DataPower Contracts

IBM WebSphere DataPower
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term DataPower in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DataPower over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 676 787
Rank change year-on-year +131 +111 -136
Contract jobs citing DataPower 31 8 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.014% 0.071%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.24% 0.042% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 3 40
10th Percentile £457 £423 £450
25th Percentile £489 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% +13.33%
75th Percentile £712 £538 £554
90th Percentile £784 - £590
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +22.94% -20.00% +21.21%

All Generic Skills
UK

DataPower is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,877 18,959 28,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.26% 33.28% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,295 13,044 20,250
10th Percentile £268 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £668 £676 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 892 627 718
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.13 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.25 £22.00 £21.13
% change year-on-year +32.95% +4.14% -11.98%

DataPower
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DataPower in the UK

DataPower
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DataPower in the UK

DataPower
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DataPower over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DataPower in the UK

DataPower
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 DataPower within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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 +137 30 £550 +4.76% 2
Work from Home +131 14 £550 +4.76% 1
London +113 14 £575 - 1
UK excluding London +67 13 £492 +22.94% 1
North of England - 7 £489 - 1
North West - 7 £489 - 1
Midlands - 5 £765 -
West Midlands - 3 £765 -
East Midlands - 2 - -
Scotland - 1 - -

DataPower
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 6 (19.35%) Confluence
1 6 (19.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 6 (19.35%) WebLogic
1 6 (19.35%) WebSphere
1 6 (19.35%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 7 (22.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Temenos T24
2 2 (6.45%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) Apigee
1 7 (22.58%) AWS
1 7 (22.58%) Kong
2 6 (19.35%) Azure
3 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (38.71%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) MongoDB
1 7 (22.58%) OLAP
1 7 (22.58%) OLTP
2 6 (19.35%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (3.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) JIRA
2 6 (19.35%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle Forms
General
1 8 (25.81%) Finance
2 7 (22.58%) Banking
3 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Billing
5 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) Architect
1 7 (22.58%) AWS Architect
2 6 (19.35%) Applications Specialist
2 6 (19.35%) Server Specialist
2 6 (19.35%) WebSphere Server Specialist
2 6 (19.35%) WebSphere Specialist
3 5 (16.13%) Middleware Specialist
4 3 (9.68%) Developer
4 3 (9.68%) WebSphere MQ Specialist
5 2 (6.45%) Lead
5 2 (6.45%) Systems Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Administrator
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Head of Analytics
6 1 (3.23%) Head of Business Intelligence
6 1 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) IBM Integration Bus
1 7 (22.58%) J2EE
1 7 (22.58%) Kafka
1 7 (22.58%) RabbitMQ
1 7 (22.58%) SOAP
1 7 (22.58%) Web Services
2 6 (19.35%) Apache Camel
2 6 (19.35%) Spring
2 6 (19.35%) Spring Boot
2 6 (19.35%) Spring Integration
2 6 (19.35%) WebSphere MQ
3 5 (16.13%) Middleware
4 1 (3.23%) JSON
4 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.23%) Blog
3 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (22.58%) API Management
1 7 (22.58%) CQRS
1 7 (22.58%) Design Patterns
1 7 (22.58%) Enterprise Architecture
1 7 (22.58%) Event-Driven
1 7 (22.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 7 (22.58%) Identity Access Management
1 7 (22.58%) Microservices
1 7 (22.58%) OO
1 7 (22.58%) OOA/OOD
1 7 (22.58%) Risk Management
1 7 (22.58%) SOA
1 7 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (19.35%) DevOps
2 6 (19.35%) Technical Debt
2 6 (19.35%) TOGAF
2 6 (19.35%) Validation
3 3 (9.68%) Agile
3 3 (9.68%) Mentoring
4 2 (6.45%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (22.58%) Java
2 1 (3.23%) Bash
2 1 (3.23%) C
2 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.23%) Degree
1 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.23%) Ansible
2 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (67.74%) IBM
2 9 (29.03%) Oracle
3 7 (22.58%) TSYS
4 2 (6.45%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.45%) SAP