WebSphere Contract Job Trends in the City of London

IBM WebSphere
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring WebSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 115 125
Rank change year-on-year -15 +10 +40
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.12% 0.058% 0.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.50% 0.49% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £469 - -
25th Percentile £470 £395 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £400 £613
Median % change year-on-year +17.69% -34.69% -3.39%
75th Percentile £473 £405 £619
90th Percentile £473 - -
Central London median daily rate £471 £400 £613
% change year-on-year +17.69% -34.69% -3.39%

All Application Platform Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 200 204 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.26% 11.82% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 109 220
10th Percentile £348 £277 £252
25th Percentile £425 £395 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £528
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -1.42% -8.26%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £621
90th Percentile £725 £740 £726
Central London median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £19.64 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £20.23 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £21.33 £75.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.56% +87.50% -23.81%
75th Percentile £22.31 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £22.82 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £62.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -62.94% +56.25% -23.81%

WebSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

WebSphere job vacancy trend in the City of London

WebSphere
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing WebSphere.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing WebSphere

WebSphere
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing WebSphere.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing WebSphere

WebSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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