The first table below looks at the demand for MSMQ 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 MSMQ over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
Rank 99 97 99
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +2
Contract jobs citing MSMQ 1 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.066% 0.126% 0.213%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.327% 0.690% 1.159%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £425 - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £378 £300 £290
% change year-on-year
+25.83% +3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - -
All Application Platforms
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
306 290 345
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 20.09% 18.28% 18.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 144 141
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £228 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £500 £469
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 39
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +60.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £16.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.74 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
MSMQ
South East

MSMQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire MSMQ Daily Rate Trend

MSMQ
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) TIBCO
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Spring.NET
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) StructureMap
1 1 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
1 1 (100.00%) Unity DI Container

MSMQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Spring.NET
1 1 (100.00%) StructureMap
1 1 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
1 1 (100.00%) Unity DI Container
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) TIBCO