WebSphere Contract Job Trends in Central London

IBM WebSphere
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring WebSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 122 132
Rank change year-on-year -14 +10 +38
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 3 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.12% 0.049% 0.20%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.44% 0.39% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £469 - £531
25th Percentile £470 - £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 - £613
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.24%
75th Percentile £473 - £619
90th Percentile £473 - -
London median daily rate £410 £375 £575
% change year-on-year +9.20% -34.78% +4.55%

All Application Platform Skills
Central London

WebSphere falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 208 259 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 8.57% 12.78% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 149 238
10th Percentile £353 £265 £250
25th Percentile £420 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £588
90th Percentile £730 £688 £725
London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £18.65 - £34.40
25th Percentile £18.88 - £36.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £26.45 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.28% -33.88% -23.81%
75th Percentile £21.38 - -
90th Percentile £22.35 - -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year -35.51% +34.48% -17.14%

WebSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WebSphere relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

WebSphere job vacancy trend in Central London

WebSphere
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing WebSphere.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing WebSphere

WebSphere
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing WebSphere.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing WebSphere

WebSphere
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere within the Central London region over the 6 months to 25 April 2026. 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
City of London -13 3 £471 -
WebSphere
London

WebSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Confluence
2 1 (33.33%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Ant
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Liquibase
3 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
3 1 (33.33%) Introscope
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) AIX
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Jython
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) CA Wily
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle