The first table below looks at the demand for MSMQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MSMQ 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 Application Platforms category for the Nottinghamshire 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
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing MSMQ 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 0.303% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.695% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £280 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £300 £280
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - -
All Application Platforms
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
59 48 67
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 17.88% 16.90% 22.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 30 19
Average daily rate £295 £299 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.25% -9.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £205 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £409 £435 £552
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 3
Average hourly rate £28.25 £30.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.83% +71.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
MSMQ
East Midlands

MSMQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire MSMQ Daily 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 Nottinghamshire 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
Nottingham - 1 £280 -
MSMQ
East Midlands

MSMQ
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) IIS
2 3 (75.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (75.00%) SOA
3 2 (50.00%) Unity DI Container
3 2 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
3 2 (50.00%) MSTest
3 2 (50.00%) MVVM
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) OO
3 2 (50.00%) OOD
3 2 (50.00%) NUnit
3 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (50.00%) WPF
4 1 (25.00%) OOP
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (25.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework

MSMQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
2 2 (50.00%) WPF
2 2 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) Unity DI Container
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) IIS
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (50.00%) MSTest
2 2 (50.00%) NUnit
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (50.00%) WPF Developer
4 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) SOA
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 2 (50.00%) MVVM
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) OOD
3 1 (25.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#