WebSphere Application Server Job Trends in England

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring WebSphere Application Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 616 713 688
Rank change year-on-year +97 -25 +364
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere Application Server 16 5 12
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.037% 0.008% 0.025%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.46% 0.097% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82,500 £47,500 £37,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £50,000 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% -27.35% -21.35%
75th Percentile £87,500 £52,500 £77,715
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £85,000 £50,000 £44,033
% change year-on-year +70.00% +13.55% -34.77%

All Application Platform Skills
England

WebSphere Application Server falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring application platform skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,484 5,141 5,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.08% 8.41% 11.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,492 3,198 4,495
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £74,250 £92,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

WebSphere Application Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing WebSphere Application Server relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

WebSphere Application Server job vacancy trend in England

WebSphere Application Server
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing WebSphere Application Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing WebSphere Application Server

WebSphere Application Server
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere Application Server within the England region over the 6 months to 29 October 2025. 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
London - 16 £85,000 -
WebSphere Application Server
UK

WebSphere Application Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 16 (100.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon ECR
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon S3
2 6 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (37.50%) Route 53
2 6 (37.50%) Serverless
2 6 (37.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (100.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (100.00%) DB2
1 16 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
General
1 16 (100.00%) Banking
2 10 (62.50%) Investment Banking
3 6 (37.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Applications Support
2 15 (93.75%) Linux Support
3 11 (68.75%) Infrastructure Support
4 10 (62.50%) Unix Support
5 6 (37.50%) Applications Engineer
5 6 (37.50%) Applications Support Engineer
5 6 (37.50%) Support Engineer
6 5 (31.25%) Linux Engineer
6 5 (31.25%) Linux Support Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (100.00%) LAPP Stack
1 16 (100.00%) LDAP
1 16 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (62.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
1 16 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 16 (100.00%) Unix
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Change Management
1 16 (100.00%) ITIL
1 16 (100.00%) Release Management
1 16 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (37.50%) Acceptance Criteria
2 6 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 16 (100.00%) Degree
1 16 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) IBM
1 16 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 10 (62.50%) ServiceNow