WebSphere Application Server Contracts in England

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring WebSphere Application Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WebSphere Application Server over the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 516 594
Rank change year-on-year +33 +78 +74
DemandTrendContract jobs citing WebSphere Application Server 14 1 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.051% 0.003% 0.029%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.45% 0.029% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 6
10th Percentile £305 - £325
25th Percentile £359 - £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 - £388
Median % change year-on-year - - -34.04%
75th Percentile £444 - £516
90th Percentile £466 - £563
UK median daily rate £402 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -11.02%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,126 3,490 4,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.32% 10.52% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,068 2,475 3,225
10th Percentile £277 £290 £258
25th Percentile £395 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £483 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -7.21% +0.97% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 90 144
10th Percentile £17.33 £16.00 £15.69
25th Percentile £26.00 £22.75 £20.50
Median hourly rate £41.45 £36.25 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.34% -20.33% +106.82%
75th Percentile £65.25 £70.00 £70.70
90th Percentile £78.70 £75.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £42.27 £32.75 £50.50
% change year-on-year +29.07% -35.15% +124.44%

WebSphere Application Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for WebSphere Application Server 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
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for WebSphere Application Server in England

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
DemandTrendContract 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 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England - 10 £380 - 3
North West - 8 £360 - 2
London +24 2 £425 -
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 1
WebSphere Application Server
UK

WebSphere Application Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 6 (42.86%) JBoss
3 4 (28.57%) Apache
3 4 (28.57%) IIS
3 4 (28.57%) iPlanet
4 1 (7.14%) CICS
4 1 (7.14%) Confluence
4 1 (7.14%) Tomcat
4 1 (7.14%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) IBM Cloud
3 6 (42.86%) OpenShift
4 5 (35.71%) Azure
4 5 (35.71%) GCP
5 4 (28.57%) npm
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Calico
1 4 (28.57%) Kerberos
2 3 (21.43%) SSL
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (7.14%) FCoE
3 1 (7.14%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (7.14%) Firewall
3 1 (7.14%) iSCSI
3 1 (7.14%) LAN
3 1 (7.14%) Multicast
3 1 (7.14%) NAS
3 1 (7.14%) SAN
3 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.14%) DB2
2 1 (7.14%) IMS/DB
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (85.71%) Jenkins
2 8 (57.14%) Git
3 4 (28.57%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (28.57%) CA Release Automation
3 4 (28.57%) GitLab
3 4 (28.57%) Maven
3 4 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (21.43%) Log4j
5 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 7 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (42.86%) Banking
4 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Middleware Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Support Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) WebSphere Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) WebSphere Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) WebSphere Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) WebSphere Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) LDAP
2 7 (50.00%) OAuth
2 7 (50.00%) SAML
3 4 (28.57%) JDBC
3 4 (28.57%) OpenID
3 4 (28.57%) WebSphere MQ
4 3 (21.43%) JMS
4 3 (21.43%) JNDI
4 3 (21.43%) Middleware
5 2 (14.29%) J2EE
5 2 (14.29%) Kafka
6 1 (7.14%) EJB
6 1 (7.14%) IBM Integration Bus
6 1 (7.14%) RESTful
6 1 (7.14%) SOAP
6 1 (7.14%) Web Services
6 1 (7.14%) XML
6 1 (7.14%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.14%) Clustering
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
3 1 (7.14%) Replication
3 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Linux
2 7 (50.00%) Windows
3 4 (28.57%) Android
3 4 (28.57%) Apple iOS
3 4 (28.57%) Unix
3 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (7.14%) MVS
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.14%) Solaris
4 1 (7.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 8 (57.14%) DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) Problem Management
5 4 (28.57%) Agile
5 4 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
6 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) Migration
6 3 (21.43%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (21.43%) RBAC
6 3 (21.43%) Refactoring
6 3 (21.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 2 (14.29%) ITIL
7 2 (14.29%) Kanban
7 2 (14.29%) Mobile Application Development
7 2 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (28.57%) Groovy
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.14%) REXX
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 2 (14.29%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) Docker
2 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
3 3 (21.43%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 1 (7.14%) KVM
4 1 (7.14%) NFS
4 1 (7.14%) SRDF
4 1 (7.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (7.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 5 (35.71%) Terraform
3 4 (28.57%) CA Single Sign-On
3 4 (28.57%) CA Wily
3 4 (28.57%) Istio
4 3 (21.43%) Progress Chef
4 3 (21.43%) Prometheus
4 3 (21.43%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (21.43%) Tivoli
5 1 (7.14%) Ansible
5 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) IBM
2 7 (50.00%) Splunk
3 6 (42.86%) Oracle
4 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
5 4 (28.57%) AppDynamics
5 4 (28.57%) Broadcom
5 4 (28.57%) Dynatrace
6 3 (21.43%) Red Hat
7 2 (14.29%) TIBCO
8 1 (7.14%) Cisco
8 1 (7.14%) EMC
8 1 (7.14%) F5
8 1 (7.14%) Google
8 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft
8 1 (7.14%) NetApp
8 1 (7.14%) Pure Storage
8 1 (7.14%) VMware