WebSphere Job Trends in England

IBM WebSphere
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring WebSphere skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 747 612 712
Rank change year-on-year -135 +100 -50
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere 15 23 20
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.014% 0.053% 0.030%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.35% 0.66% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 7
10th Percentile - £76,250 -
25th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £85,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% +70.00% -25.27%
75th Percentile £93,438 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £101,250 - £112,500
UK median annual salary £78,750 £85,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.35% +70.00% -16.67%

All Application Platform Skills
England

WebSphere 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 4,313 3,504 5,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.14% 8.11% 8.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,983 2,509 3,399
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,600 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +1.72%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £107,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £56,525
% change year-on-year -6.87% -5.02% +2.69%

WebSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

WebSphere job vacancy trend in England

WebSphere
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing WebSphere.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing WebSphere

WebSphere
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing WebSphere in England over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for WebSphere in England

WebSphere
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 6 October 2026. 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
East of England - 8 - -
North of England -61 5 £70,000 - 8
North West -27 4 £70,000 - 3
London -90 2 £97,500 +14.71% 19
North East - 1 £87,500 -
WebSphere
UK

WebSphere
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 10 (66.67%) WebLogic
2 5 (33.33%) Tomcat
3 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (6.67%) JBoss
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (6.67%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (6.67%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Internet
1 1 (6.67%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Db2
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
2 3 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (20.00%) JUnit
2 3 (20.00%) Mockito
2 3 (20.00%) Selenium
3 1 (6.67%) Eclipse
3 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) NetBeans
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (53.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Consultant
1 8 (53.33%) JDE CNC Consultant
1 8 (53.33%) JDE Consultant
2 4 (26.67%) Java Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Support
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) Middleware
2 4 (26.67%) Spring
3 3 (20.00%) Jest
3 3 (20.00%) Playwright
3 3 (20.00%) React
3 3 (20.00%) React Native
3 3 (20.00%) RESTful
4 2 (13.33%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (6.67%) EDI
5 1 (6.67%) Hibernate
5 1 (6.67%) HTML
5 1 (6.67%) Jakarta EE
5 1 (6.67%) JDBC
5 1 (6.67%) JSP
5 1 (6.67%) REST
5 1 (6.67%) Servlets
5 1 (6.67%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (6.67%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (53.33%) Project Management
3 4 (26.67%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) TDD
5 2 (13.33%) Coaching
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (6.67%) Change Management
6 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
6 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (6.67%) Incident Management
6 1 (6.67%) Load Balancing
6 1 (6.67%) PLM
6 1 (6.67%) Service Delivery
6 1 (6.67%) Service Management
6 1 (6.67%) TOGAF
6 1 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) Perl
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (20.00%) WCAG
2 1 (6.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Oracle
2 8 (53.33%) JD Edwards
3 6 (40.00%) IBM
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (6.67%) AppDynamics
5 1 (6.67%) Citrix
5 1 (6.67%) Globalscape
5 1 (6.67%) Infor
5 1 (6.67%) Moogsoft
5 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft
5 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
5 1 (6.67%) Splunk
5 1 (6.67%) Sybase