Middleware Contracts in the North West

Middleware
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 100 126 143
Rank change year-on-year +26 +17 +2
Contract jobs citing Middleware 20 11 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.02% 0.40% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.58% 2.19% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 12
10th Percentile £406 £508 £322
25th Percentile £463 £538 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +23.00% +3.73%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £603
90th Percentile £675 £669 £654
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -0.86%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 437 503 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 22.21% 18.26% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 369 464
10th Percentile £363 £363 £337
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £577
90th Percentile £638 £750 £647
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 3
10th Percentile - £37.63 £39.24
25th Percentile £65.25 £45.88 £41.40
Median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%
75th Percentile £74.69 £71.87 -
90th Percentile £83.13 £75.05 -
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Middleware in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Middleware in the North West

Middleware
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire +5 7 £550 -24.14% 3
Manchester +16 6 £593 -3.66% 16
Merseyside - 2 £600 - 1
Cumbria +1 1 - - 1
Middleware
England

Middleware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (25.00%) NetWeaver
2 3 (15.00%) Tomcat
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (10.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (5.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Apache
4 1 (5.00%) Camunda
4 1 (5.00%) CMS
4 1 (5.00%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 7 (35.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (5.00%) Maximo
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (20.00%) SuccessFactors
3 2 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) Azure
4 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) HTTP
2 1 (5.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) SAP HANA
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database 10g
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database 11g
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Hudson
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.00%) Billing
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Architect
2 8 (40.00%) Developer
2 8 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (30.00%) SAP Architect
3 6 (30.00%) SAP Solutions Architect
4 5 (25.00%) Integration Developer
4 5 (25.00%) SAP Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Applications Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Oracle Applications Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (10.00%) SAP Supply Chain Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Supply Chain Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Applications Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Business Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Integration Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Integration Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.00%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) REST
1 6 (30.00%) SAP PI
1 6 (30.00%) SOAP
2 5 (25.00%) IDoc
2 5 (25.00%) JMS
3 4 (20.00%) EDI
3 4 (20.00%) JDBC
3 4 (20.00%) XML
3 4 (20.00%) XSLT
4 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (10.00%) CSS
4 2 (10.00%) CSS3
4 2 (10.00%) HTML
4 2 (10.00%) HTML5
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (10.00%) Spring
5 1 (5.00%) JAX-WS
5 1 (5.00%) jBPM
5 1 (5.00%) jQuery
5 1 (5.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Virtual Team
2 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Life Science
4 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Unix
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Agile
2 8 (40.00%) SDLC
3 7 (35.00%) Scrum
4 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (20.00%) Architectural Design
6 4 (20.00%) Performance Testing
6 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
6 4 (20.00%) TOGAF
6 4 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (15.00%) Analytical Thinking
7 3 (15.00%) Analytics
7 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
7 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (15.00%) Impact Assessments
7 3 (15.00%) Programme Delivery
7 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
7 3 (15.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) Java
2 5 (25.00%) ABAP
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Degree
3 2 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) SAP
2 3 (15.00%) Concur
2 3 (15.00%) MuleSoft
3 2 (10.00%) IBM
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Adobe
4 1 (5.00%) Ariba
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) TIBCO