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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 314 295
Rank change year-on-year +113 -19 +40
Contract jobs citing Middleware 145 83 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.11% 0.40% 0.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.98% 2.50% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 60 98
10th Percentile £380 £412 £321
25th Percentile £431 £448 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £582 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.70% +16.40% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £659 £647
90th Percentile £699 £750 £729
UK median daily rate £520 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 1 7
10th Percentile £61.48 - £61.50
25th Percentile £65.00 £71.25 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £72.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% +18.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 -
90th Percentile £68.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £71.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -5.26% +9.62% +18.18%

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 2,425 3,325 4,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.61% 16.05% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,682 2,176 3,071
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £571 £608 £600
90th Percentile £638 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £521 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.62% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 217 86
10th Percentile £33.59 £22.65 £22.20
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £48.43 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.21% -25.49% +18.18%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.46 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £47.97 £65.00
% change year-on-year +30.30% -26.21% +23.81%

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 31 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 31 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
North of England +37 35 £513 -16.67% 42
South West +63 30 £450 -29.41% 18
South East +62 28 £536 -6.74% 34
Scotland +8 23 £475 -22.45% 6
Midlands +19 17 £449 -0.33% 27
North West +16 17 £550 -10.57% 26
Yorkshire +27 16 £482 -5.77% 11
West Midlands +18 13 £450 - 14
East of England +20 6 £625 +7.67% 16
Wales +6 6 £429 -20.19%
East Midlands +10 4 £447 +44.19% 13
North East +1 2 £481 -25.96% 5
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 9 (6.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (4.83%) WebLogic
3 6 (4.14%) NetWeaver
4 5 (3.45%) IIS
4 5 (3.45%) JBoss
4 5 (3.45%) Tomcat
5 3 (2.07%) Apache
5 3 (2.07%) ArcGIS
5 3 (2.07%) CICS
5 3 (2.07%) Oracle Service Bus
5 3 (2.07%) Oracle Spatial
5 3 (2.07%) Smallworld
5 3 (2.07%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.38%) nginx
6 2 (1.38%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.38%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.69%) CMS
7 1 (0.69%) Confluence
7 1 (0.69%) WebLogic Portal
Business Applications
1 11 (7.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.76%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (2.07%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (2.07%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (1.38%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.69%) Maximo
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.69%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.69%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.69%) SAP POS DM
Cloud Services
1 22 (15.17%) Azure
2 16 (11.03%) AWS
3 13 (8.97%) OpenShift
4 11 (7.59%) OCI
5 9 (6.21%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (4.83%) GitHub
7 6 (4.14%) GCP
7 6 (4.14%) Oracle CX
8 5 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.45%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.76%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.76%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (1.38%) iPaaS
10 2 (1.38%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.38%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.38%) SaaS
10 2 (1.38%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (1.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.52%) LAN
1 8 (5.52%) NAS
1 8 (5.52%) SAN
1 8 (5.52%) WAN
2 7 (4.83%) HTTP
2 7 (4.83%) SSL
3 4 (2.76%) DNS
4 2 (1.38%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.38%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.69%) Converged Networks
5 1 (0.69%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.69%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.45%) Data Lake
1 5 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.07%) GIS
3 3 (2.07%) MS Access
3 3 (2.07%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.07%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.07%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.07%) Spatial Data
3 3 (2.07%) Tableau
4 2 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.38%) Oracle Database 10g
4 2 (1.38%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.38%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.69%) Power BI
5 1 (0.69%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.69%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 12 (8.28%) Jenkins
2 10 (6.90%) Git
3 8 (5.52%) JIRA
4 4 (2.76%) GitLab
5 3 (2.07%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.07%) Subversion
6 2 (1.38%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (1.38%) Postman
7 1 (0.69%) Gerrit
7 1 (0.69%) Hudson
7 1 (0.69%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (25.52%) Social Skills
2 31 (21.38%) Finance
3 15 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (10.34%) Banking
4 9 (6.21%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.83%) Pharmaceutical
5 7 (4.83%) Retail
6 6 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.76%) Legal
8 3 (2.07%) Billing
8 3 (2.07%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.07%) Law
8 3 (2.07%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.38%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.38%) Marketing
10 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.69%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.69%) Local Government
10 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (26.21%) Architect
2 19 (13.10%) Developer
3 15 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
4 12 (8.28%) Software Engineer
5 11 (7.59%) Support Engineer
6 10 (6.90%) Consultant
6 10 (6.90%) Product Engineer
6 10 (6.90%) Products Support Engineer
6 10 (6.90%) Senior
6 10 (6.90%) Software Support Engineer
7 9 (6.21%) Java Engineer
7 9 (6.21%) Linux Engineer
8 8 (5.52%) Analyst
8 8 (5.52%) Integration Developer
8 8 (5.52%) Java Software Engineer
8 8 (5.52%) Linux Support
8 8 (5.52%) Linux Support Engineer
8 8 (5.52%) Technical Architect
9 7 (4.83%) SAP Developer
10 6 (4.14%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.66%) REST
2 13 (8.97%) Oracle Fusion
3 10 (6.90%) SOAP
4 9 (6.21%) HTML
4 9 (6.21%) JMS
4 9 (6.21%) Web Services
5 8 (5.52%) SAP PI
6 7 (4.83%) EDI
6 7 (4.83%) Qt
7 6 (4.14%) .NET
7 6 (4.14%) IDoc
7 6 (4.14%) LDAP
8 5 (3.45%) AngularJS
8 5 (3.45%) CSS
8 5 (3.45%) JDBC
8 5 (3.45%) Kafka
8 5 (3.45%) React
8 5 (3.45%) XML
8 5 (3.45%) XSLT
9 4 (2.76%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.21%) Public Cloud
3 8 (5.52%) Clustering
4 6 (4.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.14%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.14%) Private Cloud
5 5 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (3.45%) Mainframe
5 5 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.45%) SCADA
5 5 (3.45%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.76%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.07%) IBM Mainframe
8 2 (1.38%) Replication
9 1 (0.69%) Device Driver
9 1 (0.69%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 47 (32.41%) Linux
2 24 (16.55%) Windows
3 15 (10.34%) Unix
4 14 (9.66%) Ubuntu
5 6 (4.14%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.76%) AIX
6 4 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.38%) CentOS
7 2 (1.38%) Solaris
7 2 (1.38%) zOS
8 1 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (29.66%) Agile
2 29 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 27 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (13.79%) Migration
5 19 (13.10%) CI/CD
5 19 (13.10%) TOGAF
6 17 (11.72%) DevOps
6 17 (11.72%) Scrum
7 16 (11.03%) ITIL
8 13 (8.97%) API Management
8 13 (8.97%) System Integration Testing
9 11 (7.59%) Enterprise Architecture
9 11 (7.59%) ERP
9 11 (7.59%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (6.90%) Disaster Recovery
10 10 (6.90%) SDLC
10 10 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (6.21%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (6.21%) IT Strategy
11 9 (6.21%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 34 (23.45%) Java
2 29 (20.00%) Ada
3 25 (17.24%) JavaScript
4 22 (15.17%) Shell Script
5 20 (13.79%) C++
5 20 (13.79%) Python
6 19 (13.10%) SQL
7 15 (10.34%) PowerShell
8 13 (8.97%) C
9 8 (5.52%) C#
10 6 (4.14%) ABAP
11 5 (3.45%) PL/SQL
12 3 (2.07%) Apex Code
12 3 (2.07%) Magik
12 3 (2.07%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
13 2 (1.38%) Perl
14 1 (0.69%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.69%) ActionScript 2.0
14 1 (0.69%) VB
14 1 (0.69%) VB6
Qualifications
1 26 (17.93%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.41%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.59%) Degree
4 7 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.14%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.38%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.38%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.69%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.69%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.72%) Def Stans
1 17 (11.72%) IEC 61508
2 7 (4.83%) MISRA
2 7 (4.83%) MISRA C
3 4 (2.76%) QA
4 3 (2.07%) NCSC
5 2 (1.38%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.38%) GDPR
6 1 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (8.28%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.83%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 7 (4.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.14%) vSphere
4 4 (2.76%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 4 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.76%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.38%) Docker
6 1 (0.69%) LXC
6 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (11.72%) Ansible
1 17 (11.72%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.90%) Grafana
3 8 (5.52%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.45%) HP ALM
4 5 (3.45%) vCenter Server
5 4 (2.76%) Terraform
5 4 (2.76%) vRealize
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.69%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 32 (22.07%) Oracle
2 21 (14.48%) SAP
3 17 (11.72%) MuleSoft
3 17 (11.72%) Red Hat
4 13 (8.97%) IBM
4 13 (8.97%) VMware
5 12 (8.28%) Microsoft
6 8 (5.52%) Splunk
7 7 (4.83%) HP
8 5 (3.45%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.76%) Confluent
9 4 (2.76%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.76%) Veritas
10 3 (2.07%) Citrix
10 3 (2.07%) Dynatrace
10 3 (2.07%) ESRI
11 2 (1.38%) Concur
11 2 (1.38%) Dell
11 2 (1.38%) ForgeRock
12 1 (0.69%) SnapLogic