IBM Integration Bus Contracts

IBM Integration Bus (formerly WebSphere Message Broker)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for IBM Integration Bus skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IBM Integration Bus over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 716 809
Rank change year-on-year +135 +93 -139
Contract jobs citing IBM Integration Bus 17 3 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.005% 0.045%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.19% 0.022% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 33
10th Percentile £320 - £415
25th Percentile £383 - £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 - £510
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.61%
75th Percentile £489 - £520
90th Percentile £505 - £562
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 - £365
% change year-on-year - - -35.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

IBM Integration Bus is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

IBM Integration Bus
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IBM Integration Bus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IBM Integration Bus in the UK

IBM Integration Bus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM Integration Bus.

Daily rate trend for IBM Integration Bus in the UK

IBM Integration Bus
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM Integration Bus over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IBM Integration Bus in the UK

IBM Integration Bus
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM Integration Bus.

Hourly rate trend for IBM Integration Bus in the UK

IBM Integration Bus
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Integration Bus within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +138 13 £470 - 1
Work from Home - 9 £450 -
London +105 7 £413 -
North West - 6 £489 -
UK excluding London - 6 £489 - 1
North of England - 6 £489 - 1

IBM Integration Bus
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 10 (58.82%) JBoss
2 9 (52.94%) Apache
2 9 (52.94%) nginx
2 9 (52.94%) Tomcat
3 5 (29.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (23.53%) Confluence
5 2 (11.76%) WebSphere
6 1 (5.88%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (29.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (82.35%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 16 (94.12%) AWS
2 14 (82.35%) Azure
3 5 (29.41%) Apigee
3 5 (29.41%) Kong
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) DNS
1 9 (52.94%) Firewall
2 3 (17.65%) SSL
3 1 (5.88%) MPLS
3 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) RDBMS
1 10 (58.82%) Relational Database
1 10 (58.82%) SQL Server
2 5 (29.41%) MongoDB
2 5 (29.41%) OLAP
2 5 (29.41%) OLTP
2 5 (29.41%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) JIRA
General
1 15 (88.24%) Finance
2 9 (52.94%) Banking
3 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
4 7 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Applications Support
2 5 (29.41%) AWS Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Linux Support
4 3 (17.65%) IT Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Integration Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Integration Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) IT Support
5 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Network Operations Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Network Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Operations Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Service Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) T24 Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Services Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) Middleware
2 6 (35.29%) SOAP
2 6 (35.29%) Web Services
3 5 (29.41%) Apache Camel
3 5 (29.41%) J2EE
3 5 (29.41%) Kafka
3 5 (29.41%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (23.53%) Spring
4 4 (23.53%) Spring Boot
4 4 (23.53%) Spring Integration
5 2 (11.76%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (5.88%) .NET
6 1 (5.88%) REST
6 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) DataPower
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Linux
2 9 (52.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (52.94%) Unix
2 9 (52.94%) Windows
2 9 (52.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Incident Management
1 9 (52.94%) Runbook
1 9 (52.94%) Server Management
2 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (29.41%) API Management
3 5 (29.41%) CQRS
3 5 (29.41%) Design Patterns
3 5 (29.41%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (29.41%) Event-Driven
3 5 (29.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 5 (29.41%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (29.41%) Microservices
3 5 (29.41%) OO
3 5 (29.41%) OOA/OOD
3 5 (29.41%) Risk Management
3 5 (29.41%) SOA
4 4 (23.53%) DevOps
4 4 (23.53%) Technical Debt
4 4 (23.53%) TOGAF
5 1 (5.88%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) PowerShell
1 9 (52.94%) Shell Script
2 7 (41.18%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) C++
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.88%) Python
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.88%) Control-M
2 1 (5.88%) MOM
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) IBM
2 16 (94.12%) Oracle
3 9 (52.94%) Red Hat
3 9 (52.94%) Temenos
4 5 (29.41%) TSYS
5 1 (5.88%) BMC
5 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft
5 1 (5.88%) Salesforce