The first table below looks at the demand for MSMQ skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MSMQ 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 for the Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
Rank 182 148 169
Rank change year-on-year
-34 +21
Permanent jobs citing MSMQ 12 27 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.296% 0.745% 0.101%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.496% 3.571% 0.618%
Number of salaries quoted 10 27 4
Average salary £40,500 £37,500 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.00% +17.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £30,000 £26,950
10% offered a salary of more than £41,250 £45,000 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Application Platforms
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
802 756 647
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 19.76% 20.85% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 679 673 604
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £61,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
MSMQ
North West

MSMQ
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing MSMQ across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Manchester MSMQ Jobs Demand Trend

MSMQ
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MSMQ across the Manchester region.

Manchester MSMQ Salary Trend

MSMQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region 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 IT job ads sampled that cited MSMQ.

1 27 (100.00%) C#
1 27 (100.00%) .NET
2 26 (96.30%) TDD
3 24 (88.89%) SQL Server 2005
3 24 (88.89%) NHibernate
3 24 (88.89%) WCF
3 24 (88.89%) Finance
3 24 (88.89%) VB.NET
3 24 (88.89%) SQL Server
4 19 (70.37%) ASP.NET
4 19 (70.37%) ASP.NET MVC
5 18 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 2
5 18 (66.67%) jQuery
5 18 (66.67%) NUnit
5 18 (66.67%) Windows
6 12 (44.44%) JavaScript
7 6 (22.22%) MS Excel
7 6 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
7 6 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (18.52%) Validation
9 3 (11.11%) Visual Studio
9 3 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (11.11%) Hudson
9 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
9 3 (11.11%) TeamCity
9 3 (11.11%) Git (software)
9 3 (11.11%) Mercurial

MSMQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region 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 IT job ads sampled that cited MSMQ. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 27 (100.00%) .NET
2 24 (88.89%) NHibernate
2 24 (88.89%) WCF
3 19 (70.37%) ASP.NET
3 19 (70.37%) ASP.NET MVC
4 18 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 2
4 18 (66.67%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 6 (22.22%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (88.89%) SQL Server
1 24 (88.89%) SQL Server 2005
2 6 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 18 (66.67%) NUnit
2 3 (11.11%) TeamCity
2 3 (11.11%) Git (software)
2 3 (11.11%) Mercurial
2 3 (11.11%) Hudson
2 3 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (88.89%) Finance
Job Titles
1 27 (100.00%) Developer
2 23 (85.19%) .NET Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Senior Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Senior .NET Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Developer
4 3 (11.11%) C# Developer
5 1 (3.704%) Agile C# Developer
Operating Systems
1 18 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (96.30%) TDD
2 5 (18.52%) Validation
3 3 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (3.704%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 27 (100.00%) C#
2 24 (88.89%) VB.NET
3 12 (44.44%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
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