The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere Message Broker skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands 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 17 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 East Midlands 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere Message Broker (WMB)
Rank 80 83 70
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -13
Contract jobs citing WebSphere Message Broker 4 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.317% 0.220% 0.365%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.724% 1.261% 2.415%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
Average daily rate - £350 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -26.31%
UK excluding London average daily rate £438 £350 £450
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -22.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £24.00
All Application Platforms
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
232 238 207
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 18.40% 17.44% 15.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 132 67
Average daily rate £300 £275 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -21.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £205 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 16
Average hourly rate £18.00 £30.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.00% +71.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.20 £8.50 £15.27
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £57.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
WebSphere Message Broker
England

WebSphere Message Broker
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands WebSphere Message Broker Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere Message Broker
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WebSphere Message Broker across the East Midlands region.

East Midlands WebSphere Message Broker Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere Message Broker
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 9 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 8 (88.89%) WebSphere MQ
2 8 (88.89%) Oracle
2 8 (88.89%) DB2
3 7 (77.78%) IBM
4 6 (66.67%) UNIX
4 6 (66.67%) Windows
4 6 (66.67%) Linux
4 6 (66.67%) SOA
5 5 (55.56%) EAI
5 5 (55.56%) ESB
6 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
6 4 (44.44%) RDBMS
6 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (33.33%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (33.33%) Subversion
7 3 (33.33%) Java EE
7 3 (33.33%) ERP
7 3 (33.33%) J2EE
8 2 (22.22%) HPUX
8 2 (22.22%) HTTP
8 2 (22.22%) zOS
8 2 (22.22%) IBM Certification
8 2 (22.22%) Middleware
9 1 (11.11%) HP
9 1 (11.11%) DataPower
9 1 (11.11%) WSDL
9 1 (11.11%) TOAD
9 1 (11.11%) MQSeries

WebSphere Message Broker
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 9 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (33.33%) Java EE
2 3 (33.33%) J2EE
3 2 (22.22%) Middleware
4 1 (11.11%) soapUI
4 1 (11.11%) Web Services
4 1 (11.11%) XML
4 1 (11.11%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 8 (88.89%) WebSphere MQ
2 5 (55.56%) ESB
3 1 (11.11%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) DB2
2 4 (44.44%) RDBMS
3 1 (11.11%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Systems Integrator
2 3 (33.33%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) UNIX
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (22.22%) zOS
3 2 (22.22%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) SOA
2 5 (55.56%) EAI
3 3 (33.33%) ERP
3 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) IBM Certification
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Oracle
2 7 (77.78%) IBM
3 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
4 1 (11.11%) HP
4 1 (11.11%) SAP