WebSphere Application Server Contract Job Trends in London

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring WebSphere Application Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 345 385
Rank change year-on-year -62 +40 +108
Contract jobs citing WebSphere Application Server 2 2 8
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.012% 0.016% 0.044%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.12% 0.13% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £464
25th Percentile - £388 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -22.73% +15.79%
75th Percentile - £463 £575
90th Percentile - - £580
England median daily rate - £392 £550
% change year-on-year - -28.82% +4.76%

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 1,653 1,488 1,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.81% 11.78% 11.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 999 1,468
10th Percentile £350 £325 £263
25th Percentile £425 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £511
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +2.69% -7.05%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £636
90th Percentile £726 £811 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 30
10th Percentile £15.20 £23.80 £20.15
25th Percentile £17.50 £26.14 £22.44
Median hourly rate £19.00 £32.73 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -41.94% +8.79% +25.33%
75th Percentile £28.88 £41.91 £40.00
90th Percentile £60.02 £50.38 £58.13
England median hourly rate £27.71 £52.50 £27.52
% change year-on-year -47.22% +90.81% +22.29%

WebSphere Application Server
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

WebSphere Application Server job vacancy trend in London

WebSphere Application Server
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

WebSphere Application Server
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

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 31 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
Central London - 1 - -
WebSphere Application Server
England

WebSphere Application Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) IBM HTTP Server
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Temenos T24
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Introscope
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) T24 Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PMI
1 1 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) AIX
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Jython
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) CA Wily
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Radware
1 1 (50.00%) Temenos