Middleware Job Trends in Scotland

Middleware
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Middleware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 127 160
Rank change year-on-year -3 +33 +2
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 9 22 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.33% 0.82% 1.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.86% 3.58% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 24
10th Percentile £63,725 - £56,219
25th Percentile - £56,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,700 £62,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +37.12% -10.00% +15.75%
75th Percentile - £68,750 £88,750
90th Percentile - - £117,236
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% +7.69%

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 315 614 945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.58% 22.77% 31.94%
Number of salaries quoted 119 355 516
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £28,625 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £73,908 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,140 £85,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Middleware job vacancy trend in Scotland

Middleware
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Middleware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Middleware

Middleware
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Middleware in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

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 1 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
East Ayrshire - 3 £85,700 -
Glasgow +20 2 £43,000 - 1
South Ayrshire - 2 £85,700 -
Edinburgh -29 1 - - 3
Moray - 1 - -
Middleware
UK

Middleware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) JBoss
1 1 (11.11%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Boomi
1 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Ant
1 1 (11.11%) Artifactory
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Maven
1 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Architect
1 6 (66.67%) Software Architect
2 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Head of Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Head of Software Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Integration Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Scripter
2 1 (11.11%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Windows DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) JMS
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) SOAP
1 1 (11.11%) Web Services
1 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 7 (77.78%) Configuration Management
3 6 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 6 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (66.67%) Design Patterns
3 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 6 (66.67%) Open Source
3 6 (66.67%) SDLC
3 6 (66.67%) UML
3 6 (66.67%) Waterfall
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) Data Integration
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
4 1 (11.11%) Release Management
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (11.11%) Storage Management
4 1 (11.11%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Groovy
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 6 (66.67%) Chartered Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 12207
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Podman
1 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft