The first table below looks at the demand for MQSeries skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM MQSeries
Rank 125 110 136
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +26
Permanent jobs citing MQSeries 17 35 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.695% 1.382% 0.907%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.448% 5.747% 4.669%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 6
Average salary £53,500 £62,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.40% +47.05%
UK excluding London average salary £57,500 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+15.00% +17.64%
All Application Platforms
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
493 609 664
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 20.16% 24.04% 19.44%
Number of salaries quoted 416 445 497
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £29,950 £29,350
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
MQSeries
East of England

MQSeries
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire MQSeries Salary Trend

MQSeries
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MQSeries within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Watford -4 10 - -
Hemel Hempstead - 6 £53,500 -
MQSeries
East of England

MQSeries
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 49 (96.08%) UNIX
2 48 (94.12%) WebSphere
3 47 (92.16%) IBM
4 46 (90.20%) Oracle
5 44 (86.27%) AIX
5 44 (86.27%) Linux
6 43 (84.31%) Finance
7 40 (78.43%) DB2
7 40 (78.43%) Retail
8 38 (74.51%) Windows
9 37 (72.55%) WebSphere Application Server
9 37 (72.55%) IIS
9 37 (72.55%) HTTP
9 37 (72.55%) IBM HTTP Server
10 31 (60.78%) E-Commerce
11 30 (58.82%) Games
12 27 (52.94%) Java
13 26 (50.98%) SQL
14 25 (49.02%) J2EE
14 25 (49.02%) Tomcat
15 22 (43.14%) Project Management
16 21 (41.18%) Sun
16 21 (41.18%) Red Hat
16 21 (41.18%) ITIL
17 19 (37.25%) HP
18 18 (35.29%) Middleware
19 17 (33.33%) Solaris
20 16 (31.37%) Dell
20 16 (31.37%) SUSE
20 16 (31.37%) Web Development

MQSeries
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 48 (94.12%) WebSphere
2 25 (49.02%) J2EE
3 18 (35.29%) Middleware
4 12 (23.53%) .NET
5 9 (17.65%) JDBC
6 5 (9.804%) XML
7 3 (5.882%) Flash
7 3 (5.882%) JMS
7 3 (5.882%) HTML
8 2 (3.922%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 37 (72.55%) WebSphere Application Server
1 37 (72.55%) IIS
1 37 (72.55%) IBM HTTP Server
2 25 (49.02%) Tomcat
3 13 (25.49%) Apache
4 11 (21.57%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (17.65%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 37 (72.55%) HTTP
2 12 (23.53%) Firewall
3 9 (17.65%) FTP
4 7 (13.73%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (78.43%) DB2
2 3 (5.882%) DbVisualizer
Development Applications
1 13 (25.49%) Ant
2 12 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 12 (23.53%) Subversion
3 3 (5.882%) QuickTest Pro
3 3 (5.882%) LoadRunner
General
1 43 (84.31%) Finance
2 40 (78.43%) Retail
3 30 (58.82%) Games
4 10 (19.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (41.18%) Architect
2 18 (35.29%) Infrastructure Architect
3 9 (17.65%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 9 (17.65%) Operations Support Analyst
3 9 (17.65%) Technical Services Manager
3 9 (17.65%) Technical Manager
3 9 (17.65%) Operations Analyst
3 9 (17.65%) Delivery Manager
3 9 (17.65%) Services Delivery Manager
3 9 (17.65%) Service Manager
3 9 (17.65%) Analyst
3 9 (17.65%) Support Analyst
4 8 (15.69%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
4 8 (15.69%) Senior Architect
5 7 (13.73%) Project Manager
6 6 (11.76%) Technical Architect
7 5 (9.804%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
8 3 (5.882%) Tester
9 2 (3.922%) Developer
9 2 (3.922%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.804%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.961%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 49 (96.08%) UNIX
2 44 (86.27%) AIX
2 44 (86.27%) Linux
3 38 (74.51%) Windows
4 17 (33.33%) Solaris
5 16 (31.37%) SUSE
5 16 (31.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (60.78%) E-Commerce
2 22 (43.14%) Project Management
3 21 (41.18%) ITIL
4 16 (31.37%) Web Development
5 11 (21.57%) Service Delivery
6 10 (19.61%) Capacity Planning
7 7 (13.73%) Load Balancing
8 6 (11.76%) Migration
9 5 (9.804%) Performance Testing
9 5 (9.804%) Performance Management
9 5 (9.804%) Technical Architecture
10 4 (7.843%) Root Cause Analysis
11 3 (5.882%) System Testing
11 3 (5.882%) Automated Testing
11 3 (5.882%) Regression Testing
12 2 (3.922%) Data Modelling
12 2 (3.922%) ETL
12 2 (3.922%) UML
12 2 (3.922%) Enterprise Architecture
12 2 (3.922%) Parallel Processing
Programming Languages
1 27 (52.94%) Java
2 26 (50.98%) SQL
3 9 (17.65%) Bash shell
3 9 (17.65%) Perl
4 3 (5.882%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.922%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.961%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.922%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.961%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 1 (1.961%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 47 (92.16%) IBM
2 46 (90.20%) Oracle
3 21 (41.18%) Sun
3 21 (41.18%) Red Hat
4 19 (37.25%) HP
5 16 (31.37%) Dell
6 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
7 6 (11.76%) Cisco
8 1 (1.961%) BEA