The first table below looks at the demand for MSMQ skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MSMQ over the 3 months to 23 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
Rank 236 202 233
Rank change year-on-year
-34 +31
Permanent jobs citing MSMQ 13 34 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.182% 0.478% 0.057%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.942% 2.201% 0.305%
Number of salaries quoted 11 34 4
Average salary £40,500 £38,750 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.51% +21.09%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,750 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.22% +3.33%
All Application Platforms
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1380 1545 1311
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 19.31% 21.71% 18.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1173 1370 1192
Average salary £37,500 £33,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.94% -9.45%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
MSMQ
England

MSMQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West MSMQ Salary Trend

MSMQ
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MSMQ across the North West region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

North West MSMQ Salary Histogram

MSMQ
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MSMQ within the North West region over the 3 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Manchester -32 12 £40,500 +8.00%
Cheshire +5 1 £21,500 -54.73%
MSMQ
England

MSMQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 24 (100.00%) C#
1 24 (100.00%) .NET
2 22 (91.67%) TDD
3 21 (87.50%) SQL Server 2005
3 21 (87.50%) Finance
3 21 (87.50%) SQL Server
3 21 (87.50%) WCF
4 20 (83.33%) VB.NET
4 20 (83.33%) NHibernate
5 17 (70.83%) Windows
5 17 (70.83%) ASP.NET
5 17 (70.83%) ASP.NET MVC
6 16 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 2
6 16 (66.67%) jQuery
6 16 (66.67%) NUnit
7 10 (41.67%) JavaScript
8 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
9 6 (25.00%) MS Excel
10 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (16.67%) Visual Studio
10 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (12.50%) Validation
11 3 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
11 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (12.50%) TeamCity
11 3 (12.50%) Git (software)
11 3 (12.50%) Mercurial
11 3 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (12.50%) Hudson
11 3 (12.50%) NoSQL

MSMQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 24 (100.00%) .NET
2 21 (87.50%) WCF
3 20 (83.33%) NHibernate
4 17 (70.83%) ASP.NET
4 17 (70.83%) ASP.NET MVC
5 16 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 2
5 16 (66.67%) jQuery
6 1 (4.167%) REST
6 1 (4.167%) SOAP
6 1 (4.167%) XML
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (87.50%) SQL Server 2005
1 21 (87.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (4.167%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (66.67%) NUnit
2 4 (16.67%) Visual Studio
3 3 (12.50%) TeamCity
3 3 (12.50%) Git (software)
3 3 (12.50%) Mercurial
3 3 (12.50%) Hudson
General
1 21 (87.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (100.00%) Developer
2 20 (83.33%) .NET Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 3 (12.50%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Agile C# Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Graduate Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Graduate
Operating Systems
1 17 (70.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (91.67%) TDD
2 3 (12.50%) Validation
2 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (4.167%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) C#
2 20 (83.33%) VB.NET
3 10 (41.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.167%) PHP5
4 1 (4.167%) PHP
4 1 (4.167%) SQL
4 1 (4.167%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (4.167%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
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