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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 279 352
Rank change year-on-year +71 +73 -33
Contract jobs citing Middleware 448 216 208
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.23% 0.88% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.72% 3.88% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 118 150
10th Percentile £380 £404 £410
25th Percentile £458 £459 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £719
90th Percentile £788 £770 £776
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 22 3
10th Percentile £61.25 £61.25 £54.00
25th Percentile £61.63 £62.75 £58.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% -
75th Percentile - £65.75 £74.38
90th Percentile £68.00 £68.68 £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 7,826 5,573 7,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.42% 22.59% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,244 3,752 5,399
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £428 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +0.93% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 86 200
10th Percentile £35.03 £27.30 £20.82
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.19 £39.98
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £71.13 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.85 £82.53 £75.00
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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +75 221 £625 +12.11% 47
North of England -18 74 £525 -4.55% 27
Midlands -21 63 £500 +5.26% 11
South West -19 54 £68 -87.64% 13
West Midlands -36 42 £500 - 5
North West -13 38 £469 -18.43% 11
Yorkshire -30 36 £530 +11.58% 8
South East -46 22 £469 -18.48% 26
East Midlands -16 19 £402 -15.37% 6
East of England -20 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 (3.13%) Confluence
1 14 (3.13%) WebSphere
2 11 (2.46%) Apache
2 11 (2.46%) Tomcat
3 8 (1.79%) Apache Geronimo
3 8 (1.79%) Apache ServiceMix
3 8 (1.79%) CICS
3 8 (1.79%) Red Hat Fuse
4 6 (1.34%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.67%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.67%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.67%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.67%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.45%) CMS
7 2 (0.45%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.45%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.45%) nginx
8 1 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 6 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.89%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 20 (4.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.79%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (1.56%) Oracle General Ledger
3 7 (1.56%) Shopify
4 6 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.89%) Bloomberg AIM
6 4 (0.89%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.89%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.67%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.67%) Oracle 11i
7 3 (0.67%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.45%) CODA-Financials
8 2 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.45%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.45%) SAP EWM
8 2 (0.45%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 123 (27.46%) Azure
2 60 (13.39%) AWS
3 42 (9.38%) GCP
4 30 (6.70%) SaaS
5 15 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (3.35%) Boomi
5 15 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (2.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 11 (2.46%) OCI
7 11 (2.46%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.23%) Datadog
8 10 (2.23%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 9 (2.01%) iPaaS
9 9 (2.01%) Serverless
10 8 (1.79%) Entra ID
10 8 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
11 7 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.34%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.58%) Firewall
2 10 (2.23%) HTTP
3 8 (1.79%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.56%) LAN
4 7 (1.56%) WAN
5 6 (1.34%) Multicast
6 4 (0.89%) DNS
6 4 (0.89%) tcpdump
6 4 (0.89%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.67%) DHCP
7 3 (0.67%) IPv4
7 3 (0.67%) IPv6
7 3 (0.67%) SAN
8 2 (0.45%) Network Security
8 2 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.45%) VPN
9 1 (0.22%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.22%) NAS
9 1 (0.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.46%) DataStage
3 9 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.01%) Oracle Database
3 9 (2.01%) Power BI
4 7 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (0.89%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.67%) Big Data
7 3 (0.67%) Data Hub
7 3 (0.67%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.67%) Oracle Database 10g
7 3 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.67%) Redis
7 3 (0.67%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.45%) GIS
8 2 (0.45%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (5.13%) GitLab
2 21 (4.69%) JIRA
3 19 (4.24%) Git
4 17 (3.79%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.01%) Jaeger
6 6 (1.34%) JUnit
7 5 (1.12%) Ant
7 5 (1.12%) Gatling
7 5 (1.12%) JMeter
7 5 (1.12%) Rational Rhapsody
8 4 (0.89%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.45%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.45%) GCC
9 2 (0.45%) GDB
9 2 (0.45%) Gradle
9 2 (0.45%) Introscope
9 2 (0.45%) Mockito
9 2 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.45%) Postman
10 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
General
1 138 (30.80%) Finance
2 128 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 63 (14.06%) Banking
4 58 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (7.59%) Public Sector
6 25 (5.58%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (3.79%) Retail
8 16 (3.57%) Investment Banking
9 13 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (2.68%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.46%) Financial Institution
11 11 (2.46%) Front Office
11 11 (2.46%) Law
11 11 (2.46%) Legal
12 10 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (2.23%) Marketing
13 9 (2.01%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.12%) Billing
14 5 (1.12%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 154 (34.38%) Architect
2 81 (18.08%) Solutions Architect
3 45 (10.04%) Developer
4 33 (7.37%) Lead
4 33 (7.37%) Senior
4 33 (7.37%) Software Engineer
5 23 (5.13%) Analyst
6 22 (4.91%) C++ Software Engineer
6 22 (4.91%) Integration Architect
6 22 (4.91%) Technical Architect
7 21 (4.69%) Support Engineer
8 17 (3.79%) Consultant
9 14 (3.13%) Java Engineer
9 14 (3.13%) Salesforce Architect
9 14 (3.13%) SAP Architect
9 14 (3.13%) Systems Analyst
10 13 (2.90%) Payments Architect
10 13 (2.90%) Payments Solutions Architect
10 13 (2.90%) Project Manager
11 12 (2.68%) SAP Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (13.17%) REST
2 40 (8.93%) Kafka
3 36 (8.04%) SOAP
4 23 (5.13%) Lightning Web Components
5 21 (4.69%) XML
6 20 (4.46%) Qt
7 16 (3.57%) .NET
7 16 (3.57%) Visualforce
8 14 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
9 13 (2.90%) Spring Boot
10 12 (2.68%) FIX Protocol
10 12 (2.68%) JMS
10 12 (2.68%) RESTful
11 11 (2.46%) Web Services
12 10 (2.23%) Apache Camel
12 10 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
13 9 (2.01%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (2.01%) React
14 8 (1.79%) Apache Axis
14 8 (1.79%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.81%) Management Information System
2 29 (6.47%) Cloud Native
3 23 (5.13%) Data Centre
4 19 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (4.24%) Public Cloud
5 18 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
5 18 (4.02%) Product Ownership
6 15 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (3.35%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.23%) Mainframe
8 8 (1.79%) BYOD
8 8 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (1.79%) VSAM
9 7 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.34%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.34%) CMDB
10 6 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (1.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (1.12%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.12%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 73 (16.29%) Linux
2 32 (7.14%) Windows
3 23 (5.13%) Unix
4 14 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.90%) AIX
6 12 (2.68%) Ubuntu
7 11 (2.46%) Solaris
8 8 (1.79%) CentOS
9 7 (1.56%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.45%) zOS
12 1 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.22%) Rocky
12 1 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (27.23%) Agile
2 103 (22.99%) DevOps
3 86 (19.20%) CI/CD
3 86 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (17.86%) Microservices
5 79 (17.63%) Integration Patterns
6 65 (14.51%) Roadmaps
7 64 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 63 (14.06%) Migration
9 62 (13.84%) Technical Leadership
10 59 (13.17%) Stakeholder Management
11 53 (11.83%) ERP
12 46 (10.27%) Data Modelling
13 44 (9.82%) Validation
14 40 (8.93%) Computer Science
15 39 (8.71%) Mentoring
15 39 (8.71%) Observability
16 38 (8.48%) Waterfall
17 37 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
18 36 (8.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 79 (17.63%) SQL
2 64 (14.29%) Java
3 41 (9.15%) Ada
4 40 (8.93%) C++
4 40 (8.93%) Python
5 23 (5.13%) Apex Code
5 23 (5.13%) JavaScript
6 21 (4.69%) PowerShell
6 21 (4.69%) Shell Script
7 19 (4.24%) C#
8 18 (4.02%) C
9 16 (3.57%) Bash
9 16 (3.57%) PL/SQL
10 9 (2.01%) Rust
11 8 (1.79%) COBOL
11 8 (1.79%) SOQL
12 7 (1.56%) MATLAB
13 6 (1.34%) Perl
14 5 (1.12%) Korn
15 3 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (15.18%) Security Cleared
2 58 (12.95%) SC Cleared
3 46 (10.27%) Degree
4 25 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (4.02%) Master's Degree
6 12 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.46%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.01%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.79%) PMP
10 7 (1.56%) AWS Certification
11 6 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (1.12%) SAP Certification
13 3 (0.67%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
15 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.81%) Def Stans
1 35 (7.81%) IEC 61508
2 34 (7.59%) GDPR
3 18 (4.02%) MISRA
3 18 (4.02%) MISRA C
4 14 (3.13%) QA
5 11 (2.46%) Data Quality
6 10 (2.23%) SLA
7 9 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (1.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 7 (1.56%) NIST
10 5 (1.12%) GAAP
10 5 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.89%) HL7
11 4 (0.89%) SEPA
12 3 (0.67%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.67%) IFRS
12 3 (0.67%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.67%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.67%) PSD2
System Software
1 42 (9.38%) Docker
2 15 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.22%) GPFS
6 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.22%) Lustre
6 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (11.83%) Kubernetes
2 29 (6.47%) Grafana
3 25 (5.58%) Prometheus
4 14 (3.13%) Ansible
5 9 (2.01%) Kiali
6 7 (1.56%) Check_MK
6 7 (1.56%) Podman
6 7 (1.56%) Red Hat Satellite
7 6 (1.34%) ITRS Geneos
7 6 (1.34%) Terraform
8 5 (1.12%) SCCM
9 2 (0.45%) CA Wily
9 2 (0.45%) Control-M
9 2 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.45%) SCOrch
9 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.22%) Istio
10 1 (0.22%) Kibana
10 1 (0.22%) logstash
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 63 (14.06%) Oracle
2 61 (13.62%) Microsoft
3 45 (10.04%) SAP
4 42 (9.38%) Salesforce
5 32 (7.14%) MuleSoft
6 28 (6.25%) IBM
7 22 (4.91%) Red Hat
7 22 (4.91%) VMware
8 20 (4.46%) Splunk
9 19 (4.24%) Workday
10 15 (3.35%) Databricks
10 15 (3.35%) ServiceNow
11 13 (2.90%) TIBCO
12 12 (2.68%) AppDynamics
12 12 (2.68%) Dynatrace
12 12 (2.68%) Software AG
13 9 (2.01%) Google
13 9 (2.01%) Solace
14 6 (1.34%) BMC
15 5 (1.12%) Dell