WebSphere Contracts in the North of England

IBM WebSphere
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 163 195
Rank change year-on-year +1 +32 +44
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 25 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.63% 0.072% 0.056%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.71% 0.81% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 3 0
10th Percentile £305 £503 -
25th Percentile £358 £581 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £725 -
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% - -
75th Percentile £447 £738 -
90th Percentile £575 - -
England median daily rate £403 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -32.88% +14.29% -11.02%

All Application Platform Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 531 372 471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 13.42% 8.96% 8.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 242 321
10th Percentile £235 £271 £194
25th Percentile £350 £400 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £492 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.12% +3.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £568 £575
90th Percentile £600 £664 £663
England median daily rate £500 £525 £524
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.19% +0.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 15
10th Percentile £34.50 £13.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £37.80 £13.38 £17.56
Median hourly rate £47.12 £23.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.51% +6.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £70.73 £40.00 £23.14
90th Percentile £76.50 £47.25 £27.65
England median hourly rate £43.80 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +34.75% -31.58% +118.39%

WebSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for WebSphere in the North of England

WebSphere
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WebSphere in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for WebSphere in the North of England

WebSphere
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebSphere in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WebSphere in the North of England

WebSphere
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WebSphere in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for WebSphere in the North of England

WebSphere
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere within the North of England region over the 6 months to 6 August 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
North West +16 22 £401 -10.89%
Yorkshire -8 3 £500 -31.03% 1
WebSphere
England

WebSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (40.00%) JBoss
2 9 (36.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 8 (32.00%) Tomcat
4 7 (28.00%) Apache
5 6 (24.00%) IIS
6 5 (20.00%) CICS
6 5 (20.00%) WebLogic
7 3 (12.00%) iPlanet
8 1 (4.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (4.00%) CMS
8 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 17 (68.00%) AWS
2 10 (40.00%) Azure
3 9 (36.00%) GCP
4 5 (20.00%) IBM Cloud
4 5 (20.00%) OpenShift
5 4 (16.00%) npm
6 3 (12.00%) IaaS
6 3 (12.00%) PaaS
6 3 (12.00%) SaaS
7 2 (8.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Calico
1 4 (16.00%) SAN
2 3 (12.00%) Kerberos
3 2 (8.00%) Firewall
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (4.00%) FCoE
4 1 (4.00%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (4.00%) iSCSI
4 1 (4.00%) LAN
4 1 (4.00%) Multicast
4 1 (4.00%) NAS
4 1 (4.00%) SSL
4 1 (4.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (40.00%) DB2
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 13 (52.00%) Git
3 5 (20.00%) Bitbucket
4 4 (16.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 4 (16.00%) CA Release Automation
4 4 (16.00%) GitLab
4 4 (16.00%) Maven
5 3 (12.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (8.00%) JIRA
6 2 (8.00%) Selenium
6 2 (8.00%) SOAtest
7 1 (4.00%) Hudson
7 1 (4.00%) Log4j
General
1 13 (52.00%) Banking
1 13 (52.00%) Finance
2 8 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) General Ledger
3 2 (8.00%) Retail Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Billing
4 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Architect
2 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 5 (20.00%) Scrum Master
3 3 (12.00%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) DevOps Specialist
4 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Maximo Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Test Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Administrator
5 1 (4.00%) Applications Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Mainframe Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Tester
5 1 (4.00%) WebSphere Administrator
5 1 (4.00%) WebSphere Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) Web Services
2 8 (32.00%) SOAP
3 6 (24.00%) J2EE
3 6 (24.00%) LDAP
3 6 (24.00%) Middleware
3 6 (24.00%) REST
4 5 (20.00%) JSP
4 5 (20.00%) OAuth
4 5 (20.00%) RAML
4 5 (20.00%) SAML
4 5 (20.00%) Servlets
4 5 (20.00%) Spring
4 5 (20.00%) WSDL
5 4 (16.00%) EJB
5 4 (16.00%) OpenID
5 4 (16.00%) Spring Boot
5 4 (16.00%) XML
6 2 (8.00%) JMS
6 2 (8.00%) JSON
7 1 (4.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (36.00%) Private Cloud
2 5 (20.00%) Mainframe
2 5 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (12.00%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (12.00%) VSAM
4 2 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (8.00%) Clustering
4 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (8.00%) Mobile Payment
4 2 (8.00%) Replication
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.00%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) Linux
2 11 (44.00%) Windows
3 9 (36.00%) Windows Server
4 8 (32.00%) Unix
5 4 (16.00%) Android
5 4 (16.00%) Apple iOS
6 2 (8.00%) Solaris
6 2 (8.00%) zOS
7 1 (4.00%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Agile
2 12 (48.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (44.00%) DevOps
4 9 (36.00%) Scrum
5 6 (24.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (24.00%) SDLC
6 5 (20.00%) API Development
6 5 (20.00%) Backlog Management
6 5 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 5 (20.00%) Budget Control
6 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (16.00%) Conflict Resolution
7 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (16.00%) Microservices
7 4 (16.00%) Servant Leadership
7 4 (16.00%) Situational Awareness
8 3 (12.00%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) SQL
2 10 (40.00%) Java
3 7 (28.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (24.00%) Python
4 6 (24.00%) Shell Script
5 4 (16.00%) Groovy
6 3 (12.00%) COBOL
6 3 (12.00%) JCL
6 3 (12.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) QA
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Docker
2 6 (24.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (8.00%) KVM
3 2 (8.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
3 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.00%) NFS
4 1 (4.00%) SRDF
4 1 (4.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (4.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (24.00%) Terraform
3 4 (16.00%) CA Single Sign-On
3 4 (16.00%) Istio
4 3 (12.00%) CA Wily
4 3 (12.00%) Progress Chef
5 2 (8.00%) Ansible
5 2 (8.00%) Tivoli
6 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.00%) Puppet
6 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (60.00%) IBM
1 15 (60.00%) Oracle
2 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.00%) F5
3 5 (20.00%) VMware
4 4 (16.00%) Broadcom
4 4 (16.00%) Splunk
5 3 (12.00%) AppDynamics
5 3 (12.00%) Citrix
5 3 (12.00%) HP
6 2 (8.00%) Ab Initio
6 2 (8.00%) Cisco
6 2 (8.00%) EMC
6 2 (8.00%) Informatica
6 2 (8.00%) NetApp
6 2 (8.00%) Parasoft
7 1 (4.00%) Adobe
7 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
7 1 (4.00%) Google
7 1 (4.00%) Pure Storage