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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 251 331
Rank change year-on-year +37 +80 -58
Contract jobs citing Middleware 509 243 228
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.17% 0.97% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.17% 4.30% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 148 160
10th Percentile £400 £375 £412
25th Percentile £475 £446 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £679 £694 £719
90th Percentile £775 £775 £801
UK median daily rate £560 £525 £586
% change year-on-year +6.67% -10.44% +6.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 19 2
10th Percentile £55.95 £64.40 £65.63
25th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £66.56
Median hourly rate £65.00 £68.00 £71.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -4.56% +9.62%
75th Percentile - - £74.69
90th Percentile - £68.75 £74.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £68.00 £71.25
% change year-on-year -4.41% -4.56% +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 8,255 5,645 7,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.05% 22.60% 21.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,440 3,915 5,493
10th Percentile £363 £358 £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 £745 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 115 264
10th Percentile £30.66 £32.69 £23.07
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +7.87% -14.42%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.03 £81.01 £74.48
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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +42 250 £600 +3.00% 44
North of England -18 95 £525 +5.00% 13
Midlands -4 61 £540 +20.00% 10
North West -10 52 £525 -4.55% 4
South West -14 44 £595 +19.00% 5
West Midlands -24 43 £570 +23.24% 3
Yorkshire -29 39 £576 +19.61% 6
South East -53 38 £515 -3.96% 23
East of England -11 22 £492 -21.28% 10
East Midlands -6 15 £463 +3.47% 7
North East -33 4 £500 +3.90% 3
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 27 (5.30%) WebSphere
2 17 (3.34%) WebLogic
3 13 (2.55%) CICS
4 10 (1.96%) Apache
4 10 (1.96%) Tomcat
5 8 (1.57%) Apache Geronimo
5 8 (1.57%) Apache ServiceMix
5 8 (1.57%) Confluence
5 8 (1.57%) Red Hat Fuse
6 5 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.98%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (0.79%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.79%) SAS
7 4 (0.79%) WordPress
8 3 (0.59%) IBM HTTP Server
8 3 (0.59%) JBoss
8 3 (0.59%) Mule
8 3 (0.59%) nginx
9 2 (0.39%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.39%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.79%) 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 (5.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.57%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.18%) NetSuite
3 6 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (1.18%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (0.98%) Maximo
4 5 (0.98%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (0.98%) Shopify
5 4 (0.79%) Oracle Cash Management
5 4 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (0.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 4 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.59%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.59%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.59%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.59%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.39%) Magento
7 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.39%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 117 (22.99%) Azure
2 60 (11.79%) AWS
3 33 (6.48%) SaaS
4 31 (6.09%) Boomi
5 28 (5.50%) GCP
6 27 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (4.32%) Power Platform
8 15 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (2.95%) iPaaS
9 13 (2.55%) Serverless
10 12 (2.36%) SuccessFactors
11 11 (2.16%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (2.16%) PaaS
12 10 (1.96%) OCI
13 8 (1.57%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (1.57%) Entra ID
13 8 (1.57%) GitHub
14 7 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (1.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.32%) Firewall
2 12 (2.36%) SSL
3 6 (1.18%) HTTP
4 5 (0.98%) LAN
4 5 (0.98%) WAN
5 3 (0.59%) DNS
5 3 (0.59%) IPv4
5 3 (0.59%) IPv6
5 3 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.59%) SAN
5 3 (0.59%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.39%) MQTT
6 2 (0.39%) NAS
6 2 (0.39%) Network Security
7 1 (0.20%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.20%) Multicast
7 1 (0.20%) SMS
7 1 (0.20%) TETRA
7 1 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.73%) Power BI
2 17 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (3.34%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.95%) DataStage
4 10 (1.96%) Oracle Database
5 9 (1.77%) Data Lake
5 9 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (1.57%) Metadata
7 7 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (1.38%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.98%) Big Data
9 5 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.98%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.79%) MySQL
10 4 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.59%) Tableau
12 2 (0.39%) Redis
12 2 (0.39%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 25 (4.91%) JIRA
2 24 (4.72%) Git
3 20 (3.93%) GitLab
4 18 (3.54%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.18%) JUnit
6 5 (0.98%) Jaeger
7 3 (0.59%) Gradle
7 3 (0.59%) Introscope
7 3 (0.59%) Mockito
7 3 (0.59%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.39%) Ant
8 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.39%) ERwin
8 2 (0.39%) Hudson
8 2 (0.39%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.39%) Maven
8 2 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.39%) Postman
8 2 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 177 (34.77%) Finance
2 136 (26.72%) Social Skills
3 94 (18.47%) Banking
4 68 (13.36%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (7.86%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.70%) Retail
