Middleware Job Trends in the South East

Middleware
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Middleware skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 199 219
Rank change year-on-year -41 +20 +113
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 49 145 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.55% 1.12% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.15% 5.83% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 28 105 31
10th Percentile £44,050 - £44,000
25th Percentile £56,875 £40,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -25.93% +33.66%
75th Percentile £73,000 £67,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £92,500 £95,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 952 2,488 2,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 10.62% 19.20% 26.60%
Number of salaries quoted 664 1,689 1,907
10th Percentile £35,854 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £43,911 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Middleware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in the South East

Middleware
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Middleware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Middleware

Middleware
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Middleware in the South East over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Middleware in the South East

Middleware
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Thames Valley +3 19 £53,750 +27.71% 13
Berkshire +12 17 £55,000 +30.68% 5
Surrey -3 11 £65,000 +30.00% 2
Hampshire -4 8 £43,750 -20.45% 2
Isle of Wight - 8 £73,000 - 2
Oxfordshire +21 2 £52,500 - 5
Middlesex - 2 - - 3
West Sussex - 1 £85,700 -
Middleware
England

Middleware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (4.08%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (4.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.04%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (4.08%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (4.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 12 (24.49%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 9 (18.37%) Azure
2 9 (18.37%) Azure API Management
2 9 (18.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (6.12%) AWS
3 3 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (4.08%) GitHub
4 2 (4.08%) OCI
5 1 (2.04%) Boomi
5 1 (2.04%) iPaaS
5 1 (2.04%) PaaS
5 1 (2.04%) SaaS
5 1 (2.04%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) Broadband
2 1 (2.04%) NAS
2 1 (2.04%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.12%) Oracle Database
3 2 (4.08%) Couchbase
3 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.08%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (2.04%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.04%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.08%) Octopus Deploy
1 2 (4.08%) Spock
1 2 (4.08%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.49%) Law
2 12 (24.49%) Marketing
3 5 (10.20%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.12%) Finance
5 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 26 (53.06%) Architect
2 13 (26.53%) Enterprise Architect
3 12 (24.49%) Salesforce Architect
3 12 (24.49%) Software Architect
4 6 (12.24%) Software Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Data Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Senior
5 5 (10.20%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (6.12%) Junior
7 2 (4.08%) Administrator
7 2 (4.08%) Analyst
7 2 (4.08%) DBA
7 2 (4.08%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Oracle Analyst
7 2 (4.08%) SAP Support
7 2 (4.08%) Support Specialist
7 2 (4.08%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (34.69%) REST
2 16 (32.65%) SOAP
3 12 (24.49%) Lightning Web Components
4 11 (22.45%) .NET
5 3 (6.12%) SAP XI
6 2 (4.08%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (4.08%) EDI
6 2 (4.08%) JSON
6 2 (4.08%) Kafka
6 2 (4.08%) Mongoose
6 2 (4.08%) Node.js
6 2 (4.08%) pytest
6 2 (4.08%) React
6 2 (4.08%) Redux
6 2 (4.08%) XML
6 2 (4.08%) XSLT
7 1 (2.04%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (2.04%) Spring
7 1 (2.04%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.49%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.04%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (2.04%) Clustering
3 1 (2.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.12%) AIX
1 3 (6.12%) Unix
2 1 (2.04%) Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (73.47%) Agile
2 27 (55.10%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (51.02%) Design Patterns
3 25 (51.02%) DevOps
4 24 (48.98%) CI/CD
4 24 (48.98%) Computer Science
5 14 (28.57%) Microservices
5 14 (28.57%) SDLC
6 13 (26.53%) Configuration Management
6 13 (26.53%) Technical Leadership
7 12 (24.49%) Data Management
7 12 (24.49%) Enterprise Architecture
7 12 (24.49%) Information Security
7 12 (24.49%) Master Data Management
7 12 (24.49%) Open Source
7 12 (24.49%) Release Management
7 12 (24.49%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (24.49%) TOGAF
7 12 (24.49%) UML
7 12 (24.49%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 20 (40.82%) SQL
2 12 (24.49%) Apex Code
2 12 (24.49%) Java
3 11 (22.45%) C#
4 9 (18.37%) Python
5 3 (6.12%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.08%) Groovy
6 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.08%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.04%) C++
7 1 (2.04%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (51.02%) Degree
2 24 (48.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (26.53%) Master's Degree
4 12 (24.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (24.49%) Chartered Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) SC Cleared
5 4 (8.16%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (24.49%) Data Quality
1 12 (24.49%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 1 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Firmware
2 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) Netcool
2 2 (4.08%) Grafana
2 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.04%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 15 (30.61%) Salesforce
2 12 (24.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 11 (22.45%) Microsoft
4 9 (18.37%) Databricks
5 7 (14.29%) Oracle
6 3 (6.12%) IBM
6 3 (6.12%) SAP
6 3 (6.12%) ServiceNow
6 3 (6.12%) Snow
6 3 (6.12%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.04%) EMC
7 1 (2.04%) Guidewire
7 1 (2.04%) HubSpot
7 1 (2.04%) Jitterbit
7 1 (2.04%) Progress
7 1 (2.04%) VMware