WebSphere Application Server Contract Job Trends in England

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring WebSphere Application Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 494 538
Rank change year-on-year -117 +44 +87
Contract jobs citing WebSphere Application Server 6 10 2
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.013% 0.037% 0.005%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.15% 0.33% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile - £373 -
25th Percentile - £391 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £409 £420
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -2.62% -11.58%
75th Percentile - £453 £430
90th Percentile - £481 -
UK median daily rate £400 £416 £440
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -16.19%

All Application Platform Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,026 3,061 3,818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.98% 11.22% 10.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,675 2,023 2,726
10th Percentile £312 £289 £267
25th Percentile £405 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -1.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £738 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 77 134
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £13.51
25th Percentile £19.02 £26.45 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.12 £32.31
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +45.85% -32.69%
75th Percentile £61.17 £70.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.25 £72.80
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £48.56 £32.50
% change year-on-year -27.92% +49.42% -38.10%

WebSphere Application Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

WebSphere Application Server job vacancy trend in England

WebSphere Application Server
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

WebSphere Application Server
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

WebSphere Application Server
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 WebSphere Application Server within the England region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
South East - 4 £400 -
London -68 1 - -
WebSphere Application Server
UK

WebSphere Application Server
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 6 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (50.00%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (33.33%) JBoss
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (33.33%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (16.67%) Documentum
4 1 (16.67%) FileNet
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
1 2 (33.33%) SSL
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Db2
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Introscope
2 2 (33.33%) GitLab
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
3 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Middleware Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Migration Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Middleware Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Middleware
2 2 (33.33%) JDBC
2 2 (33.33%) JMS
2 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (33.33%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Clustering
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Unix
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (33.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
4 1 (16.67%) AIX
4 1 (16.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Migration
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Build Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (33.33%) ITIL
4 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
4 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Security Management
4 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (16.67%) High Availability
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Bash
2 4 (66.67%) Perl
3 3 (50.00%) Jython
3 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) CA Wily
3 2 (33.33%) Tivoli
4 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) IBM
2 4 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle
4 2 (33.33%) AppDynamics