The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere skills in IT jobs advertised for the Knutsford 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 Knutsford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere
Rank 26 18 5
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -13
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere 6 22 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Knutsford 3.871% 12.29% 20.34%
As % of the Application Development category 11.76% 22.00% 58.54%
Number of salaries quoted 6 22 24
Average salary £40,250 £39,000 £41,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.20% -5.45%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,250 £39,000 £39,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,750 £43,600 £47,750
UK excluding London average salary £47,000 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.44%
All Application Development
Knutsford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
51 100 41
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Knutsford 32.90% 55.87% 34.75%
Number of salaries quoted 49 69 35
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% -14.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £39,000
10% offered a salary of more than £38,750 £48,500 £47,500
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 Knutsford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Knutsford 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 Knutsford region.

Knutsford WebSphere Salary Trend

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Knutsford 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 30 (63.83%) Finance
2 28 (59.57%) IBM
3 27 (57.45%) AIX
4 26 (55.32%) Linux
5 25 (53.19%) UNIX
6 24 (51.06%) WebSphere Application Server
6 24 (51.06%) WebSphere MQ
6 24 (51.06%) Middleware
7 21 (44.68%) HP
8 20 (42.55%) SAN
8 20 (42.55%) Red Hat
8 20 (42.55%) Configuration Management
8 20 (42.55%) C
8 20 (42.55%) Perl
8 20 (42.55%) PHP
8 20 (42.55%) Replication
8 20 (42.55%) Clustering
8 20 (42.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 20 (42.55%) High Availability
9 17 (36.17%) Tivoli
10 16 (34.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (29.79%) LDAP
12 10 (21.28%) MQSeries
13 7 (14.89%) CA Wily
13 7 (14.89%) FTP
13 7 (14.89%) SSL
13 7 (14.89%) WebLogic
14 6 (12.77%) Java
15 5 (10.64%) SQL
15 5 (10.64%) Oracle

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Knutsford 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 24 (51.06%) Middleware
2 5 (10.64%) Web Services
3 3 (6.383%) CORBA
3 3 (6.383%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
4 2 (4.255%) JMS
4 2 (4.255%) XML
4 2 (4.255%) J2EE
5 1 (2.128%) EJB
5 1 (2.128%) JSP
5 1 (2.128%) Servlets
5 1 (2.128%) Struts
5 1 (2.128%) XSD
5 1 (2.128%) WSDL
5 1 (2.128%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 24 (51.06%) WebSphere Application Server
1 24 (51.06%) WebSphere MQ
2 10 (21.28%) MQSeries
3 7 (14.89%) WebLogic
4 4 (8.511%) Apache
4 4 (8.511%) IBM HTTP Server
5 3 (6.383%) Oracle Application Server
5 3 (6.383%) Gentran
5 3 (6.383%) Tuxedo
6 1 (2.128%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (42.55%) SAN
2 14 (29.79%) LDAP
3 7 (14.89%) FTP
3 7 (14.89%) SSL
4 1 (2.128%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.383%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (4.255%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (8.511%) MSI
2 1 (2.128%) Subversion
2 1 (2.128%) ClearCase
2 1 (2.128%) LoadRunner
General
1 30 (63.83%) Finance
2 1 (2.128%) Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (42.55%) Systems Administrator
1 20 (42.55%) Administrator
2 19 (40.43%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 19 (40.43%) Linux Administrator
3 14 (29.79%) Designer
4 10 (21.28%) Solutions Designer
5 8 (17.02%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 8 (17.02%) UNIX Administrator
6 4 (8.511%) IT Graduate
6 4 (8.511%) Middleware Architect
6 4 (8.511%) Graduate
6 4 (8.511%) Architect
7 3 (6.383%) Systems Support
7 3 (6.383%) Support Analyst
7 3 (6.383%) Systems Analyst
7 3 (6.383%) Analyst
7 3 (6.383%) Systems Support Analyst
8 2 (4.255%) Graduate Support Analyst
9 1 (2.128%) Middleware Engineer
9 1 (2.128%) Lead Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (42.55%) Replication
1 20 (42.55%) Clustering
2 3 (6.383%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.128%) Tandem
3 1 (2.128%) Online Banking
3 1 (2.128%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 27 (57.45%) AIX
2 26 (55.32%) Linux
3 25 (53.19%) UNIX
4 20 (42.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.128%) Windows
5 1 (2.128%) HPUX
5 1 (2.128%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (42.55%) Configuration Management
1 20 (42.55%) High Availability
2 16 (34.04%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (6.383%) Problem Management
3 3 (6.383%) Change Management
4 1 (2.128%) Validation
4 1 (2.128%) Project Management
4 1 (2.128%) Service Delivery
4 1 (2.128%) Performance Testing
4 1 (2.128%) Waterfall
4 1 (2.128%) Content Management
4 1 (2.128%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (42.55%) C
1 20 (42.55%) Perl
1 20 (42.55%) PHP
2 6 (12.77%) Java
3 5 (10.64%) SQL
4 4 (8.511%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.128%) Assembly Language
5 1 (2.128%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.128%) COBOL
System Software
1 3 (6.383%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 17 (36.17%) Tivoli
2 7 (14.89%) CA Wily
3 3 (6.383%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 3 (6.383%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 3 (6.383%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 28 (59.57%) IBM
2 21 (44.68%) HP
3 20 (42.55%) Red Hat
4 5 (10.64%) Oracle
4 5 (10.64%) JBoss
5 4 (8.511%) Sun
6 3 (6.383%) FatWire