Hybrid/Remote WebSphere MQ Job Trends

IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring WebSphere MQ skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 - 544
Rank change year-on-year - - +107
Permanent jobs citing WebSphere MQ 6 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.036% - 0.026%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.20% - 0.093%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82,500 - £75,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - £83,577
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 - £91,934
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £85,000 - £83,577
% change year-on-year - - +23.57%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 3,058 4,215 8,567
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.37% 32.60% 27.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,219 3,319 7,435
10th Percentile £41,925 £41,190 £39,658
25th Percentile £52,008 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £66,225 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +10.38% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +10.34% -11.11%

WebSphere MQ
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing WebSphere MQ and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

WebSphere MQ job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

WebSphere MQ
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing WebSphere MQ.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing WebSphere MQ

WebSphere MQ
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 6 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (33.33%) Route 53
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) DB2
1 6 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (100.00%) Banking
2 4 (66.67%) Investment Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Applications Support
1 6 (100.00%) Linux Support
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Support
2 4 (66.67%) Unix Support
3 2 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Applications Support Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Linux Support Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) LAPP Stack
1 6 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Unix
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Change Management
1 6 (100.00%) ITIL
1 6 (100.00%) Release Management
1 6 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 6 (100.00%) Degree
1 6 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) IBM
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (66.67%) ServiceNow