The first part of the table below looks at the demand for WebSphere MQ skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WebSphere MQ over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category.

IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank543490448
Rank change year-on-year
Down-53Down-42
Matching permanent IT job ads363430339
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.301 %0.351 %0.355 %
As % of the Application Platforms category1.475 %1.844 %2.054 %
Number of salaries quoted323327255
Average salary£54,000£50,000£52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.00 %-4.76 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£39,700£35,000£37,750
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£75,000£67,500
UK excluding London average salary£47,500£45,000£48,500
% change year-on-year
+5.55 %-7.21 %
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryAll Application Platforms
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
246122331416502
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK20.41 %19.01 %17.28 %
Number of salaries quoted213852008713741
Average salary£42,500£42,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+6.25 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£37,500£36,000
% change year-on-year
-+4.16 %

WebSphere MQ
Demand Trend

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

WebSphere MQ Demand Trend

WebSphere MQ
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WebSphere MQ within the UK.

WebSphere MQ Salary Trend

WebSphere MQ
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WebSphere MQ over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

WebSphere MQ Salary Histogram

WebSphere MQ
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-46348£55,000+6.79 %
LondonDown-22187£60,000-7.69 %
City of LondonUp+2163£57,500+21.05 %
East MidlandsUp+3355£47,500-26.92 %
NorthamptonshireUp+3447£47,500-32.14 %
South EastDown-5542£50,000+5.26 %
West MidlandsDown-3125£52,500+23.52 %
North WestDown-1823£39,500+1.28 %
HampshireDown-1421£50,000+6.38 %
ScotlandUp+612£42,250-6.11 %
CheshireDown-1612£41,000-
Docklands, LondonUp+3110£60,000+33.33 %
NorthamptonNew entry-10£55,000-
ManchesterUp+39£40,500-14.28 %
BerkshireDown-279£52,500+5.00 %
SouthamptonNew entry-9£50,000-
West YorkshireDown-18£36,250-
East of EnglandDown-38£47,000-14.54 %
YorkshireDown-208£36,250-5.22 %
WarwickshireDown-338£55,000+29.41 %
BasingstokeDown-117£50,000+11.11 %
ReadingDown-127£50,000-16.66 %
CreweNew entry-7£41,000-
LeedsNew entry-7£37,500-
NottinghamshireUp+175£55,000+115.68 %
HertfordshireUp+135£59,320+7.85 %
NottinghamUp+115£55,000+115.68 %
SurreyDown-285£55,000+80.32 %
ClydebankNew entry-5£44,500-
West DunbartonshireNew entry-5£44,500-

WebSphere MQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1672 (91.06 %)WebSphere
2363 (49.19 %)Java
3289 (39.16 %)UNIX
4275 (37.26 %)Oracle
5274 (37.13 %)IBM
6271 (36.72 %)J2EE
7223 (30.22 %)Middleware
8213 (28.86 %)Linux
9211 (28.59 %)Finance
10208 (28.18 %)Windows
11188 (25.47 %)SQL
12160 (21.68 %)Banking
13136 (18.43 %)WebSphere Message Broker
14130 (17.62 %)JMS
15129 (17.48 %)XML
16115 (15.58 %)Spring
17114 (15.45 %)WebSphere Application Server
18108 (14.63 %)Java EE
19100 (13.55 %)SQL Server
2098 (13.28 %)WebLogic
2194 (12.74 %)Solaris
2289 (12.06 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2388 (11.92 %)ITIL
2388 (11.92 %)DB2
2487 (11.79 %)JUnit
2585 (11.52 %)JBoss
2684 (11.38 %)SOA
2684 (11.38 %)Red Hat
2783 (11.25 %).NET
2882 (11.11 %)ESB

WebSphere MQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1672 (91.06 %)WebSphere
2271 (36.72 %)J2EE
3223 (30.22 %)Middleware
4130 (17.62 %)JMS
5129 (17.48 %)XML
6115 (15.58 %)Spring
7108 (14.63 %)Java EE
883 (11.25 %).NET
980 (10.84 %)Web Services
1078 (10.57 %)Hibernate
1156 (7.588 %)SOAP
1254 (7.317 %)Struts
1254 (7.317 %)Ajax
1352 (7.046 %)XSLT
1449 (6.640 %)Spring MVC
1542 (5.691 %)REST
1630 (4.065 %)jBPM
1630 (4.065 %)WSDL
1729 (3.930 %)Servlets
1825 (3.388 %)TopLink
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1136 (18.43 %)WebSphere Message Broker
2114 (15.45 %)WebSphere Application Server
398 (13.28 %)WebLogic
482 (11.11 %)ESB
560 (8.130 %)Tomcat
659 (7.995 %)Apache
739 (5.285 %)TIBCO EMS
828 (3.794 %)IBM HTTP Server
926 (3.523 %)Rendezvous
1025 (3.388 %)WebSphere Process Server
1118 (2.439 %)Mule
1118 (2.439 %)IIS
1216 (2.168 %)MQSeries
1313 (1.762 %)WebSphere Portal
1313 (1.762 %)SmartSockets
1412 (1.626 %)Oracle Service Bus
1412 (1.626 %)Oracle HTTP Server
1510 (1.355 %)Oracle Workflow
169 (1.220 %)Tuxedo
169 (1.220 %)TIBCO ActiveMatrix
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
130 (4.065 %)Mingle
218 (2.439 %)MS Excel
313 (1.762 %)MS Visio
411 (1.491 %)MS Office
57 (0.949 %)MS Project
62 (0.271 %)MS PowerPoint
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
120 (2.710 %)BusinessWorks
218 (2.439 %)Oracle ERP
314 (1.897 %)Oracle BPM
410 (1.355 %)BASE24
58 (1.084 %)TIBCO iProcess
63 (0.407 %)WebTrends
71 (0.136 %)SAP CRM
71 (0.136 %)SAP MDM
71 (0.136 %)SAP Retail
71 (0.136 %)SAP ERP
71 (0.136 %)Sword FircoSoft
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
145 (6.098 %)HTTP
236 (4.878 %)SSL
329 (3.930 %)SAN
419 (2.575 %)FTP
516 (2.168 %)AMQP
611 (1.491 %)LDAP
710 (1.355 %)Broadband
88 (1.084 %)Extranet
97 (0.949 %)TCP/IP
97 (0.949 %)LAN
97 (0.949 %)WAN
106 (0.813 %)NAS
106 (0.813 %)Firewall
115 (0.678 %)DNS
124 (0.542 %)UMTS
124 (0.542 %)Internet
133 (0.407 %)DHCP
142 (0.271 %)ATM
142 (0.271 %)VPN
142 (0.271 %)VLAN
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1100 (13.55 %)SQL Server
288 (11.92 %)DB2
342 (5.691 %)RDBMS
438 (5.149 %)Oracle 10g
518 (2.439 %)SQL Server Integration Services
617 (2.304 %)Oracle 11g
716 (2.168 %)Oracle 9i
813 (1.762 %)SQL Server 2008
813 (1.762 %)SQL Server 2005
99 (1.220 %)TOAD
108 (1.084 %)Data Mining
108 (1.084 %)NoSQL
117 (0.949 %)Hadoop
126 (0.813 %)ETL
126 (0.813 %)SQLPlus
126 (0.813 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
135 (0.678 %)DataStage
144 (0.542 %)MS Access
152 (0.271 %)MySQL
152 (0.271 %)Oracle 8/8i
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
187 (11.79 %)JUnit
266 (8.943 %)Subversion
353 (7.182 %)Ant
445 (6.098 %)jMock
539 (5.285 %)Maven
633 (4.472 %)ClearCase
732 (4.336 %)Eclipse
830 (4.065 %)JIRA
920 (2.710 %)TortoiseSVN
1017 (2.304 %)Hudson
1110 (1.355 %)Eclipse RCP
129 (1.220 %)NUnit
138 (1.084 %)Introscope
138 (1.084 %)Visual Studio
146 (0.813 %)CruiseControl
155 (0.678 %)Redmine
164 (0.542 %)MSBuild
164 (0.542 %)Team Foundation Server
173 (0.407 %)Visual Studio Team System
181 (0.136 %)IntelliJ
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1211 (28.59 %)Finance
2160 (21.68 %)Banking
371 (9.621 %)Retail
459 (7.995 %)Investment Banking
521 (2.846 %)Financial Institution
67 (0.949 %)Back Office
75 (0.678 %)Front Office
84 (0.542 %)Telecoms
92 (0.271 %)Aerospace
92 (0.271 %)Law
101 (0.136 %)Manufacturing
101 (0.136 %)Retail Banking
101 (0.136 %)Private Banking
101 (0.136 %)Japanese Language
101 (0.136 %)Pharmaceutical
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1226 (30.62 %)Developer
2147 (19.92 %)Architect
392 (12.47 %)Administrator
483 (11.25 %)Java Developer
580 (10.84 %)Analyst
667 (9.079 %)Applications Support
748 (6.504 %)Consultant
834 (4.607 %)WebSphere Developer
933 (4.472 %)Solutions Architect
933 (4.472 %)WebSphere Administrator
1029 (3.930 %)Support Consultant
1029 (3.930 %)Agile Java Developer
1128 (3.794 %)Middleware Developer
1226 (3.523 %)Middleware Specialist
1324 (3.252 %)C# Developer
1423 (3.117 %)Support Analyst
1522 (2.981 %)Integration Architect
1621 (2.846 %)Applications Consultant
1621 (2.846 %)Team Leader
1621 (2.846 %)Applications Support Consultant
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
159 (7.995 %)Open Source
226 (3.523 %)iSeries
325 (3.388 %)Derivative
325 (3.388 %)EMV
422 (2.981 %)DataPower
521 (2.846 %)SWIFT
620 (2.710 %)Clustering
719 (2.575 %)Mainframe
818 (2.439 %)N-Tier
914 (1.897 %)Inversion of Control
1012 (1.626 %)Client/Server
1111 (1.491 %)AS400
1210 (1.355 %)Fixed Income
1210 (1.355 %)HACMP
1210 (1.355 %)Visualisation
138 (1.084 %)Computer Science
138 (1.084 %)Replication
147 (0.949 %)PACS
156 (0.813 %)Management Information System
164 (0.542 %)Tandem
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1289 (39.16 %)UNIX
2213 (28.86 %)Linux
3208 (28.18 %)Windows
494 (12.74 %)Solaris
589 (12.06 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
640 (5.420 %)AIX
728 (3.794 %)HPUX
820 (2.710 %)Windows NT
820 (2.710 %)zOS
820 (2.710 %)Windows 2000 Server
98 (1.084 %)Windows Server 2003
98 (1.084 %)SUSE
103 (0.407 %)Windows Server 2008
111 (0.136 %)Windows Vista
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
188 (11.92 %)ITIL
284 (11.38 %)SOA
373 (9.892 %)EAI
465 (8.808 %)Agile Software Development
557 (7.724 %)OO
648 (6.504 %)E-Commerce
648 (6.504 %)Extreme Programming
739 (5.285 %)UML
835 (4.743 %)Domain-Driven Design
932 (4.336 %)Configuration Management
932 (4.336 %)Project Management
1030 (4.065 %)Requirements Management
1129 (3.930 %)Continuous Integration
1228 (3.794 %)Automated Testing
1326 (3.523 %)Problem Management
1425 (3.388 %)Root Cause Analysis
1524 (3.252 %)Continuous Improvement
1622 (2.981 %)TDD
1721 (2.846 %)Incident Management
1721 (2.846 %)Unit Testing
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1363 (49.19 %)Java
2188 (25.47 %)SQL
368 (9.214 %)Perl
458 (7.859 %)C#
555 (7.453 %)Shell Script
636 (4.878 %)JavaScript
732 (4.336 %)C++
732 (4.336 %)Jython
831 (4.201 %)PL/SQL
925 (3.388 %)Python
1023 (3.117 %)C
1023 (3.117 %)Korn
1023 (3.117 %)XPath
1122 (2.981 %)PHP
1215 (2.033 %)Ruby
1311 (1.491 %)T-SQL
148 (1.084 %)Bash shell
155 (0.678 %)AWK
164 (0.542 %)PowerShell
173 (0.407 %)VB
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
155 (7.453 %)Degree
227 (3.659 %)IBM Certification
318 (2.439 %)ITIL Certification
411 (1.491 %)ISEB
56 (0.813 %)Microsoft Certification
56 (0.813 %)MCP
65 (0.678 %)Security Cleared
72 (0.271 %)SCJA
72 (0.271 %)DV Cleared
72 (0.271 %)IBM WebSphere Certification
72 (0.271 %)SCJP
72 (0.271 %)RHCE
81 (0.136 %)Cisco Certification
81 (0.136 %)HNC
81 (0.136 %)HND
81 (0.136 %)MCSE
81 (0.136 %)MCSA
81 (0.136 %)CCNA
81 (0.136 %)RHCA
81 (0.136 %)ISTQB
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
122 (2.981 %)QA
213 (1.762 %)ISO 8583
311 (1.491 %)SLA
41 (0.136 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
126 (3.523 %)VMware Infrastructure
210 (1.355 %)Veritas Cluster Server
35 (0.678 %)Veritas Volume Manager
35 (0.678 %)Veritas File System
35 (0.678 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
35 (0.678 %)Oracle RAC
44 (0.542 %)Active Directory
53 (0.407 %)vSphere
53 (0.407 %)VMware ESXi
61 (0.136 %)VMware ESX
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
138 (5.149 %)Control-M
228 (3.794 %)Tivoli
318 (2.439 %)CA SiteMinder
417 (2.304 %)Tivoli Monitoring
514 (1.897 %)Puppet
67 (0.949 %)CA Wily
76 (0.813 %)OMEGAMON
85 (0.678 %)BladeLogic
85 (0.678 %)BMC PATROL
85 (0.678 %)NetBackup
94 (0.542 %)EMC NetWorker
101 (0.136 %)Data Guard
101 (0.136 %)Red Hat Satellite
101 (0.136 %)Red Hat Spacewalk
101 (0.136 %)OVSD
101 (0.136 %)OpenView
101 (0.136 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1275 (37.26 %)Oracle
2274 (37.13 %)IBM
385 (11.52 %)JBoss
484 (11.38 %)Red Hat
561 (8.266 %)VMware
656 (7.588 %)TIBCO
754 (7.317 %)SAP
847 (6.369 %)BMC
847 (6.369 %)Ab Initio
945 (6.098 %)HP
1038 (5.149 %)ATG
1038 (5.149 %)hybris
1038 (5.149 %)Demandware
1135 (4.743 %)Fredhopper
1135 (4.743 %)Omniture
1135 (4.743 %)Endeca
1229 (3.930 %)BEA
1229 (3.930 %)Microsoft
1324 (3.252 %)Sybase
1423 (3.117 %)Sun