The first table below looks at the demand for MSMQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MSMQ 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 Platforms category for the Nottingham 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
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing MSMQ 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 0.350% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.083% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £280 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £300 £290
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - -
All Application Platforms
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
48 32 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 16.78% 14.16% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 13
Average daily rate £310 £310 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £205 £212
10% offered a daily rate of more than £448 £435 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 1
Average hourly rate £28.25 £30.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.83% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
MSMQ
Nottinghamshire

MSMQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham MSMQ Daily Rate Trend

MSMQ
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOD
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) NUnit
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) WPF
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 2 (100.00%) MSTest
1 2 (100.00%) MVVM
1 2 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Unity DI Container
2 1 (50.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Windows

MSMQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) WPF
1 2 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Unity DI Container
2 1 (50.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) NUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (100.00%) MSTest
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 2 (100.00%) WPF Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOD
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 2 (100.00%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#