Middleware Contracts with Work from Home Options

Middleware
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 215 252 302
Rank change year-on-year +37 +50 -1
Contract jobs citing Middleware 129 215 372
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.87% 0.90% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.46% 3.60% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 160 253
10th Percentile £413 £450 £413
25th Percentile £462 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year +2.81% +1.77% +15.07%
75th Percentile £700 £687 £653
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £590
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% +7.27%
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% +16.40%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,723 5,975 13,044
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.23% 25.03% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,616 4,481 9,688
10th Percentile £350 £388 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £825 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 79 111
10th Percentile £23.88 £25.10 £22.50
25th Percentile - £48.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £64.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.81% +21.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61.50 £73.75 £67.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.05 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

Middleware
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

Middleware
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 12 June 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 9 (6.98%) WebSphere
2 8 (6.20%) WebSphere Application Server
3 7 (5.43%) Confluence
3 7 (5.43%) IBM HTTP Server
3 7 (5.43%) WebSphere Portal
4 4 (3.10%) Apache
4 4 (3.10%) Tomcat
5 3 (2.33%) JBoss
5 3 (2.33%) nginx
6 2 (1.55%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.78%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.78%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.78%) CMS
7 1 (0.78%) IIS
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (4.65%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (3.10%) SAP SD
4 3 (2.33%) Temenos T24
5 2 (1.55%) Endur
5 2 (1.55%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 2 (1.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (1.55%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.78%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.78%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.78%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.78%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 41 (31.78%) Azure
2 26 (20.16%) AWS
3 14 (10.85%) GCP
4 9 (6.98%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (6.20%) IaaS
5 8 (6.20%) PaaS
6 7 (5.43%) GitHub
6 7 (5.43%) SaaS
6 7 (5.43%) Twilio
7 5 (3.88%) BlazeMeter
7 5 (3.88%) BrowserStack
7 5 (3.88%) Firebase
7 5 (3.88%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 3 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.33%) Miro
9 2 (1.55%) Boomi
9 2 (1.55%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.78%) Apigee
10 1 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.78%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.98%) LAN
2 8 (6.20%) HTTP
2 8 (6.20%) WAN
3 7 (5.43%) ATM
3 7 (5.43%) CTI
3 7 (5.43%) VoIP
4 4 (3.10%) Firewall
5 3 (2.33%) DNS
6 2 (1.55%) NAS
6 2 (1.55%) SAN
7 1 (0.78%) AMQP
7 1 (0.78%) FTP
7 1 (0.78%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.78%) Network Security
7 1 (0.78%) SSL
7 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.08%) Oracle Database
2 9 (6.98%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.43%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.65%) PowerCenter
5 5 (3.88%) Oracle ODI
5 5 (3.88%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.10%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.33%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.55%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.55%) DB2
8 2 (1.55%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.78%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.78%) MySQL
9 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.78%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 18 (13.95%) JIRA
2 14 (10.85%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.20%) JMeter
4 7 (5.43%) Cypress.io
4 7 (5.43%) GitLab
5 6 (4.65%) Postman
6 5 (3.88%) Appium
6 5 (3.88%) IBM UrbanCode
7 4 (3.10%) Artifactory
7 4 (3.10%) Subversion
8 2 (1.55%) Git
8 2 (1.55%) Maven
8 2 (1.55%) Selenium
8 2 (1.55%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.55%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.78%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.78%) Mocha
9 1 (0.78%) TestNG
9 1 (0.78%) WebDriver
General
1 54 (41.86%) Finance
2 50 (38.76%) Social Skills
3 23 (17.83%) Banking
4 18 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.98%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (6.20%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.20%) Retail
7 7 (5.43%) Telecoms
8 6 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.10%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.33%) Billing
10 3 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.33%) Front Office
11 2 (1.55%) Back Office
11 2 (1.55%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.55%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.78%) Automotive
12 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 42 (32.56%) Architect
2 22 (17.05%) Solutions Architect
3 19 (14.73%) Senior
4 12 (9.30%) Middleware Engineer
5 10 (7.75%) Developer
6 9 (6.98%) Consultant
6 9 (6.98%) Technical Architect
7 8 (6.20%) Azure Architect
7 8 (6.20%) Cloud Architect
8 7 (5.43%) DBA
8 7 (5.43%) Integration Architect
8 7 (5.43%) Oracle DBA
8 7 (5.43%) Python Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) Tester
9 6 (4.65%) Analyst
9 6 (4.65%) Senior Middleware Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) SAP Consultant
10 5 (3.88%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.40%) Web Services
2 11 (8.53%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (5.43%) .NET
3 7 (5.43%) J2EE
4 6 (4.65%) SOAP
5 5 (3.88%) HTML
5 5 (3.88%) WebdriverIO
5 5 (3.88%) XML
6 4 (3.10%) Kafka
6 4 (3.10%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (3.10%) REST
6 4 (3.10%) Visualforce
7 3 (2.33%) FpML
7 3 (2.33%) IBM Integration Bus
7 3 (2.33%) Node.js
7 3 (2.33%) RESTful
8 2 (1.55%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.55%) IDoc
8 2 (1.55%) JSON
8 2 (1.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.20%) Public Cloud
2 7 (5.43%) IVR
2 7 (5.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 6 (4.65%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.10%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.10%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.33%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.55%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.55%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.55%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.55%) Replication
6 2 (1.55%) Tandem
7 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.78%) Derivative
7 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.78%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (0.78%) IoT
7 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 32 (24.81%) Linux
2 31 (24.03%) Windows
3 9 (6.98%) Unix
4 7 (5.43%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.65%) AIX
6 5 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.33%) zOS
8 1 (0.78%) Android
8 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (35.66%) Agile
2 30 (23.26%) Analytics
3 24 (18.60%) DevOps
4 23 (17.83%) Waterfall
5 20 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (11.63%) CRM
6 15 (11.63%) Migration
7 14 (10.85%) ITIL
8 13 (10.08%) Computer Science
8 13 (10.08%) ETL
9 11 (8.53%) CI/CD
9 11 (8.53%) High Availability
9 11 (8.53%) IT Strategy
9 11 (8.53%) Microservices
9 11 (8.53%) Performance Testing
9 11 (8.53%) Scrum
9 11 (8.53%) SDLC
10 10 (7.75%) Project Delivery
10 10 (7.75%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (6.98%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 18 (13.95%) SQL
2 16 (12.40%) Python
3 10 (7.75%) Java
4 9 (6.98%) C#
4 9 (6.98%) JavaScript
4 9 (6.98%) Shell Script
5 8 (6.20%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.88%) Perl
7 4 (3.10%) Apex Code
7 4 (3.10%) C++
8 3 (2.33%) ABAP
8 3 (2.33%) C
9 1 (0.78%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.78%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.78%) Go
9 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.78%) Scala
9 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.78%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (10.85%) Degree
2 13 (10.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.75%) Master's Degree
4 6 (4.65%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.88%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.10%) Security Cleared
7 3 (2.33%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.63%) QA
2 4 (3.10%) GDPR
2 4 (3.10%) HIPAA
2 4 (3.10%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.10%) SOC 2
3 3 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.55%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (5.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (4.65%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (3.10%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.55%) Docker
4 2 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (6.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 7 (5.43%) Ansible
3 6 (4.65%) Data Guard
3 6 (4.65%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (3.10%) BladeLogic
4 4 (3.10%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (3.10%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.55%) Terraform
6 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 35 (27.13%) Oracle
2 20 (15.50%) Microsoft
3 14 (10.85%) IBM
3 14 (10.85%) SAP
4 10 (7.75%) Google
4 10 (7.75%) VMware
5 9 (6.98%) Databricks
6 8 (6.20%) Salesforce
7 7 (5.43%) Avaya
7 7 (5.43%) Cisco
7 7 (5.43%) Genesys
7 7 (5.43%) Informatica
8 6 (4.65%) Dynatrace
9 5 (3.88%) Citrix
9 5 (3.88%) MuleSoft
10 4 (3.10%) Altiris
11 3 (2.33%) Red Hat
11 3 (2.33%) Temenos
12 2 (1.55%) OpenLink
12 2 (1.55%) webMethods