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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing WebSphere Application Server 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.27% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £418 - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 - -
75th Percentile £481 - -
90th Percentile £486 - -
England median daily rate £453 - £543
% change year-on-year - - +3.33%

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 315 241 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 11.94% 11.35% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 165 116
10th Percentile £166 £178 £210
25th Percentile £325 £320 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £438 £405
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +8.02% -12.43%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £533
90th Percentile £580 £588 £625
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 5 25
10th Percentile £19.75 £16.14 £13.00
25th Percentile £39.00 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £63.40 £19.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +225.13% +5.41% -9.76%
75th Percentile £73.75 £24.76 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £43.05 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.42 £42.50 £25.50
% change year-on-year -40.20% +66.67% +15.91%

WebSphere Application Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WebSphere Application Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

WebSphere Application Server job vacancy trend 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
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 7 February 2026. 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 - 6 £452 -
Manchester - 1 £471 -
WebSphere Application Server
England

WebSphere Application Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (100.00%) Apache
1 7 (100.00%) IIS
1 7 (100.00%) iPlanet
1 7 (100.00%) JBoss
1 7 (100.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 7 (100.00%) CA Release Automation
1 7 (100.00%) Git
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (85.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) LDAP
1 7 (100.00%) OAuth
1 7 (100.00%) OpenID
1 7 (100.00%) SAML
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Unix
3 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
1 6 (85.71%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (71.43%) Deployment Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Task Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Groovy
2 6 (85.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (85.71%) Docker
2 6 (85.71%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) CA Single Sign-On
1 7 (100.00%) CA Wily
2 6 (85.71%) Progress Chef
2 6 (85.71%) Tivoli
3 5 (71.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 7 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 7 (100.00%) IBM
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
1 7 (100.00%) Splunk