WebSphere Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

IBM WebSphere
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring WebSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 66 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.12% 0.38% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.12% 3.19% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £725 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £725 -
% change year-on-year -31.03% - -

All Application Platform Skills
West Yorkshire

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 in West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 89 94 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 10.50% 11.99% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 45 88
10th Percentile £272 £355 £202
25th Percentile £356 £404 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.84% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £591
90th Percentile £588 £675 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £440 £500 £403
% change year-on-year -12.00% +24.12% -10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £15.05
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £19.57
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.98%
75th Percentile - - £23.38
90th Percentile - - £25.27
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £22.00
% change year-on-year - - +2.33%

WebSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

WebSphere job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

WebSphere
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing WebSphere.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing WebSphere

WebSphere
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing WebSphere.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing WebSphere

WebSphere
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 27 October 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
Halifax -6 1 £500 -31.03%
Leeds -12 1 £500 -
WebSphere
Yorkshire

WebSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Log4j
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Migration Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) JNDI
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) TIBCO