Middleware Jobs

Middleware
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 472 269 384
Rank change year-on-year -203 +115 -40
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 333 755 1,311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 1.27% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.32% 4.73% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 190 340 567
10th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,219 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +4.80% -2.21%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,563 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,250 £95,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +15.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14,339 15,963 49,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.95% 26.85% 35.25%
Number of salaries quoted 8,546 12,331 25,735
10th Percentile £39,070 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,603 £50,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,351 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% +0.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,750
% change year-on-year -4.35% +3.14% +11.50%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Middleware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in the UK

Middleware
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Middleware.

Salary trend for Middleware in the UK

Middleware
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Middleware over the 6 months to 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Middleware in the UK

Middleware
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the UK over the 6 months to 23 October 2024. 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
England -207 307 £60,000 -7.79% 98
UK excluding London -161 255 £50,000 -16.67% 73
South East +44 139 £50,000 -9.09% 11
Work from Home -48 111 £58,750 -9.71% 142
London -122 76 £75,000 -3.23% 27
South West -54 27 £48,918 -17.82% 29
North of England -149 27 £55,000 -7.60% 7
East of England -59 19 £70,000 +7.69% 9
Midlands -72 19 £57,500 -11.54% 13
West Midlands -57 18 £57,500 -11.54% 9
Scotland -45 17 £50,000 -23.15% 1
North West -88 13 £62,500 +5.00% 6
Yorkshire -34 11 £45,223 -30.43% 1
Wales +26 5 £50,000 -23.66% 1
Northern Ireland +28 3 - - 4
North East -44 3 £55,000 -
East Midlands -45 1 - - 4

Middleware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 16 (4.80%) Apache
2 10 (3.00%) Confluence
3 5 (1.50%) WebLogic
4 3 (0.90%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) IIS
5 1 (0.30%) JBoss
5 1 (0.30%) Liferay
5 1 (0.30%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 30 (9.01%) Simulink
2 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (3.30%) SAP ERP
2 9 (2.70%) Salesforce CRM
2 9 (2.70%) SAP SD
3 5 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.30%) Maximo
6 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 122 (36.64%) Azure
2 76 (22.82%) AWS
3 28 (8.41%) GCP
4 25 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (6.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 21 (6.31%) GitHub
7 20 (6.01%) Azure API Management
7 20 (6.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 20 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (3.60%) Power Platform
9 10 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (2.40%) Entra ID
11 8 (2.40%) SaaS
12 5 (1.50%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 5 (1.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 4 (1.20%) Power Automate
14 3 (0.90%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (10.81%) Internet
2 20 (6.01%) MQTT
3 19 (5.71%) Modbus
4 9 (2.70%) Wireless
5 6 (1.80%) DNS
5 6 (1.80%) SSL
6 4 (1.20%) Firewall
6 4 (1.20%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (0.90%) DHCP
7 3 (0.90%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.90%) tcpdump
7 3 (0.90%) VPN
7 3 (0.90%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.30%) HTTP
8 1 (0.30%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (17.42%) NoSQL
2 21 (6.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 19 (5.71%) Data Lake
4 17 (5.11%) SQL Server
5 13 (3.90%) Oracle Database
6 10 (3.00%) Power BI
7 5 (1.50%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (1.20%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.90%) MySQL
9 3 (0.90%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.60%) DB2
10 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.30%) MarkLogic
11 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database 10g
11 1 (0.30%) Oracle ODI
11 1 (0.30%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.30%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 39 (11.71%) Git
2 32 (9.61%) Vagrant
3 19 (5.71%) MSI
4 13 (3.90%) JIRA
5 10 (3.00%) Eclipse
5 10 (3.00%) Eclipse RCP
5 10 (3.00%) Rational DOORS
6 7 (2.10%) Crucible
7 5 (1.50%) GitLab
7 5 (1.50%) Oracle APEX
7 5 (1.50%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (1.20%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.60%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.30%) GoogleTest
10 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.30%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 114 (34.23%) Social Skills
2 45 (13.51%) Military
3 29 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (8.41%) Automotive
4 28 (8.41%) Finance
5 24 (7.21%) Law
6 12 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.00%) Aerospace
7 10 (3.00%) Marketing
8 8 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.50%) Banking
9 5 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.50%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.20%) Legal
11 3 (0.90%) Local Government
11 3 (0.90%) Retail
12 2 (0.60%) Games
12 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.60%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (24.02%) Software Engineer
2 77 (23.12%) Architect
3 56 (16.82%) Senior
4 46 (13.81%) Solutions Architect
5 33 (9.91%) Developer
6 30 (9.01%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 25 (7.51%) Senior Software Engineer
7 25 (7.51%) Systems Engineer
8 21 (6.31%) Software Architect
9 19 (5.71%) Analyst
10 18 (5.41%) Data Architect
11 15 (4.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (4.50%) Lead
12 13 (3.90%) Senior Developer
13 12 (3.60%) C# Developer
14 11 (3.30%) C# Developer - Commodities
15 9 (2.70%) Customer Experience Manager
15 9 (2.70%) DBA
15 9 (2.70%) IT Manager
16 8 (2.40%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (13.21%) .NET
2 23 (6.91%) JSON
3 21 (6.31%) HTML
3 21 (6.31%) REST
3 21 (6.31%) Web Services
4 20 (6.01%) CSS
5 19 (5.71%) XML
6 12 (3.60%) RESTful
7 10 (3.00%) JSP
7 10 (3.00%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (2.70%) .NET Core
9 7 (2.10%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.10%) FIX Protocol
9 7 (2.10%) NHibernate
10 5 (1.50%) Node.js
10 5 (1.50%) SAP Fiori
11 4 (1.20%) EDI
11 4 (1.20%) Lightning Web Components
11 4 (1.20%) SOAP
11 4 (1.20%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 59 (17.72%) Management Information System
2 30 (9.01%) Product Ownership
3 25 (7.51%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.70%) IoT
5 9 (2.70%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.40%) Mainframe
7 6 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.20%) Clustering
8 4 (1.20%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.90%) CMDB
9 3 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.90%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.90%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.90%) PropTech
9 3 (0.90%) Smart Energy
9 3 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 99 (29.73%) Linux
2 49 (14.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 37 (11.11%) Ubuntu
4 35 (10.51%) CentOS
5 34 (10.21%) Android
6 22 (6.61%) Windows
7 11 (3.30%) Unix
8 7 (2.10%) Solaris
9 6 (1.80%) zOS
10 3 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.90%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.30%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (42.94%) Agile
2 103 (30.93%) Software Engineering
3 95 (28.53%) Scrum
4 76 (22.82%) Artificial Intelligence
5 75 (22.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 72 (21.62%) CI/CD
7 71 (21.32%) Machine Learning
8 68 (20.42%) Kanban
8 68 (20.42%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 66 (19.82%) Continuous Integration
10 55 (16.52%) Validation
11 54 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
12 52 (15.62%) DevOps
13 51 (15.32%) Requirements Gathering
14 49 (14.71%) Computer Science
14 49 (14.71%) Microservices
15 48 (14.41%) Test Automation
16 46 (13.81%) TDD
17 45 (13.51%) Visualisation
18 44 (13.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 105 (31.53%) Python
2 104 (31.23%) SQL
3 77 (23.12%) Java
4 58 (17.42%) Kotlin
5 53 (15.92%) C#
6 46 (13.81%) JavaScript
7 36 (10.81%) C++
8 11 (3.30%) PHP
9 8 (2.40%) Apex Code
10 6 (1.80%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.50%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.20%) Bash
12 4 (1.20%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.20%) VBA
13 3 (0.90%) Perl
13 3 (0.90%) SOQL
14 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.30%) C
15 1 (0.30%) XPath
15 1 (0.30%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 96 (28.83%) Security Cleared
2 94 (28.23%) Degree
3 88 (26.43%) SC Cleared
4 41 (12.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (6.01%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.30%) Master's Degree
7 10 (3.00%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.20%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.90%) Linux+ Certification
9 3 (0.90%) RHCE
10 2 (0.60%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.30%) MCP
11 1 (0.30%) MCSA
11 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.30%) PhD
11 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.90%) QA
2 7 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.20%) SLA
5 3 (0.90%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.30%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (3.90%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.50%) KVM
2 5 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.30%) Docker
4 1 (0.30%) Firmware
4 1 (0.30%) PowerHA
4 1 (0.30%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 38 (11.41%) Ansible
1 38 (11.41%) Terraform
2 18 (5.41%) Puppet
3 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.50%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.50%) Progress Chef
5 4 (1.20%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 3 (0.90%) Grafana
6 3 (0.90%) MOM
6 3 (0.90%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 3 (0.90%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.60%) Podman
8 1 (0.30%) Nagios
8 1 (0.30%) nmon
Vendors
1 55 (16.52%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.01%) Xilinx
3 21 (6.31%) Google
3 21 (6.31%) Oracle
4 20 (6.01%) Databricks
5 19 (5.71%) Red Hat
6 18 (5.41%) Salesforce
7 16 (4.80%) SAP
8 7 (2.10%) Trayport
9 5 (1.50%) VMware
10 4 (1.20%) Citrix
11 3 (0.90%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.90%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.90%) Splunk
12 2 (0.60%) ATG
12 2 (0.60%) IBM
12 2 (0.60%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.60%) Xamarin
13 1 (0.30%) IBM Sterling
13 1 (0.30%) Progress