WebSphere Jobs

IBM WebSphere
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring WebSphere skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WebSphere over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 683 817 785
Rank change year-on-year +134 -32 +163
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere 9 79 204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.080% 0.20%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.20% 0.73% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3 43 113
10th Percentile £62,750 £56,250 £45,750
25th Percentile £66,875 £68,790 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,669 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% +8.96% +15.75%
75th Percentile £87,514 £83,750 £89,852
90th Percentile £91,272 £97,500 £96,832
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,253 £75,669 £65,500
% change year-on-year +12.67% +15.53% +31.00%

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 4,427 10,766 11,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.51% 10.93% 11.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,045 7,116 7,895
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +1.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,563 £77,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £92,500 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,628 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.36% -10.53% +5.56%

WebSphere
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WebSphere in the UK

WebSphere
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for WebSphere in the UK

WebSphere
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WebSphere over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for WebSphere in the UK

WebSphere
Top 7 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 1 May 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 +160 6 £85,253 +12.67% 20
England +118 5 £68,750 -9.14% 17
Work from Home +191 4 £85,253 +83.34% 12
Scotland +123 4 £85,253 +12.67% 7
London +92 3 £68,750 -27.63% 5
North of England +66 2 - - 4
Yorkshire +66 2 - -

WebSphere
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 (44.44%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (33.33%) Tomcat
3 2 (22.22%) Confluence
4 1 (11.11%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) GCP
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (22.22%) FCoE
1 2 (22.22%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
1 2 (22.22%) iSCSI
1 2 (22.22%) LAN
1 2 (22.22%) Multicast
1 2 (22.22%) NAS
1 2 (22.22%) SAN
1 2 (22.22%) VPN
1 2 (22.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) DB2
2 2 (22.22%) IBM InfoSphere
2 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) JUnit
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) NetBeans
General
1 4 (44.44%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) J2EE
2 4 (44.44%) Java EE
2 4 (44.44%) SOAP
2 4 (44.44%) XML
3 3 (33.33%) REST
4 2 (22.22%) IBM Integration Bus
4 2 (22.22%) JSON
4 2 (22.22%) LDAP
4 2 (22.22%) Middleware
4 2 (22.22%) Web Services
5 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
5 1 (11.11%) HTML
5 1 (11.11%) JDBC
5 1 (11.11%) JSP
5 1 (11.11%) RESTful
5 1 (11.11%) Servlets
5 1 (11.11%) Spring
5 1 (11.11%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Clustering
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 2 (22.22%) Replication
1 2 (22.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Unix
2 4 (44.44%) Linux
3 2 (22.22%) Solaris
3 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) SDLC
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) Code Coverage
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (22.22%) Defect Management
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) ETL
2 2 (22.22%) High Availability
2 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (22.22%) KYC
2 2 (22.22%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (22.22%) Privileged Access Management
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Programme Management
2 2 (22.22%) Server Virtualisation
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (22.22%) UML
2 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Perl
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
1 2 (22.22%) KVM
1 2 (22.22%) NFS
1 2 (22.22%) SRDF
1 2 (22.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (22.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) Curam
2 2 (22.22%) EMC
2 2 (22.22%) F5
2 2 (22.22%) Google
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) NetApp
2 2 (22.22%) Pega
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Sybase