The first table below looks at the demand for JMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JMS over the 3 months to 24 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 Development category for the Birmingham 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Messaging Service (JMS)
Rank - 52 47
Contract jobs citing JMS 0 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - 0.644% 0.390%
As % of the Application Development category - 2.424% 1.481%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £300 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+0.68% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+38.46% -7.14%
All Application Development
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
99 165 135
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 22.55% 26.57% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 103 77
Average daily rate £300 £300 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £375 £358
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
Average hourly rate £37.00 £40.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.50% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JMS
West Midlands

JMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham JMS Jobs Demand Trend

JMS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham JMS Daily Rate Trend

JMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham JMS Hourly Rate Trend

JMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing JMS 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 JMS.

1 9 (100.00%) DB2
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) HTTP
1 9 (100.00%) IBM
1 9 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 9 (100.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere Process Server
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 9 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (77.78%) Middleware
2 7 (77.78%) TCP/IP
2 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 7 (77.78%) DNS
2 7 (77.78%) LDAP
2 7 (77.78%) Web Services
2 7 (77.78%) .NET
3 6 (66.67%) Oracle
3 6 (66.67%) SOA
3 6 (66.67%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
4 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
5 2 (22.22%) Banking
5 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
5 2 (22.22%) ESB
5 2 (22.22%) FTP
5 2 (22.22%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (22.22%) Java
5 2 (22.22%) JDBC
5 2 (22.22%) SOAP
6 1 (11.11%) XML

JMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing JMS 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 JMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 7 (77.78%) Middleware
2 7 (77.78%) Web Services
2 7 (77.78%) .NET
3 2 (22.22%) JDBC
3 2 (22.22%) SOAP
4 1 (11.11%) XML
4 1 (11.11%) Java RMI
4 1 (11.11%) J2EE
4 1 (11.11%) WSDL
4 1 (11.11%) RESTful
4 1 (11.11%) JMX
Application Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere Process Server
2 6 (66.67%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (22.22%) ESB
3 2 (22.22%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (11.11%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) HTTP
2 7 (77.78%) TCP/IP
2 7 (77.78%) DNS
2 7 (77.78%) LDAP
3 2 (22.22%) FTP
4 1 (11.11%) IPv6
4 1 (11.11%) SMTP
4 1 (11.11%) SNMP
4 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
4 1 (11.11%) IIOP
4 1 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) DB2
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
1 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Administrator
1 4 (44.44%) WebSphere Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) WebSphere Specialist
2 2 (22.22%) WebSphere Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Server Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) WebSphere Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) SOA
2 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Data Management
2 1 (11.11%) BPEL
2 1 (11.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Jython
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) IBM
1 9 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (66.67%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Business Objects
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) VMware