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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 449 494
Rank change year-on-year -137 +45 +71
Contract jobs citing ActiveMQ 53 62 32
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.22% 0.097%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.54% 0.89% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 45 23
10th Percentile - £461 £450
25th Percentile £455 £500 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £650 £725
Median % change year-on-year -24.62% -10.34% +11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £750
90th Percentile £731 - -
UK median daily rate £480 £550 £725
% change year-on-year -12.73% -24.14% +11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 -

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 9,867 6,979 8,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.29% 25.08% 24.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,481 4,774 5,525
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -5.64% -0.90%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 164 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.36 £27.38
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% -13.04% -0.79%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £71.40 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -1.44%

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 12 September 2026.

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 12 September 2026. 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
Midlands -41 21 - -
West Midlands -39 20 - -
London -88 17 £600 -17.24% 5
North of England -83 10 £650 -
South East -53 8 £460 -8.00% 1
North West -45 6 £650 +21.04%
North East -45 3 £500 -
Yorkshire -55 3 - -
South West - 1 £575 -
East of England - 1 £425 -
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 10 (18.87%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 42 (79.25%) AWS
2 15 (28.30%) Azure
3 14 (26.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 13 (24.53%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (24.53%) Amazon S3
5 12 (22.64%) GCP
6 10 (18.87%) Amazon SQS
7 9 (16.98%) AWS KMS
7 9 (16.98%) Route 53
8 8 (15.09%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (15.09%) Boomi
8 8 (15.09%) iPaaS
9 5 (9.43%) GitHub
9 5 (9.43%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (7.55%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (7.55%) Amazon EventBridge
10 4 (7.55%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (7.55%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (7.55%) Kong
10 4 (7.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (39.62%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (24.53%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (22.64%) MongoDB
4 11 (20.75%) Relational Database
5 9 (16.98%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (16.98%) DynamoDB
6 5 (9.43%) NoSQL
7 4 (7.55%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.89%) Couchbase
9 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.89%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 30 (56.60%) Mockito
2 26 (49.06%) Git
3 25 (47.17%) Jenkins
3 25 (47.17%) Maven
4 24 (45.28%) SonarQube
5 20 (37.74%) JUnit
6 11 (20.75%) JIRA
7 9 (16.98%) GitLab
8 7 (13.21%) DbUnit
9 6 (11.32%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (11.32%) jMock
10 5 (9.43%) Bitbucket
11 2 (3.77%) Gradle
12 1 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
General
1 22 (41.51%) Public Sector
2 18 (33.96%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (28.30%) Social Skills
4 8 (15.09%) Finance
5 6 (11.32%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (7.55%) Back Office
7 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Banking
8 1 (1.89%) Front Office
8 1 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 38 (71.70%) Developer
2 34 (64.15%) Java Developer
3 27 (50.94%) Senior
4 22 (41.51%) Senior Developer
4 22 (41.51%) Senior Java Developer
5 8 (15.09%) Architect
6 7 (13.21%) Lead
6 7 (13.21%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (11.32%) Lead Developer
8 5 (9.43%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (7.55%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (7.55%) Lead Java Developer
10 3 (5.66%) AWS Data Engineer
10 3 (5.66%) Data Engineer
10 3 (5.66%) Senior Data Engineer
11 2 (3.77%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 1 (1.89%) AWS Developer
12 1 (1.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 1 (1.89%) Messaging Developer
12 1 (1.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (56.60%) Kafka
2 29 (54.72%) REST
3 28 (52.83%) SOAP
4 27 (50.94%) Spring
4 27 (50.94%) Spring Boot
5 22 (41.51%) RESTful
6 21 (39.62%) RabbitMQ
7 20 (37.74%) AngularJS
8 19 (35.85%) Hibernate
8 19 (35.85%) JPA
8 19 (35.85%) Web Services
9 17 (32.08%) Spring Cloud
10 11 (20.75%) JAX-RS
11 10 (18.87%) Middleware
11 10 (18.87%) Node.js
12 9 (16.98%) Spring Batch
12 9 (16.98%) Spring Integration
12 9 (16.98%) XML
13 8 (15.09%) EDI
13 8 (15.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (47.17%) Cloud Native
2 21 (39.62%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (11.32%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.66%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.89%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 19 (35.85%) Linux
2 11 (20.75%) Unix
3 5 (9.43%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.89%) CentOS
4 1 (1.89%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (75.47%) Microservices
2 36 (67.92%) Agile
3 32 (60.38%) CI/CD
4 30 (56.60%) TDD
5 22 (41.51%) Event-Driven
6 21 (39.62%) Containerisation
6 21 (39.62%) Scrum
7 20 (37.74%) Kanban
8 19 (35.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 19 (35.85%) Test Automation
9 18 (33.96%) BDD
10 17 (32.08%) DevOps
11 15 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (26.42%) Code Quality
13 13 (24.53%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (24.53%) Continuous Integration
14 12 (22.64%) API Development
14 12 (22.64%) API Management
15 11 (20.75%) API Design
16 10 (18.87%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 39 (73.58%) Java
2 16 (30.19%) SQL
3 11 (20.75%) TypeScript
4 6 (11.32%) JavaScript
4 6 (11.32%) Python
5 2 (3.77%) C#
6 1 (1.89%) Bash
6 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (39.62%) SC Cleared
1 21 (39.62%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.89%) Degree
4 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 23 (43.40%) Docker
2 5 (9.43%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 21 (39.62%) Grafana
2 15 (28.30%) Prometheus
3 5 (9.43%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.89%) Istio
Vendors
1 11 (20.75%) Google
2 10 (18.87%) IBM
3 9 (16.98%) Oracle
3 9 (16.98%) TIBCO
4 8 (15.09%) Informatica
4 8 (15.09%) Jaspersoft
4 8 (15.09%) MuleSoft
4 8 (15.09%) WSO2
5 7 (13.21%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.89%) Solace
6 1 (1.89%) Sybase