England MQSeries Jobs

This section looks at the demand for IBM MQSeries skills within the England region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT job ads that have cited MQSeries over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Barnsley Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England England Glasgow Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Jersey Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Livingston London Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Midlands North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Preston Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South East South West South Yorkshire Surrey Sussex Tadworth UK Uxbridge Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	452	391
Rank change on same period last year	-61
Matching permanent IT job ads	592	889
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.309 %	0.367 %
As % of the category below	1.982 %	2.526 %
Salaries quoted	420	712
Average minimum salary	£49,001	£50,242
Average salary	£54,423	£55,140
% change on same period last year	-1.29 %
Average maximum salary	£59,846	£60,038
UK excluding London average salary	£43,756	£45,485
% change on same period last year	-3.80 %
Application Platforms England
Matching permanent IT job ads	29869	35189
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	15.59 %	14.52 %
Salaries quoted	25563	29152
Average minimum salary	£37,108	£38,045
Average salary	£40,398	£41,489
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Average maximum salary	£43,688	£44,933
UK excluding London average salary	£37,067	£38,654
% change on same period last year	-4.10 %
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MQSeries
Demand Trend

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

MQSeries
Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MQSeries across the England region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT job ads citing MQSeries within the England region over the 3 months to 18 July 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 Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	-11	456	£58,122	-2.40 %
South East	-11	48	£51,250	-6.42 %
Yorkshire	-40	23	£36,342	-1.28 %
West Midlands	-19	17	£44,265	+16.00 %
East of England	-3	14	£43,909	+5.89 %
North West	-48	13	£43,405	+3.85 %
East Midlands	+8	11	£38,455	+1.96 %
South West	-9	6	£41,833	-16.33 %
Midlands	+22	5	£52,500	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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.

1 582 (44.70 %) Java 2 549 (42.17 %) Finance 3 521 (40.02 %) SQL 4 501 (38.48 %) UNIX 5 500 (38.40 %) Oracle 6 477 (36.64 %) WebSphere 7 434 (33.33 %) J2EE 8 378 (29.03 %) XML 9 353 (27.11 %) Middleware 10 350 (26.88 %) IBM 11 313 (24.04 %) SQL Server 12 284 (21.81 %) Banking 13 277 (21.27 %) C# 14 255 (19.59 %) TIBCO 15 248 (19.05 %) Windows

16 235 (18.05 %) JMS 17 230 (17.67 %) .NET 18 215 (16.51 %) OO 19 186 (14.29 %) WebLogic 20 182 (13.98 %) Sybase 21 177 (13.59 %) C++ 22 174 (13.36 %) WebSphere MQ 23 167 (12.83 %) Microsoft 24 155 (11.90 %) Linux 25 153 (11.75 %) WebSphere Application Server 26 152 (11.67 %) VB 26 152 (11.67 %) Perl 27 148 (11.37 %) Spring 28 144 (11.06 %) Solaris 29 139 (10.68 %) Investment Banking

MQSeries
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 1 477 (36.64 %) WebSphere 2 434 (33.33 %) J2EE 3 378 (29.03 %) XML 4 353 (27.11 %) Middleware 5 235 (18.05 %) JMS 6 230 (17.67 %) .NET 7 148 (11.37 %) Spring 8 133 (10.22 %) ASP.NET 9 121 (9.293 %) EJB 9 121 (9.293 %) Hibernate 10 118 (9.063 %) JDBC 11 117 (8.986 %) HTML 12 111 (8.525 %) JSP 13 110 (8.449 %) WebServices 14 86 (6.605 %) Struts 14 86 (6.605 %) Servlets 15 83 (6.375 %) CORBA 16 79 (6.068 %) J2SE 17 73 (5.607 %) .NET Framework 18 71 (5.453 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 186 (14.29 %) WebLogic 2 174 (13.36 %) WebSphere MQ 3 153 (11.75 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 125 (9.601 %) BizTalk Server 5 102 (7.834 %) Apache 6 62 (4.762 %) Tomcat 7 60 (4.608 %) IIS 8 49 (3.763 %) JBoss 9 46 (3.533 %) MS Exchange 10 44 (3.379 %) SharePoint 11 41 (3.149 %) SharePoint Server 2007 12 31 (2.381 %) CMS 13 30 (2.304 %) WebSphere Message Broker 14 29 (2.227 %) IBM HTTP Server 15 28 (2.151 %) Oracle Workflow 16 23 (1.767 %) Exchange Server 2000 17 21 (1.613 %) ESB 18 18 (1.382 %) WebLogic Portal 19 14 (1.075 %) CICS 20 12 (0.922 %) Rendezvous
Applications 1 72 (5.530 %) MS Excel 2 4 (0.307 %) MS Visio 2 4 (0.307 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.077 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 16 (1.229 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 2 7 (0.538 %) Thomson PORTIA 3 6 (0.461 %) HiPortfolio 3 6 (0.461 %) Capstone 4 4 (0.307 %) SimCorp Dimension 5 2 (0.154 %) Misys Midas 5 2 (0.154 %) Misys Opics 5 2 (0.154 %) BusinessWorks 5 2 (0.154 %) BASE24 5 2 (0.154 %) Sophis VALUE 6 1 (0.077 %) Oracle Applications 6 1 (0.077 %) Tesseract 6 1 (0.077 %) Minerva
Communications & Networking 1 59 (4.531 %) HTTP 2 30 (2.304 %) TCP/IP 3 21 (1.613 %) SSL 3 21 (1.613 %) VoIP 4 16 (1.229 %) Internet 5 14 (1.075 %) LDAP 5 14 (1.075 %) FTP 6 13 (0.998 %) Broadband 6 13 (0.998 %) X.500 7 9 (0.691 %) CTI 7 9 (0.691 %) BSS 8 8 (0.614 %) SSH 8 8 (0.614 %) SMS 9 7 (0.538 %) LAN 9 7 (0.538 %) WAN 9 7 (0.538 %) Firewall 9 7 (0.538 %) SAN 10 5 (0.384 %) DNS 10 5 (0.384 %) SNMP 11 4 (0.307 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 313 (24.04 %) SQL Server 2 137 (10.52 %) DB2 3 136 (10.45 %) RDBMS 4 108 (8.295 %) SQL Server 2005 5 96 (7.373 %) SQL Server 2000 6 75 (5.760 %) SQL Server 7 7 35 (2.688 %) MySQL 8 19 (1.459 %) Ingres 9 15 (1.152 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 15 (1.152 %) Crystal Reports 10 14 (1.075 %) Datawarehouse 10 14 (1.075 %) Oracle 10g 11 13 (0.998 %) Oracle 9i 12 12 (0.922 %) Oracle Reports 12 12 (0.922 %) Reference Data 13 8 (0.614 %) Sybase ASE 14 7 (0.538 %) BusinessObjects 15 6 (0.461 %) DataStage 15 6 (0.461 %) ETL 16 3 (0.230 %) KDB
Development Applications 1 100 (7.680 %) Eclipse 2 76 (5.837 %) JUnit 3 47 (3.610 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 33 (2.535 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 5 27 (2.074 %) ClearCase 6 26 (1.997 %) Ant 7 25 (1.920 %) Subversion 8 23 (1.767 %) JBuilder 8 23 (1.767 %) JDeveloper 8 23 (1.767 %) Log4j 9 12 (0.922 %) Rational Rose 10 9 (0.691 %) ERwin 11 4 (0.307 %) TestDirector 11 4 (0.307 %) NUnit 12 3 (0.230 %) CruiseControl 12 3 (0.230 %) ClearQuest 13 2 (0.154 %) WinRunner 14 1 (0.077 %) QuickTest Pro 14 1 (0.077 %) MSI 14 1 (0.077 %) ChangeMan	General 1 549 (42.17 %) Finance 2 284 (21.81 %) Banking 3 139 (10.68 %) Investment Banking 4 98 (7.527 %) Front Office 5 38 (2.919 %) Telecoms 6 36 (2.765 %) Back Office 7 34 (2.611 %) Financial Institution 8 32 (2.458 %) Retail 9 26 (1.997 %) Insurance 10 25 (1.920 %) Advertising 11 22 (1.690 %) Pensions 12 12 (0.922 %) Aerospace 12 12 (0.922 %) Construction 13 11 (0.845 %) Private Banking 14 8 (0.614 %) Health 15 4 (0.307 %) Government 15 4 (0.307 %) Automotive 16 3 (0.230 %) Education 16 3 (0.230 %) Manufacturing 17 2 (0.154 %) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles 1 557 (42.78 %) Developer 2 243 (18.66 %) Java Developer 3 182 (13.98 %) Analyst 4 136 (10.45 %) Support Analyst 5 114 (8.756 %) Architect 6 101 (7.757 %) Java/J2EE Developer 7 92 (7.066 %) Consultant 8 91 (6.989 %) C# Developer 9 79 (6.068 %) Technical Support 10 76 (5.837 %) Senior Developer 10 76 (5.837 %) J2EE Developer 11 67 (5.146 %) Technical Consultant 12 64 (4.916 %) Applications Support 13 63 (4.839 %) Technical Analyst 14 51 (3.917 %) .NET Developer 15 49 (3.763 %) Technical Support Analyst 16 43 (3.303 %) Technical Architect 16 43 (3.303 %) Senior Java Developer 17 41 (3.149 %) WebSphere Specialist 18 40 (3.072 %) Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 130 (9.985 %) Derivative 2 89 (6.836 %) Equities 3 74 (5.684 %) Fixed Income 4 65 (4.992 %) Mainframe 5 64 (4.916 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 6 61 (4.685 %) Asset Management 6 61 (4.685 %) Computer Science 7 50 (3.840 %) Fund Management 8 39 (2.995 %) Replication 9 33 (2.535 %) Equity Derivative 10 31 (2.381 %) AS400 11 23 (1.767 %) Exotic Derivative 12 14 (1.075 %) Client/Server 13 13 (0.998 %) DTV 13 13 (0.998 %) IPTV 14 12 (0.922 %) Spread Betting 15 10 (0.768 %) Clustering 15 10 (0.768 %) Credit Derivative 16 9 (0.691 %) N-Tier 16 9 (0.691 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 501 (38.48 %) UNIX 2 248 (19.05 %) Windows 3 155 (11.90 %) Linux 4 144 (11.06 %) Solaris 5 75 (5.760 %) AIX 6 73 (5.607 %) Windows 2000 7 30 (2.304 %) SUSE 8 21 (1.613 %) VMS 9 18 (1.382 %) Windows NT 10 6 (0.461 %) HPUX 11 5 (0.384 %) Windows XP 11 5 (0.384 %) OS/400 12 3 (0.230 %) OpenVMS 13 1 (0.077 %) zOS 13 1 (0.077 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 215 (16.51 %) OO 2 115 (8.833 %) Scrum 2 115 (8.833 %) Agile Software Development 3 98 (7.527 %) UML 4 77 (5.914 %) EAI 5 76 (5.837 %) Project Management 6 73 (5.607 %) ITIL 7 70 (5.376 %) Investment Management 8 68 (5.223 %) TDD 9 64 (4.916 %) Software Engineering 9 64 (4.916 %) Extreme Programming 10 61 (4.685 %) OOA/OOD 10 61 (4.685 %) SOA 11 59 (4.531 %) RUP 12 47 (3.610 %) Technical Architecture 13 43 (3.303 %) Workflow 14 40 (3.072 %) Web Development 15 36 (2.765 %) E-Commerce 16 32 (2.458 %) TOGAF 17 31 (2.381 %) Risk Management
Programming Languages 1 582 (44.70 %) Java 2 521 (40.02 %) SQL 3 277 (21.27 %) C# 4 177 (13.59 %) C++ 5 152 (11.67 %) VB 5 152 (11.67 %) Perl 6 133 (10.22 %) PL/SQL 7 113 (8.679 %) JavaScript 8 96 (7.373 %) Shell Script 9 55 (4.224 %) C 10 30 (2.304 %) XPath 11 28 (2.151 %) RPG 12 23 (1.767 %) Euclid 13 19 (1.459 %) VB6 14 16 (1.229 %) VBA 15 14 (1.075 %) COBOL 16 7 (0.538 %) VB.NET 16 7 (0.538 %) Transact-SQL 16 7 (0.538 %) VC++ 16 7 (0.538 %) JCL	Qualifications 1 108 (8.295 %) Degree 2 24 (1.843 %) Sun Certification 3 4 (0.307 %) ISEB 3 4 (0.307 %) IBM Certification 4 3 (0.230 %) Microsoft Certification 4 3 (0.230 %) ITIL Certification 4 3 (0.230 %) MCP 4 3 (0.230 %) MCAD 4 3 (0.230 %) MCSD 5 2 (0.154 %) Oracle Certification 5 2 (0.154 %) SCSA 6 1 (0.077 %) SCJD 6 1 (0.077 %) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 16 (1.229 %) QA 2 8 (0.614 %) SLA	System Software 1 98 (7.527 %) MSMQ 2 35 (2.688 %) VMware ESX 2 35 (2.688 %) NetBackup 3 31 (2.381 %) AquaLogic 4 4 (0.307 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 3 (0.230 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 40 (3.072 %) CONTROL-M 2 29 (2.227 %) MOM 3 7 (0.538 %) Tivoli 4 4 (0.307 %) Legato 4 4 (0.307 %) AllFusion Endevor 5 3 (0.230 %) AutoSys 6 2 (0.154 %) Unicenter 6 2 (0.154 %) OMEGAMON 6 2 (0.154 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 7 1 (0.077 %) ServiceCenter 7 1 (0.077 %) AssetCenter 7 1 (0.077 %) Tivoli Identity Manager 7 1 (0.077 %) BMC PATROL 7 1 (0.077 %) CA SiteMinder	Vendors 1 500 (38.40 %) Oracle 2 350 (26.88 %) IBM 3 255 (19.59 %) TIBCO 4 182 (13.98 %) Sybase 5 167 (12.83 %) Microsoft 6 113 (8.679 %) BEA 7 62 (4.762 %) Sun 8 51 (3.917 %) LatentZero 9 50 (3.840 %) VERITAS 10 40 (3.072 %) SeeBeyond 10 40 (3.072 %) VMware 11 36 (2.765 %) BMC 12 27 (2.074 %) GoldenSource 13 23 (1.767 %) Reuters 13 23 (1.767 %) Bloomberg 13 23 (1.767 %) Red Hat 14 20 (1.536 %) Cognos 15 15 (1.152 %) Cisco 15 15 (1.152 %) Dell 16 14 (1.075 %) Citrix