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 22 September 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
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 649 489 547
Rank change year-on-year -160 +58 +91
Contract jobs citing webMethods 33 51 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.060% 0.16% 0.039%
As % of the Vendors category 0.14% 0.33% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 25 10
10th Percentile £380 £410 £406
25th Percentile £456 £430 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -8.70% -6.88%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £672
90th Percentile £638 £689 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £430 £434
% change year-on-year +11.86% -0.97% -29.68%

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 22,776 15,426 16,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.74% 47.50% 44.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,912 9,454 10,092
10th Percentile £310 £275 £285
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £701 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,288 793 656
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.69 £14.46
25th Percentile £16.62 £17.44 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.15 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -18.87% -30.34%
75th Percentile £60.75 £43.75 £63.84
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.75 £21.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year +22.33% -29.83% -29.82%

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

webMethods
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing webMethods over the 6 months to 22 September 2026.

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

webMethods
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 22 September 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 -151 29 £503 -2.33% 11
Work from Home -62 18 £535 +1.42% 4
UK excluding London -107 18 £481 +11.86% 6
London -78 11 £625 +4.08% 7
West Midlands -46 8 £481 +11.99%
Midlands -48 8 £481 +11.99%
South West -33 7 £350 -44.00% 5
South East -61 6 £481 +28.27% 1
Scotland -23 2 £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 (9.09%) Apache
1 3 (9.09%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (3.03%) Traefik
Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (18.18%) SAP PSCD
2 4 (12.12%) Maximo
3 1 (3.03%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (33.33%) Azure
2 7 (21.21%) AWS
2 7 (21.21%) Kong
3 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (9.09%) Serverless
4 3 (9.09%) Tricentis Tosca
5 2 (6.06%) GCP
5 2 (6.06%) OCI
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.03%) Boomi
6 1 (3.03%) GitHub
6 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) FTP
2 2 (6.06%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (9.09%) Flink
2 2 (6.06%) MySQL
2 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) JIRA
2 3 (9.09%) Git
2 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 3 (9.09%) Toad
3 1 (3.03%) Maven
3 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Finance
3 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.09%) Banking
5 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (48.48%) Developer
2 9 (27.27%) webMethods Developer
3 6 (18.18%) Consultant
3 6 (18.18%) SAP Consultant
3 6 (18.18%) SAP PI Consultant
4 5 (15.15%) Applications Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Integration Manager
6 3 (9.09%) Analyst
6 3 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Java Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Python Developer
6 3 (9.09%) SAP Analyst
6 3 (9.09%) SAP Test Analyst
6 3 (9.09%) Test Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Integration Consultant
7 2 (6.06%) SAP Integration Consultant
7 2 (6.06%) Senior
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (54.55%) SOAP
2 16 (48.48%) REST
3 14 (42.42%) JSON
4 10 (30.30%) JDBC
4 10 (30.30%) XML
5 6 (18.18%) Middleware
5 6 (18.18%) SAP PI
6 5 (15.15%) EDI
6 5 (15.15%) IDoc
7 4 (12.12%) Spring Boot
8 3 (9.09%) AngularJS
8 3 (9.09%) EDIFACT
8 3 (9.09%) React
8 3 (9.09%) Spring
9 2 (6.06%) RESTful
9 2 (6.06%) Swagger
9 2 (6.06%) Web Services
10 1 (3.03%) HTML5
10 1 (3.03%) JMS
10 1 (3.03%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 3 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Unix
2 4 (12.12%) Windows
3 1 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) Containerisation
2 8 (24.24%) API Development
3 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
3 7 (21.21%) DevOps
3 7 (21.21%) Microservices
3 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (18.18%) Agile
4 6 (18.18%) CRM
5 5 (15.15%) Functional Testing
5 5 (15.15%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (15.15%) Process Improvement
6 4 (12.12%) API Integration
6 4 (12.12%) Data Mapping
6 4 (12.12%) ETL
6 4 (12.12%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (12.12%) Scrum
6 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (9.09%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 18 (54.55%) Java
1 18 (54.55%) SQL
2 8 (24.24%) Python
3 6 (18.18%) ABAP
4 2 (6.06%) ActionScript
4 2 (6.06%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (3.03%) C#
5 1 (3.03%) C++
5 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (84.85%) SC Cleared
1 28 (84.85%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 3 (9.09%) ISEB
2 3 (9.09%) ISTQB
2 3 (9.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) QA
System Software
1 13 (39.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Argo
2 1 (3.03%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (42.42%) Microsoft
2 10 (30.30%) Oracle
2 10 (30.30%) SAP
3 5 (15.15%) IBM
4 2 (6.06%) Axway
4 2 (6.06%) Software AG
5 1 (3.03%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (3.03%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow