MQSeries Contract Job Trends

IBM MQSeries
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring MQSeries skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 628 492 569
Rank change year-on-year -136 +77 +142
Contract jobs citing MQSeries 5 10 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.010% 0.034% 0.021%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.12% 0.30% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 8
10th Percentile - £498 £463
25th Percentile £513 £563 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £519
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +15.66% +9.21%
75th Percentile £538 - £563
90th Percentile - £696 £791
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £488
% change year-on-year - - -2.50%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,206 3,326 4,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.82% 11.36% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,874 2,226 2,894
10th Percentile £313 £275 £250
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.89% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 77 159
10th Percentile £15.54 £16.55 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.02 £22.50 £15.41
Median hourly rate £28.44 £43.09 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.00% +56.69% -31.25%
75th Percentile £71.75 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £78.55 £76.00 £69.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £47.50 £23.63
% change year-on-year -26.31% +101.05% -10.78%

MQSeries
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MQSeries relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

MQSeries job vacancy trend in the UK

MQSeries
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MQSeries.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MQSeries

MQSeries
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MQSeries.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MQSeries

MQSeries
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MQSeries within the UK over the 6 months to 7 May 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
London -67 5 £525 -12.50%
England -114 5 £525 -12.50%
Work from Home -32 1 £525 -12.50%

MQSeries
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Kafka Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) EDIFACT
2 2 (40.00%) JSON
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (40.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Confluent
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
1 2 (40.00%) MKS