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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 552 532
Rank change year-on-year +25 -20 -17
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 48 130 332
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.23% 0.38%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.13% 2.13% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 78 207
10th Percentile £410 £385 £445
25th Percentile £443 £486 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £636
90th Percentile £738 £653 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -23.48% +2.22% +12.50%
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 4,252 6,095 10,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.88% 10.87% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 4,271 7,550
10th Percentile £258 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £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 162 148 208
10th Percentile £13.28 £16.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.08 £51.25 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.31% +125.27% +10.98%
75th Percentile £50.47 £66.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +116.22% -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 1 June 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 10 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 1 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 +27 37 £600 +9.09% 12
London +66 30 £600 +9.09% 7
Work from Home +73 29 £550 - 2
UK excluding London +21 10 £440 -23.48% 6
Scotland +32 5 £440 -9.74% 1
North of England +19 2 £725 +17.89% 3
Yorkshire +18 2 £725 - 2
South East +12 2 £380 -30.91% 1
Midlands +23 1 £550 +66.67% 1
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 13 (27.08%) WebLogic
3 8 (16.67%) IBM HTTP Server
3 8 (16.67%) WebSphere Portal
4 5 (10.42%) IIS
5 4 (8.33%) Tomcat
6 3 (6.25%) Apache
6 3 (6.25%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (4.17%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (4.17%) FileNet
7 2 (4.17%) JBoss
8 1 (2.08%) Ethereum
8 1 (2.08%) MetaMask
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.67%) AWS
2 4 (8.33%) Azure
3 2 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.08%) GitHub
4 1 (2.08%) IaaS
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.08%) OCI
4 1 (2.08%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.08%) PaaS
4 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (25.00%) SSL
2 8 (16.67%) HTTP
3 1 (2.08%) IPsec
3 1 (2.08%) MPLS
3 1 (2.08%) NAS
3 1 (2.08%) S/MIME
3 1 (2.08%) SAN
3 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) DB2
1 4 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 3 (6.25%) MySQL
3 2 (4.17%) Oracle Database
3 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (2.08%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (31.25%) 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 1 (2.08%) Ant
3 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.08%) JIRA
3 1 (2.08%) Maven
3 1 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (27.08%) Finance
2 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (22.92%) Banking
4 8 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.42%) Retail
6 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (29.17%) Architect
2 9 (18.75%) Middleware Engineer
3 7 (14.58%) Applications Specialist
3 7 (14.58%) Senior
3 7 (14.58%) Senior Middleware Engineer
3 7 (14.58%) Server Specialist
3 7 (14.58%) WebSphere Architect
3 7 (14.58%) WebSphere Server Specialist
3 7 (14.58%) WebSphere Specialist
4 4 (8.33%) Lead
4 4 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Developer
5 3 (6.25%) WebSphere MQ Specialist
6 2 (4.17%) CyberArk Architect
6 2 (4.17%) FileNet Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Java Architect
6 2 (4.17%) Technical Architect
7 1 (2.08%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) Java Applications Architect
7 1 (2.08%) Java Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.08%) Middleware
1 13 (27.08%) WebSphere MQ
2 11 (22.92%) J2EE
3 7 (14.58%) Web Services
4 5 (10.42%) SOAP
5 3 (6.25%) .NET
5 3 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 3 (6.25%) EJB
5 3 (6.25%) jQuery
5 3 (6.25%) Kafka
5 3 (6.25%) RESTful
5 3 (6.25%) Spring
5 3 (6.25%) Spring Boot
5 3 (6.25%) Struts
5 3 (6.25%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 2 (4.17%) IBM Integration Bus
6 2 (4.17%) JSP
6 2 (4.17%) REST
6 2 (4.17%) Servlets
6 2 (4.17%) XML
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%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Linux
2 3 (6.25%) Windows
3 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
2 8 (16.67%) ITIL
3 7 (14.58%) Migration
3 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (14.58%) Service Management
4 6 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (12.50%) Workflow
5 5 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (10.42%) DevOps
5 5 (10.42%) Problem Management
6 4 (8.33%) Agile
6 4 (8.33%) Customer Service
7 3 (6.25%) Batch Processing
7 3 (6.25%) Identity Management
7 3 (6.25%) Roadmaps
7 3 (6.25%) Software Testing
7 3 (6.25%) Test Automation
7 3 (6.25%) Unit Testing
7 3 (6.25%) Validation
7 3 (6.25%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.25%) Java
2 9 (18.75%) SQL
3 3 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.17%) PL/SQL
4 2 (4.17%) VBScript
5 1 (2.08%) Bash
5 1 (2.08%) C++
5 1 (2.08%) Groovy
5 1 (2.08%) Python
5 1 (2.08%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 4 (8.33%) Degree
2 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.17%) CISSP
3 2 (4.17%) SANS
4 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) GRC
2 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.08%) Disclosure Scotland
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 1 (2.08%) Ansible
2 1 (2.08%) Control-M
2 1 (2.08%) Podman
2 1 (2.08%) Puppet
2 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.08%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 32 (66.67%) IBM
2 14 (29.17%) Oracle
3 3 (6.25%) Micro Focus
4 2 (4.17%) CyberArk
4 2 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.17%) SAP
5 1 (2.08%) BMC
5 1 (2.08%) Citrix
5 1 (2.08%) TIBCO
5 1 (2.08%) VMware