Middleware Contracts in Scotland

Middleware
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 155 163
Rank change year-on-year +60 +8 -16
Contract jobs citing Middleware 20 9 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.93% 0.34% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.66% 1.40% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 8
10th Percentile £422 £300 £397
25th Percentile £445 £425 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £638 £528
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% +20.85% +22.32%
75th Percentile £639 £688 £575
90th Percentile £720 £700 £680
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £590
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% +7.27%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 429 643 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.02% 24.06% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 473 574
10th Percentile £325 £400 £394
25th Percentile £400 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £491
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -0.61% +15.41%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £654 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 9
10th Percentile £36.10 £23.53 £36.85
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.09 £42.33
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.38 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +12.38% +18.75%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.77 £60.00
90th Percentile - £66.71 £69.55
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Middleware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in Scotland

Middleware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Middleware in Scotland

Middleware
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Middleware in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in Scotland

Middleware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Middleware in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 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
Glasgow +26 14 £450 -25.00%
Edinburgh +34 6 £651 +0.19%
Middleware
UK

Middleware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (25.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 5 (25.00%) WebSphere
1 5 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 5 (25.00%) WebSphere Portal
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) IaaS
2 1 (5.00%) PaaS
2 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) ATM
1 5 (25.00%) HTTP
2 2 (10.00%) LAN
2 2 (10.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 11 (55.00%) Banking
2 10 (50.00%) Finance
3 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Architect
2 7 (35.00%) Senior
3 6 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Middleware Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Python Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Senior Middleware Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Technical Architect
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Architect
6 2 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Architect
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Technical Architect
7 1 (5.00%) Deployment Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 1 (5.00%) Network Deployment Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior WebSphere Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) WebSphere Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Agile
1 8 (40.00%) Waterfall
2 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (30.00%) Microservices
3 5 (25.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 5 (25.00%) DevOps
3 5 (25.00%) ITIL
3 5 (25.00%) OO
3 5 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 5 (25.00%) SDLC
3 5 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 4 (20.00%) Business Case
4 4 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 4 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (20.00%) IT Strategy
4 4 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 4 (20.00%) Service Management
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Perl
1 5 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) IBM
1 5 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (10.00%) Databricks