WebSphere Contracts

IBM WebSphere
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring WebSphere skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WebSphere over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 542 573
Rank change year-on-year +65 +31 -32
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 45 45 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.23%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.38% 1.09% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 33 79
10th Percentile £358 £410 £390
25th Percentile £359 £440 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -27.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £443 £619 £600
90th Percentile £637 £662 £661
UK excluding London median daily rate £384 £440 £563
% change year-on-year -12.73% -21.78% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile - - £62.85
25th Percentile £61.50 - £64.88
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £66.00
75th Percentile £66.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 - £66.00

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 3,254 4,143 6,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.17% 9.71% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,160 2,857 4,415
10th Percentile £275 £256 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 159 147
10th Percentile £16.65 £13.00 £16.09
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.43 £19.38
Median hourly rate £46.18 £28.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.04% -36.67% +83.67%
75th Percentile £64.50 £46.18 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £24.47 £27.50
% change year-on-year +114.59% -11.04% +44.74%

WebSphere
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WebSphere in the UK

WebSphere
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WebSphere.

Daily rate trend for WebSphere in the UK

WebSphere
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebSphere over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WebSphere in the UK

WebSphere
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WebSphere.

Hourly rate trend for WebSphere in the UK

WebSphere
Top 12 Contract 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 15 May 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 +69 34 £392 -28.73% 23
UK excluding London +61 26 £384 -12.73% 19
Work from Home +35 18 £425 -19.05% 15
London +33 12 £389 -32.39% 12
North West - 12 £393 - 1
North of England - 12 £393 - 3
East of England - 7 - -
Wales - 3 - - 1
Scotland +5 2 £395 -10.23% 1
Midlands +19 1 £358 -34.91% 2
East Midlands +11 1 £358 -34.91% 2
South West - 1 - - 2

WebSphere
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 18 (40.00%) JBoss
2 13 (28.89%) WebLogic
3 12 (26.67%) Tomcat
4 8 (17.78%) WebSphere Application Server
5 5 (11.11%) Apache
6 3 (6.67%) CICS
6 3 (6.67%) nginx
6 3 (6.67%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (2.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (2.22%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 16 (35.56%) AWS
2 7 (15.56%) Azure
3 5 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.44%) GCP
4 2 (4.44%) IBM Cloud
4 2 (4.44%) npm
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (2.22%) GitHub
5 1 (2.22%) IaaS
5 1 (2.22%) OCI
5 1 (2.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) Calico
1 2 (4.44%) SSL
2 1 (2.22%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (55.56%) DB2
2 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.44%) Hadoop
2 2 (4.44%) IMS/DB
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.22%) MySQL
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (22.22%) Git
2 7 (15.56%) Bitbucket
2 7 (15.56%) Jenkins
3 5 (11.11%) JIRA
4 4 (8.89%) Maven
5 2 (4.44%) GitLab
5 2 (4.44%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (4.44%) Selenium
5 2 (4.44%) SOAtest
6 1 (2.22%) Ant
6 1 (2.22%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.22%) Hudson
6 1 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (37.78%) Banking
2 12 (26.67%) Finance
3 10 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.44%) General Ledger
5 2 (4.44%) Law
5 2 (4.44%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Back Office
6 1 (2.22%) Billing
6 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (28.89%) Architect
2 9 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (15.56%) Scrum Master
3 7 (15.56%) Systems Architect
4 6 (13.33%) Information Architect
4 6 (13.33%) Information Systems Architect
5 5 (11.11%) Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Agile Scrum Master
6 3 (6.67%) Applications Support
6 3 (6.67%) Middleware Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) DevOps Specialist
7 2 (4.44%) Information Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Information Systems Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Payments Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Middleware Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Support Specialist
7 2 (4.44%) Systems Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (31.11%) J2EE
2 13 (28.89%) SOAP
2 13 (28.89%) Web Services
3 10 (22.22%) Middleware
4 8 (17.78%) REST
4 8 (17.78%) WebSphere MQ
4 8 (17.78%) XML
5 7 (15.56%) RAML
5 7 (15.56%) WSDL
6 6 (13.33%) EJB
6 6 (13.33%) JSON
6 6 (13.33%) RESTful
6 6 (13.33%) Spring
7 5 (11.11%) JSP
7 5 (11.11%) Servlets
7 5 (11.11%) Spring Boot
8 2 (4.44%) CSS
8 2 (4.44%) HTML
8 2 (4.44%) JDBC
8 2 (4.44%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 8 (17.78%) Private Cloud
3 7 (15.56%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.67%) Mainframe
4 3 (6.67%) VSAM
5 2 (4.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.44%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.44%) Mobile Payment
5 2 (4.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (26.67%) Unix
2 10 (22.22%) Linux
3 7 (15.56%) Windows
4 4 (8.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.44%) Android
5 2 (4.44%) Apple iOS
5 2 (4.44%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (2.22%) CentOS
6 1 (2.22%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (37.78%) Agile
1 17 (37.78%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 9 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (20.00%) Microservices
4 8 (17.78%) Information Management
4 8 (17.78%) SDLC
5 7 (15.56%) API Development
5 7 (15.56%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 7 (15.56%) Budget Control
5 7 (15.56%) Business Analysis
5 7 (15.56%) CI/CD
5 7 (15.56%) DevOps
5 7 (15.56%) Project Management
5 7 (15.56%) Scrum
6 6 (13.33%) Backlog Management
6 6 (13.33%) Conflict Resolution
6 6 (13.33%) ITIL
6 6 (13.33%) Servant Leadership
6 6 (13.33%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 24 (53.33%) SQL
2 15 (33.33%) Java
3 6 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 5 (11.11%) Python
4 5 (11.11%) REXX
5 3 (6.67%) COBOL
5 3 (6.67%) JCL
5 3 (6.67%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.44%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.22%) Bash
7 1 (2.22%) Groovy
7 1 (2.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 10 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.22%) Degree
2 1 (2.22%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) ISO 20022
2 2 (4.44%) SLA
3 1 (2.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (24.44%) Active Directory
2 10 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (13.33%) Docker
4 3 (6.67%) LXC
5 2 (4.44%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.11%) Ansible
3 2 (4.44%) Istio
3 2 (4.44%) Terraform
3 2 (4.44%) Tivoli
4 1 (2.22%) Grafana
4 1 (2.22%) HAProxy
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle Identity Management
4 1 (2.22%) Podman
4 1 (2.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (57.78%) Oracle
2 15 (33.33%) IBM
3 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.89%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.67%) MuleSoft
4 3 (6.67%) Pega
5 2 (4.44%) Ab Initio
5 2 (4.44%) Dynatrace
5 2 (4.44%) Informatica
5 2 (4.44%) Parasoft
5 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.22%) Actifio
6 1 (2.22%) Adobe
6 1 (2.22%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.22%) Moogsoft
6 1 (2.22%) Remedy
6 1 (2.22%) Splunk