The first table below looks at the demand for RabbitMQ skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RabbitMQ over the 3 months to 17 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 Platforms 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource RabbitMQ
Rank 509 560 572
Rank change year-on-year
+51 +12
Contract jobs citing RabbitMQ 21 18 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.045% 0.031% 0.026%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.250% 0.190% 0.156%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 5
Average daily rate £450 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £323 £325 £360
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £230 £325 £425
% change year-on-year
-29.23% -23.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
8409 9490 10269
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.12% 16.28% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4782 5232 5474
Average daily rate £353 £350 £378
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.71% -7.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 452 419 565
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.65 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -

RabbitMQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

RabbitMQ Jobs Demand Trend

RabbitMQ
Daily Rate Trend

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

RabbitMQ Daily Rate Trend

RabbitMQ
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RabbitMQ within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

RabbitMQ Daily Rate Histogram

RabbitMQ
Hourly Rate Trend

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

RabbitMQ Hourly Rate Trend

RabbitMQ
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RabbitMQ within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +51 20 £450 +11.80%
London +25 18 £475 +16.20%
Westminster - 4 £500 -
City of London +13 3 £350 -5.08%
West Yorkshire +4 2 £110 -66.15%
Yorkshire 0 2 £110 -66.15%
Leeds -7 2 £110 -66.15%
Scotland -15 1 £350 -
Glasgow - 1 £350 -

RabbitMQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing RabbitMQ 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 RabbitMQ.

1 26 (66.67%) Java
2 17 (43.59%) Agile Software Development
3 15 (38.46%) Ruby on Rails
3 15 (38.46%) Ruby
4 14 (35.90%) Groovy
4 14 (35.90%) Git (software)
5 13 (33.33%) NoSQL
5 13 (33.33%) Grails
5 13 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 13 (33.33%) MVC
5 13 (33.33%) Finance
6 12 (30.77%) C#
6 12 (30.77%) ActiveMQ
6 12 (30.77%) Spring
7 11 (28.21%) Ajax
7 11 (28.21%) TDD
7 11 (28.21%) Scrum
7 11 (28.21%) jQuery
7 11 (28.21%) J2EE
7 11 (28.21%) MongoDB
8 10 (25.64%) CSS
8 10 (25.64%) Python
8 10 (25.64%) JSON
9 9 (23.08%) Degree
9 9 (23.08%) SQL
10 8 (20.51%) OO
10 8 (20.51%) Web Services
10 8 (20.51%) Ext JS
10 8 (20.51%) KnockoutJS
11 7 (17.95%) Clojure

RabbitMQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing RabbitMQ 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 RabbitMQ. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (38.46%) Ruby on Rails
2 13 (33.33%) Grails
3 12 (30.77%) Spring
4 11 (28.21%) J2EE
4 11 (28.21%) jQuery
4 11 (28.21%) Ajax
5 10 (25.64%) JSON
5 10 (25.64%) CSS
6 8 (20.51%) Web Services
6 8 (20.51%) Ext JS
6 8 (20.51%) KnockoutJS
7 7 (17.95%) Hibernate
8 6 (15.38%) .NET
9 5 (12.82%) Django
10 4 (10.26%) WCF
10 4 (10.26%) .NET Framework
10 4 (10.26%) HTML
10 4 (10.26%) ASP.NET
10 4 (10.26%) Swing
10 4 (10.26%) NEsper
Application Platforms
1 12 (30.77%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (15.38%) Apache
3 5 (12.82%) Tomcat
4 2 (5.128%) Amazon AWS
5 1 (2.564%) GemFire
5 1 (2.564%) Kafka
5 1 (2.564%) WebLogic
5 1 (2.564%) lighttpd
Applications
1 2 (5.128%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.564%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 11 (28.21%) MongoDB
3 6 (15.38%) Riak
4 5 (12.82%) MySQL
5 4 (10.26%) SQL Server
5 4 (10.26%) Oracle 8/8i
5 4 (10.26%) SQL Server 2008
6 3 (7.692%) Hadoop
6 3 (7.692%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (5.128%) Redis
7 2 (5.128%) Big Data
7 2 (5.128%) Hazelcast
7 2 (5.128%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (5.128%) CouchDB
8 1 (2.564%) Apache Hive
8 1 (2.564%) RDBMS
8 1 (2.564%) HBase
Development Applications
1 14 (35.90%) Git (software)
2 5 (12.82%) Maven
3 4 (10.26%) Visual Studio Team System
3 4 (10.26%) Visual Studio
3 4 (10.26%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
3 4 (10.26%) MSTest
3 4 (10.26%) Rhino Mocks
3 4 (10.26%) Subversion
4 2 (5.128%) SpecFlow
4 2 (5.128%) Gradle
4 2 (5.128%) NUnit
4 2 (5.128%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.564%) Ant
5 1 (2.564%) JUnit
5 1 (2.564%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.564%) Mockito
General
1 13 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (5.128%) Front Office
2 2 (5.128%) Retail
3 1 (2.564%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.564%) Advertising
3 1 (2.564%) Publishing
3 1 (2.564%) Games
Job Titles
1 33 (84.62%) Developer
2 22 (56.41%) Java Developer
3 9 (23.08%) Senior Java Developer
3 9 (23.08%) Senior Developer
4 3 (7.692%) Python Developer
4 3 (7.692%) C# Developer
5 2 (5.128%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (5.128%) .NET Developer
5 2 (5.128%) Analyst
5 2 (5.128%) Test Analyst
5 2 (5.128%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (5.128%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (5.128%) Django Developer
5 2 (5.128%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (2.564%) C++/C# Developer
6 1 (2.564%) Front-End Developer
6 1 (2.564%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (2.564%) Development Specialist
6 1 (2.564%) Administrator
6 1 (2.564%) Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
1 6 (15.38%) PaaS
1 6 (15.38%) IaaS
2 5 (12.82%) Computer Science
3 4 (10.26%) Informatics
3 4 (10.26%) Mathematics
4 2 (5.128%) Biology
4 2 (5.128%) LIMS
4 2 (5.128%) Social Network
4 2 (5.128%) Open Source
4 2 (5.128%) Social Media
5 1 (2.564%) Digital Media
5 1 (2.564%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.564%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.564%) N-Tier
5 1 (2.564%) Online Gambling
5 1 (2.564%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.82%) Linux
2 3 (7.692%) Windows
3 2 (5.128%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (2.564%) UNIX
4 1 (2.564%) VMS
4 1 (2.564%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (2.564%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.564%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Agile Software Development
2 13 (33.33%) MVC
3 11 (28.21%) TDD
3 11 (28.21%) Scrum
4 8 (20.51%) OO
5 7 (17.95%) Kanban
6 6 (15.38%) RAD
7 5 (12.82%) Unit Testing
7 5 (12.82%) Information Management
8 4 (10.26%) B2B
8 4 (10.26%) Risk Management
8 4 (10.26%) ETRM
8 4 (10.26%) BDD
9 2 (5.128%) Test Strategy
9 2 (5.128%) Analytics
9 2 (5.128%) Automation Testing
9 2 (5.128%) Pair Programming
9 2 (5.128%) OOA/OOD
9 2 (5.128%) E-Commerce
9 2 (5.128%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (66.67%) Java
2 15 (38.46%) Ruby
3 14 (35.90%) Groovy
4 13 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 12 (30.77%) C#
6 10 (25.64%) Python
7 9 (23.08%) SQL
8 7 (17.95%) Erlang
8 7 (17.95%) Clojure
9 6 (15.38%) Haskell
10 4 (10.26%) Lisp
10 4 (10.26%) Perl
10 4 (10.26%) Scala
11 2 (5.128%) F#
11 2 (5.128%) VBA
12 1 (2.564%) C
12 1 (2.564%) Shell Script
12 1 (2.564%) XPath
12 1 (2.564%) PHP
12 1 (2.564%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) Degree
2 4 (10.26%) PhD
3 2 (5.128%) ISEB
3 2 (5.128%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.564%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.564%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.692%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) Oracle
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.26%) VMware
3 1 (2.564%) BEA
3 1 (2.564%) JBoss
3 1 (2.564%) IBM
London
The work will be challenging, and the learning curve will be steep, but the successful Python Developer (NoSQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ) will be constantly challenged, working on front to...
ANSON MCCADE
Rate: From £400 to £450 per day - maybe more for experienced candidate
Posted: 13 May 2013
City, London
Java, J2EE, Big Data, No SQL, Hadoop or Cassandra, Rabbit MQ, Storm, KafKa, Senior Java Developer... As these are the first hands on Java Developers on the initial...
Edison Hill Ltd
Rate: From £500 to £700 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Central London / West End
Excellent Java experience - Groovy and Grails experience - A background in building JVM based applications at scale - Full stack Javascript knowledge Desired Skills. - NoSQL - DevOps - Puppet, Chef, Salt - RabbitMQ -...
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £400 to £500 per day negotiable
Posted: 16 May 2013
West Yorkshire
Java - Scala - Support - Oracle. My West Yorkshire client has an immediate requirement for a Java/Scala developer to work in BAU team supporting a... Skills required - Java... Oracle...
The Bridge Ltd
Rate: Unspecified NEG
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
Java/Scala developer required for a 6 month contract in Leeds/London. Essential skills: Java. Scala. Oracle. Rabbit MQ or exposure to message queuing... Nice to have: C#, ...
ReThink Recruitment
Rate: £0.00 per day + market rates
Posted: 17 May 2013
Windsor, London
Youll need the following skills/attributes: * Ruby on Rails (solid, commercial experience) * MySQL (or equivalent RDBMS) * Knowledge of Javascript using jQuery or Prototype... * Proficiency with Linux/Unix server...
Elevate Platform Ltd
Rate: Up to UKP 550 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
Technical Stack *Java *Hadoop or Cassandra *RabbitMQ *Storm *Kafka *Agile, Scrum, TDD etc... People Source specialise in niche technology markets including Information Technology, Digital TV, Digital Marketing, Project...
People Source Consulting
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013