WebSphere Job Trends in the North of England

IBM WebSphere
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring WebSphere skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 282 267
Rank change year-on-year +22 -15 +129
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere 3 3 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.029% 0.032% 0.18%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.63% 0.39% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £47,500 £68,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £50,000 £75,669
Median % change year-on-year - -33.92% +37.73%
75th Percentile - £52,500 £82,548
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £92,500 £100,000 £75,669
% change year-on-year -7.50% +32.15% +8.10%

All Application Platform Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 475 778 718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.52% 8.38% 9.16%
Number of salaries quoted 330 420 618
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,563 £32,750 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.56% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,250 £58,750 £63,563
90th Percentile £81,250 £71,991 £82,548
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,762 £54,145
% change year-on-year -10.33% +2.99% -1.55%

WebSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

WebSphere job vacancy trend in the North of England

WebSphere
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing WebSphere.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing WebSphere

WebSphere
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 January 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
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North West +27 1 - -
WebSphere
England

WebSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 3 (100.00%) JBoss
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Ant
1 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Scripter
2 1 (33.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Windows DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Struts
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) DataPower
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) API Integration
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) SOA
1 2 (66.67%) Web Application Development
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Groovy
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Podman
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet