MQSeries Contracts

IBM MQSeries
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for MQSeries skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MQSeries over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 716 832
Rank change year-on-year +128 +116 -180
Contract jobs citing MQSeries 10 3 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.005% 0.019%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.24% 0.046% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 12
10th Percentile £463 £449 £397
25th Percentile £495 £454 £537
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £475 £738
Median % change year-on-year +9.21% -35.59% +22.92%
75th Percentile £563 £529 £750
90th Percentile £791 £549 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £470 £400
% change year-on-year +3.72% +17.50% -15.79%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

MQSeries is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,145 6,581 11,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.57% 11.00% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,849 4,620 7,600
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 150 212
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.42 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.52 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.26% +93.18% -2.22%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £79.19 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.75 £26.24 £18.75
% change year-on-year -9.49% +39.95% -6.25%

MQSeries
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MQSeries as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MQSeries in the UK

MQSeries
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MQSeries.

Daily rate trend for MQSeries in the UK

MQSeries
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MQSeries over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MQSeries in the UK

MQSeries
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MQSeries.

Hourly rate trend for MQSeries in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MQSeries within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +136 10 £519 +3.75% 5
London +108 9 £538 +7.50% 1
Work from Home +131 1 £1,250 +163.16% 3
UK excluding London +65 1 £488 +3.72% 4
South West - 1 £488 -

MQSeries
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
1 4 (40.00%) FTP
1 4 (40.00%) HTTP
1 4 (40.00%) HTTPS
1 4 (40.00%) IPsec
1 4 (40.00%) Network Security
1 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (40.00%) tcpdump
1 4 (40.00%) VPN
1 4 (40.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (20.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (20.00%) Banking
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Private Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Unix Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Unix Linux Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Integration Developer
3 2 (20.00%) RPG Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Quantitative Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) XML
2 4 (40.00%) LDAP
3 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (20.00%) FpML
3 2 (20.00%) RAML
3 2 (20.00%) REST
3 2 (20.00%) Swagger
3 2 (20.00%) XML Schema
4 1 (10.00%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) AS400
1 3 (30.00%) iSeries
2 1 (10.00%) Equities
2 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (40.00%) Customer Service
1 4 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) API Design
2 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (20.00%) SDLC
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Algorithmic Trading
3 1 (10.00%) Concurrent Programming
3 1 (10.00%) Fintech
3 1 (10.00%) High Availability
3 1 (10.00%) Low Latency
3 1 (10.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Java
1 3 (30.00%) RPG
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Samba
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) IBM
1 6 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (40.00%) CheckPoint
2 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) MuleSoft
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (20.00%) SAP
4 1 (10.00%) Solace
4 1 (10.00%) TIBCO