Middleware Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Middleware
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Middleware skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 - 90
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing Middleware 4 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.31% - 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.86% - 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £581 - £572
25th Percentile £591 - £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile £622 - -
90th Percentile £624 - -
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £560
% change year-on-year +5.00% -10.71% +9.27%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 140 74 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 10.75% 9.20% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 39 72
10th Percentile £362 £378 £432
25th Percentile £411 £456 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £619 £619 £606
90th Percentile £725 £678 £700
South East median daily rate £481 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 17
10th Percentile £40.00 £57.55 £53.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £60.38 £55.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £70.00
90th Percentile - £63.00 £73.20
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% -10.71% +7.69%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Middleware relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Middleware job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Middleware
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Middleware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Middleware

Middleware
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Middleware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Middleware

Middleware
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Farnborough - 3 £613 -
Middleware
South East

Middleware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (75.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Open Source
1 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle