The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere Application Server skills in IT jobs advertised for the East of England 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 East of England region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
Rank 239 191 128
Rank change year-on-year
-48 -63
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere Application Server 23 79 160
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.277% 0.901% 1.706%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.361% 4.310% 9.034%
Number of salaries quoted 8 22 64
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -10.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,100 £35,000 £39,200
10% offered a salary of more than £61,000 £55,000 £59,000
UK excluding London average salary £43,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-4.44% +5.88%
All Application Platforms
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1690 1833 1771
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 20.37% 20.91% 18.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1529 1515 1426
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £29,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
WebSphere Application Server
England

WebSphere Application Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

East of England WebSphere Application Server Salary Histogram

WebSphere Application Server
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere Application Server within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hertfordshire -42 17 £43,750 -12.50%
Norfolk +7 3 £32,100 -
Cambridgeshire - 3 £40,000 -
Bedfordshire - 2 £45,000 -
Essex +25 1 £60,000 +41.17%
WebSphere Application Server
England

WebSphere Application Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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.

1 106 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 93 (87.74%) IBM
3 81 (76.42%) Finance
4 78 (73.58%) Retail
5 73 (68.87%) Oracle
6 72 (67.92%) Java
7 71 (66.98%) J2EE
8 70 (66.04%) E-Commerce
9 69 (65.09%) DB2
10 67 (63.21%) UNIX
11 65 (61.32%) Linux
12 57 (53.77%) AIX
13 56 (52.83%) HTTP
14 55 (51.89%) SQL
15 53 (50.00%) Windows
16 48 (45.28%) Games
17 45 (42.45%) Tomcat
18 43 (40.57%) IBM HTTP Server
19 42 (39.62%) IIS
20 38 (35.85%) MQSeries
21 36 (33.96%) Sun
22 31 (29.25%) CSS
22 31 (29.25%) JSP
22 31 (29.25%) JavaScript
23 29 (27.36%) HTML
23 29 (27.36%) MVC
24 28 (26.42%) Perl
25 27 (25.47%) Internet
26 26 (24.53%) JBoss
27 25 (23.58%) Web Development

WebSphere Application Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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
1 106 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 71 (66.98%) J2EE
3 31 (29.25%) CSS
3 31 (29.25%) JSP
4 29 (27.36%) HTML
5 23 (21.70%) Servlets
6 20 (18.87%) XHTML
6 20 (18.87%) EJB
7 18 (16.98%) JDBC
8 16 (15.09%) .NET
9 15 (14.15%) XML
10 11 (10.38%) Middleware
11 9 (8.491%) JSTL
11 9 (8.491%) Struts
12 4 (3.774%) Ajax
12 4 (3.774%) Spring
13 3 (2.830%) Java EE
14 2 (1.887%) OpenID
14 2 (1.887%) Spring Security
14 2 (1.887%) Spring Web Flow
Application Platforms
1 45 (42.45%) Tomcat
2 43 (40.57%) IBM HTTP Server
3 42 (39.62%) IIS
4 38 (35.85%) MQSeries
5 13 (12.26%) Apache
6 11 (10.38%) WebSphere MQ
7 3 (2.830%) WebSphere Process Server
8 2 (1.887%) ESB
8 2 (1.887%) WebSphere Message Broker
8 2 (1.887%) Liferay
9 1 (0.943%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.943%) Tuxedo
9 1 (0.943%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.943%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.943%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 9 (8.491%) MS Office
2 2 (1.887%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.943%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.943%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 56 (52.83%) HTTP
2 27 (25.47%) Internet
3 23 (21.70%) Firewall
4 13 (12.26%) TCP/IP
5 12 (11.32%) LDAP
6 11 (10.38%) HTTPS
7 10 (9.434%) DNS
7 10 (9.434%) VPN
8 9 (8.491%) FTP
9 3 (2.830%) SAN
10 2 (1.887%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (65.09%) DB2
2 10 (9.434%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.887%) Informix
Development Applications
1 14 (13.21%) Ant
1 14 (13.21%) Rational Application Developer
2 13 (12.26%) Jenkins
2 13 (12.26%) Subversion
3 11 (10.38%) JUnit
3 11 (10.38%) Eclipse
4 9 (8.491%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
General
1 81 (76.42%) Finance
2 78 (73.58%) Retail
3 48 (45.28%) Games
4 14 (13.21%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.943%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (27.36%) Architect
2 28 (26.42%) Analyst
3 19 (17.92%) Support Analyst
4 16 (15.09%) Developer
5 14 (13.21%) Consultant
6 13 (12.26%) Infrastructure Architect
7 12 (11.32%) J2EE Developer
7 12 (11.32%) Java Developer
7 12 (11.32%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 11 (10.38%) WebSphere Consultant
9 10 (9.434%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (8.491%) Technical Delivery Manager
10 9 (8.491%) Senior Architect
10 9 (8.491%) Operations Support Analyst
10 9 (8.491%) Operations Analyst
10 9 (8.491%) Delivery Manager
10 9 (8.491%) Technical Manager
10 9 (8.491%) Technical Services Manager
10 9 (8.491%) Developer Analyst
10 9 (8.491%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.32%) Management Information System
2 10 (9.434%) IaaS
2 10 (9.434%) Enterprise Storage
2 10 (9.434%) SaaS
2 10 (9.434%) PaaS
3 4 (3.774%) Web 2.0
4 3 (2.830%) HACMP
5 1 (0.943%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 67 (63.21%) UNIX
2 65 (61.32%) Linux
3 57 (53.77%) AIX
4 53 (50.00%) Windows
5 21 (19.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (17.92%) SUSE
7 12 (11.32%) Solaris
8 3 (2.830%) OS/400
9 2 (1.887%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (66.04%) E-Commerce
2 29 (27.36%) MVC
3 25 (23.58%) Web Development
4 18 (16.98%) ITIL
4 18 (16.98%) Capacity Planning
5 16 (15.09%) Performance Testing
5 16 (15.09%) Project Management
6 11 (10.38%) Service Delivery
7 10 (9.434%) Identity Management
7 10 (9.434%) Document Management
8 9 (8.491%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (8.491%) Content Management
8 9 (8.491%) RAD
9 7 (6.604%) Data Analysis
10 5 (4.717%) UML
10 5 (4.717%) Performance Management
11 3 (2.830%) High Availability
11 3 (2.830%) Root Cause Analysis
11 3 (2.830%) TOGAF
11 3 (2.830%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 72 (67.92%) Java
2 55 (51.89%) SQL
3 31 (29.25%) JavaScript
4 28 (26.42%) Perl
5 18 (16.98%) Bash shell
6 2 (1.887%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.943%) AWK
7 1 (0.943%) Jython
Qualifications
1 9 (8.491%) Sun Certification
2 7 (6.604%) Citrix Certification
3 4 (3.774%) Degree
System Software
1 13 (12.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (6.604%) XenApp
3 3 (2.830%) VMware ESX
3 3 (2.830%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (2.830%) PowerHA
4 2 (1.887%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 6 (5.660%) Tivoli
2 3 (2.830%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (2.830%) Backup Exec
3 2 (1.887%) OpenView
3 2 (1.887%) Nagios
3 2 (1.887%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 93 (87.74%) IBM
2 73 (68.87%) Oracle
3 36 (33.96%) Sun
4 26 (24.53%) JBoss
5 21 (19.81%) Red Hat
6 19 (17.92%) Microsoft
6 19 (17.92%) HP
7 16 (15.09%) Dell
8 13 (12.26%) VMware
9 10 (9.434%) Citrix
9 10 (9.434%) Juniper
9 10 (9.434%) Cisco
10 3 (2.830%) Brocade
11 2 (1.887%) ILOG
11 2 (1.887%) Perforce
12 1 (0.943%) Endeca
Bedford, South East
Required Qualifications: Strong development experience using IBM MQ Family tool sets including IBM Message Broker V6.0/V7.0, IBM MQ V6.0 and IBM WBI Adapters Knowledge...
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013