The first table below looks at the demand for AMQP skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AMQP 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 Communications & Networking category for the City of London 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
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
Rank 200 - 244
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing AMQP 3 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.047% - 0.010%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.364% - 0.100%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £588 - £550
UK excluding London average daily rate - £325 £205
% change year-on-year
- +58.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.00 -
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
825 1008 997
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.93% 12.82% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 686 637
Average daily rate £400 £413 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% +3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £256 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 38 76
Average hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+98.86% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £17.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
AMQP
London

AMQP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing AMQP across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

City of London AMQP Jobs Demand Trend

AMQP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing AMQP across the City of London region.

City of London AMQP Daily Rate Trend

AMQP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AMQP across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London AMQP Daily Rate Histogram

AMQP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing AMQP 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 AMQP.

1 6 (85.71%) C#
1 6 (85.71%) Java
1 6 (85.71%) .NET
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle
2 5 (71.43%) Web Services
2 5 (71.43%) Maven
3 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
4 3 (42.86%) Front Office
4 3 (42.86%) RDBMS
4 3 (42.86%) SQL
4 3 (42.86%) Git (software)
4 3 (42.86%) Scala
5 2 (28.57%) Puppet
5 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
5 2 (28.57%) Banking
5 2 (28.57%) TeamCity
5 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
5 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Ruby
5 2 (28.57%) WPF
5 2 (28.57%) Linux
5 2 (28.57%) C++
5 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
5 2 (28.57%) Middleware
5 2 (28.57%) LDAP
5 2 (28.57%) JMS
5 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
5 2 (28.57%) Kerberos
6 1 (14.29%) Scrum
6 1 (14.29%) WinForms

AMQP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing AMQP 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 AMQP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (85.71%) .NET
2 5 (71.43%) Web Services
3 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
4 2 (28.57%) WPF
4 2 (28.57%) Middleware
4 2 (28.57%) JMS
5 1 (14.29%) WinForms
5 1 (14.29%) Servlets
5 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
5 1 (14.29%) WCF
5 1 (14.29%) Spring
5 1 (14.29%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) LDAP
1 2 (28.57%) Kerberos
2 1 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) RDBMS
2 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Maven
2 3 (42.86%) Git (software)
3 2 (28.57%) TeamCity
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Front Office
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) C# Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Scala Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Architect
5 1 (14.29%) C# Software Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Server Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Scrum
2 1 (14.29%) SOA
2 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
2 1 (14.29%) OO
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (14.29%) Multithreading
2 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
2 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) C#
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Scala
3 2 (28.57%) Ruby
3 2 (28.57%) C++
3 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) ActionScript
4 1 (14.29%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) MCPD
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) JBoss
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian