Middleware
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Middleware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 573 390 451
Rank change year-on-year -183 +61 +2
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 352 866 1,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.83% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.67% 2.77% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 262 394 664
10th Percentile £40,575 £46,975 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £64,125
Median % change year-on-year - +1.36% +6.88%
75th Percentile £91,813 £84,056 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £107,625 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £63,265 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.16% +15.03% +4.76%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,080 31,272 63,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.38% 30.13% 40.50%
Number of salaries quoted 15,747 19,246 30,345
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Middleware.

Salary trend for Middleware in the UK

Middleware
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Middleware in the UK

Middleware
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -169 296 £65,000 -0.76% 86
UK excluding London -177 202 £60,000 -5.16% 46
Work from Home -77 141 £65,000 +8.33% 43
London -27 130 £82,500 +17.86% 35
South East -46 52 £45,000 -33.33% 15
Scotland -60 43 £66,500 -4.24%
North of England -71 32 £60,000 - 10
South West -53 29 £60,000 +0.80% 8
West Midlands -2 24 £60,000 -11.11% 7
Midlands -19 24 £60,000 -11.11% 9
East of England -19 21 £65,000 +6.12% 2
Yorkshire +26 18 £60,000 -6.29% 4
North West -53 13 £65,500 +10.04% 2
Wales -5 1 £67,500 +35.00% 1
North East -15 1 £37,500 - 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 7 (1.99%) WebSphere
2 6 (1.70%) Confluence
3 5 (1.42%) BizTalk Server
3 5 (1.42%) WebLogic
4 3 (0.85%) MQSeries
4 3 (0.85%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.57%) CMS
5 2 (0.57%) GlassFish
5 2 (0.57%) JBoss
5 2 (0.57%) JCAPS
5 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.57%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.57%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.57%) WordPress
6 1 (0.28%) Apache
6 1 (0.28%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (3.41%) Simulink
2 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Magento
1 3 (0.85%) Maximo
2 2 (0.57%) Adaptiv
2 2 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.57%) SAP SD
2 2 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.28%) Cognos Controller
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.28%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 96 (27.27%) AWS
1 96 (27.27%) Azure
2 46 (13.07%) SaaS
3 43 (12.22%) PaaS
4 37 (10.51%) IaaS
5 16 (4.55%) Serverless
6 15 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (4.26%) OpenShift
7 14 (3.98%) GCP
8 13 (3.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (3.41%) AWS CloudTrail
9 12 (3.41%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 12 (3.41%) Azure AKS
9 12 (3.41%) Cloud Computing
9 12 (3.41%) GitHub
10 9 (2.56%) Power Platform
11 8 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.55%) Firewall
2 12 (3.41%) Network Security
3 6 (1.70%) DHCP
3 6 (1.70%) DNS
3 6 (1.70%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.42%) VPN
5 3 (0.85%) HTTP
5 3 (0.85%) LAN
6 2 (0.57%) 5G
6 2 (0.57%) FTP
6 2 (0.57%) LTE
6 2 (0.57%) MPLS
6 2 (0.57%) WAN
6 2 (0.57%) Wireless
7 1 (0.28%) AMQP
7 1 (0.28%) SAN
7 1 (0.28%) SSL
7 1 (0.28%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (10.51%) SQL Server
2 36 (10.23%) NoSQL
3 14 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (3.41%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (2.27%) CockroachDB
6 8 (2.27%) MySQL
7 7 (1.99%) Power BI
7 7 (1.99%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.42%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.42%) Redis
10 3 (0.85%) DB2
10 3 (0.85%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.85%) Tableau
11 2 (0.57%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.57%) Metadata
12 1 (0.28%) Apache Ignite
12 1 (0.28%) Flink
Development Applications
1 35 (9.94%) Git
2 25 (7.10%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.69%) Vagrant
4 11 (3.13%) JIRA
5 10 (2.84%) Maven
6 9 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (2.27%) Jaeger
8 6 (1.70%) JUnit
9 4 (1.14%) Ant
9 4 (1.14%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.14%) Subversion
10 3 (0.85%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.57%) GCC
11 2 (0.57%) GDB
11 2 (0.57%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.28%) Gradle
12 1 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
12 1 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.28%) Spinnaker
General
1 124 (35.23%) Finance
2 104 (29.55%) Social Skills
3 46 (13.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 44 (12.50%) Banking
5 41 (11.65%) Law
6 37 (10.51%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (9.66%) Legal
8 22 (6.25%) Financial Institution
9 18 (5.11%) Retail Banking
10 9 (2.56%) Electronics
10 9 (2.56%) Retail
11 8 (2.27%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.99%) Private Banking
13 6 (1.70%) Front Office
14 5 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.85%) Back Office
15 3 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 94 (26.70%) Software Engineer
2 83 (23.58%) Architect
3 61 (17.33%) Developer
4 35 (9.94%) Solutions Architect
5 32 (9.09%) Java Engineer
5 32 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
6 30 (8.52%) Senior
7 26 (7.39%) Lead
8 19 (5.40%) Salesforce Architect
8 19 (5.40%) Salesforce Solution Architect
9 17 (4.83%) Analyst
10 16 (4.55%) Middleware Architect
11 15 (4.26%) Technical Architect
12 14 (3.98%) DevOps Engineer
13 13 (3.69%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (3.69%) Java Developer
13 13 (3.69%) Linux Engineer
13 13 (3.69%) Technical Leader
14 12 (3.41%) AWS DevOps
14 12 (3.41%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.08%) React
2 38 (10.80%) HTML
3 36 (10.23%) HTML5
3 36 (10.23%) Node.js
4 35 (9.94%) AngularJS
5 32 (9.09%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 31 (8.81%) Drools
6 31 (8.81%) jBPM
7 27 (7.67%) .NET
7 27 (7.67%) Kafka
8 14 (3.98%) SOAP
8 14 (3.98%) XML
9 13 (3.69%) JSON
10 12 (3.41%) Spring Boot
11 11 (3.13%) REST
11 11 (3.13%) Web Services
12 8 (2.27%) OAuth
12 8 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
12 8 (2.27%) Spring
13 7 (1.99%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.80%) Algorithms
2 37 (10.51%) Onboarding
3 33 (9.38%) Management Information System
4 29 (8.24%) Public Cloud
5 22 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
6 21 (5.97%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (2.56%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.27%) Cyberattack
9 8 (2.27%) Data Fabric
9 8 (2.27%) Replication
10 7 (1.99%) Cloud Native
10 7 (1.99%) Device Driver
10 7 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.70%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.70%) Operational Technology
11 6 (1.70%) Robotics
11 6 (1.70%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.42%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 109 (30.97%) Linux
2 45 (12.78%) Windows
3 40 (11.36%) Ubuntu
4 23 (6.53%) CentOS
5 22 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (5.40%) Android
7 17 (4.83%) Unix
8 15 (4.26%) Solaris
9 10 (2.84%) Embedded Linux
10 8 (2.27%) zOS
11 6 (1.70%) Windows Server
12 4 (1.14%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (31.82%) Software Engineering
2 105 (29.83%) Agile
3 73 (20.74%) DevOps
4 70 (19.89%) CI/CD
4 70 (19.89%) Computer Science
5 67 (19.03%) Microservices
6 50 (14.20%) Artificial Intelligence
7 45 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 45 (12.78%) Machine Learning
7 45 (12.78%) SDLC
8 41 (11.65%) Configuration Management
9 37 (10.51%) Risk Management
10 35 (9.94%) Visualisation
11 34 (9.66%) Community of Practice
12 33 (9.38%) Business Strategy
13 31 (8.81%) Client Onboarding
14 29 (8.24%) Cybersecurity
14 29 (8.24%) DevSecOps
14 29 (8.24%) Enterprise Architecture
15 28 (7.95%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 108 (30.68%) SQL
2 104 (29.55%) Java
3 76 (21.59%) Python
4 39 (11.08%) JavaScript
5 30 (8.52%) Kotlin
6 28 (7.95%) C++
7 23 (6.53%) C
8 21 (5.97%) Ada
9 17 (4.83%) Bash
9 17 (4.83%) C#
10 13 (3.69%) Shell Script
11 11 (3.13%) Apex Code
12 10 (2.84%) T-SQL
13 9 (2.56%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.42%) ABAP
14 5 (1.42%) Go
14 5 (1.42%) Groovy
15 4 (1.14%) PHP
15 4 (1.14%) PL/SQL
15 4 (1.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 63 (17.90%) Degree
2 44 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 26 (7.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (7.39%) TOGAF Certification
4 24 (6.82%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.41%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.99%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.42%) CISSP
10 4 (1.14%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.85%) CIPD
12 2 (0.57%) HND
12 2 (0.57%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.28%) Linux+ Certification
13 1 (0.28%) MCP
13 1 (0.28%) OCP
13 1 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.28%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (1.70%) COBIT
2 6 (1.70%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.70%) NIST
2 6 (1.70%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.42%) QA
4 4 (1.14%) SLA
5 3 (0.85%) GDPR
6 2 (0.57%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.28%) COREP
7 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 18 (5.11%) Docker
2 12 (3.41%) Firmware
3 10 (2.84%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.27%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (1.99%) Active Directory
6 5 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.28%) KVM
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 48 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 27 (7.67%) Terraform
3 26 (7.39%) Ansible
4 18 (5.11%) Grafana
5 8 (2.27%) Kiali
6 7 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.70%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.42%) SCOM
9 3 (0.85%) Podman
9 3 (0.85%) SCCM
10 2 (0.57%) Control-M
10 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.57%) Puppet
10 2 (0.57%) WebSphere Cast Iron
11 1 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 37 (10.51%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.94%) Salesforce
3 34 (9.66%) Oracle
3 34 (9.66%) Red Hat
4 18 (5.11%) ServiceNow
5 14 (3.98%) IBM
6 12 (3.41%) Xilinx
7 9 (2.56%) MuleSoft
7 9 (2.56%) SAP
7 9 (2.56%) Splunk
8 8 (2.27%) AppDynamics
9 6 (1.70%) Sage
9 6 (1.70%) Workday
10 5 (1.42%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.42%) VMware
11 4 (1.14%) Computacenter
11 4 (1.14%) Dell
11 4 (1.14%) TIBCO
12 3 (0.85%) Google
12 3 (0.85%) RedGate