The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere MQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebSphere MQ 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 City of London 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 WebSphere MQ (WMQ)
Rank 172 199 205
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +6
Contract jobs citing WebSphere MQ 31 19 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.486% 0.242% 0.408%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.849% 1.593% 2.787%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 34
Average daily rate £475 £450 £494
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.55% -8.86%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £378 £343 £383
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £369 £378 £425
% change year-on-year
-2.31% -11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £42.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £57.50 -
All Application Platforms
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1088 1193 1435
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 17.06% 15.17% 14.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 753 808 1010
Average daily rate £405 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.25% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £253 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 35 63
Average hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £15.00 £12.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.20 £49.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
WebSphere MQ
London

WebSphere MQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London WebSphere MQ Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere MQ
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WebSphere MQ across the City of London region.

City of London WebSphere MQ Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere MQ
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere MQ across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London WebSphere MQ Daily Rate Histogram

WebSphere MQ
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WebSphere MQ across the City of London region.

City of London WebSphere MQ Hourly Rate Trend

WebSphere MQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing WebSphere MQ 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 MQ.

1 58 (98.31%) WebSphere
2 39 (66.10%) Banking
3 32 (54.24%) IBM
4 27 (45.76%) SQL Server
5 26 (44.07%) C#
5 26 (44.07%) .NET
6 23 (38.98%) SQL
7 22 (37.29%) MSMQ
8 20 (33.90%) MS Excel
8 20 (33.90%) WCF
9 19 (32.20%) Open Source
9 19 (32.20%) Java
9 19 (32.20%) MySQL
10 17 (28.81%) MVC
10 17 (28.81%) Finance
11 16 (27.12%) Front Office
12 15 (25.42%) Lucene
12 15 (25.42%) .NET Remoting
12 15 (25.42%) NHibernate
12 15 (25.42%) Scrum
12 15 (25.42%) OO
12 15 (25.42%) Inversion of Control
12 15 (25.42%) Rhino Mocks
12 15 (25.42%) Spring.NET
12 15 (25.42%) WPF
12 15 (25.42%) Multithreading
12 15 (25.42%) Memory Management
12 15 (25.42%) Unity DI Container
13 13 (22.03%) Linux
14 12 (20.34%) Oracle

WebSphere MQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing WebSphere MQ 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 MQ. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 58 (98.31%) WebSphere
2 26 (44.07%) .NET
3 20 (33.90%) WCF
4 15 (25.42%) Lucene
4 15 (25.42%) .NET Remoting
4 15 (25.42%) NHibernate
4 15 (25.42%) Spring.NET
4 15 (25.42%) WPF
4 15 (25.42%) Unity DI Container
5 9 (15.25%) Middleware
5 9 (15.25%) .NET Framework
6 7 (11.86%) XSLT
6 7 (11.86%) Web Services
7 6 (10.17%) J2EE
8 5 (8.475%) WSDL
8 5 (8.475%) XML
8 5 (8.475%) XSL
9 4 (6.780%) ASP
9 4 (6.780%) JSP
9 4 (6.780%) ODBC
Application Platforms
1 22 (37.29%) MSMQ
2 11 (18.64%) IIS
3 10 (16.95%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 7 (11.86%) Adobe CQ
5 5 (8.475%) Tomcat
6 4 (6.780%) Alfresco
6 4 (6.780%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (6.780%) Apache
6 4 (6.780%) SharePoint
7 3 (5.085%) WebLogic
8 2 (3.390%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (1.695%) WebSphere Process Server
9 1 (1.695%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (1.695%) MQSeries
9 1 (1.695%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
Applications
1 20 (33.90%) MS Excel
2 5 (8.475%) MS Office
3 4 (6.780%) MS Visio
4 2 (3.390%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 7 (11.86%) Misys Equation
1 7 (11.86%) Misys Midas
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.780%) Internet
2 3 (5.085%) HTTP
3 1 (1.695%) X.509
3 1 (1.695%) Firewall
3 1 (1.695%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.695%) SSL
3 1 (1.695%) LDAP
3 1 (1.695%) SMTP
3 1 (1.695%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (45.76%) SQL Server
2 19 (32.20%) MySQL
3 7 (11.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (10.17%) Oracle 8/8i
5 5 (8.475%) MS Access
5 5 (8.475%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (1.695%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 15 (25.42%) Rhino Mocks
2 5 (8.475%) Subversion
3 4 (6.780%) WinDbg
3 4 (6.780%) Ant
4 2 (3.390%) ClearCase
4 2 (3.390%) ClearQuest
5 1 (1.695%) Eclipse
General
1 39 (66.10%) Banking
2 17 (28.81%) Finance
3 16 (27.12%) Front Office
4 7 (11.86%) Private Banking
5 6 (10.17%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.085%) Telecoms
6 3 (5.085%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.390%) Back Office
8 1 (1.695%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (64.41%) Developer
2 16 (27.12%) .NET Developer
3 8 (13.56%) WebSphere Developer
4 7 (11.86%) Programmer
5 6 (10.17%) Analyst
5 6 (10.17%) Architect
6 5 (8.475%) Applications Support Analyst
6 5 (8.475%) Project Manager
6 5 (8.475%) Support Analyst
6 5 (8.475%) Applications Support
6 5 (8.475%) Middleware Developer
7 4 (6.780%) Technical Project Manager
7 4 (6.780%) Technical Manager
8 3 (5.085%) Designer
9 2 (3.390%) Java Architect
9 2 (3.390%) Consultant
9 2 (3.390%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.390%) Solutions Designer
9 2 (3.390%) Administrator
9 2 (3.390%) WebSphere Architect
Miscellaneous
1 19 (32.20%) Open Source
2 15 (25.42%) Inversion of Control
3 11 (18.64%) AS400
3 11 (18.64%) iSeries
4 7 (11.86%) Online Banking
5 4 (6.780%) SWIFT
6 2 (3.390%) DataPower
6 2 (3.390%) Mainframe
6 2 (3.390%) PKI
7 1 (1.695%) Statistics
7 1 (1.695%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.695%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.03%) Linux
2 10 (16.95%) Windows
3 4 (6.780%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (6.780%) UNIX
3 4 (6.780%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (3.390%) AIX
4 2 (3.390%) Solaris
5 1 (1.695%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (28.81%) MVC
2 15 (25.42%) Scrum
2 15 (25.42%) OO
2 15 (25.42%) Multithreading
2 15 (25.42%) Memory Management
3 7 (11.86%) Migration
4 4 (6.780%) Matrix Management
4 4 (6.780%) Document Management
4 4 (6.780%) Software Testing
5 3 (5.085%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (3.390%) ETL
7 1 (1.695%) Incident Management
7 1 (1.695%) Information Security
7 1 (1.695%) Risk Management
7 1 (1.695%) B2B
7 1 (1.695%) ITIL
7 1 (1.695%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (1.695%) Change Control
7 1 (1.695%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (1.695%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (44.07%) C#
2 23 (38.98%) SQL
3 19 (32.20%) Java
4 7 (11.86%) RPG
5 6 (10.17%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.780%) VBScript
7 2 (3.390%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.695%) XPath
8 1 (1.695%) Jython
8 1 (1.695%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.695%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 6 (10.17%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.475%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.695%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (3.390%) Control-M
Vendors
1 32 (54.24%) IBM
2 12 (20.34%) Oracle
3 11 (18.64%) Microsoft
4 7 (11.86%) Misys
5 5 (8.475%) Mercator
6 4 (6.780%) Plumtree
6 4 (6.780%) Lotus
6 4 (6.780%) JBoss
7 2 (3.390%) thinkFolio
7 2 (3.390%) Cadis
7 2 (3.390%) Unisys
7 2 (3.390%) Sun
8 1 (1.695%) HP
City of London
Our London based client is looking for an experienced Solution Architect for a range of design and integration projects mainly around BizTalk. You will be responsible for leading...
Fulcrum Telecom
Rate: £400 - £500 per annum
Posted: 1 May 2013
City of London
Our London based client is looking for an experienced Solution Architect for a range of design and integration projects mainly around BizTalk. You will be responsible for leading...
Fulcrum Telecom
Rate: £400 - £500 per annum
Posted: 8 May 2013