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 19 September 2025, 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 547 619
Rank change year-on-year +41 +72 +102
Contract jobs citing webMethods 51 15 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.039% 0.026%
As % of the Vendors category 0.33% 0.088% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 10 12
10th Percentile £410 £406 £483
25th Percentile £430 £434 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £584
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -1.50% +8.10%
75th Percentile £675 £672 £639
90th Percentile £689 £689 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £434 £618
% change year-on-year -0.97% -29.68% +14.35%

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 15,616 17,052 22,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.39% 44.26% 44.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,580 10,219 14,266
10th Percentile £275 £285 £263
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.13% - +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 798 679 656
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.38 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.56 £15.62 £18.68
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -32.58% +86.11%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.39 £29.89 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.43% -29.68% +112.50%

webMethods
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for webMethods 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

webMethods
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing webMethods over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for webMethods in the UK

webMethods
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 14 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 19 September 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 +37 42 £515 -10.43% 11
Work from Home +37 23 £528 +21.48% 9
UK excluding London +26 23 £430 -0.97% 6
London +12 11 £601 +0.08% 6
North of England - 7 £505 - 4
West Midlands -3 6 £430 -1.06%
Midlands -10 6 £430 -1.06%
North West - 5 £505 - 4
South East +16 4 £375 -13.64% 2
South West - 3 £625 -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
Wales - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -

webMethods
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 6 (11.76%) WebLogic
2 5 (9.80%) Apache
2 5 (9.80%) JBoss
3 1 (1.96%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.96%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.80%) AWS
1 5 (9.80%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.96%) Azure
2 1 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (1.96%) iPaaS
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (17.65%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.80%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Eclipse
1 5 (9.80%) Git
1 5 (9.80%) IntelliJ
1 5 (9.80%) JUnit
1 5 (9.80%) Selenium
2 1 (1.96%) SoapUI
General
1 13 (25.49%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.73%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.80%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.96%) Electronics
6 1 (1.96%) Finance
6 1 (1.96%) Marketing
6 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (58.82%) Developer
2 27 (52.94%) webMethods Developer
3 13 (25.49%) Senior
4 12 (23.53%) Consultant
4 12 (23.53%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 12 (23.53%) Senior Consultant
4 12 (23.53%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
4 12 (23.53%) Software Consultant
5 3 (5.88%) Analyst
5 3 (5.88%) Applications Developer
5 3 (5.88%) Junior
5 3 (5.88%) Junior Applications Developer
5 3 (5.88%) Junior Developer
5 3 (5.88%) Software Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Administrator
6 2 (3.92%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Junior webMethods Developer
6 2 (3.92%) webMethods Administrator
7 1 (1.96%) Software Developer
7 1 (1.96%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (31.37%) JSON
1 16 (31.37%) SOAP
1 16 (31.37%) XML
2 12 (23.53%) EntireX
3 9 (17.65%) JMS
4 8 (15.69%) REST
5 6 (11.76%) Spring
5 6 (11.76%) Web Services
6 5 (9.80%) EJB
6 5 (9.80%) Hibernate
6 5 (9.80%) HTML
6 5 (9.80%) HTML5
6 5 (9.80%) J2EE
6 5 (9.80%) J2SE
6 5 (9.80%) Middleware
6 5 (9.80%) Play Framework
7 1 (1.96%) OpenAPI
7 1 (1.96%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.96%) Swagger
7 1 (1.96%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
1 1 (1.96%) FMCG
1 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Mainframe
1 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
1 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.76%) Unix
2 1 (1.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (27.45%) DevOps
2 13 (25.49%) Deployment Automation
3 12 (23.53%) Project Delivery
4 11 (21.57%) Agile
5 10 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (19.61%) Test Automation
6 8 (15.69%) API Management
7 7 (13.73%) CI/CD
7 7 (13.73%) Scrum
8 6 (11.76%) B2B
8 6 (11.76%) Integration Patterns
9 5 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (9.80%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (9.80%) Lean Software Development
9 5 (9.80%) Mentoring
9 5 (9.80%) Microservices
9 5 (9.80%) Open Source
9 5 (9.80%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.69%) SQL
2 6 (11.76%) Java
2 6 (11.76%) Scala
3 2 (3.92%) C
4 1 (1.96%) Assembly Language
4 1 (1.96%) Bash
4 1 (1.96%) JCL
4 1 (1.96%) Korn
4 1 (1.96%) Natural
4 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.96%) R
4 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (74.51%) Security Cleared
2 37 (72.55%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.92%) Degree
5 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.96%) ISEB
5 1 (1.96%) ISEB Practitioner
5 1 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 5 (9.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.80%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (35.29%) Software AG
2 17 (33.33%) IBM
3 15 (29.41%) Axway
4 11 (21.57%) SAP
5 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.92%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.96%) Compaq
7 1 (1.96%) Fujitsu
7 1 (1.96%) HP
7 1 (1.96%) Oracle
7 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.96%) Terracotta
7 1 (1.96%) Trillium