WebSphere Application Server Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring WebSphere Application Server skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 - 45
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing WebSphere Application Server 8 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.22% - 0.26%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.08% - 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £305 - -
25th Percentile £384 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 - -
75th Percentile £480 - -
90th Percentile £483 - -
North West median daily rate £433 - -

All Application Platform Skills
Cheshire

WebSphere Application Server 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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 113 46 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 17.17% 8.73% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 34 12
10th Percentile £268 £325 £208
25th Percentile £330 £368 £229
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £386 £506 £400
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +26.50% -
75th Percentile £446 £563 £488
90th Percentile £516 £629 £499
North West median daily rate £410 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -8.89% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £22.16
25th Percentile - - £22.40
Median hourly rate - - £22.53
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.54%
75th Percentile - - £26.90
90th Percentile - - £34.76
North West median hourly rate £55.26 £31.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +78.26% +63.16% -70.30%

WebSphere Application Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing WebSphere Application Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for WebSphere Application Server in Cheshire

WebSphere Application Server
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing WebSphere Application Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing WebSphere Application Server

WebSphere Application Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebSphere Application Server in Cheshire over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WebSphere Application Server in Cheshire

WebSphere Application Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing WebSphere Application Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing WebSphere Application Server

WebSphere Application Server
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere Application Server within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 20 September 2025. 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
Knutsford - 8 £448 - 1
WebSphere Application Server
North West

WebSphere Application Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 8 (100.00%) Apache
1 8 (100.00%) IIS
1 8 (100.00%) iPlanet
1 8 (100.00%) JBoss
1 8 (100.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 8 (100.00%) CA Release Automation
1 8 (100.00%) Git
1 8 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (87.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior
3 3 (37.50%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) LDAP
1 8 (100.00%) OAuth
1 8 (100.00%) OpenID
1 8 (100.00%) SAML
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (87.50%) Unix
2 7 (87.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
1 7 (87.50%) DevOps
1 7 (87.50%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) Problem Management
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Groovy
2 7 (87.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (87.50%) Docker
2 7 (87.50%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) CA Single Sign-On
1 8 (100.00%) CA Wily
2 7 (87.50%) Progress Chef
2 7 (87.50%) Tivoli
3 4 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 8 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 8 (100.00%) IBM
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
1 8 (100.00%) Splunk