WebSphere Contracts in London

IBM WebSphere
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring WebSphere skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WebSphere over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 370 422
Rank change year-on-year +32 +52 +43
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 13 26 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.15% 0.23%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.92% 1.28% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 22 35
10th Percentile £361 £433 £427
25th Percentile £368 £514 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £405 £623 £563
90th Percentile £428 £664 £623
England median daily rate £400 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -27.27% - -6.78%

All Application Platform Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,417 2,025 2,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.32% 11.59% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 956 1,510 1,987
10th Percentile £351 £263 £306
25th Percentile £414 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £675 £664 £700
90th Percentile £838 £838 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 27 31
10th Percentile £25.56 £15.50 £17.75
25th Percentile £26.04 £22.88 £21.87
Median hourly rate £27.00 £30.16 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% -13.83% -
75th Percentile £50.00 £36.88 £69.13
90th Percentile £53.75 £60.50 £83.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.52 £35.00
% change year-on-year +90.81% -21.39% +55.56%

WebSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for WebSphere in London

WebSphere
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for WebSphere in London

WebSphere
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for WebSphere in London

WebSphere
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Central London 0 1 - - 2
South London - 1 - - 1
WebSphere
England

WebSphere
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 5 (38.46%) JBoss
2 3 (23.08%) Tomcat
3 2 (15.38%) WebLogic
3 2 (15.38%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (7.69%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (7.69%) IaaS
3 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) DB2
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle Database
3 2 (15.38%) IMS/DB
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (7.69%) MySQL
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) JIRA
2 3 (23.08%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (15.38%) Git
4 1 (7.69%) Ant
4 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
4 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
4 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (7.69%) Maven
4 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (46.15%) Banking
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Back Office
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Analyst
1 3 (23.08%) Payments Analyst
1 3 (23.08%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Applications Support
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Banking Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Support Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Architect
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Information Architect
3 1 (7.69%) IT Trainer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Scripter
3 1 (7.69%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Trainer
3 1 (7.69%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) SOAP
1 4 (30.77%) WebSphere MQ
2 3 (23.08%) J2EE
2 3 (23.08%) Middleware
2 3 (23.08%) RESTful
2 3 (23.08%) Web Services
2 3 (23.08%) XML
3 2 (15.38%) EJB
3 2 (15.38%) JDBC
3 2 (15.38%) XSLT
4 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (7.69%) JSON
4 1 (7.69%) Kafka
4 1 (7.69%) LAMP
4 1 (7.69%) RAML
4 1 (7.69%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
1 2 (15.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Unix
2 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Windows
3 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (7.69%) CentOS
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Incident Management
1 4 (30.77%) ITIL
1 4 (30.77%) Problem Management
1 4 (30.77%) Process Improvement
1 4 (30.77%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (23.08%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
2 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (23.08%) Defect Tracking
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) Microservices
2 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (15.38%) Analytics
3 2 (15.38%) Availability Management
3 2 (15.38%) Batch Processing
3 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
3 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Management
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (15.38%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
3 2 (15.38%) REXX
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Groovy
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) ISO 20022
1 2 (15.38%) SEPA
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.69%) Docker
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Tivoli
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) HAProxy
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Podman
3 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Oracle
2 7 (53.85%) IBM
3 2 (15.38%) MuleSoft
4 1 (7.69%) Actifio
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) Pega
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.69%) Remedy
4 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow