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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 538 562
Rank change year-on-year +51 +24 -32
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 52 42 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.096% 0.23%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.54% 0.96% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 32 78
10th Percentile £358 £379 £347
25th Percentile £376 £436 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.64% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £472 £625 £614
90th Percentile £575 £729 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £440 £575
% change year-on-year -8.64% -23.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £62.40 - £62.85
25th Percentile £63.75 - £64.88
Median hourly rate £66.00 - £66.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.50 - £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 3,376 4,381 5,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.25% 10.04% 10.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,205 3,051 4,097
10th Percentile £288 £262 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -1.96% -2.39%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £640
90th Percentile £713 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 165 154
10th Percentile £17.56 £13.50 £16.36
25th Percentile £26.45 £16.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £31.71 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.56% -39.60% +128.26%
75th Percentile £70.00 £51.91 £66.00
90th Percentile £79.75 £72.40 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.06 £30.91 £50.00
% change year-on-year +71.63% -38.18% +166.67%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +81 41 £405 -32.50% 75
UK excluding London +59 30 £402 -8.64% 46
North of England +30 16 £402 -44.55% 8
Work from Home +21 16 £405 -26.36% 21
London +45 15 £405 -32.50% 37
North West - 15 £402 - 5
East of England - 6 £550 - 16
Scotland +2 4 £358 -18.64% 6
Wales - 3 - - 2
East Midlands +7 1 £358 -34.91% 1
Midlands +7 1 £358 -34.91% 4
Yorkshire +2 1 £500 -31.03% 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 21 (40.38%) JBoss
2 15 (28.85%) WebLogic
3 13 (25.00%) Tomcat
3 13 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
4 11 (21.15%) Apache
5 5 (9.62%) IIS
6 3 (5.77%) CICS
6 3 (5.77%) nginx
6 3 (5.77%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (1.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (1.92%) CMS
Business Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 20 (38.46%) AWS
2 11 (21.15%) Azure
3 9 (17.31%) OpenShift
4 7 (13.46%) IBM Cloud
5 6 (11.54%) GCP
6 4 (7.69%) npm
7 3 (5.77%) IaaS
7 3 (5.77%) PaaS
8 2 (3.85%) SaaS
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.92%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (1.92%) GitHub
9 1 (1.92%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) Calico
1 4 (7.69%) SSL
2 2 (3.85%) SAN
3 1 (1.92%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (48.08%) DB2
2 6 (11.54%) SQL Server
3 5 (9.62%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (9.62%) Oracle Database
4 3 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.85%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.85%) IMS/DB
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.92%) MySQL
6 1 (1.92%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (28.85%) Git
2 13 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (17.31%) Bitbucket
3 9 (17.31%) JIRA
4 7 (13.46%) Maven
5 5 (9.62%) IBM UrbanCode
6 4 (7.69%) GitLab
7 3 (5.77%) Log4j
8 2 (3.85%) Ant
8 2 (3.85%) Artifactory
8 2 (3.85%) Selenium
8 2 (3.85%) SOAtest
8 2 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.92%) Hudson
General
1 21 (40.38%) Banking
2 17 (32.69%) Finance
3 14 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (17.31%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.85%) General Ledger
5 2 (3.85%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Back Office
6 1 (1.92%) Billing
6 1 (1.92%) Law
6 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (19.23%) Architect
2 9 (17.31%) Scrum Master
3 6 (11.54%) Analyst
3 6 (11.54%) Consultant
4 5 (9.62%) Maximo Consultant
4 5 (9.62%) Payments Analyst
4 5 (9.62%) Technical Analyst
5 4 (7.69%) Banking Analyst
5 4 (7.69%) Senior
5 4 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Agile Scrum Master
6 3 (5.77%) Middleware Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) DevOps Specialist
7 2 (3.85%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Linux Scripter
7 2 (3.85%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Middleware Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (38.46%) Web Services
2 17 (32.69%) SOAP
3 13 (25.00%) Middleware
4 11 (21.15%) J2EE
5 10 (19.23%) REST
5 10 (19.23%) XML
6 9 (17.31%) RAML
6 9 (17.31%) WebSphere MQ
6 9 (17.31%) WSDL
7 6 (11.54%) EJB
7 6 (11.54%) Spring
8 5 (9.62%) JDBC
8 5 (9.62%) JSP
8 5 (9.62%) Servlets
8 5 (9.62%) Spring Boot
9 4 (7.69%) JMS
9 4 (7.69%) Kafka
9 4 (7.69%) OAuth
10 3 (5.77%) LDAP
10 3 (5.77%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Private Cloud
2 9 (17.31%) Product Ownership
3 6 (11.54%) Management Information System
4 5 (9.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.77%) Mainframe
5 3 (5.77%) VSAM
6 2 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (3.85%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.85%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (30.77%) Linux
2 13 (25.00%) Windows
3 9 (17.31%) Unix
4 8 (15.38%) Windows Server
5 5 (9.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (7.69%) Android
6 4 (7.69%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (1.92%) CentOS
7 1 (1.92%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (40.38%) Agile
2 18 (34.62%) CI/CD
3 15 (28.85%) DevOps
4 14 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (25.00%) Scrum
6 11 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (19.23%) SDLC
8 9 (17.31%) API Development
8 9 (17.31%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 9 (17.31%) Budget Control
9 8 (15.38%) Backlog Management
9 8 (15.38%) Conflict Resolution
9 8 (15.38%) Containerisation
9 8 (15.38%) Microservices
9 8 (15.38%) Migration
9 8 (15.38%) Servant Leadership
9 8 (15.38%) Service Management
9 8 (15.38%) Situational Awareness
10 7 (13.46%) ITSM
11 6 (11.54%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 25 (48.08%) SQL
2 15 (28.85%) Java
3 13 (25.00%) Python
4 11 (21.15%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.62%) REXX
5 5 (9.62%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.77%) COBOL
6 3 (5.77%) JCL
7 2 (3.85%) Bash
7 2 (3.85%) Groovy
7 2 (3.85%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.92%) C#
8 1 (1.92%) C++
8 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (19.23%) SC Cleared
1 10 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.77%) IBM Certification
3 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.92%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (23.08%) QA
2 5 (9.62%) ISO 20022
3 4 (7.69%) SEPA
4 2 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (21.15%) Docker
2 7 (13.46%) Active Directory
3 5 (9.62%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 4 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (5.77%) LXC
Systems Management
1 12 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.54%) Ansible
3 5 (9.62%) Tivoli
4 4 (7.69%) Istio
4 4 (7.69%) Terraform
5 3 (5.77%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.77%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (3.85%) Podman
6 2 (3.85%) Puppet
7 1 (1.92%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.92%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 29 (55.77%) IBM
1 29 (55.77%) Oracle
2 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.46%) Red Hat
3 5 (9.62%) Dynatrace
4 3 (5.77%) MuleSoft
4 3 (5.77%) Splunk
5 2 (3.85%) Ab Initio
5 2 (3.85%) Citrix
5 2 (3.85%) F5
5 2 (3.85%) HP
5 2 (3.85%) Informatica
5 2 (3.85%) Parasoft
5 2 (3.85%) TIBCO
5 2 (3.85%) VMware
6 1 (1.92%) Actifio
6 1 (1.92%) Adobe
6 1 (1.92%) Remedy
6 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow