IBM Integration Bus Contracts

IBM Integration Bus (formerly WebSphere Message Broker)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring IBM Integration Bus skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IBM Integration Bus over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 - 791
Rank change year-on-year - - -71
Contract jobs citing IBM Integration Bus 18 0 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% - 0.065%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.20% - 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 49
10th Percentile £323 - £500
25th Percentile £403 - £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 - £520
Median % change year-on-year - - +48.57%
75th Percentile £502 - £550
90th Percentile £661 - £553
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 - £535
% change year-on-year - - +53.08%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

IBM Integration Bus falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,185 12,737 23,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.05% 22.92% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,343 9,289 17,252
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 152 225
10th Percentile £22.10 £31.18 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £49.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.85% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.38 £75.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £74.49 £80.25 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

IBM Integration Bus
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IBM Integration Bus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IBM Integration Bus in the UK

IBM Integration Bus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM Integration Bus.

Daily rate trend for IBM Integration Bus in the UK

IBM Integration Bus
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM Integration Bus over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IBM Integration Bus in the UK

IBM Integration Bus
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM Integration Bus.

Hourly rate trend for IBM Integration Bus in the UK

IBM Integration Bus
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Integration Bus within the UK over the 6 months to 10 June 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 - 14 £489 - 2
Work from Home - 10 £470 -
UK excluding London - 8 £492 - 2
North of England - 8 £492 - 2
North West - 8 £492 - 2
London - 6 £413 -

IBM Integration Bus
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 10 (55.56%) JBoss
2 9 (50.00%) Apache
2 9 (50.00%) nginx
2 9 (50.00%) Tomcat
3 6 (33.33%) Confluence
3 6 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (11.11%) WebSphere
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (38.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (88.89%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (88.89%) Azure
3 7 (38.89%) Apigee
3 7 (38.89%) Kong
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) DNS
1 9 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) SSL
3 1 (5.56%) MPLS
3 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) RDBMS
1 10 (55.56%) Relational Database
1 10 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 7 (38.89%) MongoDB
2 7 (38.89%) OLAP
2 7 (38.89%) OLTP
3 6 (33.33%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) JIRA
General
1 17 (94.44%) Finance
2 11 (61.11%) Banking
3 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
4 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Architect
2 7 (38.89%) AWS Architect
3 5 (27.78%) Applications Support
4 4 (22.22%) Linux Support
5 3 (16.67%) IT Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Applications Support Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Applications Support Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (5.56%) C++ Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.56%) IT Support
6 1 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Network Operations Specialist
6 1 (5.56%) Operations Support Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Service Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) T24 Specialist
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) SOAP
2 7 (38.89%) J2EE
2 7 (38.89%) Kafka
2 7 (38.89%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (38.89%) Web Services
3 6 (33.33%) Apache Camel
3 6 (33.33%) Middleware
3 6 (33.33%) Spring
3 6 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 6 (33.33%) Spring Integration
4 2 (11.11%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (5.56%) .NET
5 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) DataPower
2 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Linux
2 9 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (50.00%) Unix
2 9 (50.00%) Windows
2 9 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 9 (50.00%) Runbook
1 9 (50.00%) Server Management
2 8 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (38.89%) API Management
3 7 (38.89%) CQRS
3 7 (38.89%) Design Patterns
3 7 (38.89%) Enterprise Architecture
3 7 (38.89%) Event-Driven
3 7 (38.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 7 (38.89%) Identity Access Management
3 7 (38.89%) Microservices
3 7 (38.89%) OO
3 7 (38.89%) OOA/OOD
3 7 (38.89%) Risk Management
3 7 (38.89%) SOA
4 6 (33.33%) DevOps
4 6 (33.33%) Technical Debt
4 6 (33.33%) TOGAF
5 2 (11.11%) Cryptography
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 9 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 8 (44.44%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) C++
4 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.56%) Control-M
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) IBM
2 17 (94.44%) Oracle
3 9 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 9 (50.00%) Temenos
4 7 (38.89%) TSYS
5 1 (5.56%) BMC