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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 256 309
Rank change year-on-year -4 +53 -25
Contract jobs citing Middleware 470 281 229
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 1.01% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.76% 4.03% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 156 156
10th Percentile £418 £391 £413
25th Percentile £475 £446 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.79% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £638 £673 £703
90th Percentile £725 £769 £825
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £588
% change year-on-year +9.52% -10.64% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 24 0
10th Percentile - £30.20 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £64.06 -
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 9,867 6,979 8,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.29% 25.08% 24.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,481 4,774 5,525
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -5.64% -0.90%
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 271 164 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.36 £27.38
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% -13.04% -0.79%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £71.40 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -1.44%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 +44 262 £580 -3.41% 142
North of England -37 74 £575 +21.05% 50
South East -35 61 £500 -9.09% 48
North West -27 37 £588 +6.82% 28
Midlands -41 32 £550 +23.04% 17
Yorkshire -32 30 £550 +20.88% 16
West Midlands -37 24 £583 +66.43% 9
South West -48 22 £563 +11.39% 23
East of England -23 16 £491 -4.15% 21
East Midlands -21 7 £525 +17.06% 8
North East -41 7 £500 +5.26% 7
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 22 (4.68%) WebLogic
2 21 (4.47%) WebSphere
3 9 (1.91%) CICS
4 8 (1.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 8 (1.70%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.28%) Confluence
6 5 (1.06%) JBoss
6 5 (1.06%) Mule
7 4 (0.85%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.85%) SAS
7 4 (0.85%) WordPress
8 3 (0.64%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
8 3 (0.64%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.43%) Apache
9 2 (0.43%) nginx
10 1 (0.21%) IBM Transformation Extender
10 1 (0.21%) Mule ESB
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 6 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.64%) Navisworks
3 3 (0.64%) Revit
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.21%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 31 (6.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (2.13%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (1.70%) NetSuite
5 7 (1.49%) Oracle Payables
5 7 (1.49%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (1.28%) SAP GRC
7 5 (1.06%) Maximo
7 5 (1.06%) Oracle EBS R12
8 4 (0.85%) Oracle Cash Management
8 4 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.85%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.64%) BusinessWorks
9 3 (0.64%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.64%) Endur
9 3 (0.64%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (0.64%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.64%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.64%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.64%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 113 (24.04%) Azure
2 73 (15.53%) AWS
3 45 (9.57%) Boomi
4 36 (7.66%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (6.60%) SaaS
6 28 (5.96%) GCP
7 26 (5.53%) iPaaS
8 23 (4.89%) Power Platform
9 22 (4.68%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (4.68%) GitHub
10 17 (3.62%) Azure Service Bus
11 16 (3.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 16 (3.40%) SuccessFactors
12 15 (3.19%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (2.98%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 14 (2.98%) Serverless
14 13 (2.77%) IaaS
14 13 (2.77%) PaaS
15 12 (2.55%) Power Automate
16 11 (2.34%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.62%) SSL
2 13 (2.77%) Firewall
3 12 (2.55%) HTTP
4 6 (1.28%) DNS
5 5 (1.06%) Multicast
5 5 (1.06%) NAS
5 5 (1.06%) SAN
5 5 (1.06%) WAN
6 4 (0.85%) DHCP
6 4 (0.85%) Kerberos
6 4 (0.85%) LAN
6 4 (0.85%) VPN
7 3 (0.64%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.43%) Bluetooth
8 2 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.43%) MQTT
8 2 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.21%) DMZ
9 1 (0.21%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.83%) Power BI
3 16 (3.40%) Oracle Database
4 14 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.98%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (1.70%) Oracle Reports
6 8 (1.70%) Tableau
7 7 (1.49%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.28%) Metadata
8 6 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.06%) DataStage
9 5 (1.06%) Db2
9 5 (1.06%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.85%) Big Data
10 4 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.64%) MySQL
12 2 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 30 (6.38%) JIRA
2 21 (4.47%) Git
3 14 (2.98%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.13%) GitLab
5 9 (1.91%) Postman
6 7 (1.49%) JMeter
6 7 (1.49%) LoadRunner
6 7 (1.49%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.28%) Visual Studio
8 5 (1.06%) Selenium
8 5 (1.06%) SoapUI
9 4 (0.85%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.85%) eggPlant
9 4 (0.85%) JetBrains Rider
10 3 (0.64%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.64%) JUnit
10 3 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.43%) ERwin
11 2 (0.43%) Fiddler
11 2 (0.43%) IntelliJ
General
1 161 (34.26%) Finance
2 121 (25.74%) Social Skills
3 86 (18.30%) Banking
4 72 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (5.96%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.47%) Legal
6 21 (4.47%) Retail
7 15 (3.19%) Aerospace
8 13 (2.77%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.77%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.55%) Marketing
10 11 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.49%) Back Office
13 7 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.06%) General Ledger
15 4 (0.85%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.85%) Front Office
15 4 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 134 (28.51%) Architect
2 60 (12.77%) Developer
3 59 (12.55%) Solutions Architect
4 39 (8.30%) Integration Architect
5 35 (7.45%) Lead
5 35 (7.45%) Senior
6 33 (7.02%) Consultant
7 25 (5.32%) Analyst
8 24 (5.11%) Technical Architect
9 20 (4.26%) Administrator
10 19 (4.04%) Salesforce Architect
11 18 (3.83%) Middleware Engineer
12 17 (3.62%) Linux Engineer
13 16 (3.40%) Integration Specialist
14 15 (3.19%) Business Analyst
15 14 (2.98%) Integration Engineer
16 12 (2.55%) Integration Manager
16 12 (2.55%) Project Manager
16 12 (2.55%) SAP Manager
17 11 (2.34%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (22.13%) REST
2 79 (16.81%) SOAP
3 58 (12.34%) XML
4 55 (11.70%) JSON
5 38 (8.09%) .NET
6 37 (7.87%) Kafka
7 31 (6.60%) OAuth
8 24 (5.11%) Web Services
9 20 (4.26%) JWT
10 18 (3.83%) Lightning Web Components
11 16 (3.40%) GraphQL
11 16 (3.40%) OAuth2
12 14 (2.98%) EDI
12 14 (2.98%) SAML
13 13 (2.77%) ISPF
13 13 (2.77%) RabbitMQ
13 13 (2.77%) Swagger
14 12 (2.55%) Spring
15 11 (2.34%) OpenAPI
16 10 (2.13%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.17%) Mainframe
2 28 (5.96%) Onboarding
3 27 (5.74%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (5.32%) Cloud Native
4 25 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (5.32%) Product Ownership
5 23 (4.89%) Management Information System
6 21 (4.47%) Data Centre
7 17 (3.62%) Clustering
8 16 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (3.19%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
12 9 (1.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 8 (1.70%) IoT
13 8 (1.70%) SCADA
13 8 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.49%) CMDB
14 7 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (1.28%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 70 (14.89%) Linux
2 32 (6.81%) Windows
3 30 (6.38%) Unix
4 22 (4.68%) zOS
5 14 (2.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (2.77%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.06%) CentOS
7 5 (1.06%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.64%) Solaris
9 2 (0.43%) AIX
9 2 (0.43%) OpenVMS
9 2 (0.43%) VMS
10 1 (0.21%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (25.53%) Stakeholder Management
2 114 (24.26%) Agile
3 95 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
4 88 (18.72%) DevOps
5 85 (18.09%) CI/CD
6 84 (17.87%) Migration
7 83 (17.66%) Integration Patterns
8 77 (16.38%) ERP
9 74 (15.74%) Event-Driven
10 68 (14.47%) User Acceptance Testing
11 61 (12.98%) Enterprise Architecture
12 54 (11.49%) Data Modelling
13 52 (11.06%) Roadmaps
14 51 (10.85%) Validation
15 48 (10.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 46 (9.79%) CRM
17 45 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
17 45 (9.57%) Data Migration
17 45 (9.57%) Technical Leadership
18 44 (9.36%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 93 (19.79%) SQL
2 46 (9.79%) Java
3 43 (9.15%) Python
4 34 (7.23%) JavaScript
5 30 (6.38%) C#
6 20 (4.26%) Bash
7 18 (3.83%) Apex Code
7 18 (3.83%) PL/SQL
8 15 (3.19%) TypeScript
9 13 (2.77%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.91%) C++
10 9 (1.91%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.28%) Ada
12 5 (1.06%) ABAP
12 5 (1.06%) C
12 5 (1.06%) Perl
13 4 (0.85%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.85%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.85%) X++
14 3 (0.64%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 82 (17.45%) Security Cleared
2 70 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 34 (7.23%) Degree
4 13 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.70%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.64%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.64%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.64%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.43%) ACCA
10 2 (0.43%) CIMA
10 2 (0.43%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.43%) IIBA
10 2 (0.43%) ISEB
10 2 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.43%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (9.79%) QA
2 20 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.13%) GDPR
4 8 (1.70%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.28%) GRC
5 6 (1.28%) PMO
5 6 (1.28%) SLA
6 5 (1.06%) Def Stans
6 5 (1.06%) IEC 61508
7 4 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.85%) HL7
7 4 (0.85%) SEPA
8 3 (0.64%) ISO 15022
8 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.43%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 2 (0.43%) GMP
9 2 (0.43%) GxP
9 2 (0.43%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.43%) MISRA
9 2 (0.43%) MISRA C
System Software
1 25 (5.32%) Docker
2 14 (2.98%) RACF
3 8 (1.70%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.85%) NFS
6 4 (0.85%) vSphere
7 2 (0.43%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.43%) IAG
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%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.21%) Varnish
8 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (5.53%) Ansible
2 19 (4.04%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.98%) OMEGAMON
4 10 (2.13%) Grafana
5 7 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.28%) Control-M
6 6 (1.28%) ITRS Geneos
7 5 (1.06%) HP ALM
7 5 (1.06%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (1.06%) Podman
7 5 (1.06%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (1.06%) systemd
8 4 (0.85%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.85%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.64%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.64%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.64%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.43%) Avamar
10 2 (0.43%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.43%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 91 (19.36%) Oracle
2 82 (17.45%) SAP
3 60 (12.77%) MuleSoft
4 59 (12.55%) IBM
5 49 (10.43%) Microsoft
6 47 (10.00%) Salesforce
7 27 (5.74%) Workday
8 25 (5.32%) ServiceNow
9 18 (3.83%) Google
10 14 (2.98%) TIBCO
11 12 (2.55%) Databricks
12 10 (2.13%) Splunk
13 9 (1.91%) Informatica
13 9 (1.91%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.91%) Solace
13 9 (1.91%) VMware
14 8 (1.70%) Dell
14 8 (1.70%) WSO2
15 7 (1.49%) Ariba
15 7 (1.49%) Dynatrace