Middleware Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Middleware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Middleware over the 3 months to 22 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Middleware UK / England
Location	3 months to 22 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	168	134	150
Rank change year-on-year	-34	+16
Contract jobs citing Middleware	666	933	819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	1.55%	1.88%	1.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category	4.78%	6.50%	5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted	414	589	488
Median daily rate	£513	£475	£475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+7.89%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£388	£325	£338
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£600	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£488	£450	£450
% change year-on-year	+8.33%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	5	15	6
Median hourly rate	£45.00	£28.00	£34.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+60.71%	-18.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£19.09	£23.60	£21.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.70	£40.00	£48.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£35.00	£28.00	£39.00
% change year-on-year	+25.00%	-28.20%

Middleware is in the industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills.

Contract Software Library & Framework Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills	13923	14344	14192
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	32.35%	28.96%	27.75%
Number of daily rates quoted	9670	10235	9678
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£388
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+9.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£320	£300	£288
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£588	£570	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	194	164	188
Median hourly rate	£41.50	£36.00	£35.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+15.27%	+2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£19.26	£18.80	£16.43
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.50	£50.00	£55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£36.00	£38.89
% change year-on-year	+18.05%	-7.41%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing Middleware as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category.

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Middleware in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Middleware in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Middleware in England over the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Middleware in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Middleware in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Middleware in England over the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Middleware in England

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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 3 months to 22 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-47	248	£550	+10.00%	60
East of England	+28	122	£531	+5.14%	14
South East	-7	98	£475	+2.26%	16
North West	-31	69	£423	-6.11%	20
West Midlands	+43	49	£540	+22.72%	9
South West	+9	33	£500	-9.09%	3
East Midlands	-22	17	£500	+8.10%	3
Yorkshire	-8	13	£438	-10.25%	8
North East	+24	8	£380	+36.93%	2
Middleware UK

Middleware
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 22 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Middleware also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Middleware.

1	434 (34.89%)	Agile Software Development
2	404 (32.48%)	Java
3	403 (32.40%)	Linux
4	380 (30.55%)	Finance
5	369 (29.66%)	Oracle
6	320 (25.72%)	SOA
7	281 (22.59%)	Unix
8	237 (19.05%)	Windows
9	223 (17.93%)	DevOps
10	217 (17.44%)	TDD
10	217 (17.44%)	Banking
11	200 (16.08%)	SQL
12	196 (15.76%)	Scrum
13	180 (14.47%)	Continuous Integration
14	178 (14.31%)	XML

15	177 (14.23%)	IBM
16	172 (13.83%)	Oracle SOA Suite
17	153 (12.30%)	Jenkins
18	151 (12.14%)	Web Services
19	150 (12.06%)	JSON
20	141 (11.33%)	WebSphere
21	137 (11.01%)	Test Automation
22	134 (10.77%)	XSLT
23	130 (10.45%)	Git (software)
24	128 (10.29%)	SQL Server
25	127 (10.21%)	SOAP
26	120 (9.65%)	Microsoft
26	120 (9.65%)	Business Intelligence
27	117 (9.41%)	WSO2
28	115 (9.24%)	JBoss

Middleware
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

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

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	172 (13.83%)	Oracle SOA Suite
2	141 (11.33%)	WebSphere
3	115 (9.24%)	JBoss
4	107 (8.60%)	Apache
5	88 (7.07%)	Tomcat
6	87 (6.99%)	WebLogic
7	82 (6.59%)	Oracle Service Bus
8	69 (5.55%)	Mule
9	53 (4.26%)	WebSphere Application Server
10	45 (3.62%)	IIS
11	35 (2.81%)	Confluence
12	27 (2.17%)	BizTalk Server
13	20 (1.61%)	Apache Spark
14	19 (1.53%)	MQSeries
14	19 (1.53%)	SharePoint
15	17 (1.37%)	Oracle Coherence
16	16 (1.29%)	OpenStack
17	15 (1.21%)	WildFly
18	14 (1.13%)	Elasticsearch
18	14 (1.13%)	IBM HTTP Server

Applications
1	17 (1.37%)	Microsoft Excel
2	13 (1.05%)	MS Visio
3	7 (0.56%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	5 (0.40%)	Microsoft Project
5	2 (0.16%)	HipChat
5	2 (0.16%)	Microsoft Office

Business Applications
1	79 (6.35%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	21 (1.69%)	Oracle BPM
3	19 (1.53%)	Oracle EBS
4	11 (0.88%)	Oracle Applications
5	10 (0.80%)	ION MarketView
5	10 (0.80%)	Oracle Utilities
6	8 (0.64%)	Oracle EBS R12
7	7 (0.56%)	Oracle 11i
7	7 (0.56%)	Siebel CRM
8	5 (0.40%)	Markit EDM
8	5 (0.40%)	Oracle ERP
9	4 (0.32%)	Eagle PACE
10	3 (0.24%)	BusinessWorks
10	3 (0.24%)	Dynamics CRM
10	3 (0.24%)	NetSuite
10	3 (0.24%)	Oracle Retail
10	3 (0.24%)	RMDS
10	3 (0.24%)	SAP CRM
11	2 (0.16%)	Endur
11	2 (0.16%)	WebTrends

Cloud Services
1	96 (7.72%)	Amazon AWS
2	74 (5.95%)	Microsoft Azure
3	46 (3.70%)	PaaS
4	39 (3.14%)	IaaS
5	36 (2.89%)	OpenShift
6	31 (2.49%)	Cloud Computing
7	29 (2.33%)	SaaS
8	20 (1.61%)	GitHub
9	16 (1.29%)	AWS CloudFormation
10	10 (0.80%)	Google Cloud Platform
10	10 (0.80%)	Salesforce Service Cloud
11	8 (0.64%)	Amazon EC2
12	7 (0.56%)	IBM Cloud
13	6 (0.48%)	Bluemix
14	5 (0.40%)	Amazon S3
14	5 (0.40%)	CloudFront
14	5 (0.40%)	Virtual Private Cloud
15	4 (0.32%)	Office 365
16	3 (0.24%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
16	3 (0.24%)	Google App Engine

Communications & Networking
1	95 (7.64%)	HTTP
2	88 (7.07%)	SSL
3	69 (5.55%)	TCP/IP
4	38 (3.05%)	Firewall
5	34 (2.73%)	DNS
6	25 (2.01%)	LDAP
7	24 (1.93%)	FTP
8	20 (1.61%)	WAN
9	18 (1.45%)	LAN
10	15 (1.21%)	Internet
10	15 (1.21%)	SAN
11	13 (1.05%)	Network Security
11	13 (1.05%)	SNMP
12	12 (0.96%)	VPN
13	11 (0.88%)	Kerberos
13	11 (0.88%)	SSH
14	10 (0.80%)	Broadband
15	9 (0.72%)	Ethernet
15	9 (0.72%)	NAS
16	8 (0.64%)	AMQP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	128 (10.29%)	SQL Server
2	92 (7.40%)	Oracle Database
3	91 (7.32%)	Relational Database
4	57 (4.58%)	Hadoop
5	49 (3.94%)	Oracle Database 11g
6	42 (3.38%)	Oracle Database 12c
7	41 (3.30%)	MySQL
8	37 (2.97%)	Data Warehouse
9	35 (2.81%)	Big Data
10	33 (2.65%)	DB2
11	32 (2.57%)	RDBMS
12	28 (2.25%)	NoSQL
13	20 (1.61%)	Oracle ODI
14	19 (1.53%)	Apache Cassandra
14	19 (1.53%)	Oracle Database 10g
15	17 (1.37%)	Ingres
15	17 (1.37%)	PostgreSQL
16	14 (1.13%)	Hazelcast
16	14 (1.13%)	MongoDB
17	13 (1.05%)	KDB

Development Applications
1	153 (12.30%)	Jenkins
2	130 (10.45%)	Git (software)
3	110 (8.84%)	Maven
4	109 (8.76%)	Subversion
5	54 (4.34%)	JIRA
6	42 (3.38%)	SoapUI
7	37 (2.97%)	JUnit
8	23 (1.85%)	Cucumber
9	19 (1.53%)	Sonatype Nexus
10	18 (1.45%)	Team Foundation Server
11	17 (1.37%)	Eclipse
12	16 (1.29%)	Oracle APEX
12	16 (1.29%)	TeamCity
13	14 (1.13%)	Selenium
14	13 (1.05%)	Bitbucket
14	13 (1.05%)	webpack
15	12 (0.96%)	Atlassian Bamboo
15	12 (0.96%)	Oracle Forms
16	11 (0.88%)	Gradle
17	9 (0.72%)	Artifactory

General
1	380 (30.55%)	Finance
2	217 (17.44%)	Banking
3	109 (8.76%)	Telecoms
4	85 (6.83%)	Electronics
5	84 (6.75%)	Manufacturing
5	84 (6.75%)	Marketing
6	54 (4.34%)	Investment Banking
7	48 (3.86%)	Front Office
8	36 (2.89%)	Retail
9	16 (1.29%)	Prime Brokerage
10	14 (1.13%)	Legal
11	11 (0.88%)	Financial Institution
12	6 (0.48%)	Advertising
13	5 (0.40%)	Billing
13	5 (0.40%)	French Language
13	5 (0.40%)	Publishing
14	4 (0.32%)	Back Office
14	4 (0.32%)	Local Government
15	3 (0.24%)	Automotive
15	3 (0.24%)	Law

Job Titles
1	442 (35.53%)	Developer
2	200 (16.08%)	Architect
3	165 (13.26%)	Java Developer
4	95 (7.64%)	Analyst
5	81 (6.51%)	Consultant
6	75 (6.03%)	Solutions Architect
7	71 (5.71%)	Senior Developer
8	66 (5.31%)	SOA Developer
9	65 (5.23%)	DevOps Engineer
10	62 (4.98%)	Middleware Developer
11	53 (4.26%)	Agile Developer
12	51 (4.10%)	Integration Developer
13	49 (3.94%)	Technical Architect
14	36 (2.89%)	Middleware Engineer
15	34 (2.73%)	Senior Java Developer
16	33 (2.65%)	Scala Developer
17	32 (2.57%)	DBA
18	31 (2.49%)	Oracle DBA
19	29 (2.33%)	Business Analyst
19	29 (2.33%)	Project Manager

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	178 (14.31%)	XML
2	151 (12.14%)	Web Services
3	150 (12.06%)	JSON
4	134 (10.77%)	XSLT
5	127 (10.21%)	SOAP
6	109 (8.76%)	REST
7	106 (8.52%)	Spring
8	94 (7.56%)	J2EE
9	91 (7.32%)	Apache Camel
10	83 (6.67%)	Oracle Fusion
11	76 (6.11%)	.NET
11	76 (6.11%)	HTML
12	66 (5.31%)	RESTful
13	58 (4.66%)	JMS
13	58 (4.66%)	WireMock
14	56 (4.50%)	WebSphere MQ
15	50 (4.02%)	HTML5
15	50 (4.02%)	Swagger
16	46 (3.70%)	XSD
17	41 (3.30%)	CSS

Miscellaneous
1	76 (6.11%)	Greenfield Project
2	71 (5.71%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
3	70 (5.63%)	Analytical Skills
4	62 (4.98%)	Data Centre
5	50 (4.02%)	Fixed Income
6	43 (3.46%)	Derivative
7	41 (3.30%)	Computer Science
8	38 (3.05%)	Enterprise Software
9	37 (2.97%)	Mainframe
10	33 (2.65%)	Management Information System
11	27 (2.17%)	Equities
12	24 (1.93%)	DataPower
13	23 (1.85%)	Clustering
13	23 (1.85%)	Mobile App
14	21 (1.69%)	SWIFT
15	19 (1.53%)	N-Tier
16	18 (1.45%)	Client/Server
16	18 (1.45%)	Virtual Team
17	17 (1.37%)	Data Structures
17	17 (1.37%)	iSeries

Operating Systems
1	403 (32.40%)	Linux
2	281 (22.59%)	Unix
3	237 (19.05%)	Windows
4	100 (8.04%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	75 (6.03%)	Solaris
6	64 (5.14%)	AIX
7	46 (3.70%)	Windows Server
8	35 (2.81%)	Mac OS X
9	23 (1.85%)	HPUX
9	23 (1.85%)	Oracle Linux
10	18 (1.45%)	Windows Server 2012
11	14 (1.13%)	Windows Server 2008
12	12 (0.96%)	Android
12	12 (0.96%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12	12 (0.96%)	zOS
13	9 (0.72%)	Apple iOS
14	8 (0.64%)	SUSE
15	6 (0.48%)	CentOS
16	5 (0.40%)	Embedded Linux
16	5 (0.40%)	Windows 10

Processes & Methodologies
1	434 (34.89%)	Agile Software Development
2	320 (25.72%)	SOA
3	223 (17.93%)	DevOps
4	217 (17.44%)	TDD
5	196 (15.76%)	Scrum
6	180 (14.47%)	Continuous Integration
7	137 (11.01%)	Test Automation
8	120 (9.65%)	Business Intelligence
9	104 (8.36%)	Migration
10	97 (7.80%)	Multithreading
11	91 (7.32%)	Configuration Management
12	90 (7.23%)	Kanban
13	89 (7.15%)	Software Engineering
14	86 (6.91%)	Microservices
15	84 (6.75%)	Programme Management
16	81 (6.51%)	Open Source
17	79 (6.35%)	Digital Marketing
18	74 (5.95%)	Mentoring
19	70 (5.63%)	ITIL
20	66 (5.31%)	SDLC

Programming Languages
1	404 (32.48%)	Java
2	200 (16.08%)	SQL
3	89 (7.15%)	Perl
4	79 (6.35%)	JavaScript
5	71 (5.71%)	C++
6	70 (5.63%)	Python
7	66 (5.31%)	C#
8	60 (4.82%)	Shell Script
9	57 (4.58%)	XPath
10	55 (4.42%)	C
11	40 (3.22%)	Scala
12	30 (2.41%)	PowerShell
13	29 (2.33%)	PL/SQL
14	21 (1.69%)	Bash Shell
15	17 (1.37%)	ES6
16	14 (1.13%)	JCL
17	12 (0.96%)	Groovy
18	10 (0.80%)	Ruby
19	9 (0.72%)	Apex Code
19	9 (0.72%)	Korn

Qualifications
1	91 (7.32%)	Security Cleared
2	77 (6.19%)	SC Cleared
3	48 (3.86%)	Degree
4	33 (2.65%)	BPSS Clearance
5	18 (1.45%)	CISSP
6	15 (1.21%)	Computer Science Degree
7	13 (1.05%)	CISM
8	11 (0.88%)	ISEB
9	9 (0.72%)	CISA
9	9 (0.72%)	Cisco Certification
10	7 (0.56%)	DV Cleared
10	7 (0.56%)	Master's Degree
10	7 (0.56%)	Microsoft Certification
11	6 (0.48%)	ISTQB
12	4 (0.32%)	CCNA
12	4 (0.32%)	ISSAP
12	4 (0.32%)	ITIL Certification
12	4 (0.32%)	JNCIA
13	3 (0.24%)	EMC Certification
13	3 (0.24%)	RHCE

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	22 (1.77%)	QA
2	21 (1.69%)	MiFID
3	18 (1.45%)	PCI DSS
4	13 (1.05%)	SEPA
5	7 (0.56%)	SLA
6	6 (0.48%)	JSP 440
7	5 (0.40%)	Data Quality
7	5 (0.40%)	Disclosure Scotland
8	4 (0.32%)	FedRAMP
8	4 (0.32%)	GDPR
8	4 (0.32%)	ISO 20022
9	3 (0.24%)	Solvency II
10	2 (0.16%)	GCP
10	2 (0.16%)	PMBOK
11	1 (0.080%)	COBIT
11	1 (0.080%)	COSO
11	1 (0.080%)	EMIR
11	1 (0.080%)	ISO 15022
11	1 (0.080%)	PA-DSS
11	1 (0.080%)	Sarbanes-Oxley

System Software
1	89 (7.15%)	Docker
2	65 (5.23%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	58 (4.66%)	Active Directory
4	29 (2.33%)	Oracle RAC
5	15 (1.21%)	HDFS
5	15 (1.21%)	VMware ESXi
6	13 (1.05%)	Time Sharing Option
7	12 (0.96%)	Virtual Machines
8	11 (0.88%)	Hyper-V
9	10 (0.80%)	Apache ZooKeeper
10	7 (0.56%)	KVM
10	7 (0.56%)	vSphere
11	6 (0.48%)	Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12	5 (0.40%)	Apache Flume
13	4 (0.32%)	GFS2
13	4 (0.32%)	OCFS2
13	4 (0.32%)	Platform Symphony
14	3 (0.24%)	VMware Workstation
14	3 (0.24%)	Xen
15	2 (0.16%)	VMware Server

Systems Management
1	95 (7.64%)	Puppet
2	83 (6.67%)	Ansible
3	64 (5.14%)	Opscode Chef
4	32 (2.57%)	Kubernetes
5	19 (1.53%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
6	15 (1.21%)	Kibana
6	15 (1.21%)	vRealize
7	14 (1.13%)	Oracle RMAN
8	13 (1.05%)	Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9	12 (0.96%)	NetBackup
10	11 (0.88%)	Hadoop YARN
10	11 (0.88%)	Prometheus
10	11 (0.88%)	Terraform
10	11 (0.88%)	Tivoli
10	11 (0.88%)	ZABBIX
11	9 (0.72%)	Grafana
12	8 (0.64%)	SCOM
12	8 (0.64%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
13	7 (0.56%)	CA Single Sign-On
13	7 (0.56%)	Data Guard

Vendors
1	369 (29.66%)	Oracle
2	177 (14.23%)	IBM
3	120 (9.65%)	Microsoft
4	117 (9.41%)	WSO2
5	106 (8.52%)	SAP
6	102 (8.20%)	TIBCO
7	90 (7.23%)	Red Hat
8	85 (6.83%)	VMware
9	39 (3.14%)	MuleSoft
10	38 (3.05%)	Splunk
11	33 (2.65%)	Sybase
12	26 (2.09%)	Solace
13	24 (1.93%)	HP
14	23 (1.85%)	Citrix
15	22 (1.77%)	IBM Sterling
16	21 (1.69%)	Cisco
17	20 (1.61%)	Salesforce.com
18	17 (1.37%)	Veritas
19	16 (1.29%)	CA
20	15 (1.21%)	Informatica