Cheshire MQSeries Jobs

This section looks at the demand for IBM MQSeries skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MQSeries over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Andover Barnsley Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Cornwall County Antrim Docklands, London Dorset Dunfermline East Midlands East of England England Fife Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Jersey Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Livingston London Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Ives Surrey Sussex Tadworth Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	142	122
Rank change on same period last year	-20
Matching permanent IT job ads	3	27
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	0.558 %	5.590 %
Salaries quoted	2	27
Average minimum salary	£30,000	£30,148
Average salary	£35,750	£36,019
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Average maximum salary	£41,500	£41,889
UK excluding London average salary	£43,304	£45,888
% change on same period last year	-5.63 %
Application Platforms Cheshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	538	483
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.264 %	0.214 %
Salaries quoted	489	441
Average minimum salary	£30,083	£30,778
Average salary	£32,990	£33,210
% change on same period last year	-0.66 %
Average maximum salary	£35,896	£35,642
UK excluding London average salary	£37,039	£38,402
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing MQSeries across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MQSeries within the Cheshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Chester	-	1	£29,000	-
1	Knutsford	-24	1	£42,500	+13.33 %

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Top 15 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing MQSeries also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing MQSeries.

1 3 (100.00 %) IBM 1 3 (100.00 %) Middleware 1 3 (100.00 %) Finance 2 2 (66.67 %) WebSphere MQ 2 2 (66.67 %) WebSphere 2 2 (66.67 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 1 (33.33 %) COBOL 3 1 (33.33 %) IBM Certification 3 1 (33.33 %) CICS 3 1 (33.33 %) Mainframe 3 1 (33.33 %) IBM Mainframe 3 1 (33.33 %) Easytrieve 3 1 (33.33 %) JCL 3 1 (33.33 %) VSAM 3 1 (33.33 %) Systems Analysis

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing MQSeries also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing MQSeries. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (100.00 %) Middleware 2 2 (66.67 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 2 (66.67 %) WebSphere MQ 2 1 (33.33 %) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) Easytrieve	General 1 3 (100.00 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Systems Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Mainframe 1 1 (33.33 %) VSAM 1 1 (33.33 %) IBM Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Systems Analysis	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) COBOL 1 1 (33.33 %) JCL
Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) IBM Certification	Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) IBM