Middleware Contracts in the Midlands

Middleware
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 91 121 133
Rank change year-on-year +30 +12 +52
Contract jobs citing Middleware 20 12 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.04% 0.44% 0.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.27% 3.13% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 29
10th Percentile £400 £305 £313
25th Percentile £419 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year - +28.57% -33.33%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £488
90th Percentile £700 £750 £575
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -0.86%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 319 384 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.67% 13.93% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 272 464
10th Percentile £319 £276 £313
25th Percentile £400 £362 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.06%
75th Percentile £575 £622 £588
90th Percentile £660 £725 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 0
10th Percentile £23.96 £10.90 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £14.13 -
Median hourly rate £30.71 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% - -
75th Percentile £33.91 £40.00 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Middleware in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Middleware in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +22 17 £450 - 10
East Midlands +9 3 £461 +10.42% 12
Middleware
England

Middleware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (30.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
1 5 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) GCP
2 4 (20.00%) Power Automate
2 4 (20.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) NetScaler
1 2 (10.00%) SSL
2 1 (5.00%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (15.00%) Tableau
4 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (20.00%) Legal
5 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (10.00%) Retail
6 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Tester
3 4 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Junior
3 4 (20.00%) Junior Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Junior Solutions Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Applications Support
4 3 (15.00%) Applications Support Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Administrator
5 2 (10.00%) Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Support Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Applications Tester
6 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Software Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Software Support Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) HTML
2 3 (15.00%) .NET
3 2 (10.00%) Web Services
4 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.00%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (5.00%) REST
4 1 (5.00%) SOAP
4 1 (5.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (25.00%) SCADA
3 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
1 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (40.00%) Agile
2 8 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (30.00%) Change Management
3 6 (30.00%) Data Governance
3 6 (30.00%) Incident Management
3 6 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 5 (25.00%) Defect Management
4 5 (25.00%) ERP
4 5 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
4 5 (25.00%) Migration
4 5 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
4 5 (25.00%) Scrum
4 5 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
4 5 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
4 5 (25.00%) Test Assurance
4 5 (25.00%) Test Management
4 5 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 5 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (35.00%) SQL
3 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.00%) C#
5 2 (10.00%) Perl
5 2 (10.00%) Python
6 1 (5.00%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (15.00%) Degree
5 2 (10.00%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
6 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) HP ALM
2 2 (10.00%) Grafana
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (35.00%) HP
3 5 (25.00%) MuleSoft
3 5 (25.00%) Oracle
4 2 (10.00%) Dell
4 2 (10.00%) IBM
5 1 (5.00%) Databricks
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (5.00%) SAP