Middleware Contract Job Trends in Stevenage

Middleware
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stevenage requiring Middleware skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Middleware 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Stevenage 2.88% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £462 - -
25th Percentile £464 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 - -
75th Percentile £492 - -
90th Percentile £495 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £478 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +29.41%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Stevenage

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 Stevenage.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 60 25 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage 19.23% 17.86% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 5 7
10th Percentile £406 £389 £259
25th Percentile £464 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £600 £290
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% +106.90% -56.97%
75th Percentile £743 £625 £461
90th Percentile £828 - £584
Hertfordshire median daily rate £613 £575 £475
% change year-on-year +6.52% +21.05% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 5 0
10th Percentile £41.25 £62.75 -
25th Percentile £44.81 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 -
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 -
90th Percentile £76.88 - -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -8.40%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

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

Middleware job vacancy trend in Stevenage

Middleware
Daily Rate Trend in Stevenage

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Middleware

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Hourly Rate Trend in Stevenage

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Middleware

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage 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 (11.11%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) SAN
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Git
1 7 (77.78%) GitLab
1 7 (77.78%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (77.78%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Aerospace
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Administrator
1 7 (77.78%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Functional Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Functional Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Procurement Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) LDAP
2 2 (22.22%) REST
2 2 (22.22%) SOAP
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Data Centre
2 6 (66.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) CentOS
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
1 7 (77.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Information Management
1 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
2 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
2 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (11.11%) Requirements Workshops
2 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
2 1 (11.11%) Runbook
2 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (11.11%) Supply Chain Management
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (11.11%) Use Case
2 1 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) MATLAB
1 7 (77.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Ansible
1 7 (77.78%) Check_MK
1 7 (77.78%) Podman
1 7 (77.78%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Red Hat
1 7 (77.78%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Jitterbit
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce