Middleware Contracts in the South East

Middleware
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 189 184
Rank change year-on-year +67 -5 +20
Contract jobs citing Middleware 31 11 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.01% 0.19% 0.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.77% 1.42% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 7 22
10th Percentile £375 £378 £364
25th Percentile £416 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £438
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +25.71% -27.08%
75th Percentile £694 £669 £534
90th Percentile £717 £750 £691
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £72.50 -
England median hourly rate £68.00 £71.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -4.56% +9.62% +18.18%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 537 774 971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.57% 13.56% 16.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 514 683
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £408 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £638 £659 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 47 42
10th Percentile £22.10 £35.00 £50.00
25th Percentile £35.05 £56.65 £53.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% -4.50% +43.33%
75th Percentile £58.72 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £62.03 £75.00 £79.19
England median hourly rate £58.88 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.67% -13.46% +23.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Middleware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Middleware in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Middleware in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Middleware in the South East over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Middleware in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Middleware in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Thames Valley +39 12 £438 - 25
Hampshire - 11 £688 - 14
Berkshire +35 9 £550 - 12
Surrey +24 7 £523 -25.36% 3
Buckinghamshire - 3 £375 - 8
West Sussex +10 1 £328 -22.82% 2
Middleware
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (9.68%) ArcGIS
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle Spatial
1 3 (9.68%) Smallworld
2 1 (3.23%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 4 (12.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (6.45%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 13 (41.94%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) Entra ID
3 5 (16.13%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (16.13%) OpenShift
4 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.45%) Serverless
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.81%) LAN
1 8 (25.81%) WAN
2 1 (3.23%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Data Lake
1 3 (9.68%) GIS
1 3 (9.68%) MS Access
1 3 (9.68%) Spatial Data
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 9 (29.03%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Billing
5 1 (3.23%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 18 (58.06%) Architect
2 9 (29.03%) Technical Architect
3 7 (22.58%) Senior
4 5 (16.13%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Analyst
6 3 (9.68%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (9.68%) GIS Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Test Analyst
6 3 (9.68%) Test Analyst
7 2 (6.45%) Consultant
7 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Lead
7 2 (6.45%) Lead Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Migration Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Security Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) React
1 5 (16.13%) Web Services
2 3 (9.68%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Private Cloud
2 4 (12.90%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (41.94%) Windows
2 11 (35.48%) Linux
3 4 (12.90%) Unix
4 2 (6.45%) CentOS
4 2 (6.45%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Agile
1 12 (38.71%) Migration
2 10 (32.26%) API Management
2 10 (32.26%) TOGAF
3 9 (29.03%) CI/CD
4 8 (25.81%) Architectural Patterns
4 8 (25.81%) DevOps
5 7 (22.58%) IT Strategy
6 6 (19.35%) Business Strategy
6 6 (19.35%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (19.35%) ITIL
7 5 (16.13%) Configuration Management
7 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (16.13%) Microservices
7 5 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (16.13%) Translating Business Requirements
8 4 (12.90%) Application Packaging
8 4 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (12.90%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) SQL
2 6 (19.35%) C#
2 6 (19.35%) Java
2 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
2 6 (19.35%) Python
3 5 (16.13%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.68%) Magik
5 1 (3.23%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Degree
3 2 (6.45%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.45%) vSphere
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Ansible
1 5 (16.13%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) MuleSoft
2 5 (16.13%) Red Hat
3 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.90%) Oracle
3 4 (12.90%) SAP
4 3 (9.68%) Citrix
4 3 (9.68%) ESRI
5 2 (6.45%) Salesforce
5 2 (6.45%) VMware
6 1 (3.23%) IBM
6 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow