Middleware Contracts in South London

Middleware
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 31 41 51
Rank change year-on-year +10 +10 -9
Contract jobs citing Middleware 4 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 2.16% 0.41% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.84% 1.72% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £468
25th Percentile - £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile - £488 £556
90th Percentile - - £560
London median daily rate £550 £638 £625
% change year-on-year -13.73% +2.00% +1.63%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 51 58 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 27.57% 23.97% 23.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 38 66
10th Percentile £380 £425 £438
25th Percentile £449 £453 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% +2.50% -13.87%
75th Percentile £638 £590 £649
90th Percentile £738 £671 £706
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £38.16 £52.97
Median % change year-on-year - -27.97% +9.04%
London median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
% change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in South London

Middleware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Middleware in South London

Middleware
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London 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
Bromley - 3 - - 2
Middleware
London

Middleware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 2 (50.00%) MQSeries
2 1 (25.00%) JBoss
2 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) DB2
2 1 (25.00%) IMS/DB
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Front Office
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Java Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Java Swing Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) Swing
3 2 (50.00%) Rendezvous
4 1 (25.00%) EJB
4 1 (25.00%) J2EE
4 1 (25.00%) JDBC
4 1 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (25.00%) SOAP
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (25.00%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (25.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Fixed Income
1 3 (75.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (50.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Low Latency
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) AOP
3 1 (25.00%) Availability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) REXX
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 2 (50.00%) Sybase
2 2 (50.00%) TIBCO
3 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle