WebSphere Contracts in the Midlands

IBM WebSphere
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 130 165
Rank change year-on-year +10 +35 +20
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.052% 0.037% 0.030%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.53% 0.49% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £550 £330
Median % change year-on-year -34.91% +66.67% -37.14%
England median daily rate £384 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -30.18% - -4.35%

All Application Platform Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 187 203 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.63% 7.46% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 142 305
10th Percentile £262 £146 £183
25th Percentile £358 £298 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +19.20% -16.67% +0.45%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £540
90th Percentile £578 £638 £625
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 15 8
10th Percentile £16.55 £15.79 £14.98
25th Percentile £16.88 £22.12 £17.35
Median hourly rate £18.00 £30.50 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -40.98% +58.44% +2.67%
75th Percentile £19.87 £51.91 £26.48
90th Percentile £36.39 - £39.16
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +105.88% -27.14% +67.54%

WebSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for WebSphere in the Midlands

WebSphere
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for WebSphere in the Midlands

WebSphere
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for WebSphere in the Midlands

WebSphere
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 WebSphere within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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
East Midlands +9 1 £358 -34.91% 2
WebSphere
England

WebSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RAML
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) Budget Control
1 1 (100.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Servant Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle