DataPower Contracts

IBM WebSphere DataPower
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term DataPower in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DataPower over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 571 697
Rank change year-on-year +55 +126 +96
Contract jobs citing DataPower 3 29 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.067% 0.027%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.030% 0.22% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 15 7
10th Percentile - £444 £430
25th Percentile - £489 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile - £588 £544
90th Percentile - £789 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate - £489 £513
% change year-on-year - -4.59% +2.50%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,915 13,252 19,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.91% 30.40% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,331 8,505 13,670
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.90% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 910 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.93 £27.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +11.46% +26.14% +9.64%

DataPower
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DataPower as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DataPower in the UK

DataPower
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DataPower.

Daily rate trend for DataPower in the UK

DataPower
Top 3 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +38 3 - - 3
London +24 3 - -
Work from Home +39 2 - - 1

DataPower
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (33.33%) CICS
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) JWT
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) WSDL
1 1 (33.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (66.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Resource Management
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) XPath
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM