WebSphere Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring WebSphere skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WebSphere 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 288 315 405
Rank change year-on-year +27 +90 +85
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 16 30 72
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.20% 0.28%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.42% 1.92% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 21 43
10th Percentile £373 £410 £438
25th Percentile £393 £440 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -4.55% -1.35%
75th Percentile £680 £575 £623
90th Percentile £688 £625 £679
UK median daily rate £392 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -28.73% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £64.50 - £66.00
75th Percentile £66.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.00 - £66.00

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

WebSphere 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 1,129 1,560 2,932
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.40% 10.17% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,093 2,063
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -2.50%
75th Percentile £633 £608 £638
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 39 72
10th Percentile £27.03 £16.28 £19.33
25th Percentile £38.39 £22.55 £22.16
Median hourly rate £57.00 £30.16 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.99% -45.16% +57.14%
75th Percentile £64.50 £47.94 £66.69
90th Percentile £66.00 £71.50 £82.40
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

WebSphere
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

WebSphere trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

WebSphere
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

WebSphere daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

WebSphere
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing WebSphere over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

WebSphere daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

WebSphere
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

WebSphere hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

WebSphere
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) JBoss
2 3 (18.75%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (6.25%) CICS
3 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
3 1 (6.25%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (56.25%) DB2
2 2 (12.50%) IMS/DB
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
1 1 (6.25%) Maven
General
1 7 (43.75%) Banking
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Architect
1 6 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Information Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Information Systems Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Systems Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Support Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Support
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Information Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Information Systems Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) IT Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Middleware Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Payments Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) J2EE
2 6 (37.50%) XML
3 5 (31.25%) RESTful
3 5 (31.25%) SOAP
4 4 (25.00%) Middleware
4 4 (25.00%) WebSphere MQ
5 3 (18.75%) JSON
5 3 (18.75%) Web Services
6 2 (12.50%) EJB
6 2 (12.50%) JDBC
6 2 (12.50%) XSLT
7 1 (6.25%) Ajax
7 1 (6.25%) CSS
7 1 (6.25%) CSS3
7 1 (6.25%) HTML
7 1 (6.25%) HTML5
7 1 (6.25%) IBM Integration Bus
7 1 (6.25%) jQuery
7 1 (6.25%) Spring
7 1 (6.25%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
3 1 (6.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (6.25%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Unix
2 4 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Microservices
2 5 (31.25%) Project Management
2 5 (31.25%) Roadmaps
3 4 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 4 (25.00%) Information Management
4 3 (18.75%) Digital Transformation Strategy
4 3 (18.75%) ITIL
4 3 (18.75%) KYC
4 3 (18.75%) Problem Management
5 2 (12.50%) Analytics
5 2 (12.50%) Availability Management
5 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
5 2 (12.50%) Issue Tracking
5 2 (12.50%) Performance Management
5 2 (12.50%) Process Improvement
5 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) Java
3 3 (18.75%) REXX
4 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
5 1 (6.25%) COBOL
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) JCL
5 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) ISO 20022
1 1 (6.25%) QA
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
1 6 (37.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (25.00%) IBM
3 3 (18.75%) MuleSoft
3 3 (18.75%) Pega
4 1 (6.25%) AppDynamics
4 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) Moogsoft
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk