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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 188 157
Rank change year-on-year +40 -31 +82
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere 4 1 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.16% 0.024% 0.38%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.07% 0.23% 4.08%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £41,377
25th Percentile - - £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £50,000 £44,033
Median % change year-on-year - +13.55% +3.61%
75th Percentile - - £46,393
90th Percentile - - £58,314
UK median annual salary £85,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +61.90% -12.50% -13.60%

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 193 433 245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.62% 10.32% 9.19%
Number of salaries quoted 32 137 197
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,750 £28,950
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £54,375 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £63,500 £68,750 £85,934
UK median annual salary £54,143 £55,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -1.56% -2.65% +2.73%

WebSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing WebSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for WebSphere 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 20 September 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
Edinburgh - 3 - - 1
Glasgow - 1 - - 1
WebSphere
UK

WebSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) CICS
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Ant
2 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Maven
2 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Scripter
2 1 (25.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Windows DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Kanban
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Product Roadmap
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Tech Ops
3 2 (50.00%) People Management
3 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (25.00%) Release Management
4 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Groovy
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Podman
3 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Broadcom
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow