MSMQ Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MSMQ 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 MSMQ over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
Rank 192 190 235
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +45
Contract jobs citing MSMQ 9 23 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.143% 0.296% 0.112%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.823% 1.961% 0.760%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 22 8
Average daily rate £500 £343 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.98% -29.74%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £300 £280
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - -
All Application Platforms
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category		 1093 1173 1447
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 17.36% 15.08% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 770 788 1031
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 35 63
Average hourly rate £40.00 £20.00 £20.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% -3.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £15.00 £12.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.20 £48.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
MSMQ
London

MSMQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London MSMQ Daily Rate Trend

MSMQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 24 (80.00%) Banking
2 23 (76.67%) WebSphere
2 23 (76.67%) WebSphere MQ
3 21 (70.00%) .NET
4 20 (66.67%) SQL Server
5 19 (63.33%) C#
6 18 (60.00%) MVC
6 18 (60.00%) WCF
7 17 (56.67%) Rhino Mocks
7 17 (56.67%) SQL
7 17 (56.67%) OO
8 16 (53.33%) Multithreading
8 16 (53.33%) NHibernate
9 15 (50.00%) Lucene
9 15 (50.00%) .NET Remoting
9 15 (50.00%) Spring.NET
9 15 (50.00%) WPF
9 15 (50.00%) Open Source
9 15 (50.00%) Inversion of Control
9 15 (50.00%) Memory Management
9 15 (50.00%) Scrum
9 15 (50.00%) Front Office
9 15 (50.00%) MS Excel
9 15 (50.00%) MySQL
9 15 (50.00%) Unity DI Container
10 9 (30.00%) IIS
11 8 (26.67%) RPG
11 8 (26.67%) AS400
11 8 (26.67%) IBM
11 8 (26.67%) Misys

MSMQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 23 (76.67%) WebSphere
2 21 (70.00%) .NET
3 18 (60.00%) WCF
4 16 (53.33%) NHibernate
5 15 (50.00%) Unity DI Container
5 15 (50.00%) WPF
5 15 (50.00%) .NET Remoting
5 15 (50.00%) Spring.NET
5 15 (50.00%) Lucene
6 4 (13.33%) Ajax
7 3 (10.00%) HTML
7 3 (10.00%) XML
7 3 (10.00%) XSLT
7 3 (10.00%) ASP.NET
7 3 (10.00%) CSS
7 3 (10.00%) .NET Framework
7 3 (10.00%) jQuery
8 2 (6.667%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 2 (6.667%) JSON
8 2 (6.667%) COM+
Application Platforms
1 23 (76.67%) WebSphere MQ
2 9 (30.00%) IIS
3 8 (26.67%) Adobe CQ
4 2 (6.667%) SharePoint
4 2 (6.667%) MS Exchange
5 1 (3.333%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 15 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.333%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Misys Equation
1 8 (26.67%) Misys Midas
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.333%) LAN
1 1 (3.333%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 15 (50.00%) MySQL
3 3 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (6.667%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (6.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.333%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.333%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 17 (56.67%) Rhino Mocks
2 3 (10.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (6.667%) NUnit
4 1 (3.333%) CruiseControl
4 1 (3.333%) Selenium
4 1 (3.333%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (3.333%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (3.333%) Axure RP
4 1 (3.333%) MSBuild
General
1 24 (80.00%) Banking
2 15 (50.00%) Front Office
3 8 (26.67%) Private Banking
4 2 (6.667%) Finance
5 1 (3.333%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (83.33%) Developer
2 16 (53.33%) .NET Developer
3 10 (33.33%) Programmer
4 3 (10.00%) Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.667%) Analyst Programmer
5 2 (6.667%) Senior Analyst Programmer
5 2 (6.667%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) Senior Programmer
6 1 (3.333%) .NET Programmer
6 1 (3.333%) Senior .NET Analyst Programmer
6 1 (3.333%) Senior .NET Programmer
6 1 (3.333%) C# Application Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Senior C# Application Developer
6 1 (3.333%) C# Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Technical Manager
6 1 (3.333%) Applications Architect
6 1 (3.333%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Senior Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (50.00%) Open Source
1 15 (50.00%) Inversion of Control
2 8 (26.67%) AS400
2 8 (26.67%) Online Banking
2 8 (26.67%) iSeries
3 2 (6.667%) W3C
4 1 (3.333%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (3.333%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (3.333%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) MVC
2 17 (56.67%) OO
3 16 (53.33%) Multithreading
4 15 (50.00%) Scrum
4 15 (50.00%) Memory Management
5 2 (6.667%) Analytics
5 2 (6.667%) Project Management
5 2 (6.667%) PRINCE2
6 1 (3.333%) UML
6 1 (3.333%) OOA/OOD
6 1 (3.333%) Data Modelling
6 1 (3.333%) SOA
6 1 (3.333%) Test Automation
6 1 (3.333%) Computer Architecture
6 1 (3.333%) Software Architecture
6 1 (3.333%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (3.333%) TDD
6 1 (3.333%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (3.333%) Use Case
6 1 (3.333%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (63.33%) C#
2 17 (56.67%) SQL
3 8 (26.67%) RPG
4 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.667%) VB6
5 2 (6.667%) VBScript
5 2 (6.667%) VB
6 1 (3.333%) VB.NET
6 1 (3.333%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.333%) ISEB
1 1 (3.333%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.333%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.333%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.333%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) IBM
1 8 (26.67%) Misys
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.667%) Oracle
4 1 (3.333%) Sybase
4 1 (3.333%) Citrix
4 1 (3.333%) Omniture
4 1 (3.333%) Google
4 1 (3.333%) Facebook
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