IBM WebSphere
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for WebSphere skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WebSphere over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 817 762 974
Rank change year-on-year -55 +212 -207
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere 79 209 258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.081% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.74% 1.73% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 43 116 172
10th Percentile £56,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £68,790 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,669 £69,447 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.96% +15.75% +9.09%
75th Percentile £83,750 £89,852 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,145 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,669 £65,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.53% +31.00% -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

WebSphere is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 10,690 12,060 21,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.90% 11.52% 13.76%
Number of salaries quoted 7,047 7,947 11,793
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,290 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -

WebSphere
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WebSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WebSphere in the UK

WebSphere
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WebSphere.

Salary trend for WebSphere in the UK

WebSphere
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WebSphere over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for WebSphere in the UK

WebSphere
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -4 61 £75,669 +8.10% 13
UK excluding London -48 55 £75,669 +15.53% 5
London +72 21 £95,000 +18.32% 7
North of England +21 21 £75,669 +31.31% 1
Scotland -72 13 £75,669 +8.96%
Yorkshire +67 12 £75,669 +15.53% 1
Midlands +4 10 £62,500 -10.71% 2
West Midlands +23 8 £62,500 +4.17% 2
Work from Home +11 8 £46,500 -29.01%
South East +34 6 £46,500 +6.90% 2
North West +4 5 £75,669 +37.88%
North East - 4 £82,500 -
South West -4 3 £75,669 +110.19%
East Midlands -15 2 - -
Wales - 2 £45,750 -

WebSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 28 (35.44%) Captiva
1 28 (35.44%) FileNet
2 12 (15.19%) JBoss
2 12 (15.19%) Tomcat
3 10 (12.66%) IIS
3 10 (12.66%) WebLogic
4 8 (10.13%) Anypoint
4 8 (10.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (8.86%) WildFly
6 3 (3.80%) MQSeries
6 3 (3.80%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 3 (3.80%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (2.53%) Apache
7 2 (2.53%) GlassFish
7 2 (2.53%) JCAPS
8 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) AutoCAD
1 1 (1.27%) PTC Creo
1 1 (1.27%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 7 (8.86%) Teamcenter
2 3 (3.80%) Maximo
3 2 (2.53%) Adaptiv
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 36 (45.57%) Azure
2 29 (36.71%) GCP
3 28 (35.44%) GitHub
4 6 (7.59%) AWS
5 1 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.27%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.27%) IaaS
5 1 (1.27%) OCI
5 1 (1.27%) PaaS
5 1 (1.27%) SaaS
5 1 (1.27%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.39%) Firewall
2 8 (10.13%) LAN
2 8 (10.13%) WAN
2 8 (10.13%) Wireless
3 6 (7.59%) SAN
3 6 (7.59%) VPN
4 3 (3.80%) HTTP
5 2 (2.53%) FTP
6 1 (1.27%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (24.05%) SQL Server
2 11 (13.92%) DB2
3 7 (8.86%) Oracle Database
4 5 (6.33%) Pentaho
5 3 (3.80%) MySQL
5 3 (3.80%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (1.27%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.27%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 33 (41.77%) JIRA
2 28 (35.44%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (6.33%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.53%) Ant
4 2 (2.53%) JUnit
4 2 (2.53%) Maven
4 2 (2.53%) Subversion
5 1 (1.27%) Chocolatey
5 1 (1.27%) Git
5 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
General
1 49 (62.03%) Finance
2 33 (41.77%) Banking
3 22 (27.85%) Social Skills
4 8 (10.13%) Retail
5 7 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (6.33%) Law
6 5 (6.33%) Legal
7 4 (5.06%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.53%) Back Office
8 2 (2.53%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.53%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (1.27%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.27%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 33 (41.77%) Software Engineer
2 28 (35.44%) FileNet Engineer
3 15 (18.99%) Architect
4 10 (12.66%) Infrastructure Architect
5 9 (11.39%) Lead
5 9 (11.39%) Software Support Engineer
5 9 (11.39%) Support Engineer
6 8 (10.13%) Analyst
6 8 (10.13%) Integration Architect
6 8 (10.13%) Integration Manager
7 7 (8.86%) Senior
8 6 (7.59%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (7.59%) Senior Technical Analyst
8 6 (7.59%) Technical Analyst
9 5 (6.33%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (6.33%) Applications Support
9 5 (6.33%) Applications Support Engineer
9 5 (6.33%) IT Architect
9 5 (6.33%) IT Infrastructure Architect
9 5 (6.33%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.66%) WebSphere MQ
2 7 (8.86%) Middleware
3 5 (6.33%) .NET
3 5 (6.33%) Kafka
4 4 (5.06%) XML
5 2 (2.53%) DOM
5 2 (2.53%) J2EE
5 2 (2.53%) Java EE
5 2 (2.53%) JDBC
5 2 (2.53%) JMS
5 2 (2.53%) SAX
5 2 (2.53%) Spring
6 1 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.27%) JSON
6 1 (1.27%) XML Messaging
6 1 (1.27%) XSD
6 1 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (41.77%) Private Cloud
2 28 (35.44%) DataPower
3 5 (6.33%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.33%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.33%) Reference Data
4 4 (5.06%) Chip and PIN
4 4 (5.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (5.06%) Mobile Payment
5 3 (3.80%) Clustering
5 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.53%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.27%) Derivative
7 1 (1.27%) Equities
7 1 (1.27%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.27%) Life Science
7 1 (1.27%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 58 (73.42%) Linux
2 33 (41.77%) Unix
3 8 (10.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (10.13%) Windows
4 6 (7.59%) SUSE
4 6 (7.59%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 5 (6.33%) VMS
6 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (51.90%) Agile
2 34 (43.04%) DevOps
2 34 (43.04%) Software Engineering
3 32 (40.51%) Migration
4 29 (36.71%) Change Management
5 28 (35.44%) Coaching
6 18 (22.78%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (12.66%) ERP
8 9 (11.39%) Roadmaps
9 8 (10.13%) B2B
9 8 (10.13%) B2C
9 8 (10.13%) Customer Service
9 8 (10.13%) E-Commerce
9 8 (10.13%) PLM
9 8 (10.13%) Re-Platforming
9 8 (10.13%) Scrum
9 8 (10.13%) SOA
9 8 (10.13%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (8.86%) Predictive Analysis
10 7 (8.86%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (59.49%) SQL
2 42 (53.16%) Java
3 7 (8.86%) Shell Script
4 5 (6.33%) Python
5 3 (3.80%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.80%) XPath
6 2 (2.53%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.27%) Bash
7 1 (1.27%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (10.13%) Degree
2 5 (6.33%) RHCA
2 5 (6.33%) TOGAF Certification
3 3 (3.80%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.27%) CISA
4 1 (1.27%) CISSP
4 1 (1.27%) HNC
4 1 (1.27%) HND
4 1 (1.27%) MCSA
4 1 (1.27%) MCSE
4 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (35.44%) GDPR
2 4 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.27%) COREP
3 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.27%) FISMA
3 1 (1.27%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.27%) HITRUST
3 1 (1.27%) IFRS
3 1 (1.27%) IFRS 17
3 1 (1.27%) IFRS 9
3 1 (1.27%) NIST
3 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (10.13%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (10.13%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (10.13%) vSphere
2 7 (8.86%) Docker
3 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (8.86%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.59%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 5 (6.33%) Grafana
3 5 (6.33%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (2.53%) Control-M
5 1 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.27%) Ansible
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.27%) SCCM
5 1 (1.27%) SCOM
5 1 (1.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 66 (83.54%) Oracle
2 53 (67.09%) IBM
3 29 (36.71%) SAP
4 28 (35.44%) Kofax
4 28 (35.44%) Pega
4 28 (35.44%) ServiceNow
5 9 (11.39%) Red Hat
6 8 (10.13%) Citrix
6 8 (10.13%) MuleSoft
6 8 (10.13%) VMware
7 6 (7.59%) Microsoft
8 5 (6.33%) AppDynamics
8 5 (6.33%) CA
8 5 (6.33%) Cisco
8 5 (6.33%) Juniper
8 5 (6.33%) Splunk
8 5 (6.33%) Sybase
9 1 (1.27%) MathWorks
9 1 (1.27%) PTC
9 1 (1.27%) TOWER Software