Middleware Contracts in the North of England

Middleware
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 133 168 201
Rank change year-on-year +35 +33 -10
Contract jobs citing Middleware 33 17 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.00% 0.36% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.82% 1.89% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 10 13
10th Percentile £432 £493 £323
25th Percentile £459 £526 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £603 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% +20.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £623 £600
90th Percentile £645 £681 £649
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -0.86%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 685 900 1,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.79% 18.88% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 615 875
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £558 £596 £597
90th Percentile £650 £691 £675
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 10
10th Percentile £65.25 £13.87 £44.28
25th Percentile £68.81 £21.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £86.46 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.22% -26.11% +48.81%
75th Percentile £99.42 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £72.50 £71.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Middleware in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Middleware in the North of England

Middleware
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Middleware in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Middleware in the North of England

Middleware
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the North of England 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
North West +26 20 £550 -10.57% 24
Yorkshire +16 12 £475 -7.05% 9
North East -1 1 £475 -26.92% 2
Middleware
England

Middleware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (15.15%) NetWeaver
2 3 (9.09%) Tomcat
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (6.06%) WebSphere
4 1 (3.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (3.03%) Apache
4 1 (3.03%) Camunda
4 1 (3.03%) CMS
4 1 (3.03%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 7 (21.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (3.03%) Maximo
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.18%) AWS
1 6 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (15.15%) OpenShift
3 4 (12.12%) SuccessFactors
4 3 (9.09%) GCP
5 2 (6.06%) Azure
6 1 (3.03%) GitHub
6 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) NAS
1 8 (24.24%) SAN
2 6 (18.18%) HTTP
3 5 (15.15%) SSL
4 4 (12.12%) DNS
5 2 (6.06%) Kerberos
6 1 (3.03%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.09%) SAP HANA
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database 10g
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.03%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Git
2 4 (12.12%) GitLab
2 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (3.03%) Hudson
4 1 (3.03%) Postman
4 1 (3.03%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Finance
3 6 (18.18%) Banking
4 3 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.03%) Billing
5 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) Architect
2 8 (24.24%) Developer
2 8 (24.24%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (18.18%) Consultant
3 6 (18.18%) SAP Architect
3 6 (18.18%) SAP Solutions Architect
4 5 (15.15%) Integration Developer
4 5 (15.15%) SAP Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Applications Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Applications Developer
5 2 (6.06%) LDAP Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle Applications Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (6.06%) SAP Supply Chain Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Supply Chain Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Business Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Integration Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (33.33%) REST
2 6 (18.18%) LDAP
2 6 (18.18%) SAP PI
2 6 (18.18%) SOAP
3 5 (15.15%) IDoc
3 5 (15.15%) JMS
3 5 (15.15%) Kafka
4 4 (12.12%) EDI
4 4 (12.12%) JDBC
4 4 (12.12%) XML
4 4 (12.12%) XSLT
5 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.06%) CSS
5 2 (6.06%) HTML
5 2 (6.06%) JWT
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (6.06%) RESTful
5 2 (6.06%) SAML
5 2 (6.06%) Spring
5 2 (6.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Clustering
2 4 (12.12%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (12.12%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (12.12%) Virtual Team
3 3 (9.09%) Public Cloud
4 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.06%) Private Cloud
4 2 (6.06%) Replication
5 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.03%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.03%) Life Science
5 1 (3.03%) Mainframe
5 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (27.27%) Linux
2 6 (18.18%) Unix
3 4 (12.12%) Windows
3 4 (12.12%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.06%) Solaris
5 1 (3.03%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Agile
2 11 (33.33%) Scrum
3 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (24.24%) SDLC
5 5 (15.15%) Computer Science
5 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
5 5 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (15.15%) High Availability
5 5 (15.15%) Migration
6 4 (12.12%) Architectural Design
6 4 (12.12%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (12.12%) Kanban
6 4 (12.12%) Key Management
6 4 (12.12%) Performance Testing
6 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (12.12%) System Integration Testing
6 4 (12.12%) TOGAF
6 4 (12.12%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) Java
2 5 (15.15%) ABAP
2 5 (15.15%) Python
3 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
3 4 (12.12%) Shell Script
4 3 (9.09%) SQL
5 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.06%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.03%) ActionScript
6 1 (3.03%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Degree
2 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.03%) IBM Certification
4 1 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
1 4 (12.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 4 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (12.12%) VMware NSX
1 4 (12.12%) vSphere
2 3 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.12%) Ansible
2 4 (12.12%) Grafana
2 4 (12.12%) Prometheus
2 4 (12.12%) vCenter Server
2 4 (12.12%) vRealize
3 1 (3.03%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 13 (39.39%) SAP
2 6 (18.18%) Oracle
3 4 (12.12%) Confluent
3 4 (12.12%) IBM
3 4 (12.12%) Splunk
3 4 (12.12%) VMware
4 3 (9.09%) Concur
4 3 (9.09%) MuleSoft
5 2 (6.06%) ForgeRock
6 1 (3.03%) Adobe
6 1 (3.03%) Ariba
6 1 (3.03%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.03%) TIBCO