Hybrid/Remote WebSphere Application Server Contract Job Trends

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring WebSphere Application Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 - 383
Rank change year-on-year - - +162
Contract jobs citing WebSphere Application Server 2 0 8
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.020% - 0.045%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.18% - 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £323
25th Percentile - - £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile - - £450
90th Percentile - - £512
UK median daily rate £448 - £388
% change year-on-year - - -29.61%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

WebSphere Application Server falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,100 1,443 1,743
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.80% 11.89% 9.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 745 943 1,192
10th Percentile £300 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £638
90th Percentile £738 £850 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 17 38
10th Percentile £17.50 £16.65 £15.27
25th Percentile £18.58 £21.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% -31.82% +14.58%
75th Percentile £43.00 £55.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.25 £65.10 £72.88
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £37.25 £27.00
% change year-on-year -19.46% +37.96% +38.46%

WebSphere Application Server
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WebSphere Application Server and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

WebSphere Application Server job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

WebSphere Application Server
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing WebSphere Application Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing WebSphere Application Server

WebSphere Application Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) iPlanet
2 1 (50.00%) JBoss
2 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (50.00%) CA Release Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Katalon Studio
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) CA Single Sign-On
1 1 (50.00%) CA Wily
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (50.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (50.00%) Broadcom
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk