The first table below looks at the demand for JMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JMS 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 Development category for the Oxfordshire 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
Java Messaging Service (JMS)
Rank - 55 44
Contract jobs citing JMS 0 3 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire - 0.469% 1.802%
As % of the Application Development category - 1.449% 4.103%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 4
Average daily rate - £400 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +20.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £352 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+0.50% -6.66%
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
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
94 207 195
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 21.76% 32.34% 43.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 111 116
Average daily rate £320 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 5
Average hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.83% +20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JMS
South East

JMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire JMS Daily Rate Trend

JMS
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) TOAD
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
1 1 (100.00%) GlassFish
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) TortoiseSVN
1 1 (100.00%) Trac

JMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) GlassFish
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) TortoiseSVN
1 1 (100.00%) Trac
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle