The first table below looks at the demand for JMS 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 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 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
Java Messaging Service (JMS)
Rank 155 162 145
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -17
Contract jobs citing JMS 48 56 103
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.752% 0.712% 1.051%
As % of the Application Development category 2.636% 2.778% 3.758%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 36 89
Average daily rate £488 £555 £555
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.16% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £438 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+0.68% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £32.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+38.46% -7.14%
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1821 2016 2741
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.55% 25.63% 27.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1439 1499 2137
Average daily rate £405 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.70% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 28 22
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £43.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -42.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.58 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £75.00 £45.00 £119.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JMS
London

JMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London JMS Daily Rate Histogram

JMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London JMS Hourly Rate Trend

JMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 72 (81.82%) Java
2 35 (39.77%) Spring
2 35 (39.77%) J2EE
3 32 (36.36%) UNIX
4 31 (35.23%) Multithreading
5 26 (29.55%) Oracle
6 23 (26.14%) EJB
6 23 (26.14%) Banking
7 21 (23.86%) Finance
7 21 (23.86%) Struts
7 21 (23.86%) Web Services
7 21 (23.86%) SQL
7 21 (23.86%) TDD
8 20 (22.73%) Front Office
9 19 (21.59%) MVC
10 18 (20.45%) TIBCO
10 18 (20.45%) Apache
10 18 (20.45%) Spring MVC
11 17 (19.32%) Linux
11 17 (19.32%) JUnit
11 17 (19.32%) XML
12 16 (18.18%) WebLogic
12 16 (18.18%) MySQL
12 16 (18.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 14 (15.91%) HTML
13 14 (15.91%) SOAP
13 14 (15.91%) RESTful
14 13 (14.77%) 29West
14 13 (14.77%) CSS
14 13 (14.77%) .NET

JMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 35 (39.77%) Spring
1 35 (39.77%) J2EE
2 23 (26.14%) EJB
3 21 (23.86%) Struts
3 21 (23.86%) Web Services
4 18 (20.45%) Spring MVC
5 17 (19.32%) XML
6 14 (15.91%) HTML
6 14 (15.91%) SOAP
6 14 (15.91%) RESTful
7 13 (14.77%) CSS
7 13 (14.77%) .NET
8 12 (13.64%) XSLT
9 11 (12.50%) Apache CXF
9 11 (12.50%) JSP
9 11 (12.50%) Hibernate
10 10 (11.36%) Middleware
10 10 (11.36%) Apache Axis
11 9 (10.23%) Servlets
11 9 (10.23%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 18 (20.45%) Apache
2 16 (18.18%) WebLogic
3 12 (13.64%) TIBCO EMS
4 10 (11.36%) Tomcat
5 7 (7.955%) Rendezvous
6 5 (5.682%) Confluence
7 4 (4.545%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (4.545%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (3.409%) WebSphere Message Broker
9 2 (2.273%) ActiveMQ
9 2 (2.273%) IIS
9 2 (2.273%) SharePoint
9 2 (2.273%) MQSeries
9 2 (2.273%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (1.136%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.136%) Amazon AWS
10 1 (1.136%) Liferay
10 1 (1.136%) Apache Solr
10 1 (1.136%) Apache Pig
10 1 (1.136%) AquaLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.136%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.409%) Kondor+
2 2 (2.273%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.136%) Autonomy Scrittura
3 1 (1.136%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.545%) LDAP
2 3 (3.409%) FTP
3 2 (2.273%) HTTP
3 2 (2.273%) SSL
3 2 (2.273%) AMQP
4 1 (1.136%) SMTP
4 1 (1.136%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.18%) MySQL
2 10 (11.36%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.818%) MarkLogic
4 4 (4.545%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.409%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.273%) Siebel EIM
6 2 (2.273%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.273%) Oracle 8/8i
6 2 (2.273%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.136%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.136%) Big Data
7 1 (1.136%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (1.136%) DB2
Development Applications
1 17 (19.32%) JUnit
2 12 (13.64%) JIRA
3 11 (12.50%) Maven
4 10 (11.36%) Subversion
5 6 (6.818%) Eclipse
6 3 (3.409%) Ant
7 2 (2.273%) ClearCase
7 2 (2.273%) Selenium
7 2 (2.273%) Hudson
8 1 (1.136%) EasyMock
8 1 (1.136%) Git (software)
8 1 (1.136%) Talend Open Studio
8 1 (1.136%) Mockito
8 1 (1.136%) FishEye
8 1 (1.136%) jMock
8 1 (1.136%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.136%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (1.136%) QuickTest Pro
8 1 (1.136%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.136%) JMeter
General
1 23 (26.14%) Banking
2 21 (23.86%) Finance
3 20 (22.73%) Front Office
4 12 (13.64%) Investment Banking
5 7 (7.955%) Publishing
6 4 (4.545%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.409%) Back Office
8 1 (1.136%) Retail
8 1 (1.136%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 65 (73.86%) Developer
2 51 (57.95%) Java Developer
3 11 (12.50%) Lead Developer
3 11 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 10 (11.36%) Lead Java Developer
5 9 (10.23%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (9.091%) C# Developer
7 6 (6.818%) Technical Leader
8 5 (5.682%) Designer
8 5 (5.682%) Technical Developer
8 5 (5.682%) Solutions Designer
9 4 (4.545%) Consultant
10 3 (3.409%) XML Developer
10 3 (3.409%) Architect
11 2 (2.273%) J2EE Developer
11 2 (2.273%) Middleware Engineer
11 2 (2.273%) Middleware Architect
12 1 (1.136%) DBA Manager
12 1 (1.136%) Test Leader
12 1 (1.136%) Senior JavaScript Developer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (11.36%) N-Tier
3 7 (7.955%) Derivative
4 6 (6.818%) Semantic Web
5 4 (4.545%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.136%) SWIFT
6 1 (1.136%) Open Source
6 1 (1.136%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.136%) Statistics
6 1 (1.136%) PKI
6 1 (1.136%) Computer Science
6 1 (1.136%) DataPower
6 1 (1.136%) Equities
6 1 (1.136%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.136%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 32 (36.36%) UNIX
2 17 (19.32%) Linux
3 5 (5.682%) Windows
4 1 (1.136%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.136%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (35.23%) Multithreading
2 21 (23.86%) TDD
3 19 (21.59%) MVC
4 9 (10.23%) Scrum
5 8 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (7.955%) Electronic Trading
6 7 (7.955%) Agile Software Development
7 6 (6.818%) Workflow
7 6 (6.818%) UML
7 6 (6.818%) E-Commerce
8 5 (5.682%) OO
9 4 (4.545%) Unit Testing
10 3 (3.409%) Data Mapping
10 3 (3.409%) SOA
10 3 (3.409%) ETL
10 3 (3.409%) Migration
10 3 (3.409%) Configuration Management
11 2 (2.273%) Change Management
11 2 (2.273%) Identity Management
11 2 (2.273%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (81.82%) Java
2 21 (23.86%) SQL
3 13 (14.77%) C#
4 10 (11.36%) JavaScript
5 8 (9.091%) Shell Script
6 6 (6.818%) T-SQL
6 6 (6.818%) XQuery
7 2 (2.273%) C++
7 2 (2.273%) Scala
8 1 (1.136%) XPath
8 1 (1.136%) Korn
8 1 (1.136%) Erlang
8 1 (1.136%) Groovy
8 1 (1.136%) F#
8 1 (1.136%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.136%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 6 (6.818%) CIPD
2 5 (5.682%) Degree
3 1 (1.136%) MCPD
3 1 (1.136%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.136%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.273%) SLA
1 2 (2.273%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.818%) Squid
2 2 (2.273%) ClearTrust
3 1 (1.136%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (1.136%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 26 (29.55%) Oracle
2 18 (20.45%) TIBCO
3 13 (14.77%) 29West
4 12 (13.64%) JBoss
5 9 (10.23%) Sybase
6 4 (4.545%) IBM
7 3 (3.409%) Murex
8 2 (2.273%) Siebel
8 2 (2.273%) Pega
9 1 (1.136%) Cordys
9 1 (1.136%) Talend
9 1 (1.136%) Google
9 1 (1.136%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.136%) BEA
9 1 (1.136%) SAP
9 1 (1.136%) Ab Initio
9 1 (1.136%) Red Hat
City, London
An experienced Java Developer is required for a Leading Investment Bank in London. The successful candidate will work on developing new and enhancing current Low Latency trading application...
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £600 - £650 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
City of London
Extensive experience in .Net and Java based Frameworks such as Struts, Spring etc Good experience in development methodologies such as Agile and testing tools (eg; Junit) Knowledge and...
Scope AT Ltd
Rate: neg
Posted: 10 May 2013
City, London
My client is a looking for a Support Analyst with the following skills and experience: - Extensive Oracle database management experience - Excellent Unix experience (Red Hat Linux preferred) - Java...
Aston Carter
Rate: market rate
Posted: 24 May 2013
City of London
The role is heavily focussed on the Middleware and Integration of various applications and systems using JMS related technologies... It is therefore imperative that this Java and JMS...
harringtonstarr
Rate: £400 - £430 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
The role is heavily focussed on the Middleware and Integration of various applications and systems using JMS related technologies... It is therefore imperative that this Java and JMS...
Harrington Starr
Rate: £400 - £430 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
City of London
Duties & Responsibilities Java developer with 3+ years of proven experience of working in a Java Enterprise/ Web environment (E) Proven experience of common development tools, for example Ant,...
Rate: MarketRate
Posted: 3 May 2013
City of London
You will have extensive experience with Middleware technologies such as Java, J2SE, TIBCO EMS, JMS, and bridged bus configuration. Also you will need to be highly skilled with...
harringtonstarr
Rate: £400 - £430 per day
Posted: 25 May 2013