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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 307 290
Rank change year-on-year -25 -17 -42
Contract jobs citing Middleware 270 506 826
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.88% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.03% 3.78% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 345 583
10th Percentile £410 £383 £407
25th Percentile £475 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% +3.11%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £670
90th Percentile £788 £808 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £579 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +15.80% -4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £65.63 £50.00 -
25th Percentile £66.56 - -
Median hourly rate £71.25 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74.69 - -
90th Percentile £74.88 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +11.54% +18.18% -4.35%

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 8,899 13,396 23,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.86% 23.24% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,168 9,771 17,471
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 157 240
10th Percentile £21.25 £30.45 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.60
90th Percentile £74.90 £81.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.36% +29.00% +11.11%

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 14 May 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
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 14 May 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 -44 209 £600 +3.23% 97
London -18 143 £625 -3.85% 39
Work from Home +41 121 £591 -1.47% 47
UK excluding London +3 81 £579 +15.80% 58
Scotland +52 23 £613 -3.92% 3
North of England +25 17 £615 +17.14% 9
North West +28 12 £615 +17.14% 2
Midlands +2 11 £450 +28.57% 11
East of England +16 10 £581 -27.44% 9
South West -10 9 £700 +28.44% 9
West Midlands +22 8 £450 -14.29% 10
South East -9 8 £425 - 15
East Midlands -4 4 £418 +19.29% 1
Yorkshire +19 3 £511 -14.83% 2
Wales +12 3 £538 -
North East - 2 £650 - 5

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 (4.81%) WebSphere
2 11 (4.07%) Apache
3 10 (3.70%) Confluence
3 10 (3.70%) Tomcat
3 10 (3.70%) WebSphere Application Server
4 8 (2.96%) IBM HTTP Server
4 8 (2.96%) JBoss
4 8 (2.96%) WebSphere Portal
5 6 (2.22%) nginx
6 3 (1.11%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.74%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.74%) CMS
7 2 (0.74%) IIS
7 2 (0.74%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (3.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (4.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.22%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (2.22%) Temenos T24
3 5 (1.85%) Endur
3 5 (1.85%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 5 (1.85%) SAP SD
4 4 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.74%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.74%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.37%) SAP VC
6 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 77 (28.52%) Azure
2 58 (21.48%) AWS
3 23 (8.52%) GCP
4 18 (6.67%) IaaS
4 18 (6.67%) PaaS
4 18 (6.67%) SaaS
5 16 (5.93%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (4.07%) Twilio
7 9 (3.33%) GitHub
8 7 (2.59%) Firebase
9 6 (2.22%) BlazeMeter
9 6 (2.22%) BrowserStack
9 6 (2.22%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.22%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 5 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.48%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (1.48%) SuccessFactors
12 3 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.11%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.19%) Firewall
2 11 (4.07%) CTI
2 11 (4.07%) VoIP
3 10 (3.70%) LAN
4 9 (3.33%) HTTP
4 9 (3.33%) WAN
5 8 (2.96%) ATM
6 7 (2.59%) DNS
7 4 (1.48%) Network Security
8 3 (1.11%) Internet
9 2 (0.74%) AMQP
9 2 (0.74%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.74%) NAS
9 2 (0.74%) SAN
9 2 (0.74%) SSL
10 1 (0.37%) DHCP
10 1 (0.37%) MQTT
10 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.26%) Relational Database
2 22 (8.15%) SQL Server
3 16 (5.93%) NoSQL
4 15 (5.56%) RDBMS
5 14 (5.19%) Oracle Database
6 9 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.59%) KDB
9 6 (2.22%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.22%) PowerCenter
10 5 (1.85%) Oracle ODI
10 5 (1.85%) SAP HANA
11 4 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (1.48%) Power BI
12 3 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.11%) Big Data
12 3 (1.11%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.11%) OLAP
12 3 (1.11%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 26 (9.63%) JIRA
2 25 (9.26%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.41%) Git
4 15 (5.56%) Cucumber
5 12 (4.44%) GitLab
5 12 (4.44%) TeamCity
6 11 (4.07%) Cypress.io
6 11 (4.07%) Moq
6 11 (4.07%) NUnit
7 10 (3.70%) Artifactory
7 10 (3.70%) JMeter
8 9 (3.33%) Subversion
9 8 (2.96%) Postman
10 7 (2.59%) Appium
11 6 (2.22%) IBM UrbanCode
11 6 (2.22%) Maven
12 5 (1.85%) Selenium
13 4 (1.48%) Mocha
14 3 (1.11%) TestNG
14 3 (1.11%) WebDriver
General
1 86 (31.85%) Finance
2 84 (31.11%) Social Skills
3 44 (16.30%) Banking
4 39 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (7.04%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.56%) Front Office
7 13 (4.81%) Retail
8 11 (4.07%) Telecoms
9 9 (3.33%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.85%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.85%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.48%) Back Office
13 4 (1.48%) Billing
14 3 (1.11%) Automotive
15 2 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.74%) Electronics
15 2 (0.74%) Law
Job Titles
1 78 (28.89%) Architect
2 42 (15.56%) Solutions Architect
3 40 (14.81%) Senior
4 37 (13.70%) Developer
5 26 (9.63%) Analyst
6 16 (5.93%) C# Developer
7 14 (5.19%) Consultant
7 14 (5.19%) Middleware Engineer
8 13 (4.81%) Technical Architect
9 11 (4.07%) Cloud Architect
10 10 (3.70%) Azure Architect
11 8 (2.96%) Integration Architect
11 8 (2.96%) Lead
11 8 (2.96%) Python Engineer
11 8 (2.96%) Tester
12 7 (2.59%) DBA
12 7 (2.59%) Java Developer
12 7 (2.59%) Oracle DBA
12 7 (2.59%) Senior Architect
12 7 (2.59%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.37%) .NET
2 23 (8.52%) Web Services
3 17 (6.30%) REST
4 16 (5.93%) HTML
5 13 (4.81%) .NET Core
5 13 (4.81%) ASP.NET
5 13 (4.81%) RESTful
6 12 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
7 11 (4.07%) ASP.NET Web API
7 11 (4.07%) SignalR
7 11 (4.07%) SOAP
8 10 (3.70%) J2EE
8 10 (3.70%) Oracle Fusion
8 10 (3.70%) XML
9 9 (3.33%) ASP.NET Core
10 8 (2.96%) HTML5
10 8 (2.96%) Node.js
10 8 (2.96%) WebdriverIO
11 7 (2.59%) IBM Integration Bus
11 7 (2.59%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.93%) Management Information System
2 15 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (4.07%) IVR
3 11 (4.07%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 10 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (3.33%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 7 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.22%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.85%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.85%) DataPower
9 5 (1.85%) SCADA
10 4 (1.48%) Derivative
10 4 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.11%) Equities
11 3 (1.11%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (20.00%) Linux
2 52 (19.26%) Windows
3 34 (12.59%) Unix
4 20 (7.41%) Windows Server
5 17 (6.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.96%) AIX
7 4 (1.48%) Android
8 3 (1.11%) zOS
9 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.74%) Solaris
10 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (32.59%) Agile
2 51 (18.89%) Analytics
3 45 (16.67%) DevOps
4 40 (14.81%) Microservices
5 38 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (13.70%) ITIL
7 35 (12.96%) Waterfall
8 33 (12.22%) CI/CD
9 30 (11.11%) Migration
10 29 (10.74%) Test Automation
11 27 (10.00%) CRM
12 26 (9.63%) Continuous Integration
12 26 (9.63%) OO
13 25 (9.26%) Computer Science
14 24 (8.89%) Containerisation
14 24 (8.89%) SDLC
15 23 (8.52%) High Availability
16 22 (8.15%) Stakeholder Management
17 20 (7.41%) Data Modelling
18 19 (7.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 52 (19.26%) SQL
2 39 (14.44%) Python
3 36 (13.33%) Java
4 35 (12.96%) C#
5 25 (9.26%) JavaScript
5 25 (9.26%) PowerShell
6 12 (4.44%) Shell Script
7 11 (4.07%) C
7 11 (4.07%) C++
8 8 (2.96%) ABAP
8 8 (2.96%) Perl
9 6 (2.22%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.48%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.11%) Bash
12 2 (0.74%) Go
12 2 (0.74%) Groovy
12 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.74%) Scala
12 2 (0.74%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.74%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (11.48%) Degree
2 17 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (5.93%) Security Cleared
4 15 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.81%) Master's Degree
6 10 (3.70%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.33%) AWS Certification
7 9 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.48%) HND
9 2 (0.74%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.37%) ISEB
10 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.63%) QA
2 10 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.96%) GDPR
3 8 (2.96%) HIPAA
3 8 (2.96%) PCI DSS
3 8 (2.96%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.37%) MiFID
6 1 (0.37%) PMO
6 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (7.41%) Docker
2 13 (4.81%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.22%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.74%) vSphere
6 1 (0.37%) Cronacle
6 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (5.56%) Ansible
2 10 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.33%) BladeLogic
3 9 (3.33%) ITRS Geneos
4 8 (2.96%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 8 (2.96%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (2.22%) Data Guard
5 6 (2.22%) Terraform
6 2 (0.74%) Puppet
7 1 (0.37%) Control-M
7 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (0.37%) Grafana
7 1 (0.37%) MOM
7 1 (0.37%) Podman
7 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.37%) SCCM
Vendors
1 49 (18.15%) Oracle
2 43 (15.93%) Microsoft
3 25 (9.26%) SAP
4 23 (8.52%) IBM
5 18 (6.67%) TIBCO
6 14 (5.19%) Citrix
6 14 (5.19%) Google
7 13 (4.81%) Salesforce
8 12 (4.44%) Cisco
8 12 (4.44%) Dynatrace
9 11 (4.07%) Avaya
9 11 (4.07%) Genesys
9 11 (4.07%) VMware
10 10 (3.70%) Databricks
10 10 (3.70%) MuleSoft
11 9 (3.33%) Altiris
12 8 (2.96%) CyberArk
13 7 (2.59%) Informatica
13 7 (2.59%) Red Hat
13 7 (2.59%) Solace