Middleware Job Trends in London

Middleware
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Middleware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 308 352
Rank change year-on-year -6 +44 -2
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 98 93 138
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.51% 0.72% 0.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.18% 2.69% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 72 47 117
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,750 £55,578
25th Percentile £68,125 £73,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £97,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +18.18% +13.79%
75th Percentile £105,000 £127,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £108,375 £131,000 £126,000
England median annual salary £73,500 £66,367 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.75% +2.10% -3.70%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,085 3,458 5,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.19% 26.79% 24.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,157 2,492 4,701
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Middleware job vacancy trend in London

Middleware
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Middleware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Middleware

Middleware
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Middleware in London over the 6 months to 15 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Middleware in London

Middleware
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the London region over the 6 months to 15 April 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
Central London -15 4 £110,000 +4.76% 5
East London - 1 £80,000 -
Middleware
England

Middleware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 10 (10.20%) JBoss
1 10 (10.20%) WebSphere
2 8 (8.16%) Confluence
3 4 (4.08%) CMS
3 4 (4.08%) IIS
3 4 (4.08%) Tomcat
4 3 (3.06%) Apache
4 3 (3.06%) WordPress
5 2 (2.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Maya
1 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (8.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.06%) Markit EDM
3 2 (2.04%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (2.04%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (2.04%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (2.04%) SAP CX
4 1 (1.02%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.02%) Fidessa
4 1 (1.02%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.02%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 27 (27.55%) Azure
2 22 (22.45%) SaaS
3 11 (11.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 10 (10.20%) AWS
4 10 (10.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 5 (5.10%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.08%) GCP
6 4 (4.08%) GitHub
6 4 (4.08%) OpenShift
6 4 (4.08%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.06%) dbt
7 3 (3.06%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.04%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.04%) iPaaS
8 2 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.04%) Serverless
9 1 (1.02%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.12%) DNS
2 3 (3.06%) CHAP
3 2 (2.04%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.08%) Power BI
4 3 (3.06%) DB2
4 3 (3.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (3.06%) Tableau
5 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.02%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.02%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.02%) MS Access
6 1 (1.02%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.02%) SAP BW
6 1 (1.02%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (11.22%) JIRA
2 7 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.12%) GitLab
4 5 (5.10%) Git
5 4 (4.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (4.08%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.06%) Selenium
7 2 (2.04%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.04%) JMeter
7 2 (2.04%) LoadRunner
7 2 (2.04%) Postman
7 2 (2.04%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (2.04%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.02%) LabVIEW
8 1 (1.02%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (1.02%) Subversion
General
1 57 (58.16%) Finance
1 57 (58.16%) Social Skills
2 31 (31.63%) Banking
3 23 (23.47%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (10.20%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (8.16%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.06%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.06%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.06%) Marketing
8 2 (2.04%) Billing
8 2 (2.04%) Law
8 2 (2.04%) Retail
9 1 (1.02%) Front Office
9 1 (1.02%) Games
9 1 (1.02%) Legal
9 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (53.06%) Architect
2 30 (30.61%) Solutions Architect
3 18 (18.37%) Integration Architect
3 18 (18.37%) Senior
4 16 (16.33%) Developer
5 11 (11.22%) Salesforce Developer
5 11 (11.22%) Senior Architect
6 10 (10.20%) Cloud Architect
6 10 (10.20%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 10 (10.20%) Lead
7 7 (7.14%) Technical Architect
8 5 (5.10%) Technical Leader
9 4 (4.08%) Administrator
9 4 (4.08%) Analyst
9 4 (4.08%) Enterprise Architect
9 4 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) SAP Architect
9 4 (4.08%) Senior Systems Administrator
9 4 (4.08%) Systems Administrator
10 3 (3.06%) SAP Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (32.65%) REST
2 26 (26.53%) SOAP
3 18 (18.37%) .NET
4 13 (13.27%) Lightning Web Components
5 12 (12.24%) Visualforce
6 11 (11.22%) Spring
7 10 (10.20%) GraphQL
7 10 (10.20%) Hibernate
8 5 (5.10%) Kafka
9 2 (2.04%) CSS
9 2 (2.04%) HTML
9 2 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (2.04%) XBRL
10 1 (1.02%) AngularJS
10 1 (1.02%) FIX Protocol
10 1 (1.02%) JMS
10 1 (1.02%) Node.js
10 1 (1.02%) RESTful
10 1 (1.02%) SAP PI
10 1 (1.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.20%) DataPower
3 8 (8.16%) Management Information System
3 8 (8.16%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.06%) Blockchain
5 3 (3.06%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.04%) NHS
6 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.04%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.02%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (1.02%) Blog
7 1 (1.02%) Equities
7 1 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.02%) PKI
7 1 (1.02%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.22%) Linux
2 9 (9.18%) Windows
3 7 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.08%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.08%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (4.08%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (4.08%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.06%) AIX
5 3 (3.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (52.04%) DevOps
2 49 (50.00%) Agile
3 42 (42.86%) Microservices
4 34 (34.69%) CI/CD
5 32 (32.65%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (32.65%) Technical Leadership
6 31 (31.63%) Roadmaps
7 25 (25.51%) Stakeholder Management
8 20 (20.41%) Computer Science
9 17 (17.35%) Validation
10 16 (16.33%) ERP
10 16 (16.33%) Event-Driven
10 16 (16.33%) Integration Patterns
11 14 (14.29%) Data Integration
12 13 (13.27%) Data Modelling
12 13 (13.27%) Decision-Making
12 13 (13.27%) Mentoring
12 13 (13.27%) Strategic Roadmap
13 12 (12.24%) Architectural Design
13 12 (12.24%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.45%) Java
2 18 (18.37%) Python
2 18 (18.37%) SQL
3 13 (13.27%) Apex Code
4 12 (12.24%) JavaScript
5 7 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.08%) Bash
6 4 (4.08%) SOQL
6 4 (4.08%) SOSL
7 3 (3.06%) C#
7 3 (3.06%) PHP
7 3 (3.06%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.04%) C++
8 2 (2.04%) Perl
8 2 (2.04%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.02%) Go
9 1 (1.02%) Rust
9 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (29.59%) Degree
2 19 (19.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (14.29%) Master's Degree
4 12 (12.24%) SC Cleared
4 12 (12.24%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.08%) CGEIT
5 4 (4.08%) CISA
5 4 (4.08%) CISM
5 4 (4.08%) CISSP
5 4 (4.08%) FFIEC
5 4 (4.08%) SANS
6 2 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.04%) SAP Certification
6 2 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.10%) GDPR
2 4 (4.08%) COBIT
2 4 (4.08%) NIST
3 3 (3.06%) QA
4 2 (2.04%) IFRS
5 1 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.08%) Docker
3 1 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.02%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.08%) Ansible
2 4 (4.08%) Progress Chef
2 4 (4.08%) Puppet
3 3 (3.06%) Control-M
4 2 (2.04%) Terraform
5 1 (1.02%) Grafana
Vendors
1 20 (20.41%) Salesforce
2 15 (15.31%) MuleSoft
3 13 (13.27%) Microsoft
3 13 (13.27%) SAP
4 10 (10.20%) Software AG
5 8 (8.16%) Oracle
6 7 (7.14%) Red Hat
7 5 (5.10%) VMware
8 4 (4.08%) Ariba
8 4 (4.08%) Atlassian
8 4 (4.08%) ServiceNow
9 3 (3.06%) Citrix
9 3 (3.06%) Databricks
9 3 (3.06%) Informatica
10 2 (2.04%) Concur
10 2 (2.04%) InterSystems
10 2 (2.04%) OpenText
11 1 (1.02%) Bloomberg
11 1 (1.02%) Charles River
11 1 (1.02%) Sage