The first table below looks at the demand for MQSeries skills in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MQSeries over the 3 months to 24 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 South West region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM MQSeries
Rank 215 214 206
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -8
Permanent jobs citing MQSeries 1 1 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.019% 0.018% 0.166%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.088% 0.092% 0.948%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
Average salary £52,500 £46,000 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.13% -23.33%
UK excluding London average salary £57,500 £55,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+4.54% +29.41%
All Application Platforms
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1140 1082 1055
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 21.73% 19.55% 17.48%
Number of salaries quoted 990 958 950
Average salary £37,000 £35,000 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.71% +1.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,500 £24,300
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -
MQSeries
England

MQSeries
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Dorset -8 1 £52,500 +14.13%
MQSeries
England

MQSeries
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 10 (100.00%) Oracle
2 9 (90.00%) Java
2 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 9 (90.00%) UNIX
2 9 (90.00%) Middleware
2 9 (90.00%) Finance
3 8 (80.00%) Games
3 8 (80.00%) IBM HTTP Server
3 8 (80.00%) Retail
3 8 (80.00%) Tomcat
3 8 (80.00%) WebSphere
3 8 (80.00%) Bash shell
3 8 (80.00%) IBM
3 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (80.00%) Windows
3 8 (80.00%) AIX
3 8 (80.00%) Solaris
3 8 (80.00%) Linux
3 8 (80.00%) FTP
3 8 (80.00%) HTTP
3 8 (80.00%) J2EE
3 8 (80.00%) Perl
3 8 (80.00%) DB2
3 8 (80.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 8 (80.00%) IIS
3 8 (80.00%) MS Office
3 8 (80.00%) JDBC
4 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (20.00%) XML
5 1 (10.00%) SOA

MQSeries
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 9 (90.00%) Middleware
2 8 (80.00%) WebSphere
2 8 (80.00%) J2EE
2 8 (80.00%) JDBC
3 2 (20.00%) XML
4 1 (10.00%) Spring
4 1 (10.00%) Apache Flex
4 1 (10.00%) SOAP
4 1 (10.00%) Web Services
4 1 (10.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) FpML
Application Platforms
1 8 (80.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 8 (80.00%) Tomcat
1 8 (80.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 8 (80.00%) IIS
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 8 (80.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) FTP
1 8 (80.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) DB2
2 1 (10.00%) Adabas
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Subversion
1 1 (10.00%) Maven
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) FitNesse
General
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 8 (80.00%) Games
2 8 (80.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Back Office
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Operations Analyst
1 8 (80.00%) Analyst
1 8 (80.00%) Support Analyst
1 8 (80.00%) Operations Support Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) SWIFT
1 1 (10.00%) Open Source
1 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) UNIX
2 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) AIX
2 8 (80.00%) Solaris
2 8 (80.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (10.00%) SOA
2 1 (10.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (10.00%) B2B
2 1 (10.00%) B2C
2 1 (10.00%) OO
2 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Java
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 8 (80.00%) Bash shell
2 8 (80.00%) Perl
3 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) C
3 1 (10.00%) XQuery
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) NATURAL
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (80.00%) IBM
2 8 (80.00%) Microsoft