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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 281 342
Rank change year-on-year +64 +61 -49
Contract jobs citing Middleware 463 211 201
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.15% 0.87% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.84% 3.88% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 120 144
10th Percentile £394 £383 £414
25th Percentile £450 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.19% -10.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £685 £719
90th Percentile £788 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £503 £600
% change year-on-year +9.45% -16.25% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 28 3
10th Percentile - £61.25 £54.00
25th Percentile £61.25 - £58.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £74.38
90th Percentile £65.75 £68.23 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%

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 7,929 5,444 7,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.70% 22.40% 20.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,287 3,772 5,305
10th Percentile £363 £370 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -3.05% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 100 211
10th Percentile £32.50 £30.13 £21.73
25th Percentile £52.00 £51.25 £41.28
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £82.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +57 223 £600 +9.09% 41
North of England -21 85 £525 - 13
Midlands -16 66 £500 +8.11% 6
North West -3 50 £475 -13.64% 6
West Midlands -26 48 £523 +12.97% 4
South West -26 47 £640 +28.00% 3
Yorkshire -38 34 £549 +15.53% 4
South East -39 33 £500 -13.94% 34
East Midlands -26 15 £402 -12.80% 2
East of England -28 14 £492 -21.28% 1
North East -15 1 £500 +5.26% 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 17 (3.67%) WebSphere
2 13 (2.81%) Apache
3 11 (2.38%) Tomcat
4 10 (2.16%) Confluence
5 9 (1.94%) CICS
6 8 (1.73%) Apache Geronimo
6 8 (1.73%) Apache ServiceMix
6 8 (1.73%) Red Hat Fuse
7 7 (1.51%) WebLogic
8 6 (1.30%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (1.30%) WebSphere Application Server
9 5 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.65%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.65%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.65%) IBM HTTP Server
10 3 (0.65%) JBoss
10 3 (0.65%) nginx
11 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.43%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.43%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 8 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.86%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.65%) Navisworks
4 3 (0.65%) Revit
5 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 24 (5.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.94%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.51%) Oracle General Ledger
3 7 (1.51%) Shopify
4 6 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (1.08%) Maximo
5 5 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.86%) Bloomberg AIM
6 4 (0.86%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.86%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.86%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.86%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.65%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.65%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.43%) Global One
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle 11i
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 117 (25.27%) Azure
2 55 (11.88%) AWS
3 34 (7.34%) SaaS
4 33 (7.13%) GCP
5 19 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (3.67%) Boomi
7 16 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (3.02%) Power Platform
9 13 (2.81%) OCI
10 10 (2.16%) Datadog
10 10 (2.16%) SuccessFactors
11 9 (1.94%) iPaaS
11 9 (1.94%) PaaS
11 9 (1.94%) Serverless
12 8 (1.73%) OpenShift
13 7 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (1.51%) Entra ID
13 7 (1.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 7 (1.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 6 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.40%) Firewall
2 9 (1.94%) HTTP
3 8 (1.73%) LAN
3 8 (1.73%) WAN
4 4 (0.86%) DNS
5 3 (0.65%) IPv4
5 3 (0.65%) IPv6
5 3 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.65%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.43%) DHCP
6 2 (0.43%) Network Security
6 2 (0.43%) SAN
6 2 (0.43%) SSL
7 1 (0.22%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.22%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.22%) MQTT
7 1 (0.22%) Multicast
7 1 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.24%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (2.59%) DataStage
3 12 (2.59%) Power BI
4 10 (2.16%) Oracle Database
4 10 (2.16%) Oracle Reports
5 8 (1.73%) Metadata
6 6 (1.30%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.86%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.86%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.86%) MySQL
8 4 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.65%) Big Data
9 3 (0.65%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.65%) Redis
9 3 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (5.62%) JIRA
2 19 (4.10%) GitLab
3 18 (3.89%) Git
4 17 (3.67%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.94%) Jaeger
6 7 (1.51%) JUnit
7 5 (1.08%) Rational Rhapsody
8 4 (0.86%) Ant
8 4 (0.86%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.65%) Introscope
9 3 (0.65%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.43%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.43%) Gradle
10 2 (0.43%) Hudson
10 2 (0.43%) Mockito
10 2 (0.43%) Postman
10 2 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
General
1 163 (35.21%) Finance
2 123 (26.57%) Social Skills
3 71 (15.33%) Banking
4 65 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (7.13%) Public Sector
6 25 (5.40%) Retail
7 21 (4.54%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (4.54%) Investment Banking
8 15 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (3.24%) Legal
