webMethods Contract Job Trends

webMethods
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of webMethods products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited webMethods over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within webMethods, Inc.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 646 514 551
Rank change year-on-year -132 +37 +87
Contract jobs citing webMethods 29 39 12
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.054% 0.12% 0.031%
As % of the Vendors category 0.13% 0.25% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 17 6
10th Percentile £408 £400 £550
25th Percentile £481 £478 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £638
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -13.73% +15.91%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £688
90th Percentile £638 £688 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £478 £675
% change year-on-year +0.73% -29.26% +12.50%

All Vendors
UK

webMethods falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,507 15,584 16,924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.77% 47.25% 43.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,921 9,525 10,489
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.31% -0.48%
75th Percentile £610 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,154 810 793
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.69 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.57 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.27 £25.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.36% -8.55% -35.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £46.30 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.18 £67.55 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.96 £21.24 £25.60
% change year-on-year +41.05% -17.03% -28.39%

webMethods
Job Vacancy Trend

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

webMethods job vacancy trend in the UK

webMethods
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing webMethods over the 6 months to 23 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for webMethods in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

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Top 9 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing webMethods within the UK over the 6 months to 23 August 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
England -134 26 £516 -6.23%
Work from Home -53 17 £535 -8.94%
UK excluding London -106 15 £481 +0.73%
London -89 10 £625 +4.12%
Midlands -39 8 £481 -
West Midlands -44 8 £481 -
South East -65 6 £481 +33.15%
South West -38 5 £545 -12.80%
Scotland -13 1 £495 -

webMethods
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 3 (10.34%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (20.69%) SAP PSCD
2 4 (13.79%) Maximo
3 1 (3.45%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) Kong
3 3 (10.34%) AWS
3 3 (10.34%) Tricentis Tosca
4 2 (6.90%) GCP
4 2 (6.90%) OCI
5 1 (3.45%) Boomi
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) FTP
2 2 (6.90%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
1 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) JIRA
1 3 (10.34%) Toad
General
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Finance
2 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (44.83%) Developer
2 6 (20.69%) Consultant
2 6 (20.69%) SAP Consultant
2 6 (20.69%) SAP PI Consultant
2 6 (20.69%) webMethods Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Applications Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Integration Manager
5 3 (10.34%) Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Python Developer
5 3 (10.34%) SAP Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) SAP Test Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Test Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Integration Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) SAP Integration Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Senior
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Data Centre Manager
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (48.28%) JSON
1 14 (48.28%) SOAP
2 13 (44.83%) REST
3 10 (34.48%) JDBC
3 10 (34.48%) XML
4 6 (20.69%) Middleware
4 6 (20.69%) SAP PI
5 5 (17.24%) IDoc
6 2 (6.90%) EDI
6 2 (6.90%) Web Services
7 1 (3.45%) .NET
7 1 (3.45%) Node.js
7 1 (3.45%) RESTful
7 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
7 1 (3.45%) Swagger
7 1 (3.45%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Unix
2 4 (13.79%) Windows
3 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Containerisation
2 8 (27.59%) API Development
3 6 (20.69%) CRM
3 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (17.24%) Functional Testing
4 5 (17.24%) Process Improvement
5 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
5 4 (13.79%) Data Mapping
5 4 (13.79%) DevOps
5 4 (13.79%) Microservices
5 4 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (10.34%) Defect Management
6 3 (10.34%) Integration Patterns
6 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (10.34%) Test Automation
6 3 (10.34%) Test Scripting
6 3 (10.34%) Validation
6 3 (10.34%) Workflow
7 2 (6.90%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (6.90%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) Java
2 14 (48.28%) SQL
3 8 (27.59%) Python
4 6 (20.69%) ABAP
5 2 (6.90%) ActionScript
5 2 (6.90%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (3.45%) C#
6 1 (3.45%) C++
Qualifications
1 27 (93.10%) SC Cleared
1 27 (93.10%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) ISEB
2 3 (10.34%) ISTQB
2 3 (10.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
System Software
1 9 (31.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Argo
Vendors
1 14 (48.28%) Microsoft
2 10 (34.48%) SAP
3 8 (27.59%) Oracle
4 5 (17.24%) IBM
5 2 (6.90%) Axway
5 2 (6.90%) Software AG
6 1 (3.45%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow