The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere skills in IT jobs advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WebSphere over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Belfast region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere
Rank 37 36 33
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -3
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere 8 3 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 3.252% 1.449% 1.676%
As % of the Application Development category 7.547% 3.297% 5.263%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
Average salary £28,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £47,000 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.44%
All Application Development
Belfast
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
106 91 57
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 43.09% 43.96% 31.84%
Number of salaries quoted 76 41 41
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £25,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WebSphere
County Antrim

WebSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing WebSphere across the Belfast region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Belfast WebSphere Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WebSphere across the Belfast region.

Belfast WebSphere Salary Trend

WebSphere
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WebSphere across the Belfast region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Belfast WebSphere Salary Histogram

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast region citing WebSphere also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited WebSphere.

1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (87.50%) JavaScript
3 6 (75.00%) CSS
4 5 (62.50%) JSP
4 5 (62.50%) HTML
4 5 (62.50%) SQL
4 5 (62.50%) Unit Testing
5 4 (50.00%) Computer Architecture
5 4 (50.00%) OO
5 4 (50.00%) Struts
6 3 (37.50%) WebLogic
6 3 (37.50%) JBoss
6 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (25.00%) HTML5
7 2 (25.00%) Degree
7 2 (25.00%) Tomcat
7 2 (25.00%) IBM
7 2 (25.00%) UNIX
7 2 (25.00%) Linux
7 2 (25.00%) J2EE
8 1 (12.50%) Ant
8 1 (12.50%) C
8 1 (12.50%) C#
8 1 (12.50%) C++
8 1 (12.50%) Perl
8 1 (12.50%) PHP
8 1 (12.50%) OOA/OOD
8 1 (12.50%) Web Services
8 1 (12.50%) ITIL
8 1 (12.50%) BEA

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast region citing WebSphere also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited WebSphere. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (75.00%) CSS
2 5 (62.50%) JSP
2 5 (62.50%) HTML
3 4 (50.00%) Struts
4 2 (25.00%) J2EE
4 2 (25.00%) HTML5
5 1 (12.50%) Memcached
5 1 (12.50%) CSS3
5 1 (12.50%) WebSockets
5 1 (12.50%) Backbone.js
5 1 (12.50%) KnockoutJS
5 1 (12.50%) Spine.js
5 1 (12.50%) Web Services
5 1 (12.50%) Swing
5 1 (12.50%) JMS
5 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
5 1 (12.50%) Spring
5 1 (12.50%) Ajax
5 1 (12.50%) GWT
5 1 (12.50%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) WebLogic
2 2 (25.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (12.50%) GlassFish
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Intranet
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) CouchDB
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Ant
1 1 (12.50%) ClearCase
1 1 (12.50%) Maven
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (12.50%) Git (software)
1 1 (12.50%) Build Forge
1 1 (12.50%) Gradle
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Java Developer
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Release Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
1 1 (12.50%) Life Science
1 1 (12.50%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) UNIX
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Android
2 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Unit Testing
2 4 (50.00%) OO
2 4 (50.00%) Computer Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
4 1 (12.50%) SOA
4 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) ITSM
4 1 (12.50%) MVC
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (87.50%) JavaScript
3 5 (62.50%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) Objective-C
4 1 (12.50%) Ruby
4 1 (12.50%) Groovy
4 1 (12.50%) Bash shell
4 1 (12.50%) Perl
4 1 (12.50%) PHP
4 1 (12.50%) C
4 1 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) YUM
1 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) JBoss
2 2 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) BEA
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) AccuRev