WebSphere Application Server Contract Job Trends in Manchester

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring WebSphere Application Server skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing WebSphere Application Server 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.40% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.74% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £372 - -
25th Percentile £390 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 - -
75th Percentile £422 - -
90th Percentile £458 - -
North West median daily rate £433 - -

All Application Platform Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 107 104 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 10.60% 8.69% 8.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 66 110
10th Percentile £312 £191 £257
25th Percentile £357 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £525 £525 £590
90th Percentile £600 £643 £676
North West median daily rate £410 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -8.89% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile - £25.30 £13.52
25th Percentile £34.50 £28.00 £14.68
Median hourly rate £71.25 £33.00 £16.62
Median % change year-on-year +115.91% +98.56% -76.26%
75th Percentile £75.63 £38.44 £40.81
90th Percentile £77.88 £44.63 £55.32
North West median hourly rate £55.26 £31.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +78.26% +63.16% -70.30%

WebSphere Application Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for WebSphere Application Server in Manchester

WebSphere Application Server
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

WebSphere Application Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

WebSphere Application Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (50.00%) Apache
2 2 (50.00%) IIS
2 2 (50.00%) iPlanet
2 2 (50.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) IBM Cloud
2 2 (50.00%) npm
3 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Calico
1 2 (50.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (50.00%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Maven
3 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) LDAP
1 2 (50.00%) OAuth
1 2 (50.00%) OpenID
1 2 (50.00%) SAML
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Android
2 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Unix
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Systems Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (50.00%) Groovy
2 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) CA Single Sign-On
1 2 (50.00%) CA Wily
1 2 (50.00%) Istio
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (25.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) IBM
2 2 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (50.00%) Broadcom
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Splunk