WebSphere Portal Contract Job Trends in England

IBM WebSphere Portal
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring WebSphere Portal skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 - 545
Rank change year-on-year - - +142
Contract jobs citing WebSphere Portal 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.003% - 0.003%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.028% - 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £420
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.64%
75th Percentile - - £430
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate - - £430
% change year-on-year - - -21.82%

All Application Platform Skills
England

WebSphere Portal 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 3,549 2,875 3,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.78% 11.65% 9.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,489 1,861 2,443
10th Percentile £310 £263 £225
25th Percentile £410 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.11% -5.81%
75th Percentile £591 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -4.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 55 158
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.85 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.90 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -35.98% +68.32% +13.94%
75th Percentile £72.50 £64.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £69.15 £68.63
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £41.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -33.28% +60.78% +14.20%

WebSphere Portal
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

WebSphere Portal job vacancy trend in England

WebSphere Portal
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing WebSphere Portal

WebSphere Portal
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing WebSphere Portal

WebSphere Portal
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 Portal within the England region over the 6 months to 11 March 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 - 1 - -
WebSphere Portal
UK

WebSphere Portal
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 1 (100.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Introscope
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Jython
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) CA Wily
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat