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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 262 331
Rank change year-on-year +37 +69 -55
Contract jobs citing Middleware 493 235 224
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.15% 0.96% 0.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.03% 4.25% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 142 157
10th Percentile £400 £389 £412
25th Percentile £470 £448 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £719
90th Percentile £775 £766 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 20 2
10th Percentile £55.95 £64.70 £65.63
25th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £66.56
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.75 £71.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% -4.91% +9.62%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £74.69
90th Percentile - £68.75 £74.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.75 £71.25
% change year-on-year -4.06% -4.91% +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 8,181 5,526 7,838
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.16% 22.47% 20.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,398 3,841 5,492
10th Percentile £363 £360 £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 £741 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 107 250
10th Percentile £30.45 £31.49 £22.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £48.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +25.63% -23.46%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.03 £81.15 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £50.00
% change year-on-year +10.40% +17.75% -23.08%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +51 239 £600 - 46
North of England -10 90 £525 +5.00% 20
Midlands -7 65 £525 +17.06% 13
North West -2 52 £525 -4.55% 9
West Midlands -17 47 £530 +17.78% 8
South West -4 43 £640 +28.00% 11
South East -51 41 £525 -2.10% 20
Yorkshire -35 34 £575 +19.51% 9
East of England -13 20 £492 -21.28% 11
East Midlands -8 15 £463 +3.47% 5
North East -32 4 £500 +3.90% 2
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 (4.46%) WebSphere
2 15 (3.04%) WebLogic
3 11 (2.23%) Tomcat
4 10 (2.03%) Apache
4 10 (2.03%) CICS
5 8 (1.62%) Apache Geronimo
5 8 (1.62%) Apache ServiceMix
5 8 (1.62%) Confluence
5 8 (1.62%) Red Hat Fuse
6 5 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (1.01%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (0.81%) SAS
8 3 (0.61%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.61%) IBM HTTP Server
8 3 (0.61%) JBoss
8 3 (0.61%) nginx
8 3 (0.61%) WordPress
9 2 (0.41%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.41%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.41%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.81%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.61%) Navisworks
3 3 (0.61%) 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 29 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.62%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.22%) NetSuite
3 6 (1.22%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (1.22%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (1.01%) Maximo
4 5 (1.01%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (0.81%) Oracle Cash Management
5 4 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (0.81%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 4 (0.81%) Shopify
6 3 (0.61%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.61%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.61%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.61%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.61%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.41%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.41%) Global One
7 2 (0.41%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 120 (24.34%) Azure
2 61 (12.37%) AWS
3 32 (6.49%) SaaS
4 31 (6.29%) GCP
5 28 (5.68%) Boomi
6 26 (5.27%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (4.46%) Power Platform
8 15 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (2.84%) iPaaS
10 13 (2.64%) Serverless
11 12 (2.43%) SuccessFactors
12 11 (2.23%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (2.03%) Datadog
13 10 (2.03%) OCI
14 9 (1.83%) PaaS
15 8 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
16 7 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
16 7 (1.42%) Azure Functions
16 7 (1.42%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.87%) Firewall
2 9 (1.83%) SSL
3 6 (1.22%) HTTP
4 5 (1.01%) LAN
4 5 (1.01%) WAN
5 3 (0.61%) DNS
5 3 (0.61%) IPv4
5 3 (0.61%) IPv6
5 3 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.61%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.41%) MQTT
6 2 (0.41%) Network Security
6 2 (0.41%) SAN
7 1 (0.20%) DHCP
7 1 (0.20%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.20%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.20%) Multicast
7 1 (0.20%) NAS
7 1 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.85%) Power BI
2 18 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (3.65%) SQL Server
3 15 (3.04%) DataStage
4 10 (2.03%) Oracle Database
5 9 (1.83%) Data Lake
5 9 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (1.62%) Metadata
7 7 (1.42%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (1.42%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.01%) Big Data
9 5 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.01%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.81%) MySQL
10 4 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.61%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.61%) Tableau
12 2 (0.41%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 24 (4.87%) Git
1 24 (4.87%) JIRA
2 20 (4.06%) GitLab
3 18 (3.65%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.22%) Jaeger
4 6 (1.22%) JUnit
5 3 (0.61%) Gradle
5 3 (0.61%) Introscope
5 3 (0.61%) Mockito
5 3 (0.61%) Postman
5 3 (0.61%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.41%) Ant
6 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.41%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.41%) ERwin
6 2 (0.41%) Hudson
6 2 (0.41%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.41%) Maven
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 173 (35.09%) Finance
2 138 (27.99%) Social Skills
3 90 (18.26%) Banking
4 72 (14.60%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 28 (5.68%) Retail
7 22 (4.46%) Investment Banking
8 21 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
9 18 (3.65%) Legal
10 15 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (3.04%) Manufacturing
11 14 (2.84%) Aerospace
12 13 (2.64%) Financial Institution
13 12 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.62%) Back Office
15 7 (1.42%) General Ledger
15 7 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (1.42%) Marketing
15 7 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (1.22%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 167 (33.87%) Architect
2 87 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
3 39 (7.91%) Developer
3 39 (7.91%) Lead
4 36 (7.30%) Integration Architect
4 36 (7.30%) Senior
5 28 (5.68%) Consultant
6 25 (5.07%) Analyst
7 24 (4.87%) Software Engineer
8 23 (4.67%) Technical Architect
9 21 (4.26%) Administrator
10 18 (3.65%) Java Engineer
10 18 (3.65%) Payments Architect
10 18 (3.65%) Payments Solutions Architect
10 18 (3.65%) SAP Architect
11 14 (2.84%) Business Analyst
11 14 (2.84%) Project Manager
12 13 (2.64%) SAP Solutions Architect
13 12 (2.43%) Designer
13 12 (2.43%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (15.62%) REST
2 45 (9.13%) SOAP
3 40 (8.11%) Kafka
4 36 (7.30%) XML
5 28 (5.68%) JSON
6 20 (4.06%) .NET
7 15 (3.04%) Lightning Web Components
7 15 (3.04%) Spring Boot
8 13 (2.64%) RESTful
9 12 (2.43%) OAuth
9 12 (2.43%) Web Services
10 11 (2.23%) Apache Camel
10 11 (2.23%) LDAP
10 11 (2.23%) Qt
10 11 (2.23%) Spring
11 10 (2.03%) GraphQL
11 10 (2.03%) Node.js
11 10 (2.03%) Oracle Fusion
11 10 (2.03%) React
12 9 (1.83%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.92%) Management Information System
2 33 (6.69%) Data Centre
3 26 (5.27%) Onboarding
4 21 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (4.06%) Cloud Native
5 20 (4.06%) Mainframe
6 19 (3.85%) Product Ownership
7 18 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (3.65%) Public Cloud
8 15 (3.04%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (2.84%) Clustering
10 11 (2.23%) CMDB
11 10 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.83%) BYOD
12 9 (1.83%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
12 9 (1.83%) VSAM
13 8 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.62%) IoT
13 8 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 75 (15.21%) Linux
2 27 (5.48%) Windows
3 23 (4.67%) Unix
4 19 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.43%) CentOS
6 11 (2.23%) Solaris
6 11 (2.23%) Ubuntu
6 11 (2.23%) zOS
7 10 (2.03%) AIX
8 4 (0.81%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.41%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.20%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (26.17%) Agile
2 96 (19.47%) DevOps
3 95 (19.27%) Integration Patterns
4 94 (19.07%) Problem-Solving
5 85 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 81 (16.43%) CI/CD
7 76 (15.42%) Migration
8 73 (14.81%) ERP
9 69 (14.00%) Microservices
10 65 (13.18%) Roadmaps
11 62 (12.58%) Technical Leadership
12 52 (10.55%) Data Modelling
13 51 (10.34%) Enterprise Architecture
14 49 (9.94%) Continuous Improvement
15 48 (9.74%) User Acceptance Testing
15 48 (9.74%) Waterfall
16 46 (9.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 45 (9.13%) Architectural Design
18 44 (8.92%) SDLC
19 41 (8.32%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 92 (18.66%) SQL
2 66 (13.39%) Java
3 40 (8.11%) Python
4 25 (5.07%) Ada
4 25 (5.07%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.26%) Bash
6 18 (3.65%) C#
7 17 (3.45%) Shell Script
8 16 (3.25%) PL/SQL
9 15 (3.04%) C++
10 14 (2.84%) Apex Code
10 14 (2.84%) PowerShell
11 11 (2.23%) MATLAB
12 9 (1.83%) COBOL
13 8 (1.62%) TypeScript
14 7 (1.42%) Rust
14 7 (1.42%) SOQL
15 6 (1.22%) Perl
16 4 (0.81%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.81%) X++
Qualifications
1 72 (14.60%) Security Cleared
2 58 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 45 (9.13%) Degree
4 28 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.25%) Master's Degree
6 12 (2.43%) TOGAF Certification
7 11 (2.23%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.42%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.22%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.22%) PMP
11 5 (1.01%) SAP Certification
12 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.41%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.41%) IIBA
13 2 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.20%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.88%) GDPR
2 27 (5.48%) Def Stans
2 27 (5.48%) IEC 61508
3 22 (4.46%) QA
4 17 (3.45%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.64%) SLA
6 10 (2.03%) MISRA
6 10 (2.03%) MISRA C
7 9 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.22%) ISO 20022
8 6 (1.22%) NIST
8 6 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (1.01%) GAAP
9 5 (1.01%) HL7
10 3 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.61%) IFRS
10 3 (0.61%) PMO
10 3 (0.61%) PSD2
11 2 (0.41%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 33 (6.69%) Docker
2 15 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.62%) RACF
4 7 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.61%) vSphere
7 2 (0.41%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.41%) 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 37 (7.51%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.48%) Ansible
3 20 (4.06%) Grafana
4 16 (3.25%) Prometheus
5 11 (2.23%) Check_MK
5 11 (2.23%) Podman
5 11 (2.23%) Red Hat Satellite
5 11 (2.23%) Terraform
6 7 (1.42%) OMEGAMON
7 6 (1.22%) Kiali
8 5 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.81%) Control-M
9 4 (0.81%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (0.81%) systemd
10 3 (0.61%) CA Wily
10 3 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.61%) SCCM
11 2 (0.41%) Avamar
11 2 (0.41%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.41%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 77 (15.62%) Oracle
2 75 (15.21%) SAP
3 59 (11.97%) Microsoft
4 40 (8.11%) IBM
5 37 (7.51%) Salesforce
6 33 (6.69%) MuleSoft
7 32 (6.49%) ServiceNow
8 30 (6.09%) Workday
9 23 (4.67%) VMware
10 21 (4.26%) Databricks
11 18 (3.65%) Splunk
12 17 (3.45%) Red Hat
13 12 (2.43%) AppDynamics
13 12 (2.43%) Dynatrace
14 9 (1.83%) Google
14 9 (1.83%) TIBCO
15 8 (1.62%) Dell
15 8 (1.62%) Software AG
16 6 (1.22%) Bloomberg
16 6 (1.22%) Murex