DataPower Contracts

IBM WebSphere DataPower
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term DataPower in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DataPower over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 703 789
Rank change year-on-year +134 +86 -138
Contract jobs citing DataPower 29 16 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.027% 0.068%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.22% 0.080% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 40
10th Percentile £444 £430 £450
25th Percentile £489 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% +27.50%
75th Percentile £588 £544 £565
90th Percentile £789 £550 £614
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -4.59% +2.50% +21.21%

All Generic Skills
UK

DataPower is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

DataPower
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DataPower as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DataPower in the UK

DataPower
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DataPower in the UK

DataPower
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DataPower over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DataPower in the UK

DataPower
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataPower within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +141 28 £550 +4.76% 2
London +107 14 £575 +15.00% 1
Work from Home +139 13 £550 +4.76% 1
UK excluding London +71 11 £489 -4.59% 1
Midlands +25 5 £765 +42.33%
North West - 5 £489 -
North of England - 5 £489 -
West Midlands +30 3 £765 +42.33%
East Midlands - 2 - -
Scotland - 1 - -

DataPower
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 6 (20.69%) WebLogic
1 6 (20.69%) WebSphere
1 6 (20.69%) WebSphere Application Server
2 5 (17.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (13.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (17.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Temenos T24
2 2 (6.90%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) Apigee
1 5 (17.24%) AWS
1 5 (17.24%) Kong
2 4 (13.79%) Azure
3 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (41.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) MongoDB
1 5 (17.24%) OLAP
1 5 (17.24%) OLTP
1 5 (17.24%) Oracle OLAP
2 1 (3.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) IBM UrbanCode
2 5 (17.24%) JIRA
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle Forms
General
1 6 (20.69%) Finance
1 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Banking
3 3 (10.34%) Billing
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Applications Specialist
1 6 (20.69%) Server Specialist
1 6 (20.69%) WebSphere Server Specialist
1 6 (20.69%) WebSphere Specialist
2 5 (17.24%) Architect
2 5 (17.24%) AWS Architect
2 5 (17.24%) Middleware Specialist
3 3 (10.34%) Developer
3 3 (10.34%) WebSphere MQ Specialist
4 2 (6.90%) Lead
4 2 (6.90%) Systems Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Administrator
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Head of Analytics
5 1 (3.45%) Head of Business Intelligence
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) WebSphere MQ
2 5 (17.24%) IBM Integration Bus
2 5 (17.24%) J2EE
2 5 (17.24%) Kafka
2 5 (17.24%) Middleware
2 5 (17.24%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (17.24%) SOAP
2 5 (17.24%) Web Services
3 4 (13.79%) Apache Camel
3 4 (13.79%) Spring
3 4 (13.79%) Spring Boot
3 4 (13.79%) Spring Integration
4 1 (3.45%) JSON
4 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Blog
2 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.69%) Validation
2 5 (17.24%) API Management
2 5 (17.24%) CQRS
2 5 (17.24%) Design Patterns
2 5 (17.24%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (17.24%) Event-Driven
2 5 (17.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 5 (17.24%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (17.24%) Microservices
2 5 (17.24%) OO
2 5 (17.24%) OOA/OOD
2 5 (17.24%) Risk Management
2 5 (17.24%) SOA
2 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (13.79%) DevOps
3 4 (13.79%) Technical Debt
3 4 (13.79%) TOGAF
4 3 (10.34%) Agile
4 3 (10.34%) Mentoring
5 2 (6.90%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) Java
2 1 (3.45%) Bash
2 1 (3.45%) C
2 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) Degree
1 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.45%) Ansible
2 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (65.52%) IBM
2 8 (27.59%) Oracle
3 5 (17.24%) TSYS
4 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.90%) SAP