The first table below looks at the demand for JMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JMS over the 3 months to 19 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 North West 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Messaging Service (JMS)
Rank 111 118 121
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +3
Contract jobs citing JMS 6 16 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.251% 0.527% 0.132%
As % of the Application Development category 0.935% 1.798% 0.531%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 2
Average daily rate £334 £423 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.94% +30.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £324 £375 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £337 £550 £345
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £380
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
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
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
642 890 753
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 26.90% 29.30% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 482 428
Average daily rate £313 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £217
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 33 32
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.51 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.46% -41.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £17.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £121.65 £33.30 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
JMS
England

JMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 19 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
Cheshire 0 2 - - 2
Merseyside - - - -
Manchester - - - - 2
JMS
England

JMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 22 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (90.91%) J2EE
3 18 (81.82%) SQL
3 18 (81.82%) EJB
3 18 (81.82%) XML
4 17 (77.27%) DB2
5 15 (68.18%) Oracle
5 15 (68.18%) Web Services
6 13 (59.09%) HTML
6 13 (59.09%) OO
6 13 (59.09%) WSDL
7 12 (54.55%) RDBMS
8 10 (45.45%) WebSphere
9 9 (40.91%) Curam
9 9 (40.91%) JNDI
9 9 (40.91%) Ajax
9 9 (40.91%) OOA/OOD
9 9 (40.91%) Struts
9 9 (40.91%) JSP
9 9 (40.91%) Servlets
9 9 (40.91%) XSL
9 9 (40.91%) JavaScript
10 8 (36.36%) JAAS
10 8 (36.36%) Subversion
10 8 (36.36%) Hibernate
10 8 (36.36%) Finance
10 8 (36.36%) Use Case
11 7 (31.82%) SOAP
12 6 (27.27%) jQuery
13 5 (22.73%) Project Management

JMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 20 (90.91%) J2EE
2 18 (81.82%) EJB
2 18 (81.82%) XML
3 15 (68.18%) Web Services
4 13 (59.09%) HTML
4 13 (59.09%) WSDL
5 10 (45.45%) WebSphere
6 9 (40.91%) JNDI
6 9 (40.91%) Ajax
6 9 (40.91%) Struts
6 9 (40.91%) JSP
6 9 (40.91%) Servlets
6 9 (40.91%) XSL
7 8 (36.36%) JAAS
7 8 (36.36%) Hibernate
8 7 (31.82%) SOAP
9 6 (27.27%) jQuery
10 5 (22.73%) Struts2
10 5 (22.73%) XSD
11 4 (18.18%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 5 (22.73%) WebLogic
2 3 (13.64%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (13.64%) MQSeries
3 1 (4.545%) JCAPS
3 1 (4.545%) WebSphere Process Server
3 1 (4.545%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.545%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (77.27%) DB2
2 12 (54.55%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.545%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.545%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Subversion
2 5 (22.73%) ClearCase
3 3 (13.64%) Git (software)
3 3 (13.64%) Gradle
3 3 (13.64%) Log4j
3 3 (13.64%) Ant
3 3 (13.64%) JUnit
3 3 (13.64%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Eclipse
4 1 (4.545%) NetBeans
4 1 (4.545%) Maven
4 1 (4.545%) Visual Studio
4 1 (4.545%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 8 (36.36%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Retail
3 3 (13.64%) Games
Job Titles
1 20 (90.91%) Developer
2 14 (63.64%) Java Developer
3 7 (31.82%) Senior Developer
3 7 (31.82%) Senior Java Developer
4 6 (27.27%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 5 (22.73%) J2EE Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Architect
7 2 (9.091%) J2EE Architect
7 2 (9.091%) Senior J2EE Developer
7 2 (9.091%) Senior J2EE Architect
7 2 (9.091%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
7 2 (9.091%) Java Architect
7 2 (9.091%) Senior Java Architect
7 2 (9.091%) Senior Architect
7 2 (9.091%) Senior Java/J2EE Architect
7 2 (9.091%) Java/J2EE Architect
8 1 (4.545%) Virtualisation Consultant
8 1 (4.545%) Enterprise Architect
8 1 (4.545%) Consultant
8 1 (4.545%) Software Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) PMI
2 3 (13.64%) Web 2.0
3 1 (4.545%) Replication
3 1 (4.545%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Linux
2 4 (18.18%) UNIX
3 3 (13.64%) HPUX
3 3 (13.64%) Solaris
4 1 (4.545%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) OO
2 9 (40.91%) OOA/OOD
3 8 (36.36%) Use Case
4 5 (22.73%) Project Management
4 5 (22.73%) Waterfall
4 5 (22.73%) BDD
4 5 (22.73%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (22.73%) CMMI
4 5 (22.73%) PRINCE2
4 5 (22.73%) PRINCE
4 5 (22.73%) RUP
5 4 (18.18%) Content Management
6 3 (13.64%) E-Commerce
6 3 (13.64%) SOA
6 3 (13.64%) UML
6 3 (13.64%) RAD
7 1 (4.545%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (4.545%) MVC
7 1 (4.545%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (81.82%) SQL
3 9 (40.91%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.64%) Bash shell
4 3 (13.64%) XPath
4 3 (13.64%) Groovy
4 3 (13.64%) Perl
5 2 (9.091%) C
6 1 (4.545%) Scala
6 1 (4.545%) Objective-C
6 1 (4.545%) Ruby
6 1 (4.545%) C#
6 1 (4.545%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) PMI Certification
2 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.091%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) QA
1 1 (4.545%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (4.545%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (4.545%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 15 (68.18%) Oracle
2 9 (40.91%) Curam
3 5 (22.73%) Chordiant
3 5 (22.73%) JBoss
4 4 (18.18%) IBM
5 3 (13.64%) Elastic Path
5 3 (13.64%) Blue Martini
5 3 (13.64%) ATG
5 3 (13.64%) Interwoven
6 1 (4.545%) TIBCO
6 1 (4.545%) CA
6 1 (4.545%) Microsoft
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