JMS Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Java Messaging Service (JMS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring JMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 118 121
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 +50
Contract jobs citing JMS 5 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.22% 0.23% 0.046%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.11% 0.84% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £543 -
25th Percentile - £548 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.45%
75th Percentile - £600 £503
90th Percentile - £690 -
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £495
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 450 476 485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.67% 27.42% 22.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 303 343
10th Percentile £375 £413 £400
25th Percentile £466 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £689
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £552 £550
% change year-on-year -0.36% +0.36% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £21.09 - -
25th Percentile £27.48 - -
Median hourly rate £44.92 - -
75th Percentile £63.54 - -
90th Percentile £70.42 - -
Central London median hourly rate £29.53 - -

JMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

JMS job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing JMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing JMS

JMS
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing JMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing JMS

JMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Camunda
1 1 (20.00%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (60.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Front Office
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Electronics Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
1 4 (80.00%) REST
2 3 (60.00%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (60.00%) Middleware
3 2 (40.00%) Spring
4 1 (20.00%) J2EE
4 1 (20.00%) jBPM
4 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (60.00%) Equities
1 3 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (80.00%) Integration Patterns
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Algorithmic Trading
2 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Electronic Trading
2 3 (60.00%) Order Management
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Runbook
2 3 (60.00%) Smart Order Routing
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) BPMN
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (60.00%) Bloomberg
1 3 (60.00%) Charles River
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (20.00%) Pega