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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 542 584 524
Rank change year-on-year +42 -60 0
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 30 93 353
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.17% 0.40%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.71% 1.61% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 54 230
10th Percentile £375 £338 £450
25th Percentile £413 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% +12.38%
75th Percentile £650 £624 £638
90th Percentile £738 £651 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £638 £575 £585
% change year-on-year +10.87% -1.71% +17.00%

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 4,203 5,775 11,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.46% 10.63% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,906 3,964 7,816
10th Percentile £269 £260 £275
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £625
90th Percentile £813 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £452 £469 £463
% change year-on-year -3.69% +1.36% +8.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 155 216
10th Percentile £13.54 £16.25 £13.33
25th Percentile £17.75 £21.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £31.00 £52.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.95% +128.26% +21.05%
75th Percentile £57.50 £66.00 £54.88
90th Percentile £74.89 £78.45 £76.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% +100.00% +14.29%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +36 24 £600 +14.29% 2
London +65 20 £600 +19.36% 1
Work from Home +70 14 £600 +4.35% 2
UK excluding London +30 4 £638 +10.87% 2
North of England +25 3 £725 - 1
Yorkshire +20 2 £725 -
North West +32 1 £450 - 1
Midlands +20 1 £550 +66.67%
South West +3 1 £450 -21.74%
East Midlands - 1 £550 -

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 11 (36.67%) Tomcat
2 9 (30.00%) WebLogic
3 6 (20.00%) JBoss
4 4 (13.33%) Apache
4 4 (13.33%) IIS
5 3 (10.00%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (6.67%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (3.33%) Apache Solr
7 1 (3.33%) Ethereum
7 1 (3.33%) MetaMask
7 1 (3.33%) SAS
7 1 (3.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Adobe Captivate
2 2 (6.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (3.33%) HiPortfolio
1 1 (3.33%) Magento
1 1 (3.33%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (3.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (23.33%) Azure
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (6.67%) IaaS
3 2 (6.67%) OpenShift
3 2 (6.67%) PaaS
4 1 (3.33%) Attraqt
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (3.33%) BigCommerce
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.33%) CloudTest
4 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (3.33%) npm
4 1 (3.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) DB2
2 5 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 4 (13.33%) MySQL
3 4 (13.33%) RDBMS
3 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
4 3 (10.00%) Oracle Database
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.33%) DbVisualizer
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Git
2 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.00%) Maven
3 2 (6.67%) Ant
3 2 (6.67%) Artifactory
3 2 (6.67%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (6.67%) JIRA
3 2 (6.67%) JMeter
3 2 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.33%) Eclipse
4 1 (3.33%) Gradle
4 1 (3.33%) JUnit
4 1 (3.33%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (3.33%) Mockito
4 1 (3.33%) NeoLoad
4 1 (3.33%) Selenium
4 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (3.33%) webpack
4 1 (3.33%) WebPageTest
General
1 11 (36.67%) Finance
2 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (23.33%) Banking
4 6 (20.00%) Retail
5 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Architect
2 7 (23.33%) WebSphere Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Technical Trainer
3 3 (10.00%) Trainer
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Architect
4 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (6.67%) CyberArk Architect
4 2 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Lead
4 2 (6.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Linux Scripter
4 2 (6.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) Middleware
1 5 (16.67%) Web Services
1 5 (16.67%) WebSphere MQ
2 4 (13.33%) J2EE
3 3 (10.00%) EJB
3 3 (10.00%) REST
3 3 (10.00%) SOAP
3 3 (10.00%) XML
4 2 (6.67%) .NET
4 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.67%) CSS
4 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (6.67%) HTML
4 2 (6.67%) jQuery
4 2 (6.67%) JSP
4 2 (6.67%) Kafka
4 2 (6.67%) LAMP
4 2 (6.67%) LDAP
4 2 (6.67%) Servlets
4 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) e-Learning
1 3 (10.00%) Learning Management System
1 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.33%) Blockchain
2 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.33%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 13 (43.33%) Linux
2 9 (30.00%) Windows
3 7 (23.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (23.33%) Unix
4 4 (13.33%) Solaris
5 3 (10.00%) AIX
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (6.67%) CentOS
6 2 (6.67%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (3.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (23.33%) DevOps
2 5 (16.67%) Agile
3 4 (13.33%) Analytics
3 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (13.33%) Workflow
4 3 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (10.00%) Data Analytics
4 3 (10.00%) Data Migration
4 3 (10.00%) E-Commerce
4 3 (10.00%) Identity Management
4 3 (10.00%) Instructional Design
4 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (10.00%) Migration
4 3 (10.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (10.00%) Storyboarding
4 3 (10.00%) Workflow Management
5 2 (6.67%) Configuration Management
5 2 (6.67%) Information Security
5 2 (6.67%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) SQL
2 7 (23.33%) Java
3 5 (16.67%) Python
4 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.00%) PL/SQL
6 2 (6.67%) Bash
6 2 (6.67%) Groovy
6 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
6 2 (6.67%) VBScript
7 1 (3.33%) AWK
7 1 (3.33%) JCL
7 1 (3.33%) Perl
7 1 (3.33%) PHP
7 1 (3.33%) PL/1
7 1 (3.33%) REXX
7 1 (3.33%) Solidity
7 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (6.67%) CISSP
3 2 (6.67%) SANS
4 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Docker
2 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.33%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Ansible
1 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) HAProxy
2 2 (6.67%) Podman
2 2 (6.67%) Puppet
3 1 (3.33%) Control-M
3 1 (3.33%) Grafana
3 1 (3.33%) OMEGAMON
3 1 (3.33%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 16 (53.33%) Oracle
2 15 (50.00%) IBM
3 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 4 (13.33%) Adobe
5 3 (10.00%) Dynatrace
5 3 (10.00%) SAP
6 2 (6.67%) Actifio
6 2 (6.67%) CyberArk
7 1 (3.33%) AppDynamics
7 1 (3.33%) BMC
7 1 (3.33%) CA
7 1 (3.33%) Google
7 1 (3.33%) Micro Focus
7 1 (3.33%) New Relic
7 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
7 1 (3.33%) Sitecore
7 1 (3.33%) TIBCO