Middleware Contracts in Essex

Middleware
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - 35
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Contract jobs citing Middleware 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 1.25% - 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.14% - 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £800
Median % change year-on-year - - +45.45%
East of England median daily rate £625 £581 £819
% change year-on-year +7.67% -29.10% +45.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14 51 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 17.50% 22.97% 24.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 35 31
10th Percentile £315 £325 £464
25th Percentile £318 £444 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -2.72% -6.55%
75th Percentile £400 £563 £583
90th Percentile £438 £599 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £499 £520
% change year-on-year +0.25% -4.09% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £31.05
25th Percentile - - £43.88
Median hourly rate - £40.31 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -38.46% -7.00%
75th Percentile - - £86.91
90th Percentile - - £99.60
East of England median hourly rate £80.68 £43.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +87.62% -33.85% +32.65%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in Essex

Middleware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Middleware in Essex

Middleware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Middleware in Essex

Middleware
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the Essex region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Brentwood - 1 £325 -
Middleware
East of England

Middleware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gerrit
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) POSIX
1 1 (100.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Device Driver
1 1 (100.00%) STB
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Product Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script