Hybrid/Remote WebSphere Portal Contract Job Trends

IBM WebSphere Portal
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring WebSphere Portal skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 - 358
Rank change year-on-year - - +147
Contract jobs citing WebSphere Portal 1 0 7
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.009% - 0.043%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.093% - 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £440
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £446
UK median daily rate - - £430
% change year-on-year - - -21.82%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

WebSphere Portal 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 1,080 1,196 1,599
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.49% 11.63% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 732 834 1,101
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.99%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £594
90th Percentile £663 £775 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -4.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 15 45
10th Percentile - £25.70 £16.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £38.25 £22.61
Median hourly rate £24.94 £55.25 £30.83
Median % change year-on-year -54.86% +79.24% -38.35%
75th Percentile £58.50 £64.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £71.33 £66.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £41.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -33.28% +60.78% +14.20%

WebSphere Portal
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

WebSphere Portal job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

WebSphere Portal
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

WebSphere Portal
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 1 (100.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Introscope
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Jython
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) CA Wily
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat