The first table below looks at the demand for JMS skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JMS 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Messaging Service (JMS)
Rank 274 311 230
Rank change year-on-year
+37 -81
Contract jobs citing JMS 299 307 469
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.633% 0.525% 0.780%
As % of the Application Development category 2.319% 2.051% 2.841%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 166 298
Average daily rate £425 £476 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% +0.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £328 £337
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £606 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £354 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.48% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 11
Average hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+38.46% -7.14%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+38.46% -7.14%
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12893 14967 16509
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.31% 25.60% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8051 8793 9618
Average daily rate £375 £350 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.25%
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 384 385 569
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.15 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

JMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

JMS Jobs Demand Trend

JMS
Daily Rate Trend

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

JMS Daily Rate Trend

JMS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JMS within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

JMS Daily Rate Histogram

JMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

JMS Hourly Rate Trend

JMS
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 JMS within the UK 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
England +34 249 £425 -15.00%
London -5 141 £500 -7.83%
South East +40 71 £400 +10.34%
City of London 0 45 £463 -16.66%
Scotland +1 43 £350 +22.80%
Hampshire +10 35 £350 +3.70%
Glasgow +2 32 £338 +21.07%
Berkshire +29 24 £425 -4.49%
Basingstoke +2 24 £350 +12.44%
Yorkshire +15 15 £378 +37.27%
Bracknell - 14 £425 -
North West +10 11 £334 -13.24%
Lancashire +11 9 £334 -27.39%
West Yorkshire +11 9 £500 +81.81%
Milton Keynes +8 9 £500 -
Buckinghamshire +1 9 £500 +42.85%
Southampton +3 7 £413 -
Canary Wharf -4 6 £650 -5.45%
South West +24 5 £310 -7.46%
York - 5 £354 -
Blackpool - 5 £315 -
North Yorkshire - 5 £354 -
Lytham St Annes - 4 £342 -
East of England +8 3 £400 -8.57%
Surrey +4 3 £363 -9.37%
Leeds -4 3 £500 +81.81%
Stirling - 3 £388 -
Somerset - 3 £308 -
West Lothian - 3 £400 -
Cheshire +3 2 - -

JMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing JMS 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 JMS.

1 514 (84.68%) Java
2 306 (50.41%) Spring
3 282 (46.46%) SQL
4 251 (41.35%) Oracle
5 238 (39.21%) XML
6 232 (38.22%) J2EE
7 229 (37.73%) Web Services
8 215 (35.42%) JUnit
9 188 (30.97%) Hibernate
10 186 (30.64%) EJB
11 184 (30.31%) Maven
12 178 (29.32%) JavaScript
13 171 (28.17%) JSP
14 156 (25.70%) UNIX
15 151 (24.88%) HTML
16 141 (23.23%) Agile Software Development
17 140 (23.06%) SOAP
18 139 (22.90%) Linux
19 134 (22.08%) CSS
20 132 (21.75%) MVC
21 130 (21.42%) Finance
22 129 (21.25%) WebSphere
23 128 (21.09%) Banking
24 124 (20.43%) Spring MVC
25 119 (19.60%) JDBC
26 113 (18.62%) TDD
27 111 (18.29%) JPA
28 108 (17.79%) SOA
29 107 (17.63%) OO
30 105 (17.30%) JBoss

JMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing JMS 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 JMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 306 (50.41%) Spring
2 238 (39.21%) XML
3 232 (38.22%) J2EE
4 229 (37.73%) Web Services
5 188 (30.97%) Hibernate
6 186 (30.64%) EJB
7 171 (28.17%) JSP
8 151 (24.88%) HTML
9 140 (23.06%) SOAP
10 134 (22.08%) CSS
11 129 (21.25%) WebSphere
12 124 (20.43%) Spring MVC
13 119 (19.60%) JDBC
14 111 (18.29%) JPA
15 99 (16.31%) Java EE
16 94 (15.49%) Ajax
17 92 (15.16%) Struts
18 90 (14.83%) jQuery
19 83 (13.67%) REST
20 79 (13.01%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 95 (15.65%) WebLogic
2 81 (13.34%) Tomcat
3 55 (9.061%) Apache
4 41 (6.755%) WebSphere Application Server
5 31 (5.107%) ESB
5 31 (5.107%) ActiveMQ
6 25 (4.119%) TIBCO EMS
7 24 (3.954%) BizTalk Server
8 22 (3.624%) MQSeries
9 21 (3.460%) GlassFish
10 19 (3.130%) WebSphere Process Server
10 19 (3.130%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 18 (2.965%) IBM HTTP Server
11 18 (2.965%) Oracle Coherence
12 17 (2.801%) Oracle Service Bus
13 16 (2.636%) Oracle HTTP Server
14 14 (2.306%) Confluence
14 14 (2.306%) WebSphere MQ
15 12 (1.977%) Mule
16 10 (1.647%) Rendezvous
Applications
1 13 (2.142%) MS Excel
2 6 (0.988%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.494%) Mingle
3 3 (0.494%) Fireworks
3 3 (0.494%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.329%) MS Project
5 1 (0.165%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (2.306%) Tridion
2 11 (1.812%) Oracle BPM
3 8 (1.318%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.494%) Kondor+
4 3 (0.494%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.329%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.165%) Autonomy Scrittura
6 1 (0.165%) WebTrends
6 1 (0.165%) Murex MxG2000
6 1 (0.165%) SAP AFS
6 1 (0.165%) BASE24
6 1 (0.165%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.165%) Advent Geneva
Communications & Networking
1 60 (9.885%) HTTP
2 42 (6.919%) Internet
3 33 (5.437%) TCP/IP
4 21 (3.460%) LDAP
5 15 (2.471%) DNS
6 12 (1.977%) SSL
7 8 (1.318%) FTP
7 8 (1.318%) DVB
8 7 (1.153%) Firewall
9 5 (0.824%) SMTP
10 4 (0.659%) SAN
10 4 (0.659%) NAS
10 4 (0.659%) AMQP
11 3 (0.494%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.494%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.165%) 4G
12 1 (0.165%) IPv6
12 1 (0.165%) IIOP
12 1 (0.165%) SNMP
12 1 (0.165%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (15.65%) SQL Server
2 81 (13.34%) DB2
3 66 (10.87%) RDBMS
4 52 (8.567%) MySQL
5 36 (5.931%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 36 (5.931%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 27 (4.448%) NoSQL
7 20 (3.295%) Oracle 11g
8 13 (2.142%) Oracle 8/8i
9 11 (1.812%) MarkLogic
10 10 (1.647%) Big Data
11 9 (1.483%) SQL Server 2008
12 8 (1.318%) Hadoop
12 8 (1.318%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (0.988%) Sybase ASE
13 6 (0.988%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.988%) Oracle 10g
13 6 (0.988%) MongoDB
14 5 (0.824%) OLAP
15 3 (0.494%) JasperReports
Development Applications
1 215 (35.42%) JUnit
2 184 (30.31%) Maven
3 81 (13.34%) Subversion
4 60 (9.885%) Git (software)
5 57 (9.390%) Mockito
6 56 (9.226%) Eclipse
7 55 (9.061%) JIRA
8 47 (7.743%) Selenium
9 44 (7.249%) Ant
10 38 (6.260%) CruiseControl
11 35 (5.766%) Hudson
12 23 (3.789%) jMock
13 21 (3.460%) Cucumber
14 20 (3.295%) Jenkins
15 18 (2.965%) TeamCity
15 18 (2.965%) Log4j
16 17 (2.801%) EasyMock
17 15 (2.471%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
18 14 (2.306%) JBehave
19 12 (1.977%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 130 (21.42%) Finance
2 128 (21.09%) Banking
3 71 (11.70%) Investment Banking
4 52 (8.567%) Retail
5 49 (8.072%) Front Office
6 26 (4.283%) Telecoms
7 17 (2.801%) Games
8 13 (2.142%) Publishing
9 11 (1.812%) Back Office
10 5 (0.824%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.659%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.329%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.329%) Billing
13 1 (0.165%) Automotive
13 1 (0.165%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.165%) Wholesale Banking
13 1 (0.165%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 432 (71.17%) Developer
2 336 (55.35%) Java Developer
3 61 (10.05%) Senior Developer
4 56 (9.226%) Architect
5 55 (9.061%) Senior Java Developer
5 55 (9.061%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 40 (6.590%) J2EE Developer
7 38 (6.260%) Consultant
8 24 (3.954%) Programmer
9 21 (3.460%) WebSphere Developer
10 20 (3.295%) Technical Leader
10 20 (3.295%) Administrator
11 19 (3.130%) Analyst
12 17 (2.801%) Software Engineer
12 17 (2.801%) Lead Developer
13 16 (2.636%) Developer Analyst
14 14 (2.306%) Java Programmer
15 13 (2.142%) Technical Architect
15 13 (2.142%) Senior J2EE Developer
16 12 (1.977%) Lead Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.448%) Derivative
2 26 (4.283%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 20 (3.295%) Open Source
3 20 (3.295%) N-Tier
4 19 (3.130%) Computer Science
5 17 (2.801%) RIA
6 16 (2.636%) Credit Risk
7 14 (2.306%) Web 2.0
8 12 (1.977%) Mathematics
9 11 (1.812%) Clustering
9 11 (1.812%) Digital Media
9 11 (1.812%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.647%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.483%) Equities
11 9 (1.483%) Wiki
11 9 (1.483%) Market Risk
11 9 (1.483%) Semantic Web
12 8 (1.318%) DTV
13 6 (0.988%) Physics
13 6 (0.988%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 156 (25.70%) UNIX
2 139 (22.90%) Linux
3 32 (5.272%) Windows
4 27 (4.448%) Solaris
5 19 (3.130%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (2.471%) HPUX
7 7 (1.153%) AIX
8 6 (0.988%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.659%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.494%) Android
11 1 (0.165%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.165%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.165%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (23.23%) Agile Software Development
2 132 (21.75%) MVC
3 113 (18.62%) TDD
4 108 (17.79%) SOA
5 107 (17.63%) OO
6 96 (15.82%) UML
7 86 (14.17%) Continuous Integration
8 80 (13.18%) BDD
9 78 (12.85%) Multithreading
10 68 (11.20%) E-Commerce
11 65 (10.71%) Web Development
12 62 (10.21%) Software Architecture
13 54 (8.896%) Scrum
14 51 (8.402%) Unit Testing
15 49 (8.072%) Pair Programming
16 43 (7.084%) OOA/OOD
17 38 (6.260%) OOD
18 28 (4.613%) Dependency Injection
18 28 (4.613%) Content Management
19 26 (4.283%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 514 (84.68%) Java
2 282 (46.46%) SQL
3 178 (29.32%) JavaScript
4 51 (8.402%) C#
5 38 (6.260%) Shell Script
6 35 (5.766%) Perl
7 34 (5.601%) XPath
8 31 (5.107%) PL/SQL
9 24 (3.954%) Bash shell
10 20 (3.295%) XQuery
11 18 (2.965%) C++
11 18 (2.965%) C
12 15 (2.471%) T-SQL
13 13 (2.142%) Ruby
14 12 (1.977%) ActionScript
15 9 (1.483%) ABAP
15 9 (1.483%) Groovy
16 7 (1.153%) Korn
17 6 (0.988%) Jython
18 5 (0.824%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (6.919%) Security Cleared
2 26 (4.283%) Degree
3 19 (3.130%) DV Cleared
4 18 (2.965%) SC Cleared
5 6 (0.988%) CIPD
6 5 (0.824%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.659%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.494%) BC Cleared
8 3 (0.494%) ISEB
8 3 (0.494%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.494%) CCSP
8 3 (0.494%) CCNA
8 3 (0.494%) MCSE
8 3 (0.494%) MCP
8 3 (0.494%) MCTS
9 2 (0.329%) MCPD
10 1 (0.165%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (1.647%) QA
2 6 (0.988%) SLA
3 4 (0.659%) Basel II
3 4 (0.659%) Basel III
4 3 (0.494%) HL7
5 2 (0.329%) WCAG
6 1 (0.165%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 16 (2.636%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.483%) Squid
3 6 (0.988%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.494%) XenApp
4 3 (0.494%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.494%) MetaFrame
4 3 (0.494%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.329%) VMware Server
5 2 (0.329%) ClearTrust
6 1 (0.165%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 1 (0.165%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (1.647%) Puppet
2 7 (1.153%) MOM
3 5 (0.824%) Nagios
3 5 (0.824%) OpenView
4 3 (0.494%) Data Guard
4 3 (0.494%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (0.494%) SCOM
5 2 (0.329%) TIBCO Hawk
5 2 (0.329%) CA Wily
6 1 (0.165%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.165%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.165%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 1 (0.165%) Business Desktop Deployment
6 1 (0.165%) SCCM
6 1 (0.165%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 251 (41.35%) Oracle
2 105 (17.30%) JBoss
3 74 (12.19%) IBM
4 48 (7.908%) TIBCO
5 44 (7.249%) Sybase
6 22 (3.624%) Red Hat
7 17 (2.801%) ATG
7 17 (2.801%) Pega
8 16 (2.636%) SAP
9 14 (2.306%) Elastic Path
9 14 (2.306%) Blue Martini
9 14 (2.306%) Microsoft
9 14 (2.306%) Interwoven
10 13 (2.142%) HP
10 13 (2.142%) Informatica
10 13 (2.142%) Twitter
11 12 (1.977%) 29West
11 12 (1.977%) Adobe
12 9 (1.483%) Curam
13 8 (1.318%) BEA
London
My client is looking for a strong Front Office Core Java Developer to work on their real-time bond and CDS electronic pricing and trading systems You should...
iKas International
Rate: £500 - £585 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Roc Search - Senior Front Office Java Developer - Central London - Senior Developer - Java - 6 Month Contract. Java - Front office - Agile - Scrum - TDD - JMS - Sybase - Spring Roc Search are searching...
Roc Search
Posted: 15 May 2013
Livingston, West Lothian
Java/Agile/TDD/PP/JMS/Spring/JUnit/Hibernate/XML/Fitnesse/Tomcat/Mobile development/HTML... Experience of developing using the Spring Framework and JUnit ? RDMS experience using JDBC with...
Experis IT
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
My Client is a leading Media company, seeking a Java Developer, who is a highly skilled and technically strong Developer. The ideal Java Developer must have proven experience...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £200 - £250 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
An experienced Java Developer is required for a Leading Investment Bank in London. The successful candidate will work on developing new and enhancing current Low Latency trading application...
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £600 - £650 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Guildford, South East
The role will be a part of a larger development team working on the next generation of our client's market leading advanced targeted attack monitoring solution. This...
JAM
Rate: negotiable
Posted: 8 May 2013
City of London
Extensive experience in .Net and Java based Frameworks such as Struts, Spring etc Good experience in development methodologies such as Agile and testing tools (eg; Junit) Knowledge and...
Scope AT Ltd
Rate: neg
Posted: 10 May 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
Websphere Commerce Developer / WCS Developer - Berkshire - 6 Months+ - Market RatesIQ Retail are working with a well-known organisation based in Berkshire; who require a Websphere Commerce Developer / WCS...
IQ Resourcing
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 26 April 2013
City of London
Duties & Responsibilities Java developer with 3+ years of proven experience of working in a Java Enterprise/ Web environment (E) Proven experience of common development tools, for example Ant,...
Rate: MarketRate
Posted: 3 May 2013
London
Leading Investment Bank requires a Technical Developer / Engineer with a strong understanding of JBOSS, JMS and MOM, and Tibco EMS... Previous experience of migrating to Tibco EMS Good...
IT Human Resources
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
Southend-On-Sea, South East
J2EE experience must include experience of Servlets, JSPs and Session Beans delivering transactional web-based applications.*BEA WebLogic at version 9, or later... *development on UNIX environments, preferably...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 30 April 2013