The first table below looks at the demand for AMQP 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 AMQP over the 3 months to 18 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 Communications & Networking 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
Rank 525 540 569
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +29
Contract jobs citing AMQP 10 9 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.023% 0.017% 0.017%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.159% 0.108% 0.133%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 8
Average daily rate £638 £413 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+54.54% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £555 £296 £399
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £505 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate - £318 £280
% change year-on-year
- +13.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £32.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.00 -
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6301 8318 7513
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.39% 15.69% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3257 3832 3490
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £210 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £499 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 486 580 758
Average hourly rate £23.75 £24.38 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.56% +1.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
AMQP
UK

AMQP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England AMQP Daily Rate Histogram

AMQP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England AMQP Hourly Rate Trend

AMQP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AMQP within the England region over the 3 months to 18 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
London +23 10 £638 +50.00% 6
AMQP
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AMQP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 11 (73.33%) Java
2 8 (53.33%) C#
2 8 (53.33%) .NET
2 8 (53.33%) Banking
2 8 (53.33%) Investment Banking
3 7 (46.67%) Maven
3 7 (46.67%) Oracle
3 7 (46.67%) Web Services
3 7 (46.67%) JMS
4 6 (40.00%) Front Office
4 6 (40.00%) Hibernate
4 6 (40.00%) Fixed Income
5 5 (33.33%) Linux
6 4 (26.67%) JBoss
6 4 (26.67%) RDBMS
6 4 (26.67%) SQL
6 4 (26.67%) Middleware
6 4 (26.67%) Spring
6 4 (26.67%) Git (software)
7 3 (20.00%) Scala
7 3 (20.00%) Puppet
7 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
7 3 (20.00%) SWIFT
7 3 (20.00%) Derivative
7 3 (20.00%) WPF
7 3 (20.00%) TeamCity
7 3 (20.00%) TDD
7 3 (20.00%) Equities
7 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (20.00%) Ruby

AMQP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 8 (53.33%) .NET
2 7 (46.67%) JMS
2 7 (46.67%) Web Services
3 6 (40.00%) Hibernate
4 4 (26.67%) Middleware
4 4 (26.67%) Spring
5 3 (20.00%) FpML
5 3 (20.00%) SOAP
5 3 (20.00%) WPF
6 2 (13.33%) REST
6 2 (13.33%) WCF
6 2 (13.33%) WinForms
6 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
7 1 (6.667%) Java EE
7 1 (6.667%) JTA
7 1 (6.667%) XML
7 1 (6.667%) XSLT
7 1 (6.667%) MSMQ
7 1 (6.667%) JTS
7 1 (6.667%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) ESB
1 1 (6.667%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (6.667%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) LDAP
1 3 (20.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (6.667%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) RDBMS
2 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (13.33%) KDB
3 2 (13.33%) Hadoop
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.667%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (6.667%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Maven
2 4 (26.67%) Git (software)
3 3 (20.00%) TeamCity
4 2 (13.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (13.33%) JIRA
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (6.667%) Subversion
5 1 (6.667%) jMock
5 1 (6.667%) JUnit
5 1 (6.667%) Hudson
General
1 8 (53.33%) Banking
1 8 (53.33%) Investment Banking
2 6 (40.00%) Front Office
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Architect
3 5 (33.33%) Java Developer
4 4 (26.67%) C# Developer
5 3 (20.00%) Java Architect
5 3 (20.00%) Lead Architect
6 2 (13.33%) Scala Developer
7 1 (6.667%) C# Software Developer
7 1 (6.667%) Software Developer
7 1 (6.667%) Server Engineer
7 1 (6.667%) Real Time Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Fixed Income
2 3 (20.00%) Equities
2 3 (20.00%) Derivative
2 3 (20.00%) SWIFT
3 1 (6.667%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (6.667%) UNIX
3 1 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (20.00%) TDD
2 2 (13.33%) Electronic Trading
2 2 (13.33%) Analytics
2 2 (13.33%) OO
2 2 (13.33%) Scrum
3 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (6.667%) E-Commerce
3 1 (6.667%) SOA
3 1 (6.667%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (6.667%) Multithreading
3 1 (6.667%) UML
3 1 (6.667%) BDD
3 1 (6.667%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (6.667%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Java
2 8 (53.33%) C#
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) Ruby
4 3 (20.00%) C++
4 3 (20.00%) PL/SQL
4 3 (20.00%) Scala
5 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.667%) Erlang
5 1 (6.667%) ActionScript
5 1 (6.667%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) MCPD
1 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.667%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.667%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle
2 4 (26.67%) JBoss
3 3 (20.00%) CA
3 3 (20.00%) TIBCO
4 2 (13.33%) Atlassian
5 1 (6.667%) Red Hat
5 1 (6.667%) Sybase
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