WebSphere MQ Job Trends

IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs 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 660 - 759
Rank change year-on-year - - +405
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere MQ 10 0 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% - 0.021%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.13% - 0.077%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82,500 - £37,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - £44,033
Median % change year-on-year - - -36.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 - £45,191
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £42,073
% change year-on-year - - -39.42%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,837 15,210 16,857
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.95% 19.61% 27.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4,961 9,829 13,754
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £64,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% -3.76% +2.31%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

WebSphere MQ
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WebSphere MQ in the UK

WebSphere MQ
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WebSphere MQ.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WebSphere MQ

WebSphere MQ
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere MQ within the UK 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
England - 10 £85,000 - 1
London - 10 £85,000 -
Work from Home - 8 £85,000 -

WebSphere MQ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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