The first table below looks at the demand for MQSeries skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MQSeries over the 3 months to 19 June 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 London 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM MQSeries
Rank 330 361 286
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -75
Contract jobs citing MQSeries 54 49 161
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.237% 0.184% 0.512%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.308% 1.103% 3.267%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 34 125
Average daily rate £475 £550 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.63% +4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £372 £460
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £675 £615
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £62.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £23.00
All Application Platforms
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
4129 4444 4928
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 18.11% 16.71% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2625 2841 3059
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £244 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £558
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 144 181
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +8.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.00 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £40.50 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
MQSeries
England

MQSeries
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London MQSeries Jobs Demand Trend

MQSeries
Daily Rate Trend

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

London MQSeries Daily Rate Trend

MQSeries
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MQSeries across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London MQSeries Daily Rate Histogram

MQSeries
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MQSeries across the London region.

London MQSeries Hourly Rate Trend

MQSeries
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MQSeries within the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London +2 16 £500 -13.04% 5
Canary Wharf +8 5 £400 -36.00% 1
Bromley - - - -
Croydon - - - -
MQSeries
England

MQSeries
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 50 (47.62%) Oracle
2 47 (44.76%) Banking
3 41 (39.05%) Java
4 35 (33.33%) UNIX
4 35 (33.33%) WebSphere
5 30 (28.57%) Linux
6 29 (27.62%) SQL Server
7 27 (25.71%) XML
8 26 (24.76%) SQL
8 26 (24.76%) TIBCO
9 24 (22.86%) .NET
9 24 (22.86%) C#
10 23 (21.90%) Windows
11 22 (20.95%) Middleware
12 19 (18.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 18 (17.14%) Web Services
13 18 (17.14%) IBM
13 18 (17.14%) Spring
13 18 (17.14%) Investment Banking
14 17 (16.19%) TCP/IP
14 17 (16.19%) Finance
15 16 (15.24%) SOAP
15 16 (15.24%) C++
15 16 (15.24%) Pega
16 15 (14.29%) Release Management
16 15 (14.29%) XSD
16 15 (14.29%) WebLogic
17 14 (13.33%) WSDL
17 14 (13.33%) MS Visio
17 14 (13.33%) WebSphere MQ

MQSeries
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 35 (33.33%) WebSphere
2 27 (25.71%) XML
3 24 (22.86%) .NET
4 22 (20.95%) Middleware
5 18 (17.14%) Web Services
5 18 (17.14%) Spring
6 16 (15.24%) SOAP
7 15 (14.29%) XSD
8 14 (13.33%) WSDL
8 14 (13.33%) WebSphere MQ
9 12 (11.43%) Rendezvous
10 11 (10.48%) J2EE
11 9 (8.571%) Hibernate
12 7 (6.667%) XSLT
12 7 (6.667%) HTML
13 6 (5.714%) JSP
13 6 (5.714%) Spring Security
13 6 (5.714%) Spring MVC
14 5 (4.762%) Drools
14 5 (4.762%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 15 (14.29%) WebLogic
2 8 (7.619%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 3 (2.857%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
3 3 (2.857%) Oracle Coherence
4 2 (1.905%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.905%) IIS
4 2 (1.905%) GemFire
5 1 (0.952%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.952%) Adobe CQ
5 1 (0.952%) Confluence
5 1 (0.952%) TIBCO EMS
5 1 (0.952%) ESB
5 1 (0.952%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.952%) Apache
5 1 (0.952%) CICS
5 1 (0.952%) WebLogic Integration
Applications
1 14 (13.33%) MS Visio
2 12 (11.43%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (8.571%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (3.810%) Summit
3 2 (1.905%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.952%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 17 (16.19%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.810%) HTTP
3 1 (0.952%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (27.62%) SQL Server
2 10 (9.524%) DB2
3 6 (5.714%) RDBMS
4 4 (3.810%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (3.810%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (1.905%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (1.905%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.905%) QlikView
5 2 (1.905%) RavenDB
6 1 (0.952%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.952%) DTS
Development Applications
1 7 (6.667%) Subversion
2 5 (4.762%) NUnit
2 5 (4.762%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 4 (3.810%) CruiseControl
4 2 (1.905%) ERwin
4 2 (1.905%) Selenium
4 2 (1.905%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.905%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.952%) Hudson
5 1 (0.952%) Maven
5 1 (0.952%) JIRA
5 1 (0.952%) Ant
5 1 (0.952%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.952%) WebLogic Workshop
General
1 47 (44.76%) Banking
2 18 (17.14%) Investment Banking
3 17 (16.19%) Finance
4 6 (5.714%) Retail
5 3 (2.857%) Front Office
6 2 (1.905%) Back Office
7 1 (0.952%) Games
7 1 (0.952%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 31 (29.52%) Developer
2 24 (22.86%) Analyst
3 23 (21.90%) Architect
4 18 (17.14%) Support Analyst
5 12 (11.43%) Java Developer
6 9 (8.571%) FX Support Analyst
7 7 (6.667%) C# Developer
8 6 (5.714%) Administrator
8 6 (5.714%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (5.714%) Production Support Analyst
9 5 (4.762%) Technical Leader
9 5 (4.762%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.810%) Test Analyst
10 4 (3.810%) WebSphere Specialist
10 4 (3.810%) Integration Engineer
10 4 (3.810%) Build Engineer
10 4 (3.810%) Middleware Specialist
11 3 (2.857%) Senior Java Developer
11 3 (2.857%) Java Technical Architect
11 3 (2.857%) UNIX Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (6.667%) Fixed Income
3 6 (5.714%) Derivative
3 6 (5.714%) Credit Risk
4 5 (4.762%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.905%) Grid Computing
5 2 (1.905%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (1.905%) Data Integration
6 1 (0.952%) SWIFT
6 1 (0.952%) Data Extraction
6 1 (0.952%) Wiki
6 1 (0.952%) Computer Science
6 1 (0.952%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.952%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.952%) Equities
6 1 (0.952%) Replication
6 1 (0.952%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 35 (33.33%) UNIX
2 30 (28.57%) Linux
3 23 (21.90%) Windows
4 11 (10.48%) Windows Server 2003
5 10 (9.524%) Windows 2000
5 10 (9.524%) Windows NT
6 6 (5.714%) Solaris
7 5 (4.762%) zOS
8 4 (3.810%) AIX
9 3 (2.857%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (14.29%) Release Management
2 12 (11.43%) TDD
3 11 (10.48%) Multithreading
4 10 (9.524%) Migration
4 10 (9.524%) Algorithmic Trading
5 9 (8.571%) Electronic Trading
6 7 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
6 7 (6.667%) MVC
7 6 (5.714%) Project Management
8 5 (4.762%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (4.762%) SOA
8 5 (4.762%) E-Commerce
9 4 (3.810%) UML
9 4 (3.810%) Asset Management
9 4 (3.810%) Software Deployment
10 3 (2.857%) Incident Management
10 3 (2.857%) Data Modelling
10 3 (2.857%) Scrum
10 3 (2.857%) Workflow
11 2 (1.905%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (39.05%) Java
2 26 (24.76%) SQL
3 24 (22.86%) C#
4 16 (15.24%) C++
5 6 (5.714%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.714%) Perl
5 6 (5.714%) Python
5 6 (5.714%) Scala
6 1 (0.952%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.952%) C
6 1 (0.952%) COBOL
6 1 (0.952%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (0.952%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.619%) QA
2 4 (3.810%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 4 (3.810%) Veritas File System
1 4 (3.810%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (0.952%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.952%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (4.762%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (3.810%) NetBackup
2 4 (3.810%) BMC PATROL
3 3 (2.857%) Control-M
4 1 (0.952%) CA Endevor
4 1 (0.952%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 50 (47.62%) Oracle
2 26 (24.76%) TIBCO
3 18 (17.14%) IBM
4 16 (15.24%) Pega
5 12 (11.43%) Microsoft
6 11 (10.48%) JBoss
7 10 (9.524%) Reuters
7 10 (9.524%) Bloomberg
7 10 (9.524%) Sybase
8 6 (5.714%) BMC
9 5 (4.762%) Calypso
10 4 (3.810%) Red Hat
10 4 (3.810%) Veritas
10 4 (3.810%) Cadis
11 3 (2.857%) DataSynapse
12 2 (1.905%) Teradata
12 2 (1.905%) Murex
13 1 (0.952%) Fiserv
13 1 (0.952%) HP
13 1 (0.952%) EMC
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Rate: £Competitive
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London
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Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Rate: £200 - £210 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
London, South East
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Church International
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
Experience of MQ Series, Oracle Coherence, XML and Drools rules engine would be ideal... Key Words: Test Analyst, Lead, QA, Regulatory, Unix, MQ Series, Drools, XSLT, Testing, Automation,...
Orgtel
Rate: £450 - £475 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
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Strong Unix and XML is essential... Key Words: Testing, Test Analyst, Investment Banking, London, UNIX, MQ Series, Clearing, Dodd Frank, XML, EMEA, Regulatory Reporting, ISEB, ISTQB, Functional, Manual.
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Rate: £425 - £450 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
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