Middleware Contracts in the UK excluding London

Middleware
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Middleware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Middleware over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 310 290
Rank change year-on-year -15 -20 -43
Contract jobs citing Middleware 81 155 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.63% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.46% 3.40% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 112 180
10th Percentile £420 £313 £382
25th Percentile £450 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +22.53% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £644 £575 £613
90th Percentile £750 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £53.25 £38.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £56.25 £42.50 £37.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £40.62
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% +29.26% -29.37%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £45.81
90th Percentile £71.75 £63.00 £51.33
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £40.62
% change year-on-year +33.33% +29.26% -29.37%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Middleware is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,295 4,565 6,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 18.51% 20.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,179 3,409 4,553
10th Percentile £324 £350 £357
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 92 155
10th Percentile £20.77 £22.26 £20.00
25th Percentile £39.96 £48.31 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.94 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.07 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Middleware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Middleware in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Middleware in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Middleware in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Middleware in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Middleware in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Middleware in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Middleware in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 April 2024. 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
Scotland +52 24 £613 +2.08% 1
North of England +33 20 £590 +69.05% 12
North West +27 12 £615 +82.49% 8
Midlands +16 11 £450 +28.57% 12
West Midlands +33 9 £450 -14.29% 10
East of England +12 8 £582 -33.01% 3
South East -14 8 £425 -5.56% 15
South West +9 7 £763 +41.20% 8
Yorkshire +24 6 £450 -10.00% 4
Wales +8 3 £538 +10.26% 2
East Midlands -2 3 £525 +50.00% 2
North East - 2 £650 -
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UK

Middleware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (6.17%) IBM HTTP Server
1 5 (6.17%) WebSphere
1 5 (6.17%) WebSphere Application Server
1 5 (6.17%) WebSphere Portal
2 2 (2.47%) Apache
2 2 (2.47%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.23%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.23%) CMS
3 1 (1.23%) Confluence
3 1 (1.23%) JBoss
3 1 (1.23%) NetWeaver
3 1 (1.23%) nginx
3 1 (1.23%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 6 (7.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (6.17%) SAP SD
3 1 (1.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 21 (25.93%) Azure
2 9 (11.11%) IaaS
2 9 (11.11%) SaaS
3 8 (9.88%) PaaS
4 6 (7.41%) AWS
5 4 (4.94%) GCP
6 3 (3.70%) GitHub
7 1 (1.23%) Apigee
7 1 (1.23%) iPaaS
7 1 (1.23%) Miro
7 1 (1.23%) Serverless
7 1 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.35%) LAN
1 10 (12.35%) WAN
2 5 (6.17%) ATM
2 5 (6.17%) HTTP
3 2 (2.47%) DNS
3 2 (2.47%) Firewall
3 2 (2.47%) NAS
3 2 (2.47%) SAN
4 1 (1.23%) AMQP
4 1 (1.23%) DHCP
4 1 (1.23%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.23%) MQTT
4 1 (1.23%) SSL
4 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.70%) Oracle Database
1 3 (3.70%) PowerCenter
1 3 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.47%) Metadata
2 2 (2.47%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.23%) Essbase
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (1.23%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.23%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (8.64%) JIRA
2 5 (6.17%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (1.23%) gulp
3 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.23%) Maven
General
1 33 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 30 (37.04%) Finance
3 16 (19.75%) Banking
4 13 (16.05%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.17%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.70%) Billing
6 3 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.47%) Automotive
7 2 (2.47%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.47%) Law
7 2 (2.47%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.23%) Aviation
8 1 (1.23%) Back Office
8 1 (1.23%) Electronics
8 1 (1.23%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.23%) Marketing
8 1 (1.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (40.74%) Architect
2 15 (18.52%) Solutions Architect
3 14 (17.28%) Senior
4 11 (13.58%) Technical Architect
5 7 (8.64%) Analyst
5 7 (8.64%) Middleware Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Infrastructure Architect
6 6 (7.41%) Python Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) VMware Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Consultant
7 5 (6.17%) Functional Consultant
7 5 (6.17%) SAP Consultant
7 5 (6.17%) SAP Functional Consultant
7 5 (6.17%) SAP SD Consultant
7 5 (6.17%) SAP SD Functional Consultant
7 5 (6.17%) Senior Middleware Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Senior SAP Consultant
8 4 (4.94%) Senior SAP SD Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.17%) J2EE
2 2 (2.47%) JSON
2 2 (2.47%) XML
3 1 (1.23%) .NET
3 1 (1.23%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (1.23%) Kafka
3 1 (1.23%) LDAP
3 1 (1.23%) Node.js
3 1 (1.23%) OAuth
3 1 (1.23%) OpenGL
3 1 (1.23%) OpenID
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.23%) REST
3 1 (1.23%) RESTful
3 1 (1.23%) SAML
3 1 (1.23%) SAP PI
3 1 (1.23%) SOAP
3 1 (1.23%) Web Services
3 1 (1.23%) XSD
3 1 (1.23%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.35%) Public Cloud
2 9 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.17%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (6.17%) SCADA
3 5 (6.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.70%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.47%) CMDB
5 2 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.47%) Tandem
6 1 (1.23%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.23%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.23%) IoT
6 1 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.23%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.23%) PKI
6 1 (1.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (33.33%) Linux
2 19 (23.46%) Windows
3 10 (12.35%) Unix
4 4 (4.94%) AIX
5 3 (3.70%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.47%) Android
6 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.23%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.23%) Solaris
7 1 (1.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (37.04%) Agile
2 24 (29.63%) Waterfall
3 22 (27.16%) ITIL
4 16 (19.75%) IT Strategy
5 15 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (17.28%) Business Strategy
7 12 (14.81%) DevOps
7 12 (14.81%) Service Management
8 11 (13.58%) Project Delivery
8 11 (13.58%) Technology Strategy
9 10 (12.35%) Architectural Patterns
9 10 (12.35%) Containerisation
9 10 (12.35%) Translating Business Requirements
10 9 (11.11%) Computer Science
11 8 (9.88%) Customer Service
11 8 (9.88%) Microservices
11 8 (9.88%) SDLC
12 7 (8.64%) Analytical Thinking
12 7 (8.64%) Decision-Making
12 7 (8.64%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.58%) Python
2 8 (9.88%) Perl
3 4 (4.94%) Shell Script
4 3 (3.70%) Java
5 2 (2.47%) Bash
5 2 (2.47%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.47%) SQL
6 1 (1.23%) ABAP
6 1 (1.23%) C
6 1 (1.23%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.23%) Korn
Qualifications
1 15 (18.52%) Degree
2 4 (4.94%) HND
3 3 (3.70%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.47%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.35%) QA
2 3 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.47%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.23%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (9.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.94%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.94%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.47%) vSphere
4 1 (1.23%) Docker
4 1 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (4.94%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (3.70%) Ansible
2 3 (3.70%) Data Guard
3 2 (2.47%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.23%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.23%) Puppet
4 1 (1.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (13.58%) VMware
2 9 (11.11%) Oracle
3 7 (8.64%) IBM
3 7 (8.64%) SAP
4 5 (6.17%) BMC
4 5 (6.17%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.94%) Databricks
5 4 (4.94%) Informatica
5 4 (4.94%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.47%) Google
6 2 (2.47%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.23%) Ariba
7 1 (1.23%) Cisco
7 1 (1.23%) Cognizant
7 1 (1.23%) F5
7 1 (1.23%) NetApp
7 1 (1.23%) Qualys
7 1 (1.23%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.23%) Temenos