England WebSphere MQ Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ) skills within the England region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WebSphere MQ over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ)
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bristol Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester City of London Corby Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Glasgow Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Home Counties Isle of Man Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peel Peterborough Scotland Solihull South East South Lanarkshire South West Southampton Surrey Thames Valley UK Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	325	390
Rank change on same period last year	+65
Matching contract IT job ads	262	274
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.349 %	0.277 %
As % of the category below	2.611 %	2.221 %
Daily rates quoted	68	76
Average minimum daily rate	£391	£390
Average daily rate	£421	£407
% change on same period last year	+3.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£451	£425
UK excluding London average daily rate	£412	£394
% change on same period last year	+4.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.00	£65.88
Average hourly rate	£28.25	£67.44
% change on same period last year	-58.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.50	£69.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.50	£62.79
% change on same period last year	-64.16 %
Application Platforms England
Matching contract IT job ads	10035	12336
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	13.38 %	12.48 %
Daily rates quoted	3035	3209
Average minimum daily rate	£353	£358
Average daily rate	£377	£379
% change on same period last year	-0.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£349
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	1090	1265
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.54	£22.80
Average hourly rate	£24.12	£24.23
% change on same period last year	-0.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.70	£25.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
WebSphere MQ UK

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.

WebSphere MQ
Demand Trend

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

WebSphere MQ
Daily Rate Trend

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

WebSphere MQ
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere MQ across the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

WebSphere MQ
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WebSphere MQ across the England region.

WebSphere MQ
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere MQ within the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
South East	+46	70	£443	+12.99 %
London	-13	62	£440	+4.32 %
North West	+33	52	£458	+57.00 %
East Midlands	+32	28	£380	-
East of England	+6	14	£369	-17.96 %
West Midlands	+4	10	-	-
Midlands	+10	9	£406	-
Yorkshire	+11	6	£413	-8.33 %
South West	+27	4	£338	-32.16 %
North East	-	2	£325	-

WebSphere MQ UK

WebSphere MQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 480 (93.39 %) WebSphere 2 201 (39.11 %) UNIX 3 157 (30.54 %) Java 4 155 (30.16 %) Solaris 5 154 (29.96 %) Finance 6 152 (29.57 %) AIX 7 146 (28.40 %) Windows 8 144 (28.02 %) Middleware 9 131 (25.49 %) IBM 10 108 (21.01 %) WebSphere Application Server 10 108 (21.01 %) WebSphere Message Broker 11 88 (17.12 %) Shell Script 12 87 (16.93 %) Tivoli 13 85 (16.54 %) XML 14 72 (14.01 %) WBIMB

15 65 (12.65 %) MQSeries 16 64 (12.45 %) Oracle 16 64 (12.45 %) Mainframe 17 57 (11.09 %) SSL 18 56 (10.89 %) Linux 19 55 (10.70 %) C++ 19 55 (10.70 %) OMEGAMON 20 54 (10.51 %) Banking 21 52 (10.12 %) Tandem 21 52 (10.12 %) HPUX 22 51 (9.922 %) J2EE 22 51 (9.922 %) Sybase 23 48 (9.339 %) Change Management 24 43 (8.366 %) SAP 25 39 (7.588 %) SOA

WebSphere MQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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 1 480 (93.39 %) WebSphere 2 144 (28.02 %) Middleware 3 85 (16.54 %) XML 4 72 (14.01 %) WBIMB 5 51 (9.922 %) J2EE 6 33 (6.420 %) JMS 7 24 (4.669 %) MFC 8 22 (4.280 %) WebServices 9 20 (3.891 %) SAP ALE 10 18 (3.502 %) Spring 10 18 (3.502 %) XSLT 10 18 (3.502 %) SOAP 11 13 (2.529 %) JDBC 11 13 (2.529 %) XML Schema 12 12 (2.335 %) Swing 13 8 (1.556 %) Hibernate 14 7 (1.362 %) WSH 15 5 (0.973 %) Java RMI 15 5 (0.973 %) XSD 16 4 (0.778 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 108 (21.01 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 108 (21.01 %) WebSphere Message Broker 2 65 (12.65 %) MQSeries 3 27 (5.253 %) WebLogic 4 19 (3.696 %) SmartSockets 4 19 (3.696 %) ESB 5 15 (2.918 %) WPS 6 14 (2.724 %) Gentran 7 11 (2.140 %) Rendezvous 8 8 (1.556 %) IIS 8 8 (1.556 %) Oracle Workflow 9 7 (1.362 %) IBM HTTP Server 9 7 (1.362 %) MQSI 9 7 (1.362 %) TIBCO EMS 10 6 (1.167 %) BizTalk Server 11 5 (0.973 %) MTS 12 4 (0.778 %) Oracle HTTP Server 12 4 (0.778 %) JBoss 12 4 (0.778 %) Mule 13 3 (0.584 %) ATG Dynamo
Applications 1 5 (0.973 %) MS Excel 2 2 (0.389 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 9 (1.751 %) BusinessWorks 2 7 (1.362 %) SAP R/3 3 6 (1.167 %) Sophis VALUE
Communications & Networking 1 57 (11.09 %) SSL 2 28 (5.447 %) HTTP 3 18 (3.502 %) LDAP 4 16 (3.113 %) Firewall 5 13 (2.529 %) SAN 6 9 (1.751 %) LAN 7 7 (1.362 %) SSH 8 6 (1.167 %) Intranet 9 5 (0.973 %) TCP/IP 10 4 (0.778 %) FTP 11 3 (0.584 %) WAN 12 2 (0.389 %) ATM 12 2 (0.389 %) RIP 12 2 (0.389 %) Internet 12 2 (0.389 %) OSPF 12 2 (0.389 %) iSCSI 12 2 (0.389 %) Frame Relay 13 1 (0.195 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 36 (7.004 %) DB2 2 16 (3.113 %) SQL Server 3 13 (2.529 %) Crystal Reports 3 13 (2.529 %) Oracle 10g 4 12 (2.335 %) RDBMS 5 11 (2.140 %) BusinessObjects 6 6 (1.167 %) SQL Server 7 7 4 (0.778 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 3 (0.584 %) PowerCenter 9 2 (0.389 %) DB2 UDB 10 1 (0.195 %) SQL Server Integration Services 10 1 (0.195 %) DataStage 10 1 (0.195 %) Oracle 9i 10 1 (0.195 %) Data Mining 10 1 (0.195 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 34 (6.615 %) ClearCase 2 11 (2.140 %) JUnit 3 6 (1.167 %) Rational Rose 3 6 (1.167 %) Eclipse 4 4 (0.778 %) ClearQuest 5 3 (0.584 %) Ant 5 3 (0.584 %) PVCS 6 2 (0.389 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 2 (0.389 %) Introscope 6 2 (0.389 %) NUnit 7 1 (0.195 %) CruiseControl 7 1 (0.195 %) Subversion 7 1 (0.195 %) Oracle Forms 7 1 (0.195 %) TestDirector 7 1 (0.195 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer	General 1 154 (29.96 %) Finance 2 54 (10.51 %) Banking 3 26 (5.058 %) Investment Banking 4 21 (4.086 %) Retail 5 13 (2.529 %) Financial Institution 6 8 (1.556 %) Education 6 8 (1.556 %) Insurance 7 6 (1.167 %) Government 7 6 (1.167 %) Front Office 8 5 (0.973 %) Telecoms 9 1 (0.195 %) Chemicals 9 1 (0.195 %) Local Government 9 1 (0.195 %) Pensions 9 1 (0.195 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 179 (34.82 %) Developer 2 86 (16.73 %) WebSphere Developer 3 72 (14.01 %) Administrator 4 52 (10.12 %) Consultant 5 51 (9.922 %) Analyst 6 36 (7.004 %) WebSphere Administrator 7 33 (6.420 %) WebSphere Consultant 7 33 (6.420 %) WebSphere Specialist 8 26 (5.058 %) C++ Developer 9 17 (3.307 %) Architect 10 15 (2.918 %) Infrastructure Specialist 10 15 (2.918 %) Integration Analyst 11 13 (2.529 %) SAP Analyst 11 13 (2.529 %) Java Developer 11 13 (2.529 %) Senior Developer 12 10 (1.946 %) Systems Administrator 13 9 (1.751 %) Support Analyst 14 8 (1.556 %) J2EE Developer 14 8 (1.556 %) WebSphere Architect 14 8 (1.556 %) Team Leader	Miscellaneous 1 64 (12.45 %) Mainframe 2 52 (10.12 %) Tandem 3 28 (5.447 %) Clustering 4 27 (5.253 %) Multithreading 5 19 (3.696 %) Fixed Income 6 7 (1.362 %) AS400 6 7 (1.362 %) N-Tier 7 6 (1.167 %) EPoS 8 4 (0.778 %) HACMP 8 4 (0.778 %) Client/Server 9 3 (0.584 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 9 3 (0.584 %) Computer Science 9 3 (0.584 %) Equities 9 3 (0.584 %) Derivative 10 1 (0.195 %) Statistics
Operating Systems 1 201 (39.11 %) UNIX 2 155 (30.16 %) Solaris 3 152 (29.57 %) AIX 4 146 (28.40 %) Windows 5 56 (10.89 %) Linux 6 52 (10.12 %) HPUX 7 16 (3.113 %) Windows 2000 8 12 (2.335 %) zOS 9 8 (1.556 %) SUSE 10 7 (1.362 %) MVS 10 7 (1.362 %) Windows Server 2003 11 5 (0.973 %) Windows NT 12 3 (0.584 %) Windows XP 12 3 (0.584 %) VMS 12 3 (0.584 %) OpenVMS 13 2 (0.389 %) OS/390	Processes & Methodologies 1 48 (9.339 %) Change Management 2 39 (7.588 %) SOA 3 24 (4.669 %) OO 4 16 (3.113 %) EAI 5 14 (2.724 %) Time Management 5 14 (2.724 %) Security Cleared 6 13 (2.529 %) SC Cleared 7 11 (2.140 %) Service Delivery 8 10 (1.946 %) Workflow 9 9 (1.751 %) UML 9 9 (1.751 %) Load Balancing 9 9 (1.751 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 8 (1.556 %) Unit Testing 11 7 (1.362 %) Release Management 11 7 (1.362 %) ITIL 11 7 (1.362 %) Agile Software Development 12 6 (1.167 %) E-Commerce 13 5 (0.973 %) Migration 13 5 (0.973 %) Problem Management 14 4 (0.778 %) TDD
Programming Languages 1 157 (30.54 %) Java 2 88 (17.12 %) Shell Script 3 55 (10.70 %) C++ 4 38 (7.393 %) SQL 5 27 (5.253 %) VC++ 5 27 (5.253 %) C# 6 17 (3.307 %) JavaScript 7 16 (3.113 %) Perl 8 9 (1.751 %) VB 9 7 (1.362 %) COBOL 9 7 (1.362 %) VBScript 9 7 (1.362 %) Korn 10 5 (0.973 %) Jython 11 4 (0.778 %) C 11 4 (0.778 %) Transact-SQL 12 2 (0.389 %) Python 12 2 (0.389 %) XQuery 12 2 (0.389 %) Assembly Language 12 2 (0.389 %) PL/SQL 12 2 (0.389 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 7 (1.362 %) MCSE 1 7 (1.362 %) MCSA 1 7 (1.362 %) Microsoft Certification 1 7 (1.362 %) Degree 2 5 (0.973 %) ISEB 3 4 (0.778 %) Sun Certification 4 2 (0.389 %) IBM AIX Certification 4 2 (0.389 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 1 (0.195 %) SCJP 5 1 (0.195 %) SCJA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (0.584 %) SLA 2 2 (0.389 %) PCI DSS	System Software 1 7 (1.362 %) Active Directory 1 7 (1.362 %) VMware ESX 2 3 (0.584 %) Oracle RAC 3 2 (0.389 %) MSMQ 3 2 (0.389 %) AquaLogic 3 2 (0.389 %) Terminal Services 4 1 (0.195 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 87 (16.93 %) Tivoli 2 55 (10.70 %) OMEGAMON 3 27 (5.253 %) AutoSys 4 19 (3.696 %) CONTROL-M 5 15 (2.918 %) BMC PATROL 6 8 (1.556 %) MOM 7 7 (1.362 %) WSUS 8 5 (0.973 %) BMC Performance Manager 9 3 (0.584 %) Tivoli Monitoring 10 2 (0.389 %) CA SiteMinder 10 2 (0.389 %) TIBCO Hawk	Vendors 1 131 (25.49 %) IBM 2 64 (12.45 %) Oracle 3 51 (9.922 %) Sybase 4 43 (8.366 %) SAP 5 29 (5.642 %) TIBCO 6 27 (5.253 %) Sun 7 15 (2.918 %) BMC 8 14 (2.724 %) Cisco 9 12 (2.335 %) HP 10 11 (2.140 %) Business Objects 11 8 (1.556 %) Ab Initio 11 8 (1.556 %) Sophis 12 7 (1.362 %) VMware 12 7 (1.362 %) Remedy 13 6 (1.167 %) Novell 13 6 (1.167 %) Microsoft 14 5 (0.973 %) Calypso 14 5 (0.973 %) BEA 14 5 (0.973 %) VERITAS 14 5 (0.973 %) Red Hat