Middleware Contracts in the North West

Middleware
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Middleware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Middleware over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 146 153
Rank change year-on-year +20 +7 -46
Contract jobs citing Middleware 11 14 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.40% 0.44% 0.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.18% 2.37% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 18
10th Percentile £508 £322 £325
25th Percentile £538 £325 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £500 £482
Median % change year-on-year +23.00% +3.73% +8.01%
75th Percentile £623 £603 £612
90th Percentile £669 £654 £641
England median daily rate £600 £575 £578
% change year-on-year +4.35% -0.43% +0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £37.25
25th Percentile - - £37.25
Median hourly rate - - £39.73
75th Percentile - - £42.48
90th Percentile - - £42.64
England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £40.62
% change year-on-year +7.69% +60.04% -29.37%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

Middleware is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 504 591 990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 18.24% 18.50% 24.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 464 748
10th Percentile £350 £337 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.05%
75th Percentile £588 £577 £588
90th Percentile £740 £647 £650
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 26
10th Percentile £37.63 £39.24 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £41.40 £25.69
Median hourly rate £47.31 £45.00 £40.62
Median % change year-on-year +5.12% +10.80% +19.46%
75th Percentile £71.87 - £56.25
90th Percentile £75.05 - £62.50
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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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 28 April 2024.

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

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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 28 April 2024. 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
Manchester +19 7 £615 +23.00% 1
Cheshire +2 2 £725 +123.08%
Cumbria - 1 £528 -
Lancashire - 1 £500 -
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 1 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) JBoss
1 1 (9.09%) nginx
1 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) IaaS
1 3 (27.27%) PaaS
1 3 (27.27%) SaaS
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Automotive
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
4 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
2 5 (45.45%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Middleware Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Operational Support Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Operations Support Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Support Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) IBM Integration Bus
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (9.09%) Cyberattack
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
2 5 (45.45%) Windows
3 4 (36.36%) Unix
4 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 1 (9.09%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Waterfall
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (18.18%) Architectural Design
3 2 (18.18%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Data Encryption
3 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Innovative Thinking
3 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) SDLC
3 2 (18.18%) Service Management
4 1 (9.09%) API Management
4 1 (9.09%) Batch Processing
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (9.09%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bash
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
3 1 (9.09%) F5
3 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) Temenos