The first table below looks at the demand for MSMQ skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MSMQ over the 3 months to 18 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
Rank 525 540 536
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -4
Contract jobs citing MSMQ 29 49 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.060% 0.084% 0.082%
As % of the Application Development category 0.215% 0.329% 0.296%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 37 27
Average daily rate £450 £343 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+31.38% -2.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £290 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £460 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £308 £280
% change year-on-year
+21.95% +9.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £37.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
13461 14911 17217
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.65% 25.68% 27.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8473 8895 10217
Average daily rate £375 £351 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.99% -12.37%
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 345 381 538
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -8.96%
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 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%

MSMQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

MSMQ Daily Rate Trend

MSMQ
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MSMQ within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

MSMQ Daily Rate Histogram

MSMQ
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MSMQ Hourly Rate Trend

MSMQ
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 MSMQ within the UK over the 3 months to 18 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 -1 29 £450 +28.57% 25
London +11 21 £488 +39.28% 9
City of London -5 7 £500 +45.98% 2
South East +15 4 £378 +25.83% 4
Berkshire +27 2 £358 -
Surrey +11 2 £440 -
East of England +12 1 - - 1
Yorkshire -1 1 - - 1
South Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £213 - 6
Scotland - - - -
Warwickshire - - - -
West Midlands - - - - 2
East Midlands - - - - 1
Buckinghamshire - - - - 1
Cheshire - - - - 4
Derbyshire - - - -
East Sussex - - - -
Essex - - - -
Kent - - - - 3
Norfolk - - - - 1
Northamptonshire - - - - 1
Nottinghamshire - - - -
Shropshire - - - -
Macclesfield - - - - 4
Manchester - - - - 2
Norwich - - - - 1
Nottingham - - - -
Sheffield - - - - 1
Telford - - - -

MSMQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 58 (74.36%) .NET
2 50 (64.10%) SQL Server
2 50 (64.10%) C#
3 40 (51.28%) WCF
4 39 (50.00%) SQL
5 34 (43.59%) MVC
6 31 (39.74%) Banking
7 24 (30.77%) ASP.NET
7 24 (30.77%) Windows
7 24 (30.77%) SQL Server 2008
8 22 (28.21%) Unity DI Container
8 22 (28.21%) OO
9 21 (26.92%) Finance
10 20 (25.64%) Scrum
10 20 (25.64%) WPF
11 19 (24.36%) WebSphere
11 19 (24.36%) Rhino Mocks
11 19 (24.36%) WebSphere MQ
11 19 (24.36%) MS Excel
12 18 (23.08%) Microsoft
13 17 (21.79%) VB
13 17 (21.79%) Spring.NET
13 17 (21.79%) NHibernate
14 16 (20.51%) VB6
14 16 (20.51%) Agile Software Development
14 16 (20.51%) TDD
14 16 (20.51%) .NET Remoting
14 16 (20.51%) Multithreading
14 16 (20.51%) Front Office
15 15 (19.23%) SQL Server 2000

MSMQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 58 (74.36%) .NET
2 40 (51.28%) WCF
3 24 (30.77%) ASP.NET
4 22 (28.21%) Unity DI Container
5 20 (25.64%) WPF
6 19 (24.36%) WebSphere MQ
6 19 (24.36%) WebSphere
7 17 (21.79%) NHibernate
7 17 (21.79%) Spring.NET
8 16 (20.51%) .NET Remoting
9 14 (17.95%) Lucene
9 14 (17.95%) Web Services
9 14 (17.95%) XML
10 13 (16.67%) COM+
10 13 (16.67%) HTML
10 13 (16.67%) .NET Framework
10 13 (16.67%) ASP
11 11 (14.10%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 10 (12.82%) SOAP
12 10 (12.82%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 14 (17.95%) IIS
2 8 (10.26%) MTS
2 8 (10.26%) SharePoint
2 8 (10.26%) ESB
3 6 (7.692%) BizTalk Server
4 5 (6.410%) Adobe CQ
5 4 (5.128%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (5.128%) Windows Azure
6 3 (3.846%) MS Exchange
7 2 (2.564%) Amazon AWS
8 1 (1.282%) Confluence
8 1 (1.282%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (1.282%) CMS
Applications
1 19 (24.36%) MS Excel
2 4 (5.128%) MS Office
3 2 (2.564%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.282%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 5 (6.410%) Misys Equation
1 5 (6.410%) Misys Midas
2 2 (2.564%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.564%) LAN
1 2 (2.564%) WAN
1 2 (2.564%) Internet
2 1 (1.282%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (64.10%) SQL Server
2 24 (30.77%) SQL Server 2008
3 15 (19.23%) MySQL
3 15 (19.23%) SQL Server 2000
4 12 (15.38%) SQL Server 2005
5 7 (8.974%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (5.128%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.564%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.282%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (24.36%) Rhino Mocks
2 13 (16.67%) Subversion
2 13 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
3 12 (15.38%) JIRA
4 9 (11.54%) Selenium
4 9 (11.54%) NUnit
5 8 (10.26%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 8 (10.26%) QuickTest Pro
6 7 (8.974%) Visual Studio
7 5 (6.410%) SpecFlow
8 4 (5.128%) MSBuild
9 3 (3.846%) MSTest
10 2 (2.564%) TortoiseSVN
11 1 (1.282%) WebDriver
11 1 (1.282%) Maven
11 1 (1.282%) Hudson
11 1 (1.282%) FinalBuilder
11 1 (1.282%) JUnit
11 1 (1.282%) Log4Net
11 1 (1.282%) jMock
General
1 31 (39.74%) Banking
2 21 (26.92%) Finance
3 16 (20.51%) Front Office
4 9 (11.54%) Investment Banking
5 5 (6.410%) Private Banking
6 4 (5.128%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (62.82%) Developer
2 26 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 12 (15.38%) Programmer
4 11 (14.10%) C# Developer
5 8 (10.26%) Analyst
5 8 (10.26%) Consultant
6 7 (8.974%) Architect
7 6 (7.692%) Test Consultant
7 6 (7.692%) QA Consultant
8 5 (6.410%) Technical Leader
8 5 (6.410%) .NET Programmer
8 5 (6.410%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (6.410%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.128%) Analyst Programmer
9 4 (5.128%) Senior Consultant
9 4 (5.128%) Lead Developer
9 4 (5.128%) Senior Test Consultant
10 3 (3.846%) C# .NET Developer
10 3 (3.846%) ASP.NET Programmer
10 3 (3.846%) Senior Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.95%) Open Source
1 14 (17.95%) Inversion of Control
2 5 (6.410%) iSeries
2 5 (6.410%) W3C
2 5 (6.410%) AS400
2 5 (6.410%) Online Banking
3 3 (3.846%) N-Tier
4 2 (2.564%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.282%) Clustering
5 1 (1.282%) Equities
5 1 (1.282%) Credit Derivative
5 1 (1.282%) Derivative
5 1 (1.282%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.282%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.282%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.282%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 24 (30.77%) Windows
2 7 (8.974%) Windows Server 2003
2 7 (8.974%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (2.564%) Windows 7
3 2 (2.564%) Windows XP
4 1 (1.282%) UNIX
4 1 (1.282%) Linux
4 1 (1.282%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (43.59%) MVC
2 22 (28.21%) OO
3 20 (25.64%) Scrum
4 16 (20.51%) Agile Software Development
4 16 (20.51%) TDD
4 16 (20.51%) Multithreading
5 15 (19.23%) SOA
6 14 (17.95%) Memory Management
7 9 (11.54%) Analytics
7 9 (11.54%) ITIL
7 9 (11.54%) PRINCE2
7 9 (11.54%) UML
8 8 (10.26%) Test Automation
9 6 (7.692%) Dependency Injection
9 6 (7.692%) BDD
10 4 (5.128%) MVVM
10 4 (5.128%) Project Management
10 4 (5.128%) Automated Testing
10 4 (5.128%) Integration Testing
10 4 (5.128%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 50 (64.10%) C#
2 39 (50.00%) SQL
3 17 (21.79%) VB
4 16 (20.51%) VB6
5 15 (19.23%) JavaScript
6 6 (7.692%) VBA
7 5 (6.410%) RPG
7 5 (6.410%) VBScript
8 3 (3.846%) T-SQL
8 3 (3.846%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.846%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.282%) PHP
9 1 (1.282%) C++
9 1 (1.282%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (10.26%) ISEB
1 8 (10.26%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.282%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.54%) QA
2 2 (2.564%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.410%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.282%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.54%) Sybase
3 5 (6.410%) Oracle
3 5 (6.410%) IBM
3 5 (6.410%) Misys
4 4 (5.128%) TIBCO
5 2 (2.564%) Citrix
6 1 (1.282%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.282%) JBoss
6 1 (1.282%) Siebel
6 1 (1.282%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.282%) VMware
London
Contract C# ASP.NET Developer - 6 Months Initially - Global Financial Organisation - Central London - Rate Negotiable (DOE)C#, ASP.NET, SQL ServerMy client who are a global financial organisation...
DP Connect Ltd
Rate: Competitive
Posted: 3 June 2013
London
WCF. SQL (T-SQL, Database Design) HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery... Visual Studio / TFS... SOAP/REST/JSON. IIS... JavaScript... Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)/Test Driven Development (TDD) ASP.Net...
clearedgeconsulting
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 4 June 2013
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