Middleware Job Trends in Manchester

Middleware
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Middleware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 147 134
Rank change year-on-year +24 -13 +85
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 8 10 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.28% 0.38% 0.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.17% 1.72% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 16
10th Percentile £58,720 - £36,270
25th Percentile £70,808 £64,621 £51,232
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £66,367 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.31% -0.20% -3.81%
75th Percentile £93,750 £71,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £94,250 £72,731 £75,000
North West median annual salary £75,000 £63,277 £65,500
% change year-on-year +18.53% -3.39% +16.44%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 368 580 800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 12.68% 21.86% 31.40%
Number of salaries quoted 316 350 642
10th Percentile £29,875 £41,500 £38,800
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £74,750
90th Percentile £85,625 £87,500 £86,125
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.24% +3.52%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Middleware job vacancy trend in Manchester

Middleware
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Middleware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Middleware

Middleware
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Middleware in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Middleware in Manchester

Middleware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) JBoss
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) iPaaS
3 3 (37.50%) SaaS
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (25.00%) Intacct
4 2 (25.00%) OneDrive
4 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (25.00%) Workato
5 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (12.50%) Boomi
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 1 (12.50%) Serverless
5 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DHCP
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Ant
1 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Maven
1 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Applications Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Applications Support
2 2 (25.00%) Applications Support Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Applications Support
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Support Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Scripter
3 1 (12.50%) Windows DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (25.00%) Fintech
2 2 (25.00%) Information Security
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (25.00%) Investment Management
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Storage Management
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bash
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Groovy
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Podman
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Concur
2 2 (25.00%) Sage
3 1 (12.50%) Dell
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) Software AG
3 1 (12.50%) webMethods