The first table below looks at the demand for ActiveMQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ActiveMQ 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 Platforms category for the 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache ActiveMQ
Rank 482 535 553
Rank change year-on-year
+53 +18
Contract jobs citing ActiveMQ 31 24 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.075% 0.045% 0.032%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.408% 0.274% 0.190%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 14 3
Average daily rate £500 £405 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.45% +8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £342 £308 £307
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £485 £379
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £325 £290
% change year-on-year
+38.46% +12.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
Average hourly rate £45.00 - £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - £42.00
All Application Platforms
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
7597 8759 9463
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 18.27% 16.42% 16.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4350 4939 5121
Average daily rate £363 £350 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 423 407 529
Average hourly rate £21.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £38.00 £42.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
ActiveMQ
UK

ActiveMQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England ActiveMQ Jobs Demand Trend

ActiveMQ
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ActiveMQ across the England region.

England ActiveMQ Daily Rate Trend

ActiveMQ
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England ActiveMQ Daily Rate Histogram

ActiveMQ
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England ActiveMQ Hourly Rate Trend

ActiveMQ
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ActiveMQ within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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
London +38 15 £500 +23.45%
South East +24 10 £575 -
East of England +18 2 £450 +5.88%
Yorkshire +2 2 £500 +53.84%
North West - 1 £250 -
South West - 1 £350 -
ActiveMQ
UK

ActiveMQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing ActiveMQ 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 ActiveMQ.

1 50 (83.33%) Java
2 40 (66.67%) Spring
3 29 (48.33%) JMS
4 25 (41.67%) Maven
5 24 (40.00%) Hibernate
5 24 (40.00%) Web Services
6 23 (38.33%) Linux
7 22 (36.67%) SQL
8 21 (35.00%) XML
9 20 (33.33%) Oracle
10 19 (31.67%) Git (software)
11 18 (30.00%) UNIX
12 17 (28.33%) J2EE
13 16 (26.67%) TDD
14 15 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
15 14 (23.33%) Tomcat
15 14 (23.33%) Cucumber
16 13 (21.67%) Open Source
16 13 (21.67%) Degree
16 13 (21.67%) Apache
16 13 (21.67%) JavaScript
16 13 (21.67%) Telecoms
17 12 (20.00%) Scrum
17 12 (20.00%) SOA
18 11 (18.33%) HTTP
18 11 (18.33%) JUnit
18 11 (18.33%) Ruby
18 11 (18.33%) RabbitMQ
19 10 (16.67%) REST
19 10 (16.67%) Ruby on Rails

ActiveMQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing ActiveMQ 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 ActiveMQ. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 40 (66.67%) Spring
2 29 (48.33%) JMS
3 24 (40.00%) Hibernate
3 24 (40.00%) Web Services
4 21 (35.00%) XML
5 17 (28.33%) J2EE
6 10 (16.67%) REST
6 10 (16.67%) Ruby on Rails
7 9 (15.00%) JPA
7 9 (15.00%) SOAP
7 9 (15.00%) CSS
8 8 (13.33%) JSON
8 8 (13.33%) Grails
8 8 (13.33%) RESTful
9 7 (11.67%) HTML5
9 7 (11.67%) KnockoutJS
9 7 (11.67%) jQuery
9 7 (11.67%) JDBC
10 6 (10.00%) Lucene
10 6 (10.00%) JSF
Application Platforms
1 14 (23.33%) Tomcat
2 13 (21.67%) Apache
3 11 (18.33%) RabbitMQ
4 8 (13.33%) Confluence
5 6 (10.00%) ESB
6 4 (6.667%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (6.667%) Mule
6 4 (6.667%) Liferay
7 3 (5.000%) TIBCO EMS
8 2 (3.333%) Amazon AWS
9 1 (1.667%) Apache Solr
9 1 (1.667%) Shopify
9 1 (1.667%) CoreMedia CMS
9 1 (1.667%) Magento
9 1 (1.667%) WordPress
9 1 (1.667%) Drupal
9 1 (1.667%) CMS
9 1 (1.667%) Oracle HTTP Server
Business Applications
1 1 (1.667%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.667%) SAP AFS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.33%) HTTP
2 6 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (10.00%) DVB
3 1 (1.667%) tcpdump
3 1 (1.667%) LDAP
3 1 (1.667%) GSM
3 1 (1.667%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.33%) MySQL
1 8 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 6 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.333%) Riak
3 5 (8.333%) JasperReports
3 5 (8.333%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (6.667%) GIS
5 2 (3.333%) Hazelcast
5 2 (3.333%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.667%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.667%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.667%) Redis
6 1 (1.667%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (1.667%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (1.667%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.667%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.667%) UniData
6 1 (1.667%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (41.67%) Maven
2 19 (31.67%) Git (software)
3 14 (23.33%) Cucumber
4 11 (18.33%) JUnit
5 10 (16.67%) JIRA
6 8 (13.33%) Subversion
6 8 (13.33%) Bugzilla
7 3 (5.000%) Gradle
8 2 (3.333%) Ant
8 2 (3.333%) Jenkins
8 2 (3.333%) Mockito
9 1 (1.667%) SilkTest
9 1 (1.667%) Selenium
General
1 13 (21.67%) Telecoms
2 8 (13.33%) Finance
3 7 (11.67%) Retail
4 3 (5.000%) Publishing
5 1 (1.667%) Games
5 1 (1.667%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.667%) Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (56.67%) Developer
2 27 (45.00%) Java Developer
3 9 (15.00%) Software Engineer
3 9 (15.00%) Senior Developer
3 9 (15.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 6 (10.00%) Architect
5 3 (5.000%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 3 (5.000%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.000%) Applications Architect
5 3 (5.000%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (3.333%) Analyst Developer
6 2 (3.333%) C# Developer
6 2 (3.333%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (3.333%) TIBCO Developer
6 2 (3.333%) Administrator
6 2 (3.333%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (3.333%) Analyst
6 2 (3.333%) TIBCO Analyst
7 1 (1.667%) Test Leader
7 1 (1.667%) SOA Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.67%) Open Source
2 8 (13.33%) Computer Science
2 8 (13.33%) Wiki
3 6 (10.00%) DTV
4 5 (8.333%) PaaS
4 5 (8.333%) IaaS
4 5 (8.333%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (5.000%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.000%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.333%) BBC
6 2 (3.333%) Digital Media
6 2 (3.333%) Social Media
7 1 (1.667%) Video on Demand
7 1 (1.667%) Mathematics
7 1 (1.667%) Applied Mathematics
7 1 (1.667%) Online Gambling
7 1 (1.667%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.667%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 23 (38.33%) Linux
2 18 (30.00%) UNIX
3 8 (13.33%) Windows
4 3 (5.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.333%) Solaris
6 1 (1.667%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (26.67%) TDD
2 15 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (20.00%) Scrum
3 12 (20.00%) SOA
4 8 (13.33%) Migration
4 8 (13.33%) UML
4 8 (13.33%) Unit Testing
4 8 (13.33%) BDD
5 7 (11.67%) Multithreading
5 7 (11.67%) OO
5 7 (11.67%) MVC
6 6 (10.00%) Software Engineering
6 6 (10.00%) RUP
6 6 (10.00%) Kanban
6 6 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (8.333%) Requirements Analysis
7 5 (8.333%) Data Migration
7 5 (8.333%) RAD
8 4 (6.667%) Workflow
9 3 (5.000%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 50 (83.33%) Java
2 22 (36.67%) SQL
3 13 (21.67%) JavaScript
4 11 (18.33%) Ruby
5 8 (13.33%) C#
5 8 (13.33%) Groovy
6 6 (10.00%) XPath
7 5 (8.333%) Clojure
7 5 (8.333%) Haskell
7 5 (8.333%) Erlang
8 3 (5.000%) Scala
8 3 (5.000%) PHP
9 2 (3.333%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.333%) Python
9 2 (3.333%) Perl
9 2 (3.333%) F#
10 1 (1.667%) Bash shell
10 1 (1.667%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.667%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.667%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (21.67%) Degree
2 5 (8.333%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.333%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.667%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.667%) MCITP
4 1 (1.667%) MCSE
4 1 (1.667%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.333%) VMware Server
1 2 (3.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.333%) MOM
1 2 (3.333%) OpenView
1 2 (3.333%) CA Wily
2 1 (1.667%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (33.33%) Oracle
2 6 (10.00%) JBoss
2 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.000%) VMware
3 3 (5.000%) TIBCO
4 2 (3.333%) HP
5 1 (1.667%) Google
5 1 (1.667%) Zend
5 1 (1.667%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.667%) Telerik
5 1 (1.667%) Sybase
5 1 (1.667%) SAP
5 1 (1.667%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.667%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (1.667%) IBM
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Hands-on experience in the following technologies and domains is needed: *J2EE/Database and enterprise class multi-tiered systems *Web Service design in a SOA environment (REST) *Messaging...
Timothy James Consulting Ltd
Rate: £500 - £510 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Desirable, but not essential is experience in any of the following: - Integrating with RESTful web services layer - Agile (Scrum or XP) - Modern web technologies and frameworks such as...
Parham Consulting
Rate: Up to £350 per day Maximum £350 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Bristol, South West
The role: We are looking for an experienced PHP developer to join our multi-skilled team. We do not believe in a one-size-fits-all programming language...
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Rate: £200 - £300 per day
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London
Leading Investment Bank requires a Technical Developer / Engineer with a strong understanding of JBOSS, JMS and MOM, and Tibco EMS... Previous experience of migrating to Tibco EMS Good...
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Rate: £550 - £600 per day
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