Dorset MQSeries Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM MQSeries skills within the Dorset region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MQSeries over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM MQSeries
Location Barnsley Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands City of London County Antrim Coventry Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Jersey Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northern Ireland Peterborough Portsmouth Rickmansworth Scotland Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Warwickshire Watford West Midlands Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	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
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Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average daily rate	£371	£415
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
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	£45.00	£53.13
% change on same period last year	-15.29 %
Application Platforms Dorset
Matching contract IT job ads	69	83
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.091 %	0.083 %
Daily rates quoted	26	32
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£294
Average daily rate	£309	£314
% change on same period last year	-1.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£319	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£347
% change on same period last year	+1.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.31	£23.65
Average hourly rate	£29.34	£25.77
% change on same period last year	+13.87 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.38	£27.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.22	£24.95
% change on same period last year	+1.07 %
MQSeries South West

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MQSeries across the Dorset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, 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 3 (100.00 %) WebSphere MQ 1 3 (100.00 %) Middleware 1 3 (100.00 %) WebSphere 2 2 (66.67 %) UNIX 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) Intranet

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, 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 3 (100.00 %) Middleware 1 3 (100.00 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 3 (100.00 %) WebSphere MQ
Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) Intranet	Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Administrator 2 1 (33.33 %) WebSphere Administrator
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) UNIX 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows