IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for WebSphere MQ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WebSphere MQ over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 882 930 1179
Rank change year-on-year +48 +249 -303
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere MQ 14 40 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.038% 0.034%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.067% 0.13% 0.086%
Number of salaries quoted 6 26 47
10th Percentile - £43,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £75,219 £58,077 £47,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,577 £67,567 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.69% -3.48% +27.27%
75th Percentile £118,609 £76,385 £75,000
90th Percentile £129,375 £77,715 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £83,577 £67,634 £39,000
% change year-on-year +23.57% +73.42% -22.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

WebSphere MQ is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 20,974 31,729 61,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.39% 30.32% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,673 19,469 30,328
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,600 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

WebSphere MQ
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WebSphere MQ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WebSphere MQ in the UK

WebSphere MQ
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WebSphere MQ.

Salary trend for WebSphere MQ in the UK

WebSphere MQ
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WebSphere MQ over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for WebSphere MQ in the UK

WebSphere MQ
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere MQ within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +136 10 £126,250 +87.04%
England +102 10 £126,250 +92.75% 1
Work from Home +69 8 £83,577 +23.57%
UK excluding London -14 4 £83,577 +23.57% 1
Scotland -78 4 £83,577 +23.57%

WebSphere MQ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (71.43%) WebSphere
2 2 (14.29%) GlassFish
2 2 (14.29%) JCAPS
2 2 (14.29%) WebLogic
2 2 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
1 4 (28.57%) GCP
1 4 (28.57%) GitHub
1 4 (28.57%) IBM Cloud
1 4 (28.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) Firewall
1 8 (57.14%) LAN
1 8 (57.14%) WAN
1 8 (57.14%) Wireless
2 5 (35.71%) VPN
3 2 (14.29%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) DB2
2 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Maven
2 4 (28.57%) Git
2 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 4 (28.57%) Selenium
3 2 (14.29%) Ant
3 2 (14.29%) JUnit
3 2 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 13 (92.86%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Banking
3 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Back Office
4 2 (14.29%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Architect
1 8 (57.14%) Integration Architect
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Architect
2 5 (35.71%) IT Architect
2 5 (35.71%) IT Infrastructure Architect
2 5 (35.71%) VMware Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Java Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Java Software Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Network Infrastructure Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Oracle Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Credit Risk Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Risk Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Spring
2 4 (28.57%) JSON
2 4 (28.57%) Kafka
2 4 (28.57%) REST
2 4 (28.57%) RESTful
2 4 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 4 (28.57%) Web Services
3 2 (14.29%) DOM
3 2 (14.29%) J2EE
3 2 (14.29%) Java EE
3 2 (14.29%) JDBC
3 2 (14.29%) JMS
3 2 (14.29%) Middleware
3 2 (14.29%) SAX
3 2 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Data Centre
1 5 (35.71%) Private Cloud
2 4 (28.57%) Management Information System
3 3 (21.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (14.29%) Credit Risk
4 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Linux
1 8 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
1 6 (42.86%) SDLC
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (35.71%) Load Balancing
2 5 (35.71%) Roadmaps
2 5 (35.71%) TOGAF
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) BDD
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Fintech
3 4 (28.57%) High Availability
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 4 (28.57%) Low Latency
3 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 4 (28.57%) Microservices
3 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) TDD
3 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 2 (14.29%) Knowledge Management
4 2 (14.29%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Java
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
2 2 (14.29%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
1 5 (35.71%) RHCA
1 5 (35.71%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (57.14%) vSphere
2 4 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Control-M
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) IBM
2 8 (57.14%) Citrix
2 8 (57.14%) Red Hat
2 8 (57.14%) VMware
3 7 (50.00%) Oracle
4 5 (35.71%) Cisco
4 5 (35.71%) Juniper
4 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
5 4 (28.57%) Google