Farnborough MQSeries Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM MQSeries skills within the Farnborough 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 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	18	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	9.091 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£348	-
Average daily rate	£371	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£393	-
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 Farnborough
Matching contract IT job ads	22	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.018 %
Daily rates quoted	14	14
Average minimum daily rate	£360	£355
Average daily rate	£380	£357
% change on same period last year	+6.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£399	£359
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£347
% change on same period last year	+1.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	-
Average hourly rate	£27.83	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.67	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.22	£24.95
% change on same period last year	+1.07 %
MQSeries Hampshire

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 Farnborough 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 Farnborough region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MQSeries across the Farnborough region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Farnborough 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 %) DB2 1 3 (100.00 %) WebSphere 1 3 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (66.67 %) SC Cleared 2 2 (66.67 %) Telecoms 2 2 (66.67 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 3 1 (33.33 %) Linux 3 1 (33.33 %) Red Hat 3 1 (33.33 %) SUSE 3 1 (33.33 %) Red Hat Linux 3 1 (33.33 %) WebSphere Message Broker

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Farnborough 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 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 1 (33.33 %) WebSphere Message Broker
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (100.00 %) DB2	General 1 2 (66.67 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Developer 2 2 (66.67 %) Applications Developer	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux 1 1 (33.33 %) SUSE 1 1 (33.33 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (66.67 %) SC Cleared	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Red Hat