The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere MQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebSphere MQ over the 3 months to 20 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 Development category for the Reading 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ)
Rank 69 78 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing WebSphere MQ 6 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.675% 0.089% -
As % of the Application Development category 3.077% 0.581% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £443 £513 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.65% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £418 £425
% change year-on-year
-10.23% -1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £57.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
- +53.33%
All Application Development
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
195 172 212
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 21.93% 15.23% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 66 104
Average daily rate £375 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 6
Average hourly rate £15.00 £19.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.05% +15.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
WebSphere MQ
Berkshire

WebSphere MQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading WebSphere MQ Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere MQ
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 6 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 5 (83.33%) DataPower
2 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) IBM
3 4 (66.67%) DB2
3 4 (66.67%) AIX
3 4 (66.67%) Solaris
3 4 (66.67%) Linux
3 4 (66.67%) IBM Certification
3 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
3 4 (66.67%) Clustering
3 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (66.67%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) Finance
5 1 (16.67%) Change Management
5 1 (16.67%) FileNet
5 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (16.67%) Middleware
5 1 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 1 (16.67%) MS Project
5 1 (16.67%) UNIX
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (16.67%) Publishing
5 1 (16.67%) Ab Initio
5 1 (16.67%) Resource Management

WebSphere MQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 6 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) FileNet
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) DB2
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Support
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Ab Initio Developer
2 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) DataPower
2 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (66.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) AIX
2 4 (66.67%) Solaris
2 4 (66.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (66.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) IBM Certification
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Ab Initio