webMethods Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

webMethods
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring knowledge or experience of webMethods products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited webMethods over the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within webMethods, Inc.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 131 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing webMethods 6 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.21% 0.15% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.43% 0.32% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £429 £434 -
25th Percentile £429 £434 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £435 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% - -
75th Percentile £430 £435 -
90th Percentile £430 - -
England median daily rate £538 £435 £618
% change year-on-year +23.56% -29.55% +14.35%

All Vendors
Midlands

webMethods falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,406 1,250 1,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 50.38% 46.94% 50.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 913 804 962
10th Percentile £250 £243 £213
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 27 44
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.96 £12.30
25th Percentile £18.60 £15.05 £15.07
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.00 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +47.94% -13.92% +12.86%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £36.44
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.57% -20.27% +77.09%

webMethods
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

webMethods job vacancy trend in the Midlands

webMethods
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing webMethods.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing webMethods

webMethods
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing webMethods within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
West Midlands -12 6 £430 -1.18% 1
webMethods
England

webMethods
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (83.33%) WebLogic
2 4 (66.67%) Apache
2 4 (66.67%) JBoss
3 1 (16.67%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Eclipse
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) IntelliJ
1 4 (66.67%) JUnit
1 4 (66.67%) Selenium
General
1 4 (66.67%) Influencing Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Software Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) JSON
1 5 (83.33%) REST
1 5 (83.33%) SOAP
1 5 (83.33%) Spring
2 4 (66.67%) EJB
2 4 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 4 (66.67%) HTML5
2 4 (66.67%) J2EE
2 4 (66.67%) J2SE
2 4 (66.67%) Play Framework
2 4 (66.67%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) EntireX
3 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) Swagger
3 1 (16.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Scrum
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Lean Software Development
2 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 4 (66.67%) Microservices
2 4 (66.67%) Open Source
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) API Development
4 1 (16.67%) Open Source Development
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
1 5 (83.33%) Scala
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) Korn
2 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) IBM
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
1 1 (16.67%) Software AG
1 1 (16.67%) Trillium