Middleware Contracts

Middleware
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Middleware skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Middleware over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 293 314
Rank change year-on-year -31 +21 -48
Contract jobs citing Middleware 284 501 759
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.90% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.09% 3.93% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 352 536
10th Percentile £410 £376 £415
25th Percentile £475 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% +7.27%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £670
90th Percentile £788 £800 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £581 £498 £550
% change year-on-year +16.68% -9.55% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile £65.63 £62.38 -
25th Percentile £66.56 - -
Median hourly rate £71.25 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% +18.18% +16.40%
75th Percentile £74.69 - -
90th Percentile £74.88 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +11.54% +18.18% +16.40%

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 contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,185 12,737 23,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.05% 22.92% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,343 9,289 17,252
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 152 225
10th Percentile £22.10 £31.18 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £49.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.85% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.38 £75.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £74.49 £80.25 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -39 224 £600 +4.35% 65
London -16 146 £613 -2.00% 31
Work from Home +37 128 £591 +2.81% 25
UK excluding London -18 90 £581 +16.68% 36
Scotland +51 20 £613 -3.92% 2
North of England +32 20 £615 +11.82% 13
North West +14 13 £615 +11.82% 5
South West -14 13 £638 +21.43% 5
South East -4 12 £563 +32.35% 3
Midlands -6 12 £450 +12.50% 5
East of England +5 10 £581 -10.69% 5
West Midlands +18 9 £450 -14.29% 4
Yorkshire +10 4 £511 -14.83% 8
Wales +14 3 £538 - 4
East Midlands -13 3 £310 -11.43% 1
North East - 3 £588 -

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 (4.93%) Confluence
2 13 (4.58%) WebSphere
3 11 (3.87%) Apache
4 10 (3.52%) Tomcat
5 9 (3.17%) WebSphere Application Server
6 8 (2.82%) IBM HTTP Server
6 8 (2.82%) WebSphere Portal
7 7 (2.46%) JBoss
8 6 (2.11%) nginx
9 3 (1.06%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.70%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.70%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.70%) CMS
10 2 (0.70%) IIS
11 1 (0.35%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.35%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.35%) SAS
11 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (3.17%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (4.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.11%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (2.11%) Temenos T24
3 5 (1.76%) Endur
3 5 (1.76%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 5 (1.76%) SAP SD
4 4 (1.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (1.06%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.70%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle FAH
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.35%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.35%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 85 (29.93%) Azure
2 54 (19.01%) AWS
3 23 (8.10%) GCP
4 18 (6.34%) PaaS
4 18 (6.34%) SaaS
5 17 (5.99%) IaaS
6 16 (5.63%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (3.87%) Twilio
8 9 (3.17%) Firebase
8 9 (3.17%) GitHub
9 8 (2.82%) BlazeMeter
9 8 (2.82%) BrowserStack
9 8 (2.82%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 5 (1.76%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.06%) Miro
11 3 (1.06%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.06%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.93%) Firewall
2 13 (4.58%) LAN
3 12 (4.23%) WAN
4 11 (3.87%) CTI
4 11 (3.87%) VoIP
5 9 (3.17%) HTTP
6 8 (2.82%) ATM
7 7 (2.46%) DNS
8 5 (1.76%) AMQP
9 4 (1.41%) Internet
9 4 (1.41%) Network Security
10 2 (0.70%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.70%) NAS
10 2 (0.70%) SAN
11 1 (0.35%) FTP
11 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.35%) SSL
11 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.35%) VPLS
11 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.10%) SQL Server
2 22 (7.75%) Relational Database
3 16 (5.63%) NoSQL
4 15 (5.28%) RDBMS
5 14 (4.93%) Oracle Database
6 9 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.82%) KDB
8 7 (2.46%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.11%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.11%) PowerCenter
10 5 (1.76%) DB2
10 5 (1.76%) Oracle ODI
11 4 (1.41%) Couchbase
11 4 (1.41%) SAP HANA
12 3 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.06%) Big Data
12 3 (1.06%) OLAP
12 3 (1.06%) OLTP
12 3 (1.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 30 (10.56%) JIRA
2 28 (9.86%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.04%) Git
4 14 (4.93%) GitLab
5 13 (4.58%) Cypress.io
5 13 (4.58%) JMeter
6 12 (4.23%) Cucumber
6 12 (4.23%) Postman
7 11 (3.87%) TeamCity
8 10 (3.52%) Artifactory
8 10 (3.52%) Moq
8 10 (3.52%) NUnit
9 9 (3.17%) Appium
9 9 (3.17%) Subversion
10 6 (2.11%) IBM UrbanCode
10 6 (2.11%) Maven
11 4 (1.41%) Selenium
12 2 (0.70%) Mocha
12 2 (0.70%) SoapUI
12 2 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 98 (34.51%) Finance
1 98 (34.51%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.61%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (17.25%) Banking
4 18 (6.34%) Public Sector
5 13 (4.58%) Front Office
5 13 (4.58%) Retail
6 11 (3.87%) Telecoms
7 10 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.82%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.82%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.76%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.41%) Billing
12 3 (1.06%) Automotive
13 2 (0.70%) Back Office
13 2 (0.70%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.70%) Electronics
13 2 (0.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 85 (29.93%) Architect
2 44 (15.49%) Senior
3 42 (14.79%) Solutions Architect
4 38 (13.38%) Developer
5 26 (9.15%) Analyst
6 17 (5.99%) Technical Architect
7 16 (5.63%) Consultant
8 14 (4.93%) C# Developer
8 14 (4.93%) Cloud Architect
8 14 (4.93%) Middleware Engineer
9 13 (4.58%) Azure Architect
10 12 (4.23%) Integration Architect
11 11 (3.87%) Lead
12 9 (3.17%) Tester
13 8 (2.82%) Infrastructure Architect
13 8 (2.82%) Senior Architect
14 7 (2.46%) Java Developer
14 7 (2.46%) Oracle DBA
14 7 (2.46%) QA Tester
14 7 (2.46%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (9.15%) .NET
2 24 (8.45%) Web Services
3 17 (5.99%) HTML
3 17 (5.99%) REST
4 12 (4.23%) .NET Core
4 12 (4.23%) Oracle Fusion
4 12 (4.23%) RESTful
5 11 (3.87%) ASP.NET
5 11 (3.87%) RabbitMQ
5 11 (3.87%) WebdriverIO
6 10 (3.52%) ASP.NET Web API
6 10 (3.52%) J2EE
6 10 (3.52%) SignalR
7 9 (3.17%) SOAP
7 9 (3.17%) XML
8 8 (2.82%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (2.82%) FIX Protocol
8 8 (2.82%) HTML5
8 8 (2.82%) Kafka
8 8 (2.82%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.99%) Management Information System
2 12 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (4.23%) Onboarding
2 12 (4.23%) Public Cloud
3 11 (3.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (3.87%) IVR
4 10 (3.52%) Data Centre
4 10 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 6 (2.11%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.11%) Mainframe
7 5 (1.76%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.76%) DataPower
7 5 (1.76%) Derivative
7 5 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.76%) SCADA
8 4 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.06%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 62 (21.83%) Windows
2 61 (21.48%) Linux
3 38 (13.38%) Unix
4 20 (7.04%) Windows Server
5 19 (6.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.82%) AIX
7 4 (1.41%) Android
7 4 (1.41%) zOS
8 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.70%) Solaris
9 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (33.45%) Agile
2 56 (19.72%) Analytics
3 49 (17.25%) DevOps
4 43 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (13.38%) CI/CD
5 38 (13.38%) Waterfall
6 37 (13.03%) ITIL
7 34 (11.97%) Microservices
8 32 (11.27%) Migration
9 30 (10.56%) Test Automation
10 29 (10.21%) Computer Science
11 28 (9.86%) Continuous Integration
12 27 (9.51%) OO
13 25 (8.80%) CRM
14 24 (8.45%) Scrum
15 23 (8.10%) High Availability
15 23 (8.10%) SDLC
15 23 (8.10%) Stakeholder Management
16 21 (7.39%) Containerisation
16 21 (7.39%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 58 (20.42%) SQL
2 37 (13.03%) Python
3 34 (11.97%) Java
4 32 (11.27%) C#
5 24 (8.45%) JavaScript
5 24 (8.45%) PowerShell
6 12 (4.23%) Shell Script
7 11 (3.87%) C++
8 9 (3.17%) C
9 7 (2.46%) ABAP
9 7 (2.46%) Apex Code
10 6 (2.11%) Perl
11 3 (1.06%) Go
11 3 (1.06%) Scala
12 2 (0.70%) Groovy
12 2 (0.70%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.70%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.70%) VBScript
13 1 (0.35%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 34 (11.97%) Degree
2 22 (7.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (4.93%) Master's Degree
3 14 (4.93%) Security Cleared
4 13 (4.58%) SC Cleared
5 10 (3.52%) Azure Certification
5 10 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.17%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.41%) HND
8 3 (1.06%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.35%) CCNA
9 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.35%) ISEB
9 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.35%) MCSE
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Master
9 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (11.27%) QA
2 10 (3.52%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.82%) GDPR
3 8 (2.82%) HIPAA
3 8 (2.82%) PCI DSS
3 8 (2.82%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.35%) MiFID
5 1 (0.35%) PMO
5 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (5.63%) Docker
2 14 (4.93%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.11%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.70%) vSphere
7 1 (0.35%) Cronacle
7 1 (0.35%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (4.58%) Ansible
2 9 (3.17%) BladeLogic
2 9 (3.17%) ITRS Geneos
2 9 (3.17%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 7 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (2.11%) Data Guard
6 5 (1.76%) Terraform
7 2 (0.70%) SCCM
8 1 (0.35%) Control-M
8 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (0.35%) Grafana
8 1 (0.35%) OMEGAMON
8 1 (0.35%) Podman
8 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 53 (18.66%) Oracle
2 51 (17.96%) Microsoft
3 27 (9.51%) SAP
4 21 (7.39%) IBM
5 18 (6.34%) TIBCO
6 15 (5.28%) Google
7 14 (4.93%) Citrix
7 14 (4.93%) VMware
8 13 (4.58%) Databricks
9 12 (4.23%) Cisco
9 12 (4.23%) Dynatrace
9 12 (4.23%) Salesforce
10 11 (3.87%) Avaya
10 11 (3.87%) Genesys
11 10 (3.52%) MuleSoft
12 9 (3.17%) Altiris
12 9 (3.17%) CyberArk
13 8 (2.82%) Solace
14 7 (2.46%) Informatica
15 6 (2.11%) Red Hat