (6.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (2.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.72%) NetSuite
3 8 (1.72%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (1.50%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (1.50%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (1.07%) SAP GRC
6 4 (0.86%) Maximo
6 4 (0.86%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.86%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.86%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.64%) BusinessWorks
7 3 (0.64%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.64%) Endur
7 3 (0.64%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.64%) SAP MM
7 3 (0.64%) Shopify
7 3 (0.64%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.43%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 116 (24.89%) Azure
2 71 (15.24%) AWS
3 42 (9.01%) Boomi
4 37 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (6.65%) SaaS
6 29 (6.22%) GCP
7 24 (5.15%) Power Platform
8 23 (4.94%) iPaaS
9 21 (4.51%) Dynamics 365
10 19 (4.08%) GitHub
11 15 (3.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 14 (3.00%) Azure Service Bus
12 14 (3.00%) PaaS
13 13 (2.79%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (2.79%) IaaS
13 13 (2.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 13 (2.79%) Serverless
14 12 (2.58%) Power Automate
14 12 (2.58%) SuccessFactors
15 10 (2.15%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.86%) SSL
2 15 (3.22%) Firewall
3 10 (2.15%) HTTP
4 7 (1.50%) DNS
4 7 (1.50%) WAN
5 6 (1.29%) LAN
6 5 (1.07%) Multicast
6 5 (1.07%) NAS
6 5 (1.07%) SAN
7 4 (0.86%) DHCP
7 4 (0.86%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.86%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.86%) VPN
8 3 (0.64%) IPv4
8 3 (0.64%) IPv6
9 2 (0.43%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.43%) MQTT
9 2 (0.43%) Network Security
9 2 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.29%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.08%) Power BI
3 16 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (3.00%) Oracle Database
5 13 (2.79%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (1.72%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
7 8 (1.72%) Tableau
8 7 (1.50%) Big Data
8 7 (1.50%) Metadata
9 6 (1.29%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (1.07%) DataStage
10 5 (1.07%) Db2
11 4 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.64%) MySQL
13 2 (0.43%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 31 (6.65%) JIRA
2 22 (4.72%) Git
3 15 (3.22%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.15%) GitLab
5 7 (1.50%) Postman
6 6 (1.29%) JMeter
6 6 (1.29%) LoadRunner
6 6 (1.29%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.07%) Selenium
8 4 (0.86%) eggPlant
8 4 (0.86%) JetBrains Rider
8 4 (0.86%) SoapUI
9 3 (0.64%) Introscope
9 3 (0.64%) JUnit
9 3 (0.64%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.43%) ERwin
10 2 (0.43%) Gatling
10 2 (0.43%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 162 (34.76%) Finance
2 122 (26.18%) Social Skills
3 86 (18.45%) Banking
4 74 (15.88%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (5.79%) Public Sector
6 24 (5.15%) Retail
7 23 (4.94%) Legal
8 14 (3.00%) Investment Banking
9 13 (2.79%) Aerospace
9 13 (2.79%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.36%) Marketing
10 11 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.50%) Back Office
12 7 (1.50%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.29%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.07%) General Ledger
14 5 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 141 (30.26%) Architect
2 66 (14.16%) Solutions Architect
3 56 (12.02%) Developer
4 36 (7.73%) Senior
5 35 (7.51%) Integration Architect
5 35 (7.51%) Lead
6 29 (6.22%) Consultant
7 27 (5.79%) Technical Architect
8 25 (5.36%) Analyst
9 20 (4.29%) Administrator
10 19 (4.08%) Middleware Engineer
11 18 (3.86%) Salesforce Architect
12 16 (3.43%) Integration Specialist
13 15 (3.22%) Business Analyst
13 15 (3.22%) Linux Engineer
14 14 (3.00%) Integration Engineer
15 13 (2.79%) SAP Architect
16 12 (2.58%) Project Manager
16 12 (2.58%) SAP Manager
17 10 (2.15%) Integration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (21.24%) REST
2 73 (15.67%) SOAP
3 53 (11.37%) XML
4 52 (11.16%) JSON
5 36 (7.73%) .NET
6 35 (7.51%) Kafka
7 28 (6.01%) OAuth
8 21 (4.51%) Web Services
9 18 (3.86%) JWT
10 17 (3.65%) Lightning Web Components
11 15 (3.22%) OAuth2
12 14 (3.00%) GraphQL
13 13 (2.79%) ISPF
14 12 (2.58%) EDI
14 12 (2.58%) RabbitMQ
14 12 (2.58%) SAML
14 12 (2.58%) Spring
15 10 (2.15%) React
15 10 (2.15%) Spring Boot
15 10 (2.15%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.22%) Mainframe
2 26 (5.58%) Onboarding
2 26 (5.58%) Product Ownership
3 24 (5.15%) Data Centre
4 23 (4.94%) Cloud Native
4 23 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (4.72%) Management Information System
6 21 (4.51%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (3.65%) Clustering
9 15 (3.22%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (2.15%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.93%) Legacy Applications
12 9 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 8 (1.72%) IoT
14 7 (1.50%) CMDB
14 7 (1.50%) FMCG
14 7 (1.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 66 (14.16%) Linux
2 29 (6.22%) Windows
3 28 (6.01%) Unix
4 22 (4.72%) zOS
5 14 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (2.79%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.07%) CentOS
8 4 (0.86%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.43%) AIX
9 2 (0.43%) OpenVMS
9 2 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.43%) Solaris
9 2 (0.43%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.43%) VMS
10 1 (0.21%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (25.32%) Agile
2 114 (24.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 93 (19.96%) Problem-Solving
4 89 (19.10%) DevOps
5 84 (18.03%) CI/CD
6 82 (17.60%) Integration Patterns
7 80 (17.17%) Migration
8 77 (16.52%) ERP
9 69 (14.81%) Event-Driven
10 67 (14.38%) User Acceptance Testing
11 58 (12.45%) Enterprise Architecture
12 50 (10.73%) CRM
12 50 (10.73%) Data Modelling
13 49 (10.52%) Roadmaps
13 49 (10.52%) Technical Leadership
14 47 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 43 (9.23%) Data Migration
15 43 (9.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 43 (9.23%) Validation
16 42 (9.01%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 96 (20.60%) SQL
2 46 (9.87%) Java
3 39 (8.37%) Python
4 33 (7.08%) JavaScript
5 28 (6.01%) C#
6 18 (3.86%) PL/SQL
7 17 (3.65%) Apex Code
8 16 (3.43%) Bash
9 15 (3.22%) TypeScript
10 14 (3.00%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.93%) C++
12 6 (1.29%) ABAP
12 6 (1.29%) Ada
12 6 (1.29%) Perl
12 6 (1.29%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.07%) C
14 4 (0.86%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.86%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.86%) X++
15 3 (0.64%) Jython
Qualifications
1 72 (15.45%) Security Cleared
2 60 (12.88%) SC Cleared
3 34 (7.30%) Degree
4 15 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.07%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.86%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.86%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.64%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.64%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.64%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.43%) ACCA
10 2 (0.43%) CIMA
10 2 (0.43%) ISEB
10 2 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.43%) PMP
10 2 (0.43%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.66%) QA
2 19 (4.08%) Data Quality
3 16 (3.43%) GDPR
4 8 (1.72%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.29%) PMO
6 5 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.07%) Def Stans
6 5 (1.07%) GRC
6 5 (1.07%) HL7
6 5 (1.07%) IEC 61508
6 5 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.07%) SLA
7 4 (0.86%) SEPA
8 3 (0.64%) ISO 15022
8 3 (0.64%) NIST
8 3 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.43%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.43%) MISRA C
9 2 (0.43%) NCSC
9 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (6.01%) Docker
2 14 (3.00%) RACF
3 8 (1.72%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.86%) NFS
6 4 (0.86%) vSphere
7 2 (0.43%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.21%) Firmware
8 1 (0.21%) IAG
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.21%) Varnish
8 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (4.94%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.51%) Ansible
3 14 (3.00%) OMEGAMON
4 13 (2.79%) Grafana
5 8 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.29%) Control-M
6 6 (1.29%) ITRS Geneos
6 6 (1.29%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.07%) HP ALM
7 5 (1.07%) systemd
8 4 (0.86%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.86%) Check_MK
8 4 (0.86%) Podman
8 4 (0.86%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (0.64%) CA Wily
9 3 (0.64%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.43%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.43%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.43%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 89 (19.10%) Oracle
2 80 (17.17%) SAP
3 56 (12.02%) MuleSoft
4 53 (11.37%) IBM
4 53 (11.37%) Microsoft
5 47 (10.09%) Salesforce
6 28 (6.01%) Workday
7 24 (5.15%) ServiceNow
8 19 (4.08%) Google
9 15 (3.22%) Databricks
10 14 (3.00%) TIBCO
11 10 (2.15%) Splunk
12 9 (1.93%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.93%) Solace
12 9 (1.93%) VMware
13 8 (1.72%) Dell
14 7 (1.50%) Dynatrace
14 7 (1.50%) Informatica
14 7 (1.50%) JD Edwards
14 7 (1.50%) Murex