Middleware Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Middleware
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Middleware skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - 72
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing Middleware 9 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.28% - 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.82% - 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £462 - -
25th Percentile £464 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.41%
75th Percentile £492 - -
90th Percentile £495 - -
East of England median daily rate £485 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -25.38% +13.04% +43.75%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 102 62 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 14.47% 15.78% 6.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 34 34
10th Percentile £436 £306 £290
25th Percentile £463 £416 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% +21.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £743 £625 £500
90th Percentile £825 £675 £678
East of England median daily rate £550 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +22.22% -9.09% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 6 1
10th Percentile £41.25 £63.13 -
25th Percentile £44.81 £65.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -8.40%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.88 £73.13 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £55.53
% change year-on-year -3.70% +21.56% -15.22%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Middleware job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Middleware
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Middleware

Middleware
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Middleware

Middleware
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 2 February 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
Stevenage - 9 £478 - 2
Middleware
East of England

Middleware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) SAN
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Git
1 7 (77.78%) GitLab
1 7 (77.78%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (77.78%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Aerospace
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Administrator
1 7 (77.78%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Functional Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Functional Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Procurement Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) LDAP
2 2 (22.22%) REST
2 2 (22.22%) SOAP
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Data Centre
2 6 (66.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) CentOS
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
1 7 (77.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Information Management
1 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
2 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
2 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (11.11%) Requirements Workshops
2 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
2 1 (11.11%) Runbook
2 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (11.11%) Supply Chain Management
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (11.11%) Use Case
2 1 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) MATLAB
1 7 (77.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Ansible
1 7 (77.78%) Check_MK
1 7 (77.78%) Podman
1 7 (77.78%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Red Hat
1 7 (77.78%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Jitterbit
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce