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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 255 334
Rank change year-on-year +37 +79 -45
Contract jobs citing Middleware 511 258 226
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.17% 1.01% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.11% 4.47% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 153 159
10th Percentile £400 £378 £412
25th Percentile £475 £447 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £669 £694 £719
90th Percentile £775 £775 £815
UK median daily rate £560 £525 £582
% change year-on-year +6.67% -9.79% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 20 2
10th Percentile £50.64 £64.70 £65.63
25th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £66.56
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.75 £71.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% -4.91% +9.62%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £74.69
90th Percentile - £68.75 £74.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.75 £71.25
% change year-on-year -4.06% -4.91% +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 8,366 5,767 7,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.09% 22.50% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,514 3,979 5,497
10th Percentile £363 £356 £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 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 123 266
10th Percentile £30.45 £30.45 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £48.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.15
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +3.18% -10.54%
75th Percentile £74.45 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.63 £80.81 £74.47
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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +52 263 £600 - 50
North of England -23 93 £525 +5.00% 22
Midlands -16 57 £550 +22.22% 9
North West -10 51 £525 -4.55% 8
South West -16 41 £595 +19.00% 7
West Midlands -24 39 £590 +27.57% 3
Yorkshire -28 38 £575 +19.51% 8
South East -64 35 £530 -3.64% 24
East of England -12 20 £487 -15.26% 7
East Midlands -1 15 £463 +3.47% 6
North East -30 4 £500 +3.90% 6
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 (5.48%) WebSphere
2 18 (3.52%) WebLogic
3 14 (2.74%) CICS
4 10 (1.96%) Apache
4 10 (1.96%) Confluence
4 10 (1.96%) Tomcat
5 8 (1.57%) Apache Geronimo
5 8 (1.57%) Apache ServiceMix
5 8 (1.57%) Red Hat Fuse
6 5 (0.98%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (0.78%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.78%) JBoss
7 4 (0.78%) SAS
7 4 (0.78%) WordPress
8 3 (0.59%) IBM HTTP Server
8 3 (0.59%) Mule
8 3 (0.59%) nginx
8 3 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.59%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.39%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.78%) 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 30 (5.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.76%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.17%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.98%) Maximo
5 5 (0.98%) Oracle EBS R12
5 5 (0.98%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.78%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.78%) 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%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.39%) Global One
8 2 (0.39%) Magento
8 2 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.39%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 112 (21.92%) Azure
2 61 (11.94%) AWS
3 32 (6.26%) SaaS
4 31 (6.07%) Boomi
5 28 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (5.09%) GCP
7 21 (4.11%) Power Platform
8 15 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (2.94%) iPaaS
9 13 (2.54%) Serverless
10 12 (2.35%) SuccessFactors
11 11 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (2.15%) PaaS
12 9 (1.76%) Entra ID
12 9 (1.76%) GitHub
12 9 (1.76%) OCI
12 9 (1.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 8 (1.57%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (1.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 7 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.31%) Firewall
2 12 (2.35%) SSL
3 6 (1.17%) HTTP
4 4 (0.78%) DNS
4 4 (0.78%) LAN
4 4 (0.78%) Multicast
4 4 (0.78%) WAN
5 3 (0.59%) IPv4
5 3 (0.59%) IPv6
5 3 (0.59%) NAS
5 3 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.59%) SAN
5 3 (0.59%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.59%) VPN
6 2 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.39%) DHCP
6 2 (0.39%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.39%) MQTT
6 2 (0.39%) Network Security
7 1 (0.20%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.52%) Power BI
2 15 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 14 (2.74%) DataStage
4 11 (2.15%) Oracle Database
5 9 (1.76%) Data Lake
6 8 (1.57%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (1.37%) Metadata
7 7 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.98%) Big Data
9 5 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.98%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.78%) MySQL
10 4 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.59%) Tableau
12 2 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.39%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (5.09%) JIRA
2 21 (4.11%) Git
3 17 (3.33%) GitLab
4 15 (2.94%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.17%) JUnit
6 4 (0.78%) Jaeger
7 3 (0.59%) Introscope
7 3 (0.59%) Mockito
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%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.39%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.39%) Selenium
8 2 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 176 (34.44%) Finance
2 138 (27.01%) Social Skills
3 95 (18.59%) Banking
4 72 (14.09%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (7.83%) Public Sector
6 31 (6.07%) Retail
7 22 (4.31%) Investment Banking
8 20 (3.91%) Legal
9 17 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (2.94%) Manufacturing
12 12 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (2.15%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.96%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.57%) Marketing
15 8 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (1.37%) Back Office
16 7 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 7 (1.37%) Telecoms
17 6 (1.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 166 (32.49%) Architect
2 82 (16.05%) Solutions Architect
3 44 (8.61%) Developer
4 39 (7.63%) Lead
5 35 (6.85%) Integration Architect
6 31 (6.07%) Senior
7 30 (5.87%) Consultant
8 27 (5.28%) Technical Architect
9 26 (5.09%) Analyst
10 21 (4.11%) Administrator
10 21 (4.11%) Software Engineer
11 19 (3.72%) Middleware Engineer
11 19 (3.72%) SAP Architect
12 17 (3.33%) Business Analyst
12 17 (3.33%) Java Engineer
13 16 (3.13%) Payments Architect
13 16 (3.13%) Payments Solutions Architect
14 14 (2.74%) Integration Specialist
14 14 (2.74%) Linux Engineer
15 13 (2.54%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (16.24%) REST
2 52 (10.18%) SOAP
3 38 (7.44%) XML
4 36 (7.05%) Kafka
5 35 (6.85%) JSON
6 20 (3.91%) .NET
7 17 (3.33%) Lightning Web Components
8 15 (2.94%) OAuth
9 13 (2.54%) Spring Boot
10 12 (2.35%) RESTful
11 11 (2.15%) Apache Camel
11 11 (2.15%) OAuth2
11 11 (2.15%) React
11 11 (2.15%) Spring
11 11 (2.15%) Web Services
12 10 (1.96%) ISPF
12 10 (1.96%) LDAP
12 10 (1.96%) Node.js
13 9 (1.76%) Qt
13 9 (1.76%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.63%) Management Information System
2 33 (6.46%) Data Centre
3 30 (5.87%) Onboarding
4 29 (5.68%) Mainframe
5 23 (4.50%) Product Ownership
6 21 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (3.33%) Clustering
8 17 (3.33%) Public Cloud
9 16 (3.13%) Cloud Native
10 14 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (2.35%) Data Structures
12 11 (2.15%) CMDB
12 11 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
14 9 (1.76%) BYOD
14 9 (1.76%) VSAM
15 8 (1.57%) IoT
15 8 (1.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 73 (14.29%) Linux
2 28 (5.48%) Unix
3 26 (5.09%) Windows
4 18 (3.52%) zOS
5 16 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (2.54%) Ubuntu
7 11 (2.15%) Solaris
8 10 (1.96%) AIX
9 9 (1.76%) CentOS
10 2 (0.39%) OpenVMS
10 2 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.39%) VMS
10 2 (0.39%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.20%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (25.05%) Agile
2 102 (19.96%) Integration Patterns
3 96 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
4 91 (17.81%) DevOps
5 85 (16.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 80 (15.66%) Migration
7 77 (15.07%) CI/CD
8 71 (13.89%) ERP
9 65 (12.72%) Roadmaps
10 60 (11.74%) Technical Leadership
11 56 (10.96%) Microservices
12 55 (10.76%) User Acceptance Testing
13 54 (10.57%) Enterprise Architecture
14 53 (10.37%) Data Modelling
15 50 (9.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 48 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
17 46 (9.00%) Event-Driven
18 44 (8.61%) CRM
19 43 (8.41%) Validation
20 41 (8.02%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 98 (19.18%) SQL
2 64 (12.52%) Java
3 34 (6.65%) Python
4 24 (4.70%) JavaScript
5 23 (4.50%) Ada
6 17 (3.33%) C#
7 16 (3.13%) Apex Code
7 16 (3.13%) Bash
7 16 (3.13%) PL/SQL
8 15 (2.94%) Shell Script
9 13 (2.54%) C++
10 9 (1.76%) COBOL
10 9 (1.76%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.57%) MATLAB
12 7 (1.37%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.37%) SOQL
13 6 (1.17%) Perl
14 5 (0.98%) Rust
15 4 (0.78%) ABAP
15 4 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (12.92%) Security Cleared
2 52 (10.18%) SC Cleared
3 40 (7.83%) Degree
4 24 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.35%) Master's Degree
6 11 (2.15%) TOGAF Certification
7 10 (1.96%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.98%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.98%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.98%) SAP Certification
10 4 (0.78%) PMP
11 3 (0.59%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.39%) IIBA
12 2 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.68%) GDPR
2 24 (4.70%) Def Stans
2 24 (4.70%) IEC 61508
2 24 (4.70%) QA
3 18 (3.52%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.96%) SLA
5 8 (1.57%) ISO 20022
5 8 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.57%) MISRA
5 8 (1.57%) MISRA C
6 5 (0.98%) HL7
6 5 (0.98%) NIST
7 4 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.59%) GAAP
8 3 (0.59%) PMO
9 2 (0.39%) PSD2
9 2 (0.39%) SEPA
9 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (4.89%) Docker
2 13 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.15%) RACF
4 6 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.78%) vSphere
6 2 (0.39%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (0.39%) NFS
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%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.20%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 28 (5.48%) Kubernetes
2 25 (4.89%) Ansible
3 12 (2.35%) Grafana
4 11 (2.15%) Terraform
5 10 (1.96%) OMEGAMON
6 8 (1.57%) Check_MK
6 8 (1.57%) Podman
6 8 (1.57%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.57%) Red Hat Satellite
7 6 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.98%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (0.98%) systemd
9 4 (0.78%) Kiali
9 4 (0.78%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.59%) CA Wily
10 3 (0.59%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.39%) CA Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.39%) Control-M
11 2 (0.39%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (0.39%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 79 (15.46%) Oracle
2 78 (15.26%) SAP
3 55 (10.76%) Microsoft
4 47 (9.20%) IBM
5 44 (8.61%) Salesforce
6 41 (8.02%) MuleSoft
7 34 (6.65%) ServiceNow
8 29 (5.68%) Workday
9 20 (3.91%) Databricks
10 19 (3.72%) VMware
11 14 (2.74%) Red Hat
12 11 (2.15%) Google
12 11 (2.15%) TIBCO
13 10 (1.96%) Splunk
14 8 (1.57%) Solace
15 7 (1.37%) Bloomberg
15 7 (1.37%) Dell
15 7 (1.37%) JD Edwards
15 7 (1.37%) Murex
16 6 (1.17%) Software AG