The first table below looks at the demand for ActiveMQ skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ActiveMQ over the 3 months to 19 June 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.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache ActiveMQ
Rank 495 535 593
Rank change year-on-year
+40 +58
Contract jobs citing ActiveMQ 46 35 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.096% 0.060% 0.013%
As % of the Application Development category 0.344% 0.234% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 28 1
Average daily rate £383 £405 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.55% +39.65%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £338 £290
% change year-on-year
+3.70% +16.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £45.00 - £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - £42.00
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
13369 14943 17245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.79% 25.75% 27.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8406 8920 10221
Average daily rate £375 £353 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% -11.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 381 538
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £17.50 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%

ActiveMQ
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ActiveMQ within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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 within the UK.

ActiveMQ Daily Rate Trend

ActiveMQ
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ActiveMQ within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

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 within the UK.

ActiveMQ Hourly Rate Trend

ActiveMQ
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +20 41 £383 -5.55% 19
London +20 20 £500 +23.45% 11
South East +39 13 £326 +3.33% 2
Hampshire - 6 £575 -
Bristol - 5 £350 - 2
South West - 5 £350 - 2
Surrey - 5 £325 -
City of London +4 4 £450 +28.57% 2
Scotland -8 3 - - 1
Edinburgh - 3 - - 1
Southampton - 3 £575 -
Yorkshire +5 2 £384 +18.07% 3
Hertfordshire +20 1 £450 +12.50%
East of England +16 1 £450 +9.09%
West Yorkshire +1 1 £413 +26.92% 3
Leeds -6 1 £413 +26.92% 2
Birmingham - - - - 1
East Midlands - - - -
North West - - - -
West Midlands - - - - 1
North Yorkshire - - - -
Nottinghamshire - - - -
Oxfordshire - - - - 1
Uxbridge - - - -
York - - - -
Cheshire - - - -
Glasgow - - - -
Guildford - - - -
Leatherhead - - - -
Manchester - - - -

ActiveMQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 57 (74.03%) Java
2 46 (59.74%) Spring
3 37 (48.05%) Linux
4 34 (44.16%) JMS
5 29 (37.66%) Maven
6 28 (36.36%) SQL
7 27 (35.06%) UNIX
7 27 (35.06%) Agile Software Development
8 26 (33.77%) Web Services
9 25 (32.47%) Scrum
10 24 (31.17%) Hibernate
10 24 (31.17%) XML
10 24 (31.17%) Git (software)
11 23 (29.87%) Oracle
12 19 (24.68%) Degree
13 18 (23.38%) TDD
14 17 (22.08%) MySQL
15 16 (20.78%) J2EE
15 16 (20.78%) Cucumber
16 15 (19.48%) JPA
16 15 (19.48%) Telecoms
17 14 (18.18%) HTTP
17 14 (18.18%) Tomcat
17 14 (18.18%) Apache
18 13 (16.88%) JavaScript
18 13 (16.88%) Multithreading
18 13 (16.88%) Open Source
19 12 (15.58%) RESTful
19 12 (15.58%) HTML5
19 12 (15.58%) Unit Testing

ActiveMQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 46 (59.74%) Spring
2 34 (44.16%) JMS
3 26 (33.77%) Web Services
4 24 (31.17%) Hibernate
4 24 (31.17%) XML
5 16 (20.78%) J2EE
6 15 (19.48%) JPA
7 12 (15.58%) RESTful
7 12 (15.58%) HTML5
7 12 (15.58%) JDBC
7 12 (15.58%) REST
8 11 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
8 11 (14.29%) Grails
8 11 (14.29%) jQuery
9 10 (12.99%) Ruby on Rails
9 10 (12.99%) XSL
10 9 (11.69%) CSS
10 9 (11.69%) Lucene
10 9 (11.69%) Drools
11 8 (10.39%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 14 (18.18%) Tomcat
1 14 (18.18%) Apache
2 7 (9.091%) Confluence
3 6 (7.792%) ESB
4 5 (6.494%) TIBCO EMS
4 5 (6.494%) Magento
4 5 (6.494%) Shopify
5 4 (5.195%) Drupal
5 4 (5.195%) Mule
5 4 (5.195%) Apache Solr
6 3 (3.896%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (3.896%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.896%) GlassFish
6 3 (3.896%) Liferay
7 2 (2.597%) Amazon AWS
8 1 (1.299%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (1.299%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (1.299%) CMS
8 1 (1.299%) CoreMedia CMS
8 1 (1.299%) Jetty
Business Applications
1 1 (1.299%) SAP AFS
1 1 (1.299%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 14 (18.18%) HTTP
2 9 (11.69%) TCP/IP
2 9 (11.69%) DVB
3 1 (1.299%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.299%) GSM
3 1 (1.299%) UMTS
3 1 (1.299%) LDAP
3 1 (1.299%) Internet
3 1 (1.299%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.08%) MySQL
2 10 (12.99%) MongoDB
2 10 (12.99%) NoSQL
3 6 (7.792%) Hazelcast
3 6 (7.792%) RDBMS
4 5 (6.494%) SQL Server
4 5 (6.494%) Riak
5 4 (5.195%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (3.896%) GIS
6 3 (3.896%) JasperReports
7 2 (2.597%) CouchDB
8 1 (1.299%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.299%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (1.299%) UniData
8 1 (1.299%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (1.299%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.299%) SQL Server 2008
8 1 (1.299%) Redis
8 1 (1.299%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 29 (37.66%) Maven
2 24 (31.17%) Git (software)
3 16 (20.78%) Cucumber
4 12 (15.58%) Subversion
4 12 (15.58%) JUnit
5 9 (11.69%) JIRA
6 7 (9.091%) Bugzilla
7 3 (3.896%) Ant
7 3 (3.896%) PHPUnit
7 3 (3.896%) CppUnit
7 3 (3.896%) Gradle
8 2 (2.597%) Jenkins
8 2 (2.597%) Mockito
8 2 (2.597%) Eclipse
9 1 (1.299%) Visual Studio
9 1 (1.299%) LoadRunner
9 1 (1.299%) Selenium
9 1 (1.299%) SilkPerformer
9 1 (1.299%) SilkTest
General
1 15 (19.48%) Telecoms
2 10 (12.99%) Finance
3 7 (9.091%) Retail
4 2 (2.597%) Publishing
4 2 (2.597%) Games
5 1 (1.299%) Banking
5 1 (1.299%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.299%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 49 (63.64%) Developer
2 32 (41.56%) Java Developer
3 11 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 9 (11.69%) Senior Developer
4 9 (11.69%) Senior Java Developer
5 6 (7.792%) Architect
6 5 (6.494%) PHP Developer
7 4 (5.195%) Java Software Engineer
8 3 (3.896%) Analyst
8 3 (3.896%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.896%) Analyst Developer
8 3 (3.896%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 3 (3.896%) TIBCO Analyst
8 3 (3.896%) Applications Architect
8 3 (3.896%) TIBCO Developer
8 3 (3.896%) Drupal Developer
9 2 (2.597%) UNIX Engineer
9 2 (2.597%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (2.597%) C# Developer
10 1 (1.299%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.88%) Open Source
2 12 (15.58%) Computer Science
3 9 (11.69%) DTV
4 7 (9.091%) Wiki
5 5 (6.494%) PaaS
5 5 (6.494%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (6.494%) IaaS
6 3 (3.896%) Taxonomies
6 3 (3.896%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.896%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.597%) Digital Media
7 2 (2.597%) Social Media
7 2 (2.597%) BBC
7 2 (2.597%) N-Tier
8 1 (1.299%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.299%) Clustering
8 1 (1.299%) Mathematics
8 1 (1.299%) Applied Mathematics
8 1 (1.299%) Statistics
8 1 (1.299%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 37 (48.05%) Linux
2 27 (35.06%) UNIX
3 7 (9.091%) Windows
4 5 (6.494%) Solaris
5 4 (5.195%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (35.06%) Agile Software Development
2 25 (32.47%) Scrum
3 18 (23.38%) TDD
4 13 (16.88%) Multithreading
5 12 (15.58%) Unit Testing
6 11 (14.29%) SOA
7 10 (12.99%) BDD
7 10 (12.99%) Software Engineering
8 9 (11.69%) OO
8 9 (11.69%) Migration
8 9 (11.69%) Kanban
9 8 (10.39%) MVC
9 8 (10.39%) UML
10 7 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (7.792%) E-Commerce
12 5 (6.494%) RAD
12 5 (6.494%) Automated Testing
12 5 (6.494%) User Acceptance Testing
12 5 (6.494%) Root Cause Analysis
13 4 (5.195%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 57 (74.03%) Java
2 28 (36.36%) SQL
3 13 (16.88%) JavaScript
4 12 (15.58%) Ruby
5 11 (14.29%) Groovy
6 10 (12.99%) PHP
7 9 (11.69%) XPath
8 7 (9.091%) C#
9 5 (6.494%) Clojure
9 5 (6.494%) Haskell
9 5 (6.494%) Erlang
10 4 (5.195%) Perl
11 3 (3.896%) Python
11 3 (3.896%) C++
11 3 (3.896%) Bash shell
11 3 (3.896%) Scala
12 2 (2.597%) F#
12 2 (2.597%) Shell Script
12 2 (2.597%) PL/SQL
12 2 (2.597%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (24.68%) Degree
2 3 (3.896%) SC Cleared
2 3 (3.896%) CTC Cleared
2 3 (3.896%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.69%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.896%) Varnish
1 3 (3.896%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.597%) VMware Server
3 1 (1.299%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (5.195%) Puppet
1 4 (5.195%) MOM
2 2 (2.597%) CA Wily
2 2 (2.597%) OpenView
3 1 (1.299%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 23 (29.87%) Oracle
2 10 (12.99%) JBoss
3 5 (6.494%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.494%) TIBCO
3 5 (6.494%) Zend
4 4 (5.195%) Teradata
5 3 (3.896%) HP
5 3 (3.896%) VMware
5 3 (3.896%) Rackspace
5 3 (3.896%) Joyent
6 2 (2.597%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.597%) IBM
7 1 (1.299%) Sybase
7 1 (1.299%) SAP
7 1 (1.299%) Veritas
7 1 (1.299%) Salesforce.com
7 1 (1.299%) Sun
7 1 (1.299%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.299%) Telerik
7 1 (1.299%) Google
London
Key Skills: Essential Ideally experience with: JSP, XML, XSL and XSLT. Core Java development. Server-side Enterprise Java (J2EE or Java EE) Spring framework including Spring IOC/JDBC...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £40000.00 - £65000.00 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
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