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The table below looks at the demand for Java Messaging Service (JMS) skills within the England region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited JMS over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkJava Messaging Service (JMS)
Location
3 months to
10 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank320262
Rank change on same period last yearDown-58
Matching contract IT job ads266539
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.375 %0.545 %
As % of the category below1.731 %2.359 %
Daily rates quoted95207
Average minimum daily rate£411£416
Average daily rate£434£434
% change on same period last year-0.10 %
Average maximum daily rate£457£453
UK excluding London average daily rate£374£357
% change on same period last year+4.77 %
Hourly rates quoted14
Average minimum hourly rate£30.00£38.00
Average hourly rate£30.00£42.13
% change on same period last year-28.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate£30.00£46.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate£31.25-
% change on same period last year-
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
England
Matching contract IT job ads1536822850
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled21.64 %23.09 %
Daily rates quoted52537116
Average minimum daily rate£348£361
Average daily rate£374£384
% change on same period last year-2.58 %
Average maximum daily rate£400£407
UK excluding London average daily rate£329£333
% change on same period last year-1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted9341420
Average minimum hourly rate£29.27£30.08
Average hourly rate£31.39£32.28
% change on same period last year-2.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate£33.51£34.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate£31.10£32.14
% change on same period last year-3.23 %
JMS UKJMS
UK

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

JMS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing JMS across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

England JMS Demand Trend

JMS
Daily Rate Trend

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

England JMS Daily Rate Trend

JMS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JMS across the England region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

England JMS Daily Rate Histogram

JMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England JMS Hourly Rate Trend

JMS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMS within the England region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
LondonDown-39164£471-4.71 %
South EastDown-632£377+10.34 %
East of EnglandUp+2119£357-12.78 %
West MidlandsUp+1213£338-37.50 %
South WestUp+1813£350+3.38 %
YorkshireDown-109£450+45.55 %
East MidlandsNo change07--
North WestUp+216--
MidlandsUp+193--
South CoastNew entry-1--
JMS UKJMS
UK

JMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1453 (82.07 %)Java
2264 (47.83 %)J2EE
3215 (38.95 %)XML
4169 (30.62 %)Oracle
5166 (30.07 %)SQL
6164 (29.71 %)EJB
7137 (24.82 %)UNIX
8134 (24.28 %)Spring
9132 (23.91 %)JDBC
10131 (23.73 %)Hibernate
11129 (23.37 %)JSP
12128 (23.19 %)WebLogic
13118 (21.38 %)Banking
14111 (20.11 %)Linux
15104 (18.84 %)Sybase
16100 (18.12 %)WebServices
1797 (17.57 %)Servlets
1797 (17.57 %)WebSphere
1896 (17.39 %)TIBCO
1989 (16.12 %)Struts
2083 (15.04 %)JBoss
2182 (14.86 %)Investment Banking
2279 (14.31 %)Ant
2376 (13.77 %)Perl
2473 (13.22 %)OO
2473 (13.22 %)Middleware
2473 (13.22 %)Finance
2571 (12.86 %)Swing
2665 (11.78 %)MQSeries
2665 (11.78 %)JavaScript

JMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

England IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1264 (47.83 %)J2EE
2215 (38.95 %)XML
3164 (29.71 %)EJB
4134 (24.28 %)Spring
5132 (23.91 %)JDBC
6131 (23.73 %)Hibernate
7129 (23.37 %)JSP
8100 (18.12 %)WebServices
997 (17.57 %)Servlets
997 (17.57 %)WebSphere
1089 (16.12 %)Struts
1173 (13.22 %)Middleware
1271 (12.86 %)Swing
1358 (10.51 %)SOAP
1449 (8.877 %)HTML
1543 (7.790 %)AJAX
1630 (5.435 %)JSF
1630 (5.435 %)CSS
1728 (5.072 %).NET
1728 (5.072 %)XSLT
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1128 (23.19 %)WebLogic
283 (15.04 %)JBoss
365 (11.78 %)MQSeries
462 (11.23 %)WebSphere Application Server
548 (8.696 %)Tomcat
632 (5.797 %)TIBCO EMS
731 (5.616 %)Apache
827 (4.891 %)WebSphere MQ
914 (2.536 %)WebLogic Portal
109 (1.630 %)WebLogic Integration
109 (1.630 %)Oracle Workflow
118 (1.449 %)WPS
118 (1.449 %)Rendezvous
127 (1.268 %)ESB
136 (1.087 %)Oracle Application Server
136 (1.087 %)WebSphere Message Broker
145 (0.906 %)IIS
154 (0.725 %)ATG Dynamo
163 (0.543 %)BizTalk Server
172 (0.362 %)Jetty
England IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
114 (2.536 %)MS Office
212 (2.174 %)MS Visio
31 (0.181 %)Photoshop
31 (0.181 %)MS Excel
England IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
18 (1.449 %)BusinessWorks
21 (0.181 %)Global One
21 (0.181 %)SAP Oil and Gas
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
116 (2.899 %)LDAP
28 (1.449 %)HTTP
34 (0.725 %)FTP
43 (0.543 %)Wi-Fi
43 (0.543 %)Wireless
43 (0.543 %)GPRS
43 (0.543 %)3G
52 (0.362 %)TCP/IP
61 (0.181 %)SNA
61 (0.181 %)HTTPS
61 (0.181 %)Intranet
61 (0.181 %)X.25
61 (0.181 %)Firewall
61 (0.181 %)BSS
61 (0.181 %)SSH
England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
134 (6.159 %)SQL Server
226 (4.710 %)DB2
324 (4.348 %)MySQL
417 (3.080 %)ETL
417 (3.080 %)RDBMS
417 (3.080 %)BusinessObjects
515 (2.717 %)BODI
614 (2.536 %)Oracle 10g
713 (2.355 %)Oracle 8/8i
85 (0.906 %)Datawarehouse
85 (0.906 %)KDB
94 (0.725 %)JasperReports
103 (0.543 %)Reference Data
103 (0.543 %)Oracle 9i
103 (0.543 %)PostgreSQL
112 (0.362 %)Sybase IQ
112 (0.362 %)EDRMS
112 (0.362 %)Crystal Reports
112 (0.362 %)Sybase ASE
112 (0.362 %)DB2 UDB
England IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
179 (14.31 %)Ant
242 (7.609 %)JUnit
327 (4.891 %)ClearCase
327 (4.891 %)Eclipse
413 (2.355 %)Subversion
510 (1.812 %)WebLogic Workshop
68 (1.449 %)Oracle Forms
76 (1.087 %)Log4j
83 (0.543 %)JMeter
83 (0.543 %)Rational Rose
92 (0.362 %)Bugzilla
92 (0.362 %)CruiseControl
92 (0.362 %)VSS/SourceSafe
92 (0.362 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
101 (0.181 %)RequisitePro
101 (0.181 %)Visual Studio
England IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1118 (21.38 %)Banking
282 (14.86 %)Investment Banking
373 (13.22 %)Finance
439 (7.065 %)Front Office
534 (6.159 %)Government
621 (3.804 %)Back Office
718 (3.261 %)Telecoms
817 (3.080 %)Retail
914 (2.536 %)Construction
104 (0.725 %)Insurance
104 (0.725 %)Auditing
113 (0.543 %)Automotive
122 (0.362 %)Pharmaceutical
122 (0.362 %)Health
131 (0.181 %)Publishing
131 (0.181 %)Games
131 (0.181 %)Financial Institution
131 (0.181 %)Online Games
131 (0.181 %)Retail Banking
England IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1404 (73.19 %)Developer
2226 (40.94 %)Java Developer
371 (12.86 %)J2EE Developer
462 (11.23 %)Java/J2EE Developer
557 (10.33 %)Architect
651 (9.239 %)Analyst
742 (7.609 %)Senior Developer
832 (5.797 %)Support Analyst
832 (5.797 %)Analyst Developer
924 (4.348 %)Senior Java Developer
1018 (3.261 %)Lead Developer
1114 (2.536 %)Consultant
1114 (2.536 %)J2EE Architect
1213 (2.355 %)WebSphere Developer
1312 (2.174 %)Systems Developer
1312 (2.174 %)Systems Architect
1411 (1.993 %)Technical Architect
1411 (1.993 %)Tester
1411 (1.993 %)Java Architect
1510 (1.812 %)TIBCO Developer
England IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
151 (9.239 %)Equities
218 (3.261 %)Derivative
218 (3.261 %)N-Tier
317 (3.080 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
317 (3.080 %)Credit Risk
412 (2.174 %)Fat Client
412 (2.174 %)Computer Science
412 (2.174 %)Chip and PIN
412 (2.174 %)Thin Client
57 (1.268 %)Equity Derivative
66 (1.087 %)Fixed Income
66 (1.087 %)Market Risk
75 (0.906 %)DataPower
84 (0.725 %)Multithreading
84 (0.725 %)Spread Betting
84 (0.725 %)Clustering
93 (0.543 %)AS400
102 (0.362 %)Handset
102 (0.362 %)Contract for Difference
102 (0.362 %)Credit Derivative
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1137 (24.82 %)UNIX
2111 (20.11 %)Linux
357 (10.33 %)Solaris
428 (5.072 %)Windows
518 (3.261 %)Red Hat Linux
610 (1.812 %)Nucleus RTOS
76 (1.087 %)AIX
84 (0.725 %)Windows Server 2003
93 (0.543 %)SUSE
93 (0.543 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
102 (0.362 %)Windows 2000
102 (0.362 %)Windows XP
111 (0.181 %)OS/390
111 (0.181 %)zOS
111 (0.181 %)HPUX
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
173 (13.22 %)OO
264 (11.59 %)UML
353 (9.601 %)SOA
442 (7.609 %)Security Cleared
531 (5.616 %)RUP
625 (4.529 %)TDD
723 (4.167 %)OOA/OOD
821 (3.804 %)OOP
821 (3.804 %)Migration
821 (3.804 %)Agile Software Development
821 (3.804 %)SC Cleared
920 (3.623 %)OOD
920 (3.623 %)Workflow
920 (3.623 %)EAI
1018 (3.261 %)Unit Testing
1116 (2.899 %)Web Development
1215 (2.717 %)Project Management
1314 (2.536 %)DSDM
1314 (2.536 %)Enterprise Architecture
1412 (2.174 %)E-Commerce
England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1453 (82.07 %)Java
2166 (30.07 %)SQL
376 (13.77 %)Perl
465 (11.78 %)JavaScript
546 (8.333 %)Shell Script
640 (7.246 %)C++
730 (5.435 %)PL/SQL
823 (4.167 %)C#
915 (2.717 %)DHTML
1013 (2.355 %)PHP
118 (1.449 %)Python
126 (1.087 %)XPath
135 (0.906 %)VB.NET
135 (0.906 %)Jython
135 (0.906 %)C
135 (0.906 %)COBOL
144 (0.725 %)Delphi
144 (0.725 %)FoxPro (VFP)
144 (0.725 %)Ruby
153 (0.543 %)Groovy
England IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
129 (5.254 %)Degree
212 (2.174 %)Sun Certification
35 (0.906 %)PRINCE2 Certification
43 (0.543 %)SCJA
43 (0.543 %)SCJP
52 (0.362 %)SCJD
52 (0.362 %)SCBCD
52 (0.362 %)SCDJWS
61 (0.181 %)ISEB
England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (0.181 %)MiFID
11 (0.181 %)QA
England IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
137 (6.703 %)AquaLogic
25 (0.906 %)MSMQ
31 (0.181 %)Oracle RMAN
31 (0.181 %)Oracle RAC
England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
14 (0.725 %)Tivoli
14 (0.725 %)AutoSys
22 (0.362 %)TIBCO Hawk
31 (0.181 %)BMC PATROL
31 (0.181 %)Netcool
England IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1169 (30.62 %)Oracle
2104 (18.84 %)Sybase
396 (17.39 %)TIBCO
454 (9.783 %)BEA
536 (6.522 %)IBM
620 (3.623 %)Microsoft
718 (3.261 %)Red Hat
817 (3.080 %)Business Objects
916 (2.899 %)Sun
1010 (1.812 %)ATG
118 (1.449 %)Calypso
118 (1.449 %)Fidessa
126 (1.087 %)Cognizant
126 (1.087 %)SAP
126 (1.087 %)Lombardi
126 (1.087 %)webMethods
126 (1.087 %)Mercator
135 (0.906 %)Algorithmics
143 (0.543 %)Siebel
143 (0.543 %)VERITAS