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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 297 295
Rank change year-on-year +46 -2 +56
Contract jobs citing Middleware 321 222 289
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.04% 0.73% 0.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.64% 3.35% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 128 209
10th Percentile £377 £423 £398
25th Percentile £425 £500 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% - +1.69%
75th Percentile £713 £716 £713
90th Percentile £796 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £554 £600
% change year-on-year -0.72% -7.67% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 11 8
10th Percentile £33.00 £61.25 £58.25
25th Percentile £59.93 - £62.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £65.25 - £69.38
90th Percentile £68.00 - £75.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% 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 6,912 6,628 8,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.37% 21.77% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,650 4,219 6,089
10th Percentile £350 £358 £370
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 98 173
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.43 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +19.27% -16.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.35 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -14.73%

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 3 December 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 3 December 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 3 December 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 +25 153 £600 -7.65% 44
South West -4 38 £68 -87.64% 26
Midlands -1 33 £450 -14.29% 11
North of England -38 31 £488 -7.14% 24
South East +10 24 £613 +11.36% 39
East of England +2 21 £500 -37.50% 9
East Midlands -1 17 £447 -14.86% 5
North West -22 17 £525 +9.83% 12
West Midlands -17 16 £500 -18.37% 6
Yorkshire -25 13 £475 - 9
North East -7 1 £450 -18.00% 3
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 24 (7.48%) WebSphere
2 20 (6.23%) WebLogic
3 12 (3.74%) Confluence
4 10 (3.12%) Apache
5 6 (1.87%) IIS
5 6 (1.87%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.56%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (1.25%) Apache Spark
7 4 (1.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.93%) CMS
8 3 (0.93%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.93%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.62%) CICS
9 2 (0.62%) JBoss
9 2 (0.62%) nginx
9 2 (0.62%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.62%) WildFly
10 1 (0.31%) Gunicorn
10 1 (0.31%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.25%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.62%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.31%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 9 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.25%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.93%) Oracle 11i
3 3 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.62%) CODA-Financials
4 2 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.62%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.62%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.62%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.62%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.62%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.62%) Primavera
4 2 (0.62%) Shopify
5 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.31%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.31%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 95 (29.60%) Azure
2 40 (12.46%) AWS
3 30 (9.35%) GCP
4 20 (6.23%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 20 (6.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 13 (4.05%) SaaS
6 11 (3.43%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.80%) Boomi
8 9 (2.80%) OpenShift
9 8 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (2.49%) Serverless
10 7 (2.18%) Azure API Management
10 7 (2.18%) GitHub
10 7 (2.18%) OCI
11 6 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.87%) Salesforce Einstein
12 5 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.56%) PaaS
12 5 (1.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.92%) Firewall
2 17 (5.30%) TCP/IP
3 14 (4.36%) SAN
4 13 (4.05%) Multicast
5 11 (3.43%) WAN
6 9 (2.80%) DNS
6 9 (2.80%) HTTP
7 8 (2.49%) LAN
8 7 (2.18%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.87%) tcpdump
9 6 (1.87%) Wireshark
10 5 (1.56%) DHCP
10 5 (1.56%) SSL
11 4 (1.25%) NAS
11 4 (1.25%) VLAN
12 2 (0.62%) NetScaler
12 2 (0.62%) VPN
13 1 (0.31%) FTP
13 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.31%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.61%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.80%) Oracle Database
3 6 (1.87%) GIS
3 6 (1.87%) MongoDB
3 6 (1.87%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.56%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 4 (1.25%) MemSQL
5 4 (1.25%) OLTP
5 4 (1.25%) Power BI
5 4 (1.25%) Redis
6 3 (0.93%) Data Hub
6 3 (0.93%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.93%) Oracle Database 10g
7 2 (0.62%) DataStage
7 2 (0.62%) EDMS
7 2 (0.62%) KDB
7 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (5.61%) Jenkins
1 18 (5.61%) JIRA
2 16 (4.98%) Git
3 14 (4.36%) GitLab
4 7 (2.18%) GCC
4 7 (2.18%) GDB
5 6 (1.87%) Gatling
5 6 (1.87%) JMeter
6 4 (1.25%) JUnit
7 3 (0.93%) Ant
7 3 (0.93%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.93%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.62%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.62%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.62%) Postman
8 2 (0.62%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.62%) TestPartner
9 1 (0.31%) ClearCase
9 1 (0.31%) LoadRunner
General
1 83 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 64 (19.94%) Finance
3 38 (11.84%) Banking
4 26 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.85%) Front Office
6 21 (6.54%) Public Sector
7 17 (5.30%) Marketing
8 16 (4.98%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.18%) International Banking
9 7 (2.18%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.18%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.56%) Law
10 5 (1.56%) Local Government
10 5 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.25%) Billing
11 4 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.25%) Legal
12 3 (0.93%) Back Office
13 2 (0.62%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 84 (26.17%) Architect
2 57 (17.76%) Developer
3 35 (10.90%) Solutions Architect
4 26 (8.10%) Consultant
5 24 (7.48%) Support Engineer
6 22 (6.85%) Senior
7 20 (6.23%) Lead
7 20 (6.23%) Software Engineer
8 19 (5.92%) Salesforce Architect
9 18 (5.61%) C++ Software Engineer
9 18 (5.61%) Technical Architect
10 16 (4.98%) Analyst
11 12 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (3.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.43%) Product Engineer
12 11 (3.43%) Products Support Engineer
12 11 (3.43%) Software Support Engineer
13 9 (2.80%) Infrastructure Architect
13 9 (2.80%) Technical Leader
14 8 (2.49%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (15.89%) REST
2 48 (14.95%) SOAP
3 30 (9.35%) .NET
4 27 (8.41%) Kafka
5 25 (7.79%) Lightning Web Components
6 23 (7.17%) FIX Protocol
7 20 (6.23%) Visualforce
7 20 (6.23%) Web Services
8 18 (5.61%) Node.js
9 17 (5.30%) HTML
10 15 (4.67%) Qt
10 15 (4.67%) RESTful
11 13 (4.05%) React
12 10 (3.12%) OAuth
12 10 (3.12%) XML
13 9 (2.80%) JMS
13 9 (2.80%) Oracle Fusion
13 9 (2.80%) Spring
14 8 (2.49%) OAuth2
15 7 (2.18%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.54%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.23%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.36%) Data Centre
4 13 (4.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (4.05%) Private Cloud
5 12 (3.74%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.49%) Distributed Architecture
9 7 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.18%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (2.18%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.18%) Replication
10 6 (1.87%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.87%) Video\Live Streaming
11 5 (1.56%) Derivative
11 5 (1.56%) Equities
11 5 (1.56%) SCADA
12 4 (1.25%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 73 (22.74%) Linux
2 42 (13.08%) Windows
3 27 (8.41%) Unix
4 15 (4.67%) Windows Server
5 13 (4.05%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.25%) AIX
6 4 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.93%) Solaris
8 2 (0.62%) CentOS
8 2 (0.62%) VMS
8 2 (0.62%) zOS
9 1 (0.31%) MVS
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (27.41%) Agile
2 67 (20.87%) CI/CD
3 65 (20.25%) DevOps
3 65 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (14.64%) Migration
5 39 (12.15%) Software Engineering
6 35 (10.90%) Microservices
7 34 (10.59%) Integration Patterns
7 34 (10.59%) Roadmaps
8 33 (10.28%) Computer Science
9 31 (9.66%) Data Modelling
9 31 (9.66%) Technical Leadership
10 29 (9.03%) ERP
11 28 (8.72%) Infrastructure as Code
12 26 (8.10%) Low Latency
12 26 (8.10%) Mentoring
13 25 (7.79%) Requirements Gathering
13 25 (7.79%) Scrum
14 24 (7.48%) High Availability
15 23 (7.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 64 (19.94%) Java
2 61 (19.00%) SQL
3 55 (17.13%) C++
4 53 (16.51%) Python
5 31 (9.66%) PowerShell
6 29 (9.03%) C
7 25 (7.79%) Apex Code
8 24 (7.48%) C#
9 21 (6.54%) JavaScript
10 20 (6.23%) Ada
11 18 (5.61%) Bash
12 15 (4.67%) PHP
12 15 (4.67%) PL/SQL
12 15 (4.67%) Shell Script
13 7 (2.18%) Korn
14 6 (1.87%) Perl
15 5 (1.56%) T-SQL
16 4 (1.25%) Scala
17 3 (0.93%) SOQL
18 2 (0.62%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 49 (15.26%) Security Cleared
2 40 (12.46%) SC Cleared
3 37 (11.53%) Degree
4 21 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.43%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.18%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.25%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.25%) PMP
9 3 (0.93%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.62%) RHCE
10 2 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.31%) CCA
11 1 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.17%) GDPR
2 15 (4.67%) QA
3 14 (4.36%) Data Quality
4 13 (4.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 11 (3.43%) Def Stans
5 11 (3.43%) IEC 61508
6 9 (2.80%) MISRA
6 9 (2.80%) MISRA C
7 4 (1.25%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.93%) HL7
8 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.93%) SEPA
9 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.62%) PMO
9 2 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.62%) WCAG
10 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.31%) ITGC
10 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (5.92%) Docker
2 13 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (2.18%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.56%) vSphere
6 3 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.93%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.62%) KVM
8 1 (0.31%) Firmware
8 1 (0.31%) NFS
8 1 (0.31%) SRDF
8 1 (0.31%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.31%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.31%) Xen
Systems Management
1 35 (10.90%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.17%) Ansible
3 16 (4.98%) Prometheus
4 11 (3.43%) Grafana
4 11 (3.43%) ITRS Geneos
4 11 (3.43%) Terraform
5 5 (1.56%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.25%) SCCM
7 3 (0.93%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.93%) vRealize
8 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.62%) Nagios
8 2 (0.62%) SCOrch
9 1 (0.31%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.31%) Kibana
9 1 (0.31%) logstash
9 1 (0.31%) Packer
9 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.31%) SCOM
9 1 (0.31%) TADDM
Vendors
1 47 (14.64%) Oracle
2 40 (12.46%) Salesforce
3 37 (11.53%) Microsoft
4 25 (7.79%) MuleSoft
5 23 (7.17%) Solace
6 22 (6.85%) SAP
7 21 (6.54%) VMware
8 19 (5.92%) Dynatrace
8 19 (5.92%) Red Hat
9 16 (4.98%) IBM
10 10 (3.12%) HP
10 10 (3.12%) TIBCO
11 9 (2.80%) F5
11 9 (2.80%) Google
12 8 (2.49%) Citrix
13 6 (1.87%) Splunk
14 5 (1.56%) Axway
14 5 (1.56%) Databricks
14 5 (1.56%) Palo Alto
14 5 (1.56%) Workday