Middleware Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Middleware
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Middleware skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Middleware 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 1.11% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £585 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 - -
75th Percentile £595 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £538 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +16.22% +2.78% -14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 16 5 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 17.78% 7.58% 6.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 7
10th Percentile £309 £311 £320
25th Percentile £369 £441 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £538 £350
Median % change year-on-year -23.26% +53.57% -2.91%
75th Percentile £455 £556 £375
90th Percentile £582 £568 £395
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £512 £500
% change year-on-year -2.39% +2.45% -4.76%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Middleware relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

Middleware job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Middleware
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Middleware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Middleware

Middleware
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Middleware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Middleware

Middleware
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £590 -
Middleware
West Midlands

Middleware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SAP MDG
1 1 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Boomi
1 1 (100.00%) Smartsheet
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Architect
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Architect
1 1 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) BAPI
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Work Breakdown Structure
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow