The first table below looks at the demand for JMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JMS over the 3 months to 19 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 for the Yorkshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Messaging Service (JMS)
Rank 105 117 102
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -15
Contract jobs citing JMS 12 5 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.616% 0.206% 0.210%
As % of the Application Development category 2.182% 0.792% 0.725%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
Average daily rate £355 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+29.09% -8.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £380
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
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
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
550 631 552
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 28.23% 26.03% 28.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 360 302
Average daily rate £298 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.83% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £215 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £380 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 19
Average hourly rate £38.00 £18.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+111.11% -57.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.60 £17.00 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.01 £30.00 £45.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
JMS
England

JMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire JMS Daily Rate Trend

JMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire JMS Hourly 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 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
West Yorkshire +8 7 £400 +45.45% 2
North Yorkshire - 3 £354 - 3
JMS
England

JMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 18 (69.23%) Oracle
2 17 (65.38%) Java
3 16 (61.54%) WebLogic
4 11 (42.31%) Spring
5 10 (38.46%) Maven
5 10 (38.46%) Hudson
5 10 (38.46%) Hibernate
5 10 (38.46%) JDBC
5 10 (38.46%) J2EE
5 10 (38.46%) Tomcat
6 9 (34.62%) XML
6 9 (34.62%) UNIX
6 9 (34.62%) Oracle Service Bus
7 8 (30.77%) SOA
8 7 (26.92%) Middleware
8 7 (26.92%) Linux
8 7 (26.92%) Subversion
8 7 (26.92%) WebSphere
9 6 (23.08%) Spring MVC
9 6 (23.08%) Oracle 11g
9 6 (23.08%) Jetty
9 6 (23.08%) ITIL
9 6 (23.08%) Eclipse
9 6 (23.08%) MVC
10 5 (19.23%) Clustering
10 5 (19.23%) Apache
10 5 (19.23%) JUnit
10 5 (19.23%) RESTful
10 5 (19.23%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (19.23%) Tapestry

JMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 11 (42.31%) Spring
2 10 (38.46%) Hibernate
2 10 (38.46%) JDBC
2 10 (38.46%) J2EE
3 9 (34.62%) XML
4 7 (26.92%) Middleware
4 7 (26.92%) WebSphere
5 6 (23.08%) Spring MVC
6 5 (19.23%) RESTful
6 5 (19.23%) Tapestry
7 4 (15.38%) Web Services
8 3 (11.54%) JSP
8 3 (11.54%) EJB
8 3 (11.54%) Struts
8 3 (11.54%) Ehcache
8 3 (11.54%) Apache Axis
8 3 (11.54%) FreeMarker
8 3 (11.54%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (11.54%) SiteMesh
9 2 (7.692%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 16 (61.54%) WebLogic
2 10 (38.46%) Tomcat
3 9 (34.62%) Oracle Service Bus
4 6 (23.08%) Jetty
5 5 (19.23%) Apache
6 4 (15.38%) AquaLogic
6 4 (15.38%) AquaLogic Service Bus
6 4 (15.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (11.54%) ESB
8 1 (3.846%) MQSeries
8 1 (3.846%) WebLogic Portal
8 1 (3.846%) Oracle Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.692%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (11.54%) JasperReports
3 2 (7.692%) RDBMS
3 2 (7.692%) MySQL
4 1 (3.846%) DB2
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Maven
1 10 (38.46%) Hudson
2 7 (26.92%) Subversion
3 6 (23.08%) Eclipse
4 5 (19.23%) JUnit
5 3 (11.54%) Log4j
5 3 (11.54%) TestNG
5 3 (11.54%) EasyMock
5 3 (11.54%) Subclipse
5 3 (11.54%) jMock
6 1 (3.846%) Ant
General
1 5 (19.23%) Retail
2 1 (3.846%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.846%) Finance
2 1 (3.846%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Developer
1 11 (42.31%) Administrator
1 11 (42.31%) Java Developer
2 3 (11.54%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 3 (11.54%) WebLogic Administrator
3 2 (7.692%) J2EE Developer
3 2 (7.692%) Middleware Administrator
3 2 (7.692%) Architect
3 2 (7.692%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.846%) Web Developer
4 1 (3.846%) Consultant
4 1 (3.846%) Team Leader
4 1 (3.846%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (3.846%) Java Team Leader
4 1 (3.846%) Java Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Clustering
1 5 (19.23%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (11.54%) Open Source
3 2 (7.692%) Computer Science
4 1 (3.846%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 9 (34.62%) UNIX
2 7 (26.92%) Linux
3 2 (7.692%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) SOA
2 6 (23.08%) ITIL
2 6 (23.08%) MVC
3 3 (11.54%) UML
3 3 (11.54%) OO
3 3 (11.54%) Project Management
3 3 (11.54%) Unit Testing
3 3 (11.54%) AOP
3 3 (11.54%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (11.54%) Content Management
4 2 (7.692%) Scrum
4 2 (7.692%) Unified Process
4 2 (7.692%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (7.692%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (7.692%) CRM
5 1 (3.846%) B2B
5 1 (3.846%) B2C
5 1 (3.846%) System Testing
5 1 (3.846%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (3.846%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) Java
2 4 (15.38%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
2 4 (15.38%) SQL
3 3 (11.54%) PL/SQL
4 2 (7.692%) Jython
4 2 (7.692%) Shell Script
4 2 (7.692%) Python
4 2 (7.692%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.692%) Perl
4 2 (7.692%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (7.692%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (7.692%) VMware Server
1 2 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.692%) CA Wily
1 2 (7.692%) OpenView
Vendors
1 18 (69.23%) Oracle
2 4 (15.38%) JBoss
3 2 (7.692%) VMware
3 2 (7.692%) HP
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