The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere MQ skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WebSphere MQ 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ)
Rank 459 456 448
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -8
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere MQ 147 189 201
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.338% 0.353% 0.342%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.498% 1.637% 1.795%
Number of salaries quoted 97 173 164
Average salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.33% -4.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £41,450
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £90,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-5.26% +5.55%
All Application Platforms
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
9814 11542 11198
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 22.54% 21.53% 19.07%
Number of salaries quoted 8430 10138 9681
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,000 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £71,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
WebSphere MQ
England

WebSphere MQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London WebSphere MQ Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere MQ
Salary Trend

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

London WebSphere MQ Salary Trend

WebSphere MQ
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WebSphere MQ across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London WebSphere MQ Salary Histogram

WebSphere MQ
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere MQ within the London 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
City of London -21 35 £57,500 -
Canary Wharf - 11 £77,500 -
Wimbledon - 10 - -
Bromley - 3 £75,000 -
Docklands, London -3 2 - -
Croydon +8 1 £75,000 +3.44%
Uxbridge - 1 £75,000 -
WebSphere MQ
England

WebSphere MQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing WebSphere MQ 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 WebSphere MQ.

1 208 (83.20%) WebSphere
2 119 (47.60%) IBM
3 117 (46.80%) Java
4 108 (43.20%) Finance
5 96 (38.40%) Middleware
6 89 (35.60%) Windows
7 83 (33.20%) UNIX
8 82 (32.80%) Linux
9 77 (30.80%) Banking
10 72 (28.80%) SQL
11 53 (21.20%) WebSphere Message Broker
12 52 (20.80%) Oracle
13 51 (20.40%) JUnit
14 49 (19.60%) WebSphere Application Server
15 46 (18.40%) SQL Server
16 45 (18.00%) User Acceptance Testing
17 41 (16.40%) TIBCO
17 41 (16.40%) Microsoft
18 40 (16.00%) XML
19 39 (15.60%) MQSeries
19 39 (15.60%) Retail
19 39 (15.60%) TIBCO EMS
20 37 (14.80%) E-Commerce
21 34 (13.60%) JMS
22 32 (12.80%) .NET
22 32 (12.80%) J2EE
23 31 (12.40%) ITIL
23 31 (12.40%) MS Excel
23 31 (12.40%) Rendezvous
23 31 (12.40%) Shell Script

WebSphere MQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing WebSphere MQ 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 WebSphere MQ. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 208 (83.20%) WebSphere
2 96 (38.40%) Middleware
3 40 (16.00%) XML
4 34 (13.60%) JMS
5 32 (12.80%) .NET
5 32 (12.80%) J2EE
6 29 (11.60%) Java EE
7 27 (10.80%) CSS
7 27 (10.80%) HTML
8 23 (9.200%) Hibernate
9 22 (8.800%) JSF
9 22 (8.800%) Ajax
9 22 (8.800%) REST
10 19 (7.600%) Spring
11 18 (7.200%) .NET Framework
11 18 (7.200%) jBPM
12 17 (6.800%) Struts
12 17 (6.800%) Spring MVC
13 16 (6.400%) jQuery
14 10 (4.000%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 53 (21.20%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 49 (19.60%) WebSphere Application Server
3 39 (15.60%) MQSeries
3 39 (15.60%) TIBCO EMS
4 31 (12.40%) Rendezvous
5 23 (9.200%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
6 18 (7.200%) Apache
7 17 (6.800%) IIS
8 16 (6.400%) Lotus Domino
9 15 (6.000%) SharePoint
10 14 (5.600%) WebLogic
11 13 (5.200%) Lotus Notes
12 12 (4.800%) IBM HTTP Server
13 10 (4.000%) ESB
14 6 (2.400%) Tomcat
15 5 (2.000%) SAS
15 5 (2.000%) Adobe CQ
16 4 (1.600%) Oracle Service Bus
16 4 (1.600%) CICS
17 3 (1.200%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 31 (12.40%) MS Excel
2 14 (5.600%) Mingle
3 13 (5.200%) MS Office
4 8 (3.200%) MS Visio
4 8 (3.200%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.200%) BusinessWorks
2 5 (2.000%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.400%) Documaker
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.800%) SSL
2 13 (5.200%) HTTP
3 10 (4.000%) S/MIME
3 10 (4.000%) LAN
3 10 (4.000%) WAN
4 7 (2.800%) Firewall
5 6 (2.400%) DNS
6 5 (2.000%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.600%) SWIFTNet
8 3 (1.200%) VPN
8 3 (1.200%) DHCP
8 3 (1.200%) FTP
8 3 (1.200%) SAN
9 2 (0.800%) NAS
10 1 (0.400%) LDAP
10 1 (0.400%) SMTP
10 1 (0.400%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (18.40%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.200%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 15 (6.000%) DB2
3 15 (6.000%) SQL Server 2008
4 12 (4.800%) Oracle 8/8i
5 11 (4.400%) MySQL
6 10 (4.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (3.200%) SQL Server 2005
8 6 (2.400%) Infinispan
8 6 (2.400%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.800%) MS Access
10 1 (0.400%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.400%) DataStage
10 1 (0.400%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 51 (20.40%) JUnit
2 18 (7.200%) Cucumber
3 16 (6.400%) jMock
4 14 (5.600%) JIRA
5 13 (5.200%) Rational Rose
6 10 (4.000%) Subversion
7 8 (3.200%) Ant
8 4 (1.600%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.400%) Log4j
9 1 (0.400%) NUnit
General
1 108 (43.20%) Finance
2 77 (30.80%) Banking
3 39 (15.60%) Retail
4 28 (11.20%) Investment Banking
5 10 (4.000%) Private Banking
6 9 (3.600%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.000%) Back Office
8 4 (1.600%) Games
9 3 (1.200%) Law
10 2 (0.800%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.800%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.400%) Advertising
11 1 (0.400%) Front Office
11 1 (0.400%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (21.20%) Applications Support
2 46 (18.40%) Architect
3 37 (14.80%) Developer
4 32 (12.80%) Support Engineer
5 31 (12.40%) Analyst
6 26 (10.40%) Middleware Developer
7 23 (9.200%) Middleware Engineer
8 22 (8.800%) Support Analyst
9 20 (8.000%) Applications Support Analyst
10 17 (6.800%) Software Engineer
11 16 (6.400%) Administrator
12 13 (5.200%) Consultant
13 10 (4.000%) Business Analyst
13 10 (4.000%) Banking Business Analyst
14 9 (3.600%) Applications Support Engineer
14 9 (3.600%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
15 8 (3.200%) Junior Analyst
15 8 (3.200%) Junior
15 8 (3.200%) Linux Engineer
15 8 (3.200%) Linux Support
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.600%) Open Source
2 16 (6.400%) SWIFT
3 14 (5.600%) Equities
4 11 (4.400%) Mainframe
4 11 (4.400%) DataPower
5 10 (4.000%) iSeries
6 8 (3.200%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.400%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (2.400%) Clustering
8 5 (2.000%) Derivative
8 5 (2.000%) HACMP
9 3 (1.200%) Online Banking
9 3 (1.200%) Blackberry
10 2 (0.800%) Computer Science
10 2 (0.800%) N-Tier
11 1 (0.400%) Tandem
11 1 (0.400%) PKI
11 1 (0.400%) Kindle
11 1 (0.400%) SaaS
11 1 (0.400%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 89 (35.60%) Windows
2 83 (33.20%) UNIX
3 82 (32.80%) Linux
4 30 (12.00%) Solaris
5 14 (5.600%) AIX
6 13 (5.200%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (2.400%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (1.600%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (1.200%) Windows Vista
10 2 (0.800%) CentOS
11 1 (0.400%) HPUX
11 1 (0.400%) zOS
11 1 (0.400%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (18.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 37 (14.80%) E-Commerce
3 31 (12.40%) ITIL
4 25 (10.00%) TDD
4 25 (10.00%) UML
5 24 (9.600%) EAI
6 23 (9.200%) Continuous Integration
6 23 (9.200%) Service Delivery
7 22 (8.800%) Business Continuity
7 22 (8.800%) OOD
8 21 (8.400%) OO
8 21 (8.400%) Change Management
9 18 (7.200%) Domain-Driven Design
10 15 (6.000%) Waterfall
11 14 (5.600%) Refactoring
11 14 (5.600%) BDD
11 14 (5.600%) Root Cause Analysis
11 14 (5.600%) SOA
11 14 (5.600%) Extreme Programming
12 13 (5.200%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 117 (46.80%) Java
2 72 (28.80%) SQL
3 31 (12.40%) Shell Script
4 25 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 20 (8.000%) C#
6 7 (2.800%) C
6 7 (2.800%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.000%) C++
7 5 (2.000%) VB
7 5 (2.000%) Groovy
8 4 (1.600%) Perl
9 3 (1.200%) Jython
9 3 (1.200%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.800%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.400%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.400%) COBOL
11 1 (0.400%) R
11 1 (0.400%) XPath
Qualifications
1 24 (9.600%) Degree
2 12 (4.800%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (2.000%) IBM Certification
4 3 (1.200%) MCP
4 3 (1.200%) MCSE
4 3 (1.200%) MCSA
4 3 (1.200%) CCNA
4 3 (1.200%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (0.800%) HNC
5 2 (0.800%) HND
6 1 (0.400%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.400%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.400%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.400%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.600%) QA
2 3 (1.200%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.400%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 5 (2.000%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (1.200%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.200%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.200%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 1 (0.400%) Tivoli
1 1 (0.400%) Tivoli Monitoring
1 1 (0.400%) Control-M
1 1 (0.400%) Oracle Identity Management
1 1 (0.400%) Puppet
Vendors
1 119 (47.60%) IBM
2 52 (20.80%) Oracle
3 41 (16.40%) TIBCO
3 41 (16.40%) Microsoft
4 26 (10.40%) ATG
4 26 (10.40%) hybris
4 26 (10.40%) Demandware
5 24 (9.600%) JBoss
6 23 (9.200%) Informatica
7 19 (7.600%) Sun
8 13 (5.200%) Lotus
9 12 (4.800%) Red Hat
10 9 (3.600%) Mantas
10 9 (3.600%) Actimize
10 9 (3.600%) Mercator
11 7 (2.800%) Omniture
11 7 (2.800%) Endeca
11 7 (2.800%) Fredhopper
12 6 (2.400%) Murex
13 5 (2.000%) Google
London
Must have at least one Middleware product experience (TIBCO, IBM WebSphere MQ, WEBSPHERE MESSAGE BROKER, etc) My client will consider either a contractor or a permanent member of...
De Facto IT
Salary: Up to £80,000 per annum £80K OR £EXCELLENT/DAY
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
My client is looking for a Middleware Specialist (Websphere, MQ, Message Broker) to handle Middleware design and implementation in a corporate environment... Key technology experience for the Middleware...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: + package
Posted: 17 May 2013
London, Central London, South East England
The Middleware Consultants should:?... Have strong Unix/Scripting experience?... Desirable skills: WebSphere Application Server / MQ/WMB WebLogic/JBoss? Java development experience? We are particularly interested in candidates that...
ITS Ingenium
Salary: £0 - £65,000 per year
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
Part of your responsibilities will be setting and ensuring that your team adheres to KPI's and SLA's. You will need experience giving appraisals, recruiting, giving disciplinaries...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £40000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
XML/XSLT. Bonus technical skills: IBM WebSphere Message Broker or similar middleware technology. Unix (Solaris) .NET (C#), SQL Messaging standards (FpML, FIX etc) Experience of integrating with Murex.
McGregor Boyall
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
Basic Linux administration skills. - Strong analytical skills coupled with methodical approach to fault resolution. - Ability to develop relationships with other Technical and business groups. - Good organisation and communication (...
Church International
Salary: Competitive Salary
Posted: 25 April 2013
London
Senior Java Developer/Programmer/Software Engineer/Architect, Spring, Hibernate, Oracle Coherence, Caching, In-memory, Messaging, Middleware, JMS, Websphere MQ, RDBMS, Oracle, PL-SQL, Compliance, Payment Sanctions, AML, Anti-...
Aston Carter
Salary: £70000 - £90000 per annum + bonus+benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
South West London
Microsoft SharePoint... IBM HTTP Server/Apache/JBoss... Some experience of Windows, Solaris, Linux and iSeries Systems Administration. Desirable knowledge, skills and qualifications as are follows: IBM Domino/Lotus...
TD Group
Salary: Excellent salary and Excellent package
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Working on a bespoke, flagship system this role will require an experienced Java developer/consultant who understands delivering the benefits of cutting edge Java technologies... This client is...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
It's an immediate hire and planning to close it ASAP. Job Description for the role of Application development and maintenance - Design Authority - SME: Roles: Application development and...
Avance Consulting
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
Daily responsibilities will include application support, development including design, coding, and testing.Candidates are required to have extensive technical skills with Java, JEE and JSF, JUnit, Webservices REST...
Streamline IT Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + On Call + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
Candidates are required to have extensive technical skills with Java, JEE and JSF, JUnit, Webservices REST and SOAP and DB2 connectivity using JPA as well as proven experience...
Streamline Connections
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + On Call + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013