The first table below looks at the demand for AMQP skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AMQP over the 3 months to 17 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 Communications & Networking category for the London 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
Rank 380 398 425
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +27
Contract jobs citing AMQP 5 8 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.023% 0.030% 0.038%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.175% 0.218% 0.354%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 11
Average daily rate £588 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+38.23% -10.52%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £325 £205
% change year-on-year
- +58.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £32.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.00 -
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2861 3664 3392
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 13.25% 13.68% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1759 2236 1957
Average daily rate £400 £400 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +3.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £243 £237
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 145 211
Average hourly rate £21.50 £22.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.44% +18.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.95 £15.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
AMQP
England

AMQP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London AMQP Daily Rate Histogram

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 London region over the 3 months to 17 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
City of London - 3 £588 -
AMQP
England

AMQP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 12 (85.71%) C#
1 12 (85.71%) Java
1 12 (85.71%) .NET
2 11 (78.57%) Oracle
3 10 (71.43%) Web Services
3 10 (71.43%) Maven
4 9 (64.29%) Hibernate
5 8 (57.14%) SQL
5 8 (57.14%) RDBMS
5 8 (57.14%) Git (software)
6 7 (50.00%) Puppet
6 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
6 7 (50.00%) LDAP
6 7 (50.00%) PL/SQL
6 7 (50.00%) Kerberos
6 7 (50.00%) Middleware
6 7 (50.00%) Software Engineering
6 7 (50.00%) Ruby
6 7 (50.00%) TeamCity
7 6 (42.86%) Spring
7 6 (42.86%) JBoss
8 4 (28.57%) JMS
9 3 (21.43%) Front Office
9 3 (21.43%) Linux
9 3 (21.43%) WPF
9 3 (21.43%) Banking
9 3 (21.43%) Investment Banking
9 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
9 3 (21.43%) Scala
10 2 (14.29%) Hadoop

AMQP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 12 (85.71%) .NET
2 10 (71.43%) Web Services
3 9 (64.29%) Hibernate
4 7 (50.00%) Middleware
5 6 (42.86%) Spring
6 4 (28.57%) JMS
7 3 (21.43%) WPF
8 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
8 2 (14.29%) WinForms
9 1 (7.143%) FpML
9 1 (7.143%) Servlets
9 1 (7.143%) SOAP
9 1 (7.143%) WCF
9 1 (7.143%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.143%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (7.143%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) LDAP
1 7 (50.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (7.143%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) RDBMS
2 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
3 2 (14.29%) Hadoop
4 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.143%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) Maven
2 8 (57.14%) Git (software)
3 7 (50.00%) TeamCity
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (14.29%) JIRA
4 2 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 3 (21.43%) Front Office
1 3 (21.43%) Banking
1 3 (21.43%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Developer
2 8 (57.14%) Java Developer
3 7 (50.00%) Architect
4 5 (35.71%) C# Developer
4 5 (35.71%) Java Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Scala Developer
6 1 (7.143%) Lead Architect
6 1 (7.143%) C# Software Developer
6 1 (7.143%) Server Engineer
6 1 (7.143%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (7.143%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (7.143%) Software Developer
6 1 (7.143%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) Fixed Income
1 1 (7.143%) Equities
1 1 (7.143%) Derivative
1 1 (7.143%) Open Source
1 1 (7.143%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (14.29%) Scrum
2 2 (14.29%) TDD
3 1 (7.143%) Asset Management
3 1 (7.143%) OO
3 1 (7.143%) E-Commerce
3 1 (7.143%) SOA
3 1 (7.143%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (7.143%) Multithreading
3 1 (7.143%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) C#
1 12 (85.71%) Java
2 8 (57.14%) SQL
3 7 (50.00%) Ruby
3 7 (50.00%) PL/SQL
4 3 (21.43%) Scala
5 2 (14.29%) C++
6 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
6 1 (7.143%) Erlang
6 1 (7.143%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) MCPD
1 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.143%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Oracle
2 6 (42.86%) JBoss
3 2 (14.29%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.143%) CA
4 1 (7.143%) TIBCO