WebSphere Application Server Jobs

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring WebSphere Application Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WebSphere Application Server over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 724 820 839
Rank change year-on-year +96 +19 +410
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere Application Server 4 7 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.008% 0.037%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.085% 0.086% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 22
10th Percentile - - £37,885
25th Percentile £82,500 £47,500 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £87,500 £108,750 £77,715
90th Percentile - £129,375 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £50,000 £44,033
% change year-on-year - +13.55% -19.94%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

WebSphere Application Server 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,695 8,162 8,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.70% 9.53% 10.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,985 5,317 6,566
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,900 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £52,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.26% -6.25% +1.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £48,050
% change year-on-year - -6.35% +1.16%

WebSphere Application Server
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WebSphere Application Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WebSphere Application Server in the UK

WebSphere Application Server
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WebSphere Application Server.

Salary trend for WebSphere Application Server in the UK

WebSphere Application Server
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere Application Server within the UK over the 6 months to 3 August 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
UK excluding London +94 2 - - 7
England +65 2 £85,000 +70.00% 7
London +47 2 £85,000 -32.67% 1
Work from Home +39 2 £85,000 - 2
Scotland - 2 - - 1

WebSphere Application Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (50.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Route 53
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) DB2
2 2 (50.00%) IBM InfoSphere
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (50.00%) JUnit
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Applications Support
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Support
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) IBM Integration Bus
1 2 (50.00%) J2EE
1 2 (50.00%) Java EE
1 2 (50.00%) LAPP Stack
1 2 (50.00%) LDAP
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) SOAP
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 2 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Code Coverage
1 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 2 (50.00%) Release Management
1 2 (50.00%) SDLC
1 2 (50.00%) UML
1 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Curam
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow