The first table below looks at the demand for MQSeries skills in IT contracts advertised for the North Yorkshire 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 North Yorkshire 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 North Yorkshire - - -
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
North Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
33 48 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 21.29% 26.82% 23.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 26 21
Average daily rate £355 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.23% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £286 £240 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £363 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
Average hourly rate £25.00 £14.00 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+78.57% -9.67%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
MQSeries
Yorkshire

MQSeries
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North Yorkshire 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 North Yorkshire region.

North Yorkshire MQSeries Daily Rate Trend

MQSeries
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Struts
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Automotive
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) JSF
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing

MQSeries
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Struts
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) JSF
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (100.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle