The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere MQ skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ)
Rank 144 137 142
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +5
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere MQ 13 11 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.416% 0.319% 0.426%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.955% 1.703% 2.573%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 6
Average salary £52,500 £44,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.97% -1.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,100 £30,000 £36,750
10% offered a salary of more than £54,000 £44,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-5.26% +5.55%
All Application Platforms
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
665 646 583
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 21.28% 18.76% 16.55%
Number of salaries quoted 400 477 426
Average salary £38,500 £35,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% -5.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £25,800 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
WebSphere MQ
UK

WebSphere MQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland WebSphere MQ Salary Trend

WebSphere MQ
Salary Histogram

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

Scotland 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 Scotland 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
Glasgow -15 7 - -
Edinburgh +10 5 £52,500 +61.53%
West Lothian -2 1 - -
WebSphere MQ
UK

WebSphere MQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 25 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 15 (60.00%) Linux
3 13 (52.00%) IBM
3 13 (52.00%) Finance
4 12 (48.00%) Java
5 11 (44.00%) XML
6 10 (40.00%) Microsoft
6 10 (40.00%) Middleware
6 10 (40.00%) UNIX
6 10 (40.00%) Solaris
7 9 (36.00%) Asset Management
8 8 (32.00%) Perl
8 8 (32.00%) .NET
8 8 (32.00%) C#
8 8 (32.00%) SWIFT
9 7 (28.00%) Unit Testing
9 7 (28.00%) .NET Framework
9 7 (28.00%) TIBCO EMS
9 7 (28.00%) WCF
9 7 (28.00%) WPF
9 7 (28.00%) Shell Script
9 7 (28.00%) TIBCO
10 6 (24.00%) Banking
10 6 (24.00%) Oracle
10 6 (24.00%) Windows
11 5 (20.00%) SOA
11 5 (20.00%) Web Services
11 5 (20.00%) Subversion
11 5 (20.00%) Degree
11 5 (20.00%) Capacity Planning

WebSphere MQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 25 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 11 (44.00%) XML
3 10 (40.00%) Middleware
4 8 (32.00%) .NET
5 7 (28.00%) .NET Framework
5 7 (28.00%) WCF
5 7 (28.00%) WPF
6 5 (20.00%) Web Services
7 4 (16.00%) J2EE
8 3 (12.00%) JDBC
8 3 (12.00%) SOAP
8 3 (12.00%) WSDL
8 3 (12.00%) JMS
9 1 (4.000%) ASP.NET
9 1 (4.000%) COM
9 1 (4.000%) XSLT
9 1 (4.000%) Dojo
Application Platforms
1 7 (28.00%) TIBCO EMS
2 4 (16.00%) WebSphere Portal
2 4 (16.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 4 (16.00%) WebSphere Process Server
3 3 (12.00%) MQSeries
4 2 (8.000%) WebLogic
5 1 (4.000%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (8.000%) MS Project
3 1 (4.000%) MS Visio
3 1 (4.000%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.000%) SAN
2 1 (4.000%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.000%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.000%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Subversion
2 1 (4.000%) NUnit
General
1 13 (52.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Banking
3 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.000%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.000%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Developer
2 10 (40.00%) Middleware Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Support Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) C# Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Architect
5 2 (8.000%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) WPF Developer
5 2 (8.000%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (4.000%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.000%) J2EE Developer
6 1 (4.000%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.000%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) SWIFT
2 4 (16.00%) Equities
3 2 (8.000%) Mathematics
3 2 (8.000%) Physics
3 2 (8.000%) Computer Science
3 2 (8.000%) Reference Data
3 2 (8.000%) Hedge funds
3 2 (8.000%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (60.00%) Linux
2 10 (40.00%) UNIX
2 10 (40.00%) Solaris
3 6 (24.00%) Windows
4 3 (12.00%) AIX
5 2 (8.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (4.000%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (4.000%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Asset Management
2 7 (28.00%) Unit Testing
3 5 (20.00%) SOA
3 5 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (12.00%) Scrum
4 3 (12.00%) Project Management
4 3 (12.00%) Performance Testing
5 2 (8.000%) Load Balancing
5 2 (8.000%) Time Management
5 2 (8.000%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (8.000%) BPEL
5 2 (8.000%) ITIL
5 2 (8.000%) ETL
6 1 (4.000%) UML
6 1 (4.000%) Software Engineering
6 1 (4.000%) MVC
6 1 (4.000%) Migration
6 1 (4.000%) BPMN
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) Java
2 8 (32.00%) Perl
2 8 (32.00%) C#
3 7 (28.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (12.00%) XPath
5 1 (4.000%) SQL
5 1 (4.000%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (8.000%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) IBM
2 10 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (28.00%) TIBCO
4 6 (24.00%) Oracle
5 2 (8.000%) Informatica
5 2 (8.000%) Red Hat
5 2 (8.000%) Lombardi
5 2 (8.000%) JBoss
5 2 (8.000%) Sybase