WebSphere Job Trends in London

IBM WebSphere
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring WebSphere skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 393 483
Rank change year-on-year -12 +90 +53
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere 9 4 22
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.044% 0.032% 0.094%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.75% 0.25% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 10
10th Percentile £93,000 £61,375 £68,790
25th Percentile £95,000 £63,438 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £68,750 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -27.63% +18.32%
75th Percentile £105,000 £75,938 £97,500
90th Percentile - £79,125 £127,875
England median annual salary £100,000 £68,750 £75,669
% change year-on-year +45.45% -9.14% +8.10%

All Application Platform Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,205 1,624 3,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.94% 12.84% 13.25%
Number of salaries quoted 822 1,192 2,203
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,617 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +2.17%
75th Percentile £91,250 £110,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -11.50%

WebSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

WebSphere job vacancy trend in London

WebSphere
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing WebSphere.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing WebSphere

WebSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 7 (77.78%) JBoss
2 1 (11.11%) CICS
2 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
2 1 (11.11%) WebLogic
2 1 (11.11%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (77.78%) Finance
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Architect
1 7 (77.78%) Senior
1 7 (77.78%) Senior Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe Programmer
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
2 1 (11.11%) Programmer
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Programmer
2 1 (11.11%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) Middleware
2 7 (77.78%) .NET
2 7 (77.78%) GraphQL
2 7 (77.78%) Hibernate
2 7 (77.78%) REST
2 7 (77.78%) SOAP
2 7 (77.78%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Cloud Native
1 7 (77.78%) DataPower
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) MVS
1 1 (11.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Stakeholder Management
1 8 (88.89%) Technical Leadership
2 7 (77.78%) AI
2 7 (77.78%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 7 (77.78%) Event-Driven
2 7 (77.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 7 (77.78%) Integration Patterns
2 7 (77.78%) Microservices
2 7 (77.78%) Performance Optimisation
2 7 (77.78%) Roadmaps
2 7 (77.78%) SOA
2 7 (77.78%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Coaching
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (11.11%) Storage Management
4 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Assembly Language
2 1 (11.11%) REXX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) ACF2
1 1 (11.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (11.11%) RACF
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) BMC
2 1 (11.11%) Broadcom
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) Globalscape
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle