The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere MQ 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 WebSphere MQ over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ)
Rank 73 57 56
Rank change year-on-year
-16 -1
Contract jobs citing WebSphere MQ 2 31 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.212% 2.361% 1.270%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.070% 11.74% 7.263%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 11 1
Average daily rate - £475 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +15.15%
UK excluding London average daily rate £336 £380 £425
% change year-on-year
-11.51% -10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £57.50 -
All Application Platforms
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
187 264 179
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 19.85% 20.11% 17.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 142 89
Average daily rate £295 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.23% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £161 £197 £145
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £443 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 20 18
Average hourly rate £21.00 £17.25 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.73% +38.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.70 £12.00 £9.98
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.60 £24.75 £18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
WebSphere MQ
North West

WebSphere MQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester WebSphere MQ Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere MQ
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester WebSphere MQ Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere MQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) IBM
1 4 (80.00%) Middleware
1 4 (80.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (60.00%) TIBCO EMS
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Problem Management
2 3 (60.00%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
2 3 (60.00%) Drools
2 3 (60.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (60.00%) Esper
2 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (60.00%) TIBCO
2 3 (60.00%) TIBCO Hawk
2 3 (60.00%) BusinessWorks
2 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Equities
2 3 (60.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Web Services
2 3 (60.00%) XML
2 3 (60.00%) XSD
2 3 (60.00%) XSLT
2 3 (60.00%) UNIX
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) LDAP

WebSphere MQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 4 (80.00%) Middleware
1 4 (80.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (60.00%) Drools
2 3 (60.00%) Esper
2 3 (60.00%) Web Services
2 3 (60.00%) XML
2 3 (60.00%) XSD
2 3 (60.00%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) TIBCO EMS
2 1 (20.00%) SonicMQ
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (20.00%) CICS
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Portal
2 1 (20.00%) ESB
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
1 3 (60.00%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) LDAP
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) SNA
2 1 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) TIBCO Support
1 3 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (60.00%) Equities
1 3 (60.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (20.00%) VSAM
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (20.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) UNIX
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem Management
1 3 (60.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (60.00%) EAI
1 3 (60.00%) SOA
2 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) IBM
2 3 (60.00%) TIBCO