WebSphere Contracts

IBM WebSphere
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for WebSphere skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WebSphere over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 542 567 574
Rank change year-on-year +25 +7 -86
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 48 136 293
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.23% 0.33%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.15% 2.10% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 82 164
10th Percentile £410 £355 £406
25th Percentile £440 £483 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year - -3.08% +13.50%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £638
90th Percentile £661 £660 £709
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £66.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £66.00 -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

WebSphere is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,176 6,485 11,132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.63% 10.95% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,869 4,540 7,625
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +8.42%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 151 210
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.42 £18.50 £16.24
Median hourly rate £26.50 £45.00 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year -41.11% +102.25% +1.55%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £49.69
90th Percentile £68.88 £79.19 £65.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £26.48 £18.50
% change year-on-year -11.25% +43.14% -2.63%

WebSphere
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WebSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WebSphere in the UK

WebSphere
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WebSphere.

Daily rate trend for WebSphere in the UK

WebSphere
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebSphere over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WebSphere in the UK

WebSphere
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WebSphere.

Hourly rate trend for WebSphere in the UK

WebSphere
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +53 32 £550 - 14
Work from Home +86 30 £525 -4.55% 2
London +55 27 £575 +4.55% 8
UK excluding London +38 10 £440 -20.00% 7
Scotland +35 6 £440 -9.74%
South East +15 2 £380 -30.91% 2
Midlands +28 1 £550 +66.67% 2
Wales - 1 £475 -
East Midlands - 1 £550 -

WebSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (37.50%) WebSphere Application Server
2 14 (29.17%) WebLogic
3 8 (16.67%) IBM HTTP Server
3 8 (16.67%) WebSphere Portal
4 7 (14.58%) IIS
5 5 (10.42%) Apache
5 5 (10.42%) Tomcat
6 2 (4.17%) Apache Solr
6 2 (4.17%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (4.17%) FileNet
6 2 (4.17%) JBoss
7 1 (2.08%) Confluence
7 1 (2.08%) EPiServer
7 1 (2.08%) Ethereum
7 1 (2.08%) MetaMask
7 1 (2.08%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.25%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle FAH
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.92%) AWS
2 5 (10.42%) Azure
3 2 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (4.17%) OCI
3 2 (4.17%) SaaS
4 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.08%) GitHub
4 1 (2.08%) IaaS
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.08%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.08%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (25.00%) SSL
2 8 (16.67%) HTTP
3 2 (4.17%) SAN
3 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.08%) BIG-IP
4 1 (2.08%) DNS
4 1 (2.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (2.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (2.08%) Internet
4 1 (2.08%) IPsec
4 1 (2.08%) MPLS
4 1 (2.08%) NAS
4 1 (2.08%) Network Security
4 1 (2.08%) S/MIME
4 1 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) Relational Database
2 4 (8.33%) Oracle Database
3 3 (6.25%) DB2
3 3 (6.25%) MySQL
4 2 (4.17%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 13 (27.08%) IBM UrbanCode
2 3 (6.25%) Git
2 3 (6.25%) HP UFT
2 3 (6.25%) Katalon Studio
2 3 (6.25%) Selenium
3 2 (4.17%) Ant
3 2 (4.17%) JIRA
4 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.08%) Maven
4 1 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (33.33%) Finance
2 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
3 12 (25.00%) Banking
4 8 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (18.75%) Architect
1 9 (18.75%) Middleware Engineer
2 7 (14.58%) Applications Specialist
2 7 (14.58%) Senior
2 7 (14.58%) Senior Middleware Engineer
2 7 (14.58%) Server Specialist
2 7 (14.58%) WebSphere Server Specialist
2 7 (14.58%) WebSphere Specialist
3 4 (8.33%) Developer
3 4 (8.33%) Lead
4 3 (6.25%) CyberArk Architect
4 3 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (6.25%) WebSphere Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) WebSphere MQ Specialist
5 2 (4.17%) Consultant
5 2 (4.17%) CyberArk Consultant
5 2 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) FileNet Developer
5 2 (4.17%) Java Architect
5 2 (4.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (29.17%) Middleware
1 14 (29.17%) WebSphere MQ
2 13 (27.08%) J2EE
3 10 (20.83%) Web Services
4 5 (10.42%) .NET
4 5 (10.42%) SOAP
4 5 (10.42%) XML
5 4 (8.33%) EJB
5 4 (8.33%) JSP
5 4 (8.33%) Servlets
6 3 (6.25%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.25%) jQuery
6 3 (6.25%) JSON
6 3 (6.25%) Kafka
6 3 (6.25%) LDAP
6 3 (6.25%) REST
6 3 (6.25%) RESTful
6 3 (6.25%) Spring
6 3 (6.25%) Spring Boot
6 3 (6.25%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) DataPower
2 4 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.17%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.08%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.08%) Clustering
4 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.08%) Derivative
4 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.08%) Equities
4 1 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.08%) PKI
4 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.42%) Windows
2 2 (4.17%) Linux
3 1 (2.08%) Android
3 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.08%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (16.67%) DevOps
1 8 (16.67%) ITIL
2 7 (14.58%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (14.58%) Deployment Automation
2 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (14.58%) Service Management
3 6 (12.50%) Agile
3 6 (12.50%) Migration
4 5 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (10.42%) Problem Management
5 4 (8.33%) Customer Service
5 4 (8.33%) Information Security
5 4 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 4 (8.33%) Roadmaps
5 4 (8.33%) Workflow
6 3 (6.25%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (6.25%) Performance Analysis
6 3 (6.25%) Privileged Access Management
6 3 (6.25%) SDLC
6 3 (6.25%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 18 (37.50%) Java
2 9 (18.75%) SQL
3 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.25%) PL/SQL
4 3 (6.25%) Python
5 2 (4.17%) Bash
5 2 (4.17%) C++
5 2 (4.17%) VBScript
6 1 (2.08%) Groovy
6 1 (2.08%) Solidity
6 1 (2.08%) VC++
6 1 (2.08%) XPath
Qualifications
1 6 (12.50%) Degree
1 6 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (6.25%) CISSP
3 3 (6.25%) SANS
4 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) GRC
2 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.08%) COREP
2 1 (2.08%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.08%) IFRS
2 1 (2.08%) IFRS 17
2 1 (2.08%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.08%) Terminal Server
2 1 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (10.42%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.25%) Ansible
3 2 (4.17%) Grafana
4 1 (2.08%) Control-M
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.08%) Podman
4 1 (2.08%) Puppet
4 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.08%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 31 (64.58%) IBM
2 15 (31.25%) Oracle
3 4 (8.33%) Dynatrace
4 3 (6.25%) CyberArk
4 3 (6.25%) Micro Focus
4 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.08%) BMC
5 1 (2.08%) CA
5 1 (2.08%) Cisco
5 1 (2.08%) Citrix
5 1 (2.08%) EMC
5 1 (2.08%) F5
5 1 (2.08%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.08%) TIBCO
5 1 (2.08%) VMware
5 1 (2.08%) Zscaler