Lancashire MQSeries Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM MQSeries skills within the Lancashire 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 Lancashire 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	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
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 Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	62	52
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.082 %	0.052 %
Daily rates quoted	13	13
Average minimum daily rate	£256	£306
Average daily rate	£273	£319
% change on same period last year	-14.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£290	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£347
% change on same period last year	+1.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.96	£23.50
Average hourly rate	£26.29	£24.85
% change on same period last year	+5.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.63	£26.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.22	£24.95
% change on same period last year	+1.07 %
MQSeries North West

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.

MQSeries
Demand Trend

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

MQSeries
Daily Rate Trend

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