Middleware Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Middleware
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 435 341
Rank change year-on-year +219 -94 +134
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 325 145 298
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.54% 0.44% 0.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.38% 1.70% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 85 131 238
10th Percentile £45,250 - £51,350
25th Percentile £53,750 £40,000 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.76% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £75,938
90th Percentile £116,250 £115,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £73,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.31% - +8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 5,094 8,524 11,278
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.17% 26.04% 32.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,936 6,911 9,023
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £51,177
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,212 £60,000 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year +10.35% -7.79% +4.10%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -10.45% +3.08%

Middleware
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Middleware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Middleware trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Middleware
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Middleware.

Middleware salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Middleware
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Middleware over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Middleware salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (1.23%) Apache
2 3 (0.92%) GemFire
2 3 (0.92%) nginx
3 2 (0.62%) Confluence
4 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.31%) CMS
4 1 (0.31%) Drupal
4 1 (0.31%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.31%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 14 (4.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (3.69%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (2.77%) NetSuite
4 8 (2.46%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.62%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.31%) Magento
6 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (8.92%) Azure
2 20 (6.15%) AWS
3 12 (3.69%) SaaS
4 9 (2.77%) Boomi
4 9 (2.77%) GitHub
5 7 (2.15%) GCP
6 4 (1.23%) Azure API Management
6 4 (1.23%) iPaaS
6 4 (1.23%) PaaS
7 3 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.92%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (0.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (0.92%) OCI
7 3 (0.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.62%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.62%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (0.62%) Serverless
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 217 (66.77%) Broadband
2 5 (1.54%) NAS
2 5 (1.54%) SAN
3 4 (1.23%) DHCP
3 4 (1.23%) DNS
3 4 (1.23%) VSAN
4 3 (0.92%) SSL
5 2 (0.62%) HTTP
6 1 (0.31%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.31%) FCoE
6 1 (0.31%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.31%) Firewall
6 1 (0.31%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.31%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.31%) LAN
6 1 (0.31%) Multicast
6 1 (0.31%) SSH
6 1 (0.31%) VPN
6 1 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.31%) Relational Database
2 12 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (3.69%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.77%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.85%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.85%) Redis
5 5 (1.54%) MySQL
5 5 (1.54%) RDBMS
6 3 (0.92%) Apache Ignite
6 3 (0.92%) InterSystems Cache
7 2 (0.62%) Couchbase
7 2 (0.62%) DB2
7 2 (0.62%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.62%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.31%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.31%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 229 (70.46%) JIRA
2 17 (5.23%) Git
3 4 (1.23%) Mocha
3 4 (1.23%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.92%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.62%) Spock
5 2 (0.62%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.31%) Crucible
6 1 (0.31%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.31%) Snyk
6 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (13.23%) Social Skills
2 27 (8.31%) Finance
3 22 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (4.92%) Banking
6 11 (3.38%) Law
7 6 (1.85%) Front Office
8 5 (1.54%) Police
9 4 (1.23%) Legal
10 3 (0.92%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.92%) Retail
11 2 (0.62%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Advertising
12 1 (0.31%) Back Office
12 1 (0.31%) Local Government
12 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.31%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 215 (66.15%) Embedded Engineer
1 215 (66.15%) Release Engineer
2 52 (16.00%) Developer
3 16 (4.92%) Lead
3 16 (4.92%) Senior
4 14 (4.31%) Senior Developer
5 12 (3.69%) Architect
6 11 (3.38%) Integration Developer
6 11 (3.38%) Java Developer
7 9 (2.77%) NetSuite Developer
7 9 (2.77%) Technical Developer
8 8 (2.46%) SAP Developer
9 7 (2.15%) Integration Specialist
10 6 (1.85%) Applications Support
10 6 (1.85%) C# Developer
10 6 (1.85%) Software Engineer
11 5 (1.54%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (1.54%) Java Engineer
12 4 (1.23%) Applications Engineer
12 4 (1.23%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (10.15%) REST
2 20 (6.15%) .NET
2 20 (6.15%) SOAP
3 19 (5.85%) OAuth
3 19 (5.85%) SAML
4 17 (5.23%) Web Services
5 15 (4.62%) Oracle Fusion
6 14 (4.31%) XML
7 12 (3.69%) Node.js
8 11 (3.38%) CSS
8 11 (3.38%) HTML
9 9 (2.77%) BAPI
9 9 (2.77%) IBM Integration Bus
9 9 (2.77%) JMS
9 9 (2.77%) Restlet
10 7 (2.15%) FIX Protocol
10 7 (2.15%) React
11 6 (1.85%) WebSockets
12 5 (1.54%) Kafka
12 5 (1.54%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 215 (66.15%) Embedded Systems
2 13 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (2.77%) Algorithms
3 9 (2.77%) Data Structures
3 9 (2.77%) Virtual Team
4 6 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (1.85%) Mobile App
4 6 (1.85%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (0.92%) Augmented Reality
7 3 (0.92%) Credit Derivative
7 3 (0.92%) Derivative
7 3 (0.92%) Equities
7 3 (0.92%) Fixed Income
7 3 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.62%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.62%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.62%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.00%) Linux
2 9 (2.77%) Windows
3 5 (1.54%) Rocky
3 5 (1.54%) Unix
4 3 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Debian
6 1 (0.31%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.31%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (80.00%) Agile
2 236 (72.62%) CI/CD
3 225 (69.23%) Strategic Thinking
4 222 (68.31%) Roadmaps
5 220 (67.69%) Artificial Intelligence
6 219 (67.38%) Software Delivery
7 215 (66.15%) Continuous Deployment
7 215 (66.15%) Release Automation
8 37 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (6.77%) Migration
10 19 (5.85%) Collaborative Working
11 18 (5.54%) API Management
12 17 (5.23%) Performance Optimisation
13 16 (4.92%) DevOps
14 15 (4.62%) Continuous Integration
14 15 (4.62%) High Availability
15 14 (4.31%) Data Modelling
15 14 (4.31%) Mentoring
16 13 (4.00%) Fintech
16 13 (4.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 43 (13.23%) SQL
2 30 (9.23%) JavaScript
3 25 (7.69%) Java
4 23 (7.08%) Python
5 16 (4.92%) C#
6 10 (3.08%) C++
7 6 (1.85%) C
8 5 (1.54%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.54%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.92%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.92%) PHP
10 2 (0.62%) Bash
10 2 (0.62%) COBOL
10 2 (0.62%) Groovy
10 2 (0.62%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.31%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 22 (6.77%) Degree
2 9 (2.77%) Master's Degree
2 9 (2.77%) Security Cleared
3 6 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.54%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.23%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.23%) SAP Certification
5 4 (1.23%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (0.62%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.62%) OCA
6 2 (0.62%) OCP
6 2 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (0.62%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.85%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.23%) QA
3 3 (0.92%) GDPR
3 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.62%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.31%) DICOM
5 1 (0.31%) HL7
5 1 (0.31%) PMO
5 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (3.69%) Docker
2 4 (1.23%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.62%) Firmware
3 2 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.31%) KVM
4 1 (0.31%) NFS
4 1 (0.31%) SRDF
4 1 (0.31%) Varnish
4 1 (0.31%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.31%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.77%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.85%) Terraform
4 4 (1.23%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.92%) Ansible
6 2 (0.62%) Grafana
6 2 (0.62%) HAProxy
6 2 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (8.31%) Oracle
2 15 (4.62%) SAP
3 13 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.00%) MuleSoft
4 12 (3.69%) ServiceNow
5 11 (3.38%) IBM
6 7 (2.15%) Google
6 7 (2.15%) VMware
7 6 (1.85%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.54%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.92%) Databricks
9 3 (0.92%) Solace
9 3 (0.92%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.62%) Aderant
10 2 (0.62%) iManage
10 2 (0.62%) Intapp
10 2 (0.62%) Trayport
11 1 (0.31%) F5
11 1 (0.31%) ForgeRock
11 1 (0.31%) Guidewire