Middleware Job Trends in Yorkshire

Middleware
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Middleware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 147 163
Rank change year-on-year -5 +16 +54
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 8 6 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.24% 0.19% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.92% 1.28% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 15
10th Percentile £49,875 £41,375 £53,988
25th Percentile £50,250 £42,000 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,216 £44,473 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.90% -31.58% -5.13%
75th Percentile £77,424 £46,757 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,529 £48,004 £72,433
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% +2.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 416 468 831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.42% 15.06% 24.93%
Number of salaries quoted 308 267 671
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +0.39% -3.70%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Middleware job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Middleware
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Middleware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Middleware

Middleware
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Middleware in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Middleware in Yorkshire

Middleware
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
West Yorkshire -17 7 £53,500 +20.30% 3
South Yorkshire - 1 £70,932 - 2
Middleware
England

Middleware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (25.00%) JBoss
1 2 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) IaaS
1 2 (25.00%) PaaS
1 2 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JMeter
1 3 (37.50%) LoadRunner
1 3 (37.50%) Selenium
1 3 (37.50%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
2 4 (50.00%) Lead
3 3 (37.50%) Automation Test Lead
3 3 (37.50%) Lead Test Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Technical Architect
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Test Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Architect
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Technical Architect
4 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) SOAP
2 2 (25.00%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) Struts
2 2 (25.00%) Web Services
2 2 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) DataPower
2 1 (12.50%) Hackathon
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (50.00%) AI
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (37.50%) Coaching
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (37.50%) Data Security
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Security Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Translating Business Requirements
3 3 (37.50%) Waterfall
4 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) Document Management
4 2 (25.00%) ERP
4 2 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 2 (25.00%) MVC
4 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) HP Fortify
2 2 (25.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) IBM
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle