WebSphere MQ Contract Job Trends in the City of London

IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring WebSphere MQ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 - 126
Rank change year-on-year - - +38
Contract jobs citing WebSphere MQ 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.086% - 0.046%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.44% - 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £469 - -
25th Percentile £470 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 - -
75th Percentile £473 - -
90th Percentile £473 - -
Central London median daily rate £471 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 451 460 501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.36% 27.01% 23.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 299 350
10th Percentile £402 £404 £400
25th Percentile £475 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £753 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £22.51 - -
25th Percentile £31.03 - -
Median hourly rate £37.50 - -
75th Percentile £59.72 - -
90th Percentile £68.89 - -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 - -

WebSphere MQ
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

WebSphere MQ job vacancy trend in the City of London

WebSphere MQ
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing WebSphere MQ.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing WebSphere MQ

WebSphere MQ
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing WebSphere MQ.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing WebSphere MQ

WebSphere MQ
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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