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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 253 327
Rank change year-on-year +21 +74 -44
Contract jobs citing Middleware 502 282 223
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.12% 1.03% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.93% 4.65% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 168 160
10th Percentile £425 £386 £413
25th Percentile £475 £447 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +2.13%
75th Percentile £650 £694 £750
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £590
% change year-on-year +9.52% -11.05% +2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 18 0
10th Percentile £38.25 - -
25th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £68.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £66.50 £68.23 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £68.00 -
% change year-on-year -4.41% - -

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 8,467 6,064 7,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.87% 22.21% 21.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,557 4,172 5,262
10th Percentile £363 £355 £356
25th Percentile £430 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £746 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £508 £543
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 135 243
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.25 £23.84
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -0.86% -7.20%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.61 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +51 272 £600 -1.68% 54
North of England -26 93 £525 +7.69% 24
North West -16 54 £525 -4.55% 14
Midlands -26 46 £550 +23.04% 10
South East -58 41 £525 -9.17% 13
West Midlands -29 35 £575 +27.78% 6
Yorkshire -34 32 £576 +27.98% 3
South West -31 30 £575 +15.00% 16
East of England -21 17 £500 -16.67% 6
East Midlands -12 9 £550 +23.04% 4
North East -32 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 30 (5.98%) WebSphere
2 21 (4.18%) WebLogic
3 16 (3.19%) CICS
4 11 (2.19%) Confluence
5 10 (1.99%) Apache
5 10 (1.99%) Tomcat
6 8 (1.59%) Apache Geronimo
6 8 (1.59%) Apache ServiceMix
6 8 (1.59%) Red Hat Fuse
7 5 (1.00%) WebSphere Application Server
8 4 (0.80%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.80%) JBoss
8 4 (0.80%) SAS
8 4 (0.80%) WordPress
9 3 (0.60%) IBM HTTP Server
9 3 (0.60%) Mule
9 3 (0.60%) nginx
9 3 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.60%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.60%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
Applications
1 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.60%) Navisworks
3 3 (0.60%) Revit
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.20%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 32 (6.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.79%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (1.39%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (1.39%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (1.20%) NetSuite
6 5 (1.00%) Maximo
6 5 (1.00%) Oracle EBS R12
7 4 (0.80%) Oracle Cash Management
7 4 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.60%) BusinessWorks
8 3 (0.60%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.60%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.60%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.60%) Shopify
8 3 (0.60%) Temenos T24
9 2 (0.40%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.40%) FLEXCUBE
9 2 (0.40%) Front Arena
9 2 (0.40%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 112 (22.31%) Azure
2 72 (14.34%) AWS
3 36 (7.17%) Boomi
4 33 (6.57%) SaaS
5 27 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (5.18%) GCP
7 22 (4.38%) iPaaS
8 21 (4.18%) Power Platform
9 17 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (2.79%) GitHub
11 13 (2.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 13 (2.59%) Serverless
11 13 (2.59%) SuccessFactors
12 12 (2.39%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (2.39%) PaaS
13 11 (2.19%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 10 (1.99%) Azure Service Bus
14 10 (1.99%) IaaS
15 9 (1.79%) Entra ID
16 8 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.18%) Firewall
2 17 (3.39%) SSL
3 8 (1.59%) HTTP
4 6 (1.20%) DNS
5 5 (1.00%) Multicast
5 5 (1.00%) NAS
5 5 (1.00%) SAN
6 4 (0.80%) DHCP
6 4 (0.80%) Kerberos
6 4 (0.80%) LAN
6 4 (0.80%) VPN
6 4 (0.80%) WAN
7 3 (0.60%) IPv4
7 3 (0.60%) IPv6
7 3 (0.60%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.40%) MQTT
8 2 (0.40%) Network Security
9 1 (0.20%) InfiniBand
9 1 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.59%) Power BI
2 16 (3.19%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (2.59%) DataStage
5 11 (2.19%) Oracle Database
5 11 (2.19%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.79%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (1.39%) Metadata
9 6 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (1.00%) Big Data
10 5 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.80%) Db2
11 4 (0.80%) MySQL
11 4 (0.80%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.60%) Tableau
13 2 (0.40%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (5.58%) JIRA
2 19 (3.78%) Git
3 13 (2.59%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.39%) GitLab
5 5 (1.00%) JUnit
6 4 (0.80%) JetBrains Rider
6 4 (0.80%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.60%) Introscope
7 3 (0.60%) Postman
8 2 (0.40%) Ant
8 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.40%) ERwin
8 2 (0.40%) Hudson
8 2 (0.40%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.40%) Maven
8 2 (0.40%) Mockito
8 2 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.40%) Selenium
8 2 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
General
1 172 (34.26%) Finance
2 132 (26.29%) Social Skills
3 95 (18.92%) Banking
4 62 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (7.17%) Public Sector
6 30 (5.98%) Retail
7 22 (4.38%) Legal
8 20 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (3.78%) Investment Banking
10 16 (3.19%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.59%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.59%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.59%) Marketing
