WebSphere Job Trends

IBM WebSphere
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring WebSphere skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 685 631 796
Rank change year-on-year -54 +165 -28
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere 18 9 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.021% 0.022% 0.085%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.48% 0.22% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12 3 43
10th Percentile - £62,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £95,000 £66,875 £68,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £77,500 £75,669
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +2.42% +8.96%
75th Percentile £105,000 £87,514 £83,750
90th Percentile - £91,272 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £85,253 £75,669
% change year-on-year -36.66% +12.67% +15.53%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,732 4,113 10,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.25% 9.83% 10.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,604 2,907 7,031
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,000 £110,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +5.88% -10.53%

WebSphere
Job Vacancy Trend

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

WebSphere job vacancy trend in the UK

WebSphere
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WebSphere.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WebSphere

WebSphere
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WebSphere over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for WebSphere in the UK

WebSphere
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere within the UK over the 6 months to 21 April 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
England -54 15 £100,000 +45.45% 1
Work from Home +9 13 £100,000 +17.30% 1
London -1 12 £100,000 +45.45%
UK excluding London -71 6 £54,000 -36.66% 1
Scotland -21 3 - -
Yorkshire -58 2 - -
North of England -61 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 £54,000 -
Midlands - 1 £54,000 - 1

WebSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 12 (66.67%) JBoss
2 4 (22.22%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (11.11%) CICS
4 1 (5.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) SaaS
2 4 (22.22%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) DB2
3 1 (5.56%) Adabas
3 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Git
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 14 (77.78%) Finance
2 13 (72.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Architect
2 11 (61.11%) Senior
3 10 (55.56%) Senior Architect
4 4 (22.22%) Applications Support
5 3 (16.67%) Analyst
5 3 (16.67%) Applications Support Analyst
5 3 (16.67%) Support Analyst
6 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (5.56%) COBOL Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Developer
7 1 (5.56%) IBM Mainframe Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Linux Support
7 1 (5.56%) Mainframe Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Mainframe Programmer
7 1 (5.56%) Programmer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior COBOL Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Mainframe Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Systems Programmer
7 1 (5.56%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (83.33%) .NET
2 12 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 12 (66.67%) Middleware
2 12 (66.67%) REST
2 12 (66.67%) SOAP
2 12 (66.67%) Spring
3 10 (55.56%) GraphQL
4 3 (16.67%) WebSphere MQ
4 3 (16.67%) XML
5 2 (11.11%) Struts
5 2 (11.11%) Web Services
6 1 (5.56%) JSON
6 1 (5.56%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (5.56%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (66.67%) DataPower
2 10 (55.56%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.11%) Mainframe
4 1 (5.56%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) zOS
2 1 (5.56%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) MVS
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Unix
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) AI
1 12 (66.67%) SOA
2 10 (55.56%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 10 (55.56%) Event-Driven
2 10 (55.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 10 (55.56%) Integration Patterns
2 10 (55.56%) Microservices
2 10 (55.56%) Performance Optimisation
2 10 (55.56%) Roadmaps
2 10 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (55.56%) Strategic Roadmap
2 10 (55.56%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (22.22%) ITIL
4 3 (16.67%) ITSM
4 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 3 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (16.67%) Service Management
5 2 (11.11%) SDLC
5 2 (11.11%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) SQL
2 15 (83.33%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) T-SQL
4 1 (5.56%) Assembly Language
4 1 (5.56%) COBOL
4 1 (5.56%) JCL
4 1 (5.56%) Natural
4 1 (5.56%) Python
4 1 (5.56%) REXX
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) ACF2
1 1 (5.56%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (5.56%) RACF
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (5.56%) BMC
2 1 (5.56%) Broadcom
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow