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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 475 553 576
Rank change year-on-year +78 +23 -3
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 44 47 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.23%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.33% 1.12% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 34 81
10th Percentile £358 £410 £350
25th Percentile £359 £440 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -28.73% - -2.65%
75th Percentile £443 £619 £623
90th Percentile £637 £661 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £393 £440 £550
% change year-on-year -10.68% -20.00% +4.76%
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 3,308 4,179 6,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.31% 9.59% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,205 2,874 4,603
10th Percentile £275 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.97%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.72% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 161 147
10th Percentile £16.65 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.25 £15.42 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%
75th Percentile £64.13 £46.18 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.50 £68.00 £78.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £23.75 £26.24
% change year-on-year +94.44% -9.49% +41.84%

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 30 April 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 10 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 30 April 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 +66 34 £384 -30.18% 13
UK excluding London +69 25 £393 -10.68% 12
Work from Home +36 16 £531 +1.19% 9
London +22 13 £375 -34.78% 4
North West - 12 £393 - 3
North of England - 12 £393 - 3
East of England - 7 - -
Wales +7 3 - -
Scotland +5 2 £395 -10.23% 2
South West - 1 - - 1

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 17 (38.64%) JBoss
2 13 (29.55%) Tomcat
3 12 (27.27%) WebLogic
4 7 (15.91%) WebSphere Application Server
5 5 (11.36%) Apache
6 3 (6.82%) CICS
6 3 (6.82%) nginx
6 3 (6.82%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (2.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (2.27%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 17 (38.64%) AWS
2 9 (20.45%) Azure
3 5 (11.36%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.55%) GCP
4 2 (4.55%) IBM Cloud
4 2 (4.55%) npm
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.27%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (2.27%) GitHub
5 1 (2.27%) IaaS
5 1 (2.27%) OCI
5 1 (2.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) Calico
1 2 (4.55%) SSL
2 1 (2.27%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (59.09%) DB2
2 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.55%) Hadoop
2 2 (4.55%) IMS/DB
3 1 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.27%) MySQL
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (20.45%) Git
2 7 (15.91%) Jenkins
3 6 (13.64%) Bitbucket
4 4 (9.09%) JIRA
4 4 (9.09%) Maven
5 2 (4.55%) GitLab
5 2 (4.55%) Selenium
5 2 (4.55%) SOAtest
6 1 (2.27%) Ant
6 1 (2.27%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.27%) Hudson
6 1 (2.27%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (36.36%) Banking
2 11 (25.00%) Finance
3 10 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (20.45%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.55%) General Ledger
5 2 (4.55%) Law
5 2 (4.55%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Back Office
6 1 (2.27%) Billing
6 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) Architect
2 9 (20.45%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (15.91%) Systems Architect
4 6 (13.64%) Information Architect
4 6 (13.64%) Information Systems Architect
4 6 (13.64%) Scrum Master
5 4 (9.09%) Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Agile Scrum Master
6 3 (6.82%) Applications Support
7 2 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) DevOps Specialist
7 2 (4.55%) Information Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Information Systems Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) IT Trainer
7 2 (4.55%) Middleware Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Middleware Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Solutions Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Systems Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Test Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (31.82%) J2EE
2 12 (27.27%) SOAP
2 12 (27.27%) Web Services
3 9 (20.45%) Middleware
4 8 (18.18%) XML
5 7 (15.91%) REST
5 7 (15.91%) WebSphere MQ
6 6 (13.64%) EJB
6 6 (13.64%) JSON
6 6 (13.64%) RAML
6 6 (13.64%) RESTful
6 6 (13.64%) Spring
6 6 (13.64%) WSDL
7 5 (11.36%) JSP
7 5 (11.36%) Servlets
7 5 (11.36%) Spring Boot
8 2 (4.55%) CSS
8 2 (4.55%) CSS3
8 2 (4.55%) HTML5
8 2 (4.55%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.73%) Management Information System
2 7 (15.91%) Private Cloud
3 6 (13.64%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.82%) Mainframe
4 3 (6.82%) VSAM
5 2 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.55%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.55%) Mobile Payment
6 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 14 (31.82%) Unix
2 12 (27.27%) Linux
3 7 (15.91%) Windows
4 4 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.55%) Android
5 2 (4.55%) Apple iOS
5 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (2.27%) CentOS
6 1 (2.27%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (38.64%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (36.36%) Agile
3 10 (22.73%) Roadmaps
4 9 (20.45%) Microservices
5 8 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (18.18%) Information Management
6 7 (15.91%) Business Analysis
6 7 (15.91%) CI/CD
6 7 (15.91%) DevOps
6 7 (15.91%) Project Management
6 7 (15.91%) SDLC
7 6 (13.64%) API Development
7 6 (13.64%) Backlog Management
7 6 (13.64%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 6 (13.64%) Budget Control
7 6 (13.64%) ITIL
7 6 (13.64%) Problem Management
7 6 (13.64%) Scrum
8 5 (11.36%) Process Improvement
8 5 (11.36%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 25 (56.82%) SQL
2 14 (31.82%) Java
3 6 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 5 (11.36%) Python
4 5 (11.36%) REXX
5 3 (6.82%) COBOL
5 3 (6.82%) JCL
5 3 (6.82%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.55%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.27%) Bash
7 1 (2.27%) Groovy
7 1 (2.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (20.45%) SC Cleared
1 9 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.27%) Degree
2 1 (2.27%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.91%) QA
2 2 (4.55%) SLA
3 1 (2.27%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 11 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (22.73%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (13.64%) Docker
4 3 (6.82%) LXC
5 1 (2.27%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 6 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.36%) Ansible
3 2 (4.55%) Istio
3 2 (4.55%) Terraform
4 1 (2.27%) Grafana
4 1 (2.27%) HAProxy
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Identity Management
4 1 (2.27%) Podman
4 1 (2.27%) Puppet
4 1 (2.27%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 26 (59.09%) Oracle
2 13 (29.55%) IBM
3 6 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 4 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 3 (6.82%) MuleSoft
5 3 (6.82%) Pega
6 2 (4.55%) Ab Initio
6 2 (4.55%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.55%) Informatica
6 2 (4.55%) Parasoft
6 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.27%) Actifio
7 1 (2.27%) Adobe
7 1 (2.27%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.27%) Moogsoft
7 1 (2.27%) Remedy
7 1 (2.27%) Splunk