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 3 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 - 412
Rank change year-on-year - - +46
Contract jobs citing DataPower 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.010% - 0.009%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.032% - 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £733
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £765
Median % change year-on-year - - +42.33%
75th Percentile - - £798
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £420 £700 £575
% change year-on-year -40.00% +21.74% +12.20%

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 6,161 4,386 6,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.84% 32.46% 30.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,867 2,463 3,901
10th Percentile £200 £200 £208
25th Percentile £357 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £678 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 484 233 610
10th Percentile £13.97 £19.25 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.30 £23.30 £16.06
Median hourly rate £28.55 £32.50 £33.36
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% -2.56% +57.82%
75th Percentile £64.50 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.80 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £32.22
% change year-on-year -14.29% +8.64% +43.28%

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 3 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
South West - 2 £600 - 2
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