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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 252 313
Rank change year-on-year +13 +61 -33
Contract jobs citing Middleware 507 291 227
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.09% 1.04% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.12% 4.08% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 159 147
10th Percentile £413 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £447 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £591
Median % change year-on-year - -6.86% -1.58%
75th Percentile £638 £691 £718
90th Percentile £725 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £560 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +6.67% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 32 0
10th Percentile - £33.00 -
25th Percentile - £64.25 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -41.15% - -
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 -
90th Percentile £68.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -41.15% - -

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 9,900 7,138 8,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.27% 25.55% 24.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,515 4,847 5,356
10th Percentile £380 £353 £363
25th Percentile £446 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 173 180
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.32 £27.68
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.60% +4.88%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.18% -10.71% +2.67%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +46 287 £575 -7.63% 234
North of England -17 90 £525 +10.53% 67
South East -50 58 £500 -9.09% 64
Yorkshire -8 49 £514 +12.86% 30
North West -24 35 £588 +11.90% 30
Midlands -39 30 £550 +23.04% 37
West Midlands -37 21 £583 +66.43% 20
South West -58 18 £575 +15.00% 24
East of England -37 15 £483 -5.85% 25
East Midlands -18 8 £525 +17.06% 16
North East -36 6 £490 +3.21% 8
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 (5.33%) WebLogic
2 26 (5.13%) WebSphere
3 10 (1.97%) CICS
3 10 (1.97%) Confluence
3 10 (1.97%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (1.38%) Apache
5 7 (1.38%) nginx
6 6 (1.18%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.99%) IBM Transformation Extender
7 5 (0.99%) JBoss
7 5 (0.99%) Mule
7 5 (0.99%) WebSphere Application Server
8 4 (0.79%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.79%) SAS
8 4 (0.79%) WebLogic Portal
8 4 (0.79%) WordPress
9 3 (0.59%) IBM HTTP Server
9 3 (0.59%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 3 (0.59%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 8 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.59%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.59%) Revit
3 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.20%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 30 (5.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.97%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (1.58%) NetSuite
5 7 (1.38%) Maximo
5 7 (1.38%) Oracle Payables
5 7 (1.38%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (1.18%) SAP GRC
7 5 (0.99%) Oracle EBS R12
7 5 (0.99%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.79%) Oracle Cash Management
8 4 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.79%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.59%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.59%) Endur
9 3 (0.59%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (0.59%) SAP HCM
9 3 (0.59%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.59%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.59%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 126 (24.85%) Azure
2 82 (16.17%) AWS
3 49 (9.66%) Boomi
4 41 (8.09%) GCP
5 40 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (6.31%) SaaS
7 29 (5.72%) iPaaS
8 28 (5.52%) GitHub
9 24 (4.73%) Power Platform
10 22 (4.34%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (3.75%) SuccessFactors
12 17 (3.35%) Azure Logic Apps
12 17 (3.35%) Azure Service Bus
13 16 (3.16%) Serverless
14 15 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (2.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 14 (2.76%) Azure Functions
16 13 (2.56%) IaaS
16 13 (2.56%) Power Automate
16 13 (2.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.16%) SSL
2 15 (2.96%) HTTP
3 10 (1.97%) Firewall
4 5 (0.99%) DNS
4 5 (0.99%) Multicast
4 5 (0.99%) NAS
4 5 (0.99%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.99%) SAN
5 4 (0.79%) DHCP
5 4 (0.79%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.79%) VPN
6 3 (0.59%) WAN
7 2 (0.39%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.39%) Internet
7 2 (0.39%) LAN
7 2 (0.39%) MQTT
7 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.39%) X.509
8 1 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.75%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.35%) Power BI
3 16 (3.16%) Oracle Database
4 14 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.76%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (1.97%) Tableau
6 7 (1.38%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (1.18%) Db2
7 6 (1.18%) Metadata
7 6 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.99%) Big Data
8 5 (0.99%) DataStage
8 5 (0.99%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.59%) MySQL
10 3 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 31 (6.11%) JIRA
2 27 (5.33%) Git
3 16 (3.16%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.96%) Postman
5 11 (2.17%) JMeter
5 11 (2.17%) LoadRunner
6 9 (1.78%) SoapUI
6 9 (1.78%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.58%) GitLab
8 7 (1.38%) eggPlant
9 6 (1.18%) Selenium
9 6 (1.18%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.99%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.79%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.79%) Gatling
11 4 (0.79%) JetBrains Rider
12 3 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.59%) Zephyr
13 2 (0.39%) Fiddler
13 2 (0.39%) JUnit
General
1 173 (34.12%) Finance
2 132 (26.04%) Social Skills
3 89 (17.55%) Banking
4 75 (14.79%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (5.72%) Public Sector
6 23 (4.54%) Retail
7 21 (4.14%) Legal
8 15 (2.96%) Aerospace
8 15 (2.96%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.37%) Marketing
10 11 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.97%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.18%) Back Office
13 6 (1.18%) Law
14 5 (0.99%) General Ledger
15 4 (0.79%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 133 (26.23%) Architect
2 65 (12.82%) Developer
3 58 (11.44%) Solutions Architect
4 47 (9.27%) Lead
5 41 (8.09%) Integration Architect
6 35 (6.90%) Consultant
7 33 (6.51%) Senior
8 25 (4.93%) Analyst
9 22 (4.34%) Technical Architect
10 20 (3.94%) Administrator
11 19 (3.75%) Linux Engineer
12 18 (3.55%) Automation Engineer
13 17 (3.35%) Middleware Engineer
13 17 (3.35%) Salesforce Architect
14 16 (3.16%) Business Analyst
14 16 (3.16%) Integration Engineer
14 16 (3.16%) Integration Specialist
15 13 (2.56%) Functional Consultant
15 13 (2.56%) Integration Manager
16 11 (2.17%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (21.50%) REST
2 82 (16.17%) SOAP
3 63 (12.43%) XML
4 61 (12.03%) JSON
5 42 (8.28%) Kafka
6 40 (7.89%) .NET
6 40 (7.89%) OAuth
7 27 (5.33%) Web Services
8 26 (5.13%) JWT
9 24 (4.73%) OAuth2
10 20 (3.94%) GraphQL
11 19 (3.75%) SAML
12 18 (3.55%) Swagger
13 17 (3.35%) Lightning Web Components
14 16 (3.16%) EDI
14 16 (3.16%) OpenAPI
15 15 (2.96%) RESTful
16 14 (2.76%) Terraform
17 13 (2.56%) Node.js
17 13 (2.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 36 (7.10%) Onboarding
2 34 (6.71%) Enterprise Software
2 34 (6.71%) Mainframe
3 32 (6.31%) Cloud Native
4 30 (5.92%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (4.93%) Product Ownership
6 21 (4.14%) Data Centre
6 21 (4.14%) Management Information System
7 17 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (3.16%) Clustering
9 13 (2.56%) Data Structures
10 11 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.97%) Legacy Applications
11 10 (1.97%) Low-Code
11 10 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 8 (1.58%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.58%) CMDB
13 8 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.58%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 77 (15.19%) Linux
2 37 (7.30%) Windows
3 31 (6.11%) Unix
4 23 (4.54%) zOS
5 14 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (2.56%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.18%) CentOS
7 6 (1.18%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.59%) Solaris
8 3 (0.59%) VMS
9 2 (0.39%) AIX
9 2 (0.39%) OpenVMS
9 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.20%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (27.02%) Stakeholder Management
2 120 (23.67%) Agile
3 106 (20.91%) CI/CD
4 101 (19.92%) DevOps
5 97 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
6 87 (17.16%) Event-Driven
7 85 (16.77%) Integration Patterns
7 85 (16.77%) Migration
8 79 (15.58%) ERP
9 65 (12.82%) Enterprise Architecture
9 65 (12.82%) User Acceptance Testing
10 63 (12.43%) Roadmaps
11 59 (11.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 58 (11.44%) Test Automation
13 57 (11.24%) Validation
14 54 (10.65%) Data Modelling
15 50 (9.86%) Technical Leadership
16 48 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
17 47 (9.27%) CRM
18 45 (8.88%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 97 (19.13%) SQL
2 57 (11.24%) Python
3 48 (9.47%) JavaScript
4 46 (9.07%) Java
5 32 (6.31%) C#
6 26 (5.13%) Bash
7 17 (3.35%) Apex Code
7 17 (3.35%) PL/SQL
7 17 (3.35%) TypeScript
8 16 (3.16%) PowerShell
9 15 (2.96%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.97%) C++
11 6 (1.18%) ABAP
12 5 (0.99%) C
13 4 (0.79%) Ada
13 4 (0.79%) Go
13 4 (0.79%) Korn
13 4 (0.79%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.79%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.79%) X++
Qualifications
1 91 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 79 (15.58%) SC Cleared
3 41 (8.09%) Degree
4 18 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (0.99%) CISSP
8 5 (0.99%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.59%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.59%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.59%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.39%) ACCA
10 2 (0.39%) CIMA
10 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.39%) ISEB
10 2 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.39%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (8.68%) QA
2 20 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.97%) GDPR
4 8 (1.58%) ISO 20022
4 8 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.38%) PMO
6 6 (1.18%) GRC
6 6 (1.18%) SLA
7 5 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.99%) HL7
8 4 (0.79%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.79%) SEPA
8 4 (0.79%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.59%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.59%) IEC 61508
9 3 (0.59%) ISO 15022
9 3 (0.59%) MISRA
9 3 (0.59%) MISRA C
10 2 (0.39%) GMP
10 2 (0.39%) JSP 440
System Software
1 30 (5.92%) Docker
2 14 (2.76%) RACF
3 8 (1.58%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.79%) NFS
5 4 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.79%) vSphere
6 3 (0.59%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.39%) IAG
7 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.20%) Firmware
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.20%) Varnish
8 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (6.11%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.72%) Ansible
3 14 (2.76%) OMEGAMON
4 13 (2.56%) Grafana
5 7 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.38%) Tivoli
5 7 (1.38%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 6 (1.18%) Control-M
6 6 (1.18%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (0.99%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.99%) ITRS Geneos
7 5 (0.99%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (0.99%) Podman
7 5 (0.99%) systemd
8 4 (0.79%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.79%) Check_MK
8 4 (0.79%) HP Fortify
8 4 (0.79%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.59%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.39%) Netcool
Vendors
1 92 (18.15%) Oracle
2 85 (16.77%) SAP
3 78 (15.38%) IBM
4 57 (11.24%) MuleSoft
5 54 (10.65%) Microsoft
6 45 (8.88%) Salesforce
7 34 (6.71%) ServiceNow
8 28 (5.52%) Workday
9 27 (5.33%) Google
10 15 (2.96%) Splunk
10 15 (2.96%) TIBCO
11 14 (2.76%) Databricks
12 12 (2.37%) Dynatrace
13 10 (1.97%) Dell
13 10 (1.97%) Informatica
13 10 (1.97%) VMware
14 9 (1.78%) Solace
14 9 (1.78%) WSO2
15 8 (1.58%) Red Hat
16 7 (1.38%) JD Edwards