The first table below looks at the demand for MQSeries skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MQSeries over the 3 months to 17 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 Manchester 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM MQSeries
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing MQSeries 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - - -
As % of the Application Platforms category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £381 £375 £390
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £25.25
All Application Platforms
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
174 262 180
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 19.04% 20.14% 17.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 143 88
Average daily rate £295 £325 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.23% +3.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £166 £138
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £443 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 21 16
Average hourly rate £21.00 £17.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.52% +36.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £10.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.90 £24.25 £20.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
MQSeries
North West

MQSeries
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester MQSeries Daily Rate Trend

MQSeries
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 8 (100.00%) HTML
1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 8 (100.00%) Perl
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
1 8 (100.00%) J2EE
1 8 (100.00%) DB2
1 8 (100.00%) Ant
1 8 (100.00%) JUnit
1 8 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 8 (100.00%) EJB
1 8 (100.00%) JDBC
1 8 (100.00%) JSP
1 8 (100.00%) Servlets
1 8 (100.00%) Struts
1 8 (100.00%) XML
1 8 (100.00%) XSLT
1 8 (100.00%) UNIX
1 8 (100.00%) HPUX
1 8 (100.00%) Solaris
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) UML
1 8 (100.00%) OO
1 8 (100.00%) RAD
1 8 (100.00%) XHTML
1 8 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 8 (100.00%) JMS
1 8 (100.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 8 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 8 (100.00%) RDBMS

MQSeries
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 8 (100.00%) HTML
1 8 (100.00%) J2EE
1 8 (100.00%) EJB
1 8 (100.00%) JDBC
1 8 (100.00%) JSP
1 8 (100.00%) Servlets
1 8 (100.00%) Struts
1 8 (100.00%) XML
1 8 (100.00%) XSLT
1 8 (100.00%) XHTML
1 8 (100.00%) JMS
1 8 (100.00%) XMLBeans
1 8 (100.00%) Ajax
1 8 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 8 (100.00%) JSTL
Application Platforms
1 8 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) DB2
1 8 (100.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Ant
1 8 (100.00%) JUnit
1 8 (100.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 8 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 8 (100.00%) Log4j
1 8 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
1 7 (87.50%) Games
1 7 (87.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
1 8 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 7 (87.50%) J2EE Developer
2 7 (87.50%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) UNIX
1 8 (100.00%) HPUX
1 8 (100.00%) Solaris
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) UML
1 8 (100.00%) OO
1 8 (100.00%) RAD
1 8 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 8 (100.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 8 (100.00%) Perl
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
1 8 (100.00%) XPath
1 8 (100.00%) Bash shell
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) IBM
1 8 (100.00%) Interwoven
1 8 (100.00%) ATG
1 8 (100.00%) Blue Martini
1 8 (100.00%) Elastic Path