The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WebSphere over the 3 months to 23 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere
Rank 50 - 24
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere 2 0 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 0.593% - 11.11%
As % of the Application Development category 1.220% - 18.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 27
Average salary £37,500 - £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £47,000 £45,000 £44,500
% change year-on-year
+4.44% +1.12%
All Application Development
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
164 86 154
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 48.66% 55.13% 61.11%
Number of salaries quoted 94 76 150
Average salary £35,000 £33,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.47% -9.45%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £22,807 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £47,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WebSphere
Cheshire

WebSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester WebSphere Salary Trend

WebSphere
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) JSP
1 2 (100.00%) Servlets
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) WSDL
1 2 (100.00%) JAX-RPC
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) JSF
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) Java EE
1 2 (100.00%) XPath
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Axis
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) System Testing

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) JSP
1 2 (100.00%) Servlets
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) WSDL
1 2 (100.00%) JAX-RPC
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) JSF
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) Java EE
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Axis
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) XPath
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle