WebSphere Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

IBM WebSphere
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring WebSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.038% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate - - £380
% change year-on-year - - -30.91%

All Application Platform Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 235 143 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.85% 9.24% 7.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 84 118
10th Percentile £322 £215 £170
25th Percentile £414 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £465
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +8.07% +3.33%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £552
90th Percentile £648 £620 £608
South East median daily rate £517 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +3.40% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 17
10th Percentile £63.98 £26.97 £22.61
25th Percentile £81.00 £36.15 £24.00
Median hourly rate £81.50 £42.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.76% +41.67% -62.12%
75th Percentile £96.25 £48.99 £35.00
90th Percentile £101.65 £58.43 £66.45
South East median hourly rate £81.00 £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +29.60% +8.70% +10.05%

WebSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

WebSphere job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

WebSphere
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing WebSphere.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing WebSphere

WebSphere
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing WebSphere.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing WebSphere

WebSphere
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 March 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 - 1 - -
WebSphere
South East

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