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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 60 83
Rank change year-on-year -11 +23 -5
Contract jobs citing Middleware 11 16 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.43% 1.90% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.45% 8.25% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 5
10th Percentile £419 £410 -
25th Percentile £426 £440 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -25.00% +24.74%
75th Percentile £478 £619 £700
90th Percentile £482 £620 -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £613 £638
% change year-on-year -22.45% -3.92% +23.79%

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 202 194 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 26.23% 23.01% 18.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 127 109
10th Percentile £300 £340 £388
25th Percentile £404 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -12.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £509 £638
90th Percentile £600 £580 £738
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £51.50 £16.62
25th Percentile - £51.88 £21.80
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £30.45
Median % change year-on-year - +80.65% -52.98%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £39.09
90th Percentile - - £44.27
Scotland median hourly rate - £55.00 £53.38
% change year-on-year - +3.03% +13.57%

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
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 3 (27.27%) CICS
1 3 (27.27%) JBoss
1 3 (27.27%) WebLogic
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
2 1 (9.09%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
2 1 (9.09%) OCI
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle CX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Bitbucket
1 3 (27.27%) Git
General
1 7 (63.64%) Banking
2 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 4 (36.36%) Finance
4 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Investment Banking
4 2 (18.18%) Legal
5 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) CICS Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Middleware Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Applications Support
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Middleware Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Support Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Loki
2 3 (27.27%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (9.09%) J2EE
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Mainframe
2 2 (18.18%) Clustering
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Unix
3 3 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) ITIL
1 5 (45.45%) Problem Management
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Garbage Collection
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
4 2 (18.18%) Internal Audit
4 2 (18.18%) Investment Management
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Project Management
4 2 (18.18%) Wealth Management
5 1 (9.09%) CRM
5 1 (9.09%) ERP
5 1 (9.09%) Human Resource Management
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
1 4 (36.36%) Shell Script
2 1 (9.09%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (27.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
1 4 (36.36%) Grafana
1 4 (36.36%) Prometheus
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) IBM
1 4 (36.36%) Splunk
1 4 (36.36%) Veritas
1 4 (36.36%) VMware
2 3 (27.27%) Dynatrace
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle