WebSphere Application Server Contracts in London

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 403 474
Rank change year-on-year +46 +71 +49
Contract jobs citing WebSphere Application Server 3 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.023% 0.023% 0.047%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.20% 0.18% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 7
10th Percentile - £445 £328
25th Percentile £388 £496 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +15.79% -15.93%
75th Percentile £463 £578 £550
90th Percentile - £584 £653
England median daily rate £409 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -25.64% +15.79% -17.39%

All Application Platform Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,504 2,202 2,704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.48% 12.49% 10.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,012 1,658 1,948
10th Percentile £353 £300 £313
25th Percentile £415 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £673 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £850 £800
England median daily rate £500 £507 £525
% change year-on-year -1.43% -3.38% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 29 29
10th Percentile £26.00 £19.50 £17.43
25th Percentile £26.35 £23.75 £22.49
Median hourly rate £34.50 £30.16 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.39% -13.83% -19.08%
75th Percentile £53.75 £33.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £75.63 £59.00 £84.40
England median hourly rate £50.00 £31.71 £48.00
% change year-on-year +57.68% -33.94% +120.69%

WebSphere Application Server
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for WebSphere Application Server in London

WebSphere Application Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WebSphere Application Server in London.

Daily rate trend for WebSphere Application Server in London

WebSphere Application Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WebSphere Application Server in London.

Hourly rate trend for WebSphere Application Server in London

WebSphere Application Server
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
South London - 1 - -
WebSphere Application Server
England

WebSphere Application Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (66.67%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) IBM Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) DB2
1 2 (66.67%) IMS/DB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) Log4j
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Support Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) JDBC
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (66.67%) EJB
2 2 (66.67%) J2EE
2 2 (66.67%) Middleware
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
3 1 (33.33%) JMS
3 1 (33.33%) JNDI
3 1 (33.33%) Kafka
3 1 (33.33%) LDAP
3 1 (33.33%) OAuth
3 1 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) AOP
1 2 (66.67%) Availability Management
1 2 (66.67%) Batch Processing
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) ITSM
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Management
1 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
1 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
1 2 (66.67%) REXX
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) MuleSoft
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (33.33%) TIBCO
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