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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 556 376
Rank change year-on-year +243 -180 +25
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 296 210 476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.76% 0.30% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.50% 1.47% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 160 145 183
10th Percentile £37,574 £40,000 £42,155
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £55,610
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,000 £67,500 £76,908
90th Percentile £73,886 £84,250 £89,970
UK median annual salary £65,684 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.05% - +4.00%

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 5,382 14,272 16,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.80% 20.15% 27.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,500 10,278 9,115
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £73,750 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £86,250
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 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 14 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 14 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 +146 108 £73,000 +46.00% 60
Midlands +88 51 £55,000 -8.33% 27
North of England +68 48 £65,000 +8.33% 30
West Midlands +71 41 £52,500 -12.50% 12
East of England +63 38 £55,000 -15.38% 19
North West +25 32 £66,367 +1.32% 20
Scotland +99 23 £57,500 -13.53% 9
South West +94 17 £44,509 -25.82% 28
Yorkshire +72 15 £47,500 -20.83% 8
East Midlands - 10 £56,250 - 14
Wales +46 6 £73,000 +8.15% 1
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 - 3
North East +44 1 - - 2
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 (10.14%) Apache
2 9 (3.04%) Kinematics
3 4 (1.35%) GemFire
3 4 (1.35%) nginx
4 3 (1.01%) Confluence
4 3 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (1.01%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle Service Bus
5 2 (0.68%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.68%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.68%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.34%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.34%) IIS
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 22 (7.43%) Oracle EBS
2 15 (5.07%) Oracle Applications
3 6 (2.03%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.35%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.34%) Magento
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.34%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 35 (11.82%) Azure
2 24 (8.11%) AWS
3 21 (7.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 15 (5.07%) GitHub
5 14 (4.73%) GCP
6 10 (3.38%) Azure API Management
7 9 (3.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (3.04%) PaaS
8 8 (2.70%) IaaS
9 5 (1.69%) Serverless
10 4 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.35%) Boomi
11 3 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.01%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.01%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.01%) SaaS
12 2 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.68%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (0.68%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 67 (22.64%) Broadband
2 8 (2.70%) NAS
2 8 (2.70%) SAN
3 5 (1.69%) DHCP
3 5 (1.69%) DNS
3 5 (1.69%) Firewall
3 5 (1.69%) LAN
3 5 (1.69%) VSAN
3 5 (1.69%) WAN
4 3 (1.01%) Internet
4 3 (1.01%) SSL
4 3 (1.01%) Wireless
5 2 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.68%) FCoE
5 2 (0.68%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.68%) HTTP
5 2 (0.68%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.68%) Multicast
5 2 (0.68%) VPN
6 1 (0.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.76%) SQL Server
2 19 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (4.39%) MongoDB
4 11 (3.72%) Oracle Database
5 9 (3.04%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.70%) Redis
7 7 (2.36%) MySQL
8 6 (2.03%) Oracle Exadata
9 4 (1.35%) Apache Ignite
9 4 (1.35%) DB2
9 4 (1.35%) InterSystems Cache
9 4 (1.35%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.35%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.68%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.68%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (0.68%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (0.68%) Oracle ODI
11 1 (0.34%) KDB
Development Applications
1 75 (25.34%) JIRA
2 25 (8.45%) Eclipse
2 25 (8.45%) Eclipse RCP
3 10 (3.38%) Git
4 6 (2.03%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.69%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (1.35%) GitLab
7 3 (1.01%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.68%) JDeveloper
8 2 (0.68%) Mocha
8 2 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.68%) Spock
8 2 (0.68%) TeamCity
General
1 57 (19.26%) Social Skills
2 33 (11.15%) Law
3 26 (8.78%) Finance
4 25 (8.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (8.45%) Marketing
5 19 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.05%) Banking
7 10 (3.38%) Electronics
7 10 (3.38%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.04%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.69%) Police
10 4 (1.35%) Retail
11 3 (1.01%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.01%) Front Office
12 2 (0.68%) Advertising
12 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.68%) Local Government
12 2 (0.68%) Military
12 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (21.96%) Embedded Engineer
1 65 (21.96%) Release Engineer
2 64 (21.62%) Architect
3 42 (14.19%) Software Engineer
4 36 (12.16%) Developer
5 35 (11.82%) Software Architect
6 23 (7.77%) Junior
6 23 (7.77%) Senior
7 22 (7.43%) Junior Software Engineer
8 21 (7.09%) Enterprise Architect
8 21 (7.09%) Salesforce Architect
9 17 (5.74%) Lead
10 12 (4.05%) Analyst
11 11 (3.72%) Applications Support
11 11 (3.72%) Support Engineer
12 10 (3.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 10 (3.38%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 10 (3.38%) Java Developer
13 9 (3.04%) Applications Support Engineer
13 9 (3.04%) Robotics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (11.15%) REST
2 28 (9.46%) CSS
2 28 (9.46%) HTML
3 27 (9.12%) SOAP
4 25 (8.45%) JSP
5 21 (7.09%) Lightning Web Components
5 21 (7.09%) Oracle Fusion
6 19 (6.42%) .NET
7 13 (4.39%) Node.js
8 7 (2.36%) Kafka
8 7 (2.36%) React
8 7 (2.36%) Spring
8 7 (2.36%) Svelte
9 6 (2.03%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 6 (2.03%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (1.69%) GWT
10 5 (1.69%) J2EE
10 5 (1.69%) JPA
10 5 (1.69%) Vaadin
11 4 (1.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 65 (21.96%) Embedded Systems
2 25 (8.45%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (5.74%) Algorithms
4 15 (5.07%) Robotics
5 8 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.36%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.36%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.03%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.69%) Clustering
8 5 (1.69%) SCADA
9 4 (1.35%) Derivative
9 4 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.01%) Credit Derivative
10 3 (1.01%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.01%) Equities
10 3 (1.01%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.01%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.01%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 59 (19.93%) Linux
2 41 (13.85%) Windows
3 12 (4.05%) Unix
4 5 (1.69%) Robot Operating System
4 5 (1.69%) Rocky
5 4 (1.35%) Solaris
6 3 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.68%) zOS
8 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (54.39%) Agile
2 130 (43.92%) CI/CD
3 87 (29.39%) Software Delivery
4 79 (26.69%) DevOps
5 75 (25.34%) Roadmaps
6 72 (24.32%) SDLC
7 71 (23.99%) Continuous Deployment
7 71 (23.99%) Mentoring
8 66 (22.30%) Artificial Intelligence
8 66 (22.30%) Strategic Thinking
9 65 (21.96%) Release Automation
10 64 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (20.61%) Design Patterns
12 60 (20.27%) UML
13 59 (19.93%) Computer Science
14 53 (17.91%) Software Engineering
15 46 (15.54%) OO
16 43 (14.53%) Configuration Management
16 43 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
17 38 (12.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (26.35%) SQL
2 58 (19.59%) Java
3 51 (17.23%) C#
3 51 (17.23%) Python
4 24 (8.11%) JavaScript
5 22 (7.43%) Ada
5 22 (7.43%) Rust
6 21 (7.09%) Apex Code
6 21 (7.09%) C++
7 13 (4.39%) C
8 9 (3.04%) PL/SQL
9 8 (2.70%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.36%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.01%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.01%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.01%) VB
12 2 (0.68%) Bash
12 2 (0.68%) Groovy
13 1 (0.34%) PHP
13 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 101 (34.12%) Degree
2 60 (20.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 57 (19.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 35 (11.82%) Chartered Engineer
5 26 (8.78%) Master's Degree
6 15 (5.07%) Security Cleared
7 7 (2.36%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.03%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.69%) OCA
9 5 (1.69%) OCP
9 5 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
9 5 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (1.35%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.34%) CISA
11 1 (0.34%) CISSP
11 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.82%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 23 (7.77%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.34%) NCSC
5 1 (0.34%) NIST
5 1 (0.34%) QA
System Software
1 18 (6.08%) Docker
2 5 (1.69%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.35%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.68%) KVM
5 2 (0.68%) NFS
5 2 (0.68%) SRDF
5 2 (0.68%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (0.68%) Xen
Systems Management
1 12 (4.05%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.70%) Terraform
3 6 (2.03%) Oracle RMAN
4 5 (1.69%) HP ALM
4 5 (1.69%) Progress Chef
5 4 (1.35%) HAProxy
5 4 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.01%) Ansible
6 3 (1.01%) Grafana
7 2 (0.68%) Control-M
7 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.68%) Puppet
8 1 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.34%) Kibana
Vendors
1 49 (16.55%) Oracle
2 30 (10.14%) Microsoft
3 22 (7.43%) Salesforce
4 21 (7.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 15 (5.07%) ServiceNow
6 13 (4.39%) SAP
7 10 (3.38%) VMware
8 9 (3.04%) Databricks
9 7 (2.36%) Google
9 7 (2.36%) Red Hat
10 6 (2.03%) IBM
11 5 (1.69%) HP
11 5 (1.69%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.69%) Solace
11 5 (1.69%) TIBCO
12 4 (1.35%) Dell
12 4 (1.35%) DocuSign
12 4 (1.35%) NetApp
13 2 (0.68%) Adobe
13 2 (0.68%) EMC