Middleware Contracts in the UK excluding London

Middleware
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 310 284 323
Rank change year-on-year -26 +39 -64
Contract jobs citing Middleware 91 147 187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.65% 0.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.67% 3.57% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 108 125
10th Percentile £413 £321 £406
25th Percentile £453 £387 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £493 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.87% -10.45% +12.82%
75th Percentile £651 £641 £638
90th Percentile £750 £738 £673
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £590
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% +7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 1
10th Percentile - £62.38 -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +18.18% +16.40%
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £71.25 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +9.62% +18.18% +16.40%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,405 4,123 6,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.97% 18.17% 19.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,204 3,067 4,324
10th Percentile £325 £350 £362
25th Percentile £410 £418 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £688 £652
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 90 140
10th Percentile £22.75 £22.47 £19.41
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.56 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.47 £78.12 £77.03
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in the UK excluding London

Middleware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Middleware in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Middleware in the UK excluding London

Middleware
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Middleware in the UK excluding London

Middleware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Middleware in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Middleware in the UK excluding London

Middleware
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
North of England +21 21 £615 +11.82% 14
Scotland +60 20 £613 -3.92% 2
North West +16 13 £615 +11.82% 4
South West -16 13 £638 +21.43% 7
Midlands -6 12 £450 +12.50% 6
South East -8 12 £563 +32.35% 5
East of England +4 10 £581 -10.69% 7
West Midlands +19 9 £450 -14.29% 5
Yorkshire +14 5 £511 -14.83% 10
Wales +15 3 £538 - 3
East Midlands -17 3 £310 -11.43% 1
North East - 3 £588 -
Middleware
UK

Middleware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 5 (5.49%) IBM HTTP Server
1 5 (5.49%) WebSphere
1 5 (5.49%) WebSphere Application Server
1 5 (5.49%) WebSphere Portal
2 3 (3.30%) Apache
2 3 (3.30%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.20%) Confluence
3 2 (2.20%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.10%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.10%) CMS
4 1 (1.10%) JBoss
4 1 (1.10%) NetWeaver
4 1 (1.10%) nginx
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 7 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (5.49%) SAP SD
3 1 (1.10%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 22 (24.18%) Azure
2 9 (9.89%) SaaS
3 8 (8.79%) IaaS
3 8 (8.79%) PaaS
4 4 (4.40%) AWS
5 3 (3.30%) GitHub
6 2 (2.20%) GCP
7 1 (1.10%) Apigee
7 1 (1.10%) Boomi
7 1 (1.10%) iPaaS
7 1 (1.10%) Miro
7 1 (1.10%) Serverless
7 1 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.09%) LAN
1 11 (12.09%) WAN
2 6 (6.59%) HTTP
3 5 (5.49%) ATM
4 2 (2.20%) Firewall
4 2 (2.20%) Kerberos
4 2 (2.20%) NAS
4 2 (2.20%) SAN
5 1 (1.10%) AMQP
5 1 (1.10%) DNS
5 1 (1.10%) FTP
5 1 (1.10%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.10%) MQTT
5 1 (1.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.49%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.30%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.30%) PowerCenter
3 2 (2.20%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.10%) Essbase
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.10%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (8.79%) JIRA
2 5 (5.49%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (1.10%) Gerrit
3 1 (1.10%) Git
3 1 (1.10%) gulp
3 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.10%) JMeter
3 1 (1.10%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.10%) Maven
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle Forms
General
1 40 (43.96%) Social Skills
2 33 (36.26%) Finance
3 17 (18.68%) Banking
4 16 (17.58%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.79%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.40%) Billing
6 4 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.30%) Automotive
7 3 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Law
8 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.10%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.10%) Electronics
9 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.10%) Marketing
9 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (36.26%) Architect
2 16 (17.58%) Senior
3 15 (16.48%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (14.29%) Technical Architect
5 9 (9.89%) Middleware Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) Azure Architect
7 6 (6.59%) Cloud Architect
7 6 (6.59%) Consultant
7 6 (6.59%) Developer
7 6 (6.59%) Infrastructure Architect
7 6 (6.59%) SAP Consultant
8 5 (5.49%) Administrator
8 5 (5.49%) Analyst
8 5 (5.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Functional Consultant
8 5 (5.49%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 5 (5.49%) SAP SD Consultant
8 5 (5.49%) SAP SD Functional Consultant
8 5 (5.49%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.49%) J2EE
2 3 (3.30%) SOAP
3 2 (2.20%) JSON
3 2 (2.20%) Kafka
3 2 (2.20%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (2.20%) REST
3 2 (2.20%) RESTful
3 2 (2.20%) SAP PI
3 2 (2.20%) Visualforce
3 2 (2.20%) Web Services
4 1 (1.10%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.10%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.10%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (1.10%) Node.js
4 1 (1.10%) OAuth
4 1 (1.10%) OpenGL ES
4 1 (1.10%) OpenID
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.10%) Vulkan
4 1 (1.10%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.09%) Public Cloud
2 8 (8.79%) Data Centre
2 8 (8.79%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.49%) SCADA
3 5 (5.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (3.30%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.30%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.20%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.20%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.20%) Tandem
6 1 (1.10%) Clustering
6 1 (1.10%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.10%) Equities
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.10%) PKI
6 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.10%) STB
Operating Systems
1 29 (31.87%) Linux
2 23 (25.27%) Windows
3 12 (13.19%) Unix
4 5 (5.49%) AIX
5 4 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.20%) Android
6 2 (2.20%) Solaris
6 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.20%) zOS
7 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (38.46%) Agile
2 26 (28.57%) Waterfall
3 25 (27.47%) ITIL
4 18 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (18.68%) IT Strategy
6 16 (17.58%) Business Strategy
7 12 (13.19%) Architectural Patterns
7 12 (13.19%) Service Management
7 12 (13.19%) Technology Strategy
8 11 (12.09%) DevOps
8 11 (12.09%) Project Delivery
8 11 (12.09%) Translating Business Requirements
9 10 (10.99%) Analytics
9 10 (10.99%) Computer Science
10 9 (9.89%) Customer Service
11 8 (8.79%) Containerisation
11 8 (8.79%) CRM
11 8 (8.79%) Microservices
12 7 (7.69%) Operational Acceptance Testing
12 7 (7.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.69%) Python
2 6 (6.59%) Perl
3 4 (4.40%) Shell Script
4 3 (3.30%) Java
4 3 (3.30%) SQL
5 2 (2.20%) Apex Code
5 2 (2.20%) C
5 2 (2.20%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.10%) ABAP
6 1 (1.10%) ActionScript
6 1 (1.10%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (1.10%) C++
6 1 (1.10%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (14.29%) Degree
2 4 (4.40%) HND
3 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.30%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.20%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.10%) CCNA
5 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.10%) MCSE
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Master
5 1 (1.10%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.19%) QA
2 3 (3.30%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.20%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.10%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (5.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.30%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.20%) vSphere
5 1 (1.10%) Docker
5 1 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (5.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (3.30%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.10%) Ansible
3 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (1.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (12.09%) Oracle
2 10 (10.99%) SAP
3 8 (8.79%) IBM
3 8 (8.79%) VMware
4 7 (7.69%) Databricks
4 7 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 5 (5.49%) BMC
6 4 (4.40%) Informatica
6 4 (4.40%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.20%) F5
7 2 (2.20%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.20%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.10%) Cisco
8 1 (1.10%) Cognizant
8 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.10%) Google
8 1 (1.10%) NetApp
8 1 (1.10%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.10%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.10%) Temenos