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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 275 343
Rank change year-on-year +62 +68 -21
Contract jobs citing Middleware 442 228 210
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.21% 0.89% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.64% 3.95% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 124 148
10th Percentile £380 £402 £409
25th Percentile £457 £457 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £591
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -6.96% +7.49%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £719
90th Percentile £775 £773 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £505 £600
% change year-on-year +8.91% -15.83% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 21 3
10th Percentile £60.19 £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% -
75th Percentile - - £74.38
90th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -

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 7,833 5,773 7,624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.53% 22.59% 20.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,259 3,821 5,435
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £430 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 78 207
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.92 £21.08
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.75 £40.78
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.63
90th Percentile £78.25 £81.34 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 6 March 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 +67 215 £613 +9.87% 40
North of England -22 70 £525 - 25
Midlands -12 63 £500 +5.26% 9
South West -18 59 £68 -87.64% 10
West Midlands -24 42 £500 - 5
North West -6 36 £464 -15.64% 10
Yorkshire -36 34 £534 +12.37% 11
South East -38 20 £475 -17.39% 23
East Midlands -7 19 £402 -15.37% 4
East of England -19 13 £492 -32.14% 6
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 14 (3.17%) Confluence
2 12 (2.71%) Apache
2 12 (2.71%) Tomcat
3 11 (2.49%) WebSphere
4 8 (1.81%) CICS
4 8 (1.81%) Oracle Workflow
5 7 (1.58%) Apache Geronimo
5 7 (1.58%) Apache ServiceMix
5 7 (1.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (1.58%) Red Hat Fuse
6 5 (1.13%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.68%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.68%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.45%) CMS
8 2 (0.45%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.45%) nginx
8 2 (0.45%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.23%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.90%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 18 (4.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.81%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (1.58%) Oracle General Ledger
4 6 (1.36%) Shopify
5 5 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (1.13%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.90%) Bloomberg AIM
6 4 (0.90%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.68%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.68%) Oracle 11i
7 3 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.45%) CODA-Financials
8 2 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.45%) Primavera
8 2 (0.45%) SAP EWM
8 2 (0.45%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 121 (27.38%) Azure
2 59 (13.35%) AWS
3 41 (9.28%) GCP
4 29 (6.56%) SaaS
5 15 (3.39%) Boomi
5 15 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
5 15 (3.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 14 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.71%) OCI
7 12 (2.71%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 10 (2.26%) Power Platform
9 9 (2.04%) iPaaS
10 8 (1.81%) Serverless
10 8 (1.81%) SuccessFactors
11 7 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (1.58%) Datadog
11 7 (1.58%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.36%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 27 (6.11%) Firewall
2 11 (2.49%) HTTP
3 9 (2.04%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.36%) DNS
4 6 (1.36%) LAN
4 6 (1.36%) Multicast
4 6 (1.36%) WAN
5 4 (0.90%) DHCP
5 4 (0.90%) SAN
5 4 (0.90%) tcpdump
5 4 (0.90%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.45%) SSL
6 2 (0.45%) VLAN
6 2 (0.45%) VPN
6 2 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.23%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.23%) NAS
7 1 (0.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.62%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.71%) DataStage
3 10 (2.26%) Oracle Database
4 9 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.81%) Oracle Reports
5 8 (1.81%) Power BI
6 5 (1.13%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.68%) Data Hub
8 3 (0.68%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.68%) GIS
8 3 (0.68%) Oracle Database 10g
8 3 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.68%) Redis
8 3 (0.68%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.45%) EDMS
9 2 (0.45%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (4.75%) GitLab
2 18 (4.07%) JIRA
3 17 (3.85%) Git
4 15 (3.39%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.04%) Jaeger
6 6 (1.36%) JUnit
7 5 (1.13%) Ant
7 5 (1.13%) Gatling
7 5 (1.13%) JMeter
7 5 (1.13%) Rational Rhapsody
8 4 (0.90%) SoapUI
9 3 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.45%) GCC
10 2 (0.45%) GDB
10 2 (0.45%) Gradle
10 2 (0.45%) Mockito
10 2 (0.45%) Postman
11 1 (0.23%) Crucible
11 1 (0.23%) REST Assured
General
1 136 (30.77%) Finance
2 124 (28.05%) Social Skills
3 63 (14.25%) Banking
4 54 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (7.92%) Public Sector
6 25 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (3.39%) Investment Banking
9 14 (3.17%) Retail
10 13 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.49%) Front Office
11 11 (2.49%) Law
11 11 (2.49%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.49%) Marketing
12 10 (2.26%) Financial Institution
12 10 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (2.04%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.81%) Legal
15 7 (1.58%) Billing
16 5 (1.13%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 149 (33.71%) Architect
2 76 (17.19%) Solutions Architect
3 48 (10.86%) Developer
4 34 (7.69%) Software Engineer
5 31 (7.01%) Lead
5 31 (7.01%) Senior
6 23 (5.20%) C++ Software Engineer
7 22 (4.98%) Analyst
7 22 (4.98%) Integration Architect
7 22 (4.98%) Support Engineer
8 20 (4.52%) Technical Architect
9 18 (4.07%) Consultant
10 15 (3.39%) Salesforce Architect
11 14 (3.17%) Java Engineer
11 14 (3.17%) SAP Architect
11 14 (3.17%) Systems Analyst
12 13 (2.94%) Cloud Architect
12 13 (2.94%) Project Manager
13 12 (2.71%) Payments Architect
13 12 (2.71%) Payments Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (14.25%) REST
2 43 (9.73%) SOAP
3 40 (9.05%) Kafka
4 25 (5.66%) Lightning Web Components
5 21 (4.75%) Qt
5 21 (4.75%) XML
6 18 (4.07%) Visualforce
7 17 (3.85%) .NET
8 15 (3.39%) Oracle Fusion
8 15 (3.39%) RESTful
8 15 (3.39%) Spring Boot
8 15 (3.39%) Web Services
9 12 (2.71%) FIX Protocol
10 11 (2.49%) JMS
11 10 (2.26%) OpenTelemetry
11 10 (2.26%) React
12 9 (2.04%) Apache Camel
12 9 (2.04%) OAuth
13 8 (1.81%) EDI
13 8 (1.81%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.92%) Management Information System
2 30 (6.79%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.75%) Data Centre
4 19 (4.30%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
5 18 (4.07%) Product Ownership
6 17 (3.85%) Public Cloud
7 15 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (3.39%) Onboarding
8 10 (2.26%) Mainframe
9 8 (1.81%) BYOD
9 8 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.81%) VSAM
10 7 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.36%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.36%) CMDB
11 6 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (1.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.90%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 73 (16.52%) Linux
2 31 (7.01%) Windows
3 24 (5.43%) Unix
4 14 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (3.17%) Ubuntu
5 12 (2.71%) AIX
6 11 (2.49%) Solaris
7 10 (2.26%) CentOS
8 8 (1.81%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.45%) zOS
11 1 (0.23%) Rocky
11 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (26.92%) Agile
2 99 (22.40%) DevOps
3 84 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
4 82 (18.55%) CI/CD
5 81 (18.33%) Microservices
6 77 (17.42%) Integration Patterns
7 63 (14.25%) Roadmaps
8 62 (14.03%) Migration
8 62 (14.03%) Software Engineering
9 60 (13.57%) Technical Leadership
10 55 (12.44%) Stakeholder Management
11 54 (12.22%) ERP
12 47 (10.63%) Data Modelling
13 43 (9.73%) Validation
14 41 (9.28%) Mentoring
15 39 (8.82%) Computer Science
16 38 (8.60%) Observability
17 37 (8.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 37 (8.37%) Waterfall
18 32 (7.24%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 79 (17.87%) SQL
2 64 (14.48%) Java
3 41 (9.28%) Ada
3 41 (9.28%) C++
3 41 (9.28%) Python
4 25 (5.66%) Apex Code
5 22 (4.98%) JavaScript
6 20 (4.52%) C#
6 20 (4.52%) PowerShell
6 20 (4.52%) Shell Script
7 18 (4.07%) C
7 18 (4.07%) PL/SQL
8 17 (3.85%) Bash
9 9 (2.04%) Rust
10 8 (1.81%) COBOL
10 8 (1.81%) SOQL
11 7 (1.58%) MATLAB
12 5 (1.13%) Korn
12 5 (1.13%) Perl
12 5 (1.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 54 (12.22%) SC Cleared
3 46 (10.41%) Degree
4 24 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (4.30%) Master's Degree
6 12 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (2.26%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.81%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.81%) PMI Certification
8 8 (1.81%) PMP
9 6 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.13%) SAP Certification
11 4 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.90%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.45%) RHCE
13 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.92%) Def Stans
1 35 (7.92%) IEC 61508
2 29 (6.56%) GDPR
3 18 (4.07%) MISRA
3 18 (4.07%) MISRA C
4 13 (2.94%) QA
5 12 (2.71%) Data Quality
6 10 (2.26%) SLA
7 9 (2.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (1.13%) GAAP
10 4 (0.90%) NIST
10 4 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.90%) SEPA
11 3 (0.68%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.68%) HL7
11 3 (0.68%) IFRS
11 3 (0.68%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.68%) PSD2
12 2 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (9.28%) Docker
2 16 (3.62%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.23%) GPFS
5 1 (0.23%) Lustre
5 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 26 (5.88%) Grafana
3 24 (5.43%) Prometheus
4 15 (3.39%) Ansible
5 9 (2.04%) Kiali
6 8 (1.81%) Terraform
7 7 (1.58%) Check_MK
7 7 (1.58%) ITRS Geneos
7 7 (1.58%) Podman
7 7 (1.58%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (1.13%) SCCM
9 2 (0.45%) Control-M
9 2 (0.45%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.45%) Nagios
9 2 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.45%) SCOrch
10 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.23%) Kibana
10 1 (0.23%) logstash
10 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (14.71%) Oracle
2 57 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 44 (9.95%) Salesforce
3 44 (9.95%) SAP
4 30 (6.79%) MuleSoft
5 27 (6.11%) IBM
6 24 (5.43%) VMware
7 22 (4.98%) Splunk
8 21 (4.75%) Red Hat
9 18 (4.07%) Workday
10 15 (3.39%) ServiceNow
11 14 (3.17%) Databricks
12 12 (2.71%) Dynatrace
12 12 (2.71%) Software AG
12 12 (2.71%) TIBCO
13 11 (2.49%) AppDynamics
14 10 (2.26%) Solace
15 6 (1.36%) BMC
15 6 (1.36%) Google
16 5 (1.13%) Dell