ActiveMQ Contract Job Trends in England

Apache ActiveMQ
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring ActiveMQ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 494 540
Rank change year-on-year -9 +46 +47
Contract jobs citing ActiveMQ 42 21 24
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.073% 0.065%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.60% 0.33% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 17 21
10th Percentile £416 £294 -
25th Percentile £465 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £495 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.16% -17.50% -
75th Percentile £675 £602 £725
90th Percentile £720 £834 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £490 £600
% change year-on-year +12.24% -18.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £75.30
25th Percentile £61.25 - £75.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £76.50
75th Percentile £63.75 - £77.25
90th Percentile - - £77.70
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £76.50

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

ActiveMQ 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,970 6,299 8,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.22% 21.87% 21.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,658 4,025 5,883
10th Percentile £351 £358 £369
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.16%
75th Percentile £632 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £508 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -6.88% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 78 165
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.84 £44.17 £46.18
Median hourly rate £58.00 £63.75 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% +22.86% -20.17%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.13 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £58.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -7.20% +19.05% -19.23%

ActiveMQ
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

ActiveMQ job vacancy trend in England

ActiveMQ
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ActiveMQ.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ActiveMQ

ActiveMQ
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ActiveMQ in England over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ActiveMQ in England

ActiveMQ
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ActiveMQ.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ActiveMQ

ActiveMQ
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ActiveMQ within the England region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
North of England -17 23 £650 +26.95%
London +3 16 £498 -17.39% 1
Yorkshire -30 15 £650 +21.72%
North West -24 6 £435 -11.22%
North East - 3 - -
East Midlands -21 1 £435 -2.03%
Midlands -36 1 £435 -2.03%
ActiveMQ
UK

ActiveMQ
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 3 (7.14%) Confluence
1 3 (7.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (4.76%) Anypoint
2 2 (4.76%) Mule
3 1 (2.38%) Apache
3 1 (2.38%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.19%) AWS
1 11 (26.19%) Azure
2 9 (21.43%) Serverless
3 8 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (14.29%) Amazon Glacier
4 6 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
4 6 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 6 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (7.14%) Azure AKS
5 3 (7.14%) Azure App Service
5 3 (7.14%) Azure Functions
5 3 (7.14%) Azure Storage
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) AMQP
1 2 (4.76%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (54.76%) MongoDB
2 12 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (14.29%) DynamoDB
4 4 (9.52%) NoSQL
4 4 (9.52%) SQL Server
5 3 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (7.14%) Hadoop
5 3 (7.14%) MySQL
5 3 (7.14%) Oracle Database
5 3 (7.14%) Redis
6 1 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.38%) GIS
6 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (61.90%) Mockito
2 10 (23.81%) Jenkins
3 6 (14.29%) Git
4 3 (7.14%) Bitbucket
4 3 (7.14%) JIRA
4 3 (7.14%) JUnit
5 2 (4.76%) GitLab
5 2 (4.76%) Liquibase
6 1 (2.38%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.38%) Eclipse
6 1 (2.38%) Gradle
6 1 (2.38%) IntelliJ
6 1 (2.38%) JMeter
6 1 (2.38%) Maven
6 1 (2.38%) NeoLoad
6 1 (2.38%) Postman
6 1 (2.38%) Selenium
6 1 (2.38%) SoapUI
General
1 10 (23.81%) Public Sector
2 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Banking
3 3 (7.14%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Military
5 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (66.67%) Developer
2 26 (61.90%) Java Developer
3 15 (35.71%) Senior
4 13 (30.95%) Senior Developer
4 13 (30.95%) Senior Java Developer
5 8 (19.05%) Architect
6 6 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (9.52%) Backend Developer
7 4 (9.52%) Lead
8 3 (7.14%) Data Engineer
8 3 (7.14%) Lead Developer
8 3 (7.14%) Lead Java Developer
9 2 (4.76%) Applications Architect
9 2 (4.76%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 2 (4.76%) Digital Developer
9 2 (4.76%) Digital Transformation
9 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 2 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
10 1 (2.38%) Junior Data Engineer
10 1 (2.38%) Senior Agile Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (83.33%) Kafka
2 23 (54.76%) JAX-RS
3 6 (14.29%) RESTful
4 5 (11.90%) REST
4 5 (11.90%) Spring
4 5 (11.90%) Spring Boot
5 4 (9.52%) Spring Batch
6 3 (7.14%) SOAP
6 3 (7.14%) Spring Security
6 3 (7.14%) WireMock
6 3 (7.14%) XML
7 2 (4.76%) Apache Camel
7 2 (4.76%) Hibernate
7 2 (4.76%) JWT
7 2 (4.76%) OAuth
7 2 (4.76%) OAuth2
7 2 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.38%) JPA
8 1 (2.38%) JSON
8 1 (2.38%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (47.62%) Unix
2 18 (42.86%) Linux
3 12 (28.57%) Mac OS X
4 3 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (85.71%) Agile
2 35 (83.33%) Microservices
3 27 (64.29%) BDD
3 27 (64.29%) TDD
4 18 (42.86%) Test Automation
5 17 (40.48%) Pair Programming
6 15 (35.71%) Continuous Deployment
7 14 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (30.95%) Containerisation
9 12 (28.57%) CI/CD
9 12 (28.57%) DevOps
9 12 (28.57%) Responsive Web Design
9 12 (28.57%) Web Design
10 11 (26.19%) Web Development
11 10 (23.81%) Event-Driven
12 6 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
12 6 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 5 (11.90%) SDLC
14 4 (9.52%) API Development
14 4 (9.52%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 38 (90.48%) Java
2 10 (23.81%) SQL
3 4 (9.52%) Bash
4 2 (4.76%) DataWeave
5 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.38%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (40.48%) Security Cleared
2 15 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 8 (19.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (9.52%) Degree
5 3 (7.14%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 12 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.14%) Ambari
2 3 (7.14%) Puppet
2 3 (7.14%) ZABBIX
3 2 (4.76%) Ansible
3 2 (4.76%) Terraform
4 1 (2.38%) Grafana
4 1 (2.38%) Kibana
4 1 (2.38%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.52%) Oracle
3 3 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.76%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.38%) SAP