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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 311 291
Rank change year-on-year +72 -20 +59
Contract jobs citing Middleware 315 214 319
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.07% 0.69% 0.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.67% 3.16% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 131 238
10th Percentile £400 £423 £388
25th Percentile £450 £500 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% +1.69%
75th Percentile £694 £719 £708
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 2 11
10th Percentile £31.80 £61.93 £56.25
25th Percentile £59.93 £62.94 £61.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +0.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £66.94 £66.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £67.58 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +0.38% -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 6,740 6,778 8,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.88% 21.80% 22.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,560 4,320 6,404
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -6.91% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 102 176
10th Percentile £30.68 £27.00 £37.65
25th Percentile £42.63 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.38 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -16.92% +18.18% -15.38%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 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 +10 141 £625 +2.04% 133
South West +16 36 £68 -87.64% 36
North of England -18 34 £475 -9.52% 35
South East +20 33 £573 +0.44% 118
Midlands -8 30 £450 -14.29% 33
East of England +2 20 £500 -37.50% 26
North West -8 17 £525 +23.53% 15
East Midlands -4 15 £447 -14.86% 16
West Midlands -14 15 £500 -4.76% 15
Yorkshire -20 15 £475 - 15
North East -10 2 £469 -14.58% 5
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 25 (7.94%) WebSphere
2 20 (6.35%) WebLogic
3 12 (3.81%) Confluence
4 11 (3.49%) Apache
5 6 (1.90%) IIS
5 6 (1.90%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (1.27%) JBoss
8 3 (0.95%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.95%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.95%) CMS
8 3 (0.95%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.95%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.95%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.95%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.95%) Smallworld
9 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.63%) nginx
9 2 (0.63%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.63%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (1.27%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.32%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 12 (3.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.95%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.95%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.63%) CODA-Financials
4 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.63%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.63%) Primavera
5 1 (0.32%) Endur
5 1 (0.32%) Maximo
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.32%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.32%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 85 (26.98%) Azure
2 38 (12.06%) AWS
3 30 (9.52%) GCP
4 18 (5.71%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 18 (5.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 15 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (4.76%) OpenShift
6 13 (4.13%) SaaS
7 9 (2.86%) Boomi
7 9 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (2.54%) GitHub
8 8 (2.54%) PaaS
8 8 (2.54%) Serverless
9 7 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (2.22%) IaaS
9 7 (2.22%) Power Platform
10 6 (1.90%) Salesforce Einstein
11 5 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.59%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.59%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.03%) Firewall
1 19 (6.03%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.44%) Multicast
2 14 (4.44%) SAN
3 13 (4.13%) WAN
4 10 (3.17%) LAN
5 8 (2.54%) DNS
6 7 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.90%) tcpdump
7 6 (1.90%) Wireshark
8 5 (1.59%) HTTP
8 5 (1.59%) SSL
9 4 (1.27%) DHCP
9 4 (1.27%) NAS
9 4 (1.27%) VLAN
10 2 (0.63%) NetScaler
10 2 (0.63%) VPN
11 1 (0.32%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (0.32%) FCoE
11 1 (0.32%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.03%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.86%) GIS
3 7 (2.22%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.59%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.59%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.59%) Oracle Database
4 5 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (1.27%) MemSQL
5 4 (1.27%) OLTP
5 4 (1.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 4 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.27%) Power BI
5 4 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (0.95%) Data Hub
6 3 (0.95%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.95%) Redis
6 3 (0.95%) Spatial Data
7 2 (0.63%) DataStage
7 2 (0.63%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 25 (7.94%) Jenkins
2 22 (6.98%) JIRA
3 18 (5.71%) Git
4 14 (4.44%) GitLab
5 8 (2.54%) GCC
5 8 (2.54%) GDB
6 6 (1.90%) Gatling
6 6 (1.90%) JMeter
7 3 (0.95%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.63%) Ant
8 2 (0.63%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.63%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.63%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.63%) JUnit
8 2 (0.63%) Postman
8 2 (0.63%) TestPartner
9 1 (0.32%) ClearCase
9 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.32%) Maven
General
1 83 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 66 (20.95%) Finance
3 33 (10.48%) Banking
4 27 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.94%) Front Office
6 17 (5.40%) Public Sector
7 15 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (4.76%) Marketing
8 9 (2.86%) International Banking
9 7 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.90%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.90%) Local Government
10 6 (1.90%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.59%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.27%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.27%) Retail
13 3 (0.95%) Back Office
13 3 (0.95%) Law
13 3 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (25.40%) Architect
2 59 (18.73%) Developer
3 27 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
4 25 (7.94%) Consultant
5 23 (7.30%) Senior
5 23 (7.30%) Support Engineer
6 22 (6.98%) Technical Architect
7 20 (6.35%) Lead
8 18 (5.71%) Salesforce Architect
9 16 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (4.76%) Software Engineer
11 13 (4.13%) C++ Software Engineer
11 13 (4.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.49%) Analyst
12 11 (3.49%) Product Engineer
12 11 (3.49%) Products Support Engineer
12 11 (3.49%) Software Support Engineer
13 9 (2.86%) C++ Developer
13 9 (2.86%) Infrastructure Architect
13 9 (2.86%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (14.92%) REST
2 42 (13.33%) SOAP
3 27 (8.57%) .NET
4 26 (8.25%) FIX Protocol
5 24 (7.62%) Lightning Web Components
6 23 (7.30%) Kafka
7 21 (6.67%) Web Services
8 18 (5.71%) Visualforce
9 17 (5.40%) HTML
9 17 (5.40%) Node.js
10 16 (5.08%) RESTful
11 15 (4.76%) React
12 14 (4.44%) Qt
13 11 (3.49%) OAuth
14 8 (2.54%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 8 (2.54%) JMS
14 8 (2.54%) Oracle Fusion
14 8 (2.54%) Spring
14 8 (2.54%) STL
14 8 (2.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 19 (6.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 17 (5.40%) Cloud Native
3 17 (5.40%) Data Centre
3 17 (5.40%) Private Cloud
4 13 (4.13%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
5 9 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.54%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.54%) Derivative
6 8 (2.54%) Replication
7 7 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.22%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.22%) Fixed Income
7 7 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.22%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (1.90%) Video\Live Streaming
9 5 (1.59%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 82 (26.03%) Linux
2 46 (14.60%) Windows
3 28 (8.89%) Unix
4 17 (5.40%) Ubuntu
5 14 (4.44%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.90%) CentOS
8 4 (1.27%) VMS
9 3 (0.95%) Solaris
10 2 (0.63%) zOS
11 1 (0.32%) MVS
11 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (28.25%) Agile
2 69 (21.90%) CI/CD
3 64 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (17.14%) DevOps
5 52 (16.51%) Migration
6 35 (11.11%) Computer Science
7 33 (10.48%) Infrastructure as Code
7 33 (10.48%) Software Engineering
8 32 (10.16%) Data Modelling
9 30 (9.52%) Integration Patterns
10 29 (9.21%) High Availability
11 28 (8.89%) ERP
12 27 (8.57%) Low Latency
13 26 (8.25%) Requirements Gathering
13 26 (8.25%) Roadmaps
13 26 (8.25%) Scrum
14 25 (7.94%) Technical Leadership
15 24 (7.62%) Stakeholder Management
16 23 (7.30%) Microservices
16 23 (7.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 62 (19.68%) Java
2 60 (19.05%) Python
3 57 (18.10%) C++
4 54 (17.14%) SQL
5 34 (10.79%) PowerShell
6 29 (9.21%) C#
7 27 (8.57%) C
8 26 (8.25%) JavaScript
9 24 (7.62%) Apex Code
10 20 (6.35%) Bash
11 19 (6.03%) Ada
12 15 (4.76%) PHP
13 14 (4.44%) Shell Script
14 12 (3.81%) PL/SQL
15 4 (1.27%) Groovy
15 4 (1.27%) Scala
15 4 (1.27%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.95%) Korn
16 3 (0.95%) Magik
16 3 (0.95%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 48 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 42 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 38 (12.06%) Degree
4 22 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.86%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.22%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.27%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.27%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.27%) PMP
7 4 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.63%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.63%) RHCE
10 1 (0.32%) CCA
10 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.32%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.67%) GDPR
2 16 (5.08%) QA
3 12 (3.81%) Data Quality
4 11 (3.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 9 (2.86%) Def Stans
5 9 (2.86%) IEC 61508
6 8 (2.54%) MISRA
6 8 (2.54%) MISRA C
7 4 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.27%) HL7
8 3 (0.95%) GAAP
9 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.63%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.63%) PMO
9 2 (0.63%) WCAG
10 1 (0.32%) IFRS
10 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.32%) SEPA
System Software
1 18 (5.71%) Docker
2 15 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (3.17%) vSphere
4 8 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (2.22%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.95%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.63%) KVM
8 1 (0.32%) Firmware
8 1 (0.32%) NFS
8 1 (0.32%) SRDF
8 1 (0.32%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.32%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.32%) Xen
Systems Management
1 39 (12.38%) Kubernetes
2 30 (9.52%) Ansible
3 14 (4.44%) Prometheus
4 12 (3.81%) Terraform
5 11 (3.49%) ITRS Geneos
6 9 (2.86%) Grafana
7 5 (1.59%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.27%) SCCM
8 4 (1.27%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.95%) vRealize
10 2 (0.63%) Control-M
10 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.63%) Nagios
10 2 (0.63%) Podman
10 2 (0.63%) Puppet
10 2 (0.63%) SCOrch
11 1 (0.32%) logstash
11 1 (0.32%) SCOM
11 1 (0.32%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 44 (13.97%) Oracle
2 38 (12.06%) Salesforce
3 31 (9.84%) Microsoft
4 28 (8.89%) MuleSoft
5 25 (7.94%) SAP
6 24 (7.62%) VMware
7 23 (7.30%) Red Hat
7 23 (7.30%) Solace
8 18 (5.71%) Dynatrace
9 15 (4.76%) IBM
10 10 (3.17%) Google
10 10 (3.17%) HP
10 10 (3.17%) TIBCO
11 9 (2.86%) Citrix
11 9 (2.86%) F5
12 5 (1.59%) Databricks
12 5 (1.59%) Dell
12 5 (1.59%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.59%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.59%) Splunk