9 13 (2.81%) Financial Institution
9 13 (2.81%) Manufacturing
10 12 (2.59%) Aerospace
11 11 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (2.16%) Law
13 8 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.51%) Back Office
14 7 (1.51%) Front Office
14 7 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.30%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 164 (35.42%) Architect
2 91 (19.65%) Solutions Architect
3 40 (8.64%) Developer
4 31 (6.70%) Lead
5 30 (6.48%) Senior
5 30 (6.48%) Software Engineer
6 28 (6.05%) Integration Architect
7 27 (5.83%) Analyst
8 21 (4.54%) Technical Architect
9 19 (4.10%) Consultant
10 17 (3.67%) Payments Architect
10 17 (3.67%) Payments Solutions Architect
11 16 (3.46%) C++ Software Engineer
11 16 (3.46%) Java Engineer
11 16 (3.46%) Project Manager
12 15 (3.24%) SAP Architect
13 14 (3.02%) Integration Analyst
14 13 (2.81%) SAP Solutions Architect
15 12 (2.59%) Designer
15 12 (2.59%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (13.61%) REST
2 41 (8.86%) SOAP
3 39 (8.42%) Kafka
4 28 (6.05%) XML
5 17 (3.67%) Lightning Web Components
6 16 (3.46%) Oracle Fusion
6 16 (3.46%) Spring Boot
7 15 (3.24%) JSON
7 15 (3.24%) Qt
8 12 (2.59%) .NET
8 12 (2.59%) RESTful
8 12 (2.59%) Visualforce
8 12 (2.59%) Web Services
9 10 (2.16%) Apache Camel
9 10 (2.16%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (1.94%) EDI
10 9 (1.94%) LDAP
10 9 (1.94%) Node.js
10 9 (1.94%) OAuth
10 9 (1.94%) React
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.72%) Management Information System
2 29 (6.26%) Data Centre
3 23 (4.97%) Cloud Native
4 21 (4.54%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.54%) Public Cloud
5 19 (4.10%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (3.67%) Onboarding
7 15 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (2.59%) Mainframe
10 9 (1.94%) BYOD
10 9 (1.94%) CMDB
10 9 (1.94%) VSAM
11 8 (1.73%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.51%) Clustering
12 7 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.51%) FMCG
13 6 (1.30%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 64 (13.82%) Linux
2 32 (6.91%) Windows
3 22 (4.75%) Unix
4 16 (3.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (3.02%) AIX
6 11 (2.38%) Solaris
7 10 (2.16%) CentOS
8 5 (1.08%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.65%) zOS
10 2 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.43%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.22%) Rocky
11 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (27.00%) Agile
2 103 (22.25%) DevOps
3 84 (18.14%) Integration Patterns
3 84 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (17.28%) Microservices
5 72 (15.55%) CI/CD
5 72 (15.55%) Migration
6 70 (15.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 63 (13.61%) Technical Leadership
8 61 (13.17%) ERP
8 61 (13.17%) Roadmaps
9 51 (11.02%) Software Engineering
10 49 (10.58%) Data Modelling
11 48 (10.37%) Validation
12 45 (9.72%) Waterfall
13 44 (9.50%) SDLC
14 43 (9.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 42 (9.07%) Continuous Improvement
16 41 (8.86%) Architectural Design
16 41 (8.86%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 90 (19.44%) SQL
2 72 (15.55%) Java
3 36 (7.78%) Python
4 29 (6.26%) Ada
5 20 (4.32%) C++
5 20 (4.32%) PL/SQL
6 16 (3.46%) Apex Code
7 15 (3.24%) JavaScript
7 15 (3.24%) Shell Script
8 14 (3.02%) C#
9 13 (2.81%) Bash
9 13 (2.81%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.16%) Perl
11 9 (1.94%) COBOL
11 9 (1.94%) MATLAB
11 9 (1.94%) Rust
12 7 (1.51%) SOQL
13 6 (1.30%) C
14 5 (1.08%) TypeScript
15 4 (0.86%) Korn
Qualifications
1 65 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 52 (11.23%) Degree
2 52 (11.23%) SC Cleared
3 27 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (3.89%) Master's Degree
5 12 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.16%) PMI Certification
7 9 (1.94%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.94%) PMP
8 7 (1.51%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.08%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.08%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.65%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.43%) IIBA
11 2 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.34%) GDPR
2 33 (7.13%) Def Stans
2 33 (7.13%) IEC 61508
3 16 (3.46%) QA
4 15 (3.24%) Data Quality
5 14 (3.02%) MISRA
5 14 (3.02%) MISRA C
6 12 (2.59%) SLA
7 10 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.51%) NIST
8 7 (1.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (1.08%) GAAP
9 5 (1.08%) HL7
10 3 (0.65%) IFRS
10 3 (0.65%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.65%) PSD2
10 3 (0.65%) SEPA
11 2 (0.43%) Basel III
11 2 (0.43%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 33 (7.13%) Docker
2 15 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.43%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.22%) GPFS
7 1 (0.22%) Lustre
7 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.22%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 43 (9.29%) Kubernetes
2 25 (5.40%) Grafana
3 21 (4.54%) Prometheus
4 17 (3.67%) Ansible
5 9 (1.94%) Check_MK
5 9 (1.94%) Kiali
5 9 (1.94%) Podman
5 9 (1.94%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (1.08%) Terraform
7 4 (0.86%) Control-M
7 4 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.65%) CA Wily
8 3 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.65%) SCCM
9 2 (0.43%) Avamar
9 2 (0.43%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.43%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.22%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.22%) MOM
Vendors
1 75 (16.20%) Oracle
2 62 (13.39%) Microsoft
3 58 (12.53%) SAP
4 37 (7.99%) IBM
4 37 (7.99%) Salesforce
5 30 (6.48%) MuleSoft
6 26 (5.62%) ServiceNow
7 22 (4.75%) VMware
8 20 (4.32%) Splunk
8 20 (4.32%) Workday
9 16 (3.46%) Databricks
10 15 (3.24%) Red Hat
11 13 (2.81%) AppDynamics
12 12 (2.59%) Dynatrace
12 12 (2.59%) Software AG
13 9 (1.94%) Google
14 8 (1.73%) TIBCO
15 6 (1.30%) Dell
16 5 (1.08%) Ariba
17 4 (0.86%) webMethods