DataPower Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

IBM WebSphere DataPower
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term DataPower in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DataPower over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 - 401
Rank change year-on-year - - +80
Contract jobs citing DataPower 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% - 0.026%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.033% - 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £550
UK median daily rate £410 £700 £592
% change year-on-year -41.43% +18.34% +7.55%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

DataPower falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,991 4,664 6,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.94% 31.24% 31.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,703 2,626 3,908
10th Percentile £204 £203 £212
25th Percentile £358 £359 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £664 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £503 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.51% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 475 252 375
10th Percentile £13.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.90 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £32.50 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -28.11% +53.25%
75th Percentile £64.04 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.14 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £32.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -16.92% -22.94% +21.43%

DataPower
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DataPower relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

DataPower job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

DataPower
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DataPower.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DataPower

DataPower
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataPower within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
South West - 2 £600 -
DataPower
UK

DataPower
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JWT
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Business Process Mapping
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) Logistics
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Workshops
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM