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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 225 229
Rank change year-on-year -70 +4 -8
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 29 64 112
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.17% 0.72% 0.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.57% 5.71% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 24 33 90
10th Percentile £40,750 £51,250 -
25th Percentile £52,188 £62,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £72,188 £77,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £110,000 £88,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% - -

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 1,846 1,120 2,676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 10.69% 12.55% 19.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,529 768 1,992
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,865 £83,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -7.14%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Middleware job vacancy trend 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 21 August 2026.

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 21 August 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
Thames Valley -1 24 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Buckinghamshire +8 12 £60,000 +33.33% 2
Berkshire 0 11 £52,500 -38.24% 4
Surrey -33 4 £91,250 +40.38% 3
Oxfordshire -23 1 £65,000 +23.81% 2
Hampshire -41 1 - -
Middleware
England

Middleware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (6.90%) Confluence
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (3.45%) JBoss
2 1 (3.45%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (10.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (6.90%) Siebel CRM
3 1 (3.45%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (3.45%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) Azure
2 8 (27.59%) AWS
3 4 (13.79%) SaaS
4 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.34%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.90%) iPaaS
5 2 (6.90%) OCI
5 2 (6.90%) Serverless
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.45%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.45%) Boomi
6 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Einstein
6 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (3.45%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) HTTP
1 1 (3.45%) LAN
1 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (6.90%) Siebel EIM
3 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) GitLab
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) JetBrains Rider
2 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (51.72%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Manufacturing
3 3 (10.34%) Marketing
3 3 (10.34%) Retail
4 2 (6.90%) Aerospace
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Architect
2 7 (24.14%) Analyst
3 6 (20.69%) Developer
3 6 (20.69%) Integration Architect
4 5 (17.24%) Applications Architect
5 4 (13.79%) Senior
6 3 (10.34%) Applications Support
6 3 (10.34%) Applications Support Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) CRM Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) EDI Specialist
6 3 (10.34%) ERP Manager
6 3 (10.34%) SAP EDI Specialist
6 3 (10.34%) SAP Support
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Support Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Support Specialist
6 3 (10.34%) Systems Manager
6 3 (10.34%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Java Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Siebel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (44.83%) REST
1 13 (44.83%) SOAP
2 8 (27.59%) JSON
2 8 (27.59%) XML
3 7 (24.14%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (20.69%) Kafka
5 5 (17.24%) JWT
5 5 (17.24%) OAuth
5 5 (17.24%) OAuth2
6 4 (13.79%) RESTful
6 4 (13.79%) XML Messaging
7 3 (10.34%) EDI
7 3 (10.34%) SAP XI
8 2 (6.90%) Jakarta EE
8 2 (6.90%) Spring
8 2 (6.90%) Spring MVC
9 1 (3.45%) ActiveMQ
9 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET
9 1 (3.45%) Visualforce
9 1 (3.45%) XHR
Miscellaneous
1 10 (34.48%) Onboarding
2 5 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 5 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (17.24%) Product Ownership
3 4 (13.79%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
5 2 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (6.90%) AS400
5 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
6 1 (3.45%) AI Agents
6 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Unix
3 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (44.83%) Agile
2 13 (44.83%) CRM
3 12 (41.38%) ERP
4 10 (34.48%) DevOps
5 9 (31.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (27.59%) Data Modelling
6 8 (27.59%) Event-Driven
6 8 (27.59%) Integration Patterns
7 7 (24.14%) Microservices
7 7 (24.14%) Project Delivery
7 7 (24.14%) Translating Business Requirements
8 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
8 6 (20.69%) Data Analysis
8 6 (20.69%) Enterprise Architecture
9 5 (17.24%) API Design
9 5 (17.24%) Computer Science
9 5 (17.24%) Integration Testing
9 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (17.24%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) SQL
2 11 (37.93%) Java
3 2 (6.90%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.45%) Apex Code
4 1 (3.45%) C++
4 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.45%) SOQL
4 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
2 5 (17.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.45%) HND
4 1 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (27.59%) QA
2 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (44.83%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) MuleSoft
2 4 (13.79%) Oracle
2 4 (13.79%) Salesforce
3 3 (10.34%) SAP
4 2 (6.90%) Siebel
5 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.45%) Infor
5 1 (3.45%) Sparx
5 1 (3.45%) Veracode
5 1 (3.45%) VMware