The first table below looks at the demand for MQSeries skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MQSeries over the 3 months to 23 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM MQSeries
Rank 107 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing MQSeries 2 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.119% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.538% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Average salary £31,250 - -
UK excluding London average salary £57,500 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+15.00% +17.64%
All Application Platforms
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
372 290 313
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 22.08% 19.75% 23.07%
Number of salaries quoted 312 252 287
Average salary £40,000 £38,250 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.57% -6.70%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £61,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
MQSeries
West Midlands

MQSeries
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham MQSeries Jobs Demand Trend

MQSeries
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MQSeries across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham MQSeries Salary Trend

MQSeries
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited MQSeries.

1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) JMS
1 2 (40.00%) ISEB
1 2 (40.00%) TestDirector
1 2 (40.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
1 2 (40.00%) AS400
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (40.00%) Scrum
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Maven
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
1 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Web Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (40.00%) JPA
1 2 (40.00%) V-Model
1 2 (40.00%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
1 2 (40.00%) Hudson
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Security
2 1 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Basis

MQSeries
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited MQSeries. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) JMS
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
1 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) JPA
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Basis
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) TestDirector
1 2 (40.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
1 2 (40.00%) Maven
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
1 2 (40.00%) Hudson
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Test Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Basis Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) UNIX
1 1 (20.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Scrum
1 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Web Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (40.00%) V-Model
1 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Security
2 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Password Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISEB
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) SAP