7 21 (4.13%) Investment Banking
7 21 (4.13%) Legal
8 20 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (2.95%) Manufacturing
10 14 (2.75%) Aerospace
11 13 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (2.36%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.57%) Marketing
13 8 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.38%) Back Office
14 7 (1.38%) General Ledger
14 7 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 166 (32.61%) Architect
2 85 (16.70%) Solutions Architect
3 43 (8.45%) Developer
4 39 (7.66%) Lead
5 35 (6.88%) Integration Architect
6 34 (6.68%) Senior
7 29 (5.70%) Consultant
8 25 (4.91%) Analyst
8 25 (4.91%) Technical Architect
9 24 (4.72%) Administrator
9 24 (4.72%) Software Engineer
10 18 (3.54%) Java Engineer
10 18 (3.54%) SAP Architect
11 17 (3.34%) Payments Architect
11 17 (3.34%) Payments Solutions Architect
12 15 (2.95%) Business Analyst
12 15 (2.95%) Middleware Engineer
13 14 (2.75%) Integration Specialist
13 14 (2.75%) Linux Engineer
13 14 (2.75%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (16.11%) REST
2 49 (9.63%) SOAP
3 40 (7.86%) XML
4 39 (7.66%) Kafka
5 33 (6.48%) JSON
6 20 (3.93%) .NET
7 15 (2.95%) Lightning Web Components
8 14 (2.75%) OAuth
8 14 (2.75%) Spring Boot
9 13 (2.55%) RESTful
10 12 (2.36%) LDAP
11 11 (2.16%) Apache Camel
11 11 (2.16%) OAuth2
11 11 (2.16%) Qt
11 11 (2.16%) Spring
11 11 (2.16%) Web Services
12 10 (1.96%) GraphQL
12 10 (1.96%) Node.js
12 10 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
12 10 (1.96%) React
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.25%) Management Information System
2 34 (6.68%) Data Centre
3 27 (5.30%) Mainframe
3 27 (5.30%) Onboarding
4 21 (4.13%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (3.54%) Public Cloud
7 17 (3.34%) Cloud Native
7 17 (3.34%) Clustering
7 17 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.16%) CMDB
8 11 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (1.77%) BYOD
10 9 (1.77%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.77%) VSAM
11 8 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.57%) IoT
12 7 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 76 (14.93%) Linux
2 27 (5.30%) Windows
3 24 (4.72%) Unix
4 18 (3.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (3.34%) zOS
6 13 (2.55%) Ubuntu
7 12 (2.36%) CentOS
8 11 (2.16%) Solaris
9 10 (1.96%) AIX
10 3 (0.59%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.20%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.20%) Rocky
12 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (25.15%) Agile
2 101 (19.84%) Integration Patterns
3 94 (18.47%) DevOps
4 93 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
5 84 (16.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 79 (15.52%) CI/CD
7 76 (14.93%) Migration
8 74 (14.54%) ERP
9 63 (12.38%) Microservices
9 63 (12.38%) Roadmaps
10 62 (12.18%) Technical Leadership
11 54 (10.61%) Enterprise Architecture
12 51 (10.02%) Data Modelling
12 51 (10.02%) User Acceptance Testing
13 48 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 48 (9.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 43 (8.45%) CRM
15 42 (8.25%) SDLC
15 42 (8.25%) Validation
15 42 (8.25%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 96 (18.86%) SQL
2 65 (12.77%) Java
3 35 (6.88%) Python
4 25 (4.91%) Ada
5 24 (4.72%) JavaScript
6 18 (3.54%) Bash
6 18 (3.54%) C#
7 17 (3.34%) PL/SQL
7 17 (3.34%) Shell Script
8 15 (2.95%) C++
9 14 (2.75%) Apex Code
10 11 (2.16%) MATLAB
11 10 (1.96%) PowerShell
12 9 (1.77%) COBOL
13 8 (1.57%) TypeScript
14 7 (1.38%) SOQL
15 6 (1.18%) Perl
15 6 (1.18%) Rust
16 4 (0.79%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.79%) X++
Qualifications
1 70 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 56 (11.00%) SC Cleared
3 42 (8.25%) Degree
4 26 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.95%) Master's Degree
6 11 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
7 10 (1.96%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.38%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.18%) PMP
11 5 (0.98%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.98%) SAP Certification
12 3 (0.59%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.39%) IIBA
13 2 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.50%) GDPR
2 27 (5.30%) Def Stans
2 27 (5.30%) IEC 61508
3 21 (4.13%) QA
4 18 (3.54%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.55%) SLA
6 10 (1.96%) MISRA
6 10 (1.96%) MISRA C
7 9 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.38%) ISO 20022
9 6 (1.18%) NIST
9 6 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.98%) GAAP
10 5 (0.98%) HL7
11 3 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.59%) IFRS
11 3 (0.59%) PMO
12 2 (0.39%) IFRS 9
12 2 (0.39%) SEPA
System Software
1 28 (5.50%) Docker
2 15 (2.95%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.16%) RACF
4 6 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.79%) vSphere
6 2 (0.39%) EMC RecoverPoint
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%) NFS
7 1 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.20%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 31 (6.09%) Kubernetes
2 28 (5.50%) Ansible
3 15 (2.95%) Grafana
4 11 (2.16%) Check_MK
4 11 (2.16%) Podman
4 11 (2.16%) Prometheus
4 11 (2.16%) Red Hat Satellite
4 11 (2.16%) Terraform
5 10 (1.96%) OMEGAMON
6 5 (0.98%) Kiali
6 5 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.98%) systemd
7 4 (0.79%) Control-M
7 4 (0.79%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.59%) CA Wily
8 3 (0.59%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.39%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.39%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.39%) SCCM
9 2 (0.39%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 78 (15.32%) Oracle
1 78 (15.32%) SAP
2 56 (11.00%) Microsoft
3 46 (9.04%) IBM
4 41 (8.06%) Salesforce
5 38 (7.47%) MuleSoft
6 32 (6.29%) ServiceNow
6 32 (6.29%) Workday
7 22 (4.32%) VMware
8 21 (4.13%) Databricks
9 17 (3.34%) Red Hat
10 13 (2.55%) Splunk
11 11 (2.16%) Google
12 9 (1.77%) TIBCO
13 8 (1.57%) AppDynamics
13 8 (1.57%) Dynatrace
14 7 (1.38%) Dell
14 7 (1.38%) Software AG
15 6 (1.18%) Bloomberg
15 6 (1.18%) JD Edwards