15 7 (1.39%) Back Office
15 7 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 6 (1.20%) Law
16 6 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 164 (32.67%) Architect
2 76 (15.14%) Solutions Architect
3 52 (10.36%) Developer
4 39 (7.77%) Integration Architect
4 39 (7.77%) Lead
5 33 (6.57%) Consultant
6 30 (5.98%) Technical Architect
7 28 (5.58%) Senior
8 23 (4.58%) Analyst
9 21 (4.18%) Middleware Engineer
10 20 (3.98%) Administrator
11 17 (3.39%) Salesforce Architect
12 16 (3.19%) Business Analyst
12 16 (3.19%) SAP Architect
13 14 (2.79%) Integration Specialist
13 14 (2.79%) Linux Engineer
13 14 (2.79%) Payments Architect
13 14 (2.79%) Payments Solutions Architect
14 12 (2.39%) Software Engineer
14 12 (2.39%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (19.12%) REST
2 66 (13.15%) SOAP
3 42 (8.37%) XML
4 41 (8.17%) JSON
5 33 (6.57%) Kafka
6 23 (4.58%) .NET
7 21 (4.18%) OAuth
8 17 (3.39%) Lightning Web Components
8 17 (3.39%) Web Services
9 13 (2.59%) ISPF
9 13 (2.59%) React
10 12 (2.39%) OAuth2
10 12 (2.39%) Spring
11 11 (2.19%) GraphQL
11 11 (2.19%) JWT
11 11 (2.19%) Spring Boot
12 10 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (1.99%) RESTful
13 9 (1.79%) Apache Camel
14 8 (1.59%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 36 (7.17%) Mainframe
2 31 (6.18%) Onboarding
3 30 (5.98%) Data Centre
3 30 (5.98%) Management Information System
4 24 (4.78%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (4.78%) Product Ownership
5 20 (3.98%) Cloud Native
6 19 (3.78%) Clustering
7 18 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (2.59%) Public Cloud
10 12 (2.39%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.99%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.99%) Legacy Applications
12 9 (1.79%) BYOD
12 9 (1.79%) CMDB
12 9 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.79%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 66 (13.15%) Linux
2 32 (6.37%) Unix
3 28 (5.58%) Windows
4 23 (4.58%) zOS
5 14 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (2.79%) Ubuntu
6 11 (2.19%) Solaris
7 10 (1.99%) AIX
8 6 (1.20%) CentOS
9 3 (0.60%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.40%) OpenVMS
10 2 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.40%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.40%) VMS
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.20%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (24.50%) Agile
2 97 (19.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 96 (19.12%) Integration Patterns
4 90 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
5 87 (17.33%) DevOps
6 81 (16.14%) Migration
7 79 (15.74%) CI/CD
8 78 (15.54%) ERP
9 68 (13.55%) Roadmaps
10 60 (11.95%) User Acceptance Testing
11 59 (11.75%) Event-Driven
12 56 (11.16%) Enterprise Architecture
13 52 (10.36%) CRM
13 52 (10.36%) Technical Leadership
14 51 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 50 (9.96%) Data Modelling
16 47 (9.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 45 (8.96%) Microservices
18 38 (7.57%) Data Migration
18 38 (7.57%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 92 (18.33%) SQL
2 53 (10.56%) Java
3 35 (6.97%) Python
4 24 (4.78%) JavaScript
5 20 (3.98%) C#
6 17 (3.39%) Apex Code
6 17 (3.39%) Bash
6 17 (3.39%) PL/SQL
7 12 (2.39%) Ada
7 12 (2.39%) Shell Script
8 11 (2.19%) TypeScript
9 9 (1.79%) COBOL
10 8 (1.59%) C++
11 6 (1.20%) ABAP
11 6 (1.20%) Perl
11 6 (1.20%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.80%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.80%) SOQL
12 4 (0.80%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.80%) X++
Qualifications
1 62 (12.35%) Security Cleared
2 48 (9.56%) SC Cleared
3 33 (6.57%) Degree
4 19 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.19%) TOGAF Certification
6 10 (1.99%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.79%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.00%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.80%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.60%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.60%) PMP
10 3 (0.60%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.40%) IIBA
11 2 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.77%) QA
2 28 (5.58%) GDPR
3 19 (3.78%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.19%) Def Stans
4 11 (2.19%) IEC 61508
5 8 (1.59%) ISO 20022
6 6 (1.20%) PMO
7 5 (1.00%) HL7
7 5 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.00%) SLA
8 4 (0.80%) NIST
8 4 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.60%) MISRA
9 3 (0.60%) MISRA C
9 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.40%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.40%) PSD2
10 2 (0.40%) SEPA
System Software
1 26 (5.18%) Docker
2 14 (2.79%) RACF
3 11 (2.19%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.80%) NFS
6 4 (0.80%) vSphere
7 2 (0.40%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.20%) GPFS
8 1 (0.20%) Lustre
8 1 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.20%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 27 (5.38%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.18%) Ansible
3 13 (2.59%) OMEGAMON
4 9 (1.79%) Grafana
4 9 (1.79%) Terraform
5 6 (1.20%) ITRS Geneos
5 6 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.00%) systemd
7 4 (0.80%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.80%) Check_MK
7 4 (0.80%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.80%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (0.80%) Podman
7 4 (0.80%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.80%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (0.60%) CA Wily
9 2 (0.40%) Control-M
9 2 (0.40%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.40%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.40%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 83 (16.53%) Oracle
2 79 (15.74%) SAP
3 51 (10.16%) IBM
3 51 (10.16%) Microsoft
4 48 (9.56%) MuleSoft
5 47 (9.36%) Salesforce
6 30 (5.98%) Workday
7 29 (5.78%) ServiceNow
8 19 (3.78%) Databricks
9 16 (3.19%) TIBCO
10 15 (2.99%) VMware
11 12 (2.39%) Google
12 10 (1.99%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.79%) Solace
14 8 (1.59%) Splunk
15 7 (1.39%) Dell
15 7 (1.39%) JD Edwards
15 7 (1.39%) Murex
16 6 (1.20%) Ariba
16 6 (1.20%) Sybase