WebSphere Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IBM WebSphere
UK > Work from Home

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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 327 385
Rank change year-on-year +28 +58 +42
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 16 14 45
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.11% 0.20%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.36% 0.86% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 31
10th Percentile £382 £456 £338
25th Percentile £395 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +4.35% -1.08%
75th Percentile £424 £625 £630
90th Percentile £450 £668 £700
UK median daily rate £405 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -26.36% -4.35% -2.54%

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 1,179 1,620 2,363
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.64% 12.27% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 830 1,171 1,631
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +2.48% -
75th Percentile £625 £700 £663
90th Percentile £825 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £514 £510
% change year-on-year -7.54% +0.74% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 72
10th Percentile £26.10 £15.46 £20.05
25th Percentile £31.40 £16.50 £22.49
Median hourly rate £58.75 £26.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +123.81% -52.27% +18.92%
75th Percentile £65.25 £39.69 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.83 £76.63 £75.90
UK median hourly rate £44.75 £31.71 £52.50
% change year-on-year +41.12% -39.60% +133.33%

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
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 5 (31.25%) WebLogic
1 5 (31.25%) WebSphere Application Server
2 4 (25.00%) JBoss
3 2 (12.50%) Tomcat
4 1 (6.25%) CICS
4 1 (6.25%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) IBM Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) NetScaler
1 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (18.75%) DB2
3 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.25%) IMS/DB
4 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (6.25%) MySQL
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) JIRA
2 4 (25.00%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (12.50%) Git
3 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (12.50%) Selenium
4 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
4 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
4 1 (6.25%) Jasmine
4 1 (6.25%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (6.25%) Log4j
4 1 (6.25%) Maven
4 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (43.75%) Banking
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Analyst
1 4 (25.00%) Banking Analyst
1 4 (25.00%) Payments Analyst
1 4 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Middleware Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Leader
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Scrum Master
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Support Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Support
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Tester
4 1 (6.25%) WebSphere Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Middleware
2 4 (25.00%) Web Services
2 4 (25.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 3 (18.75%) J2EE
3 3 (18.75%) SOAP
4 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 2 (12.50%) JDBC
4 2 (12.50%) jQuery
4 2 (12.50%) Kafka
4 2 (12.50%) OAuth
4 2 (12.50%) RESTful
4 2 (12.50%) Spring
4 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 2 (12.50%) XML
5 1 (6.25%) Bootstrap
5 1 (6.25%) CSS3
5 1 (6.25%) HTML5
5 1 (6.25%) IBM Integration Bus
5 1 (6.25%) REST
5 1 (6.25%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
3 1 (6.25%) Private Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
3 1 (6.25%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Unix
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Agile
1 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
1 4 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (12.50%) Clean Code
3 2 (12.50%) Code Quality
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) ITIL
3 2 (12.50%) ITSM
3 2 (12.50%) Microservices
3 2 (12.50%) Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Problem Management
3 2 (12.50%) Scrum
3 2 (12.50%) SDLC
3 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
4 1 (6.25%) Configuration Management
4 1 (6.25%) Risk Management
4 1 (6.25%) Service Delivery
4 1 (6.25%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Java
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) REXX
4 1 (6.25%) COBOL
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) JCL
4 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Python
4 1 (6.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) ISO 20022
2 4 (25.00%) SEPA
3 1 (6.25%) QA
3 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Tivoli
2 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) IBM
2 10 (62.50%) Oracle
3 2 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 2 (12.50%) MuleSoft
4 1 (6.25%) Citrix
4 1 (6.25%) Globalscape
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk