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 26 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 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	165	135	141
Rank change year-on-year	-30	+6
Contract jobs citing Middleware	710	991	921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	1.51%	1.87%	1.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category	4.72%	6.56%	5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted	442	624	505
Median daily rate	£500	£475	£475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.26%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£380	£325	£330
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£600	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£495	£450	£450
% change year-on-year	+10.00%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	6	19	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	£23.60	£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	15051	15100	15398
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	32.01%	28.45%	27.53%
Number of daily rates quoted	10395	10636	10284
Median daily rate	£425	£420	£388
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+1.19%	+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	196	180	213
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£36.00	£37.45
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+18.05%	-3.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£21.00	£18.80	£17.86
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 26 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 26 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 26 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	-27	672	£513	+7.89%	124
London	-53	256	£550	+10.00%	55
East of England	+30	127	£525	+5.00%	12
Essex	+38	108	£538	+41.44%	8
South East	+3	98	£475	+2.15%	17
North West	-36	68	£425	-5.55%	12
West Midlands	+38	48	£540	+22.72%	9
Southend-on-Sea	-3	43	£507	+19.35%
Hampshire	+22	41	£475	+5.55%	3
City of London	-14	39	£588	+23.68%	9
Shropshire	+38	32	£550	+25.00%	2
Telford	+35	32	£550	+25.00%	2
South West	-4	29	£515	-6.36%	5
Manchester	-13	29	£413	-2.94%	6
Surrey	+21	24	£475	+28.37%
Lancashire	-1	24	£466	+12.34%	1
Wiltshire	+15	22	£544	-1.13%	1
Swindon	+8	21	£544	-1.13%	1
Scotland	+2	20	£397	-6.64%	10
Preston	-2	20	£460	-	1
Berkshire	-16	16	£463	-11.90%	6
East Midlands	-16	16	£500	+5.26%	3
Glasgow	+20	15	£394	-17.00%	7
Yorkshire	-4	13	£438	-12.50%	9
Leicester	+5	11	£500	+40.84%	1
Leicestershire	0	11	£500	+40.84%	1
Cheshire	-11	11	£363	-27.50%	5
Bedfordshire	-4	10	£350	-39.13%
Basingstoke	-5	9	£342	-51.28%	1
Buckinghamshire	-39	9	£550	+27.90%	3

Middleware
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 26 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 (34.94%)	Agile Software Development
2	430 (32.45%)	Linux
3	413 (31.17%)	Java
4	404 (30.49%)	Finance
5	392 (29.58%)	Oracle
6	334 (25.21%)	SOA
7	303 (22.87%)	Unix
8	253 (19.09%)	Windows
9	239 (18.04%)	DevOps
10	229 (17.28%)	TDD
11	225 (16.98%)	SQL
12	224 (16.91%)	Banking
13	217 (16.38%)	Scrum
14	191 (14.42%)	IBM
15	189 (14.26%)	Continuous Integration

16	185 (13.96%)	XML
17	177 (13.36%)	Oracle SOA Suite
18	166 (12.53%)	Jenkins
19	156 (11.77%)	JSON
20	153 (11.55%)	Web Services
21	149 (11.25%)	SQL Server
22	146 (11.02%)	WebSphere
22	146 (11.02%)	Test Automation
23	140 (10.57%)	XSLT
24	136 (10.26%)	Git (software)
25	130 (9.81%)	Microsoft
26	129 (9.74%)	SOAP
27	125 (9.43%)	Business Intelligence
28	122 (9.21%)	JBoss
29	120 (9.06%)	WSO2

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	177 (13.36%)	Oracle SOA Suite
2	146 (11.02%)	WebSphere
3	122 (9.21%)	JBoss
4	115 (8.68%)	Apache
5	96 (7.25%)	Tomcat
6	88 (6.64%)	WebLogic
7	82 (6.19%)	Oracle Service Bus
8	69 (5.21%)	Mule
9	56 (4.23%)	WebSphere Application Server
10	46 (3.47%)	IIS
11	38 (2.87%)	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%)	OpenStack
18	16 (1.21%)	Oracle Coherence
19	15 (1.13%)	WildFly

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 (6.26%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	21 (1.58%)	Oracle BPM
3	20 (1.51%)	Oracle EBS
4	10 (0.75%)	ION MarketView
4	10 (0.75%)	Oracle Applications
4	10 (0.75%)	Oracle Utilities
5	8 (0.60%)	Oracle EBS R12
6	7 (0.53%)	Oracle 11i
6	7 (0.53%)	Siebel CRM
7	6 (0.45%)	Oracle ERP
8	5 (0.38%)	Markit EDM
9	4 (0.30%)	BusinessWorks
9	4 (0.30%)	Eagle PACE
10	3 (0.23%)	NetSuite
10	3 (0.23%)	Oracle Retail
10	3 (0.23%)	RMDS
10	3 (0.23%)	SAP CRM
11	2 (0.15%)	Endur
11	2 (0.15%)	Maximo
11	2 (0.15%)	Teamcenter

Cloud Services
1	104 (7.85%)	Amazon AWS
2	77 (5.81%)	Microsoft Azure
3	48 (3.62%)	PaaS
4	39 (2.94%)	IaaS
5	37 (2.79%)	OpenShift
6	32 (2.42%)	Cloud Computing
6	32 (2.42%)	SaaS
7	20 (1.51%)	GitHub
8	18 (1.36%)	AWS CloudFormation
9	11 (0.83%)	Google Cloud Platform
10	10 (0.75%)	Salesforce Service Cloud
11	8 (0.60%)	Amazon EC2
12	7 (0.53%)	IBM Cloud
13	6 (0.45%)	Bluemix
14	5 (0.38%)	Amazon S3
14	5 (0.38%)	CloudFront
14	5 (0.38%)	Virtual Private Cloud
15	4 (0.30%)	Office 365
16	3 (0.23%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
16	3 (0.23%)	Google App Engine

Communications & Networking
1	102 (7.70%)	HTTP
2	99 (7.47%)	SSL
3	76 (5.74%)	TCP/IP
4	41 (3.09%)	Firewall
5	36 (2.72%)	DNS
6	27 (2.04%)	FTP
7	26 (1.96%)	LDAP
8	20 (1.51%)	Internet
8	20 (1.51%)	WAN
9	19 (1.43%)	SSH
10	18 (1.36%)	Kerberos
10	18 (1.36%)	LAN
11	15 (1.13%)	SAN
11	15 (1.13%)	SNMP
12	13 (0.98%)	Network Security
13	12 (0.91%)	VPN
14	11 (0.83%)	Ethernet
15	10 (0.75%)	Broadband
15	10 (0.75%)	NAS
16	9 (0.68%)	MPLS

Database & Business Intelligence
1	149 (11.25%)	SQL Server
2	106 (8.00%)	Relational Database
3	98 (7.40%)	Oracle Database
4	59 (4.45%)	Hadoop
5	51 (3.85%)	MySQL
6	49 (3.70%)	Oracle Database 11g
7	43 (3.25%)	RDBMS
8	42 (3.17%)	DB2
8	42 (3.17%)	Oracle Database 12c
9	39 (2.94%)	Data Warehouse
10	37 (2.79%)	Big Data
11	30 (2.26%)	NoSQL
12	22 (1.66%)	Ingres
13	20 (1.51%)	Apache Cassandra
13	20 (1.51%)	Oracle Database 10g
13	20 (1.51%)	Oracle ODI
14	18 (1.36%)	PostgreSQL
15	17 (1.28%)	Data Mining
16	16 (1.21%)	MongoDB
17	15 (1.13%)	Hazelcast

Development Applications
1	166 (12.53%)	Jenkins
2	136 (10.26%)	Git (software)
3	116 (8.75%)	Maven
4	113 (8.53%)	Subversion
5	57 (4.30%)	JIRA
6	46 (3.47%)	SoapUI
7	35 (2.64%)	JUnit
8	23 (1.74%)	Cucumber
9	20 (1.51%)	Sonatype Nexus
10	19 (1.43%)	Oracle APEX
10	19 (1.43%)	Team Foundation Server
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	12 (0.91%)	Atlassian Bamboo
16	10 (0.75%)	Artifactory
16	10 (0.75%)	Gradle

General
1	404 (30.49%)	Finance
2	224 (16.91%)	Banking
3	117 (8.83%)	Telecoms
4	89 (6.72%)	Electronics
5	88 (6.64%)	Manufacturing
5	88 (6.64%)	Marketing
6	54 (4.08%)	Investment Banking
7	47 (3.55%)	Front Office
8	36 (2.72%)	Retail
9	16 (1.21%)	Legal
9	16 (1.21%)	Prime Brokerage
10	11 (0.83%)	Financial Institution
11	8 (0.60%)	Billing
12	7 (0.53%)	Law
13	6 (0.45%)	Advertising
13	6 (0.45%)	Publishing
14	5 (0.38%)	Automotive
14	5 (0.38%)	French Language
15	4 (0.30%)	Back Office
15	4 (0.30%)	Local Government

Job Titles
1	458 (34.57%)	Developer
2	212 (16.00%)	Architect
3	163 (12.30%)	Java Developer
4	106 (8.00%)	Analyst
5	85 (6.42%)	Consultant
6	81 (6.11%)	Solutions Architect
7	77 (5.81%)	DevOps Engineer
7	77 (5.81%)	Senior Developer
8	66 (4.98%)	SOA Developer
9	63 (4.75%)	Middleware Developer
10	53 (4.00%)	Agile Developer
11	51 (3.85%)	Integration Developer
11	51 (3.85%)	Technical Architect
12	40 (3.02%)	Middleware Engineer
13	35 (2.64%)	Business Analyst
14	34 (2.57%)	Senior Java Developer
15	32 (2.42%)	DBA
15	32 (2.42%)	Scala Developer
16	30 (2.26%)	Oracle DBA
16	30 (2.26%)	Project Manager

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	185 (13.96%)	XML
2	156 (11.77%)	JSON
3	153 (11.55%)	Web Services
4	140 (10.57%)	XSLT
5	129 (9.74%)	SOAP
6	114 (8.60%)	REST
7	106 (8.00%)	Spring
8	97 (7.32%)	J2EE
9	92 (6.94%)	Apache Camel
10	86 (6.49%)	Oracle Fusion
11	83 (6.26%)	.NET
12	82 (6.19%)	HTML
13	67 (5.06%)	RESTful
14	60 (4.53%)	JMS
15	58 (4.38%)	WebSphere MQ
15	58 (4.38%)	WireMock
16	56 (4.23%)	HTML5
17	50 (3.77%)	Swagger
18	48 (3.62%)	XSD
19	46 (3.47%)	CSS

Miscellaneous
1	76 (5.74%)	Analytical Skills
1	76 (5.74%)	Greenfield Project
2	73 (5.51%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
3	65 (4.91%)	Data Centre
4	49 (3.70%)	Fixed Income
5	47 (3.55%)	Mainframe
6	42 (3.17%)	Computer Science
6	42 (3.17%)	Derivative
7	38 (2.87%)	Enterprise Software
8	33 (2.49%)	Management Information System
9	27 (2.04%)	Equities
10	24 (1.81%)	DataPower
11	23 (1.74%)	Clustering
11	23 (1.74%)	Mobile App
12	22 (1.66%)	N-Tier
13	21 (1.58%)	SWIFT
14	20 (1.51%)	Data Structures
14	20 (1.51%)	Virtual Team
15	19 (1.43%)	Client/Server
15	19 (1.43%)	STB

Operating Systems
1	430 (32.45%)	Linux
2	303 (22.87%)	Unix
3	253 (19.09%)	Windows
4	109 (8.23%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	80 (6.04%)	Solaris
6	72 (5.43%)	AIX
7	46 (3.47%)	Windows Server
8	36 (2.72%)	Mac OS X
9	24 (1.81%)	HPUX
10	23 (1.74%)	Oracle Linux
11	21 (1.58%)	zOS
12	18 (1.36%)	Windows Server 2012
13	14 (1.06%)	Windows Server 2008
14	13 (0.98%)	Android
15	12 (0.91%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16	9 (0.68%)	Apple iOS
17	8 (0.60%)	SUSE
18	6 (0.45%)	CentOS
19	5 (0.38%)	Embedded Linux
19	5 (0.38%)	Windows 10

Processes & Methodologies
1	463 (34.94%)	Agile Software Development
2	334 (25.21%)	SOA
3	239 (18.04%)	DevOps
4	229 (17.28%)	TDD
5	217 (16.38%)	Scrum
6	189 (14.26%)	Continuous Integration
7	146 (11.02%)	Test Automation
8	125 (9.43%)	Business Intelligence
9	110 (8.30%)	Migration
10	101 (7.62%)	Software Engineering
11	100 (7.55%)	Configuration Management
12	98 (7.40%)	Multithreading
13	96 (7.25%)	Kanban
14	90 (6.79%)	Microservices
15	89 (6.72%)	Open Source
16	87 (6.57%)	Programme Management
17	82 (6.19%)	Digital Marketing
18	77 (5.81%)	Mentoring
19	72 (5.43%)	ITIL
20	70 (5.28%)	OO

Programming Languages
1	413 (31.17%)	Java
2	225 (16.98%)	SQL
3	100 (7.55%)	Perl
4	84 (6.34%)	JavaScript
5	78 (5.89%)	Python
6	75 (5.66%)	C++
7	73 (5.51%)	Shell Script
8	72 (5.43%)	C#
9	58 (4.38%)	XPath
10	55 (4.15%)	C
11	40 (3.02%)	Scala
12	33 (2.49%)	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 (0.91%)	Groovy
17	10 (0.75%)	Korn
17	10 (0.75%)	Ruby
18	9 (0.68%)	Apex Code

Qualifications
1	94 (7.09%)	Security Cleared
2	79 (5.96%)	SC Cleared
3	50 (3.77%)	Degree
4	34 (2.57%)	BPSS Clearance
5	18 (1.36%)	CISSP
6	14 (1.06%)	Computer Science Degree
7	13 (0.98%)	CISM
8	12 (0.91%)	ISEB
9	11 (0.83%)	Cisco Certification
10	9 (0.68%)	CISA
11	8 (0.60%)	Master's Degree
12	7 (0.53%)	DV Cleared
12	7 (0.53%)	ISTQB
12	7 (0.53%)	Microsoft Certification
13	6 (0.45%)	CCNA
13	6 (0.45%)	JNCIA
14	4 (0.30%)	ISSAP
15	3 (0.23%)	CCIE
15	3 (0.23%)	CCIP
15	3 (0.23%)	CCNP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	24 (1.81%)	MiFID
2	23 (1.74%)	QA
3	18 (1.36%)	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%)	EMIR
12	1 (0.075%)	PA-DSS
12	1 (0.075%)	Sarbanes-Oxley

System Software
1	95 (7.17%)	Docker
2	67 (5.06%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	60 (4.53%)	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	13 (0.98%)	Virtual Machines
8	11 (0.83%)	Hyper-V
9	10 (0.75%)	Apache ZooKeeper
10	7 (0.53%)	Job Entry Subsystem
10	7 (0.53%)	KVM
10	7 (0.53%)	RACF
10	7 (0.53%)	vSphere
11	6 (0.45%)	Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12	5 (0.38%)	Apache Flume
13	4 (0.30%)	GFS2
13	4 (0.30%)	OCFS2
13	4 (0.30%)	Platform Symphony
14	3 (0.23%)	VMware Workstation

Systems Management
1	110 (8.30%)	Puppet
2	90 (6.79%)	Ansible
3	74 (5.58%)	Opscode Chef
4	34 (2.57%)	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 (0.91%)	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	392 (29.58%)	Oracle
2	191 (14.42%)	IBM
3	130 (9.81%)	Microsoft
4	120 (9.06%)	WSO2
5	116 (8.75%)	SAP
6	109 (8.23%)	TIBCO
7	95 (7.17%)	Red Hat
8	88 (6.64%)	VMware
9	46 (3.47%)	Sybase
10	38 (2.87%)	MuleSoft
10	38 (2.87%)	Splunk
11	31 (2.34%)	Solace
12	25 (1.89%)	HP
13	24 (1.81%)	CA
14	23 (1.74%)	Cisco
14	23 (1.74%)	Citrix
14	23 (1.74%)	IBM Sterling
15	20 (1.51%)	Salesforce.com
16	17 (1.28%)	Google
16	17 (1.28%)	Veritas