The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere skills in IT jobs advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WebSphere over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere
Rank 22 41 24
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -17
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere 5 5 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 2.101% 1.678% 5.263%
As % of the Application Development category 13.89% 8.197% 26.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 14
Average salary £70,000 £38,000 £63,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+84.21% -40.39%
UK excluding London average salary £47,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+4.44% -
All Application Development
Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
36 61 71
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 15.13% 20.47% 19.67%
Number of salaries quoted 27 42 45
Average salary £41,250 £42,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.94% -15.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £38,000 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £58,500 £70,000 £50,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
WebSphere
England

WebSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands WebSphere Salary Trend

WebSphere
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WebSphere across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Midlands WebSphere Salary Histogram

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 4 (66.67%) webMethods
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) IBM
3 2 (33.33%) Software AG
3 2 (33.33%) Informatica
3 2 (33.33%) TIBCO
3 2 (33.33%) Ab Initio
3 2 (33.33%) ESB
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (33.33%) Open Source
3 2 (33.33%) EAI
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (16.67%) Feature Driven Development
4 1 (16.67%) User Stories
4 1 (16.67%) Grails
4 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 1 (16.67%) GlassFish
4 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Kanban
4 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) Spring
4 1 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Middleware
4 1 (16.67%) W3C
4 1 (16.67%) WebSphere MQ

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 2 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (16.67%) Grails
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (16.67%) JAXB
2 1 (16.67%) WSDL
2 1 (16.67%) XML Schema
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) ESB
2 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 1 (16.67%) GlassFish
2 1 (16.67%) CICS
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Project Leader
1 2 (33.33%) Integration Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Integration Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Open Source
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) W3C
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) UNIX
1 1 (16.67%) AIX
1 1 (16.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) EAI
3 1 (16.67%) Feature Driven Development
3 1 (16.67%) User Stories
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Kanban
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) COBOL
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) webMethods
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (33.33%) IBM
3 2 (33.33%) Software AG
3 2 (33.33%) Informatica
3 2 (33.33%) TIBCO
3 2 (33.33%) Ab Initio
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