WebSphere Job Trends in Scotland

IBM WebSphere
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring WebSphere skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 137 215
Rank change year-on-year -8 +78 -16
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere 6 3 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.20% 0.13% 0.29%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.13% 1.62% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £65,032
25th Percentile - £76,727 £68,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £85,253 £75,669
Median % change year-on-year - +12.67% +8.96%
75th Percentile - £93,778 £82,548
90th Percentile - - £91,934
UK median annual salary £100,000 £102,500 £75,669
% change year-on-year -2.44% +35.46% +8.96%

All Application Platform Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 192 185 626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.44% 7.71% 15.18%
Number of salaries quoted 55 97 186
10th Percentile £24,500 - £31,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +2.56% -2.96%
75th Percentile £56,875 £75,360 £66,875
90th Percentile £75,000 £93,778 £86,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% -9.09%

WebSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

WebSphere job vacancy trend in Scotland

WebSphere
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing WebSphere.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing WebSphere

WebSphere
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 February 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
Glasgow +12 5 - - 2
Edinburgh -5 1 - - 2
WebSphere
UK

WebSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (66.67%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) CICS
2 1 (16.67%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
2 5 (83.33%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) Ant
3 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
3 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) Maven
3 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Applications Support
1 4 (66.67%) Applications Support Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Scripter
2 1 (16.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Windows DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
1 4 (66.67%) ITSM
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 4 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (66.67%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Kanban
3 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) People Management
3 1 (16.67%) Release Management
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
1 4 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Groovy
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Podman
2 1 (16.67%) Puppet
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Broadcom
1 1 (16.67%) IBM
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk