Middleware Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Middleware
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Middleware skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 27 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Middleware 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.51% 0.71% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.26% 2.78% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £800 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £595 £590 £540
% change year-on-year +0.85% +9.26% -6.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 19 36 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 9.64% 25.71% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 22 46
10th Percentile £267 £364 £414
25th Percentile £278 £402 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £289 £443 £563
Median % change year-on-year -34.69% -21.33% +2.27%
75th Percentile £408 £583 £678
90th Percentile £550 £625 £680
South East median daily rate £474 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -9.71% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Middleware relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Middleware job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Middleware
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Middleware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Middleware

Middleware
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 12 October 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
Worthing -1 1 £625 -21.88%
Middleware
South East

Middleware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Back Office
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Fit Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) VMware