The first table below looks at the demand for MSMQ 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 MSMQ over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
Rank 117 131 -
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -
Contract jobs citing MSMQ 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.043% 0.032% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.242% 0.171% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £213 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £300 £280
% change year-on-year
+26.66% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - -
All Application Platforms
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
413 585 492
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 17.72% 18.80% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 300 261
Average daily rate £300 £318 £344
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.51% -7.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £188 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £446 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 39 34
Average hourly rate £19.25 £20.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.75% +14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.70 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £30.00 £37.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
MSMQ
England

MSMQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West MSMQ Daily Rate Trend

MSMQ
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West MSMQ Hourly Rate Trend

MSMQ
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSMQ within the North West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Lancashire - 1 £213 -
MSMQ
England

MSMQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) VBA
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) COM
1 1 (100.00%) DCOM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSD
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveX
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) VB6
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax

MSMQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) COM
1 1 (100.00%) DCOM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSD
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveX
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Remoting
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) TortoiseSVN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) VBA
1 1 (100.00%) VB6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft