MQSeries Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IBM MQSeries
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 301 344 476
Rank change year-on-year +43 +132 +148
Contract jobs citing MQSeries 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.007% 0.004%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.27% 0.064% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £1,175 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £1,250 £475
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% +163.16% -34.48%
75th Percentile £680 £1,325 £488
90th Percentile £728 - -
UK median daily rate £600 £519 £475
% change year-on-year +15.66% +9.21% -35.59%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,129 1,560 2,932
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.40% 10.17% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,093 2,063
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -2.50%
75th Percentile £633 £608 £638
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 39 72
10th Percentile £27.03 £16.28 £19.33
25th Percentile £38.39 £22.55 £22.16
Median hourly rate £57.00 £30.16 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.99% -45.16% +57.14%
75th Percentile £64.50 £47.94 £66.69
90th Percentile £66.00 £71.50 £82.40
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

MQSeries
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing MQSeries as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MQSeries trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

MQSeries
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing MQSeries.

MQSeries daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

MQSeries
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (66.67%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) AS400
1 2 (66.67%) Derivative
1 2 (66.67%) iSeries
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Change Control
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Portfolio Management
1 2 (66.67%) Wealth Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) RPG
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Control-M
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Rancher
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Confluent
2 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (33.33%) MKS