The first table below looks at the demand for AMQP skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AMQP 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 Communications & Networking 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
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
Rank 531 556 592
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +36
Contract jobs citing AMQP 10 14 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.021% 0.024% 0.014%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.145% 0.155% 0.111%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 7
Average daily rate £638 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+59.37% -11.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £318 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Average hourly rate - £31.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.00 -
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6909 9038 8107
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.36% 15.57% 13.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3471 4041 3676
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £208 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 510 605 809
Average hourly rate £23.75 £24.38 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.56% +1.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00

AMQP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing AMQP within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

AMQP Jobs Demand Trend

AMQP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing AMQP within the UK.

AMQP Daily Rate Trend

AMQP
Daily Rate Histogram

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

AMQP Daily Rate Histogram

AMQP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing AMQP within the UK.

AMQP Hourly Rate Trend

AMQP
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AMQP 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
London +28 10 £638 +50.00% 6
England +14 10 £638 +54.54% 6
City of London - 4 £588 - 1

AMQP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing AMQP 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 AMQP.

1 11 (73.33%) Java
2 8 (53.33%) C#
2 8 (53.33%) .NET
2 8 (53.33%) Banking
2 8 (53.33%) Investment Banking
3 7 (46.67%) Maven
3 7 (46.67%) Oracle
3 7 (46.67%) Web Services
3 7 (46.67%) JMS
4 6 (40.00%) Front Office
4 6 (40.00%) Hibernate
4 6 (40.00%) Fixed Income
5 5 (33.33%) Linux
6 4 (26.67%) JBoss
6 4 (26.67%) RDBMS
6 4 (26.67%) SQL
6 4 (26.67%) Middleware
6 4 (26.67%) Spring
6 4 (26.67%) Git (software)
7 3 (20.00%) Scala
7 3 (20.00%) Puppet
7 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
7 3 (20.00%) SWIFT
7 3 (20.00%) Derivative
7 3 (20.00%) WPF
7 3 (20.00%) TeamCity
7 3 (20.00%) TDD
7 3 (20.00%) Equities
7 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (20.00%) Ruby

AMQP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing AMQP 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 AMQP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (53.33%) .NET
2 7 (46.67%) Web Services
2 7 (46.67%) JMS
3 6 (40.00%) Hibernate
4 4 (26.67%) Middleware
4 4 (26.67%) Spring
5 3 (20.00%) WPF
5 3 (20.00%) FpML
5 3 (20.00%) SOAP
6 2 (13.33%) WinForms
6 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
6 2 (13.33%) WCF
6 2 (13.33%) REST
7 1 (6.667%) Java EE
7 1 (6.667%) JTA
7 1 (6.667%) Servlets
7 1 (6.667%) XML
7 1 (6.667%) XSLT
7 1 (6.667%) JTS
7 1 (6.667%) MSMQ
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (6.667%) Amazon AWS
1 1 (6.667%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Kerberos
1 3 (20.00%) LDAP
2 1 (6.667%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) RDBMS
2 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (13.33%) KDB
3 2 (13.33%) Hadoop
4 1 (6.667%) MySQL
4 1 (6.667%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Maven
2 4 (26.67%) Git (software)
3 3 (20.00%) TeamCity
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (13.33%) JIRA
4 2 (13.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (6.667%) Hudson
5 1 (6.667%) jMock
5 1 (6.667%) Subversion
5 1 (6.667%) JUnit
General
1 8 (53.33%) Banking
1 8 (53.33%) Investment Banking
2 6 (40.00%) Front Office
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Architect
3 5 (33.33%) Java Developer
4 4 (26.67%) C# Developer
5 3 (20.00%) Java Architect
5 3 (20.00%) Lead Architect
6 2 (13.33%) Scala Developer
7 1 (6.667%) C# Software Developer
7 1 (6.667%) Real Time Developer
7 1 (6.667%) Server Engineer
7 1 (6.667%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Fixed Income
2 3 (20.00%) SWIFT
2 3 (20.00%) Derivative
2 3 (20.00%) Equities
3 1 (6.667%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.667%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) TDD
1 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (13.33%) OO
2 2 (13.33%) Scrum
2 2 (13.33%) Analytics
2 2 (13.33%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (6.667%) BDD
3 1 (6.667%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (6.667%) Multithreading
3 1 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (6.667%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (6.667%) Asset Management
3 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (6.667%) E-Commerce
3 1 (6.667%) SOA
3 1 (6.667%) UML
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Java
2 8 (53.33%) C#
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) Scala
4 3 (20.00%) Ruby
4 3 (20.00%) C++
4 3 (20.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (6.667%) Erlang
5 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.667%) ActionScript
5 1 (6.667%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) MCPD
1 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.667%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.667%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle
2 4 (26.67%) JBoss
3 3 (20.00%) CA
3 3 (20.00%) TIBCO
4 2 (13.33%) Atlassian
5 1 (6.667%) Red Hat
5 1 (6.667%) Sybase
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