WebSphere Contract Job Trends in England

IBM WebSphere
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring WebSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 464 513
Rank change year-on-year -31 +49 +79
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 47 40 50
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.42% 1.25% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 30
10th Percentile £316 £250 £424
25th Percentile £350 £343 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £375 £576
Median % change year-on-year +15.47% -34.92% +0.22%
75th Percentile £484 £419 £650
90th Percentile £607 £600 £674
UK median daily rate £447 £381 £550
% change year-on-year +17.19% -30.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £63.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £63.00 -

All Application Platform Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,317 3,198 3,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.62% 11.04% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,283 2,004 2,509
10th Percentile £290 £263 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £775 £712
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 67 126
10th Percentile £15.60 £17.05 £14.02
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £32.77 £41.91 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.81% +67.64% +37.17%
75th Percentile £69.36 £64.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.40 £70.50 £73.13
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £26.39
% change year-on-year -22.26% +32.63% +42.84%

WebSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

WebSphere job vacancy trend in England

WebSphere
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing WebSphere

WebSphere
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebSphere in England over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WebSphere in England

WebSphere
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing WebSphere

WebSphere
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
East of England -10 17 £550 -
North of England -37 17 £449 -17.52% 1
North West -6 15 £449 -17.52% 1
London -15 11 £350 -6.48% 2
Yorkshire -39 2 - -
South East - 2 - - 1
WebSphere
UK

WebSphere
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 23 (48.94%) WebLogic
2 13 (27.66%) Apache
2 13 (27.66%) IIS
2 13 (27.66%) JBoss
3 12 (25.53%) WebSphere Application Server
4 10 (21.28%) iPlanet
5 5 (10.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (6.38%) Tomcat
7 2 (4.26%) CICS
7 2 (4.26%) WildFly
8 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (10.64%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (4.26%) Maximo
3 1 (2.13%) Temenos T24
3 1 (2.13%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.79%) AWS
2 9 (19.15%) OpenShift
3 7 (14.89%) GCP
4 6 (12.77%) Azure
5 4 (8.51%) IaaS
5 4 (8.51%) PaaS
5 4 (8.51%) SaaS
6 2 (4.26%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (21.28%) Kerberos
2 5 (10.64%) SAN
3 3 (6.38%) Firewall
3 3 (6.38%) NetScaler
4 1 (2.13%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.13%) FCoE
4 1 (2.13%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.13%) iSCSI
4 1 (2.13%) LAN
4 1 (2.13%) Multicast
4 1 (2.13%) NAS
4 1 (2.13%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (2.13%) VSAN
4 1 (2.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (23.40%) SQL Server
2 10 (21.28%) Oracle Database
3 8 (17.02%) DB2
4 5 (10.64%) Relational Database
5 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (27.66%) Jenkins
2 12 (25.53%) Git
3 11 (23.40%) Bitbucket Server
3 11 (23.40%) CA Release Automation
4 9 (19.15%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (8.51%) JIRA
6 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
General
1 11 (23.40%) Finance
2 7 (14.89%) Banking
3 2 (4.26%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Front Office
4 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (34.04%) Consultant
2 7 (14.89%) Architect
3 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure Architect
4 5 (10.64%) Developer
4 5 (10.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Senior
4 5 (10.64%) TIBCO Developer
5 3 (6.38%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (6.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Lead
6 2 (4.26%) Maximo Consultant
6 2 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Product Owner
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.13%) Network Architect
7 1 (2.13%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (51.06%) Middleware
2 15 (31.91%) .NET
2 15 (31.91%) HTML
2 15 (31.91%) Node.js
3 12 (25.53%) LDAP
4 11 (23.40%) OAuth
4 11 (23.40%) OpenID
4 11 (23.40%) SAML
5 8 (17.02%) SOAP
5 8 (17.02%) Web Services
6 7 (14.89%) XML
7 6 (12.77%) WSDL
8 5 (10.64%) J2EE
8 5 (10.64%) JMS
8 5 (10.64%) OC4J
8 5 (10.64%) TIBCO EMS
8 5 (10.64%) XSD
8 5 (10.64%) XSLT
9 2 (4.26%) WebSphere MQ
10 1 (2.13%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Private Cloud
2 4 (8.51%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.26%) Clustering
4 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.26%) Mainframe
4 2 (4.26%) Replication
5 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.13%) Derivative
5 1 (2.13%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (2.13%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (2.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 20 (42.55%) Windows
2 18 (38.30%) Linux
3 15 (31.91%) Windows Server
4 13 (27.66%) Unix
5 2 (4.26%) Solaris
5 2 (4.26%) zOS
6 1 (2.13%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.17%) Requirements Gathering
2 15 (31.91%) CI/CD
3 12 (25.53%) DevOps
4 9 (19.15%) Identity Access Management
5 8 (17.02%) Agile
6 7 (14.89%) Containerisation
6 7 (14.89%) ITSM
6 7 (14.89%) Scrum
7 5 (10.64%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (10.64%) Design Patterns
7 5 (10.64%) OOA/OOD
7 5 (10.64%) Project Delivery
7 5 (10.64%) Resource Management
7 5 (10.64%) RUP
7 5 (10.64%) SOA
7 5 (10.64%) Task Automation
7 5 (10.64%) UML
8 4 (8.51%) Microservices
8 4 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (8.51%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.17%) Java
2 15 (31.91%) C
2 15 (31.91%) C++
2 15 (31.91%) PHP
3 11 (23.40%) Groovy
3 11 (23.40%) SQL
4 8 (17.02%) Shell Script
5 5 (10.64%) XPath
6 3 (6.38%) Python
7 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (12.77%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.26%) OCP
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) CCIE
3 1 (2.13%) CCNP
3 1 (2.13%) CCSM
3 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.13%) CSPO
3 1 (2.13%) Degree
3 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.13%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (29.79%) Active Directory
2 9 (19.15%) Docker
3 8 (17.02%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (4.26%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.26%) KVM
6 1 (2.13%) NFS
6 1 (2.13%) SRDF
6 1 (2.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (2.13%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (23.40%) CA Single Sign-On
2 10 (21.28%) CA Wily
3 9 (19.15%) Progress Chef
4 8 (17.02%) Tivoli
5 5 (10.64%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (10.64%) TIBCO Hawk
6 2 (4.26%) Ansible
6 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
6 2 (4.26%) Terraform
7 1 (2.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (55.32%) Oracle
2 25 (53.19%) IBM
3 15 (31.91%) Dynatrace
4 13 (27.66%) Microsoft
5 11 (23.40%) Broadcom
6 10 (21.28%) AppDynamics
6 10 (21.28%) Splunk
7 7 (14.89%) Citrix
7 7 (14.89%) VMware
8 6 (12.77%) F5
8 6 (12.77%) TIBCO
9 5 (10.64%) BEA
10 4 (8.51%) HP
11 3 (6.38%) Cisco
12 2 (4.26%) EMC
12 2 (4.26%) Globalscape
12 2 (4.26%) Google
12 2 (4.26%) NetApp
13 1 (2.13%) Palo Alto
13 1 (2.13%) Pure Storage