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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 623 517 564
Rank change year-on-year -106 +47 +126
Contract jobs citing BusinessWorks 8 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.016% 0.003% 0.007%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.23% 0.041% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £410 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -29.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 3,429 2,460 3,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.01% 8.44% 7.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,939 1,396 1,830
10th Percentile £359 £400 £363
25th Percentile £450 £464 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £687
90th Percentile £738 £788 £787
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 57 119
10th Percentile £26.33 £18.56 £14.71
25th Percentile £34.01 £34.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +50.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £69.54 £77.19 £57.33
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% +50.00% -23.81%

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 1 June 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 5 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 1 June 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
UK excluding London -85 4 £513 +20.59%
London - 4 £350 -
England - 4 £350 -
Scotland - 4 £513 -
Work from Home -46 1 - -

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 2 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (25.00%) WebLogic
1 2 (25.00%) WebSphere
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) DB2
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Banking Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Banking Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Integration Architect
2 1 (12.50%) TIBCO Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) TIBCO Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) TIBCO EMS
2 2 (25.00%) J2EE
2 2 (25.00%) JMS
2 2 (25.00%) OC4J
2 2 (25.00%) SOAP
2 2 (25.00%) Web Services
2 2 (25.00%) WSDL
2 2 (25.00%) XML
2 2 (25.00%) XSD
2 2 (25.00%) XSLT
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (25.00%) OOA/OOD
2 2 (25.00%) Resource Management
2 2 (25.00%) RUP
2 2 (25.00%) SOA
2 2 (25.00%) UML
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) TIBCO
2 2 (25.00%) BEA
2 2 (25.00%) IBM
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Mashery