WebSphere Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

IBM WebSphere
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring WebSphere skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 16 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.47% - 0.26%
As % of the Application Platforms category 14.29% - 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 0 0
10th Percentile £305 - -
25th Percentile £374 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 - -
75th Percentile £455 - -
90th Percentile £480 - -
North West median daily rate £446 £450 £513
% change year-on-year -0.89% -12.20% -12.02%

All Application Platform Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 112 45 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 17.26% 8.59% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 33 13
10th Percentile £294 £326 £209
25th Percentile £333 £385 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £507 £350
Median % change year-on-year -23.57% +44.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £447 £567 £488
90th Percentile £519 £632 £498
North West median daily rate £411 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -8.61% -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 - - +7.29%
75th Percentile - - £26.90
90th Percentile - - £34.76
North West median hourly rate £47.12 £31.00 £18.25
% change year-on-year +52.00% +69.86% -71.47%

WebSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for WebSphere in Cheshire

WebSphere
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing WebSphere

WebSphere
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebSphere in Cheshire over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WebSphere in Cheshire

WebSphere
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing WebSphere

WebSphere
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 within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 22 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 - 15 £446 - 1
WebSphere
North West

WebSphere
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 13 (81.25%) JBoss
2 9 (56.25%) Apache
2 9 (56.25%) IIS
3 8 (50.00%) iPlanet
3 8 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (25.00%) Tomcat
4 4 (25.00%) WebLogic
5 3 (18.75%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 14 (87.50%) AWS
2 9 (56.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 7 (43.75%) DB2
3 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 13 (81.25%) Git
2 12 (75.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (56.25%) Bitbucket Server
3 9 (56.25%) CA Release Automation
4 7 (43.75%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (25.00%) Bitbucket
6 2 (12.50%) Selenium
6 2 (12.50%) SOAtest
General
1 11 (68.75%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) General Ledger
3 2 (12.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Scrum Master
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Test Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Agile Scrum Master
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Scrum Master
5 1 (6.25%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Mainframe Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) OAuth
1 9 (56.25%) OpenID
1 9 (56.25%) SAML
2 8 (50.00%) LDAP
3 7 (43.75%) Web Services
4 5 (31.25%) J2EE
5 4 (25.00%) RAML
5 4 (25.00%) REST
5 4 (25.00%) SOAP
5 4 (25.00%) WSDL
6 3 (18.75%) EJB
6 3 (18.75%) JSP
6 3 (18.75%) Servlets
6 3 (18.75%) Spring
6 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
7 2 (12.50%) JSON
7 2 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Private Cloud
1 4 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (18.75%) Mainframe
2 3 (18.75%) VSAM
3 2 (12.50%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Unix
2 9 (56.25%) Linux
2 9 (56.25%) Windows
3 8 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps
2 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (43.75%) Identity Access Management
4 6 (37.50%) Agile
5 4 (25.00%) API Development
5 4 (25.00%) Backlog Management
5 4 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 4 (25.00%) Budget Control
5 4 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (25.00%) Scrum
5 4 (25.00%) SDLC
5 4 (25.00%) Task Automation
6 3 (18.75%) Conflict Resolution
6 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
6 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (18.75%) Problem Management
6 3 (18.75%) Servant Leadership
6 3 (18.75%) Situational Awareness
6 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
7 2 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Groovy
2 7 (43.75%) Shell Script
3 6 (37.50%) Java
4 4 (25.00%) SQL
5 3 (18.75%) COBOL
5 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 3 (18.75%) JCL
5 3 (18.75%) REXX
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 8 (50.00%) Docker
2 7 (43.75%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) CA Single Sign-On
2 8 (50.00%) CA Wily
2 8 (50.00%) Progress Chef
3 7 (43.75%) Tivoli
4 4 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) Oracle
2 9 (56.25%) Broadcom
2 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
3 8 (50.00%) AppDynamics
3 8 (50.00%) IBM
3 8 (50.00%) Splunk
4 2 (12.50%) Ab Initio
4 2 (12.50%) Informatica
4 2 (12.50%) Parasoft