DataPower Job Trends in the UK excluding London

IBM WebSphere DataPower
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term DataPower in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited DataPower over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 565 545
Rank change year-on-year +59 -20 +217
Permanent jobs citing DataPower 3 1 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.007% 0.003% 0.081%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.022% 0.008% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 24
10th Percentile - - £68,718
25th Percentile - - £68,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £75,669
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.10%
75th Percentile - - £82,548
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £100,000 £70,000 £75,669
% change year-on-year +42.86% -7.49% -9.16%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

DataPower falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,649 12,311 11,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.19% 34.27% 34.57%
Number of salaries quoted 6,315 5,294 8,462
10th Percentile £26,375 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £37,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £82,543
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

DataPower
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

DataPower job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

DataPower
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DataPower.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DataPower

DataPower
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DataPower within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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 of England - 2 - -
South West - 1 - -
DataPower
UK

DataPower
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (66.67%) JBoss
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Struts
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) JWT
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
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%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Cryptography
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM