Middleware Engineer Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Middleware Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

As of 11 March 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Middleware Engineer daily rate in the Thames Valley.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Middleware Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.038% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,424 1,443 2,622
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.27% 93.28% 93.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,583 890 1,543
10th Percentile £280 £256 £205
25th Percentile £401 £408 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £594 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £663
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 49 190
10th Percentile £16.35 £17.50 £15.85
25th Percentile £20.65 £23.50 £19.25
Median hourly rate £45.78 £48.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +12.94% -
75th Percentile £85.50 £64.73 £62.35
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.84 £71.81
South East median hourly rate £37.29 £43.75 £38.00
% change year-on-year -14.77% +15.13% -15.56%

Middleware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Middleware Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Middleware Engineer job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Middleware Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Middleware Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Middleware Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley

Middleware Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Middleware Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Middleware Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley

Middleware Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware Engineer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 March 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
Berkshire - 1 - -
Middleware Engineer
South East

Middleware Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 11 March 2026, Middleware Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Thames Valley region featuring Middleware Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) CA Wily
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (100.00%) Introscope
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) Jython
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning

Middleware Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Portal
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Introscope
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Jython
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) CA Wily
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat