Middleware Job Trends in the North West

Middleware
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Middleware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 189 183
Rank change year-on-year +17 -6 +55
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 14 16 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.22% 0.32% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.58% 1.82% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 13 8 17
10th Percentile £54,573 £53,750 £36,270
25th Percentile £64,439 £58,802 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £63,277 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.53% -3.39% +16.44%
75th Percentile £86,250 £68,114 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £69,845 £75,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% +1.71%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 542 880 1,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.51% 17.41% 24.90%
Number of salaries quoted 468 552 902
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,550 £36,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £59,013
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,125 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -3.70%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Middleware job vacancy trend in the North West

Middleware
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Middleware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Middleware

Middleware
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Middleware in the North West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Middleware in the North West

Middleware
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Manchester +22 8 £82,500 +24.31% 6
Merseyside - 4 £75,000 -
Lancashire +10 2 £55,466 -12.34% 2
Middleware
England

Middleware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (35.71%) CMS
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (7.14%) Apache
3 1 (7.14%) Headless CMS
3 1 (7.14%) JBoss
3 1 (7.14%) Magnolia
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (7.14%) WebSphere
3 1 (7.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (28.57%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (28.57%) Slack
2 4 (28.57%) Zapier
3 3 (21.43%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) iPaaS
3 3 (21.43%) SaaS
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 2 (14.29%) Intacct
4 2 (14.29%) OneDrive
4 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 2 (14.29%) Serverless
4 2 (14.29%) Workato
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.14%) IaaS
5 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DHCP
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Postman
2 1 (7.14%) Ant
2 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Maven
2 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Marketing
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Lead
1 5 (35.71%) Senior
1 5 (35.71%) Technical Leader
2 2 (14.29%) Applications Specialist
2 2 (14.29%) Applications Support
2 2 (14.29%) Applications Support Specialist
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Applications Support
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Support Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Windows DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Data Structures
2 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
3 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Agile
1 4 (28.57%) API Integration
1 4 (28.57%) CRM
1 4 (28.57%) Data Architecture
1 4 (28.57%) Sales Enablement
2 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (21.43%) Migration
2 3 (21.43%) Project Management
3 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis
3 2 (14.29%) Data Management
3 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (14.29%) Information Security
3 2 (14.29%) Investment Management
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 2 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) Groovy
3 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Podman
2 1 (7.14%) Puppet
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) HubSpot
2 4 (28.57%) Salesforce
3 2 (14.29%) Concur
3 2 (14.29%) Sage
4 1 (7.14%) Dell
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.14%) Software AG
4 1 (7.14%) webMethods