The first table below looks at the demand for MSMQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MSMQ over the 3 months to 17 June 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 East of England 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
Rank 122 134 122
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -12
Contract jobs citing MSMQ 1 3 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.045% 0.100% 0.295%
As % of the Application Development category 0.150% 0.366% 0.985%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
Average daily rate - £275 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.78%
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 Development
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
667 819 812
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 29.74% 27.26% 29.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 426 379
Average daily rate £313 £325 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £240 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 54 61
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £28.85 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
MSMQ
England

MSMQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England MSMQ Daily Rate Trend

MSMQ
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MSMQ across the East of England region.

East of England MSMQ Hourly Rate Trend

MSMQ
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSMQ within the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Essex - - - -
Norfolk - - - - 1
MSMQ
England

MSMQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) WCF
3 2 (50.00%) WPF
3 2 (50.00%) Silverlight
3 2 (50.00%) LINQ
3 2 (50.00%) JIRA
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (50.00%) NHibernate
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (50.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
3 2 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (50.00%) MVC
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) N-Tier

MSMQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (50.00%) WCF
3 2 (50.00%) WPF
3 2 (50.00%) Silverlight
3 2 (50.00%) LINQ
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (25.00%) IIS
2 1 (25.00%) CMS
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (25.00%) FinalBuilder
2 1 (25.00%) Log4Net
2 1 (25.00%) NUnit
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Configuration Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Software Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CRM
1 2 (50.00%) SOA
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Stress Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) E-business
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) VB
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
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