Middleware Jobs in Scotland

Middleware
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Middleware skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Middleware over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 237 188
Rank change year-on-year +105 -49 -10
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 23 43 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.77% 0.64% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.52% 1.88% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 13 11 26
10th Percentile - £59,750 £51,833
25th Percentile £37,574 £62,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £66,500 £64,763
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +2.68% -5.80%
75th Percentile £68,750 £95,000 £88,403
90th Percentile - £97,500 £104,584
UK median annual salary £65,684 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.05% - +1.36%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 417 2,290 1,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.05% 34.13% 30.38%
Number of salaries quoted 271 644 738
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,625 £40,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,100 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £80,000 £89,897
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +5.88%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Middleware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in Scotland

Middleware
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Middleware in Scotland.

Salary trend for Middleware in Scotland

Middleware
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Middleware in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Middleware in Scotland

Middleware
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +19 13 £57,500 -23.33% 3
Aberdeenshire - 5 £62,500 -
Moray - 2 £40,101 -
East Ayrshire - 1 £40,101 -
South Ayrshire - 1 £40,101 -
Fife - 1 £40,101 -
Middleware
UK

Middleware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (21.74%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) GitHub
2 4 (17.39%) AWS
2 4 (17.39%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) GCP
2 4 (17.39%) IaaS
2 4 (17.39%) PaaS
3 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) SSL
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Eclipse
1 5 (21.74%) Eclipse RCP
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Software Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Junior
2 5 (21.74%) Junior Software Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Robotics Software Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Java Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Auditor
4 3 (13.04%) Security Auditor
4 3 (13.04%) Senior
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Auditor
5 2 (8.70%) Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Project Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Head of Engineering
6 1 (4.35%) Head of Software Engineering
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead
6 1 (4.35%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) CSS
1 5 (21.74%) HTML
1 5 (21.74%) JSP
2 4 (17.39%) REST
2 4 (17.39%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Robotics
2 4 (17.39%) Algorithms
2 4 (17.39%) Data Structures
2 4 (17.39%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Clustering
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (47.83%) Linux
2 5 (21.74%) Robot Operating System
2 5 (21.74%) Windows
3 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.70%) Solaris
3 2 (8.70%) Unix
3 2 (8.70%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Software Engineering
2 10 (43.48%) Continuous Integration
2 10 (43.48%) OO
2 10 (43.48%) Unit Testing
3 7 (30.43%) DevOps
4 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
4 6 (26.09%) Mentoring
4 6 (26.09%) SDLC
4 6 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (21.74%) Analytics
5 5 (21.74%) Business Analytics
5 5 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (21.74%) ETL
5 5 (21.74%) Mathematics
5 5 (21.74%) OOD
5 5 (21.74%) OOP
5 5 (21.74%) Physics
5 5 (21.74%) Remote Testing
5 5 (21.74%) UML
6 4 (17.39%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) C++
2 9 (39.13%) Java
2 9 (39.13%) Python
3 5 (21.74%) Ada
3 5 (21.74%) C#
3 5 (21.74%) Rust
3 5 (21.74%) SQL
4 4 (17.39%) C
4 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (43.48%) Degree
2 5 (21.74%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (21.74%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.35%) CISA
3 1 (4.35%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.35%) Fortinet