Middleware Contracts in Glasgow

Middleware
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 57 66 77
Rank change year-on-year +9 +11 -8
Contract jobs citing Middleware 22 16 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.76% 1.82% 0.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.28% 7.92% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 6
10th Percentile £404 £410 £300
25th Percentile £418 £440 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.61% -14.29% -1.87%
75th Percentile £524 £619 £688
90th Percentile £604 £620 £700
Scotland median daily rate £477 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -22.12% +2.08% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 214 202 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 26.82% 23.03% 19.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 130 115
10th Percentile £313 £350 £388
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £458 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% -11.97% +10.34%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £650
90th Percentile £601 £626 £738
Scotland median daily rate £471 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £47.73
Median % change year-on-year - +15.23% -3.65%
Scotland median hourly rate - £53.75 £59.03
% change year-on-year - -8.94% +24.93%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in Glasgow

Middleware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Middleware in Glasgow

Middleware
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Middleware in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 7 (31.82%) CICS
2 4 (18.18%) CMS
3 3 (13.64%) JBoss
3 3 (13.64%) WebLogic
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (4.55%) WebSphere
4 1 (4.55%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) OpenShift
2 1 (4.55%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) OCI
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle CX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 3 (13.64%) DB2
3 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) JIRA
2 3 (13.64%) Bitbucket
2 3 (13.64%) Git
3 1 (4.55%) JUnit
General
1 8 (36.36%) Banking
1 8 (36.36%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Financial Institution
4 2 (9.09%) Investment Banking
4 2 (9.09%) Legal
5 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Developer
1 5 (22.73%) Java Developer
2 3 (13.64%) CICS Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Consultant
2 3 (13.64%) Database Developer
2 3 (13.64%) Mainframe Consultant
2 3 (13.64%) Middleware Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 2 (9.09%) Applications Support
3 2 (9.09%) Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Senior Middleware Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Analyst Programmer
4 1 (4.55%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Applications Support Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Programmer
4 1 (4.55%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) Kafka
2 4 (18.18%) Loki
2 4 (18.18%) REST
2 4 (18.18%) SOAP
2 4 (18.18%) Spring Boot
3 3 (13.64%) IBM Integration Bus
3 3 (13.64%) J2EE
3 3 (13.64%) Spring
4 1 (4.55%) JMS
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Mainframe
2 4 (18.18%) VSAM
3 3 (13.64%) Data Structures
4 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
4 2 (9.09%) Clustering
4 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.55%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Linux
2 6 (27.27%) Unix
3 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (13.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Agile
2 6 (27.27%) SDLC
2 6 (27.27%) User Experience
2 6 (27.27%) Waterfall
3 5 (22.73%) ITIL
3 5 (22.73%) Problem Management
3 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (18.18%) Capacity Management
4 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (18.18%) Microservices
4 4 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (18.18%) Task Automation
5 3 (13.64%) API Integration
5 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 3 (13.64%) Garbage Collection
5 3 (13.64%) Project Delivery
5 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
5 3 (13.64%) Workflow
6 2 (9.09%) Computer Science
6 2 (9.09%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Java
1 6 (27.27%) Shell Script
2 5 (22.73%) Python
3 4 (18.18%) REXX
4 3 (13.64%) SQL
5 2 (9.09%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (13.64%) QA
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (13.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Ansible
1 4 (18.18%) Grafana
1 4 (18.18%) Prometheus
1 4 (18.18%) Terraform
2 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) IBM
1 4 (18.18%) Splunk
1 4 (18.18%) Veritas
1 4 (18.18%) VMware
2 3 (13.64%) Dynatrace
2 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
3 2 (9.09%) DocuSign
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle