WebSphere Contract Job Trends in the South East

IBM WebSphere
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring WebSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 - 188
Rank change year-on-year - - +24
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.068% - 0.036%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.91% - 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £380
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.91%
75th Percentile - - £395
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £384 £550
% change year-on-year +36.72% -30.18% -

All Application Platform Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 440 309 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 7.47% 10.28% 6.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 197 248
10th Percentile £311 £263 £224
25th Percentile £413 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £433
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +15.61% -12.85%
75th Percentile £605 £590 £556
90th Percentile £675 £650 £608
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 25
10th Percentile £16.00 £25.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £30.69 £38.53 £22.61
Median hourly rate £81.00 £55.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.27% +42.86% -31.86%
75th Percentile £97.50 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £105.50 £64.50 £76.50
England median hourly rate £27.71 £52.50 £25.50
% change year-on-year -47.22% +105.88% -24.44%

WebSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WebSphere relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

WebSphere job vacancy trend in the South East

WebSphere
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing WebSphere.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing WebSphere

WebSphere
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing WebSphere.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing WebSphere

WebSphere
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere within the South East region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
Berkshire - 4 £400 -
Thames Valley - 4 £400 -
WebSphere
England

WebSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (50.00%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (50.00%) JBoss
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (50.00%) WebSphere Portal
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Introscope
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Middleware Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Migration Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Middleware
2 2 (50.00%) JDBC
2 2 (50.00%) JMS
2 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (50.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 2 (50.00%) Unix
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Security Management
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) Perl
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Jython
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) CA Wily
2 2 (50.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) IBM
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle