The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WebSphere over the 3 months to 24 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere
Rank 142 118 96
Rank change year-on-year
-24 -22
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere 62 70 86
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.233% 1.536% 2.061%
As % of the Application Development category 3.047% 3.570% 5.502%
Number of salaries quoted 46 64 76
Average salary £47,500 £52,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.52% +23.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £39,000 £36,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £76,250 £105,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £47,000 £45,000 £44,500
% change year-on-year
+4.44% +1.12%
All Application Development
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2035 1961 1563
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 40.47% 43.02% 37.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1813 1757 1428
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

West 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands WebSphere Salary Trend

WebSphere
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WebSphere across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Coventry -14 17 £41,000 -21.90%
Birmingham -30 13 £75,000 +15.38%
Worcestershire +8 6 £60,000 +100.00%
Warwickshire -10 6 £77,500 +47.61%
Shropshire - 2 - -
West Bromwich - 1 £30,000 -
WebSphere
England

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West 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 70 (66.04%) Oracle
2 54 (50.94%) Linux
3 52 (49.06%) IBM
4 51 (48.11%) Windows
5 47 (44.34%) J2EE
6 46 (43.40%) DB2
7 44 (41.51%) UNIX
8 41 (38.68%) WebSphere MQ
9 30 (28.30%) ERP
9 30 (28.30%) Java
10 27 (25.47%) WebSphere Message Broker
11 26 (24.53%) Subversion
12 25 (23.58%) Java EE
12 25 (23.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 25 (23.58%) Red Hat
13 24 (22.64%) SQL
13 24 (22.64%) SQL Server
13 24 (22.64%) Root Cause Analysis
13 24 (22.64%) Oracle ERP
14 16 (15.09%) Tomcat
15 15 (14.15%) WebLogic
16 13 (12.26%) Retail
17 11 (10.38%) VMware
17 11 (10.38%) Capacity Planning
17 11 (10.38%) VMware Infrastructure
17 11 (10.38%) E-Commerce
17 11 (10.38%) SAN
18 10 (9.434%) SOA
18 10 (9.434%) hybris
18 10 (9.434%) ATG

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West 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 47 (44.34%) J2EE
2 25 (23.58%) Java EE
3 9 (8.491%) Struts
4 8 (7.547%) Servlets
4 8 (7.547%) CSS
4 8 (7.547%) HTML
4 8 (7.547%) .NET
4 8 (7.547%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (6.604%) XML
5 7 (6.604%) JMS
6 6 (5.660%) Middleware
7 5 (4.717%) Swing
7 5 (4.717%) AWT
7 5 (4.717%) DOM
7 5 (4.717%) XSLT
7 5 (4.717%) JSP
7 5 (4.717%) SOAP
8 4 (3.774%) Web Services
8 4 (3.774%) Ajax
9 3 (2.830%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 41 (38.68%) WebSphere MQ
2 27 (25.47%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 16 (15.09%) Tomcat
4 15 (14.15%) WebLogic
5 9 (8.491%) WebSphere Application Server
6 7 (6.604%) WebSphere Process Server
7 6 (5.660%) ESB
8 5 (4.717%) WebSphere Portal
8 5 (4.717%) Drupal
9 3 (2.830%) CMS
9 3 (2.830%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (2.830%) AquaLogic
9 3 (2.830%) Quickr
9 3 (2.830%) AquaLogic Service Bus
9 3 (2.830%) WebLogic Portal
9 3 (2.830%) WebLogic Integration
9 3 (2.830%) Apache
9 3 (2.830%) SharePoint
10 2 (1.887%) JRun
10 2 (1.887%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (1.887%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (22.64%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (3.774%) Maximo
3 3 (2.830%) Oracle BPM
3 3 (2.830%) AquaLogic BPM
4 1 (0.943%) ENOVIA
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.38%) SAN
2 6 (5.660%) HTTP
3 5 (4.717%) NAS
3 5 (4.717%) LAN
3 5 (4.717%) WAN
4 3 (2.830%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.887%) VPN
5 2 (1.887%) IPX
5 2 (1.887%) IPX/SPX
5 2 (1.887%) Wireless
5 2 (1.887%) Firewall
6 1 (0.943%) LDAP
6 1 (0.943%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (43.40%) DB2
2 24 (22.64%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.717%) RDBMS
4 3 (2.830%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.887%) TOAD
5 2 (1.887%) Oracle 9i
5 2 (1.887%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (1.887%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (0.943%) Redis
6 1 (0.943%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.943%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 26 (24.53%) Subversion
2 5 (4.717%) Eclipse
2 5 (4.717%) Ant
3 4 (3.774%) JUnit
4 2 (1.887%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 2 (1.887%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 2 (1.887%) IntelliJ
4 2 (1.887%) ClearCase
4 2 (1.887%) TortoiseSVN
4 2 (1.887%) Rational Application Developer
4 2 (1.887%) Log4j
5 1 (0.943%) Build Forge
5 1 (0.943%) ClearQuest
General
1 13 (12.26%) Retail
2 9 (8.491%) Finance
3 5 (4.717%) Banking
4 3 (2.830%) Advertising
5 2 (1.887%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 45 (42.45%) Analyst
2 25 (23.58%) Architect
3 24 (22.64%) Administrator
4 18 (16.98%) Developer
5 11 (10.38%) Capacity Planning Analyst
5 11 (10.38%) Capacity Analyst
6 7 (6.604%) Java Developer
6 7 (6.604%) Senior Developer
7 6 (5.660%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (5.660%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (5.660%) Messaging Analyst
8 5 (4.717%) Consultant
8 5 (4.717%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (3.774%) Systems Support
9 4 (3.774%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 4 (3.774%) Systems Analyst
9 4 (3.774%) Technical Specialist
9 4 (3.774%) Infrastructure Architect
9 4 (3.774%) Integration Manager
10 3 (2.830%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.547%) Open Source
2 7 (6.604%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.774%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.830%) iSeries
4 3 (2.830%) AS400
5 2 (1.887%) EFT
5 2 (1.887%) CMDB
6 1 (0.943%) Web 2.0
6 1 (0.943%) SaaS
6 1 (0.943%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 54 (50.94%) Linux
2 51 (48.11%) Windows
3 44 (41.51%) UNIX
4 25 (23.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.887%) Windows XP
5 2 (1.887%) Windows NT
5 2 (1.887%) HPUX
5 2 (1.887%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.887%) zOS
5 2 (1.887%) Windows 2000 Server
6 1 (0.943%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.943%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (28.30%) ERP
2 24 (22.64%) Root Cause Analysis
3 11 (10.38%) Capacity Planning
3 11 (10.38%) E-Commerce
4 10 (9.434%) SOA
5 8 (7.547%) ITIL
6 7 (6.604%) Project Management
7 6 (5.660%) Agile Software Development
7 6 (5.660%) Content Management
8 5 (4.717%) Enterprise Architecture
8 5 (4.717%) Zachman Framework
8 5 (4.717%) TOGAF
8 5 (4.717%) Release Management
8 5 (4.717%) Service Delivery
8 5 (4.717%) UML
8 5 (4.717%) OO
9 4 (3.774%) RUP
9 4 (3.774%) Configuration Management
9 4 (3.774%) Time Management
9 4 (3.774%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 30 (28.30%) Java
2 24 (22.64%) SQL
3 8 (7.547%) Shell Script
4 7 (6.604%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.774%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.830%) Jython
6 3 (2.830%) Objective-C
6 3 (2.830%) Perl
7 2 (1.887%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (4.717%) IBM Certification
2 4 (3.774%) Degree
3 3 (2.830%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.830%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.943%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.943%) QA
System Software
1 11 (10.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.943%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.943%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 70 (66.04%) Oracle
2 52 (49.06%) IBM
3 25 (23.58%) Red Hat
4 11 (10.38%) VMware
5 10 (9.434%) hybris
5 10 (9.434%) ATG
6 5 (4.717%) Microsoft
6 5 (4.717%) JBoss
7 3 (2.830%) Ab Initio
7 3 (2.830%) EPiServer
7 3 (2.830%) Lotus
7 3 (2.830%) Adobe
7 3 (2.830%) JD Edwards
7 3 (2.830%) Cognos
8 2 (1.887%) SeeBeyond
8 2 (1.887%) BEA
8 2 (1.887%) Pega
8 2 (1.887%) Demandware
9 1 (0.943%) Teradata
9 1 (0.943%) Twitter
Warwickshire, West Midlands
The role will be focused around the design, implementation and support for server equipment; primarily architected using WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker in predominantly aRedhat Linux environment. Skills...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
Candidates should have a strong technical background with relevant integration technologies such as Ab Initio, Web Methods, Websphere or Informatica, and will be leading a delivery team to...
Aston Carter
Posted: 23 May 2013