The first table below looks at the demand for MSMQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MSMQ over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
Rank 120 135 -
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -
Contract jobs citing MSMQ 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.082% 0.031% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.503% 0.231% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £375 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £300 £290
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - -
All Application Platforms
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
398 432 447
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 16.23% 13.47% 15.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 196 153
Average daily rate £350 £314 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.55% -10.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £218 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 18 40
Average hourly rate £18.00 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.00% -37.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.25 £14.55 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £38.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
MSMQ
South East

MSMQ
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MSMQ across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Berkshire MSMQ Jobs Demand Trend

MSMQ
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MSMQ across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire MSMQ Daily Rate Trend

MSMQ
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MSMQ across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire MSMQ Hourly Rate Trend

MSMQ
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSMQ within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading - 2 £375 -
MSMQ
South East

MSMQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing MSMQ also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited MSMQ.

1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 6 (100.00%) MVC
1 6 (100.00%) TDD
1 6 (100.00%) SpecFlow
2 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum
2 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 4 (66.67%) ESB
2 4 (66.67%) WCF
2 4 (66.67%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (50.00%) BDD
3 3 (50.00%) Visual Studio
3 3 (50.00%) LINQ
3 3 (50.00%) jQuery
3 3 (50.00%) Kanban
3 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (33.33%) SOAP
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 2 (33.33%) Unity DI Container
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (16.67%) MSBuild
5 1 (16.67%) HTML5
5 1 (16.67%) Web Services
5 1 (16.67%) XML
5 1 (16.67%) Windows

MSMQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing MSMQ also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited MSMQ. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (66.67%) WCF
3 3 (50.00%) LINQ
3 3 (50.00%) jQuery
4 2 (33.33%) SOAP
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 2 (33.33%) Unity DI Container
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (16.67%) HTML5
5 1 (16.67%) Web Services
5 1 (16.67%) XML
5 1 (16.67%) Middleware
5 1 (16.67%) CSS
5 1 (16.67%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) ESB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) SpecFlow
2 4 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (50.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (16.67%) MSBuild
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (83.33%) .NET Developer
3 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET Programmer
3 3 (50.00%) .NET Programmer
3 3 (50.00%) Programmer
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (16.67%) C# Programmer
5 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) MVC
1 6 (100.00%) TDD
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) BDD
3 3 (50.00%) Kanban
3 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (16.67%) UML
5 1 (16.67%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript