The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere MQ 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 MQ over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ)
Rank 72 81 76
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -5
Contract jobs citing WebSphere MQ 11 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.882% 0.218% 0.354%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.825% 1.261% 2.283%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
Average daily rate £425 £385 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.38% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £336 £375 £425
% change year-on-year
-10.33% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £57.50 -
All Application Platforms
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
228 238 219
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 18.28% 17.28% 15.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 133 77
Average daily rate £300 £275 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -17.91%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £205 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £405 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 22 16
Average hourly rate £18.00 £25.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.00% +42.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £8.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.50 £57.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
WebSphere MQ
England

WebSphere MQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands WebSphere MQ Daily Rate Trend

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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands WebSphere MQ Hourly Rate Trend

WebSphere MQ
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere MQ within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Nottinghamshire - 6 £425 -
Leicestershire - 1 - -
WebSphere MQ
England

WebSphere MQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 18 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 10 (55.56%) DataPower
2 10 (55.56%) Web Services
2 10 (55.56%) XML
2 10 (55.56%) HTTP
3 9 (50.00%) WSDL
3 9 (50.00%) SSL
4 8 (44.44%) XML Schema
4 8 (44.44%) SOAP
4 8 (44.44%) XSD
4 8 (44.44%) XSLT
4 8 (44.44%) HTML
4 8 (44.44%) XPath
5 7 (38.89%) UNIX
6 6 (33.33%) Windows
6 6 (33.33%) Oracle
6 6 (33.33%) DB2
6 6 (33.33%) IBM
6 6 (33.33%) SOA
6 6 (33.33%) WebSphere Message Broker
7 5 (27.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (27.78%) Red Hat
7 5 (27.78%) Linux
8 4 (22.22%) Finance
9 3 (16.67%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (16.67%) Subversion
9 3 (16.67%) BPEL
9 3 (16.67%) Maven
9 3 (16.67%) Java EE
9 3 (16.67%) ESB

WebSphere MQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 18 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 10 (55.56%) Web Services
2 10 (55.56%) XML
3 9 (50.00%) WSDL
4 8 (44.44%) XML Schema
4 8 (44.44%) SOAP
4 8 (44.44%) XSD
4 8 (44.44%) XSLT
4 8 (44.44%) HTML
5 3 (16.67%) Java EE
5 3 (16.67%) J2EE
6 2 (11.11%) Middleware
7 1 (5.556%) soapUI
7 1 (5.556%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (33.33%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 3 (16.67%) ESB
2 3 (16.67%) WebLogic
3 1 (5.556%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) HTTP
2 9 (50.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) DB2
2 2 (11.11%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.556%) TOAD
3 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Subversion
1 3 (16.67%) Maven
1 3 (16.67%) Hudson
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Administrator
2 4 (22.22%) WebSphere Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Middleware Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Systems Integrator
3 2 (11.11%) WebSphere Specialist
4 1 (5.556%) WebSphere Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) .NET Developer
4 1 (5.556%) VB.NET Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) UNIX
2 6 (33.33%) Windows
3 5 (27.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (27.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) SOA
2 3 (16.67%) BPEL
2 3 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (16.67%) ERP
2 3 (16.67%) EAI
3 2 (11.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) XPath
2 3 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (5.556%) VB6
3 1 (5.556%) SQL
3 1 (5.556%) VB
3 1 (5.556%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle
1 6 (33.33%) IBM
2 5 (27.78%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.556%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.556%) SAP
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