The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere 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 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere
Rank 165 140 141
Rank change year-on-year
-25 +1
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere 29 35 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.715% 0.965% 0.811%
As % of the Application Development category 1.363% 2.018% 1.862%
Number of salaries quoted 22 28 29
Average salary £37,250 £42,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.35% +41.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £25,550 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £61,500 £46,500
UK excluding London average salary £47,000 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.44%
All Application Development
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2127 1734 1719
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 52.41% 47.82% 43.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1947 1588 1604
Average salary £35,000 £33,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.06% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WebSphere
North West

WebSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester WebSphere Salary Trend

WebSphere
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WebSphere across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Manchester WebSphere Salary Histogram

WebSphere
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 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
Bolton - 1 £42,500 -
Stockport - 1 £34,500 -
WebSphere
North West

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 33 (58.93%) IBM
2 27 (48.21%) Oracle
3 26 (46.43%) Java
4 24 (42.86%) WebSphere Application Server
4 24 (42.86%) Linux
5 23 (41.07%) WebSphere MQ
5 23 (41.07%) Finance
6 21 (37.50%) UNIX
7 20 (35.71%) AIX
8 19 (33.93%) J2EE
9 18 (32.14%) Red Hat
10 17 (30.36%) HP
10 17 (30.36%) PHP
11 16 (28.57%) DB2
11 16 (28.57%) SAN
12 15 (26.79%) C
12 15 (26.79%) Perl
12 15 (26.79%) Configuration Management
12 15 (26.79%) Replication
12 15 (26.79%) Clustering
12 15 (26.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 15 (26.79%) High Availability
13 14 (25.00%) SQL
14 13 (23.21%) XML
15 12 (21.43%) SOAP
15 12 (21.43%) JUnit
15 12 (21.43%) WebLogic
16 11 (19.64%) GlassFish
17 10 (17.86%) JBoss
18 9 (16.07%) MySQL

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 19 (33.93%) J2EE
2 13 (23.21%) XML
3 12 (21.43%) SOAP
4 9 (16.07%) Web Services
4 9 (16.07%) EJB
5 8 (14.29%) JMS
6 7 (12.50%) JNDI
6 7 (12.50%) JDBC
6 7 (12.50%) jQuery
6 7 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (8.929%) JSP
7 5 (8.929%) Struts
7 5 (8.929%) Ajax
7 5 (8.929%) Middleware
8 4 (7.143%) CSS
8 4 (7.143%) Struts2
8 4 (7.143%) Stripes Framework
8 4 (7.143%) Guice
8 4 (7.143%) Spring MVC
8 4 (7.143%) FreeMarker
Application Platforms
1 24 (42.86%) WebSphere Application Server
2 23 (41.07%) WebSphere MQ
3 12 (21.43%) WebLogic
4 11 (19.64%) GlassFish
5 6 (10.71%) Tomcat
6 4 (7.143%) WebLogic Portal
6 4 (7.143%) WebLogic Integration
6 4 (7.143%) WebSphere Process Server
6 4 (7.143%) AquaLogic
6 4 (7.143%) ESB
6 4 (7.143%) AquaLogic Service Bus
7 3 (5.357%) CICS
7 3 (5.357%) Apache
8 2 (3.571%) MQSeries
8 2 (3.571%) WebSphere Message Broker
9 1 (1.786%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (3.571%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (7.143%) Oracle BPM
1 4 (7.143%) AquaLogic BPM
Communications & Networking
1 16 (28.57%) SAN
2 3 (5.357%) Firewall
2 3 (5.357%) LAN
2 3 (5.357%) WAN
2 3 (5.357%) HTTP
3 2 (3.571%) LDAP
4 1 (1.786%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (28.57%) DB2
2 9 (16.07%) MySQL
3 5 (8.929%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (21.43%) JUnit
2 7 (12.50%) Eclipse
3 3 (5.357%) Subversion
4 2 (3.571%) Git (software)
4 2 (3.571%) LoadRunner
4 2 (3.571%) MSI
5 1 (1.786%) ClearCase
General
1 23 (41.07%) Finance
2 4 (7.143%) Advertising
3 2 (3.571%) Retail
4 1 (1.786%) Publishing
4 1 (1.786%) Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (26.79%) Systems Administrator
1 15 (26.79%) Administrator
1 15 (26.79%) Linux Administrator
1 15 (26.79%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 13 (23.21%) Java Developer
2 13 (23.21%) Developer
3 9 (16.07%) Architect
4 7 (12.50%) Analyst
4 7 (12.50%) Applications Developer
5 6 (10.71%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 6 (10.71%) UNIX Administrator
6 5 (8.929%) Analyst Programmer
6 5 (8.929%) Programmer
6 5 (8.929%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (7.143%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 3 (5.357%) Consultant
8 3 (5.357%) Enterprise Architect
9 2 (3.571%) Java Analyst Programmer
9 2 (3.571%) Java Programmer
9 2 (3.571%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 15 (26.79%) Replication
1 15 (26.79%) Clustering
2 7 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 5 (8.929%) Open Source
3 5 (8.929%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (7.143%) IBM Mainframe
4 4 (7.143%) Mainframe
5 2 (3.571%) AS400
5 2 (3.571%) iSeries
5 2 (3.571%) SaaS
6 1 (1.786%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 24 (42.86%) Linux
2 21 (37.50%) UNIX
3 20 (35.71%) AIX
4 15 (26.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (8.929%) Windows
6 3 (5.357%) Solaris
6 3 (5.357%) zOS
6 3 (5.357%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (26.79%) Configuration Management
1 15 (26.79%) High Availability
2 7 (12.50%) OO
3 6 (10.71%) ERP
3 6 (10.71%) Unit Testing
4 4 (7.143%) Release Management
4 4 (7.143%) Dependency Injection
4 4 (7.143%) RUP
4 4 (7.143%) Workflow
4 4 (7.143%) Unified Process
5 3 (5.357%) UML
5 3 (5.357%) SOA
5 3 (5.357%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (5.357%) Test Scripting
6 2 (3.571%) Scrum
6 2 (3.571%) Performance Testing
6 2 (3.571%) V-Model
6 2 (3.571%) Project Management
6 2 (3.571%) Identity Management
7 1 (1.786%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 26 (46.43%) Java
2 17 (30.36%) PHP
3 15 (26.79%) C
3 15 (26.79%) Perl
4 14 (25.00%) SQL
5 9 (16.07%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.571%) VBA
6 2 (3.571%) Python
6 2 (3.571%) RPG IV
6 2 (3.571%) RPG
Qualifications
1 1 (1.786%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (3.571%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.571%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.786%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (3.571%) Tivoli
2 1 (1.786%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (1.786%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 33 (58.93%) IBM
2 27 (48.21%) Oracle
3 18 (32.14%) Red Hat
4 17 (30.36%) HP
5 10 (17.86%) JBoss
6 2 (3.571%) Infor
6 2 (3.571%) VMware
7 1 (1.786%) Endeca
7 1 (1.786%) hybris
7 1 (1.786%) Demandware
7 1 (1.786%) Twitter
7 1 (1.786%) Cognos
7 1 (1.786%) ATG
7 1 (1.786%) FatWire
7 1 (1.786%) EMC
7 1 (1.786%) CA
7 1 (1.786%) Lotus
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