The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere Message Broker skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebSphere Message Broker over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the Cambridge region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere Message Broker (WMB)
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing WebSphere Message Broker 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.595% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.667% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £438 £350 £450
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £24.00
All Application Platforms
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
75 83 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 22.32% 20.00% 11.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 14
Average daily rate £280 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £175 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 3
Average hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +159.25%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
WebSphere Message Broker
Cambridgeshire

WebSphere Message Broker
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WebSphere Message Broker across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Cambridge WebSphere Message Broker Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere Message Broker
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing WebSphere Message Broker also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited WebSphere Message Broker.

1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 4 (100.00%) Middleware
1 4 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Information Security
1 4 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 4 (100.00%) Hedge funds
2 3 (75.00%) Control-M
2 3 (75.00%) BMC
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (25.00%) WebCenter
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management

WebSphere Message Broker
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing WebSphere Message Broker also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited WebSphere Message Broker. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) Middleware
1 4 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (25.00%) WebCenter
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (25.00%) WebSphere MQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 4 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Messaging Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Messaging Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) BMC