The first table below looks at the demand for JMX skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JMX over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Management Extensions (JMX)
Rank 520 537 548
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +11
Contract jobs citing JMX 13 36 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.028% 0.062% 0.066%
As % of the Application Development category 0.102% 0.241% 0.242%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 27 30
Average daily rate £538 £555 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.15% +0.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £368 £400 £485
10% offered a daily rate of more than £580 £610 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £308 -
% change year-on-year
+21.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12726 14946 16543
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.35% 25.62% 27.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 7952 8777 9622
Average daily rate £375 £350 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -11.39%
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 381 376 569
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 £41.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

JMX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

JMX Jobs Demand Trend

JMX
Daily Rate Trend

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

JMX Daily Rate Trend

JMX
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JMX within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

JMX Daily Rate Histogram

JMX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

JMX Hourly Rate Trend

JMX
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMX within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +39 11 £550 -0.90%
London +3 9 £563 +1.35%
South East - 2 £525 -
Bracknell - 1 £525 -
Berkshire - 1 £525 -
Hampshire - 1 - -
Docklands, London - 1 £475 -

JMX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing JMX 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 JMX.

1 25 (92.59%) Java
2 19 (70.37%) Spring
3 18 (66.67%) Web Services
4 17 (62.96%) JMS
5 14 (51.85%) TDD
5 14 (51.85%) Continuous Integration
6 13 (48.15%) JUnit
7 12 (44.44%) Maven
8 11 (40.74%) Banking
8 11 (40.74%) SOAP
9 10 (37.04%) Dependency Injection
10 9 (33.33%) Ant
10 9 (33.33%) Linux
10 9 (33.33%) CruiseControl
11 8 (29.63%) Hibernate
11 8 (29.63%) OO
11 8 (29.63%) JSP
11 8 (29.63%) HTML
11 8 (29.63%) JavaScript
11 8 (29.63%) SQL
11 8 (29.63%) Mockito
11 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
12 7 (25.93%) REST
12 7 (25.93%) Selenium
12 7 (25.93%) XML
12 7 (25.93%) Agile Software Development
12 7 (25.93%) Java EE
13 6 (22.22%) Content Management
13 6 (22.22%) Finance
13 6 (22.22%) UNIX

JMX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 19 (70.37%) Spring
2 18 (66.67%) Web Services
3 17 (62.96%) JMS
4 11 (40.74%) SOAP
5 8 (29.63%) JSP
5 8 (29.63%) HTML
5 8 (29.63%) Hibernate
6 7 (25.93%) Java EE
6 7 (25.93%) XML
6 7 (25.93%) REST
7 6 (22.22%) JPA
8 5 (18.52%) .NET
8 5 (18.52%) J2EE
8 5 (18.52%) JDBC
9 4 (14.81%) Spring Integration
9 4 (14.81%) RESTful
9 4 (14.81%) Java RMI
9 4 (14.81%) JSON
9 4 (14.81%) JSF
10 3 (11.11%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 5 (18.52%) Apache
2 3 (11.11%) WebLogic
2 3 (11.11%) TIBCO EMS
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle Coherence
3 2 (7.407%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (7.407%) Tomcat
4 1 (3.704%) CMS
4 1 (3.704%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (3.704%) SAP EP
4 1 (3.704%) WebSphere Process Server
4 1 (3.704%) ESB
4 1 (3.704%) Jetty
4 1 (3.704%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 1 (3.704%) MS Excel
1 1 (3.704%) MS Visio
1 1 (3.704%) Doxygen
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) Internet
2 2 (7.407%) LDAP
3 1 (3.704%) SMS
3 1 (3.704%) SMTP
3 1 (3.704%) FTP
3 1 (3.704%) HTTP
3 1 (3.704%) SNMP
3 1 (3.704%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.704%) DNS
3 1 (3.704%) HTTPS
3 1 (3.704%) IIOP
3 1 (3.704%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) RDBMS
2 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (11.11%) Sybase ASE
2 3 (11.11%) MySQL
2 3 (11.11%) Ingres
3 2 (7.407%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.407%) OLAP
4 1 (3.704%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (3.704%) DB2
4 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (3.704%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 13 (48.15%) JUnit
2 12 (44.44%) Maven
3 9 (33.33%) Ant
3 9 (33.33%) CruiseControl
4 8 (29.63%) Mockito
4 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
5 7 (25.93%) Selenium
6 5 (18.52%) EasyMock
6 5 (18.52%) Capistrano
7 4 (14.81%) Subversion
7 4 (14.81%) Eclipse
7 4 (14.81%) Hudson
8 3 (11.11%) FindBugs
8 3 (11.11%) ClearCase
8 3 (11.11%) NetBeans
8 3 (11.11%) Checkstyle
9 1 (3.704%) NWDI
9 1 (3.704%) NWDS
9 1 (3.704%) IntelliJ
9 1 (3.704%) Artifactory
General
1 11 (40.74%) Banking
2 6 (22.22%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.704%) International Banking
4 1 (3.704%) Online Betting
4 1 (3.704%) Front Office
4 1 (3.704%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (59.26%) Developer
2 13 (48.15%) Java Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Credit Risk Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Agile Java Developer
4 2 (7.407%) Technical Architect
4 2 (7.407%) Consultant
5 1 (3.704%) Web Developer
5 1 (3.704%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Java Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Technical Design Authority
5 1 (3.704%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) HTML Developer
5 1 (3.704%) WebSphere Consultant
5 1 (3.704%) Java Technical Architect
5 1 (3.704%) SAP Developer
5 1 (3.704%) Technical Leader
5 1 (3.704%) Java Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Derivative
1 3 (11.11%) Credit Risk
2 2 (7.407%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.704%) Semantic Web
3 1 (3.704%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) Linux
2 6 (22.22%) UNIX
3 5 (18.52%) Windows
4 3 (11.11%) AIX
4 3 (11.11%) Solaris
5 1 (3.704%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) TDD
1 14 (51.85%) Continuous Integration
2 10 (37.04%) Dependency Injection
3 8 (29.63%) OO
4 7 (25.93%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (22.22%) Content Management
6 5 (18.52%) UML
6 5 (18.52%) Web Development
7 4 (14.81%) BDD
7 4 (14.81%) SOA
7 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
7 4 (14.81%) MVC
8 3 (11.11%) Risk Management
8 3 (11.11%) AOP
8 3 (11.11%) Code Coverage
8 3 (11.11%) Configuration Management
8 3 (11.11%) E-Commerce
8 3 (11.11%) OOD
8 3 (11.11%) Change Control
8 3 (11.11%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 25 (92.59%) Java
2 8 (29.63%) JavaScript
2 8 (29.63%) SQL
3 3 (11.11%) C++
4 2 (7.407%) Korn
5 1 (3.704%) C
5 1 (3.704%) VB.NET
5 1 (3.704%) Jython
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) SLA
1 3 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (3.704%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (3.704%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.704%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Nagios
1 5 (18.52%) Puppet
2 1 (3.704%) Business Desktop Deployment
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) Sybase
2 3 (11.11%) TIBCO
2 3 (11.11%) Coverity
3 2 (7.407%) Actuate
4 1 (3.704%) Cognizant
4 1 (3.704%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.704%) ATG
4 1 (3.704%) VMware
4 1 (3.704%) Google
4 1 (3.704%) SAP
4 1 (3.704%) JBoss
4 1 (3.704%) IBM
4 1 (3.704%) Microsoft