The first table below looks at the demand for JMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JMS over the 3 months to 22 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 Development category for the Milton Keynes 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Messaging Service (JMS)
Rank 46 54 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Contract jobs citing JMS 8 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 1.524% 0.979% -
As % of the Application Development category 6.780% 5.600% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £500 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £354 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.27% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+38.46% -7.14%
All Application Development
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
118 125 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 22.48% 17.48% 18.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 53 51
Average daily rate £375 £300 £323
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -6.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £259 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £365 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 7
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £21.94
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +59.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JMS
Buckinghamshire

JMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes JMS Daily Rate Trend

JMS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JMS across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Milton Keynes JMS Daily Rate Histogram

JMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 12 (80.00%) XML
2 10 (66.67%) Java
3 8 (53.33%) Oracle
3 8 (53.33%) JDBC
3 8 (53.33%) HTTP
4 7 (46.67%) Web Services
5 6 (40.00%) OOA/OOD
5 6 (40.00%) OO
5 6 (40.00%) CSS
5 6 (40.00%) Struts
5 6 (40.00%) JSP
5 6 (40.00%) Servlets
5 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (40.00%) DHTML
5 6 (40.00%) J2EE
5 6 (40.00%) Finance
5 6 (40.00%) TCP/IP
5 6 (40.00%) Spring
5 6 (40.00%) Ajax
5 6 (40.00%) Dojo
5 6 (40.00%) Use Case
5 6 (40.00%) Software Architecture
6 5 (33.33%) Open Source
6 5 (33.33%) Hibernate
6 5 (33.33%) SOAP
7 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
7 4 (26.67%) XSLT
7 4 (26.67%) Middleware
7 4 (26.67%) SOA
7 4 (26.67%) Microsoft

JMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 12 (80.00%) XML
2 8 (53.33%) JDBC
3 7 (46.67%) Web Services
4 6 (40.00%) CSS
4 6 (40.00%) Struts
4 6 (40.00%) JSP
4 6 (40.00%) Servlets
4 6 (40.00%) DHTML
4 6 (40.00%) J2EE
4 6 (40.00%) Spring
4 6 (40.00%) Ajax
4 6 (40.00%) Dojo
5 5 (33.33%) Hibernate
5 5 (33.33%) SOAP
6 4 (26.67%) XSLT
6 4 (26.67%) Middleware
6 4 (26.67%) JSON
7 2 (13.33%) WSDL
7 2 (13.33%) XML Schema
7 2 (13.33%) SAP PI
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Lync
1 3 (20.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (20.00%) WebLogic
2 2 (13.33%) NetWeaver
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (13.33%) ESB
3 1 (6.667%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (13.33%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) HTTP
2 6 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (20.00%) iSCSI
3 3 (20.00%) NAS
3 3 (20.00%) SAN
3 3 (20.00%) Internet
3 3 (20.00%) SMTP
3 3 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Ant
1 2 (13.33%) Maven
2 1 (6.667%) Eclipse
2 1 (6.667%) JUnit
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Architect
3 5 (33.33%) Technical Architect
4 4 (26.67%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Lead Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 1 (6.667%) SAP Architect
6 1 (6.667%) NetWeaver Architect
6 1 (6.667%) J2EE Developer
6 1 (6.667%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (6.667%) Senior J2EE Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Oracle SOA Developer
6 1 (6.667%) SOA Developer
6 1 (6.667%) SAP PI Consultant
6 1 (6.667%) Consultant
6 1 (6.667%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Integration Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Open Source
2 3 (20.00%) Cryptography
2 3 (20.00%) Clustering
3 2 (13.33%) Thin Client
3 2 (13.33%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (6.667%) UNIX
2 1 (6.667%) AIX
2 1 (6.667%) Solaris
2 1 (6.667%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) OOA/OOD
1 6 (40.00%) OO
1 6 (40.00%) Use Case
1 6 (40.00%) Software Architecture
2 4 (26.67%) SOA
3 3 (20.00%) TOGAF
4 2 (13.33%) UML
4 2 (13.33%) CRM
4 2 (13.33%) BPMN
4 2 (13.33%) BPEL
4 2 (13.33%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (13.33%) Scrum
5 1 (6.667%) Data Migration
5 1 (6.667%) Migration
5 1 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) ABAP
3 2 (13.33%) ActionScript
3 2 (13.33%) ActionScript 2.0
3 2 (13.33%) XPath
4 1 (6.667%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.667%) SQL
4 1 (6.667%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) MCTS
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) CCSP
1 3 (20.00%) CCNA
1 3 (20.00%) ISEB
1 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (20.00%) MCSE
1 3 (20.00%) MCP
2 1 (6.667%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (20.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) OpenView
1 3 (20.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (6.667%) SCCM
2 1 (6.667%) SCOM
2 1 (6.667%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Oracle
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (20.00%) VMware
3 3 (20.00%) Sun
3 3 (20.00%) HP
3 3 (20.00%) Citrix
3 3 (20.00%) StorageTek
4 2 (13.33%) SAP
5 1 (6.667%) JBoss