England WebSphere Jobs

This section looks at the demand for IBM WebSphere skills within the England region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WebSphere over the last 3 months to 12 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM WebSphere
Location Abingdon Andover Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dunbartonshire Dunfermline Dunstable Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Fareham Farnborough Faversham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hayes Hebden Bridge Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newry Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Romford Rugby Sale Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stroud Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tadworth Tewkesbury Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 12 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	126	88
Rank change on same period last year	-38
Matching permanent IT job ads	3243	4476
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.563 %	1.989 %
As % of the category below	5.078 %	6.588 %
Salaries quoted	2464	3634
Average minimum salary	£44,598	£44,018
Average salary	£49,465	£48,485
% change on same period last year	+2.01 %
Average maximum salary	£54,332	£52,953
UK excluding London average salary	£44,608	£45,832
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
Application Development England
Matching permanent IT job ads	63866	67945
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	30.78 %	30.20 %
Salaries quoted	54575	56214
Average minimum salary	£37,379	£38,694
Average salary	£41,087	£42,552
% change on same period last year	-3.44 %
Average maximum salary	£44,795	£46,410
UK excluding London average salary	£35,986	£36,677
% change on same period last year	-1.88 %
WebSphere UK

WebSphere
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing WebSphere across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

WebSphere
Salary Trend

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

WebSphere
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WebSphere across the England region over the past 3 months.

WebSphere
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere within the England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	London	-12	1418	£55,728	+3.51 %
2	South East	-45	667	£45,604	-8.17 %
3	Yorkshire	+5	278	£40,825	-5.54 %
4	East of England	-44	247	£42,811	-1.42 %
5	North West	-66	226	£44,937	+22.02 %
6	South West	-58	175	£43,979	+6.91 %
7	West Midlands	-35	107	£45,522	+4.32 %
8	Midlands	-4	68	£64,226	-9.15 %
9	East Midlands	+4	63	£36,500	-4.20 %
10	North East	-12	14	£34,500	-35.49 %

WebSphere UK

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing WebSphere also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WebSphere.

1 3965 (59.65 %) Java 2 3317 (49.90 %) J2EE 3 2399 (36.09 %) Oracle 4 2224 (33.46 %) WebLogic 5 2065 (31.07 %) Finance 6 1971 (29.65 %) Unix 7 1856 (27.92 %) IBM 8 1594 (23.98 %) SQL 9 1479 (22.25 %) WebSphere Application Server 10 1431 (21.53 %) XML 11 1052 (15.83 %) JSP 12 947 (14.25 %) SQL Server 13 942 (14.17 %) JBoss 14 889 (13.37 %) Windows 15 869 (13.07 %) DB2

16 849 (12.77 %) UML 17 841 (12.65 %) .NET 18 834 (12.55 %) Banking 19 820 (12.34 %) Solaris 20 795 (11.96 %) OO 21 785 (11.81 %) Tomcat 22 774 (11.64 %) WebSphere MQ 23 752 (11.31 %) HTML 24 751 (11.30 %) Apache 25 733 (11.03 %) Middleware 26 732 (11.01 %) Linux 27 723 (10.88 %) Spring 28 703 (10.58 %) EJB 29 672 (10.11 %) WebServices 30 669 (10.06 %) Hibernate

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing WebSphere also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WebSphere. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3317 (49.90 %) J2EE 2 1431 (21.53 %) XML 3 1052 (15.83 %) JSP 4 841 (12.65 %) .NET 5 752 (11.31 %) HTML 6 733 (11.03 %) Middleware 7 723 (10.88 %) Spring 8 703 (10.58 %) EJB 9 672 (10.11 %) WebServices 10 669 (10.06 %) Hibernate 11 646 (9.719 %) Servlets 12 628 (9.448 %) Struts 13 596 (8.966 %) JMS 14 455 (6.845 %) JDBC 15 347 (5.220 %) CSS 16 322 (4.844 %) XSLT 17 232 (3.490 %) AJAX 18 190 (2.858 %) SOAP 19 179 (2.693 %) ASP 20 167 (2.512 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 2224 (33.46 %) WebLogic 2 1479 (22.25 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 942 (14.17 %) JBoss 4 785 (11.81 %) Tomcat 5 774 (11.64 %) WebSphere MQ 6 751 (11.30 %) Apache 7 523 (7.868 %) MQSeries 8 376 (5.657 %) IIS 9 179 (2.693 %) WPS 10 173 (2.603 %) Oracle Application Server 11 161 (2.422 %) WebLogic Portal 12 151 (2.272 %) IBM HTTP Server 13 141 (2.121 %) CICS 14 136 (2.046 %) WebSphere Message Broker 15 129 (1.941 %) ESB 16 122 (1.835 %) NetWeaver 17 104 (1.565 %) BizTalk Server 18 90 (1.354 %) SharePoint 19 86 (1.294 %) CMS 20 85 (1.279 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 269 (4.047 %) MS Excel 2 132 (1.986 %) MS Visio 3 91 (1.369 %) MS Office 4 35 (0.527 %) Photoshop 5 19 (0.286 %) MS Project 6 13 (0.196 %) Adobe Illustrator 7 8 (0.120 %) FreeHand 8 6 (0.090 %) Fireworks 8 6 (0.090 %) MS PowerPoint 9 2 (0.030 %) CA Clarity 10 1 (0.015 %) InfoPath 10 1 (0.015 %) Niku Workbench	Business Applications 1 74 (1.113 %) SAP Oil and Gas 2 51 (0.767 %) Oracle Applications 3 35 (0.527 %) Movex 4 32 (0.481 %) Oracle EBS 5 20 (0.301 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 6 17 (0.256 %) Navision 7 15 (0.226 %) SAP Retail 8 14 (0.211 %) Staffware 9 13 (0.196 %) Oracle Financials 10 10 (0.150 %) FLEXCUBE 11 9 (0.135 %) VisionPLUS 11 9 (0.135 %) SAP R/3 12 7 (0.105 %) BusinessWorks 12 7 (0.105 %) BPCS 12 7 (0.105 %) Applix TM1 13 6 (0.090 %) Oracle CRM 13 6 (0.090 %) TIBCO iProcess 14 5 (0.075 %) Unica Affinium 14 5 (0.075 %) SAP ERP 14 5 (0.075 %) MAXIMO
Communications & Networking 1 392 (5.897 %) Internet 2 292 (4.393 %) HTTP 3 212 (3.189 %) LDAP 4 195 (2.934 %) TCP/IP 5 116 (1.745 %) SAN 6 93 (1.399 %) Firewall 6 93 (1.399 %) Intranet 7 80 (1.204 %) DNS 8 77 (1.158 %) SSL 9 41 (0.617 %) VPN 10 39 (0.587 %) FTP 11 38 (0.572 %) WAN 12 37 (0.557 %) LAN 13 36 (0.542 %) SMTP 14 30 (0.451 %) SNMP 15 28 (0.421 %) VLAN 16 23 (0.346 %) CTI 17 21 (0.316 %) DMZ 18 16 (0.241 %) SSH 19 15 (0.226 %) HTTPS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 947 (14.25 %) SQL Server 2 869 (13.07 %) DB2 3 419 (6.304 %) RDBMS 4 232 (3.490 %) MySQL 5 155 (2.332 %) Oracle 10g 6 115 (1.730 %) BusinessObjects 6 115 (1.730 %) Datawarehouse 6 115 (1.730 %) SQL Server 2000 7 105 (1.580 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 98 (1.474 %) ETL 9 97 (1.459 %) SQL Server 7 10 88 (1.324 %) Oracle 9i 11 69 (1.038 %) SQL Server 2005 12 68 (1.023 %) Ingres 13 59 (0.888 %) Adabas 14 48 (0.722 %) DataStage 15 32 (0.481 %) Crystal Reports 16 27 (0.406 %) TOAD 17 25 (0.376 %) Reference Data 18 22 (0.331 %) OLAP
Development Applications 1 314 (4.724 %) Eclipse 2 295 (4.438 %) JUnit 3 277 (4.167 %) Ant 4 149 (2.242 %) ClearCase 5 95 (1.429 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 6 83 (1.249 %) Subversion 7 60 (0.903 %) Dreamweaver 8 46 (0.692 %) JDeveloper 9 45 (0.677 %) TestDirector 10 42 (0.632 %) JBuilder 11 41 (0.617 %) Rational Rose 12 37 (0.557 %) Visual Studio 13 33 (0.496 %) Flash 14 30 (0.451 %) PVCS 15 28 (0.421 %) VSS/SourceSafe 16 25 (0.376 %) Log4j 16 25 (0.376 %) PowerBuilder 17 24 (0.361 %) RequisitePro 18 21 (0.316 %) ERwin 18 21 (0.316 %) HttpUnit	General 1 2065 (31.07 %) Finance 2 834 (12.55 %) Banking 3 570 (8.575 %) Retail 4 377 (5.672 %) Insurance 5 235 (3.535 %) Investment Banking 6 197 (2.964 %) Telecoms 7 196 (2.949 %) Pensions 8 188 (2.828 %) Health 9 134 (2.016 %) Front Office 10 123 (1.850 %) Government 11 116 (1.745 %) Financial Institution 12 82 (1.234 %) Marketing 13 55 (0.827 %) Education 14 44 (0.662 %) Back Office 15 43 (0.647 %) Construction 16 40 (0.602 %) Music 17 35 (0.527 %) Online Banking 18 34 (0.512 %) Automotive 19 33 (0.496 %) Manufacturing 20 26 (0.391 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 2009 (30.22 %) Developer 2 1221 (18.37 %) Java Developer 3 1212 (18.23 %) Architect 4 789 (11.87 %) Analyst 5 609 (9.162 %) Java/J2EE Developer 6 603 (9.072 %) Consultant 7 587 (8.831 %) J2EE Developer 8 518 (7.793 %) Technical Architect 9 513 (7.718 %) Administrator 10 322 (4.844 %) Support Analyst 11 314 (4.724 %) J2EE Architect 12 301 (4.528 %) Senior Developer 13 275 (4.137 %) Applications Support 14 273 (4.107 %) Java Architect 15 235 (3.535 %) Solutions Architect 16 207 (3.114 %) WebSphere Specialist 17 206 (3.099 %) Technical Consultant 18 200 (3.009 %) Senior Java Developer 19 192 (2.889 %) Project Manager 20 190 (2.858 %) Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 213 (3.204 %) Mainframe 2 190 (2.858 %) AS400 3 130 (1.956 %) N-Tier 4 122 (1.835 %) Clustering 5 116 (1.745 %) Computer Science 6 106 (1.595 %) Equities 7 78 (1.173 %) Client/Server 8 71 (1.068 %) Mathematics 9 49 (0.737 %) Derivative 10 45 (0.677 %) W3C 11 42 (0.632 %) HACMP 12 38 (0.572 %) Fixed Income 13 36 (0.542 %) Replication 13 36 (0.542 %) Management Information System 14 33 (0.496 %) Web 2.0 15 32 (0.481 %) German Language 15 32 (0.481 %) PMI 16 30 (0.451 %) Asset Management 17 29 (0.436 %) French Language 18 26 (0.391 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems 1 1971 (29.65 %) Unix 2 889 (13.37 %) Windows 3 820 (12.34 %) Solaris 4 732 (11.01 %) Linux 5 568 (8.545 %) AIX 6 118 (1.775 %) HPUX 7 117 (1.760 %) Windows NT 8 111 (1.670 %) Windows 2000 9 73 (1.098 %) VMS 10 47 (0.707 %) MVS 11 40 (0.602 %) Windows Server 2003 12 39 (0.587 %) SUSE 13 35 (0.527 %) zOS 14 14 (0.211 %) Debian 15 13 (0.196 %) Fedora 15 13 (0.196 %) Ubuntu 16 12 (0.181 %) Windows XP 17 9 (0.135 %) OS/400 18 3 (0.045 %) OpenVMS 19 1 (0.015 %) Tru64	Processes & Methodologies 1 849 (12.77 %) UML 2 795 (11.96 %) OO 3 582 (8.756 %) SOA 4 559 (8.410 %) E-Commerce 5 301 (4.528 %) RUP 6 296 (4.453 %) EAI 7 295 (4.438 %) ITIL 8 276 (4.152 %) Project Management 9 212 (3.189 %) Agile Software Development 10 207 (3.114 %) OOA/OOD 11 193 (2.904 %) MVC 12 192 (2.889 %) CRM 13 183 (2.753 %) ERP 14 170 (2.558 %) Content Management 15 145 (2.181 %) Migration 16 139 (2.091 %) Web Development 17 129 (1.941 %) TOGAF 18 126 (1.896 %) PRINCE2 19 125 (1.881 %) Business Intelligence 20 121 (1.820 %) Scrum
Programming Languages 1 3965 (59.65 %) Java 2 1594 (23.98 %) SQL 3 604 (9.087 %) JavaScript 4 459 (6.905 %) C++ 5 378 (5.687 %) Shell Script 6 338 (5.085 %) VB 7 308 (4.634 %) C 8 288 (4.333 %) C# 9 249 (3.746 %) Perl 10 180 (2.708 %) PL/SQL 11 149 (2.242 %) COBOL 12 123 (1.850 %) RPG 13 102 (1.535 %) VB.NET 14 85 (1.279 %) DHTML 15 60 (0.903 %) VBA 15 60 (0.903 %) VB6 16 58 (0.873 %) Python 17 56 (0.842 %) XPath 18 54 (0.812 %) DCL 18 54 (0.812 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 537 (8.079 %) Degree 2 99 (1.489 %) Sun Certification 3 66 (0.993 %) ISEB 4 52 (0.782 %) Microsoft Certification 5 51 (0.767 %) IBM Certification 6 32 (0.481 %) HND 7 25 (0.376 %) MCSE 8 22 (0.331 %) PMP 8 22 (0.331 %) PMI Certification 9 16 (0.241 %) CISSP 9 16 (0.241 %) PRINCE2 Certification 10 12 (0.181 %) MCSD 11 10 (0.150 %) NVQ Level 3 12 8 (0.120 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 12 8 (0.120 %) Oracle Certification 12 8 (0.120 %) OCP 13 7 (0.105 %) SCWCD 13 7 (0.105 %) SCBCD 13 7 (0.105 %) SCDJWS 13 7 (0.105 %) SCJD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 143 (2.151 %) SLA 2 71 (1.068 %) QA 3 18 (0.271 %) COBIT 4 14 (0.211 %) BS7799 5 13 (0.196 %) ISO27001 6 12 (0.181 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 7 5 (0.075 %) ISO8583 7 5 (0.075 %) WAI 8 1 (0.015 %) ISO17799 8 1 (0.015 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 145 (2.181 %) AquaLogic 2 90 (1.354 %) Active Directory 3 32 (0.481 %) NetBackup 4 31 (0.466 %) VMware ESX 5 23 (0.346 %) Oracle RAC 6 21 (0.316 %) Citrix Presentation Server 7 13 (0.196 %) Samba 8 12 (0.181 %) MetaFrame 8 12 (0.181 %) VMware Server 9 7 (0.105 %) MSMQ 10 6 (0.090 %) Orbix 11 5 (0.075 %) Oracle RMAN 12 3 (0.045 %) Artix 12 3 (0.045 %) RACF 13 2 (0.030 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 13 2 (0.030 %) Backup Exec 13 2 (0.030 %) Novell eDirectory 14 1 (0.015 %) ClearTrust 14 1 (0.015 %) NFS 14 1 (0.015 %) Terminal Server
Systems Management 1 250 (3.761 %) Tivoli 2 80 (1.204 %) CONTROL-M 3 51 (0.767 %) CA SiteMinder 4 48 (0.722 %) AutoSys 5 43 (0.647 %) MOM 6 27 (0.406 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 7 24 (0.361 %) OMEGAMON 8 20 (0.301 %) OpenView 9 15 (0.226 %) BMC PATROL 10 8 (0.120 %) SCOM 11 3 (0.045 %) Oracle Statspack 11 3 (0.045 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 11 3 (0.045 %) Tivoli Monitoring 12 2 (0.030 %) Unicenter 12 2 (0.030 %) Legato 13 1 (0.015 %) Tivoli Identity Manager 13 1 (0.015 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 2399 (36.09 %) Oracle 2 1856 (27.92 %) IBM 3 502 (7.552 %) Sybase 4 485 (7.297 %) BEA 5 437 (6.574 %) Sun 6 435 (6.544 %) Microsoft 7 315 (4.739 %) SAP 8 223 (3.355 %) Vignette 9 196 (2.949 %) webMethods 10 189 (2.843 %) TIBCO 11 148 (2.227 %) Red Hat 12 137 (2.061 %) Siebel 13 118 (1.775 %) HP 14 115 (1.730 %) Business Objects 15 114 (1.715 %) Lotus 16 107 (1.610 %) JD Edwards 17 82 (1.234 %) ATG 18 68 (1.023 %) Citrix 19 63 (0.948 %) Ab Initio 20 62 (0.933 %) Manugistics