The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere Application Server skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WebSphere Application Server over the 3 months to 21 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 Platforms category for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
Rank 287 282 311
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +29
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere Application Server 31 42 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.263% 0.320% 0.152%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.355% 1.698% 0.921%
Number of salaries quoted 28 37 14
Average salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £41,500 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £73,250 £84,300 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £43,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-4.44% +5.88%
All Application Platforms
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
2287 2474 2498
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 19.44% 18.83% 16.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2010 2306 2285
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £33,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
WebSphere Application Server
London

WebSphere Application Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London WebSphere Application Server Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere Application Server
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WebSphere Application Server across the City of London region.

City of London WebSphere Application Server Salary Trend

WebSphere Application Server
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WebSphere Application Server across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London WebSphere Application Server Salary Histogram

WebSphere Application Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing WebSphere Application Server 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 Application Server.

1 53 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 30 (56.60%) Java
3 27 (50.94%) SQL
3 27 (50.94%) IBM
4 26 (49.06%) Middleware
5 23 (43.40%) Banking
5 23 (43.40%) Oracle
6 21 (39.62%) WebLogic
7 20 (37.74%) SQL Server
7 20 (37.74%) Linux
8 19 (35.85%) Degree
9 15 (28.30%) JBoss
9 15 (28.30%) Windows
10 14 (26.42%) Tomcat
11 13 (24.53%) J2EE
11 13 (24.53%) WebSphere Process Server
11 13 (24.53%) Investment Banking
12 12 (22.64%) Agile Software Development
12 12 (22.64%) Finance
12 12 (22.64%) UNIX
12 12 (22.64%) RUP
13 11 (20.75%) Microsoft
13 11 (20.75%) Apache
13 11 (20.75%) Project Management
13 11 (20.75%) Technical Architecture
13 11 (20.75%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (18.87%) Business Analysis
14 10 (18.87%) Computer Science
14 10 (18.87%) TIBCO
14 10 (18.87%) Scrum

WebSphere Application Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing WebSphere Application Server 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 Application Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 53 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 26 (49.06%) Middleware
3 13 (24.53%) J2EE
4 9 (16.98%) HTML
4 9 (16.98%) CSS
5 8 (15.09%) Ajax
6 7 (13.21%) .NET
6 7 (13.21%) XML
7 6 (11.32%) JSP
7 6 (11.32%) Servlets
7 6 (11.32%) Struts
8 5 (9.434%) jQuery
8 5 (9.434%) Spring
9 4 (7.547%) EJB
9 4 (7.547%) Hibernate
10 3 (5.660%) JMS
10 3 (5.660%) XSLT
10 3 (5.660%) Web Services
10 3 (5.660%) JPA
10 3 (5.660%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 21 (39.62%) WebLogic
2 14 (26.42%) Tomcat
3 13 (24.53%) WebSphere Process Server
4 11 (20.75%) Apache
5 10 (18.87%) MSMQ
6 9 (16.98%) WebSphere MQ
6 9 (16.98%) WebSphere Message Broker
7 7 (13.21%) FileNet
8 6 (11.32%) ESB
8 6 (11.32%) IBM HTTP Server
9 5 (9.434%) SharePoint
10 4 (7.547%) WebSphere Portal
10 4 (7.547%) MQSeries
11 3 (5.660%) CMS
11 3 (5.660%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (5.660%) Adobe CQ
11 3 (5.660%) Apache Solr
12 2 (3.774%) WebLogic Portal
13 1 (1.887%) WebLogic Integration
13 1 (1.887%) CICS
Applications
1 3 (5.660%) MS Excel
1 3 (5.660%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (9.434%) Maximo
2 2 (3.774%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.887%) Tridion
3 1 (1.887%) AquaLogic BPM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.21%) HTTP
2 4 (7.547%) SAN
3 2 (3.774%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.774%) Internet
4 1 (1.887%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (37.74%) SQL Server
2 9 (16.98%) DB2
3 3 (5.660%) MS Access
3 3 (5.660%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (5.660%) MySQL
3 3 (5.660%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (5.660%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (3.774%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (3.774%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.887%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.887%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (13.21%) Ant
2 6 (11.32%) JUnit
3 5 (9.434%) Eclipse
4 3 (5.660%) Maven
5 2 (3.774%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
6 1 (1.887%) Log4j
6 1 (1.887%) Subversion
6 1 (1.887%) Rational Application Developer
General
1 23 (43.40%) Banking
2 13 (24.53%) Investment Banking
3 12 (22.64%) Finance
4 6 (11.32%) Retail
5 4 (7.547%) Back Office
5 4 (7.547%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.887%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 15 (28.30%) Developer
2 11 (20.75%) Administrator
3 8 (15.09%) Applications Support
4 7 (13.21%) Analyst
4 7 (13.21%) FileNet Administrator
5 6 (11.32%) Java Developer
6 5 (9.434%) Architect
7 4 (7.547%) Applications Support Analyst
7 4 (7.547%) Support Analyst
7 4 (7.547%) Consultant
8 3 (5.660%) Systems Administrator
8 3 (5.660%) Middleware Consultant
8 3 (5.660%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 3 (5.660%) Web Analyst
9 2 (3.774%) Middleware Administrator
9 2 (3.774%) Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.887%) Operations Manager
10 1 (1.887%) Programmer
10 1 (1.887%) Process Consultant
10 1 (1.887%) Applications Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.75%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (18.87%) Computer Science
3 3 (5.660%) Clustering
3 3 (5.660%) Web 2.0
4 2 (3.774%) Open Source
4 2 (3.774%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.774%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.887%) Social Media
5 1 (1.887%) Kindle
5 1 (1.887%) Social Network
5 1 (1.887%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 20 (37.74%) Linux
2 15 (28.30%) Windows
3 12 (22.64%) UNIX
4 8 (15.09%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (15.09%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (7.547%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (5.660%) SUSE
6 3 (5.660%) Windows XP
6 3 (5.660%) AIX
6 3 (5.660%) Windows 7
7 2 (3.774%) Solaris
7 2 (3.774%) zOS
8 1 (1.887%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (22.64%) Agile Software Development
1 12 (22.64%) RUP
2 11 (20.75%) Project Management
2 11 (20.75%) Technical Architecture
3 10 (18.87%) Business Analysis
3 10 (18.87%) Scrum
3 10 (18.87%) DSDM
4 9 (16.98%) E-Commerce
5 7 (13.21%) MVC
5 7 (13.21%) UML
6 6 (11.32%) SOA
7 5 (9.434%) Content Management
7 5 (9.434%) Migration
7 5 (9.434%) Document Management
8 4 (7.547%) Incident Management
8 4 (7.547%) Waterfall
8 4 (7.547%) Change Control
8 4 (7.547%) ITIL
8 4 (7.547%) OO
8 4 (7.547%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 30 (56.60%) Java
2 27 (50.94%) SQL
3 9 (16.98%) JavaScript
4 7 (13.21%) Jython
5 6 (11.32%) Shell Script
6 5 (9.434%) Perl
7 4 (7.547%) Bash shell
8 3 (5.660%) Python
8 3 (5.660%) Korn
9 1 (1.887%) XPath
Qualifications
1 19 (35.85%) Degree
2 10 (18.87%) IBM Certification
3 6 (11.32%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.660%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (5.660%) HNC
4 3 (5.660%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.547%) SLA
2 1 (1.887%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 4 (7.547%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (7.547%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.660%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 27 (50.94%) IBM
2 23 (43.40%) Oracle
3 15 (28.30%) JBoss
4 11 (20.75%) Microsoft
5 10 (18.87%) TIBCO
5 10 (18.87%) Sybase
6 7 (13.21%) Red Hat
6 7 (13.21%) Kofax
7 5 (9.434%) VMware
7 5 (9.434%) ATG
7 5 (9.434%) hybris
8 4 (7.547%) Demandware
9 3 (5.660%) Adobe
9 3 (5.660%) Venda
10 1 (1.887%) Interwoven
10 1 (1.887%) CA
10 1 (1.887%) Elastic Path
10 1 (1.887%) Pega
10 1 (1.887%) Lombardi
10 1 (1.887%) Blue Martini
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