DataPower Contract Job Trends in England

IBM WebSphere DataPower
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term DataPower in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DataPower over the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 513 563
Rank change year-on-year -1 +50 +158
Contract jobs citing DataPower 5 6 18
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.017% 0.019% 0.046%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.047% 0.062% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 11
10th Percentile £458 £522 -
25th Percentile £482 £637 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £706 £583
Median % change year-on-year -25.99% +21.10% +14.31%
75th Percentile £562 £719 £661
90th Percentile £585 £732 £730
UK median daily rate £523 £706 £649
% change year-on-year -25.99% +8.82% +27.21%

All Generic Skills
England

DataPower falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 10,727 9,707 12,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.41% 31.22% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,702 5,809 8,745
10th Percentile £290 £294 £285
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 588 294 461
10th Percentile £14.31 £16.76 £17.13
25th Percentile £18.44 £23.80 £21.31
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% +5.56% +66.79%
75th Percentile £51.06 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.23 £75.16 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.50% -10.11% +64.94%

DataPower
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DataPower relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

DataPower job vacancy trend in England

DataPower
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DataPower.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DataPower

DataPower
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DataPower in England over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DataPower in England

DataPower
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataPower within the England region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
London -7 3 £445 -22.44% 3
South West - 1 £600 - 1
DataPower
UK

DataPower
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (40.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) CICS
2 1 (20.00%) FileNet
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (20.00%) DB2
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) FileNet Architect
2 1 (20.00%) FileNet Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) JWT
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
1 1 (20.00%) WSDL
1 1 (20.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) API Development
2 1 (20.00%) Business Process Mapping
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Functional Programming
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Logistics
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Runbook
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow
2 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (20.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft