Middleware Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 221 266 291
Rank change year-on-year +45 +25 -1
Contract jobs citing Middleware 124 206 395
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.84% 0.84% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.41% 3.33% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 151 261
10th Percentile £413 £463 £403
25th Percentile £463 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £653
90th Percentile £710 £788 £700
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £590
% change year-on-year +4.35% -2.54% +4.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
UK median hourly rate £71.25 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +9.62% +18.18% -4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 3,634 6,192 13,030
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.57% 25.16% 29.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,549 4,620 9,615
10th Percentile £342 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.24%
75th Percentile £650 £657 £648
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 75 122
10th Percentile £24.23 £22.35 £21.10
25th Percentile - £41.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £60.00 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% +20.30% +10.83%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.15 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Middleware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Middleware trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Middleware.

Middleware daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Middleware over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Middleware daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Middleware.

Middleware hourly rate 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 10 (8.06%) WebSphere
2 9 (7.26%) WebSphere Application Server
3 7 (5.65%) Confluence
3 7 (5.65%) IBM HTTP Server
3 7 (5.65%) WebSphere Portal
4 4 (3.23%) Apache
4 4 (3.23%) JBoss
4 4 (3.23%) Tomcat
5 3 (2.42%) nginx
6 2 (1.61%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.81%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.81%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.81%) CMS
7 1 (0.81%) IIS
7 1 (0.81%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 5 (4.03%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (4.84%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.23%) SAP SD
3 3 (2.42%) Temenos T24
4 2 (1.61%) Endur
4 2 (1.61%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 2 (1.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (1.61%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.81%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.81%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 37 (29.84%) Azure
2 27 (21.77%) AWS
3 14 (11.29%) GCP
4 9 (7.26%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (6.45%) IaaS
5 8 (6.45%) PaaS
6 7 (5.65%) GitHub
6 7 (5.65%) SaaS
6 7 (5.65%) Twilio
7 5 (4.03%) BlazeMeter
7 5 (4.03%) BrowserStack
7 5 (4.03%) Firebase
7 5 (4.03%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 4 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.42%) Miro
10 2 (1.61%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.61%) Boomi
10 2 (1.61%) iPaaS
10 2 (1.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.65%) ATM
1 7 (5.65%) CTI
1 7 (5.65%) HTTP
1 7 (5.65%) VoIP
2 6 (4.84%) LAN
3 5 (4.03%) WAN
4 4 (3.23%) Firewall
5 3 (2.42%) DNS
6 2 (1.61%) NAS
6 2 (1.61%) SAN
6 2 (1.61%) SSL
7 1 (0.81%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.48%) Oracle Database
2 9 (7.26%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.45%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.84%) PowerCenter
5 5 (4.03%) Oracle ODI
5 5 (4.03%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.61%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.61%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.61%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.61%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.81%) DB2
8 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.81%) Parquet
8 1 (0.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (14.52%) JIRA
2 15 (12.10%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.45%) Cypress.io
3 8 (6.45%) GitLab
3 8 (6.45%) JMeter
4 6 (4.84%) Postman
5 5 (4.03%) Appium
5 5 (4.03%) IBM UrbanCode
6 4 (3.23%) Artifactory
6 4 (3.23%) Subversion
7 3 (2.42%) Git
7 3 (2.42%) Maven
7 3 (2.42%) Selenium
7 3 (2.42%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.61%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.61%) Gradle
8 2 (1.61%) Mocha
8 2 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.61%) TestNG
8 2 (1.61%) WebDriver
General
1 47 (37.90%) Finance
2 43 (34.68%) Social Skills
3 21 (16.94%) Banking
4 15 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.26%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.45%) Retail
7 7 (5.65%) Telecoms
8 6 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.23%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.42%) Billing
10 3 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.42%) Front Office
11 2 (1.61%) Back Office
11 2 (1.61%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.61%) Marketing
11 2 (1.61%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.81%) Automotive
12 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (30.65%) Architect
2 23 (18.55%) Solutions Architect
3 18 (14.52%) Senior
4 13 (10.48%) Middleware Engineer
5 8 (6.45%) Developer
5 8 (6.45%) Python Engineer
5 8 (6.45%) Tester
6 7 (5.65%) Analyst
6 7 (5.65%) DBA
6 7 (5.65%) Oracle DBA
7 6 (4.84%) Consultant
7 6 (4.84%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.84%) Senior Middleware Engineer
7 6 (4.84%) Technical Architect
7 6 (4.84%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 6 (4.84%) VMware Engineer
8 5 (4.03%) Azure Architect
8 5 (4.03%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (4.03%) Integration Architect
8 5 (4.03%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.48%) Web Services
2 9 (7.26%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (5.65%) .NET
3 7 (5.65%) J2EE
4 6 (4.84%) SOAP
4 6 (4.84%) XML
5 5 (4.03%) REST
5 5 (4.03%) WebdriverIO
6 4 (3.23%) HTML
6 4 (3.23%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (3.23%) Node.js
7 3 (2.42%) IBM Integration Bus
7 3 (2.42%) Kafka
7 3 (2.42%) Spring
7 3 (2.42%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.42%) Visualforce
8 2 (1.61%) Chai
8 2 (1.61%) IDoc
8 2 (1.61%) JAX-RS
8 2 (1.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.65%) IVR
1 7 (5.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 6 (4.84%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.03%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.42%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.42%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.61%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.61%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.61%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.61%) Tandem
7 1 (0.81%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.81%) IoT
7 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (24.19%) Linux
2 26 (20.97%) Windows
3 8 (6.45%) Unix
4 7 (5.65%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.84%) AIX
6 4 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.42%) zOS
8 1 (0.81%) Android
8 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (34.68%) Agile
2 27 (21.77%) Analytics
3 24 (19.35%) DevOps
4 20 (16.13%) Waterfall
5 18 (14.52%) CRM
6 17 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (11.29%) ITIL
8 13 (10.48%) Microservices
8 13 (10.48%) Migration
9 12 (9.68%) ETL
10 11 (8.87%) High Availability
10 11 (8.87%) Scrum
10 11 (8.87%) SDLC
11 10 (8.06%) CI/CD
11 10 (8.06%) Computer Science
11 10 (8.06%) Performance Testing
11 10 (8.06%) Project Delivery
11 10 (8.06%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (8.06%) Test Automation
12 8 (6.45%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (13.71%) Python
2 14 (11.29%) SQL
3 12 (9.68%) Java
4 10 (8.06%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.26%) C#
5 9 (7.26%) Shell Script
6 8 (6.45%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.84%) Perl
8 4 (3.23%) C
8 4 (3.23%) C++
9 3 (2.42%) ABAP
9 3 (2.42%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.81%) Bash
10 1 (0.81%) Scala
10 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.81%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (9.68%) Degree
2 10 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (6.45%) Master's Degree
4 6 (4.84%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.03%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.03%) Security Cleared
6 4 (3.23%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.68%) QA
2 4 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.23%) GDPR
2 4 (3.23%) HIPAA
2 4 (3.23%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.23%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.61%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (4.84%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (3.23%) Docker
4 3 (2.42%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (6.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 7 (5.65%) Ansible
3 6 (4.84%) Data Guard
3 6 (4.84%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (3.23%) BladeLogic
4 4 (3.23%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (3.23%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.61%) Terraform
6 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 32 (25.81%) Oracle
2 20 (16.13%) Microsoft
3 15 (12.10%) IBM
4 12 (9.68%) SAP
5 10 (8.06%) Google
5 10 (8.06%) VMware
6 8 (6.45%) Salesforce
7 7 (5.65%) Avaya
7 7 (5.65%) Cisco
7 7 (5.65%) Genesys
7 7 (5.65%) Informatica
8 6 (4.84%) Databricks
8 6 (4.84%) Dynatrace
9 5 (4.03%) Citrix
9 5 (4.03%) MuleSoft
10 4 (3.23%) Altiris
10 4 (3.23%) Red Hat
11 3 (2.42%) Temenos
12 2 (1.61%) Dell
12 2 (1.61%) webMethods