Middleware Contracts in the UK excluding London

Middleware
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Middleware skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Middleware over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 317 315
Rank change year-on-year +131 -2 -18
Contract jobs citing Middleware 156 82 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.22% 0.39% 0.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.56% 2.49% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 57 104
10th Percentile £375 £412 £323
25th Percentile £425 £440 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £579 £481
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +20.31% -8.33%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £611
90th Percentile £725 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £503 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.25% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 2 4
10th Percentile £61.25 £53.25 £44.00
25th Percentile - £56.25 £57.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +60.04%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £68.23 £71.75 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +60.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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

Middleware
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

Middleware
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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in the UK excluding London

Middleware
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

Middleware
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 1 May 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
South West +79 41 £500 -34.43% 30
Scotland +25 37 £477 -22.12% 17
North of England +35 33 £525 -12.86% 35
Midlands +30 20 £450 - 22
North West +26 20 £550 -10.57% 24
West Midlands +22 17 £450 - 10
South East +52 14 £581 +36.71% 50
Yorkshire +16 12 £475 -7.05% 9
East of England +26 6 £625 +7.67% 9
Wales +3 5 £453 -15.72% 2
East Midlands +9 3 £461 +10.42% 12
North East -1 1 £475 -26.92% 2
Middleware
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 8 (5.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (4.49%) CICS
2 7 (4.49%) CMS
2 7 (4.49%) IIS
2 7 (4.49%) NetWeaver
3 6 (3.85%) WebLogic
4 5 (3.21%) JBoss
4 5 (3.21%) Tomcat
5 4 (2.56%) WebSphere
6 3 (1.92%) Apache
7 2 (1.28%) Headless CMS
7 2 (1.28%) nginx
7 2 (1.28%) Oracle Service Bus
7 2 (1.28%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (1.28%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.64%) Camunda
8 1 (0.64%) Confluence
8 1 (0.64%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (7.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.92%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (1.92%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.28%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.28%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.64%) Maximo
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.64%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 20 (12.82%) Azure
2 16 (10.26%) AWS
3 9 (5.77%) Cloud Computing
3 9 (5.77%) OCI
3 9 (5.77%) OpenShift
4 8 (5.13%) GCP
5 6 (3.85%) Oracle CX
5 6 (3.85%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.21%) GitHub
6 5 (3.21%) SuccessFactors
7 4 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.56%) Power Automate
7 4 (2.56%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.28%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.28%) iPaaS
8 2 (1.28%) SaaS
8 2 (1.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (1.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.64%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.64%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.13%) HTTP
1 8 (5.13%) NAS
1 8 (5.13%) SAN
1 8 (5.13%) SSL
2 6 (3.85%) LAN
2 6 (3.85%) WAN
3 4 (2.56%) DNS
4 2 (1.28%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.28%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.64%) ATM
5 1 (0.64%) Converged Networks
5 1 (0.64%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.49%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.21%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.56%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.56%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.56%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.92%) DB2
5 3 (1.92%) SAP HANA
5 3 (1.92%) Tableau
6 2 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.28%) MS Access
6 2 (1.28%) Oracle Database 10g
6 2 (1.28%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.64%) Power BI
7 1 (0.64%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.64%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 12 (7.69%) JIRA
2 10 (6.41%) Git
3 8 (5.13%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.56%) GitLab
4 4 (2.56%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (1.92%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.28%) Postman
6 2 (1.28%) Subversion
7 1 (0.64%) Gerrit
7 1 (0.64%) Hudson
7 1 (0.64%) JUnit
7 1 (0.64%) TeamCity
General
1 42 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.87%) Finance
3 21 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (11.54%) Banking
5 9 (5.77%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.49%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.85%) Legal
8 5 (3.21%) Retail
9 4 (2.56%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.92%) Billing
10 3 (1.92%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.92%) Law
10 3 (1.92%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.28%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.28%) Marketing
11 2 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.64%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 37 (23.72%) Architect
2 26 (16.67%) Developer
3 20 (12.82%) Software Engineer
3 20 (12.82%) Solutions Architect
4 15 (9.62%) Consultant
5 12 (7.69%) Support Engineer
6 9 (5.77%) Analyst
6 9 (5.77%) C++ Software Engineer
6 9 (5.77%) Integration Developer
6 9 (5.77%) Java Engineer
6 9 (5.77%) Product Engineer
6 9 (5.77%) Products Support Engineer
6 9 (5.77%) Software Support Engineer
7 8 (5.13%) Java Developer
7 8 (5.13%) Java Software Engineer
7 8 (5.13%) Linux Engineer
7 8 (5.13%) SAP Developer
8 7 (4.49%) Linux Support
8 7 (4.49%) Linux Support Engineer
8 7 (4.49%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.18%) REST
2 14 (8.97%) Oracle Fusion
2 14 (8.97%) SOAP
3 12 (7.69%) HTML
3 12 (7.69%) Qt
4 11 (7.05%) Kafka
5 10 (6.41%) JMS
6 8 (5.13%) CSS
6 8 (5.13%) SAP PI
6 8 (5.13%) Web Services
7 7 (4.49%) EDI
7 7 (4.49%) IDoc
8 6 (3.85%) JDBC
8 6 (3.85%) LDAP
8 6 (3.85%) XML
8 6 (3.85%) XSLT
9 5 (3.21%) .NET
9 5 (3.21%) Spring
9 5 (3.21%) Spring Boot
10 4 (2.56%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.77%) Mainframe
1 9 (5.77%) Public Cloud
2 8 (5.13%) Clustering
3 7 (4.49%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.49%) Virtual Team
4 6 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
4 6 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.21%) SCADA
6 4 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.56%) VSAM
7 3 (1.92%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.92%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.92%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.92%) IBM Mainframe
8 2 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.28%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 44 (28.21%) Linux
2 19 (12.18%) Windows
3 16 (10.26%) Unix
4 11 (7.05%) Ubuntu
5 6 (3.85%) Windows Server
6 5 (3.21%) AIX
7 3 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.28%) Solaris
8 2 (1.28%) zOS
9 1 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (30.13%) Agile
2 37 (23.72%) Software Engineering
3 34 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (11.54%) Scrum
5 17 (10.90%) SDLC
6 16 (10.26%) CI/CD
7 15 (9.62%) DevOps
7 15 (9.62%) TOGAF
8 14 (8.97%) Microservices
8 14 (8.97%) Migration
9 13 (8.33%) ERP
9 13 (8.33%) System Integration Testing
9 13 (8.33%) Waterfall
10 12 (7.69%) ITIL
10 12 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
11 11 (7.05%) Analytics
11 11 (7.05%) Computer Science
12 9 (5.77%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (5.13%) Enterprise Architecture
13 8 (5.13%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (24.36%) Java
2 33 (21.15%) Ada
3 25 (16.03%) C++
4 24 (15.38%) SQL
5 22 (14.10%) Shell Script
6 21 (13.46%) JavaScript
7 15 (9.62%) Python
8 13 (8.33%) PowerShell
9 12 (7.69%) C
10 7 (4.49%) ABAP
10 7 (4.49%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.56%) C#
11 4 (2.56%) REXX
12 2 (1.28%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.28%) Perl
12 2 (1.28%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.28%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
13 1 (0.64%) ActionScript 2.0
13 1 (0.64%) Bash
13 1 (0.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 29 (18.59%) Security Cleared
2 19 (12.18%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.69%) Degree
4 8 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.28%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.28%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.64%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.10%) Def Stans
1 22 (14.10%) IEC 61508
2 12 (7.69%) MISRA
2 12 (7.69%) MISRA C
3 11 (7.05%) QA
4 4 (2.56%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.28%) NCSC
6 1 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.64%) GDPR
6 1 (0.64%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 6 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.56%) Docker
4 4 (2.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 4 (2.56%) VMware NSX
4 4 (2.56%) vSphere
5 3 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.64%) LXC
Systems Management
1 15 (9.62%) Ansible
1 15 (9.62%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.41%) Grafana
3 9 (5.77%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.21%) HP ALM
5 4 (2.56%) Terraform
5 4 (2.56%) vCenter Server
5 4 (2.56%) vRealize
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.64%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (0.64%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 29 (18.59%) Oracle
2 22 (14.10%) SAP
3 15 (9.62%) Microsoft
4 13 (8.33%) IBM
5 12 (7.69%) MuleSoft
5 12 (7.69%) Red Hat
6 10 (6.41%) VMware
7 8 (5.13%) Splunk
8 7 (4.49%) HP
9 6 (3.85%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.56%) Confluent
10 4 (2.56%) Salesforce
10 4 (2.56%) Veritas
11 3 (1.92%) Concur
11 3 (1.92%) Databricks
11 3 (1.92%) Dynatrace
12 2 (1.28%) Citrix
12 2 (1.28%) Dell
12 2 (1.28%) DocuSign
12 2 (1.28%) ForgeRock