DataPower Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IBM WebSphere DataPower
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term DataPower in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DataPower over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 332 472
Rank change year-on-year +30 +140 +120
Contract jobs citing DataPower 2 13 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.085% 0.019%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.061% 0.29% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 11 3
10th Percentile - £419 -
25th Percentile - £489 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile - £675 £538
90th Percentile - £798 -
UK median daily rate - £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +2.94%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

DataPower falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

DataPower
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing DataPower as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DataPower trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

DataPower
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing DataPower.

DataPower daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DataPower
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform