WebSphere MQ Contracts

IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring WebSphere MQ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WebSphere MQ over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 667 727
Rank change year-on-year +94 +60 -46
Contract jobs citing WebSphere MQ 11 30 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.054% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% 0.24% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 95
10th Percentile £456 £398 £409
25th Percentile £518 £461 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £581 £651 £663
90th Percentile £603 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate - £750 £525
% change year-on-year - +42.86% +50.00%

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 contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,217 12,733 23,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 9,286 17,244
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 153 227
10th Percentile £22.20 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.85 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WebSphere MQ.

Daily rate trend for WebSphere MQ in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebSphere MQ over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WebSphere MQ in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WebSphere MQ.

Hourly rate trend for WebSphere MQ in the UK

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Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere MQ within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
England +68 9 £550 -15.38% 2
London +74 7 £550 -14.33% 2
Work from Home +108 5 £550 +15.79%

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 11 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 6 (54.55%) WebLogic
2 6 (54.55%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (18.18%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (18.18%) IIS
3 2 (18.18%) Tomcat
4 1 (9.09%) JBoss
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (9.09%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) DB2
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 2 (18.18%) Banking
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Applications Specialist
1 6 (54.55%) Server Specialist
1 6 (54.55%) WebSphere Server Specialist
1 6 (54.55%) WebSphere Specialist
2 3 (27.27%) WebSphere MQ Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Support
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Support Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) DataPower
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (9.09%) Agile
1 1 (9.09%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (9.09%) Change Management
1 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (9.09%) Data Management
1 1 (9.09%) High Availability
1 1 (9.09%) Innovative Thinking
1 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (9.09%) Scrum
1 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (9.09%) Validation
1 1 (9.09%) Workflow
1 1 (9.09%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) VBScript
3 1 (9.09%) JCL
3 1 (9.09%) PL/1
3 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
3 1 (9.09%) REXX
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Control-M
1 1 (9.09%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) IBM
2 2 (18.18%) Dynatrace
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) BMC
3 1 (9.09%) CA
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle