Middleware Contracts in Scotland

Middleware
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 80 105 151
Rank change year-on-year +25 +46 -13
Contract jobs citing Middleware 37 24 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.28% 1.08% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.59% 5.14% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 16 9
10th Percentile £408 £425 £300
25th Percentile £429 £448 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.12% +2.08% +14.29%
75th Percentile £535 £659 £675
90th Percentile £617 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £503 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.25% +4.35% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 386 467 691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.75% 21.06% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 302 527
10th Percentile £348 £328 £406
25th Percentile £408 £411 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £549
90th Percentile £600 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £33.58 £49.99
25th Percentile - £44.94 £53.38
Median hourly rate - £53.75 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -8.94% +24.93%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £64.52
90th Percentile - - £67.81
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in Scotland

Middleware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Middleware in Scotland

Middleware
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in Scotland

Middleware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Middleware in Scotland

Middleware
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +9 22 £457 +1.61% 9
Edinburgh +11 14 £500 -23.37% 5
Middleware
UK

Middleware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 7 (18.92%) CICS
2 6 (16.22%) CMS
2 6 (16.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (8.11%) JBoss
3 3 (8.11%) WebLogic
4 2 (5.41%) Headless CMS
5 1 (2.70%) Apache
5 1 (2.70%) IIS
5 1 (2.70%) nginx
5 1 (2.70%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.70%) WebSphere
5 1 (2.70%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) OCI
1 6 (16.22%) Oracle CX
2 3 (8.11%) OpenShift
3 2 (5.41%) Azure
4 1 (2.70%) AWS
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.70%) GitHub
4 1 (2.70%) IaaS
4 1 (2.70%) iPaaS
4 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (10.81%) Relational Database
2 3 (8.11%) DB2
3 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) JIRA
2 4 (10.81%) Git
3 3 (8.11%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.70%) JUnit
5 1 (2.70%) Postman
General
1 13 (35.14%) Finance
2 12 (32.43%) Banking
3 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
4 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.41%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.41%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.41%) Legal
6 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (21.62%) Developer
2 5 (13.51%) Architect
2 5 (13.51%) Java Developer
2 5 (13.51%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (10.81%) Analyst
3 4 (10.81%) Consultant
3 4 (10.81%) Mainframe Consultant
4 3 (8.11%) Applications Support
4 3 (8.11%) CICS Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Database Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Middleware Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Senior
5 2 (5.41%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Oracle Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Oracle Business Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Middleware Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Applications Support Specialist
6 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (13.51%) Kafka
2 5 (13.51%) REST
2 5 (13.51%) SOAP
3 4 (10.81%) CSS
3 4 (10.81%) Loki
3 4 (10.81%) Spring Boot
4 3 (8.11%) IBM Integration Bus
4 3 (8.11%) J2EE
4 3 (8.11%) JMS
4 3 (8.11%) Spring
5 2 (5.41%) .NET
5 2 (5.41%) .NET Core
5 2 (5.41%) .NET Framework
5 2 (5.41%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (5.41%) Ajax
5 2 (5.41%) Entity Framework
5 2 (5.41%) HTML
5 2 (5.41%) Next.js
5 2 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Mainframe
2 6 (16.22%) Onboarding
3 4 (10.81%) VSAM
4 3 (8.11%) Clustering
4 3 (8.11%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (8.11%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.41%) Algorithms
5 2 (5.41%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (2.70%) e-Learning
6 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (35.14%) Linux
2 6 (16.22%) Unix
3 4 (10.81%) Windows
4 3 (8.11%) AIX
4 3 (8.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.70%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (40.54%) Agile
2 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (18.92%) CRM
3 7 (18.92%) SDLC
3 7 (18.92%) Waterfall
4 6 (16.22%) ERP
4 6 (16.22%) Human Resource Management
4 6 (16.22%) ITIL
4 6 (16.22%) Microservices
4 6 (16.22%) Problem Management
4 6 (16.22%) SOA
4 6 (16.22%) User Experience
5 5 (13.51%) Project Delivery
6 4 (10.81%) Analytics
6 4 (10.81%) Capacity Management
6 4 (10.81%) CI/CD
6 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (10.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (10.81%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) Java
2 8 (21.62%) SQL
3 6 (16.22%) Shell Script
4 5 (13.51%) PL/SQL
4 5 (13.51%) Python
5 4 (10.81%) REXX
6 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.70%) VB
7 1 (2.70%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
1 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.70%) Degree
1 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (8.11%) QA
3 2 (5.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (8.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Ansible
2 4 (10.81%) Grafana
2 4 (10.81%) Prometheus
2 4 (10.81%) Terraform
3 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (24.32%) Oracle
2 6 (16.22%) IBM
2 6 (16.22%) VMware
3 4 (10.81%) Splunk
3 4 (10.81%) Veritas
4 3 (8.11%) Dynatrace
4 3 (8.11%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.41%) DocuSign