WebSphere Contract Job Trends

IBM WebSphere
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring WebSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 480 535
Rank change year-on-year -97 +55 +29
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 53 46 44
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.16% 0.10%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.27% 1.42% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 23 32
10th Percentile £400 £358 £410
25th Percentile £505 £361 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £402 £550
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -26.91% -
75th Percentile £538 £440 £619
90th Percentile £575 £618 £664
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £384 £440
% change year-on-year +36.72% -12.73% -21.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £63.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £63.00 -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

WebSphere falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,160 3,231 4,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.62% 11.10% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,815 2,148 2,912
10th Percentile £313 £280 £258
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £713 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.22% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 64 161
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.03 £24.57 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.25 £52.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.48% +75.00% -35.14%
75th Percentile £63.81 £64.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.34 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £54.24 £25.00
% change year-on-year -35.47% +116.97% -9.09%

WebSphere
Job Vacancy Trend

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

WebSphere job vacancy trend in the UK

WebSphere
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

WebSphere
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebSphere over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WebSphere in the UK

WebSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

WebSphere
Top 11 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere within the UK over the 6 months to 21 May 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
UK excluding London -97 33 £525 +36.72% 1
England -106 33 £525 +31.25% 3
Scotland +13 17 £525 +32.91% 1
London -55 15 £473 +18.13% 3
North of England -70 11 £525 +33.59%
Work from Home -60 9 £495 +17.72% 2
North West -42 8 £525 +33.59%
South East - 4 £400 -
Yorkshire - 3 - -
Midlands -57 1 £525 +46.65%
West Midlands - 1 £525 -

WebSphere
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 26 (49.06%) Apache
1 26 (49.06%) Tomcat
2 22 (41.51%) Apache Geronimo
2 22 (41.51%) Apache ServiceMix
2 22 (41.51%) Red Hat Fuse
3 7 (13.21%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (9.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (9.43%) WebLogic
5 3 (5.66%) Confluence
5 3 (5.66%) IBM HTTP Server
5 3 (5.66%) IIS
5 3 (5.66%) JBoss
5 3 (5.66%) SharePoint
6 2 (3.77%) CICS
6 2 (3.77%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (3.77%) WebSphere Portal
7 1 (1.89%) Documentum
7 1 (1.89%) FileNet
7 1 (1.89%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (5.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 3 (5.66%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (3.77%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (3.77%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (3.77%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (1.89%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.98%) AWS
2 7 (13.21%) Azure
3 3 (5.66%) GitHub
3 3 (5.66%) IaaS
3 3 (5.66%) OCI
3 3 (5.66%) OpenShift
3 3 (5.66%) PaaS
3 3 (5.66%) SaaS
4 2 (3.77%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (3.77%) Kong
4 2 (3.77%) Serverless
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (1.89%) ChatGPT
5 1 (1.89%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.89%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.43%) DNS
2 4 (7.55%) HTTP
2 4 (7.55%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.77%) Firewall
3 2 (3.77%) SSL
4 1 (1.89%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.43%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.55%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.66%) DB2
4 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.77%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (18.87%) JIRA
2 9 (16.98%) Jenkins
3 8 (15.09%) Git
4 5 (9.43%) Ant
5 4 (7.55%) Liquibase
6 3 (5.66%) Introscope
7 2 (3.77%) Artifactory
7 2 (3.77%) Eclipse
7 2 (3.77%) GitLab
8 1 (1.89%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (1.89%) Maven
8 1 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (18.87%) Finance
2 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.55%) Banking
4 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.66%) Retail
5 2 (3.77%) General Ledger
5 2 (3.77%) Japanese Language
5 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.89%) French Language
6 1 (1.89%) Legal
6 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (11.32%) Senior
2 5 (9.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (9.43%) Middleware Engineer
3 3 (5.66%) Lead
3 3 (5.66%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (3.77%) Analyst
4 2 (3.77%) Architect
4 2 (3.77%) Consultant
4 2 (3.77%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (3.77%) Senior Middleware Engineer
4 2 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.77%) WebSphere Engineer
5 1 (1.89%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (1.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.89%) Developer
5 1 (1.89%) Payments Analyst
5 1 (1.89%) SailPoint Consultant
5 1 (1.89%) T24 Specialist
5 1 (1.89%) Windows DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (62.26%) Middleware
2 22 (41.51%) Apache Axis
2 22 (41.51%) Apache Camel
3 8 (15.09%) WebSphere MQ
3 8 (15.09%) XML
4 7 (13.21%) REST
5 5 (9.43%) J2EE
5 5 (9.43%) Kafka
6 4 (7.55%) JMS
6 4 (7.55%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (5.66%) JSON
7 3 (5.66%) OAuth
7 3 (5.66%) OpenID
7 3 (5.66%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (5.66%) SAML
7 3 (5.66%) XML Messaging
8 2 (3.77%) JDBC
8 2 (3.77%) WSDL
8 2 (3.77%) XSD
8 2 (3.77%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (5.66%) PKI
2 2 (3.77%) Clustering
2 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.77%) Mainframe
2 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (1.89%) Derivative
3 1 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.89%) Online Banking
3 1 (1.89%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.75%) Linux
2 5 (9.43%) Windows
3 4 (7.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.66%) Unix
4 3 (5.66%) zOS
5 2 (3.77%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (3.77%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (1.89%) AIX
6 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.53%) CI/CD
1 13 (24.53%) DevOps
2 9 (16.98%) Agile
3 8 (15.09%) Scrum
4 7 (13.21%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (11.32%) AI
6 5 (9.43%) Integration Patterns
6 5 (9.43%) Migration
6 5 (9.43%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (9.43%) SOA
7 4 (7.55%) ITIL
7 4 (7.55%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (5.66%) BPEL
8 3 (5.66%) Configuration Management
8 3 (5.66%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (5.66%) ERP
8 3 (5.66%) ETL
8 3 (5.66%) Identity Management
8 3 (5.66%) Load Balancing
8 3 (5.66%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (66.04%) Java
2 26 (49.06%) SQL
3 8 (15.09%) Bash
4 6 (11.32%) PowerShell
4 6 (11.32%) Python
5 4 (7.55%) Perl
6 3 (5.66%) Jython
6 3 (5.66%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.77%) XPath
8 1 (1.89%) Groovy
8 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.89%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (7.55%) SC Cleared
1 4 (7.55%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.66%) PMI Certification
3 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.77%) Degree
3 2 (3.77%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.77%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (3.77%) Basel III
2 2 (3.77%) GAAP
2 2 (3.77%) IFRS
2 2 (3.77%) IFRS 17
2 2 (3.77%) IFRS 9
2 2 (3.77%) NCSC
3 1 (1.89%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.89%) QA
3 1 (1.89%) SEPA
3 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (11.32%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) RACF
3 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.89%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 12 (22.64%) Ansible
2 7 (13.21%) Terraform
3 3 (5.66%) CA Wily
3 3 (5.66%) Control-M
3 3 (5.66%) Tivoli
4 2 (3.77%) Puppet
4 2 (3.77%) TIBCO Hawk
5 1 (1.89%) Grafana
5 1 (1.89%) Istio
5 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.89%) Podman
Vendors
1 33 (62.26%) Oracle
2 27 (50.94%) IBM
3 24 (45.28%) TIBCO
4 4 (7.55%) Okta
4 4 (7.55%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.66%) Informatica
5 3 (5.66%) SAP
5 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.66%) Splunk
5 3 (5.66%) Workday
6 2 (3.77%) AppDynamics
6 2 (3.77%) BEA
6 2 (3.77%) Dynatrace
6 2 (3.77%) New Relic
7 1 (1.89%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.89%) Moogsoft
7 1 (1.89%) Radware
7 1 (1.89%) Temenos