South East WebSphere MQ Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ) skills within the South East region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WebSphere MQ over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ)
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Brentford Bristol Cheshire City of London Corby Devon Docklands, London East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Isle of Man Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peel Plymouth Reading Scotland Solihull South East South Lanarkshire South West Southampton Surrey Thames Valley UK Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	191	228
Rank change on same period last year	+37
Matching contract IT job ads	53	71
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.071 %	0.071 %
As % of the category below	3.085 %	2.715 %
Daily rates quoted	7	26
Average minimum daily rate	£424	£367
Average daily rate	£472	£390
% change on same period last year	+21.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£521	£414
UK excluding London average daily rate	£433	£388
% change on same period last year	+11.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	-
Average hourly rate	£22.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.50	£63.17
% change on same period last year	-64.37 %
Application Platforms South East
Matching contract IT job ads	1718	2615
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.290 %	2.609 %
Daily rates quoted	448	634
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£333
Average daily rate	£358	£356
% change on same period last year	+0.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£344
% change on same period last year	+2.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	200	307
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.57	£25.26
Average hourly rate	£26.72	£26.83
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.87	£28.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.40	£24.75
% change on same period last year	+2.59 %
WebSphere MQ England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

WebSphere MQ
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WebSphere MQ across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

WebSphere MQ
Daily Rate Trend

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

WebSphere MQ
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere MQ across the South East region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

WebSphere MQ
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WebSphere MQ across the South East region.

WebSphere MQ
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere MQ within the South East region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Hampshire	+24	34	£365	+2.81 %
Surrey	+8	6	£700	+55.55 %
Oxfordshire	-	4	£475	-
Home Counties	-	3	-	-
Berkshire	+26	2	£650	+11.11 %
Middlesex	+1	2	-	-
Thames Valley	-	1	-	-

WebSphere MQ England

WebSphere MQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 93 (96.88 %) WebSphere 2 42 (43.75 %) Java 3 38 (39.58 %) UNIX 4 33 (34.38 %) Windows 5 28 (29.17 %) IBM 6 26 (27.08 %) Finance 7 24 (25.00 %) WebSphere Message Broker 8 23 (23.96 %) Clustering 8 23 (23.96 %) SAP 9 20 (20.83 %) DB2 9 20 (20.83 %) Tivoli 10 19 (19.79 %) AIX 11 18 (18.75 %) CONTROL-M 12 16 (16.67 %) XML 12 16 (16.67 %) J2EE

13 15 (15.63 %) SQL 14 14 (14.58 %) Solaris 14 14 (14.58 %) SAP ALE 15 13 (13.54 %) Time Management 16 12 (12.50 %) WebServices 17 11 (11.46 %) Sun 17 11 (11.46 %) WebSphere Application Server 17 11 (11.46 %) Shell Script 18 10 (10.42 %) Business Objects 18 10 (10.42 %) JDBC 18 10 (10.42 %) BusinessObjects 18 10 (10.42 %) Windows 2000 Server 19 9 (9.375 %) SQL Server 20 8 (8.333 %) Oracle 20 8 (8.333 %) Ab Initio

WebSphere MQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 93 (96.88 %) WebSphere 2 16 (16.67 %) J2EE 2 16 (16.67 %) XML 3 14 (14.58 %) SAP ALE 4 12 (12.50 %) WebServices 5 10 (10.42 %) JDBC 6 7 (7.292 %) WSH 7 6 (6.250 %) XSLT 7 6 (6.250 %) Middleware 8 5 (5.208 %) SOAP 9 4 (4.167 %) XSD 9 4 (4.167 %) Servlets 10 2 (2.083 %) ASP 10 2 (2.083 %) WBIMB 11 1 (1.042 %) XML Messaging 11 1 (1.042 %) JMS 11 1 (1.042 %) WSDL 11 1 (1.042 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 24 (25.00 %) WebSphere Message Broker 2 11 (11.46 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 7 (7.292 %) IIS 4 5 (5.208 %) ESB 5 4 (4.167 %) WebLogic 5 4 (4.167 %) WPS 6 3 (3.125 %) BizTalk Server 6 3 (3.125 %) MQSeries 7 2 (2.083 %) CICS 8 1 (1.042 %) IBM HTTP Server 8 1 (1.042 %) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications 1 4 (4.167 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.042 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 6 (6.250 %) Sophis VALUE
Communications & Networking 1 7 (7.292 %) LDAP 1 7 (7.292 %) LAN 1 7 (7.292 %) SAN 1 7 (7.292 %) SSH 2 2 (2.083 %) HTTP 3 1 (1.042 %) DNS 3 1 (1.042 %) WAN 3 1 (1.042 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 20 (20.83 %) DB2 2 10 (10.42 %) BusinessObjects 3 9 (9.375 %) SQL Server 4 3 (3.125 %) RDBMS 5 2 (2.083 %) DB2 UDB 6 1 (1.042 %) Oracle 10g 6 1 (1.042 %) DataStage 6 1 (1.042 %) Crystal Reports 6 1 (1.042 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 1 (1.042 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 3 (3.125 %) PVCS 2 2 (2.083 %) Eclipse 2 2 (2.083 %) Introscope 3 1 (1.042 %) CruiseControl 3 1 (1.042 %) Subversion 3 1 (1.042 %) TestDirector 3 1 (1.042 %) ClearQuest 3 1 (1.042 %) ClearCase 3 1 (1.042 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 3 1 (1.042 %) Ant 3 1 (1.042 %) JUnit	General 1 26 (27.08 %) Finance 2 6 (6.250 %) Banking 3 5 (5.208 %) Retail 4 4 (4.167 %) Government 5 3 (3.125 %) Education 6 2 (2.083 %) Telecoms 7 1 (1.042 %) Local Government 7 1 (1.042 %) Pharmaceutical 7 1 (1.042 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 27 (28.13 %) Developer 1 27 (28.13 %) Analyst 2 21 (21.88 %) WebSphere Developer 3 14 (14.58 %) Integration Analyst 4 13 (13.54 %) SAP Analyst 5 11 (11.46 %) Administrator 6 6 (6.250 %) Consultant 7 5 (5.208 %) Applications Support 7 5 (5.208 %) WebSphere Consultant 7 5 (5.208 %) Windows Administrator 8 4 (4.167 %) Solaris Administrator 8 4 (4.167 %) Technical Analyst 8 4 (4.167 %) Support Analyst 8 4 (4.167 %) Systems Administrator 9 3 (3.125 %) Integration Consultant 9 3 (3.125 %) Business Consultant 10 2 (2.083 %) WebSphere Administrator 10 2 (2.083 %) Server Administrator 10 2 (2.083 %) Analyst Programmer 10 2 (2.083 %) Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 23 (23.96 %) Clustering 2 3 (3.125 %) Mainframe 2 3 (3.125 %) Computer Science 3 2 (2.083 %) Derivative 4 1 (1.042 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 38 (39.58 %) UNIX 2 33 (34.38 %) Windows 3 19 (19.79 %) AIX 4 14 (14.58 %) Solaris 5 10 (10.42 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 8 (8.333 %) Windows Server 2003 7 7 (7.292 %) MVS 8 5 (5.208 %) Linux 9 2 (2.083 %) Windows 2000 9 2 (2.083 %) Windows XP 9 2 (2.083 %) SUSE 10 1 (1.042 %) Windows NT 10 1 (1.042 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (13.54 %) Time Management 2 7 (7.292 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 7 (7.292 %) Change Management 2 7 (7.292 %) SC Cleared 2 7 (7.292 %) Security Cleared 3 6 (6.250 %) SOA 4 3 (3.125 %) ITIL 4 3 (3.125 %) Migration 4 3 (3.125 %) BPEL 4 3 (3.125 %) Systems Analysis 5 2 (2.083 %) Risk Management 6 1 (1.042 %) E-business 6 1 (1.042 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (1.042 %) UML 6 1 (1.042 %) RAD 6 1 (1.042 %) Resource Management 6 1 (1.042 %) Stakeholder Management 6 1 (1.042 %) Data Management 6 1 (1.042 %) Investment Management 6 1 (1.042 %) Data Migration
Programming Languages 1 42 (43.75 %) Java 2 15 (15.63 %) SQL 3 11 (11.46 %) Shell Script 4 7 (7.292 %) Perl 4 7 (7.292 %) VBScript 4 7 (7.292 %) VB 5 3 (3.125 %) Transact-SQL 5 3 (3.125 %) Jython 6 2 (2.083 %) XPath 6 2 (2.083 %) XQuery 6 2 (2.083 %) PL/1 7 1 (1.042 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 7 (7.292 %) MCSE 1 7 (7.292 %) MCSA 1 7 (7.292 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (4.167 %) ISEB 2 4 (4.167 %) Degree 3 2 (2.083 %) Sun Certification 3 2 (2.083 %) IBM AIX Certification 4 1 (1.042 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.042 %) SLA	System Software 1 7 (7.292 %) Active Directory 1 7 (7.292 %) VMware ESX 2 2 (2.083 %) AquaLogic
Systems Management 1 20 (20.83 %) Tivoli 2 18 (18.75 %) CONTROL-M 3 7 (7.292 %) WSUS 4 2 (2.083 %) AllFusion Endevor	Vendors 1 28 (29.17 %) IBM 2 23 (23.96 %) SAP 3 11 (11.46 %) Sun 4 10 (10.42 %) Business Objects 5 8 (8.333 %) Oracle 5 8 (8.333 %) Ab Initio 6 7 (7.292 %) VMware 6 7 (7.292 %) Sophis 6 7 (7.292 %) Remedy 7 3 (3.125 %) HP 8 1 (1.042 %) Compaq 8 1 (1.042 %) BEA 8 1 (1.042 %) CommVault 8 1 (1.042 %) VERITAS