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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 522 595
Rank change year-on-year -85 +73 +112
Contract jobs citing BusinessWorks 11 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.023% 0.003% 0.007%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.32% 0.041% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile £343 - -
25th Percentile £348 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -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 3,424 2,425 3,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.24% 8.27% 7.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,957 1,362 1,887
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% +1.86% -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 50 118
10th Percentile £20.45 £22.27 £14.71
25th Percentile £33.95 £38.58 £21.25
Median hourly rate £53.50 £60.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +50.00% -15.79%
75th Percentile £68.75 £77.50 £59.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -5.83% +50.00% -18.37%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 - 7 £348 -
England - 7 £348 -
UK excluding London -99 4 £513 +20.59%
Scotland - 4 £513 -
Work from Home -39 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 4 (36.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 4 (36.36%) WebLogic
1 4 (36.36%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) DB2
1 4 (36.36%) Relational Database
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (9.09%) Banking
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
1 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) TIBCO Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Business Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Integration Architect
3 1 (9.09%) TIBCO Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) TIBCO EMS
2 4 (36.36%) J2EE
2 4 (36.36%) JMS
2 4 (36.36%) OC4J
2 4 (36.36%) SOAP
2 4 (36.36%) Web Services
2 4 (36.36%) WSDL
2 4 (36.36%) XML
2 4 (36.36%) XSD
2 4 (36.36%) XSLT
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Design Patterns
1 4 (36.36%) OOA/OOD
1 4 (36.36%) Resource Management
1 4 (36.36%) RUP
1 4 (36.36%) SOA
1 4 (36.36%) UML
2 3 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) TIBCO
2 4 (36.36%) BEA
2 4 (36.36%) IBM
2 4 (36.36%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Mashery