Middleware Contracts

Middleware
UK

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 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 308 288
Rank change year-on-year -47 -20 -47
Contract jobs citing Middleware 254 507 854
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.85% 0.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.86% 3.64% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 343 609
10th Percentile £413 £363 £406
25th Percentile £488 £478 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +2.22%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £670
90th Percentile £775 £800 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £579 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +21.89% -9.52% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile £54.00 £44.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £58.13 £57.50 £37.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £40.62
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +60.04% -29.37%
75th Percentile £74.38 - £45.81
90th Percentile £74.75 - £51.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £40.62
% change year-on-year -3.85% +60.04% -29.37%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Middleware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in the UK

Middleware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Middleware.

Daily rate trend for Middleware in the UK

Middleware
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Middleware over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in the UK

Middleware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Middleware.

Hourly rate trend for Middleware in the UK

Middleware
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Middleware over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Middleware in the UK

Middleware
Top 16 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 6 months to 27 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
England -39 201 £600 +4.35% 79
London -10 137 £625 -3.85% 37
Work from Home +42 114 £582 -3.00% 36
UK excluding London -3 82 £579 +21.89% 37
Scotland +45 24 £613 +2.08%
North of England +30 17 £603 +20.50% 8
Midlands +1 12 £450 +28.57% 4
North West +12 11 £615 +23.00% 1
East of England +19 10 £581 -29.10% 3
West Midlands +31 9 £450 -14.29% 3
South West +2 8 £763 +41.20% 6
South East -6 8 £425 - 16
Yorkshire +19 4 £511 +2.20% 4
East Midlands -4 4 £418 +19.29% 1
Wales +9 3 £538 +10.26% 1
North East - 2 £650 - 3

Middleware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (5.12%) WebSphere
2 11 (4.33%) Apache
2 11 (4.33%) Tomcat
3 10 (3.94%) WebSphere Application Server
4 8 (3.15%) IBM HTTP Server
4 8 (3.15%) WebSphere Portal
5 7 (2.76%) Confluence
5 7 (2.76%) JBoss
6 6 (2.36%) nginx
7 3 (1.18%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.79%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.79%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.79%) CMS
8 2 (0.79%) IIS
8 2 (0.79%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (4.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.36%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (2.36%) SAP SD
2 6 (2.36%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.18%) Endur
3 3 (1.18%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.79%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.39%) SAP Convergent Charging
5 1 (0.39%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.39%) SAP Travel Management
5 1 (0.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 60 (23.62%) Azure
2 40 (15.75%) AWS
3 17 (6.69%) SaaS
4 16 (6.30%) IaaS
4 16 (6.30%) PaaS
5 14 (5.51%) GCP
6 10 (3.94%) GitHub
7 6 (2.36%) Power Platform
8 5 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (1.97%) Firebase
9 4 (1.57%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.57%) BlazeMeter
9 4 (1.57%) BrowserStack
9 4 (1.57%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 4 (1.57%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.18%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.51%) Firewall
2 12 (4.72%) LAN
3 11 (4.33%) WAN
4 9 (3.54%) HTTP
5 8 (3.15%) ATM
6 7 (2.76%) DNS
7 4 (1.57%) Network Security
8 3 (1.18%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.79%) AMQP
9 2 (0.79%) Internet
9 2 (0.79%) NAS
9 2 (0.79%) SAN
9 2 (0.79%) SSL
10 1 (0.39%) DHCP
10 1 (0.39%) MQTT
10 1 (0.39%) Multicast
10 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.48%) Relational Database
2 17 (6.69%) NoSQL
3 16 (6.30%) Oracle Database
4 14 (5.51%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.54%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (3.54%) RDBMS
6 7 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.36%) KDB
7 6 (2.36%) PowerCenter
8 5 (1.97%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.97%) Oracle ODI
8 5 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.57%) SAP HANA
10 3 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.18%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.18%) MySQL
10 3 (1.18%) Power BI
11 2 (0.79%) Oracle Database 12c
11 2 (0.79%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 22 (8.66%) Jenkins
2 21 (8.27%) JIRA
3 19 (7.48%) Git
4 16 (6.30%) Cucumber
5 13 (5.12%) TeamCity
6 12 (4.72%) Moq
6 12 (4.72%) NUnit
7 10 (3.94%) GitLab
8 9 (3.54%) Artifactory
8 9 (3.54%) Cypress.io
8 9 (3.54%) Subversion
9 8 (3.15%) JMeter
10 6 (2.36%) IBM UrbanCode
10 6 (2.36%) Postman
11 5 (1.97%) Appium
11 5 (1.97%) Maven
11 5 (1.97%) Mocha
12 4 (1.57%) Selenium
13 3 (1.18%) TestNG
13 3 (1.18%) WebDriver
General
1 74 (29.13%) Finance
1 74 (29.13%) Social Skills
2 45 (17.72%) Banking
3 32 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.30%) Front Office
5 11 (4.33%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.94%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.57%) Back Office
8 4 (1.57%) Billing
8 4 (1.57%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.57%) Retail
9 3 (1.18%) Automotive
10 2 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.79%) Electronics
10 2 (0.79%) Law
10 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (27.56%) Architect
2 38 (14.96%) Senior
3 36 (14.17%) Developer
4 35 (13.78%) Solutions Architect
5 24 (9.45%) Analyst
6 17 (6.69%) C# Developer
7 14 (5.51%) Middleware Engineer
7 14 (5.51%) Technical Architect
8 13 (5.12%) Lead
9 12 (4.72%) Cloud Architect
10 10 (3.94%) Consultant
11 9 (3.54%) Azure Architect
11 9 (3.54%) DBA
11 9 (3.54%) Oracle DBA
12 8 (3.15%) Python Engineer
13 7 (2.76%) Administrator
13 7 (2.76%) Integration Architect
13 7 (2.76%) Senior Architect
13 7 (2.76%) Senior Middleware Engineer
13 7 (2.76%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.42%) .NET
2 17 (6.69%) Web Services
3 16 (6.30%) REST
4 15 (5.91%) XML
5 14 (5.51%) .NET Core
5 14 (5.51%) ASP.NET
5 14 (5.51%) RESTful
6 13 (5.12%) RabbitMQ
7 12 (4.72%) ASP.NET Web API
7 12 (4.72%) SignalR
8 11 (4.33%) SOAP
9 10 (3.94%) ASP.NET Core
9 10 (3.94%) J2EE
10 9 (3.54%) Oracle Fusion
11 8 (3.15%) HTML
11 8 (3.15%) JSON
11 8 (3.15%) Node.js
12 7 (2.76%) IBM Integration Bus
12 7 (2.76%) Rendezvous
12 7 (2.76%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.30%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (4.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (4.33%) Public Cloud
3 10 (3.94%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 7 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.36%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.36%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.97%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.97%) DataPower
7 5 (1.97%) Derivative
7 5 (1.97%) SCADA
8 4 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.57%) Equities
8 4 (1.57%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.57%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.18%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.18%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (18.90%) Linux
2 47 (18.50%) Windows
3 27 (10.63%) Unix
4 21 (8.27%) Windows Server
5 11 (4.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.54%) AIX
7 5 (1.97%) Android
8 3 (1.18%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.18%) Solaris
9 2 (0.79%) zOS
10 1 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (31.50%) Agile
2 42 (16.54%) Microservices
3 38 (14.96%) Waterfall
4 37 (14.57%) ITIL
5 36 (14.17%) DevOps
6 32 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (12.20%) Analytics
7 31 (12.20%) CI/CD
8 30 (11.81%) Test Automation
9 28 (11.02%) Migration
10 26 (10.24%) Continuous Integration
10 26 (10.24%) OO
11 25 (9.84%) Containerisation
12 24 (9.45%) High Availability
12 24 (9.45%) SDLC
13 21 (8.27%) Data Modelling
13 21 (8.27%) IT Strategy
14 18 (7.09%) Business Strategy
14 18 (7.09%) Electronic Trading
15 17 (6.69%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (17.32%) SQL
2 40 (15.75%) Python
3 35 (13.78%) Java
4 33 (12.99%) C#
5 25 (9.84%) PowerShell
6 24 (9.45%) JavaScript
7 12 (4.72%) Shell Script
8 10 (3.94%) C++
9 8 (3.15%) C
9 8 (3.15%) Perl
10 7 (2.76%) ABAP
10 7 (2.76%) XPath
11 5 (1.97%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.57%) Apex Code
13 3 (1.18%) Bash
14 2 (0.79%) Go
14 2 (0.79%) Scala
14 2 (0.79%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.79%) VBScript
15 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (8.66%) Degree
2 11 (4.33%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.94%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.57%) HND
6 3 (1.18%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.39%) ISEB
7 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.66%) QA
2 9 (3.54%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.39%) COREP
5 1 (0.39%) IFRS
5 1 (0.39%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.39%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.39%) MiFID
5 1 (0.39%) PMO
5 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (8.27%) Docker
2 9 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.76%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.79%) vSphere
5 1 (0.39%) Cronacle
5 1 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (5.91%) Ansible
2 10 (3.94%) ITRS Geneos
3 9 (3.54%) BladeLogic
4 8 (3.15%) Kubernetes
4 8 (3.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 8 (3.15%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (2.76%) Terraform
6 6 (2.36%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.79%) Puppet
8 1 (0.39%) Control-M
8 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (0.39%) Grafana
8 1 (0.39%) MOM
8 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 43 (16.93%) Oracle
2 25 (9.84%) IBM
3 23 (9.06%) Microsoft
4 21 (8.27%) SAP
5 19 (7.48%) TIBCO
6 14 (5.51%) Citrix
7 12 (4.72%) Dynatrace
7 12 (4.72%) VMware
8 11 (4.33%) Salesforce
9 9 (3.54%) Altiris
9 9 (3.54%) Databricks
9 9 (3.54%) MuleSoft
10 8 (3.15%) Red Hat
11 7 (2.76%) Informatica
12 6 (2.36%) Solace
12 6 (2.36%) Temenos
13 5 (1.97%) BMC
13 5 (1.97%) Google
13 5 (1.97%) Workday
14 4 (1.57%) ServiceNow