The first table below looks at the demand for MSMQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing MSMQ 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.241% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.242% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £375 - -
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
161 162 191
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 19.40% 15.23% 18.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 62 79
Average daily rate £350 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £193 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £439 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 10
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% +5.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.70 £9.80 £10.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £37.60 £19.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
MSMQ
Berkshire

MSMQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading MSMQ Hourly Rate Trend

MSMQ
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) SpecFlow
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 2 (50.00%) Unity DI Container
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) ESB
2 2 (50.00%) WCF
2 2 (50.00%) LINQ
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) Kanban
2 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) SOAP
2 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript

MSMQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) SOAP
2 2 (50.00%) WCF
2 2 (50.00%) LINQ
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 2 (50.00%) Unity DI Container
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) ESB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) SpecFlow
2 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Programmer
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Programmer
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET Programmer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) Kanban
2 2 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript