The first table below looks at the demand for MSMQ 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 MSMQ over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
Rank 216 234 242
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +8
Contract jobs citing MSMQ 4 11 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.050% 0.108% 0.107%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.271% 0.688% 0.631%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 4
Average daily rate £380 £300 £318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.66% -5.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £376 £300 £303
10% offered a daily rate of more than £416 £300 £441
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
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1478 1599 1744
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 18.66% 15.74% 16.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 768 778 731
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 £215 £210 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £471 £475 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 83 153
Average hourly rate £18.00 £19.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -7.31%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £12.45 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.60 £40.00 £43.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
MSMQ
England

MSMQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region.

South East MSMQ Hourly 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 South East region over the 3 months to 21 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
Berkshire +11 2 £375 -
Surrey +16 1 £380 -
Hampshire -11 1 £425 -
MSMQ
England

MSMQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 11 (100.00%) .NET
1 11 (100.00%) TDD
2 9 (81.82%) C#
3 8 (72.73%) MVC
4 7 (63.64%) Unity DI Container
5 6 (54.55%) SpecFlow
5 6 (54.55%) ASP.NET
5 6 (54.55%) SQL Server
6 5 (45.45%) TIBCO
6 5 (45.45%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (45.45%) Spring.NET
6 5 (45.45%) Dependency Injection
6 5 (45.45%) StructureMap
6 5 (45.45%) Castle Windsor
6 5 (45.45%) Windows Azure
6 5 (45.45%) BDD
7 4 (36.36%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (36.36%) ESB
7 4 (36.36%) WCF
7 4 (36.36%) Banking
7 4 (36.36%) Scrum
7 4 (36.36%) Telecoms
8 3 (27.27%) Visual Studio
8 3 (27.27%) LINQ
8 3 (27.27%) jQuery
8 3 (27.27%) Kanban
8 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
8 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
8 3 (27.27%) RavenDB
9 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC 4

MSMQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 11 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (63.64%) Unity DI Container
3 6 (54.55%) ASP.NET
4 5 (45.45%) Spring.NET
4 5 (45.45%) StructureMap
4 5 (45.45%) Castle Windsor
5 4 (36.36%) WCF
6 3 (27.27%) LINQ
6 3 (27.27%) jQuery
7 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (18.18%) SOAP
8 1 (9.091%) Web Services
8 1 (9.091%) XML
8 1 (9.091%) HTML
8 1 (9.091%) Middleware
8 1 (9.091%) CSS
8 1 (9.091%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 5 (45.45%) Windows Azure
2 4 (36.36%) ESB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) SQL Server
2 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
2 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
2 3 (27.27%) RavenDB
3 1 (9.091%) RDBMS
3 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) SpecFlow
2 4 (36.36%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (27.27%) Visual Studio
4 1 (9.091%) Subversion
4 1 (9.091%) JIRA
4 1 (9.091%) MSBuild
General
1 4 (36.36%) Banking
1 4 (36.36%) Telecoms
2 1 (9.091%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (72.73%) .NET Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Programmer
3 3 (27.27%) C# Developer
3 3 (27.27%) .NET Programmer
3 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET Programmer
4 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Agile .NET Developer
5 1 (9.091%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (9.091%) C# Programmer
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) TDD
2 8 (72.73%) MVC
3 5 (45.45%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (45.45%) Dependency Injection
3 5 (45.45%) BDD
4 4 (36.36%) Scrum
5 3 (27.27%) Kanban
6 2 (18.18%) Domain-Driven Design
7 1 (9.091%) UML
7 1 (9.091%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) TIBCO