BusinessWorks Contract Job Trends

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks (TIBCO BW)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring BusinessWorks skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 524 594
Rank change year-on-year -79 +70 +151
Contract jobs citing BusinessWorks 13 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.031% 0.007% 0.007%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.41% 0.083% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 2
10th Percentile £343 - £476
25th Percentile - - £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £538
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -20.93% +13.16%
75th Percentile £514 - £572
90th Percentile £519 - £589
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £425 -
% change year-on-year +20.59% - -

All Business Application Skills
UK

BusinessWorks falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 3,160 2,406 3,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.58% 8.06% 7.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,801 1,332 2,009
10th Percentile £360 £375 £384
25th Percentile £450 £468 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £562 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +2.09% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £665
90th Percentile £738 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £545 £525
% change year-on-year +0.92% +3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 55 118
10th Percentile £19.75 £22.27 £16.00
25th Percentile £33.75 £35.00 £22.33
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +26.32% +7.95%
75th Percentile £68.75 £80.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £90.09 £86.00 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 £60.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -5.83% +26.32% -3.06%

BusinessWorks
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BusinessWorks relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

BusinessWorks job vacancy trend in the UK

BusinessWorks
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing BusinessWorks.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing BusinessWorks

BusinessWorks
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BusinessWorks over the 6 months to 3 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BusinessWorks in the UK

BusinessWorks
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing BusinessWorks.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing BusinessWorks

BusinessWorks
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BusinessWorks within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
London - 9 £350 -
England - 9 £350 -
UK excluding London -75 4 £513 +20.59% 3
Scotland - 4 £513 - 3

BusinessWorks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (53.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 7 (53.85%) WebLogic
1 7 (53.85%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) DB2
1 7 (53.85%) Relational Database
1 7 (53.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
1 6 (46.15%) TIBCO Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Lead
3 3 (23.08%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Business Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) TIBCO EMS
2 7 (53.85%) J2EE
2 7 (53.85%) JMS
2 7 (53.85%) OC4J
2 7 (53.85%) SOAP
2 7 (53.85%) Web Services
2 7 (53.85%) WSDL
2 7 (53.85%) XML
2 7 (53.85%) XSD
2 7 (53.85%) XSLT
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Design Patterns
1 7 (53.85%) OOA/OOD
1 7 (53.85%) Resource Management
1 7 (53.85%) RUP
1 7 (53.85%) SOA
1 7 (53.85%) UML
2 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) XPath
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) TIBCO
2 7 (53.85%) BEA
2 7 (53.85%) IBM
2 7 (53.85%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Mashery