WebSphere Contracts in the North West

IBM WebSphere
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 - 154
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 12 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.61% - 0.094%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.91% - 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £358 - -
25th Percentile £363 - £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 - £615
Median % change year-on-year - - +51.48%
75th Percentile £436 - £623
90th Percentile £468 - -
England median daily rate £384 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -30.18% - -0.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
England median hourly rate £63.00 - £66.00

All Application Platform Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 307 196 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.60% 7.11% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 123 187
10th Percentile £187 £230 £231
25th Percentile £325 £312 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -7.89% +5.56%
75th Percentile £510 £520 £550
90th Percentile £588 £613 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 8
10th Percentile £16.25 - £15.18
25th Percentile £22.01 £13.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.59 £32.12 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.39% +56.66% +9.33%
75th Percentile £65.13 £45.00 £26.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £46.18 £39.93
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

WebSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for WebSphere in the North West

WebSphere
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for WebSphere in the North West

WebSphere
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebSphere in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WebSphere in the North West

WebSphere
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for WebSphere in the North West

WebSphere
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 within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Cheshire - 7 £402 - 1
Manchester - 4 £498 -
WebSphere
England

WebSphere
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 5 (41.67%) JBoss
1 5 (41.67%) Tomcat
2 4 (33.33%) WebLogic
3 3 (25.00%) CICS
4 2 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (8.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Apache
5 1 (8.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) IBM Cloud
3 2 (16.67%) npm
4 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Calico
2 1 (8.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) DB2
2 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (16.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Git
1 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 2 (16.67%) GitLab
3 2 (16.67%) Maven
3 2 (16.67%) Selenium
3 2 (16.67%) SOAtest
4 1 (8.33%) Hudson
General
1 8 (66.67%) Banking
2 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) General Ledger
3 2 (16.67%) Retail Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Billing
4 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Scrum Master
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Test Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Agile Scrum Master
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Support
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Java Scrum Master
4 1 (8.33%) Mainframe Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Support Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) Web Services
2 6 (50.00%) J2EE
3 5 (41.67%) JSP
3 5 (41.67%) REST
3 5 (41.67%) Servlets
3 5 (41.67%) SOAP
3 5 (41.67%) Spring
4 4 (33.33%) EJB
4 4 (33.33%) RAML
4 4 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 4 (33.33%) WSDL
5 2 (16.67%) JSON
5 2 (16.67%) Middleware
5 2 (16.67%) WebSphere MQ
5 2 (16.67%) XML
6 1 (8.33%) CSS3
6 1 (8.33%) JAX-WS
6 1 (8.33%) jQuery
6 1 (8.33%) RESTful
6 1 (8.33%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Private Cloud
2 4 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (25.00%) Mainframe
3 3 (25.00%) VSAM
4 2 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
4 2 (16.67%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Unix
2 2 (16.67%) Android
2 2 (16.67%) Apple iOS
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) SDLC
3 4 (33.33%) API Development
3 4 (33.33%) Backlog Management
3 4 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 4 (33.33%) Budget Control
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) Scrum
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Servant Leadership
4 3 (25.00%) Situational Awareness
5 2 (16.67%) API Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) Mobile Application Development
5 2 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 5 (41.67%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) COBOL
3 3 (25.00%) JCL
3 3 (25.00%) REXX
4 2 (16.67%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (8.33%) VBScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Istio
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
2 5 (41.67%) IBM
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (16.67%) Ab Initio
4 2 (16.67%) Informatica
4 2 (16.67%) Parasoft
5 1 (8.33%) Adobe
5 1 (8.33%) AppDynamics
5 1 (8.33%) Moogsoft
5 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (8.33%) Splunk