WebSphere MQ Job Trends in England

IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring WebSphere MQ skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 621 - 738
Rank change year-on-year - - +342
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere MQ 10 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.023% - 0.013%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.14% - 0.047%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82,500 - £37,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - £40,113
Median % change year-on-year - - -42.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 - £42,342
90th Percentile - - £67,937
UK median annual salary £85,000 - £44,033
% change year-on-year - - -36.85%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

WebSphere MQ falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,985 13,207 15,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.26% 19.32% 27.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,556 8,787 12,265
10th Percentile £38,750 £39,575 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £64,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +5.47% -3.76% +2.31%

WebSphere MQ
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for WebSphere MQ in England

WebSphere MQ
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing WebSphere MQ.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing WebSphere MQ

WebSphere MQ
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere MQ within the England region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London - 10 £85,000 -
WebSphere MQ
UK

WebSphere MQ
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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 8 (80.00%) Tomcat
2 8 (80.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (60.00%) Serverless
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon ECR
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (40.00%) Route 53
3 4 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) DB2
1 8 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (80.00%) Banking
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Applications Support
2 7 (70.00%) Linux Support
3 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 4 (40.00%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (40.00%) Applications Support Engineer
4 4 (40.00%) Support Engineer
4 4 (40.00%) Unix Support
5 3 (30.00%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (30.00%) Linux Support Engineer
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) LAPP Stack
1 8 (80.00%) LDAP
2 2 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Unix
2 8 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Change Management
1 8 (80.00%) ITIL
1 8 (80.00%) Release Management
1 8 (80.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) AWS Certification
1 8 (80.00%) Degree
1 8 (80.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) IBM
2 8 (80.00%) Red Hat
3 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow