Middleware Contracts

Middleware
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 310 292
Rank change year-on-year -34 -18 -42
Contract jobs citing Middleware 259 510 847
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.86% 0.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.90% 3.71% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 341 603
10th Percentile £413 £363 £406
25th Percentile £500 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £706 £700 £670
90th Percentile £788 £800 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £582 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +22.53% -9.52% +6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £65.63 £44.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £66.56 £57.50 £37.25
Median hourly rate £71.25 £65.00 £40.62
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% +60.04% -29.37%
75th Percentile £74.69 - £45.81
90th Percentile £74.88 - £51.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £65.00 £40.62
% change year-on-year +11.54% +60.04% -29.37%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,932 13,763 24,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.59% 23.23% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,201 10,039 17,650
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 153 239
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.40
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Middleware.

Daily rate trend for Middleware in the UK

Middleware
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Middleware over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in the UK

Middleware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Middleware.

Hourly rate trend for Middleware in the UK

Middleware
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England -39 203 £613 +6.52% 92
London -13 140 £625 - 35
Work from Home +42 114 £582 -2.94% 44
UK excluding London -14 81 £582 +22.53% 53
Scotland +49 24 £613 +2.08%
North of England +31 18 £615 +23.00% 12
North West +17 12 £615 +23.00% 3
Midlands +6 11 £450 +28.57% 10
East of England +17 9 £581 -29.10% 4
West Midlands +25 8 £450 -14.29% 8
South West -2 8 £763 +43.19% 8
South East -16 8 £425 - 16
Yorkshire +21 4 £511 +2.20% 5
East Midlands -1 4 £418 +19.29% 2
Wales +10 3 £538 +2.38% 1
North East - 2 £650 - 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 14 (5.41%) WebSphere
2 11 (4.25%) Apache
3 10 (3.86%) Tomcat
3 10 (3.86%) WebSphere Application Server
4 8 (3.09%) IBM HTTP Server
4 8 (3.09%) JBoss
4 8 (3.09%) WebSphere Portal
5 7 (2.70%) Confluence
6 6 (2.32%) nginx
7 3 (1.16%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.77%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.77%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.77%) CMS
8 2 (0.77%) IIS
8 2 (0.77%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (4.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.32%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (2.32%) Temenos T24
3 5 (1.93%) SAP SD
4 4 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.54%) Endur
4 4 (1.54%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 3 (1.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.77%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.77%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.39%) SAP VC
7 1 (0.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 65 (25.10%) Azure
2 42 (16.22%) AWS
3 19 (7.34%) SaaS
4 18 (6.95%) IaaS
4 18 (6.95%) PaaS
5 15 (5.79%) GCP
6 9 (3.47%) GitHub
7 6 (2.32%) Power Platform
8 5 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (1.93%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.93%) Firebase
9 4 (1.54%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (1.54%) BlazeMeter
9 4 (1.54%) BrowserStack
9 4 (1.54%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 4 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.16%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.41%) Firewall
2 12 (4.63%) LAN
3 11 (4.25%) WAN
4 9 (3.47%) HTTP
5 8 (3.09%) ATM
6 7 (2.70%) DNS
7 4 (1.54%) Network Security
8 3 (1.16%) Internet
9 2 (0.77%) AMQP
9 2 (0.77%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.77%) NAS
9 2 (0.77%) SAN
9 2 (0.77%) SSL
10 1 (0.39%) CTI
10 1 (0.39%) DHCP
10 1 (0.39%) MQTT
10 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.39%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.11%) Relational Database
2 17 (6.56%) NoSQL
2 17 (6.56%) SQL Server
3 15 (5.79%) Oracle Database
4 11 (4.25%) RDBMS
5 9 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.70%) KDB
8 6 (2.32%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.32%) PowerCenter
9 5 (1.93%) Oracle ODI
10 4 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.54%) Power BI
10 4 (1.54%) SAP HANA
11 3 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.16%) Big Data
11 3 (1.16%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.16%) OLAP
11 3 (1.16%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 23 (8.88%) Jenkins
1 23 (8.88%) JIRA
2 20 (7.72%) Git
3 16 (6.18%) Cucumber
4 13 (5.02%) TeamCity
5 12 (4.63%) Moq
5 12 (4.63%) NUnit
6 10 (3.86%) Artifactory
6 10 (3.86%) GitLab
7 9 (3.47%) Cypress.io
7 9 (3.47%) Subversion
8 8 (3.09%) JMeter
9 6 (2.32%) IBM UrbanCode
9 6 (2.32%) Maven
9 6 (2.32%) Postman
10 5 (1.93%) Appium
10 5 (1.93%) Selenium
11 4 (1.54%) Mocha
12 3 (1.16%) Gradle
12 3 (1.16%) SoapUI
General
1 81 (31.27%) Finance
1 81 (31.27%) Social Skills
2 46 (17.76%) Banking
3 34 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.18%) Front Office
5 14 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.86%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.93%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.93%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.93%) Retail
