WebSphere MQ Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring WebSphere MQ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 364 -
Rank change year-on-year -95 - -
Contract jobs citing WebSphere MQ 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.007% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.062% 0.031% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £268 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -46.40% - -
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +0.91% +8.11% -9.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,814 3,176 3,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.41% 20.74% 18.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,129 2,141 2,212
10th Percentile £355 £318 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £608
90th Percentile £675 £635 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 132 179
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £55.38 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.16 £78.33 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -2.22%

WebSphere MQ
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

WebSphere MQ job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

WebSphere MQ
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WebSphere MQ.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WebSphere MQ

WebSphere MQ
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WebSphere MQ.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WebSphere MQ

WebSphere MQ
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 August 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
South East - 2 - - 1
North of England -65 1 £268 -46.40% 1
North West - 1 £268 - 1
WebSphere MQ
UK

WebSphere MQ
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (66.67%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Portal
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) ChatGPT
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Introscope
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Middleware Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Support
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JDBC
1 2 (66.67%) JMS
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
1 2 (66.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Security Management
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) AI
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Jython
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) VBScript
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) CA Wily
1 2 (66.67%) Tivoli
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) AppDynamics
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Moogsoft
3 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (33.33%) Splunk