The first table below looks at the demand for JMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Lothian region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JMS 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 Development category for the West Lothian region.

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
Java Messaging Service (JMS)
Rank 10 - 12
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing JMS 2 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Lothian 5.263% - 1.370%
As % of the Application Development category 20.00% - 7.692%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £388 - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £352 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+0.50% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+38.46% -7.14%
All Application Development
West Lothian
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
10 7 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Lothian 26.32% 13.21% 17.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 9
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JMS
Scotland

JMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Lothian 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 across the West Lothian region.

West Lothian JMS Daily Rate Trend

JMS
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 West Lothian region 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
Livingston - 1 £330 -
JMS
Scotland

JMS
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Lothian region 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 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) JDBC
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 3 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) iBATIS
1 3 (100.00%) FitNesse
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) Java EE
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) J2SE

JMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Lothian region 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 3 (100.00%) JDBC
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) iBATIS
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) J2SE
3 1 (33.33%) Java EE
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Tomcat
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) FitNesse
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
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...
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Posted: 16 May 2013