Middleware Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Middleware
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Middleware skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 38 52
Rank change year-on-year -16 +14 +16
Contract jobs citing Middleware 11 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.81% 2.08% 0.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.87% 8.54% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile - £501 £550
25th Percentile £455 £502 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £514 £700
Median % change year-on-year -10.46% -26.61% +4.17%
75th Percentile £476 £546 £750
90th Percentile £517 £567 -
South East median daily rate £500 £581 £591
% change year-on-year -13.94% -1.61% +31.22%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 124 82 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 20.39% 24.33% 18.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 63 80
10th Percentile £211 £204 £203
25th Percentile £406 £309 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +3.26% -12.38%
75th Percentile £528 £550 £619
90th Percentile £624 £588 £675
South East median daily rate £530 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +11.53% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 1 3
10th Percentile £56.25 - £62.00
25th Percentile £67.47 £37.80 £68.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £40.59 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.46% -49.26% +23.08%
75th Percentile - £43.39 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +40.00% -18.83% +3.75%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Middleware job vacancy trend in Surrey

Middleware
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Middleware

Middleware
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Middleware

Middleware
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
Staines - 1 £525 -
Middleware
South East

Middleware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) GCP
3 6 (54.55%) Azure Service Bus
3 6 (54.55%) Boomi
3 6 (54.55%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) HTTP
2 4 (36.36%) LAN
2 4 (36.36%) WAN
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Financial Institution
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Architect
2 5 (45.45%) Solutions Architect
2 5 (45.45%) Technical Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Integration Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) REST
1 7 (63.64%) SOAP
2 6 (54.55%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (54.55%) EDI
2 6 (54.55%) GraphQL
2 6 (54.55%) JSON
2 6 (54.55%) JWT
2 6 (54.55%) Kafka
2 6 (54.55%) OAuth
2 6 (54.55%) OpenAPI
2 6 (54.55%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (54.55%) SAML
2 6 (54.55%) Swagger
2 6 (54.55%) XML
3 1 (9.09%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (54.55%) Cloud Native
3 4 (36.36%) Public Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) API Management
2 7 (63.64%) Enterprise Architecture
3 6 (54.55%) API Design
3 6 (54.55%) Batch Processing
3 6 (54.55%) Event-Driven
3 6 (54.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 6 (54.55%) Integration Patterns
3 6 (54.55%) Webhook
4 4 (36.36%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (36.36%) Business Strategy
4 4 (36.36%) IT Strategy
5 1 (9.09%) API Integration
5 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
5 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
5 1 (9.09%) SDLC
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (9.09%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (9.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) MuleSoft
2 6 (54.55%) Google
2 6 (54.55%) IBM
2 6 (54.55%) Informatica
2 6 (54.55%) Oracle
2 6 (54.55%) TIBCO
2 6 (54.55%) WSO2