The first table below looks at the demand for MQSeries skills in IT contracts advertised for the Dorset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MQSeries over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Dorset 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM MQSeries
Rank 32 26 38
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +12
Contract jobs citing MQSeries 2 8 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 0.881% 2.857% 1.897%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.762% 16.33% 8.235%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 6
Average daily rate £378 £375 £343
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.66% +9.48%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £375 £323
10% offered a daily rate of more than £456 £397 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £23.00
All Application Platforms
Dorset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
42 49 85
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 18.50% 17.50% 23.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 30 47
Average daily rate £350 £362 £175
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.38% +107.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £242 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £685 £400 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
Average hourly rate £17.50 £27.50 £40.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.36% -32.09%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
MQSeries
South West

MQSeries
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset 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 Dorset region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Dorset MQSeries Daily Rate Histogram

MQSeries
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MQSeries within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bournemouth -5 1 £280 -25.33%
MQSeries
South West

MQSeries
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) TIBCO
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Cash Management
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL

MQSeries
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Support Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Cash Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) TIBCO
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