The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere skills in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WebSphere over the 3 months to 23 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 South West region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere
Rank 187 147 107
Rank change year-on-year
-40 -40
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere 23 67 121
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.438% 1.206% 1.979%
As % of the Application Development category 0.932% 2.627% 4.903%
Number of salaries quoted 17 45 105
Average salary £42,500 £39,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.59% -1.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,000 £31,700
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £47,000 £45,000 £44,500
% change year-on-year
+4.44% +1.12%
All Application Development
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2469 2550 2468
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 47.06% 45.91% 40.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2237 2281 2203
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,200 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WebSphere
England

WebSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West WebSphere Salary Trend

WebSphere
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WebSphere across the South West region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 23 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
Bristol -14 10 £37,500 +25.00%
Dorset - 8 £52,500 -
Gloucestershire -26 5 £41,250 +3.12%
WebSphere
England

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 59 (90.77%) Java
2 57 (87.69%) Oracle
3 48 (73.85%) J2EE
4 39 (60.00%) SQL
5 34 (52.31%) WebLogic
6 30 (46.15%) JBoss
7 29 (44.62%) Eclipse
8 27 (41.54%) UNIX
9 24 (36.92%) Finance
10 23 (35.38%) IBM
10 23 (35.38%) Degree
11 21 (32.31%) SQL Server
12 19 (29.23%) WebSphere Application Server
12 19 (29.23%) Eclipse RCP
13 18 (27.69%) JMS
13 18 (27.69%) Retail
14 17 (26.15%) JDBC
15 16 (24.62%) DB2
15 16 (24.62%) Perl
15 16 (24.62%) Linux
15 16 (24.62%) Spring
15 16 (24.62%) Games
15 16 (24.62%) Bash shell
16 15 (23.08%) Unit Testing
16 15 (23.08%) WebSphere MQ
17 14 (21.54%) XML
17 14 (21.54%) RDBMS
17 14 (21.54%) Sybase
17 14 (21.54%) HTML
18 13 (20.00%) BEA

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 48 (73.85%) J2EE
2 18 (27.69%) JMS
3 17 (26.15%) JDBC
4 16 (24.62%) Spring
5 14 (21.54%) XML
5 14 (21.54%) HTML
6 13 (20.00%) GWT
7 11 (16.92%) CSS
8 10 (15.38%) EJB
8 10 (15.38%) Struts
8 10 (15.38%) Middleware
9 9 (13.85%) JSP
9 9 (13.85%) Swing
9 9 (13.85%) SWT
10 8 (12.31%) JSTL
10 8 (12.31%) XHTML
11 7 (10.77%) Java EE
12 5 (7.692%) .NET
13 3 (4.615%) Hibernate
13 3 (4.615%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 34 (52.31%) WebLogic
2 19 (29.23%) WebSphere Application Server
3 15 (23.08%) WebSphere MQ
4 11 (16.92%) GlassFish
5 10 (15.38%) Tomcat
6 8 (12.31%) MQSeries
6 8 (12.31%) IIS
6 8 (12.31%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (3.077%) WebLogic Portal
8 1 (1.538%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 8 (12.31%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.31%) FTP
1 8 (12.31%) HTTP
2 2 (3.077%) SSL
3 1 (1.538%) SWIFTNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (32.31%) SQL Server
2 16 (24.62%) DB2
3 14 (21.54%) RDBMS
4 4 (6.154%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (3.077%) MySQL
6 1 (1.538%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 29 (44.62%) Eclipse
2 19 (29.23%) Eclipse RCP
3 9 (13.85%) JUnit
4 8 (12.31%) Rational Application Developer
4 8 (12.31%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
5 2 (3.077%) Ant
5 2 (3.077%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.538%) Subversion
6 1 (1.538%) Maven
6 1 (1.538%) ClearCase
6 1 (1.538%) Selenium
6 1 (1.538%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (36.92%) Finance
2 18 (27.69%) Retail
3 16 (24.62%) Games
4 6 (9.231%) Banking
5 1 (1.538%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (52.31%) Developer
2 26 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 16 (24.62%) Analyst
4 13 (20.00%) Support Analyst
5 12 (18.46%) Java Software Engineer
5 12 (18.46%) Software Engineer
6 10 (15.38%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 9 (13.85%) J2EE Developer
8 8 (12.31%) Operations Support Analyst
8 8 (12.31%) Operations Analyst
9 6 (9.231%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (9.231%) Developer Analyst
9 6 (9.231%) Senior Developer
10 5 (7.692%) Consultant
11 4 (6.154%) Software Developer
11 4 (6.154%) Architect
12 3 (4.615%) Java Consultant
12 3 (4.615%) J2EE Consultant
12 3 (4.615%) Support Consultant
13 2 (3.077%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.92%) Computer Science
1 11 (16.92%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (13.85%) Mathematics
3 5 (7.692%) SWIFT
4 2 (3.077%) Clustering
5 1 (1.538%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 27 (41.54%) UNIX
2 16 (24.62%) Linux
3 10 (15.38%) Windows
3 10 (15.38%) AIX
3 10 (15.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (23.08%) Unit Testing
2 12 (18.46%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 10 (15.38%) Problem Management
3 10 (15.38%) E-Commerce
3 10 (15.38%) MVC
4 9 (13.85%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (12.31%) Content Management
5 8 (12.31%) Web Development
5 8 (12.31%) RAD
6 4 (6.154%) Business Analysis
7 3 (4.615%) Release Management
8 2 (3.077%) High Availability
8 2 (3.077%) Technical Architecture
8 2 (3.077%) OO
8 2 (3.077%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (3.077%) Risk Management
8 2 (3.077%) Workflow
8 2 (3.077%) Identity Management
9 1 (1.538%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 59 (90.77%) Java
2 39 (60.00%) SQL
3 16 (24.62%) Perl
3 16 (24.62%) Bash shell
4 12 (18.46%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.615%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.077%) C#
6 2 (3.077%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.538%) C++
7 1 (1.538%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.538%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (35.38%) Degree
2 11 (16.92%) Sun Certification
2 11 (16.92%) Security Cleared
3 7 (10.77%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.154%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.615%) SCJP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.077%) QA
System Software
1 10 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.077%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (3.077%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (1.538%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 57 (87.69%) Oracle
2 30 (46.15%) JBoss
3 23 (35.38%) IBM
4 14 (21.54%) Sybase
5 13 (20.00%) BEA
5 13 (20.00%) Google
6 12 (18.46%) Sun
7 10 (15.38%) Microsoft
7 10 (15.38%) VMware
8 2 (3.077%) webMethods
9 1 (1.538%) TIBCO
9 1 (1.538%) ATG
9 1 (1.538%) Lotus
9 1 (1.538%) Infor
9 1 (1.538%) hybris
9 1 (1.538%) Demandware