The first table below looks at the demand for MSMQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MSMQ 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 Platforms category for the South West 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
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
Rank 110 139 -
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -
Contract jobs citing MSMQ 1 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.050% 0.062% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.274% 0.355% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £378 £300 £290
% change year-on-year
+25.83% +3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - -
All Application Platforms
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
365 563 453
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 18.16% 17.35% 15.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 336 237
Average daily rate £350 £363 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% +11.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £225 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £479 £440 £411
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 35 25
Average hourly rate £19.00 £25.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.00% +16.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £16.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £41.50 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
MSMQ
England

MSMQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 West region.

South West MSMQ Hourly Rate Trend

MSMQ
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2013

MSMQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft