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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 311 276
Rank change year-on-year +61 -35 +56
Contract jobs citing Middleware 278 231 375
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.00% 0.71% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.47% 3.16% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 154 268
10th Percentile £401 £413 £400
25th Percentile £447 £488 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - -
75th Percentile £692 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 0 14
10th Percentile £30.60 - £61.63
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile £68.00 - -
90th Percentile - - £72.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +30.00%

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 6,219 7,320 9,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.40% 22.39% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,216 4,831 6,797
10th Percentile £350 £357 £380
25th Percentile £413 £446 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -0.45% -3.91%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £810 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 176 164
10th Percentile £31.29 £27.38 £36.84
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.85 £62.93 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% +2.74% -2.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £73.67
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.47 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.34% +2.67% -3.23%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -6 116 £620 +1.22% 69
South East +55 39 £536 -9.19% 47
North of England +7 35 £475 -17.03% 27
South West +33 29 £505 -8.18% 39
Midlands +4 23 £447 +44.19% 19
East of England +18 18 £513 +7.89% 7
Yorkshire +5 18 £455 -22.88% 4
North West -11 14 £550 +29.41% 19
West Midlands -2 12 £350 - 12
East Midlands +2 11 £449 +44.68% 7
North East -3 3 £475 -17.03% 4
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 26 (9.35%) WebSphere
2 21 (7.55%) WebLogic
3 9 (3.24%) Apache
4 8 (2.88%) Confluence
4 8 (2.88%) IIS
5 6 (2.16%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.80%) JBoss
6 5 (1.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (1.08%) ArcGIS
7 3 (1.08%) NetWeaver
7 3 (1.08%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (1.08%) Smallworld
8 2 (0.72%) CICS
8 2 (0.72%) nginx
8 2 (0.72%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.72%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.72%) WildFly
9 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (2.16%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.36%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 17 (6.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.44%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.44%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.08%) Oracle 11i
3 3 (1.08%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (1.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.08%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.72%) Magento
4 2 (0.72%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.72%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.72%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (0.72%) SAP CX
4 2 (0.72%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.72%) Shopify
5 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.36%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.36%) SAP FSCM
5 1 (0.36%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 76 (27.34%) Azure
2 28 (10.07%) AWS
3 23 (8.27%) GCP
4 18 (6.47%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 15 (5.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 14 (5.04%) OpenShift
7 13 (4.68%) SaaS
8 12 (4.32%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (3.96%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (3.96%) GitHub
10 10 (3.60%) Azure API Management
11 9 (3.24%) Entra ID
11 9 (3.24%) Serverless
12 8 (2.88%) PaaS
13 7 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.52%) IaaS
14 6 (2.16%) Boomi
15 5 (1.80%) Azure Functions
15 5 (1.80%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (1.80%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.12%) SAN
1 17 (6.12%) WAN
2 15 (5.40%) Firewall
3 14 (5.04%) LAN
4 13 (4.68%) TCP/IP
5 11 (3.96%) DNS
5 11 (3.96%) HTTP
6 8 (2.88%) Multicast
6 8 (2.88%) NAS
7 6 (2.16%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (1.80%) SSL
9 3 (1.08%) DHCP
9 3 (1.08%) Kerberos
9 3 (1.08%) VLAN
10 2 (0.72%) NetScaler
10 2 (0.72%) tcpdump
10 2 (0.72%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.36%) FCoE
11 1 (0.36%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (0.36%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.19%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.24%) GIS
2 9 (3.24%) NoSQL
2 9 (3.24%) Oracle Database
3 5 (1.80%) Data Lake
3 5 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.80%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.44%) KDB
4 4 (1.44%) MemSQL
4 4 (1.44%) OLTP
4 4 (1.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 4 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (1.08%) Data Mining
5 3 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.08%) MS Access
5 3 (1.08%) Oracle Database 10g
5 3 (1.08%) Spatial Data
6 2 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (9.71%) Jenkins
2 17 (6.12%) Git
2 17 (6.12%) JIRA
3 9 (3.24%) GitLab
4 6 (2.16%) GCC
4 6 (2.16%) GDB
5 5 (1.80%) Ant
6 4 (1.44%) JUnit
6 4 (1.44%) Postman
7 3 (1.08%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.08%) SoapUI
7 3 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.08%) Toad
8 2 (0.72%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.72%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.72%) TestPartner
9 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.36%) Gatling
9 1 (0.36%) NeoLoad
General
1 76 (27.34%) Social Skills
2 69 (24.82%) Finance
3 34 (12.23%) Banking
4 23 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.83%) Front Office
6 14 (5.04%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.32%) Marketing
8 9 (3.24%) Retail
9 8 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.88%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.52%) International Banking
11 6 (2.16%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.80%) Local Government
13 4 (1.44%) General Ledger
13 4 (1.44%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.08%) Back Office
14 3 (1.08%) Law
14 3 (1.08%) Legal
15 2 (0.72%) Billing
15 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 75 (26.98%) Architect
2 58 (20.86%) Developer
3 24 (8.63%) Solutions Architect
4 23 (8.27%) Consultant
5 20 (7.19%) Technical Architect
6 16 (5.76%) Senior
7 15 (5.40%) Lead
7 15 (5.40%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (5.40%) Salesforce Architect
7 15 (5.40%) Support Engineer
8 13 (4.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (3.96%) Integration Developer
9 11 (3.96%) Software Engineer
10 10 (3.60%) Linux Engineer
11 9 (3.24%) Infrastructure Architect
12 8 (2.88%) Analyst
12 8 (2.88%) C++ Developer
12 8 (2.88%) C++ Software Engineer
12 8 (2.88%) Linux Support
12 8 (2.88%) Products Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (15.11%) SOAP
2 37 (13.31%) REST
3 29 (10.43%) Web Services
4 23 (8.27%) .NET
5 22 (7.91%) Kafka
6 21 (7.55%) FIX Protocol
7 20 (7.19%) Lightning Web Components
8 19 (6.83%) HTML
9 17 (6.12%) Visualforce
10 15 (5.40%) Node.js
11 13 (4.68%) Qt
12 12 (4.32%) React
12 12 (4.32%) RESTful
13 11 (3.96%) SAP PI
13 11 (3.96%) XML
14 10 (3.60%) EDI
15 9 (3.24%) OAuth
16 8 (2.88%) Oracle Fusion
16 8 (2.88%) Spring
17 7 (2.52%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 18 (6.47%) Product Ownership
2 16 (5.76%) Private Cloud
3 15 (5.40%) Data Centre
4 14 (5.04%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.96%) Replication
6 10 (3.60%) Cloud Native
7 9 (3.24%) Algorithms
7 9 (3.24%) Data Structures
7 9 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.88%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (2.52%) Derivative
9 7 (2.52%) Distributed Architecture
9 7 (2.52%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.52%) Virtual Team
10 6 (2.16%) Equities
10 6 (2.16%) Fixed Income
10 6 (2.16%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 86 (30.94%) Linux
2 54 (19.42%) Windows
3 31 (11.15%) Unix
4 16 (5.76%) Windows Server
5 14 (5.04%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (2.16%) CentOS
8 4 (1.44%) AIX
8 4 (1.44%) VMS
9 2 (0.72%) Solaris
9 2 (0.72%) zOS
10 1 (0.36%) MVS
10 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (30.22%) Agile
2 59 (21.22%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (19.06%) CI/CD
4 51 (18.35%) Migration
5 46 (16.55%) DevOps
6 40 (14.39%) Computer Science
7 31 (11.15%) Software Engineering
8 30 (10.79%) Scrum
9 27 (9.71%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (9.35%) High Availability
11 25 (8.99%) API Management
11 25 (8.99%) Data Modelling
12 24 (8.63%) Translating Business Requirements
13 23 (8.27%) Data Governance
13 23 (8.27%) Low Latency
13 23 (8.27%) Requirements Gathering
13 23 (8.27%) Technical Leadership
14 21 (7.55%) Design Patterns
14 21 (7.55%) ERP
14 21 (7.55%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 66 (23.74%) Java
2 55 (19.78%) SQL
3 54 (19.42%) Python
4 50 (17.99%) C++
5 34 (12.23%) PowerShell
6 24 (8.63%) JavaScript
7 23 (8.27%) C
7 23 (8.27%) C#
8 20 (7.19%) Apex Code
9 17 (6.12%) Shell Script
10 16 (5.76%) Bash
11 15 (5.40%) Ada
11 15 (5.40%) PHP
11 15 (5.40%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.16%) Korn
13 5 (1.80%) Perl
14 4 (1.44%) ABAP
14 4 (1.44%) Groovy
14 4 (1.44%) Scala
15 3 (1.08%) Magik
Qualifications
1 48 (17.27%) Degree
2 35 (12.59%) Security Cleared
3 26 (9.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (9.35%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.24%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.16%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.80%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.44%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.44%) PMP
8 3 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.72%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.72%) RHCE
9 2 (0.72%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.36%) CCA
10 1 (0.36%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.47%) GDPR
2 12 (4.32%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.96%) QA
4 9 (3.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 7 (2.52%) Def Stans
5 7 (2.52%) IEC 61508
5 7 (2.52%) MISRA
5 7 (2.52%) MISRA C
6 4 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.08%) GAAP
7 3 (1.08%) HL7
7 3 (1.08%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.08%) SEPA
8 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.36%) IFRS
9 1 (0.36%) MiFID
9 1 (0.36%) PMO
9 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (8.63%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.04%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (5.04%) vSphere
3 12 (4.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.52%) Docker
4 7 (2.52%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.16%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.72%) KVM
6 2 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.36%) Firmware
7 1 (0.36%) NFS
7 1 (0.36%) SRDF
7 1 (0.36%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.36%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.36%) Xen
Systems Management
1 34 (12.23%) Kubernetes
2 31 (11.15%) Ansible
3 11 (3.96%) Terraform
4 10 (3.60%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.88%) vCenter Server
6 7 (2.52%) Grafana
6 7 (2.52%) vRealize
7 6 (2.16%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (1.44%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.72%) Control-M
9 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.72%) Nagios
9 2 (0.72%) Podman
9 2 (0.72%) Puppet
9 2 (0.72%) SCCM
10 1 (0.36%) Argo
10 1 (0.36%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle Identity Management
10 1 (0.36%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 45 (16.19%) Oracle
2 37 (13.31%) Microsoft
3 34 (12.23%) Salesforce
4 28 (10.07%) SAP
5 26 (9.35%) MuleSoft
6 25 (8.99%) VMware
7 19 (6.83%) Dynatrace
7 19 (6.83%) Red Hat
8 18 (6.47%) IBM
9 16 (5.76%) Solace
10 11 (3.96%) Citrix
10 11 (3.96%) Google
11 9 (3.24%) F5
11 9 (3.24%) HP
12 6 (2.16%) TIBCO
13 5 (1.80%) Axway
13 5 (1.80%) Dell
13 5 (1.80%) Splunk
13 5 (1.80%) webMethods
14 4 (1.44%) ServiceNow