The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere Message Broker skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WebSphere Message Broker over the 3 months to 20 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere Message Broker (WMB)
Rank 185 - 168
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere Message Broker 4 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.099% - 0.051%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.496% - 0.312%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
Average salary £50,000 - £47,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-15.78% +5.55%
All Application Platforms
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
807 763 642
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 19.97% 20.93% 16.44%
Number of salaries quoted 688 680 599
Average salary £36,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.76% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £61,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
WebSphere Message Broker
North West

WebSphere Message Broker
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester WebSphere Message Broker Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere Message Broker
Salary Trend

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

Manchester WebSphere Message Broker Salary Trend

WebSphere Message Broker
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing WebSphere Message Broker 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 Message Broker.

1 3 (75.00%) IBM
1 3 (75.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 3 (75.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) J2EE
2 2 (50.00%) UML
2 2 (50.00%) MQSeries
2 2 (50.00%) SOA
2 2 (50.00%) HTTP
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) Middleware
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Transformation Extender

WebSphere Message Broker
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing WebSphere Message Broker 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 Message Broker. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (50.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (50.00%) MQSeries
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
General
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) UML
1 2 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) IBM