The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere MQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 of England 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 115 133 110
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -23
Contract jobs citing WebSphere MQ 1 1 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.047% 0.034% 0.448%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.254% 0.213% 2.424%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £250 - £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £336 £375 £425
% change year-on-year
-10.33% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £57.50 -
All Application Platforms
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
394 469 495
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 18.58% 15.90% 18.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 221 231
Average daily rate £320 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £189 £213 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 42 49
Average hourly rate £23.50 £19.63 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.74% +40.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.50 £35.00 £30.00
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 of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England 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 of England 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
Hertfordshire - 1 £250 -
WebSphere MQ
England

WebSphere MQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 4 (100.00%) Middleware
1 4 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) WebLogic
3 2 (50.00%) UNIX
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (50.00%) Apache
3 2 (50.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (50.00%) WebCenter
3 2 (50.00%) Hedge funds
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 1 (25.00%) iSCSI
4 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (25.00%) J2EE
4 1 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
4 1 (25.00%) Information Security
4 1 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (25.00%) Clustering
4 1 (25.00%) HTTP
4 1 (25.00%) IBM
4 1 (25.00%) HP
4 1 (25.00%) EMC
4 1 (25.00%) BEA

WebSphere MQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 4 (100.00%) Middleware
1 4 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (50.00%) WebCenter
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) WebLogic
2 2 (50.00%) Apache
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Messaging Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Messaging Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Solaris
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) EMC
2 1 (25.00%) BEA
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
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