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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
Rank 182 170 163
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -7
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere Application Server 12 5 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.296% 0.138% 0.253%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.496% 0.661% 1.546%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 8
Average salary £30,500 £31,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.61% -4.61%
UK excluding London average salary £43,375 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-3.61% +5.88%
All Application Platforms
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
802 756 647
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 19.76% 20.85% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 679 673 604
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £61,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
WebSphere Application Server
North West

WebSphere Application Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester WebSphere Application Server Salary Trend

WebSphere Application Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 24 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 20 (83.33%) Oracle
3 15 (62.50%) Java
4 14 (58.33%) DB2
5 11 (45.83%) JUnit
5 11 (45.83%) SOAP
5 11 (45.83%) SQL
5 11 (45.83%) J2EE
5 11 (45.83%) XML
6 10 (41.67%) WebLogic
6 10 (41.67%) GlassFish
7 9 (37.50%) IBM
8 7 (29.17%) EJB
8 7 (29.17%) JDBC
8 7 (29.17%) MySQL
8 7 (29.17%) Linux
8 7 (29.17%) OO
8 7 (29.17%) JMS
8 7 (29.17%) Eclipse
8 7 (29.17%) Computer Science
8 7 (29.17%) JNDI
9 6 (25.00%) JBoss
10 5 (20.83%) Windows
11 4 (16.67%) WebLogic Portal
11 4 (16.67%) WebLogic Integration
11 4 (16.67%) Middleware
11 4 (16.67%) ERP
11 4 (16.67%) WebSphere MQ
11 4 (16.67%) Workflow
11 4 (16.67%) Finance

WebSphere Application Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 24 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 11 (45.83%) J2EE
2 11 (45.83%) XML
2 11 (45.83%) SOAP
3 7 (29.17%) JNDI
3 7 (29.17%) JMS
3 7 (29.17%) EJB
3 7 (29.17%) JDBC
4 4 (16.67%) JSP
4 4 (16.67%) Middleware
4 4 (16.67%) Spring
4 4 (16.67%) Spring MVC
4 4 (16.67%) FreeMarker
4 4 (16.67%) jQuery
4 4 (16.67%) Guice
4 4 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (16.67%) Struts2
4 4 (16.67%) Stripes Framework
4 4 (16.67%) Ajax
4 4 (16.67%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 10 (41.67%) WebLogic
1 10 (41.67%) GlassFish
2 4 (16.67%) AquaLogic Service Bus
2 4 (16.67%) WebSphere MQ
2 4 (16.67%) WebLogic Portal
2 4 (16.67%) WebLogic Integration
2 4 (16.67%) WebSphere Process Server
2 4 (16.67%) AquaLogic
2 4 (16.67%) ESB
3 3 (12.50%) Apache
3 3 (12.50%) Tomcat
3 3 (12.50%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle BPM
1 4 (16.67%) AquaLogic BPM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) LAN
1 3 (12.50%) WAN
1 3 (12.50%) Firewall
2 2 (8.333%) LDAP
3 1 (4.167%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (58.33%) DB2
2 7 (29.17%) MySQL
3 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (45.83%) JUnit
2 7 (29.17%) Eclipse
3 2 (8.333%) MSI
General
1 4 (16.67%) Finance
1 4 (16.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Developer
1 8 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Applications Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) Architect
4 4 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (12.50%) Analyst Programmer
5 3 (12.50%) Programmer
6 2 (8.333%) Java Analyst Programmer
6 2 (8.333%) Designer
6 2 (8.333%) Tester
6 2 (8.333%) Java Programmer
7 1 (4.167%) Senior J2EE Developer
7 1 (4.167%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (4.167%) Environment Manager
7 1 (4.167%) IT Graduate
7 1 (4.167%) Junior Test Analyst
7 1 (4.167%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
7 1 (4.167%) Junior Analyst
7 1 (4.167%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Computer Science
2 4 (16.67%) Open Source
2 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (12.50%) IBM Mainframe
3 3 (12.50%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Linux
2 5 (20.83%) Windows
3 4 (16.67%) AIX
4 3 (12.50%) Solaris
4 3 (12.50%) zOS
4 3 (12.50%) SUSE
4 3 (12.50%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) OO
2 4 (16.67%) RUP
2 4 (16.67%) ERP
2 4 (16.67%) Workflow
2 4 (16.67%) Unified Process
2 4 (16.67%) Release Management
2 4 (16.67%) Unit Testing
2 4 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
3 3 (12.50%) Test Scripting
4 2 (8.333%) V-Model
4 2 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (4.167%) Scrum
5 1 (4.167%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (4.167%) Resource Management
5 1 (4.167%) Project Management
5 1 (4.167%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) Java
2 11 (45.83%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.333%) VBA
4 2 (8.333%) Python
System Software
1 1 (4.167%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.167%) Tivoli
1 1 (4.167%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 20 (83.33%) Oracle
2 9 (37.50%) IBM
3 6 (25.00%) JBoss
4 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.167%) FatWire
5 1 (4.167%) VMware
5 1 (4.167%) Endeca
5 1 (4.167%) Twitter
5 1 (4.167%) CA
Manchester, Lancashire
As a Java Application Developer the essential skills that will be required are: - Excellent demonstrable knowledge Java - Strong knowledge of Server technologies such as Oracle, WebSphere or Glassfish -...
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