Middleware Contracts in the North of England

Middleware
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Middleware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Middleware over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 197 197
Rank change year-on-year +28 0 -46
Contract jobs citing Middleware 17 16 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.37% 0.29% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.87% 1.47% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 28
10th Percentile £500 £322 £373
25th Percentile £538 £438 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £525 £457
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% +14.88% +1.56%
75th Percentile £649 £622 £588
90th Percentile £738 £673 £620
England median daily rate £600 £588 £590
% change year-on-year +2.13% -0.42% +2.61%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

Middleware is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 910 1,088 1,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.58% 19.45% 22.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 845 1,222
10th Percentile £363 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £440 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £579
90th Percentile £700 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £560 £570
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.75% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 38
10th Percentile £14.56 £37.79 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £48.50 £31.50
Median hourly rate £46.18 £62.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +10.62% +76.56%
75th Percentile £69.44 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.00 £78.55
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Middleware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Middleware in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Middleware in the North of England

Middleware
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Middleware in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Middleware in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Middleware in the North of England

Middleware
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +18 12 £615 +17.14% 2
Yorkshire +11 3 £511 -14.83% 4
North East - 2 £650 - 7
Middleware
England

Middleware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) CMS
1 1 (5.88%) JBoss
1 1 (5.88%) nginx
1 1 (5.88%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (5.88%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) SaaS
2 5 (29.41%) IaaS
2 5 (29.41%) PaaS
3 4 (23.53%) AWS
4 3 (17.65%) Azure
5 2 (11.76%) GCP
6 1 (5.88%) Apigee
6 1 (5.88%) iPaaS
6 1 (5.88%) Miro
6 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) AMQP
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) MQTT
2 1 (5.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) gulp
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) Maven
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Automotive
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Architect
2 6 (35.29%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Middleware Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Operational Support Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Operations Support Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Designer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Integration Architect
4 1 (5.88%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.88%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) JSON
1 2 (11.76%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.88%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (5.88%) Node.js
2 1 (5.88%) OAuth
2 1 (5.88%) OpenID
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) RESTful
2 1 (5.88%) SAML
2 1 (5.88%) SOAP
2 1 (5.88%) Web Services
2 1 (5.88%) XML
2 1 (5.88%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.88%) Cyberattack
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.88%) IoT
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (5.88%) Low-Code
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Linux
2 7 (41.18%) Windows
3 4 (23.53%) Unix
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
4 2 (11.76%) zOS
5 1 (5.88%) Android
5 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
5 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) Waterfall
3 3 (17.65%) Architectural Design
3 3 (17.65%) Data Encryption
3 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (17.65%) IT Strategy
3 3 (17.65%) Key Management
3 3 (17.65%) SOA
4 2 (11.76%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (11.76%) API Management
4 2 (11.76%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 2 (11.76%) Batch Processing
4 2 (11.76%) Business Strategy
4 2 (11.76%) ETL
4 2 (11.76%) Innovative Thinking
4 2 (11.76%) ITIL
4 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
4 2 (11.76%) Service Management
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) Bash
2 1 (5.88%) Java
2 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) IBM
3 2 (11.76%) F5
4 1 (5.88%) Cognizant
4 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.88%) Google
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Temenos