WebSphere Application Server Contract Job Trends in the North West

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring WebSphere Application Server skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 - 139
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing WebSphere Application Server 12 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.55% - 0.036%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.49% - 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £311 - -
25th Percentile £390 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 - -
75th Percentile £480 - -
90th Percentile £481 - -
England median daily rate £433 - £388
% change year-on-year - - -32.61%

All Application Platform Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 267 167 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.18% 7.05% 8.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 108 153
10th Percentile £301 £213 £214
25th Percentile £349 £382 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £546 £600
90th Percentile £575 £639 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 12
10th Percentile £34.50 £24.22 -
25th Percentile £38.91 £25.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £55.26 £31.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year +78.26% +69.86% -68.51%
75th Percentile £73.18 £35.00 £22.53
90th Percentile £76.75 £43.25 £38.25
England median hourly rate £41.45 £47.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -12.74% +11.76% +107.32%

WebSphere Application Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for WebSphere Application Server in the North West

WebSphere Application Server
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing WebSphere Application Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing WebSphere Application Server

WebSphere Application Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebSphere Application Server in the North West over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WebSphere Application Server in the North West

WebSphere Application Server
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing WebSphere Application Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing WebSphere Application Server

WebSphere Application Server
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere Application Server within the North West region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Cheshire - 8 £448 - 1
Manchester - 4 £401 - 1
WebSphere Application Server
England

WebSphere Application Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 12 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 10 (83.33%) Apache
2 10 (83.33%) IIS
2 10 (83.33%) iPlanet
2 10 (83.33%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (66.67%) OpenShift
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) IBM Cloud
3 2 (16.67%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) Kerberos
2 2 (16.67%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (83.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (100.00%) Git
1 12 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (83.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 10 (83.33%) CA Release Automation
3 8 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (16.67%) GitLab
4 2 (16.67%) Maven
General
1 9 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Senior
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) LDAP
1 10 (83.33%) OAuth
1 10 (83.33%) OpenID
1 10 (83.33%) SAML
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (83.33%) Windows
3 8 (66.67%) Unix
3 8 (66.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (16.67%) Android
4 2 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) DevOps
2 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 8 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (41.67%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (41.67%) Task Automation
5 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (25.00%) Problem Management
7 2 (16.67%) Agile
7 2 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
7 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (16.67%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Groovy
1 10 (83.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Active Directory
1 10 (83.33%) Docker
2 8 (66.67%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) CA Single Sign-On
1 10 (83.33%) CA Wily
2 8 (66.67%) Progress Chef
2 8 (66.67%) Tivoli
3 5 (41.67%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (16.67%) Istio
4 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) IBM
2 10 (83.33%) AppDynamics
2 10 (83.33%) Broadcom
2 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (83.33%) Oracle
2 10 (83.33%) Splunk