Middleware Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Middleware
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Middleware skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 132 122
Rank change year-on-year +30 -10 +32
Contract jobs citing Middleware 14 1 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.84% 0.045% 0.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.24% 0.25% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 17
10th Percentile - - £271
25th Percentile £375 - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.20%
75th Percentile £591 - £450
90th Percentile £649 - £503
South East median daily rate £573 £645 £475
% change year-on-year -11.27% +35.84% -17.39%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 330 396 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.81% 17.89% 14.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 266 287
10th Percentile £313 £369 £313
25th Percentile £380 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £625
90th Percentile £625 £661 £699
South East median daily rate £465 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -11.43% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 8
10th Percentile - £50.87 £40.05
25th Percentile £13.25 - -
Median hourly rate £13.50 £61.60 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.08% +23.20% -22.40%
75th Percentile £23.03 - £54.94
90th Percentile £28.60 £64.25 £63.00
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -5.14%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Middleware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in the Thames Valley

Middleware
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Middleware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Middleware

Middleware
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Middleware in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in the Thames Valley

Middleware
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Middleware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Middleware

Middleware
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 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 September 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
Berkshire +27 10 £463 - 10
Buckinghamshire - 4 £375 - 3
Middleware
South East

Middleware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (21.43%) ArcGIS
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle Spatial
1 3 (21.43%) Smallworld
2 1 (7.14%) Anypoint
2 1 (7.14%) Gunicorn
2 1 (7.14%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Data Lake
1 3 (21.43%) GIS
1 3 (21.43%) MS Access
1 3 (21.43%) Spatial Data
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Local Government
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) GIS Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Test Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Test Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Migration Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Django Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.14%) GIS Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Web Services
2 3 (21.43%) PostGIS
3 2 (14.29%) REST
3 2 (14.29%) SOAP
4 1 (7.14%) Bootstrap
4 1 (7.14%) Django
4 1 (7.14%) jQuery
4 1 (7.14%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (7.14%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Unix
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Linux
3 2 (14.29%) CentOS
3 2 (14.29%) Ubuntu
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Agile
2 8 (57.14%) DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (35.71%) Microservices
4 4 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 4 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) TOGAF
4 4 (28.57%) Validation
5 3 (21.43%) Architectural Design
5 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 3 (21.43%) Data Governance
5 3 (21.43%) Data Migration
5 3 (21.43%) Integration Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Logistics
5 3 (21.43%) Migration
5 3 (21.43%) Open Source
5 3 (21.43%) Software Testing
5 3 (21.43%) System Integration Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Magik
3 1 (7.14%) Apex Code
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
1 2 (14.29%) vSphere
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Citrix
1 3 (21.43%) ESRI
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow