Middleware Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Middleware
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Middleware skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 145 154
Rank change year-on-year -27 +9 +44
Contract jobs citing Middleware 40 17 32
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.85% 0.47% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.91% 2.64% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 6 13
10th Percentile £406 £413 £410
25th Percentile £419 £429 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% -12.46% +71.43%
75th Percentile £570 £587 £700
90th Percentile £668 £606 £720
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £31.55 - £61.63
25th Percentile £39.88 - £62.19
Median hourly rate £54.25 - £63.75
75th Percentile £68.13 - £64.69
90th Percentile £76.15 - £64.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

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 1,024 645 1,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 21.84% 17.96% 21.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 731 410 772
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £400 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £656 £650
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 11 37
10th Percentile £48.55 £26.50 £42.55
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -12.21% +41.84% -1.74%
75th Percentile £70.00 £92.07 £62.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £102.00 £69.25
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Middleware job vacancy trend in the North of England

Middleware
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Middleware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Middleware

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 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in the North of England

Middleware
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Middleware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Middleware

Middleware
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Middleware in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 18 December 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
Yorkshire -25 20 £475 - 11
North West -10 19 £550 +15.06% 16
North East -6 1 £450 -21.40% 1
Middleware
England

Middleware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (15.00%) Confluence
2 5 (12.50%) Apache
2 5 (12.50%) WebSphere
3 3 (7.50%) IIS
3 3 (7.50%) Tomcat
4 2 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (5.00%) Apache Spark
4 2 (5.00%) CICS
4 2 (5.00%) JBoss
4 2 (5.00%) Jupyter
5 1 (2.50%) Mule
5 1 (2.50%) Mule ESB
5 1 (2.50%) WebLogic
5 1 (2.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) AWS
1 13 (32.50%) Azure
2 12 (30.00%) GCP
3 5 (12.50%) SaaS
4 4 (10.00%) OpenShift
5 3 (7.50%) GitHub
5 3 (7.50%) IaaS
5 3 (7.50%) PaaS
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.00%) npm
7 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.00%) Firewall
1 8 (20.00%) SAN
2 4 (10.00%) NAS
3 3 (7.50%) DNS
4 2 (5.00%) WAN
4 2 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (2.50%) FCoE
5 1 (2.50%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (2.50%) iSCSI
5 1 (2.50%) LAN
5 1 (2.50%) Multicast
5 1 (2.50%) SSL
5 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.50%) VLAN
5 1 (2.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.00%) Data Mining
2 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.00%) OLTP
2 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.00%) Redis
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.50%) Pentaho
3 1 (2.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) JIRA
2 6 (15.00%) Git
3 5 (12.50%) GitLab
3 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 3 (7.50%) Jaeger
5 2 (5.00%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.50%) ClearCase
6 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.50%) JUnit
6 1 (2.50%) Postman
6 1 (2.50%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (22.50%) Banking
2 9 (22.50%) Finance
3 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Architect
2 7 (17.50%) Project Manager
3 6 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Senior
5 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Integration Manager
5 3 (7.50%) Integration Project Manager
5 3 (7.50%) Migration Specialist
5 3 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Server Migration Specialist
5 3 (7.50%) Server Specialist
6 2 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Lead
6 2 (5.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (10.00%) Kafka
2 4 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (7.50%) REST
4 2 (5.00%) Express.js
4 2 (5.00%) Jest
4 2 (5.00%) LDAP
4 2 (5.00%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (5.00%) Node.js
4 2 (5.00%) Nunjucks
4 2 (5.00%) SAP PI
4 2 (5.00%) Visualforce
4 2 (5.00%) Web Services
4 2 (5.00%) XML
4 2 (5.00%) YAML
5 1 (2.50%) .NET
5 1 (2.50%) J2EE
5 1 (2.50%) JSON
5 1 (2.50%) OpenAPI
5 1 (2.50%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.50%) Clustering
3 3 (7.50%) IoT
3 3 (7.50%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (7.50%) Private Cloud
3 3 (7.50%) Replication
4 2 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.00%) Mainframe
4 2 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.50%) CMDB
5 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.50%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (2.50%) IBM XIV
5 1 (2.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (27.50%) Linux
2 9 (22.50%) Windows
3 6 (15.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.50%) Unix
5 2 (5.00%) Solaris
5 2 (5.00%) VMS
5 2 (5.00%) zOS
6 1 (2.50%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) Agile
2 10 (25.00%) DevOps
3 9 (22.50%) CI/CD
3 9 (22.50%) Computer Science
3 9 (22.50%) Microservices
3 9 (22.50%) Scrum
4 8 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 8 (20.00%) Migration
4 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (17.50%) Containerisation
6 6 (15.00%) Waterfall
7 5 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (10.00%) Project Delivery
8 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (10.00%) Thought Leadership
8 4 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) Java
2 11 (27.50%) SQL
3 6 (15.00%) Python
4 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.50%) Rust
5 2 (5.00%) Apex Code
5 2 (5.00%) AWK
5 2 (5.00%) C#
5 2 (5.00%) PL/SQL
5 2 (5.00%) Scala
5 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.00%) SOQL
6 1 (2.50%) C
6 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (32.50%) Degree
2 4 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) PMI Certification
3 3 (7.50%) PMP
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.00%) GDPR
1 2 (5.00%) WCAG
2 1 (2.50%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.50%) PSD2
2 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.00%) Docker
2 6 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (10.00%) vSphere
5 3 (7.50%) VMware NSX
6 2 (5.00%) Hyper-V
6 2 (5.00%) KVM
7 1 (2.50%) NFS
7 1 (2.50%) SRDF
7 1 (2.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (2.50%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (27.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (17.50%) Ansible
3 3 (7.50%) Grafana
3 3 (7.50%) Kiali
3 3 (7.50%) Prometheus
3 3 (7.50%) Terraform
3 3 (7.50%) vCenter Server
3 3 (7.50%) vRealize
4 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.50%) Puppet
4 1 (2.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Oracle
1 9 (22.50%) VMware
2 8 (20.00%) F5
3 7 (17.50%) IBM
4 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 5 (12.50%) MuleSoft
5 4 (10.00%) Citrix
5 4 (10.00%) Google
5 4 (10.00%) Splunk
6 3 (7.50%) HP
7 2 (5.00%) Cisco
7 2 (5.00%) EMC
7 2 (5.00%) NetApp
7 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
7 2 (5.00%) SAP
8 1 (2.50%) AppDynamics
8 1 (2.50%) Axway
8 1 (2.50%) BMC
8 1 (2.50%) Dynatrace
8 1 (2.50%) webMethods