Middleware Contracts in England

Middleware
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Middleware skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Middleware over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 344 289
Rank change year-on-year +64 -55 +11
Contract jobs citing Middleware 211 204 436
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.87% 0.55% 0.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.87% 2.71% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 144 303
10th Percentile £375 £421 £363
25th Percentile £424 £505 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £685 £719 £700
90th Percentile £750 £800 £825
UK median daily rate £501 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.46% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 3 4
10th Percentile £61.25 £54.00 £44.00
25th Percentile - £58.13 £57.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +60.04%
75th Percentile £68.00 £74.38 -
90th Percentile £68.23 £74.75 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +60.04%

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 5,452 7,525 11,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.40% 20.22% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,351 8,632
10th Percentile £370 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 216 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.12 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.81 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Middleware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in England

Middleware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Middleware in England.

Daily rate trend for Middleware in England

Middleware
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Middleware in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in England

Middleware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Middleware in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 30 April 2025. 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 -20 81 £550 -12.00% 67
South West +79 42 £500 -34.43% 29
North of England +44 33 £525 -12.86% 31
Midlands +32 20 £450 - 19
North West +20 20 £550 -10.57% 21
West Midlands +24 17 £450 - 9
South East +49 14 £581 +36.71% 29
Yorkshire +23 12 £475 -7.05% 9
East of England +29 6 £625 +7.67% 8
East Midlands +9 3 £461 +10.42% 10
North East -1 1 £475 -26.92% 1
Middleware
UK

Middleware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.84%) IIS
1 6 (2.84%) JBoss
1 6 (2.84%) NetWeaver
1 6 (2.84%) WebSphere
2 5 (2.37%) CICS
3 4 (1.90%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.42%) Anypoint
4 3 (1.42%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.42%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.95%) Apache
5 2 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.95%) CMS
5 2 (0.95%) Confluence
5 2 (0.95%) MQSeries
5 2 (0.95%) nginx
5 2 (0.95%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.47%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 17 (8.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.37%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.42%) Magento
4 3 (1.42%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.42%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (1.42%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.95%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.95%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.95%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.95%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.95%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.95%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.95%) Shopify
6 1 (0.47%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.47%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 40 (18.96%) Azure
2 24 (11.37%) AWS
3 13 (6.16%) GCP
3 13 (6.16%) Power Platform
4 9 (4.27%) Boomi
4 9 (4.27%) PowerApps
4 9 (4.27%) SuccessFactors
5 8 (3.79%) Azure API Management
5 8 (3.79%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (3.32%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (3.32%) Power Automate
6 7 (3.32%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 7 (3.32%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 6 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.84%) GitHub
7 6 (2.84%) OpenShift
8 5 (2.37%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (2.37%) Azure Functions
8 5 (2.37%) Serverless
9 4 (1.90%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.74%) HTTP
2 9 (4.27%) SSL
3 8 (3.79%) NAS
3 8 (3.79%) SAN
4 7 (3.32%) LAN
4 7 (3.32%) WAN
5 4 (1.90%) DNS
5 4 (1.90%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.95%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.95%) NetScaler
6 2 (0.95%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.47%) Converged Networks
7 1 (0.47%) CTI
7 1 (0.47%) Network Security
7 1 (0.47%) SWIFTNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.69%) Oracle Database
2 8 (3.79%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.84%) MS Access
3 6 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.37%) Oracle Database 10g
4 5 (2.37%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (1.90%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.90%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.90%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.42%) Big Data
6 3 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.42%) DB2
6 3 (1.42%) KDB
6 3 (1.42%) Oracle Database 11g
6 3 (1.42%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.42%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.42%) Tableau
7 2 (0.95%) IMS/DB
7 2 (0.95%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (0.95%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 11 (5.21%) JIRA
2 8 (3.79%) Git
3 7 (3.32%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.37%) GitLab
4 5 (2.37%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (1.90%) Ant
5 4 (1.90%) QARun
5 4 (1.90%) WinRunner
6 2 (0.95%) ESLint
6 2 (0.95%) JUnit
6 2 (0.95%) Mocha
6 2 (0.95%) Postman
6 2 (0.95%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.95%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.95%) Subversion
6 2 (0.95%) Toad
7 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.47%) Hudson
7 1 (0.47%) Maven
7 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 67 (31.75%) Social Skills
2 61 (28.91%) Finance
3 27 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.90%) Banking
5 14 (6.64%) Retail
6 9 (4.27%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.79%) Marketing
8 7 (3.32%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (2.84%) Front Office
10 5 (2.37%) Billing
10 5 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.37%) Law
10 5 (2.37%) Legal
11 4 (1.90%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.90%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.90%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.42%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.95%) Police
Job Titles
1 59 (27.96%) Architect
2 40 (18.96%) Developer
3 24 (11.37%) Solutions Architect
4 23 (10.90%) Consultant
5 20 (9.48%) Software Engineer
6 19 (9.00%) Senior
7 14 (6.64%) Lead
8 12 (5.69%) Support Engineer
9 11 (5.21%) Analyst
9 11 (5.21%) Integration Developer
10 10 (4.74%) Oracle Consultant
11 9 (4.27%) Azure Architect
11 9 (4.27%) C++ Software Engineer
11 9 (4.27%) Java Developer
11 9 (4.27%) Java Engineer
11 9 (4.27%) Linux Engineer
11 9 (4.27%) Product Engineer
11 9 (4.27%) Products Support Engineer
11 9 (4.27%) SAP Architect
11 9 (4.27%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.27%) REST
2 26 (12.32%) SOAP
3 19 (9.00%) Web Services
4 16 (7.58%) HTML
5 15 (7.11%) Kafka
5 15 (7.11%) Oracle Fusion
6 14 (6.64%) XML
7 12 (5.69%) Qt
8 10 (4.74%) SAP PI
9 9 (4.27%) .NET
9 9 (4.27%) EDI
10 8 (3.79%) CSS
11 7 (3.32%) AngularJS
11 7 (3.32%) JDBC
11 7 (3.32%) Lightning Web Components
11 7 (3.32%) React
11 7 (3.32%) RESTful
11 7 (3.32%) XSLT
12 6 (2.84%) HTML5
12 6 (2.84%) IDoc
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (3.79%) Management Information System
2 8 (3.79%) Public Cloud
3 7 (3.32%) Clustering
3 7 (3.32%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.84%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (2.84%) Mainframe
5 5 (2.37%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (2.37%) SCADA
5 5 (2.37%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.90%) Equities
6 4 (1.90%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.90%) IBM Mainframe
6 4 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.42%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 42 (19.91%) Linux
2 26 (12.32%) Unix
2 26 (12.32%) Windows
3 11 (5.21%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.84%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.37%) AIX
6 3 (1.42%) Solaris
7 2 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.47%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (25.59%) Agile
1 54 (25.59%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (17.06%) Software Engineering
3 29 (13.74%) DevOps
4 28 (13.27%) Migration
5 24 (11.37%) CI/CD
6 20 (9.48%) Scrum
7 19 (9.00%) Microservices
8 18 (8.53%) System Integration Testing
9 17 (8.06%) ERP
9 17 (8.06%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (7.58%) Computer Science
10 16 (7.58%) Performance Tuning
11 15 (7.11%) Analytics
11 15 (7.11%) SDLC
11 15 (7.11%) TOGAF
11 15 (7.11%) User Acceptance Testing
12 13 (6.16%) API Management
12 13 (6.16%) Data Governance
12 13 (6.16%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 44 (20.85%) SQL
2 39 (18.48%) Java
3 33 (15.64%) Ada
4 29 (13.74%) JavaScript
5 25 (11.85%) C++
6 21 (9.95%) Shell Script
7 17 (8.06%) Python
8 13 (6.16%) C
8 13 (6.16%) PL/SQL
8 13 (6.16%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.79%) C#
10 7 (3.32%) Apex Code
11 6 (2.84%) ABAP
11 6 (2.84%) Perl
12 5 (2.37%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.42%) Bash
13 3 (1.42%) Korn
14 2 (0.95%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.95%) ActionScript 2.0
14 2 (0.95%) RPG
Qualifications
1 41 (19.43%) Security Cleared
2 29 (13.74%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.43%) Degree
4 13 (6.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.79%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.84%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (1.90%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.90%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.95%) IBM Certification
8 2 (0.95%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.95%) PMP
8 2 (0.95%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.47%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.43%) Def Stans
1 22 (10.43%) IEC 61508
2 15 (7.11%) QA
3 12 (5.69%) MISRA
3 12 (5.69%) MISRA C
4 5 (2.37%) GDPR
5 3 (1.42%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.95%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.95%) SEPA
7 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 15 (7.11%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.79%) Docker
3 6 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 4 (1.90%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.90%) vSphere
6 1 (0.47%) NFS
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.47%) Samba
Systems Management
1 17 (8.06%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.79%) Ansible
3 6 (2.84%) Grafana
4 5 (2.37%) HP ALM
4 5 (2.37%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.37%) vRealize
5 4 (1.90%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.95%) MOM
6 2 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.47%) Argo
7 1 (0.47%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.47%) Podman
7 1 (0.47%) Puppet
7 1 (0.47%) Terraform
7 1 (0.47%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (0.47%) VxRail
7 1 (0.47%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 42 (19.91%) Oracle
2 30 (14.22%) Microsoft
2 30 (14.22%) SAP
3 25 (11.85%) MuleSoft
4 24 (11.37%) IBM
5 18 (8.53%) Salesforce
6 11 (5.21%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.32%) HP
8 6 (2.84%) Citrix
8 6 (2.84%) Databricks
9 5 (2.37%) Dell
9 5 (2.37%) Google
9 5 (2.37%) Splunk
9 5 (2.37%) VMware
10 4 (1.90%) Adobe
10 4 (1.90%) Confluent
10 4 (1.90%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.90%) TIBCO
10 4 (1.90%) webMethods
11 3 (1.42%) Concur