West Lothian WebSphere MQ Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ) skills within the West Lothian region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WebSphere MQ over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ)
Location Accrington Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London Coventry Croydon Dorset Dunfermline East Midlands East of England England Faversham Fife Greenford Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leicester Leicestershire Livingston London Manchester Middlesex Midlands North West North Yorkshire Peterborough Poole Reading Rotherham Sale Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon UK Wales Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	28
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching permanent IT job ads	18	19
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	40.91 %	31.67 %
Salaries quoted	11	0
Average minimum salary	£35,727	-
Average salary	£39,364	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£43,000	-
UK excluding London average salary	£38,566	£40,231
% change on same period last year	-4.13 %
Application Platforms West Lothian
Matching permanent IT job ads	44	60
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.026 %
Salaries quoted	31	20
Average minimum salary	£37,567	£41,471
Average salary	£41,225	£42,529
% change on same period last year	-3.06 %
Average maximum salary	£44,883	£43,588
UK excluding London average salary	£38,084	£38,632
% change on same period last year	-1.41 %
WebSphere MQ Scotland

WebSphere MQ
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing WebSphere MQ across the West Lothian region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

WebSphere MQ
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WebSphere MQ across the West Lothian region.

WebSphere MQ
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WebSphere MQ across the West Lothian region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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 West Lothian region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Livingston	+6	15	£39,364	-

WebSphere MQ Scotland

WebSphere MQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the West Lothian 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 28 (100.00 %) WebSphere 2 24 (85.71 %) Oracle 3 17 (60.71 %) XML 4 16 (57.14 %) SOAP 4 16 (57.14 %) WebServices 4 16 (57.14 %) SOA 4 16 (57.14 %) WebSphere Message Broker 5 15 (53.57 %) BPEL 5 15 (53.57 %) UDDI 6 14 (50.00 %) UNIX 6 14 (50.00 %) Informatica 7 13 (46.43 %) SQL 7 13 (46.43 %) IBM 8 12 (42.86 %) EAI 9 11 (39.29 %) Java

9 11 (39.29 %) ESB 10 10 (35.71 %) WMQI 11 9 (32.14 %) J2EE 11 9 (32.14 %) ETL 12 8 (28.57 %) PL/SQL 12 8 (28.57 %) Shell Script 13 7 (25.00 %) Test Scripting 13 7 (25.00 %) Data Conversion 14 6 (21.43 %) Ab Initio 14 6 (21.43 %) Solaris 15 5 (17.86 %) Actuate 15 5 (17.86 %) Middleware 16 4 (14.29 %) SQLPlus 16 4 (14.29 %) Workflow 16 4 (14.29 %) WPS

WebSphere MQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the West Lothian 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 28 (100.00 %) WebSphere 2 17 (60.71 %) XML 3 16 (57.14 %) SOAP 3 16 (57.14 %) WebServices 4 15 (53.57 %) UDDI 5 9 (32.14 %) J2EE 6 5 (17.86 %) Middleware 7 3 (10.71 %) JMX 7 3 (10.71 %) JSP 7 3 (10.71 %) Struts 8 1 (3.571 %) JMS	Application Platforms 1 16 (57.14 %) WebSphere Message Broker 2 11 (39.29 %) ESB 3 10 (35.71 %) WMQI 4 4 (14.29 %) WPS 4 4 (14.29 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 2 (7.143 %) MQSeries
Communications & Networking 1 3 (10.71 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (32.14 %) ETL 2 4 (14.29 %) Oracle 10g 2 4 (14.29 %) SQLPlus 3 3 (10.71 %) RDBMS 3 3 (10.71 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 4 (14.29 %) Ant	General 1 1 (3.571 %) Telecoms 1 1 (3.571 %) Finance 1 1 (3.571 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 5 (17.86 %) Deployment Specialist 2 4 (14.29 %) Architect 3 3 (10.71 %) Technical Architect 3 3 (10.71 %) WebSphere Architect 4 1 (3.571 %) Systems Administrator 4 1 (3.571 %) Applications Support 4 1 (3.571 %) Administrator 4 1 (3.571 %) Team Leader 4 1 (3.571 %) WebSphere Administrator 4 1 (3.571 %) Infrastructure Architect 4 1 (3.571 %) J2EE Team Leader	Miscellaneous 1 7 (25.00 %) Data Conversion 2 3 (10.71 %) PMI
Operating Systems 1 14 (50.00 %) UNIX 2 6 (21.43 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (57.14 %) SOA 2 15 (53.57 %) BPEL 3 12 (42.86 %) EAI 4 7 (25.00 %) Test Scripting 5 4 (14.29 %) Workflow 6 1 (3.571 %) Project Management 6 1 (3.571 %) OOD 6 1 (3.571 %) UML 6 1 (3.571 %) CRM
Programming Languages 1 13 (46.43 %) SQL 2 11 (39.29 %) Java 3 8 (28.57 %) Shell Script 3 8 (28.57 %) PL/SQL 4 4 (14.29 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 1 (3.571 %) Sun Certification
Vendors 1 24 (85.71 %) Oracle 2 14 (50.00 %) Informatica 3 13 (46.43 %) IBM 4 6 (21.43 %) Ab Initio 5 5 (17.86 %) Actuate 6 1 (3.571 %) Sun