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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 - 116
Rank change year-on-year - - +31
Contract jobs citing JMS 1 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.046% - 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.19% - 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £599
25th Percentile - - £662
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £745
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.98%
75th Percentile - - £869
90th Percentile - - £1,075
Central London median daily rate - - £745
% change year-on-year - - +32.98%

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 540 481 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.97% 27.84% 25.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 328 344
10th Percentile £413 £400 £413
25th Percentile £475 £464 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £710
90th Percentile £763 £766 £834
Central London median daily rate £575 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -0.86% -3.33% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £37.20 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £38.63 £67.50 £36.75
Median hourly rate £42.00 £75.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +94.81% -25.24%
75th Percentile £59.00 £82.50 £40.25
90th Percentile £68.60 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year - +62.34% -25.24%

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

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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Drools
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) TIBCO EMS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (100.00%) Derivative
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) TIBCO