The first table below looks at the demand for JMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JMS 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 Application Development category for the Hampshire 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
Java Messaging Service (JMS)
Rank 82 83 88
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +5
Contract jobs citing JMS 18 10 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 1.121% 0.640% 0.911%
As % of the Application Development category 3.774% 2.203% 3.184%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 3
Average daily rate £350 £356 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.75% -2.39%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £323 £290 £353
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £375 £393
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £378 £385
% change year-on-year
+5.96% -1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 10
Average hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +14.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+38.46% -7.14%
All Application Development
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
477 454 534
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 29.72% 29.05% 28.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 209 218
Average daily rate £325 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £423 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 50 71
Average hourly rate £40.00 £39.00 £36.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% +7.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.13 £20.00 £33.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £42.50 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
JMS
South East

JMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire JMS Jobs Demand Trend

JMS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hampshire JMS Daily Rate Trend

JMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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
Southampton - 7 £350 - 3
Basingstoke -5 6 £350 +12.44%
Winchester - - - -
JMS
South East

JMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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.

1 55 (87.30%) Java
2 54 (85.71%) Hibernate
2 54 (85.71%) Spring
3 49 (77.78%) JPA
3 49 (77.78%) REST
4 47 (74.60%) MVC
5 46 (73.02%) SOAP
6 45 (71.43%) EJB
7 44 (69.84%) Web Services
7 44 (69.84%) SQL Server
7 44 (69.84%) Java EE
7 44 (69.84%) Spring MVC
8 43 (68.25%) Spring Security
8 43 (68.25%) Spring Web Flow
8 43 (68.25%) Web Development
8 43 (68.25%) JSON
8 43 (68.25%) BDD
8 43 (68.25%) JAXB
8 43 (68.25%) JTA
8 43 (68.25%) Maven
9 42 (66.67%) SQL
9 42 (66.67%) Git (software)
10 38 (60.32%) JavaScript
10 38 (60.32%) Apache CXF
11 37 (58.73%) Software Architecture
11 37 (58.73%) HTML
11 37 (58.73%) JUnit
11 37 (58.73%) CSS
12 36 (57.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 36 (57.14%) Mockito

JMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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.

Application Development
1 54 (85.71%) Hibernate
1 54 (85.71%) Spring
2 49 (77.78%) JPA
2 49 (77.78%) REST
3 46 (73.02%) SOAP
4 45 (71.43%) EJB
5 44 (69.84%) Web Services
5 44 (69.84%) Java EE
5 44 (69.84%) Spring MVC
6 43 (68.25%) JSON
6 43 (68.25%) JTA
6 43 (68.25%) Spring Security
6 43 (68.25%) Spring Web Flow
6 43 (68.25%) JAXB
7 38 (60.32%) Apache CXF
8 37 (58.73%) CSS
8 37 (58.73%) HTML
9 36 (57.14%) jQuery
10 32 (50.79%) JSP
11 17 (26.98%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 23 (36.51%) BizTalk Server
2 8 (12.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (12.70%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.587%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (7.937%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (12.70%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.587%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.524%) HTTP
2 5 (7.937%) TCP/IP
2 5 (7.937%) DVB
3 1 (1.587%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (69.84%) SQL Server
2 36 (57.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 36 (57.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 16 (25.40%) NoSQL
4 7 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 43 (68.25%) Maven
2 42 (66.67%) Git (software)
3 37 (58.73%) JUnit
4 36 (57.14%) Mockito
5 17 (26.98%) Selenium
6 13 (20.63%) JBehave
7 5 (7.937%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.587%) CruiseControl
8 1 (1.587%) JIRA
General
1 13 (20.63%) Telecoms
2 5 (7.937%) Finance
Job Titles
1 40 (63.49%) Developer
2 39 (61.90%) Java Developer
3 11 (17.46%) Technical Leader
4 8 (12.70%) Middleware Specialist
4 8 (12.70%) Software Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Architect
5 7 (11.11%) Software Architect
6 6 (9.524%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (9.524%) Java Software Engineer
7 4 (6.349%) Lead Developer
7 4 (6.349%) Java Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.349%) Java Architect
8 3 (4.762%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 3 (4.762%) Technical Developer
9 2 (3.175%) Lead Java Developer
10 1 (1.587%) SAP PI Developer
10 1 (1.587%) Designer
10 1 (1.587%) SAP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Digital Media
2 5 (7.937%) DTV
2 5 (7.937%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.937%) UNIX
1 5 (7.937%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (74.60%) MVC
2 43 (68.25%) Web Development
2 43 (68.25%) BDD
3 37 (58.73%) Software Architecture
4 32 (50.79%) UML
5 31 (49.21%) OOD
5 31 (49.21%) Pair Programming
6 20 (31.75%) Agile Software Development
7 17 (26.98%) Continuous Integration
8 16 (25.40%) Dependency Injection
9 15 (23.81%) SOA
10 13 (20.63%) TDD
11 8 (12.70%) Scrum
11 8 (12.70%) ITIL
12 5 (7.937%) Multithreading
12 5 (7.937%) Software Engineering
13 1 (1.587%) Load Testing
13 1 (1.587%) Configuration Management
13 1 (1.587%) OO
13 1 (1.587%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 55 (87.30%) Java
2 42 (66.67%) SQL
3 38 (60.32%) JavaScript
4 7 (11.11%) C#
5 5 (7.937%) XPath
6 1 (1.587%) ABAP
6 1 (1.587%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 5 (7.937%) Degree
2 1 (1.587%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.587%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 32 (50.79%) JBoss
2 17 (26.98%) Oracle
3 13 (20.63%) Twitter
4 1 (1.587%) SAP
4 1 (1.587%) Adobe