The first table below looks at the demand for MQSeries skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MQSeries over the 3 months to 24 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 Canary Wharf 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM MQSeries
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing MQSeries 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 0.777% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.762% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £400 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £375 £383
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £21.50
All Application Platforms
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
63 57 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 16.32% 15.08% 10.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 37 37
Average daily rate £450 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £380 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £675 £700 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
MQSeries
London

MQSeries
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MQSeries across the Canary Wharf region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Canary Wharf MQSeries Jobs Demand Trend

MQSeries
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MQSeries across the Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf MQSeries Daily Rate Trend

MQSeries
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MQSeries across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Canary Wharf MQSeries Daily Rate Histogram

MQSeries
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing MQSeries 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 MQSeries.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (50.00%) Dojo
2 2 (50.00%) Spring MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Spring Security
2 2 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (50.00%) Scala
2 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
2 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Sybase
2 2 (50.00%) DB2
2 2 (50.00%) UNIX
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (50.00%) Benchmarking

MQSeries
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing MQSeries 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 MQSeries. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (50.00%) Dojo
2 2 (50.00%) Spring MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Spring Security
2 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) DB2
1 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
General
1 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Applications Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Web Applications Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
1 2 (50.00%) Workflow
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
1 2 (50.00%) Benchmarking
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Scala
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Sybase
Canary Wharf, London
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Posted: 25 May 2013