Middleware Contracts in the West Midlands

Middleware
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 102 131
Rank change year-on-year +22 +29 +26
Contract jobs citing Middleware 17 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.26% 0.46% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.46% 3.49% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 3
10th Percentile £400 - £493
25th Percentile £409 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £675 £591 £656
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -0.86%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 228 258 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.95% 13.25% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 189 247
10th Percentile £384 £310 £360
25th Percentile £422 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £619 £645 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 0
10th Percentile - £29.60 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £39.92 -
Median hourly rate £33.91 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.23% - -
75th Percentile - £55.63 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Middleware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Middleware in the West Midlands

Middleware
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Middleware in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Middleware in the West Midlands

Middleware
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +24 10 £438 -37.50% 3
Warwickshire +5 7 £463 +2.78% 3
Middleware
England

Middleware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (35.29%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
1 4 (23.53%) GCP
1 4 (23.53%) Power Automate
1 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
1 4 (23.53%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) NetScaler
1 2 (11.76%) SSL
2 1 (5.88%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (23.53%) Data Lake
3 2 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) JIRA
General
1 8 (47.06%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (23.53%) Legal
5 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 2 (11.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Tester
2 4 (23.53%) Applications Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Junior
2 4 (23.53%) Junior Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Junior Solutions Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Applications Support
3 3 (17.65%) Applications Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Support Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Administrator
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Support Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Tester
5 1 (5.88%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Software Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Software Support Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) HTML
2 3 (17.65%) .NET
3 2 (11.76%) Web Services
4 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Product Ownership
1 5 (29.41%) SCADA
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
1 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (47.06%) Root Cause Analysis
3 7 (41.18%) Agile
4 6 (35.29%) Change Management
4 6 (35.29%) Incident Management
4 6 (35.29%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (29.41%) Defect Management
5 5 (29.41%) Scenario Testing
5 5 (29.41%) Scrum
5 5 (29.41%) System Integration Testing
5 5 (29.41%) Systems Engineering
5 5 (29.41%) Test Assurance
5 5 (29.41%) Test Management
5 5 (29.41%) Test Strategy
5 5 (29.41%) User Stories
6 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
6 4 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (23.53%) ERP
6 4 (23.53%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (23.53%) Interface Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) PowerShell
2 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
2 6 (35.29%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) C#
4 2 (11.76%) Perl
4 2 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) DV Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (11.76%) Degree
4 2 (11.76%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) HP ALM
2 2 (11.76%) Grafana
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 7 (41.18%) HP
3 5 (29.41%) MuleSoft
3 5 (29.41%) Oracle
4 2 (11.76%) Dell
4 2 (11.76%) IBM