The first table below looks at the demand for JMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JMS over the 3 months to 23 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 Scotland 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Messaging Service (JMS)
Rank 76 78 58
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -20
Contract jobs citing JMS 44 30 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.803% 1.137% 2.168%
As % of the Application Development category 5.439% 7.299% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 9 41
Average daily rate £350 £285 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.80% -18.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £258 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £350 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £354 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.48% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Average hourly rate - £32.25 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+38.46% -7.14%
All Application Development
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
809 411 564
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 33.14% 15.57% 20.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 175 292
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £210 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 4
Average hourly rate £43.25 £31.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+39.51% +77.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.50 £27.50 £14.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £32.50 £21.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JMS
UK

JMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland JMS Daily Rate Trend

JMS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JMS across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Scotland JMS Daily Rate Histogram

JMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland JMS Hourly Rate Trend

JMS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMS within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 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
Glasgow -4 33 £338 +21.07%
Stirling - 3 £388 -
West Lothian - 3 £400 -
JMS
UK

JMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 63 (96.92%) Java
2 61 (93.85%) Spring
3 47 (72.31%) SQL
4 37 (56.92%) XML
4 37 (56.92%) UNIX
5 34 (52.31%) Agile Software Development
6 29 (44.62%) Oracle
7 28 (43.08%) JUnit
8 25 (38.46%) JDBC
8 25 (38.46%) J2EE
8 25 (38.46%) Tomcat
9 23 (35.38%) Hibernate
10 21 (32.31%) Sybase
11 20 (30.77%) JSP
11 20 (30.77%) MVC
12 19 (29.23%) CSS
12 19 (29.23%) Linux
12 19 (29.23%) OO
12 19 (29.23%) J2SE
12 19 (29.23%) Unit Testing
13 18 (27.69%) WebSphere
14 17 (26.15%) DB2
14 17 (26.15%) Perl
14 17 (26.15%) Continuous Integration
14 17 (26.15%) iBATIS
15 16 (24.62%) PL/SQL
15 16 (24.62%) JavaScript
15 16 (24.62%) Web Services
15 16 (24.62%) SOAP
15 16 (24.62%) Banking

JMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 61 (93.85%) Spring
2 37 (56.92%) XML
3 25 (38.46%) JDBC
3 25 (38.46%) J2EE
4 23 (35.38%) Hibernate
5 20 (30.77%) JSP
6 19 (29.23%) CSS
6 19 (29.23%) J2SE
7 18 (27.69%) WebSphere
8 17 (26.15%) iBATIS
9 16 (24.62%) Web Services
9 16 (24.62%) SOAP
10 15 (23.08%) Ajax
11 14 (21.54%) XSLT
11 14 (21.54%) Spring MVC
12 12 (18.46%) Struts
12 12 (18.46%) HTML
12 12 (18.46%) XML Schema
13 11 (16.92%) GWT
13 11 (16.92%) Spring Web Flow
Application Platforms
1 25 (38.46%) Tomcat
2 10 (15.38%) Apache
3 6 (9.231%) ESB
4 5 (7.692%) Oracle Coherence
5 4 (6.154%) WebLogic
6 3 (4.615%) GlassFish
7 2 (3.077%) Mule
8 1 (1.538%) IIS
8 1 (1.538%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.538%) GemFire
Applications
1 3 (4.615%) Fireworks
1 3 (4.615%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.538%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.538%) Advent Geneva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.077%) FTP
2 1 (1.538%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.538%) HTTP
2 1 (1.538%) SAN
2 1 (1.538%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (26.15%) DB2
2 8 (12.31%) RDBMS
3 3 (4.615%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.615%) MySQL
4 2 (3.077%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.077%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.538%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (1.538%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.538%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 28 (43.08%) JUnit
2 15 (23.08%) CruiseControl
3 14 (21.54%) Selenium
4 12 (18.46%) Maven
5 7 (10.77%) Eclipse
6 6 (9.231%) FitNesse
6 6 (9.231%) JIRA
7 5 (7.692%) Subversion
8 4 (6.154%) Hudson
9 3 (4.615%) WATIR
9 3 (4.615%) Firebug
9 3 (4.615%) RSpec
9 3 (4.615%) Jenkins
9 3 (4.615%) Cucumber
10 2 (3.077%) PVCS
11 1 (1.538%) ClearQuest
11 1 (1.538%) JDeveloper
11 1 (1.538%) ClearCase
11 1 (1.538%) Ant
General
1 16 (24.62%) Banking
2 12 (18.46%) Finance
3 2 (3.077%) Retail
3 2 (3.077%) Front Office
3 2 (3.077%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.538%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (84.62%) Developer
2 54 (83.08%) Java Developer
3 3 (4.615%) Build Engineer
4 2 (3.077%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.538%) Consultant
5 1 (1.538%) Development Specialist
5 1 (1.538%) Applications Developer
5 1 (1.538%) Senior Developer
5 1 (1.538%) Solutions Designer
5 1 (1.538%) Data Warehouse Consultant
5 1 (1.538%) Test Engineer
5 1 (1.538%) Team Leader
5 1 (1.538%) Development Team Leader
5 1 (1.538%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (1.538%) Java Team Leader
5 1 (1.538%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (1.538%) WebLogic Developer
5 1 (1.538%) Java Applications Developer
5 1 (1.538%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 1 (1.538%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.231%) N-Tier
2 5 (7.692%) Equity Derivative
2 5 (7.692%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.154%) Derivative
4 2 (3.077%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.077%) W3C
4 2 (3.077%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.538%) Clustering
5 1 (1.538%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.538%) Mathematics
5 1 (1.538%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.538%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 37 (56.92%) UNIX
2 19 (29.23%) Linux
3 4 (6.154%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (52.31%) Agile Software Development
2 20 (30.77%) MVC
3 19 (29.23%) OO
3 19 (29.23%) Unit Testing
4 17 (26.15%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (23.08%) TDD
6 12 (18.46%) SOA
7 11 (16.92%) Web Application Development
8 10 (15.38%) Scrum
9 6 (9.231%) Pair Programming
10 5 (7.692%) Workflow
10 5 (7.692%) UML
10 5 (7.692%) User Acceptance Testing
11 4 (6.154%) BDD
11 4 (6.154%) Extreme Programming
12 3 (4.615%) Software Engineering
12 3 (4.615%) DSDM
12 3 (4.615%) Dependency Injection
13 2 (3.077%) Release Management
13 2 (3.077%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 63 (96.92%) Java
2 47 (72.31%) SQL
3 17 (26.15%) Perl
4 16 (24.62%) PL/SQL
4 16 (24.62%) JavaScript
4 16 (24.62%) Shell Script
5 8 (12.31%) Ruby
6 3 (4.615%) Korn
6 3 (4.615%) C#
7 2 (3.077%) Bash shell
7 2 (3.077%) Python
7 2 (3.077%) Jython
8 1 (1.538%) XPath
8 1 (1.538%) Smalltalk
8 1 (1.538%) C++
8 1 (1.538%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.538%) VBA
8 1 (1.538%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (1.538%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.077%) WCAG
2 1 (1.538%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.615%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 3 (4.615%) Puppet
2 1 (1.538%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 29 (44.62%) Oracle
2 21 (32.31%) Sybase
3 7 (10.77%) JBoss
4 6 (9.231%) Informatica
5 4 (6.154%) IBM
6 3 (4.615%) TIBCO
6 3 (4.615%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.615%) Microsoft
6 3 (4.615%) Sun
6 3 (4.615%) Citrix
7 2 (3.077%) HP
7 2 (3.077%) Intel
8 1 (1.538%) BEA
8 1 (1.538%) Advent
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