Middleware Contracts in the City of London

Middleware
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 135 158
Rank change year-on-year +23 +23 +3
Contract jobs citing Middleware 15 15 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.71% 0.54% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.95% 2.25% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 29
10th Percentile £470 £441 £424
25th Percentile £482 £559 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £673 £630 £625
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +0.72% +8.70%
75th Percentile £766 £681 £688
90th Percentile £825 £771 £744
Central London median daily rate £673 £630 £600
% change year-on-year +6.83% +4.87% +6.43%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 509 667 1,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 23.98% 24.02% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 456 876
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £507 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £608 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +1.25% +4.35%
75th Percentile £704 £713 £738
90th Percentile £838 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £46.93 £42.95
25th Percentile £36.75 £47.94 £45.50
Median hourly rate £38.50 £50.25 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.38% -1.47% +42.66%
75th Percentile £40.25 £51.94 £56.50
90th Percentile - £52.58 £59.05
Central London median hourly rate £38.50 £50.25 £51.00
% change year-on-year -23.38% -1.47% +45.71%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Middleware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Middleware in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Middleware in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Middleware in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Middleware in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Middleware in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (6.67%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (6.67%) Boomi
2 1 (6.67%) BrowserStack
2 1 (6.67%) Firebase
2 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (6.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
2 1 (6.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) AMQP
2 2 (13.33%) DNS
3 1 (6.67%) Internet
3 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) MongoDB
2 3 (20.00%) Couchbase
3 2 (13.33%) DB2
4 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
4 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Appium
1 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
1 1 (6.67%) JMeter
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (6.67%) Postman
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Front Office
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Test Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Backend Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Integration Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) React Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Test Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Kafka
2 3 (20.00%) JMS
3 2 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (13.33%) REST
3 2 (13.33%) Web Services
4 1 (6.67%) .NET
4 1 (6.67%) Django
4 1 (6.67%) EDI
4 1 (6.67%) FastAPI
4 1 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (6.67%) Flask
4 1 (6.67%) FpML
4 1 (6.67%) J2EE
4 1 (6.67%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (6.67%) Node.js
4 1 (6.67%) Pyramid
4 1 (6.67%) React
4 1 (6.67%) RESTful
4 1 (6.67%) WebSockets
4 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.67%) Derivative
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Replication
2 1 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (6.67%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 4 (26.67%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) Microservices
3 3 (20.00%) Test Management
3 3 (20.00%) Test Planning
4 2 (13.33%) Code Quality
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (13.33%) Defect Management
4 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) SDLC
4 2 (13.33%) SOA
4 2 (13.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Test Strategy
4 2 (13.33%) Use Case
4 2 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Python
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) Go
4 1 (6.67%) Apex Code
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.67%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.67%) QA
1 1 (6.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) MOM
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Solace
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Ariba
3 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) TIBCO