10 4 (1.54%) Back Office
10 4 (1.54%) Billing
11 3 (1.16%) Automotive
11 3 (1.16%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.77%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.77%) Electronics
12 2 (0.77%) Law
Job Titles
1 74 (28.57%) Architect
2 40 (15.44%) Senior
3 37 (14.29%) Developer
4 36 (13.90%) Solutions Architect
5 25 (9.65%) Analyst
6 17 (6.56%) C# Developer
7 15 (5.79%) Technical Architect
8 14 (5.41%) Middleware Engineer
9 13 (5.02%) Cloud Architect
10 11 (4.25%) Consultant
11 10 (3.86%) Azure Architect
12 9 (3.47%) Lead
13 8 (3.09%) Integration Architect
13 8 (3.09%) Python Engineer
14 7 (2.70%) DBA
14 7 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
14 7 (2.70%) Java Developer
14 7 (2.70%) Oracle DBA
14 7 (2.70%) Senior Middleware Engineer
14 7 (2.70%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.20%) .NET
2 16 (6.18%) REST
3 14 (5.41%) .NET Core
3 14 (5.41%) ASP.NET
3 14 (5.41%) RESTful
4 13 (5.02%) RabbitMQ
4 13 (5.02%) Web Services
5 12 (4.63%) ASP.NET Web API
5 12 (4.63%) SignalR
6 11 (4.25%) HTML
6 11 (4.25%) XML
7 10 (3.86%) ASP.NET Core
7 10 (3.86%) J2EE
7 10 (3.86%) Oracle Fusion
7 10 (3.86%) SOAP
8 8 (3.09%) JSON
8 8 (3.09%) Node.js
9 7 (2.70%) IBM Integration Bus
9 7 (2.70%) Rendezvous
10 6 (2.32%) React
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.18%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (4.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (4.25%) Public Cloud
3 10 (3.86%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.47%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 7 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.32%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.32%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.93%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.93%) DataPower
8 5 (1.93%) Derivative
8 5 (1.93%) SCADA
9 4 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.54%) Equities
9 4 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 51 (19.69%) Linux
2 49 (18.92%) Windows
3 29 (11.20%) Unix
4 20 (7.72%) Windows Server
5 12 (4.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (3.09%) AIX
7 4 (1.54%) Android
8 3 (1.16%) zOS
9 2 (0.77%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.77%) Solaris
10 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (31.66%) Agile
2 42 (16.22%) Microservices
3 38 (14.67%) Waterfall
4 37 (14.29%) DevOps
5 36 (13.90%) Analytics
5 36 (13.90%) ITIL
6 34 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (12.36%) CI/CD
8 30 (11.58%) Migration
9 28 (10.81%) Test Automation
10 27 (10.42%) OO
11 25 (9.65%) Containerisation
11 25 (9.65%) Continuous Integration
11 25 (9.65%) SDLC
12 23 (8.88%) High Availability
13 21 (8.11%) Data Modelling
13 21 (8.11%) IT Strategy
14 18 (6.95%) Business Strategy
14 18 (6.95%) Electronic Trading
15 17 (6.56%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 48 (18.53%) SQL
2 39 (15.06%) Python
3 36 (13.90%) Java
4 35 (13.51%) C#
5 25 (9.65%) PowerShell
6 23 (8.88%) JavaScript
7 12 (4.63%) Shell Script
8 10 (3.86%) C++
9 9 (3.47%) C
10 8 (3.09%) Perl
11 7 (2.70%) ABAP
12 5 (1.93%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.54%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.16%) Bash
14 3 (1.16%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.16%) XPath
15 2 (0.77%) Groovy
15 2 (0.77%) Scala
15 2 (0.77%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.77%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (8.88%) Degree
2 11 (4.25%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.86%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.54%) HND
5 4 (1.54%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.77%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.77%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.39%) ISEB
7 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.88%) QA
2 10 (3.86%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.16%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.77%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.39%) COREP
5 1 (0.39%) GDPR
5 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.39%) IFRS
5 1 (0.39%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.39%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.39%) MiFID
5 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.39%) PMO
5 1 (0.39%) SLA
5 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (8.11%) Docker
2 9 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.09%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.32%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.77%) vSphere
6 1 (0.39%) Cronacle
6 1 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (5.79%) Ansible
2 10 (3.86%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.47%) BladeLogic
3 9 (3.47%) ITRS Geneos
4 8 (3.09%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 8 (3.09%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (2.32%) Data Guard
5 6 (2.32%) Terraform
6 2 (0.77%) Puppet
7 1 (0.39%) Control-M
7 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (0.39%) Grafana
7 1 (0.39%) MOM
7 1 (0.39%) Podman
7 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 44 (16.99%) Oracle
2 28 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 24 (9.27%) IBM
3 24 (9.27%) SAP
4 19 (7.34%) TIBCO
5 14 (5.41%) Citrix
6 12 (4.63%) Dynatrace
6 12 (4.63%) Salesforce
7 11 (4.25%) VMware
8 10 (3.86%) Databricks
9 9 (3.47%) Altiris
9 9 (3.47%) MuleSoft
10 7 (2.70%) Informatica
10 7 (2.70%) Red Hat
10 7 (2.70%) Solace
11 6 (2.32%) Google
11 6 (2.32%) Temenos
12 5 (1.93%) BMC
12 5 (1.93%) F5
13 4 (1.54%) ServiceNow