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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 570 564
Rank change year-on-year +42 -6 -70
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 45 130 301
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.23% 0.34%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.09% 2.09% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 77 178
10th Percentile £410 £380 £427
25th Percentile £440 £488 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £638
90th Percentile £662 £650 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -21.78% +2.27% +10.00%
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 4,145 6,233 10,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 10.92% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,859 4,369 7,516
10th Percentile £256 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 146 221
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.45 £19.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.25 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +80.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 £27.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -10.91% +37.50% +5.26%

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 15 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 8 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 15 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 +30 31 £550 - 16
Work from Home +86 29 £525 -4.55%
London +68 26 £575 +4.55% 9
UK excluding London +33 9 £440 -21.78% 8
Scotland +44 6 £440 -9.74% 1
South East +20 2 £380 -30.91% 3
Midlands +32 1 £550 +66.67% 2
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 (40.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 14 (31.11%) WebLogic
3 8 (17.78%) IBM HTTP Server
3 8 (17.78%) WebSphere Portal
4 7 (15.56%) IIS
5 5 (11.11%) Apache
5 5 (11.11%) Tomcat
6 2 (4.44%) Apache Solr
6 2 (4.44%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (4.44%) FileNet
6 2 (4.44%) JBoss
7 1 (2.22%) Confluence
7 1 (2.22%) EPiServer
7 1 (2.22%) Ethereum
7 1 (2.22%) MetaMask
7 1 (2.22%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 11 (24.44%) AWS
2 4 (8.89%) Azure
3 2 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.22%) GitHub
4 1 (2.22%) IaaS
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.22%) OCI
4 1 (2.22%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.22%) PaaS
4 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (26.67%) SSL
2 8 (17.78%) HTTP
3 2 (4.44%) SAN
3 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.22%) BIG-IP
4 1 (2.22%) DNS
4 1 (2.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (2.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (2.22%) Internet
4 1 (2.22%) IPsec
4 1 (2.22%) MPLS
4 1 (2.22%) NAS
4 1 (2.22%) Network Security
4 1 (2.22%) S/MIME
4 1 (2.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) Relational Database
2 3 (6.67%) DB2
2 3 (6.67%) MySQL
3 2 (4.44%) Oracle Database
3 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (28.89%) IBM UrbanCode
2 3 (6.67%) Git
2 3 (6.67%) HP UFT
2 3 (6.67%) Katalon Studio
2 3 (6.67%) Selenium
3 2 (4.44%) Ant
3 2 (4.44%) JIRA
4 1 (2.22%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.22%) Maven
4 1 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (31.11%) Finance
2 13 (28.89%) Social Skills
3 11 (24.44%) Banking
4 8 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (20.00%) Middleware Engineer
2 8 (17.78%) Architect
3 7 (15.56%) Applications Specialist
3 7 (15.56%) Senior
3 7 (15.56%) Senior Middleware Engineer
3 7 (15.56%) Server Specialist
3 7 (15.56%) WebSphere Server Specialist
3 7 (15.56%) WebSphere Specialist
4 4 (8.89%) Lead
5 3 (6.67%) CyberArk Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.67%) WebSphere Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) WebSphere MQ Specialist
6 2 (4.44%) Consultant
6 2 (4.44%) CyberArk Consultant
6 2 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) FileNet Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Java Architect
7 1 (2.22%) CyberArk Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (31.11%) WebSphere MQ
2 13 (28.89%) Middleware
3 12 (26.67%) J2EE
4 9 (20.00%) Web Services
5 5 (11.11%) .NET
5 5 (11.11%) SOAP
6 4 (8.89%) EJB
6 4 (8.89%) XML
7 3 (6.67%) AngularJS
7 3 (6.67%) jQuery
7 3 (6.67%) JSP
7 3 (6.67%) Kafka
7 3 (6.67%) LDAP
7 3 (6.67%) RESTful
7 3 (6.67%) Servlets
7 3 (6.67%) Spring
7 3 (6.67%) Spring Boot
7 3 (6.67%) Struts
7 3 (6.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 2 (4.44%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) DataPower
2 4 (8.89%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.44%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.22%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.22%) Clustering
4 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.22%) PKI
4 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Windows
2 2 (4.44%) Linux
3 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (17.78%) ITIL
2 7 (15.56%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (15.56%) Deployment Automation
2 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (15.56%) Service Management
3 6 (13.33%) DevOps
3 6 (13.33%) Migration
4 5 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (11.11%) Problem Management
5 4 (8.89%) Agile
5 4 (8.89%) Customer Service
5 4 (8.89%) Information Security
5 4 (8.89%) Mentoring
5 4 (8.89%) Roadmaps
5 4 (8.89%) Workflow
6 3 (6.67%) Identity Management
6 3 (6.67%) Software Testing
6 3 (6.67%) Unit Testing
6 3 (6.67%) Use Case
6 3 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (37.78%) Java
2 8 (17.78%) SQL
3 4 (8.89%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.67%) Python
5 2 (4.44%) Bash
5 2 (4.44%) C++
5 2 (4.44%) PL/SQL
5 2 (4.44%) VBScript
6 1 (2.22%) Groovy
6 1 (2.22%) Solidity
6 1 (2.22%) VC++
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Degree
2 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (6.67%) CISSP
3 3 (6.67%) SANS
4 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) GRC
2 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.22%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) Terminal Server
2 1 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.67%) Ansible
3 2 (4.44%) Grafana
4 1 (2.22%) Control-M
4 1 (2.22%) Podman
4 1 (2.22%) Puppet
4 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.22%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 30 (66.67%) IBM
2 13 (28.89%) Oracle
3 4 (8.89%) Dynatrace
4 3 (6.67%) CyberArk
4 3 (6.67%) Micro Focus
5 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.22%) BMC
6 1 (2.22%) CA
6 1 (2.22%) Citrix
6 1 (2.22%) F5
6 1 (2.22%) TIBCO
6 1 (2.22%) VMware