The first table below looks at the demand for JMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JMS over the 3 months to 21 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 Buckinghamshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Messaging Service (JMS)
Rank 64 65 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Contract jobs citing JMS 9 9 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 1.111% 0.896% -
As % of the Application Development category 4.286% 4.737% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
Average daily rate £500 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £354 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.48% -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
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
210 190 232
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 25.93% 18.92% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 100 102
Average daily rate £325 £308 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.69% -6.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £401 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £21.94
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +59.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JMS
South East

JMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire JMS Daily Rate Trend

JMS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JMS across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire JMS Daily Rate Histogram

JMS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMS within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Milton Keynes +8 9 £500 -
JMS
South East

JMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 14 (77.78%) XML
2 11 (61.11%) Java
3 10 (55.56%) Oracle
4 9 (50.00%) Web Services
5 8 (44.44%) HTTP
5 8 (44.44%) JDBC
6 7 (38.89%) J2EE
6 7 (38.89%) Spring
7 6 (33.33%) Ajax
7 6 (33.33%) Dojo
7 6 (33.33%) Use Case
7 6 (33.33%) Hibernate
7 6 (33.33%) Software Architecture
7 6 (33.33%) Finance
7 6 (33.33%) SOA
7 6 (33.33%) TCP/IP
7 6 (33.33%) DHTML
7 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
7 6 (33.33%) JSP
7 6 (33.33%) Servlets
7 6 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
7 6 (33.33%) OO
7 6 (33.33%) CSS
7 6 (33.33%) Struts
8 5 (27.78%) SOAP
8 5 (27.78%) Open Source
9 4 (22.22%) ActionScript 2.0
9 4 (22.22%) JSON
9 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
9 4 (22.22%) ActionScript

JMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 14 (77.78%) XML
2 9 (50.00%) Web Services
3 8 (44.44%) JDBC
4 7 (38.89%) J2EE
4 7 (38.89%) Spring
5 6 (33.33%) Ajax
5 6 (33.33%) Dojo
5 6 (33.33%) Hibernate
5 6 (33.33%) DHTML
5 6 (33.33%) JSP
5 6 (33.33%) Servlets
5 6 (33.33%) CSS
5 6 (33.33%) Struts
6 5 (27.78%) SOAP
7 4 (22.22%) JSON
7 4 (22.22%) XSLT
7 4 (22.22%) Middleware
8 2 (11.11%) SAP PI
8 2 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (11.11%) REST
Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) MS Exchange
1 3 (16.67%) WebLogic
1 3 (16.67%) Lync
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (11.11%) ESB
2 2 (11.11%) Tomcat
2 2 (11.11%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (11.11%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) HTTP
2 6 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 3 (16.67%) SMTP
3 3 (16.67%) Internet
3 3 (16.67%) SAN
3 3 (16.67%) Firewall
3 3 (16.67%) iSCSI
3 3 (16.67%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (5.556%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Maven
2 2 (11.11%) Ant
3 1 (5.556%) Eclipse
3 1 (5.556%) JUnit
3 1 (5.556%) Hudson
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Developer
2 8 (44.44%) Architect
3 7 (38.89%) Technical Architect
4 4 (22.22%) JavaScript Developer
5 3 (16.67%) Java Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Lead Developer
7 1 (5.556%) Consultant
7 1 (5.556%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.556%) Integration Architect
7 1 (5.556%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 1 (5.556%) SAP Architect
7 1 (5.556%) NetWeaver Architect
7 1 (5.556%) J2EE Developer
7 1 (5.556%) SAP Consultant
7 1 (5.556%) Senior J2EE Developer
7 1 (5.556%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (5.556%) Oracle SOA Developer
7 1 (5.556%) SOA Developer
7 1 (5.556%) SAP PI Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Open Source
2 3 (16.67%) Clustering
2 3 (16.67%) Cryptography
3 2 (11.11%) Fat Client
3 2 (11.11%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
1 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (5.556%) UNIX
2 1 (5.556%) AIX
2 1 (5.556%) Solaris
2 1 (5.556%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Use Case
1 6 (33.33%) Software Architecture
1 6 (33.33%) SOA
1 6 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
1 6 (33.33%) OO
2 3 (16.67%) Migration
2 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (16.67%) UML
2 3 (16.67%) TOGAF
2 3 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 2 (11.11%) BPMN
3 2 (11.11%) BPEL
3 2 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (11.11%) Scrum
3 2 (11.11%) CRM
4 1 (5.556%) EAI
4 1 (5.556%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Java
2 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (22.22%) ActionScript 2.0
3 4 (22.22%) ActionScript
4 2 (11.11%) XPath
4 2 (11.11%) ABAP
5 1 (5.556%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.556%) SQL
5 1 (5.556%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) CCSP
1 3 (16.67%) CCNA
1 3 (16.67%) ISEB
1 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (16.67%) MCSE
1 3 (16.67%) MCP
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) MCTS
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.556%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 3 (16.67%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 3 (16.67%) OpenView
2 1 (5.556%) SCCM
2 1 (5.556%) SCOM
2 1 (5.556%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Oracle
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 3 (16.67%) Sun
3 3 (16.67%) HP
3 3 (16.67%) Citrix
3 3 (16.67%) StorageTek
3 3 (16.67%) VMware
4 2 (11.11%) SAP
5 1 (5.556%) JBoss