WebSphere Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM WebSphere
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 381 413
Rank change year-on-year +64 +32 +15
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 26 9 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.044% 0.11%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.76% 0.52% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 18
10th Percentile - £365 £321
25th Percentile £358 £410 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 £440 £563
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% -21.78% +2.27%
75th Percentile £432 £450 £623
90th Percentile £447 £585 £661
UK median daily rate £401 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -27.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile - - £62.85
25th Percentile £61.50 - £64.88
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £66.00
75th Percentile £65.63 - -
90th Percentile £66.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £63.00 - £66.00

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,480 1,727 2,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.50% 8.52% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 962 1,165 1,829
10th Percentile £225 £213 £200
25th Percentile £358 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £552 £575 £585
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 123 98
10th Percentile £15.63 £13.00 £15.35
25th Percentile £20.70 £14.50 £17.56
Median hourly rate £52.50 £24.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% -10.91% +37.50%
75th Percentile £64.63 £49.04 £65.94
90th Percentile £78.10 £70.00 £78.36
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £29.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year +57.88% -35.00% +80.00%

WebSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing WebSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WebSphere in the UK excluding London

WebSphere
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WebSphere in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for WebSphere in the UK excluding London

WebSphere
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebSphere in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WebSphere in the UK excluding London

WebSphere
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WebSphere in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for WebSphere in the UK excluding London

WebSphere
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 WebSphere within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
North West - 12 £393 - 3
North of England - 12 £393 - 5
East of England - 7 - - 1
Wales - 3 - -
Scotland +5 2 £395 -10.23% 1
Midlands +14 1 £358 -34.91% 2
East Midlands +9 1 £358 -34.91% 2
South West - 1 - - 2
WebSphere
UK

WebSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (42.31%) JBoss
2 10 (38.46%) WebLogic
3 8 (30.77%) Tomcat
4 4 (15.38%) Apache
4 4 (15.38%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (11.54%) CICS
5 3 (11.54%) nginx
5 3 (11.54%) WebLogic Portal
6 1 (3.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (3.85%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) AWS
2 4 (15.38%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) OpenShift
3 2 (7.69%) GCP
3 2 (7.69%) IBM Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) npm
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub
4 1 (3.85%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Calico
1 2 (7.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (65.38%) DB2
2 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.69%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) Git
2 6 (23.08%) Bitbucket
2 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.69%) GitLab
3 2 (7.69%) Maven
3 2 (7.69%) Selenium
3 2 (7.69%) SOAtest
4 1 (3.85%) Hudson
4 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 9 (34.62%) Banking
2 7 (26.92%) Finance
3 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
5 2 (7.69%) General Ledger
5 2 (7.69%) Law
5 2 (7.69%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Billing
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Architect
2 6 (23.08%) Scrum Master
2 6 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
2 6 (23.08%) Systems Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Information Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Information Systems Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Agile Scrum Master
5 2 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) DevOps Specialist
5 2 (7.69%) Information Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Information Systems Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Solutions Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Test Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Applications Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Java Scrum Master
6 1 (3.85%) Mainframe Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Senior
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) Web Services
2 7 (26.92%) J2EE
2 7 (26.92%) REST
2 7 (26.92%) SOAP
3 6 (23.08%) RAML
3 6 (23.08%) WSDL
4 5 (19.23%) JSP
4 5 (19.23%) Servlets
4 5 (19.23%) Spring
5 4 (15.38%) EJB
5 4 (15.38%) Middleware
5 4 (15.38%) Spring Boot
6 3 (11.54%) JSON
7 2 (7.69%) WebSphere MQ
7 2 (7.69%) XML
8 1 (3.85%) CSS
8 1 (3.85%) Hibernate
8 1 (3.85%) HTML
8 1 (3.85%) JMS
8 1 (3.85%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Management Information System
2 7 (26.92%) Private Cloud
3 6 (23.08%) Product Ownership
4 3 (11.54%) Mainframe
4 3 (11.54%) VSAM
5 2 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (7.69%) Mobile App
5 2 (7.69%) Mobile Payment
6 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Linux
2 5 (19.23%) Unix
3 3 (11.54%) Windows
4 2 (7.69%) Android
4 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
5 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Agile
2 12 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (30.77%) Information Management
3 8 (30.77%) Roadmaps
4 7 (26.92%) SDLC
5 6 (23.08%) API Development
5 6 (23.08%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 6 (23.08%) Budget Control
5 6 (23.08%) Business Analysis
5 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 6 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (23.08%) Scrum
6 5 (19.23%) Backlog Management
6 5 (19.23%) Conflict Resolution
6 5 (19.23%) Digital Transformation Strategy
6 5 (19.23%) Project Management
6 5 (19.23%) Servant Leadership
6 5 (19.23%) Situational Awareness
6 5 (19.23%) Systems Engineering
7 4 (15.38%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) SQL
2 11 (42.31%) Java
3 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.54%) COBOL
4 3 (11.54%) JCL
4 3 (11.54%) REXX
5 2 (7.69%) Python
5 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Active Directory
1 8 (30.77%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (19.23%) Docker
3 3 (11.54%) LXC
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.54%) Ansible
3 2 (7.69%) Istio
3 2 (7.69%) Terraform
4 1 (3.85%) Grafana
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) Oracle
2 7 (26.92%) IBM
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.54%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.69%) Ab Initio
4 2 (7.69%) Informatica
4 2 (7.69%) Parasoft
5 1 (3.85%) Adobe
5 1 (3.85%) AppDynamics
5 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.85%) Moogsoft
5 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.85%) Splunk