Middleware Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Middleware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Middleware over the 3 months to 27 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Middleware UK
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	163	130	139
Rank change year-on-year	-33	+9
Contract jobs citing Middleware	709	1008	905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	1.50%	1.87%	1.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category	4.70%	6.56%	5.96%
Number of daily rates quoted	439	634	499
Median daily rate	£503	£475	£475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.84%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£388	£324	£330
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£600	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£500	£450	£450
% change year-on-year	+11.11%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	6	22	7
Median hourly rate	£35.00	£28.00	£40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+25.00%	-30.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£15.83	£24.00	£22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.67	£40.00	£47.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£35.00	£28.00	£40.00
% change year-on-year	+25.00%	-30.00%

Middleware is in the industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills.

Contract Software Library & Framework Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills	15079	15377	15197
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	32.00%	28.48%	27.55%
Number of daily rates quoted	10419	10829	10153
Median daily rate	£430	£420	£388
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.38%	+8.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£315	£300	£285
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£580	£550	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	197	188	210
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£36.00	£37.80
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+18.05%	-4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£21.00	£18.80	£18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£55.00	£50.00	£55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£36.00	£40.00
% change year-on-year	+18.05%	-10.00%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Middleware as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category.

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in the UK

Middleware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Middleware.

Contractor daily rate trend for Middleware in the UK

Middleware
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Middleware over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Middleware in the UK

Middleware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Middleware in the UK

Middleware
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Middleware over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Middleware in the UK

Middleware
Top 30 Contract Locations

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 over the 3 months to 27 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-30	673	£513	+7.89%	138
London	-44	258	£550	+10.00%	62
East of England	+31	125	£525	+5.00%	17
Essex	+40	108	£538	+41.44%	9
South East	-13	98	£469	-1.31%	16
North West	-39	67	£438	-2.77%	13
West Midlands	+34	49	£550	+25.00%	8
Southend-on-Sea	-3	43	£507	+19.35%	1
City of London	-9	42	£594	+25.00%	7
Hampshire	+24	41	£460	+2.22%	4
Telford	+36	34	£550	+25.00%	2
Shropshire	+34	34	£550	+25.00%	2
Manchester	-12	29	£450	+5.88%	9
South West	-7	28	£526	-4.31%	5
Surrey	+23	24	£475	+28.37%
Lancashire	-3	24	£466	+12.34%
Wiltshire	+9	22	£544	-1.13%	1
Swindon	+13	21	£544	-1.13%	1
Preston	-2	20	£460	-
Scotland	-1	18	£419	-1.52%	9
East Midlands	-12	18	£500	+5.26%	4
Berkshire	-12	17	£463	-11.90%	5
Glasgow	+16	13	£419	-11.89%	5
Yorkshire	+1	13	£438	-12.50%	11
Leicester	+6	11	£500	+40.84%	1
Leicestershire	+1	11	£500	+40.84%	1
Cheshire	-13	11	£363	-27.50%	4
Bedfordshire	-6	10	£350	-39.13%
Portsmouth	+2	9	£384	+13.70%
Basingstoke	-5	9	£342	-51.28%	2

Middleware
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Middleware also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Middleware.

1	463 (34.89%)	Agile Software Development
2	432 (32.55%)	Linux
3	415 (31.27%)	Java
4	404 (30.44%)	Finance
5	387 (29.16%)	Oracle
6	335 (25.24%)	SOA
7	304 (22.91%)	Unix
8	252 (18.99%)	Windows
9	239 (18.01%)	DevOps
10	228 (17.18%)	TDD
11	226 (17.03%)	Banking
12	224 (16.88%)	SQL
13	218 (16.43%)	Scrum
14	190 (14.32%)	IBM
15	188 (14.17%)	Continuous Integration

16	186 (14.02%)	XML
17	176 (13.26%)	Oracle SOA Suite
18	166 (12.51%)	Jenkins
19	158 (11.91%)	JSON
20	153 (11.53%)	Web Services
21	149 (11.23%)	SQL Server
22	146 (11.00%)	WebSphere
22	146 (11.00%)	Test Automation
23	141 (10.63%)	XSLT
24	137 (10.32%)	Git (software)
25	129 (9.72%)	SOAP
26	128 (9.65%)	Microsoft
27	125 (9.42%)	Business Intelligence
28	122 (9.19%)	WSO2
29	121 (9.12%)	JBoss

Middleware
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	176 (13.26%)	Oracle SOA Suite
2	146 (11.00%)	WebSphere
3	121 (9.12%)	JBoss
4	113 (8.52%)	Apache
5	94 (7.08%)	Tomcat
6	85 (6.41%)	WebLogic
7	82 (6.18%)	Oracle Service Bus
8	70 (5.28%)	Mule
9	55 (4.14%)	WebSphere Application Server
10	45 (3.39%)	IIS
11	38 (2.86%)	Confluence
12	28 (2.11%)	MQSeries
13	26 (1.96%)	BizTalk Server
14	21 (1.58%)	Apache Spark
15	20 (1.51%)	SharePoint
16	18 (1.36%)	Elasticsearch
17	17 (1.28%)	CMS
18	16 (1.21%)	IBM HTTP Server
18	16 (1.21%)	OpenStack
18	16 (1.21%)	Oracle Coherence

Applications
1	26 (1.96%)	Microsoft Excel
2	15 (1.13%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
3	14 (1.06%)	MS Visio
4	9 (0.68%)	Microsoft Office
5	6 (0.45%)	Microsoft Project
6	2 (0.15%)	HipChat

Business Applications
1	83 (6.25%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	20 (1.51%)	Oracle BPM
2	20 (1.51%)	Oracle EBS
3	10 (0.75%)	ION MarketView
3	10 (0.75%)	Oracle Applications
3	10 (0.75%)	Oracle Utilities
4	7 (0.53%)	Oracle 11i
4	7 (0.53%)	Siebel CRM
5	6 (0.45%)	Oracle EBS R12
5	6 (0.45%)	Oracle ERP
6	5 (0.38%)	Markit EDM
7	4 (0.30%)	BusinessWorks
7	4 (0.30%)	Eagle PACE
8	3 (0.23%)	NetSuite
8	3 (0.23%)	Oracle Retail
8	3 (0.23%)	RMDS
8	3 (0.23%)	SAP CRM
9	2 (0.15%)	Dynamics CRM
9	2 (0.15%)	Maximo
9	2 (0.15%)	Teamcenter

Cloud Services
1	102 (7.69%)	Amazon AWS
2	76 (5.73%)	Microsoft Azure
3	47 (3.54%)	PaaS
4	38 (2.86%)	IaaS
5	37 (2.79%)	OpenShift
6	32 (2.41%)	Cloud Computing
7	31 (2.34%)	SaaS
8	19 (1.43%)	GitHub
9	18 (1.36%)	AWS CloudFormation
10	11 (0.83%)	Google Cloud Platform
11	10 (0.75%)	Salesforce Service Cloud
12	8 (0.60%)	Amazon EC2
13	7 (0.53%)	IBM Cloud
14	6 (0.45%)	Bluemix
15	5 (0.38%)	Amazon S3
15	5 (0.38%)	CloudFront
15	5 (0.38%)	Virtual Private Cloud
16	4 (0.30%)	Office 365
17	3 (0.23%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
17	3 (0.23%)	Google App Engine

Communications & Networking
1	104 (7.84%)	HTTP
2	100 (7.54%)	SSL
3	76 (5.73%)	TCP/IP
4	40 (3.01%)	Firewall
5	35 (2.64%)	DNS
6	28 (2.11%)	LDAP
7	27 (2.03%)	FTP
8	20 (1.51%)	Internet
9	19 (1.43%)	SSH
9	19 (1.43%)	WAN
10	18 (1.36%)	Kerberos
11	17 (1.28%)	LAN
12	16 (1.21%)	SNMP
13	14 (1.06%)	SAN
14	13 (0.98%)	Network Security
15	11 (0.83%)	Ethernet
15	11 (0.83%)	VPN
16	10 (0.75%)	Broadband
16	10 (0.75%)	NAS
17	9 (0.68%)	AMQP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	149 (11.23%)	SQL Server
2	105 (7.91%)	Relational Database
3	96 (7.23%)	Oracle Database
4	59 (4.45%)	Hadoop
5	51 (3.84%)	MySQL
6	48 (3.62%)	Oracle Database 11g
7	43 (3.24%)	DB2
8	42 (3.17%)	RDBMS
9	41 (3.09%)	Oracle Database 12c
10	39 (2.94%)	Data Warehouse
11	38 (2.86%)	Big Data
12	30 (2.26%)	NoSQL
13	22 (1.66%)	Ingres
14	20 (1.51%)	Apache Cassandra
14	20 (1.51%)	Oracle ODI
15	19 (1.43%)	Oracle Database 10g
16	18 (1.36%)	PostgreSQL
17	17 (1.28%)	Data Mining
18	16 (1.21%)	MongoDB
19	15 (1.13%)	Hazelcast

Development Applications
1	166 (12.51%)	Jenkins
2	137 (10.32%)	Git (software)
3	115 (8.67%)	Maven
4	114 (8.59%)	Subversion
5	57 (4.30%)	JIRA
6	47 (3.54%)	SoapUI
7	35 (2.64%)	JUnit
8	23 (1.73%)	Cucumber
9	19 (1.43%)	Sonatype Nexus
9	19 (1.43%)	Team Foundation Server
10	18 (1.36%)	Oracle APEX
11	17 (1.28%)	Eclipse
12	16 (1.21%)	TeamCity
13	14 (1.06%)	Bitbucket
13	14 (1.06%)	Selenium
14	13 (0.98%)	Oracle Forms
14	13 (0.98%)	webpack
15	11 (0.83%)	Atlassian Bamboo
16	10 (0.75%)	Artifactory
16	10 (0.75%)	Gradle

General
1	404 (30.44%)	Finance
2	226 (17.03%)	Banking
3	118 (8.89%)	Telecoms
4	89 (6.71%)	Electronics
5	88 (6.63%)	Manufacturing
5	88 (6.63%)	Marketing
6	53 (3.99%)	Investment Banking
7	47 (3.54%)	Front Office
8	36 (2.71%)	Retail
9	16 (1.21%)	Legal
10	15 (1.13%)	Prime Brokerage
11	11 (0.83%)	Financial Institution
12	8 (0.60%)	Billing
13	7 (0.53%)	Law
14	6 (0.45%)	Publishing
15	5 (0.38%)	Advertising
15	5 (0.38%)	Automotive
15	5 (0.38%)	French Language
16	4 (0.30%)	Back Office
16	4 (0.30%)	Local Government

Job Titles
1	459 (34.59%)	Developer
2	213 (16.05%)	Architect
3	163 (12.28%)	Java Developer
4	108 (8.14%)	Analyst
5	85 (6.41%)	Consultant
6	82 (6.18%)	Solutions Architect
7	77 (5.80%)	DevOps Engineer
8	76 (5.73%)	Senior Developer
9	66 (4.97%)	SOA Developer
10	65 (4.90%)	Middleware Developer
11	53 (3.99%)	Agile Developer
11	53 (3.99%)	Integration Developer
12	50 (3.77%)	Technical Architect
13	40 (3.01%)	Middleware Engineer
14	35 (2.64%)	Business Analyst
15	33 (2.49%)	Scala Developer
15	33 (2.49%)	Senior Java Developer
16	31 (2.34%)	Infrastructure Architect
17	30 (2.26%)	DBA
17	30 (2.26%)	Project Manager

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	186 (14.02%)	XML
2	158 (11.91%)	JSON
3	153 (11.53%)	Web Services
4	141 (10.63%)	XSLT
5	129 (9.72%)	SOAP
6	113 (8.52%)	REST
7	104 (7.84%)	Spring
8	95 (7.16%)	J2EE
9	93 (7.01%)	Apache Camel
10	84 (6.33%)	.NET
11	82 (6.18%)	Oracle Fusion
12	80 (6.03%)	HTML
13	66 (4.97%)	RESTful
14	59 (4.45%)	JMS
14	59 (4.45%)	WebSphere MQ
15	58 (4.37%)	WireMock
16	56 (4.22%)	HTML5
17	50 (3.77%)	Swagger
18	49 (3.69%)	XSD
19	45 (3.39%)	RabbitMQ

Miscellaneous
1	76 (5.73%)	Analytical Skills
1	76 (5.73%)	Greenfield Project
2	73 (5.50%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
3	65 (4.90%)	Data Centre
4	50 (3.77%)	Fixed Income
5	47 (3.54%)	Mainframe
6	42 (3.17%)	Computer Science
6	42 (3.17%)	Derivative
7	38 (2.86%)	Enterprise Software
8	33 (2.49%)	Management Information System
9	27 (2.03%)	Equities
10	23 (1.73%)	DataPower
11	22 (1.66%)	Clustering
11	22 (1.66%)	Mobile App
11	22 (1.66%)	N-Tier
12	21 (1.58%)	Data Structures
12	21 (1.58%)	SWIFT
13	20 (1.51%)	Virtual Team
14	19 (1.43%)	Client/Server
14	19 (1.43%)	STB

Operating Systems
1	432 (32.55%)	Linux
2	304 (22.91%)	Unix
3	252 (18.99%)	Windows
4	110 (8.29%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	80 (6.03%)	Solaris
6	73 (5.50%)	AIX
7	45 (3.39%)	Windows Server
8	37 (2.79%)	Mac OS X
9	24 (1.81%)	HPUX
10	23 (1.73%)	Oracle Linux
11	22 (1.66%)	zOS
12	18 (1.36%)	Windows Server 2012
13	14 (1.06%)	Windows Server 2008
14	13 (0.98%)	Android
15	12 (0.90%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16	9 (0.68%)	Apple iOS
16	9 (0.68%)	SUSE
17	6 (0.45%)	CentOS
18	5 (0.38%)	Embedded Linux
18	5 (0.38%)	Windows 10

Processes & Methodologies
1	463 (34.89%)	Agile Software Development
2	335 (25.24%)	SOA
3	239 (18.01%)	DevOps
4	228 (17.18%)	TDD
5	218 (16.43%)	Scrum
6	188 (14.17%)	Continuous Integration
7	146 (11.00%)	Test Automation
8	125 (9.42%)	Business Intelligence
9	109 (8.21%)	Migration
10	101 (7.61%)	Software Engineering
11	100 (7.54%)	Configuration Management
12	99 (7.46%)	Multithreading
13	97 (7.31%)	Kanban
14	90 (6.78%)	Microservices
15	89 (6.71%)	Open Source
16	87 (6.56%)	Programme Management
17	82 (6.18%)	Digital Marketing
18	78 (5.88%)	Mentoring
19	73 (5.50%)	ITIL
20	70 (5.28%)	OO

Programming Languages
1	415 (31.27%)	Java
2	224 (16.88%)	SQL
3	100 (7.54%)	Perl
4	83 (6.25%)	JavaScript
5	78 (5.88%)	Python
6	74 (5.58%)	C++
7	73 (5.50%)	Shell Script
8	72 (5.43%)	C#
9	58 (4.37%)	XPath
10	54 (4.07%)	C
11	41 (3.09%)	Scala
12	31 (2.34%)	PL/SQL
13	30 (2.26%)	PowerShell
14	22 (1.66%)	JCL
15	21 (1.58%)	Bash Shell
15	21 (1.58%)	ES6
16	12 (0.90%)	Groovy
17	10 (0.75%)	Korn
17	10 (0.75%)	Ruby
18	9 (0.68%)	Apex Code

Qualifications
1	92 (6.93%)	Security Cleared
2	77 (5.80%)	SC Cleared
3	50 (3.77%)	Degree
4	34 (2.56%)	BPSS Clearance
5	18 (1.36%)	CISSP
6	14 (1.06%)	Computer Science Degree
7	13 (0.98%)	CISM
8	12 (0.90%)	ISEB
9	10 (0.75%)	Cisco Certification
10	9 (0.68%)	CISA
11	8 (0.60%)	Master's Degree
12	7 (0.53%)	ISTQB
13	6 (0.45%)	CCNA
13	6 (0.45%)	DV Cleared
13	6 (0.45%)	JNCIA
13	6 (0.45%)	Microsoft Certification
14	4 (0.30%)	ISSAP
15	3 (0.23%)	CCIP
15	3 (0.23%)	CCNP
15	3 (0.23%)	Oracle Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	24 (1.81%)	MiFID
2	23 (1.73%)	QA
3	19 (1.43%)	PCI DSS
4	13 (0.98%)	SEPA
5	9 (0.68%)	SLA
6	7 (0.53%)	Disclosure Scotland
7	6 (0.45%)	JSP 440
8	5 (0.38%)	Data Quality
9	4 (0.30%)	FedRAMP
9	4 (0.30%)	GDPR
9	4 (0.30%)	ISO 20022
10	3 (0.23%)	Solvency II
11	2 (0.15%)	GCP
11	2 (0.15%)	PMBOK
11	2 (0.15%)	PMO
12	1 (0.075%)	COBIT
12	1 (0.075%)	COSO
12	1 (0.075%)	ISO/IEC 27001
12	1 (0.075%)	PA-DSS
12	1 (0.075%)	Sarbanes-Oxley

System Software
1	93 (7.01%)	Docker
2	67 (5.05%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	60 (4.52%)	Active Directory
4	28 (2.11%)	Oracle RAC
5	21 (1.58%)	Time Sharing Option
6	15 (1.13%)	HDFS
6	15 (1.13%)	VMware ESXi
7	12 (0.90%)	Virtual Machines
8	10 (0.75%)	Apache ZooKeeper
8	10 (0.75%)	Hyper-V
9	7 (0.53%)	Job Entry Subsystem
9	7 (0.53%)	KVM
9	7 (0.53%)	RACF
9	7 (0.53%)	vSphere
10	6 (0.45%)	Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11	5 (0.38%)	Apache Flume
12	4 (0.30%)	GFS2
12	4 (0.30%)	OCFS2
12	4 (0.30%)	Platform Symphony
13	3 (0.23%)	VMware Workstation

Systems Management
1	108 (8.14%)	Puppet
2	91 (6.86%)	Ansible
3	73 (5.50%)	Opscode Chef
4	34 (2.56%)	Kubernetes
5	18 (1.36%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
6	15 (1.13%)	Kibana
6	15 (1.13%)	vRealize
7	14 (1.06%)	Oracle RMAN
8	13 (0.98%)	Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8	13 (0.98%)	Terraform
9	12 (0.90%)	NetBackup
10	11 (0.83%)	Hadoop YARN
10	11 (0.83%)	Prometheus
10	11 (0.83%)	Tivoli
10	11 (0.83%)	ZABBIX
11	9 (0.68%)	Grafana
11	9 (0.68%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
12	8 (0.60%)	SCOM
13	7 (0.53%)	CA Single Sign-On
13	7 (0.53%)	Data Guard

Vendors
1	387 (29.16%)	Oracle
2	190 (14.32%)	IBM
3	128 (9.65%)	Microsoft
4	122 (9.19%)	WSO2
5	116 (8.74%)	SAP
6	109 (8.21%)	TIBCO
7	95 (7.16%)	Red Hat
8	88 (6.63%)	VMware
9	45 (3.39%)	Sybase
10	40 (3.01%)	MuleSoft
11	38 (2.86%)	Splunk
12	31 (2.34%)	Solace
13	25 (1.88%)	HP
14	24 (1.81%)	CA
15	23 (1.73%)	IBM Sterling
16	22 (1.66%)	Cisco
16	22 (1.66%)	Citrix
17	20 (1.51%)	Salesforce.com
18	17 (1.28%)	Veritas
19	16 (1.21%)	Google