The first table below looks at the demand for MQSeries skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MQSeries over the 3 months to 22 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM MQSeries
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing MQSeries 53 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 4.577% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 23.45% - -
Number of salaries quoted 43 0 0
Average salary £57,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £57,500 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+15.00% +17.64%
All Application Platforms
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
226 141 199
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 19.52% 19.37% 19.13%
Number of salaries quoted 181 129 180
Average salary £42,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.42% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,000 £24,401
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £40,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
MQSeries
South East

MQSeries
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent MQSeries Salary Trend

MQSeries
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MQSeries across the Kent region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Kent MQSeries Salary Histogram

MQSeries
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 47 (64.38%) WebSphere
2 46 (63.01%) E-Commerce
3 45 (61.64%) Retail
4 28 (38.36%) ETL
4 28 (38.36%) DB2
5 27 (36.99%) Mainframe
6 25 (34.25%) Web Services
7 24 (32.88%) Oracle
8 23 (31.51%) COBOL
8 23 (31.51%) SOA
8 23 (31.51%) CICS
9 22 (30.14%) FTP
9 22 (30.14%) J2EE
9 22 (30.14%) Capacity Planning
10 20 (27.40%) Business Analysis
11 19 (26.03%) Data Modelling
12 18 (24.66%) MS Excel
12 18 (24.66%) XML
12 18 (24.66%) Project Management
12 18 (24.66%) XML Schema
12 18 (24.66%) Microsoft
13 17 (23.29%) B2B
13 17 (23.29%) XSLT
14 15 (20.55%) Informatica
15 14 (19.18%) Oracle 11g
16 13 (17.81%) CA Endevor
16 13 (17.81%) Load Balancing
16 13 (17.81%) JCL
16 13 (17.81%) BODI
16 13 (17.81%) Marketing

MQSeries
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 47 (64.38%) WebSphere
2 25 (34.25%) Web Services
3 22 (30.14%) J2EE
4 18 (24.66%) XML
4 18 (24.66%) XML Schema
5 17 (23.29%) XSLT
6 1 (1.370%) Middleware
6 1 (1.370%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.370%) HTML
6 1 (1.370%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 23 (31.51%) CICS
2 1 (1.370%) SAS
2 1 (1.370%) Apache
2 1 (1.370%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.370%) IIS
2 1 (1.370%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.370%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 18 (24.66%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (10.96%) Summit
2 1 (1.370%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 22 (30.14%) FTP
2 1 (1.370%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (38.36%) DB2
2 14 (19.18%) Oracle 11g
3 13 (17.81%) BODI
4 1 (1.370%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.370%) MySQL
4 1 (1.370%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.370%) Subversion
1 1 (1.370%) Maven
1 1 (1.370%) ClearCase
1 1 (1.370%) Ant
1 1 (1.370%) TeamCity
1 1 (1.370%) Build Forge
1 1 (1.370%) Jenkins
General
1 45 (61.64%) Retail
2 13 (17.81%) Marketing
3 10 (13.70%) Finance
Job Titles
1 33 (45.21%) Architect
2 29 (39.73%) Solutions Architect
3 20 (27.40%) Business Analyst
3 20 (27.40%) Analyst
4 17 (23.29%) Project Manager
5 15 (20.55%) Mainframe Architect
6 10 (13.70%) E-Commerce Manager
6 10 (13.70%) Team Leader
6 10 (13.70%) E-Commerce Project Manager
7 1 (1.370%) Design Engineer
7 1 (1.370%) J2EE Architect
7 1 (1.370%) J2EE Team Leader
7 1 (1.370%) Designer
7 1 (1.370%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (1.370%) Senior Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (36.99%) Mainframe
2 1 (1.370%) HACMP
2 1 (1.370%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.370%) UNIX
1 1 (1.370%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (63.01%) E-Commerce
2 28 (38.36%) ETL
3 23 (31.51%) SOA
4 22 (30.14%) Capacity Planning
5 20 (27.40%) Business Analysis
6 19 (26.03%) Data Modelling
7 18 (24.66%) Project Management
8 17 (23.29%) B2B
9 13 (17.81%) Load Balancing
9 13 (17.81%) OOA/OOD
10 10 (13.70%) UML
11 5 (6.849%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (6.849%) Performance Management
12 1 (1.370%) Configuration Management
12 1 (1.370%) Scrum
12 1 (1.370%) Agile Software Development
12 1 (1.370%) Project Planning
12 1 (1.370%) ITIL
12 1 (1.370%) Release Management
12 1 (1.370%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.51%) COBOL
2 13 (17.81%) JCL
3 4 (5.479%) PL/1
4 1 (1.370%) Java
4 1 (1.370%) Perl
4 1 (1.370%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 13 (17.81%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 24 (32.88%) Oracle
2 18 (24.66%) Microsoft
3 15 (20.55%) Informatica
4 13 (17.81%) Business Objects
4 13 (17.81%) Cognos
5 1 (1.370%) IBM
5 1 (1.370%) Adobe
5 1 (1.370%) Teradata
5 1 (1.370%) JBoss
5 1 (1.370%) Sybase