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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 - 75
Rank change year-on-year - - +24
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.26% - 0.10%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.35% - 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £725
75th Percentile - - £738
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate - - £725

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 69 77 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 5.90% 13.73% 7.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 46 53
10th Percentile £288 £235 £305
25th Percentile £350 £261 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £615
90th Percentile £638 £600 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile £14.03 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £14.25 - £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -44.44%
75th Percentile £19.92 - -
90th Percentile £25.00 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.12 - £14.50
% change year-on-year - - -34.09%

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 25 May 2026. 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
Leeds - 3 - -
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 (33.33%) Tomcat
1 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) SailPoint Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior WebSphere Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) JSP
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) LDAP
3 1 (33.33%) SailPoint
3 1 (33.33%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Okta
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow