WebSphere MQ Contract Job Trends in Central London

IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring WebSphere MQ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 - 133
Rank change year-on-year - - +46
Contract jobs citing WebSphere MQ 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.095% - 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.43% - 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £469 - -
25th Percentile £470 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £473 - -
90th Percentile £473 - -
London median daily rate £473 £200 £600
% change year-on-year +136.25% -66.67% +23.08%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

WebSphere MQ falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 469 523 563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.31% 25.29% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 329 397
10th Percentile £363 £409 £403
25th Percentile £451 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £674 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
London median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - -5.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £26.90 £37.20 -
25th Percentile £32.75 £37.88 £46.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -15.79% -20.17%
75th Percentile £53.61 £41.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £57.28 £41.60 -
London median hourly rate £46.50 £54.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -13.89% +13.68% -26.92%

WebSphere MQ
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WebSphere MQ relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

WebSphere MQ job vacancy trend in Central London

WebSphere MQ
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing WebSphere MQ.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing WebSphere MQ

WebSphere MQ
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing WebSphere MQ.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing WebSphere MQ

WebSphere MQ
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere MQ within the Central London region over the 6 months to 14 February 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London - 2 £471 - 1
WebSphere MQ
London

WebSphere MQ
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Ant
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Liquibase
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM