MQSeries Contracts in England

IBM MQSeries
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring MQSeries skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MQSeries over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 475 532 651
Rank change year-on-year +57 +119 +114
Contract jobs citing MQSeries 10 10 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.041% 0.027% 0.004%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.35% 0.29% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 2
10th Percentile £498 £463 £465
25th Percentile £563 £495 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.66% +3.75% -32.20%
75th Percentile - £563 £544
90th Percentile £696 £791 £555
UK median daily rate £600 £519 £475
% change year-on-year +15.66% +9.21% -35.59%

All Application Platform Skills
England

MQSeries falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,817 3,461 5,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.57% 9.31% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,884 2,471 3,915
10th Percentile £283 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £754
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 139 128
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.00 £15.38
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%
75th Percentile £64.50 £45.59 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £65.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

MQSeries
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing MQSeries as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for MQSeries in England

MQSeries
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MQSeries in England.

Daily rate trend for MQSeries in England

MQSeries
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MQSeries in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MQSeries in England

MQSeries
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MQSeries in England.

Hourly rate trend for MQSeries in England

MQSeries
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MQSeries within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +39 10 £600 +11.63% 4
MQSeries
UK

MQSeries
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Banking
3 4 (40.00%) Private Banking
4 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (20.00%) Front Office
6 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Java Swing Developer
3 2 (20.00%) RPG Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) AS400 Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C++ Developer
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) XML
2 3 (30.00%) Rendezvous
3 2 (20.00%) Kafka
3 2 (20.00%) Middleware
3 2 (20.00%) Swing
4 1 (10.00%) .NET
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (10.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (10.00%) EDIFACT
4 1 (10.00%) FpML
4 1 (10.00%) JSON
4 1 (10.00%) Spring
4 1 (10.00%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) iSeries
2 4 (40.00%) AS400
3 2 (20.00%) Client/Server
3 2 (20.00%) Derivative
3 2 (20.00%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Fixed Income
3 2 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (20.00%) Replication
4 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Wealth Management
2 2 (20.00%) Change Control
2 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) High Availability
2 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (20.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (10.00%) Investment Management
3 1 (10.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (10.00%) Observability
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Refactoring
3 1 (10.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) RPG
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Control-M
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Rancher
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) IBM
2 3 (30.00%) TIBCO
3 2 (20.00%) Confluent
3 2 (20.00%) MKS
3 2 (20.00%) Sybase
4 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle