The first table below looks at the demand for ActiveMQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ActiveMQ 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 South East 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
Apache ActiveMQ
Rank 213 245 244
Rank change year-on-year
+32 -1
Contract jobs citing ActiveMQ 10 2 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.128% 0.020% 0.077%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.689% 0.124% 0.449%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £575 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £338 £290
% change year-on-year
+40.74% +16.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
Average hourly rate £45.00 - £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - £42.00
All Application Platforms
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1452 1609 1781
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 18.58% 15.84% 17.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 759 784 741
Average daily rate £340 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £210 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 82 154
Average hourly rate £18.00 £18.75 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.00% -8.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £11.45 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.10 £40.00 £42.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
ActiveMQ
England

ActiveMQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East ActiveMQ Jobs Demand Trend

ActiveMQ
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ActiveMQ across the South East region.

South East ActiveMQ Daily Rate Trend

ActiveMQ
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ActiveMQ across the South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South East ActiveMQ Daily Rate Histogram

ActiveMQ
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East ActiveMQ Hourly Rate Trend

ActiveMQ
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ActiveMQ within the South East 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
Hampshire - 7 £575 -
Surrey +23 2 £340 -
Berkshire - 1 - -
ActiveMQ
England

ActiveMQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing ActiveMQ 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 ActiveMQ.

1 11 (78.57%) Telecoms
2 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 9 (64.29%) Oracle
2 9 (64.29%) Degree
3 8 (57.14%) XML
3 8 (57.14%) Java
4 7 (50.00%) Linux
4 7 (50.00%) Hibernate
4 7 (50.00%) Spring
5 6 (42.86%) UNIX
6 5 (35.71%) C#
6 5 (35.71%) JMS
6 5 (35.71%) SOA
6 5 (35.71%) XSL
6 5 (35.71%) JDBC
6 5 (35.71%) HTTP
6 5 (35.71%) TCP/IP
6 5 (35.71%) DTV
6 5 (35.71%) DVB
6 5 (35.71%) Maven
6 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
6 5 (35.71%) XPath
6 5 (35.71%) Lucene
6 5 (35.71%) Multithreading
6 5 (35.71%) JPA
6 5 (35.71%) Drools
6 5 (35.71%) Computer Science
6 5 (35.71%) Git (software)
6 5 (35.71%) HTML5
6 5 (35.71%) Cucumber

ActiveMQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing ActiveMQ 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 ActiveMQ. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (57.14%) XML
2 7 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 7 (50.00%) Spring
3 5 (35.71%) Lucene
3 5 (35.71%) XSL
3 5 (35.71%) JMS
3 5 (35.71%) JDBC
3 5 (35.71%) JPA
3 5 (35.71%) Drools
3 5 (35.71%) HTML5
3 5 (35.71%) REST
4 4 (28.57%) .NET
5 3 (21.43%) .NET Framework
6 2 (14.29%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) HTTP
1 5 (35.71%) TCP/IP
1 5 (35.71%) DVB
2 1 (7.143%) tcpdump
2 1 (7.143%) GSM
2 1 (7.143%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (7.143%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Maven
1 5 (35.71%) Git (software)
1 5 (35.71%) Cucumber
General
1 11 (78.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
4 1 (7.143%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.143%) UNIX Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Senior UNIX Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) SOA Developer
4 1 (7.143%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Automated Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) DTV
1 5 (35.71%) Computer Science
2 1 (7.143%) Mathematics
2 1 (7.143%) Applied Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
2 6 (42.86%) UNIX
3 1 (7.143%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) SOA
1 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
1 5 (35.71%) Multithreading
2 3 (21.43%) Network Planning
3 2 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (7.143%) Information Security
4 1 (7.143%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 8 (57.14%) Java
3 5 (35.71%) XPath
3 5 (35.71%) C#
4 1 (7.143%) Bash shell
4 1 (7.143%) Perl
4 1 (7.143%) Python
4 1 (7.143%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Oracle
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.143%) Red Hat