Middleware Job Trends in England

Middleware
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Middleware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 427 413
Rank change year-on-year +67 -14 -86
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 241 268 279
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.55% 0.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.89% 2.56% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 168 141 196
10th Percentile £46,375 £40,000 £44,375
25th Percentile £57,299 £47,603 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,250 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +15.38% -6.40% +6.84%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Middleware falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,194 10,482 11,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.92% 21.45% 24.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4,762 6,174 9,671
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,004 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,863 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £85,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Middleware relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Middleware job vacancy trend in England

Middleware
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Middleware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Middleware

Middleware
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Middleware in England over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Middleware in England

Middleware
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the England region over the 6 months to 4 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +82 107 £85,000 +13.33% 44
South East -38 40 £60,000 +9.09% 22
Midlands +25 32 £72,500 +31.82% 10
North of England +22 25 £72,966 +26.90% 19
West Midlands +28 21 £72,500 +38.10% 9
East of England +26 17 £55,000 -21.43% 3
North West +28 15 £75,000 +19.26% 12
South West +7 12 £42,500 -13.12% 14
East Midlands +7 11 £77,850 +35.39% 1
Yorkshire -3 8 £62,216 +39.90% 7
North East +7 2 £74,216 +34.94%
Middleware
UK

Middleware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (6.64%) Kinematics
2 15 (6.22%) WebSphere
3 12 (4.98%) JBoss
4 9 (3.73%) SharePoint
5 7 (2.90%) CMS
6 6 (2.49%) Confluence
7 5 (2.07%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (1.66%) IIS
8 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (1.66%) Tomcat
9 3 (1.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (1.24%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.83%) Apache
10 2 (0.83%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.83%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.83%) WordPress
11 1 (0.41%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.41%) WildFly
Applications
1 9 (3.73%) Maya
2 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 35 (14.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (4.15%) SAP IBP
3 9 (3.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (2.07%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (2.07%) Magento
4 5 (2.07%) SAP MDG
4 5 (2.07%) Shopify
5 4 (1.66%) NetSuite
6 3 (1.24%) SAP CX
6 3 (1.24%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.83%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.83%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.41%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 60 (24.90%) Azure
2 31 (12.86%) SaaS
3 30 (12.45%) AWS
4 13 (5.39%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (5.39%) Power Platform
5 12 (4.98%) GCP
6 9 (3.73%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (3.73%) PaaS
6 9 (3.73%) Serverless
7 8 (3.32%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 7 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (2.90%) Boomi
8 7 (2.90%) iPaaS
8 7 (2.90%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 6 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.49%) OpenShift
9 6 (2.49%) Workato
10 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (2.07%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.49%) DNS
2 3 (1.24%) MQTT
2 3 (1.24%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.24%) WAN
3 2 (0.83%) DHCP
3 2 (0.83%) Firewall
3 2 (0.83%) LAN
4 1 (0.41%) Modbus
4 1 (0.41%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.30%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.39%) SAP BW
3 10 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (3.73%) Power BI
5 5 (2.07%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.66%) Tableau
7 3 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.83%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.83%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.41%) DB2
9 1 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.41%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.41%) Metadata
9 1 (0.41%) MS Access
9 1 (0.41%) MySQL
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.41%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 16 (6.64%) JIRA
2 10 (4.15%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.90%) GitLab
3 7 (2.90%) Postman
3 7 (2.90%) Selenium
4 6 (2.49%) JMeter
4 6 (2.49%) LoadRunner
5 5 (2.07%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.24%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.24%) Git
7 3 (1.24%) SoapUI
7 3 (1.24%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.83%) Ant
8 2 (0.83%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.83%) Maven
8 2 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 92 (38.17%) Social Skills
2 90 (37.34%) Finance
3 57 (23.65%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (19.50%) Banking
5 16 (6.64%) Electronics
5 16 (6.64%) Law
6 15 (6.22%) Manufacturing
7 13 (5.39%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (4.56%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.73%) Games
9 9 (3.73%) Telecoms
10 8 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.90%) Automotive
12 6 (2.49%) Legal
12 6 (2.49%) Marketing
12 6 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (2.07%) Back Office
14 3 (1.24%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.83%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 104 (43.15%) Architect
2 45 (18.67%) Lead
3 40 (16.60%) Senior
4 39 (16.18%) Solutions Architect
5 31 (12.86%) Developer
6 24 (9.96%) Senior Architect
7 22 (9.13%) Integration Architect
8 17 (7.05%) Technical Architect
9 16 (6.64%) Software Architect
10 15 (6.22%) Robotics Engineer
10 15 (6.22%) SAP Architect
11 14 (5.81%) Technical Leader
12 13 (5.39%) SAP Developer
13 12 (4.98%) Cloud Architect
13 12 (4.98%) Cloud Solutions Architect
13 12 (4.98%) Integration Specialist
14 11 (4.56%) Integration Developer
15 10 (4.15%) IT Architect
16 9 (3.73%) Enterprise Architect
17 8 (3.32%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (25.31%) REST
2 46 (19.09%) SOAP
3 26 (10.79%) .NET
4 14 (5.81%) JMS
5 13 (5.39%) BAPI
5 13 (5.39%) IBM Integration Bus
5 13 (5.39%) OAuth
5 13 (5.39%) SAML
6 12 (4.98%) Kafka
6 12 (4.98%) Spring
7 11 (4.56%) GraphQL
8 10 (4.15%) Hibernate
8 10 (4.15%) JSON
8 10 (4.15%) Lightning Web Components
8 10 (4.15%) Visualforce
9 5 (2.07%) ASP.NET
9 5 (2.07%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (2.07%) RESTful
9 5 (2.07%) XML
10 4 (1.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.79%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (6.64%) Algorithms
2 16 (6.64%) Robotics
3 15 (6.22%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.15%) DataPower
4 10 (4.15%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.90%) PMI
5 7 (2.90%) Reinsurance
6 5 (2.07%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.66%) Augmented Reality
7 4 (1.66%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.24%) Life Science
8 3 (1.24%) LIMS
8 3 (1.24%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.83%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.83%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.41%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.05%) Linux
2 11 (4.56%) Windows
3 10 (4.15%) Unix
4 7 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.49%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.66%) AIX
6 4 (1.66%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.66%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.66%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.41%) Android
7 1 (0.41%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (43.15%) Agile
2 90 (37.34%) DevOps
3 57 (23.65%) Microservices
4 52 (21.58%) Roadmaps
5 50 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (19.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 43 (17.84%) Computer Science
8 42 (17.43%) CI/CD
9 41 (17.01%) Software Engineering
10 40 (16.60%) ERP
10 40 (16.60%) Mentoring
11 35 (14.52%) Technical Leadership
12 30 (12.45%) Event-Driven
12 30 (12.45%) Project Management
13 29 (12.03%) Waterfall
14 28 (11.62%) Migration
15 27 (11.20%) Project Delivery
15 27 (11.20%) Validation
16 26 (10.79%) SDLC
17 25 (10.37%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (17.43%) SQL
2 32 (13.28%) Python
3 26 (10.79%) C#
3 26 (10.79%) Java
4 18 (7.47%) C++
4 18 (7.47%) JavaScript
5 15 (6.22%) C
6 13 (5.39%) PowerShell
7 10 (4.15%) Apex Code
7 10 (4.15%) Bash
8 7 (2.90%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.07%) ABAP
9 5 (2.07%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.83%) Groovy
10 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.83%) SOQL
10 2 (0.83%) SOSL
11 1 (0.41%) PHP
11 1 (0.41%) VB
11 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 58 (24.07%) Degree
2 41 (17.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (8.30%) Master's Degree
4 18 (7.47%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.47%) Security Cleared
5 16 (6.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (6.64%) Chartered Engineer
6 7 (2.90%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.07%) SAP Certification
8 3 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.83%) CCNA
9 2 (0.83%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.41%) CCNP
10 1 (0.41%) CISA
10 1 (0.41%) CISSP
10 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.41%) FFIEC
10 1 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.64%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 10 (4.15%) QA
3 7 (2.90%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.49%) GDPR
5 5 (2.07%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.24%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 3 (1.24%) GxP
7 2 (0.83%) IFRS
8 1 (0.41%) COBIT
8 1 (0.41%) DICOM
8 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.41%) HL7
8 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (2.49%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.66%) Docker
2 4 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (2.90%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.49%) Ansible
2 6 (2.49%) Puppet
3 4 (1.66%) Control-M
3 4 (1.66%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.24%) HP Fortify
4 3 (1.24%) Netcool
5 2 (0.83%) Grafana
5 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.83%) Podman
5 2 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (17.01%) Microsoft
2 38 (15.77%) SAP
3 24 (9.96%) Salesforce
4 23 (9.54%) IBM
5 22 (9.13%) MuleSoft
6 18 (7.47%) Oracle
7 15 (6.22%) Ariba
8 13 (5.39%) Software AG
9 11 (4.56%) ServiceNow
10 8 (3.32%) Concur
11 6 (2.49%) HubSpot
12 5 (2.07%) ConnectWise
12 5 (2.07%) Red Hat
12 5 (2.07%) Sage
12 5 (2.07%) WooCommerce
13 4 (1.66%) Atlassian
13 4 (1.66%) Telerik
13 4 (1.66%) VMware
14 3 (1.24%) Agilent
14 3 (1.24%) SolarWinds