Blackburn WebSphere MQ Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ) skills within the Blackburn region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WebSphere MQ over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ)
Location Basingstoke Blackburn Brentford Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Corby East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire London Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North West Northamptonshire Norwich Peterborough Scotland South East South West Stevenage Surrey Swindon UK Warwickshire West Midlands Wiltshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£409	£409
% change on same period last year	-0.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.13	-
% change on same period last year	-
Application Platforms Blackburn
Matching contract IT job ads	0	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.003 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£350
% change on same period last year	+0.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£10.00
Average hourly rate	-	£13.25
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.89	£22.97
% change on same period last year	-0.36 %
WebSphere MQ Lancashire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.