JMS Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Java Messaging Service (JMS)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring JMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JMS 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.14% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.47% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £415 - -
25th Percentile £421 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £500 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

JMS falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 179 89 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 25.61% 18.28% 10.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 65 32
10th Percentile £313 £309 £425
25th Percentile £358 £356 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £390 £487
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -19.96% +8.28%
75th Percentile £492 £538 £538
90th Percentile £685 £606 £565
North West median daily rate £450 £450 £520
% change year-on-year - -13.46% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £36.58 - -
25th Percentile £46.44 £82.50 -
Median hourly rate £64.25 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.41% - -
75th Percentile £81.44 £87.50 -
90th Percentile £90.93 - -
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +60.81% - +2.99%

JMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JMS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

JMS job vacancy trend in Cheshire

JMS
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing JMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing JMS

JMS
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMS within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 18 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 7 £492 - 2
JMS
North West

JMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Git
1 8 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (100.00%) Banking
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) REST
1 8 (100.00%) Spring
1 8 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 6 (75.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (75.00%) SDLC
2 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (62.50%) Integration Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Requirements Gathering
3 5 (62.50%) Unit Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (100.00%) ISO 20022
1 8 (100.00%) PSD2
1 8 (100.00%) QA
1 8 (100.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle