Middleware Jobs in the UK excluding London

Middleware
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 557 351
Rank change year-on-year +263 -206 +61
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 339 215 514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.86% 0.29% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.33% 1.47% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 179 155 184
10th Percentile £37,574 £40,000 £41,522
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £56,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -6.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,000 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £73,886 £88,750 £89,147
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - +5.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,357 14,578 15,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.60% 19.55% 27.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,285 10,484 8,797
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,250 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Middleware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in the UK excluding London

Middleware
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Middleware in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Middleware in the UK excluding London

Middleware
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Middleware in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Middleware in the UK excluding London

Middleware
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
South East +156 135 £73,000 +46.00% 215
Midlands +113 53 £57,500 -4.17% 148
North of England +72 50 £65,684 +9.47% 178
West Midlands +73 41 £60,000 - 78
East of England +67 41 £55,000 -15.38% 107
North West +32 35 £66,367 -1.68% 89
Scotland +100 26 £57,500 -12.55% 34
South West +92 18 £48,918 -18.47% 94
Yorkshire +57 14 £53,750 -8.51% 68
East Midlands - 12 £55,000 - 59
Wales +56 10 £73,000 +8.15% 20
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 - 9
North East +47 1 - - 21
Middleware
UK

Middleware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 30 (8.85%) Apache
2 12 (3.54%) Kinematics
3 4 (1.18%) Confluence
3 4 (1.18%) GemFire
3 4 (1.18%) nginx
3 4 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.88%) Tomcat
4 3 (0.88%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.59%) Oracle Service Bus
5 2 (0.59%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.59%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.29%) CMS
6 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.29%) IIS
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 22 (6.49%) Oracle EBS
2 15 (4.42%) Oracle Applications
3 10 (2.95%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.88%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.59%) SAP EWM
5 2 (0.59%) SAP WM
6 1 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.29%) Magento
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 35 (10.32%) Azure
2 28 (8.26%) AWS
3 21 (6.19%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 16 (4.72%) GCP
5 15 (4.42%) GitHub
6 12 (3.54%) Azure API Management
7 11 (3.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (3.24%) PaaS
8 10 (2.95%) IaaS
9 5 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.47%) Serverless
10 4 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.88%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.88%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (0.88%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (0.59%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.59%) Azure Functions
12 2 (0.59%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.59%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 67 (19.76%) Broadband
2 8 (2.36%) NAS
2 8 (2.36%) SAN
3 5 (1.47%) DHCP
3 5 (1.47%) DNS
3 5 (1.47%) LAN
3 5 (1.47%) VSAN
3 5 (1.47%) WAN
4 3 (0.88%) Firewall
4 3 (0.88%) Internet
4 3 (0.88%) Wireless
5 2 (0.59%) BGP
5 2 (0.59%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.59%) FCoE
5 2 (0.59%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.59%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.59%) OSPF
5 2 (0.59%) SSL
5 2 (0.59%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (4.72%) SQL Server
3 13 (3.83%) MongoDB
4 10 (2.95%) Oracle Database
5 9 (2.65%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.36%) MySQL
6 8 (2.36%) Redis
7 6 (1.77%) DB2
7 6 (1.77%) Oracle Exadata
8 4 (1.18%) Apache Ignite
8 4 (1.18%) InterSystems Cache
8 4 (1.18%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.18%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.88%) KDB
9 3 (0.88%) Oracle Database 11g
9 3 (0.88%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.59%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.59%) Oracle ODI
11 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 76 (22.42%) JIRA
2 25 (7.37%) Eclipse
2 25 (7.37%) Eclipse RCP
3 13 (3.83%) Git
4 6 (1.77%) GitLab
4 6 (1.77%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.47%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.59%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.59%) Mocha
6 2 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.59%) Spock
6 2 (0.59%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.29%) JUnit
7 1 (0.29%) Selenium
7 1 (0.29%) Snyk
General
1 67 (19.76%) Social Skills
2 30 (8.85%) Law
3 28 (8.26%) Finance
4 27 (7.96%) Marketing
5 25 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.83%) Electronics
8 10 (2.95%) Banking
9 9 (2.65%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.77%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.47%) Police
11 5 (1.47%) Retail
12 3 (0.88%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.88%) Front Office
13 2 (0.59%) Advertising
13 2 (0.59%) Aviation
13 2 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.59%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.59%) Military
14 1 (0.29%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 92 (27.14%) Architect
2 65 (19.17%) Embedded Engineer
2 65 (19.17%) Release Engineer
2 65 (19.17%) Software Architect
3 43 (12.68%) Developer
4 41 (12.09%) Software Engineer
5 26 (7.67%) Senior
6 23 (6.78%) Junior
7 22 (6.49%) Junior Software Engineer
7 22 (6.49%) Lead
8 21 (6.19%) Enterprise Architect
8 21 (6.19%) Salesforce Architect
9 12 (3.54%) Robotics Engineer
10 11 (3.24%) Applications Support
10 11 (3.24%) Java Engineer
10 11 (3.24%) Support Engineer
11 10 (2.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 10 (2.95%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 10 (2.95%) Java Developer
12 9 (2.65%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (10.91%) REST
2 30 (8.85%) CSS
2 30 (8.85%) HTML
2 30 (8.85%) SOAP
3 25 (7.37%) JSP
4 23 (6.78%) Lightning Web Components
5 22 (6.49%) Oracle Fusion
6 19 (5.60%) .NET
7 13 (3.83%) Node.js
8 8 (2.36%) Svelte
9 7 (2.06%) BAPI
9 7 (2.06%) IBM Integration Bus
9 7 (2.06%) JMS
9 7 (2.06%) OAuth
9 7 (2.06%) React
9 7 (2.06%) SAML
9 7 (2.06%) Spring
10 6 (1.77%) EDI
10 6 (1.77%) Kafka
10 6 (1.77%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 65 (19.17%) Embedded Systems
2 29 (8.55%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (5.90%) Algorithms
4 17 (5.01%) Robotics
5 9 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (2.65%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.36%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.06%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.47%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.47%) SCADA
10 4 (1.18%) Clustering
10 4 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.18%) Derivative
11 3 (0.88%) Credit Derivative
11 3 (0.88%) Equities
11 3 (0.88%) Mainframe
11 3 (0.88%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 58 (17.11%) Linux
2 41 (12.09%) Windows
3 11 (3.24%) Unix
4 5 (1.47%) Robot Operating System
4 5 (1.47%) Rocky
5 3 (0.88%) Solaris
6 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (58.11%) Agile
2 136 (40.12%) CI/CD
3 113 (33.33%) DevOps
4 103 (30.38%) Mentoring
5 101 (29.79%) SDLC
6 96 (28.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 91 (26.84%) Design Patterns
8 90 (26.55%) UML
9 89 (26.25%) Computer Science
10 87 (25.66%) Software Delivery
11 75 (22.12%) Roadmaps
12 74 (21.83%) Configuration Management
13 73 (21.53%) Continuous Deployment
14 66 (19.47%) Open Source
14 66 (19.47%) Strategic Thinking
15 65 (19.17%) Artificial Intelligence
15 65 (19.17%) Release Automation
15 65 (19.17%) Waterfall
16 57 (16.81%) Software Engineering
17 50 (14.75%) OO
Programming Languages
1 79 (23.30%) SQL
2 61 (17.99%) Java
3 53 (15.63%) C#
4 49 (14.45%) Python
5 24 (7.08%) C++
6 23 (6.78%) Apex Code
6 23 (6.78%) JavaScript
7 22 (6.49%) Ada
7 22 (6.49%) Rust
8 16 (4.72%) C
9 11 (3.24%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.65%) PL/SQL
11 7 (2.06%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.88%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.59%) Bash
13 2 (0.59%) COBOL
13 2 (0.59%) Groovy
13 2 (0.59%) PHP
Qualifications
1 131 (38.64%) Degree
2 90 (26.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 87 (25.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 65 (19.17%) Chartered Engineer
5 26 (7.67%) Master's Degree
6 11 (3.24%) Security Cleared
7 7 (2.06%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.77%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.47%) OCA
9 5 (1.47%) OCP
9 5 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
9 5 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (1.18%) SC Cleared
11 2 (0.59%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.29%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.29%) CISA
12 1 (0.29%) CISSP
12 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (19.17%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 23 (6.78%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.65%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.29%) NCSC
4 1 (0.29%) NIST
4 1 (0.29%) QA
4 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (5.31%) Docker
2 5 (1.47%) VMware NSX
3 3 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.59%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.59%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.59%) KVM
4 2 (0.59%) NFS
4 2 (0.59%) SRDF
4 2 (0.59%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (0.59%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (3.24%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.36%) Terraform
3 6 (1.77%) Oracle RMAN
4 5 (1.47%) Ansible
4 5 (1.47%) HP ALM
4 5 (1.47%) Progress Chef
5 4 (1.18%) HAProxy
5 4 (1.18%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.88%) Grafana
7 2 (0.59%) Control-M
7 2 (0.59%) Puppet
8 1 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 49 (14.45%) Oracle
2 27 (7.96%) Microsoft
3 24 (7.08%) Salesforce
4 23 (6.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 16 (4.72%) SAP
6 13 (3.83%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.24%) Databricks
8 10 (2.95%) IBM
8 10 (2.95%) VMware
9 7 (2.06%) Google
9 7 (2.06%) Solace
9 7 (2.06%) TIBCO
10 6 (1.77%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.47%) HP
11 5 (1.47%) MuleSoft
12 4 (1.18%) Cisco
12 4 (1.18%) NetApp
13 3 (0.88%) Bloomberg
14 2 (0.59%) Citrix
14 2 (0.59%) EMC