ActiveMQ Contract Job Trends in England

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 454 505
Rank change year-on-year -134 +51 +36
Contract jobs citing ActiveMQ 56 65 19
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.23% 0.059%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.57% 0.91% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 46 13
10th Percentile - £439 -
25th Percentile £455 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £613 £495
Median % change year-on-year -16.73% +23.74% -23.85%
75th Percentile £669 £738 £602
90th Percentile £738 £750 £711
UK median daily rate £510 £545 £495
% change year-on-year -6.42% +10.10% -23.85%
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 7,166 8,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.21% 25.57% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,489 4,845 5,302
10th Percentile £381 £356 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -0.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £666
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 172 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.29 £35.50
25th Percentile £54.37 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.20 £70.00 £74.68
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +20.37% -14.19% +4.88%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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
London -81 23 £650 -13.33% 10
Midlands -43 19 - -
West Midlands -32 18 - -
South East -55 9 £460 -8.00% 5
North of England -88 9 £650 -
North West -52 5 £650 +21.04%
North East -45 3 £500 -
Yorkshire -48 3 - -
South West - 1 £575 - 1
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 (17.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 45 (80.36%) AWS
2 17 (30.36%) Azure
3 16 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 14 (25.00%) GCP
5 13 (23.21%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (23.21%) Amazon S3
6 9 (16.07%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (16.07%) Boomi
6 9 (16.07%) iPaaS
7 8 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (12.50%) AWS KMS
8 7 (12.50%) Route 53
9 6 (10.71%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (10.71%) Amazon EventBridge
9 6 (10.71%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (10.71%) AWS Step Functions
9 6 (10.71%) GitHub
9 6 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (10.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.07%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (23.21%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (23.21%) Relational Database
3 12 (21.43%) MongoDB
4 7 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (12.50%) DynamoDB
5 6 (10.71%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (7.14%) NoSQL
7 3 (5.36%) Couchbase
8 2 (3.57%) MySQL
8 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.79%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 28 (50.00%) Mockito
2 27 (48.21%) Git
3 24 (42.86%) Maven
4 23 (41.07%) Jenkins
4 23 (41.07%) SonarQube
5 19 (33.93%) JUnit
6 11 (19.64%) JIRA
7 10 (17.86%) GitLab
8 7 (12.50%) Bitbucket
9 5 (8.93%) DbUnit
10 4 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (7.14%) jMock
11 3 (5.36%) Gradle
12 2 (3.57%) Cucumber
13 1 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 19 (33.93%) Public Sector
2 17 (30.36%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (30.36%) Social Skills
3 11 (19.64%) Finance
4 7 (12.50%) Back Office
5 6 (10.71%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (5.36%) Banking
6 3 (5.36%) Front Office
7 2 (3.57%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (67.86%) Developer
2 33 (58.93%) Java Developer
3 26 (46.43%) Senior
4 20 (35.71%) Senior Developer
5 19 (33.93%) Senior Java Developer
6 9 (16.07%) Architect
7 8 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (12.50%) Lead
9 6 (10.71%) Lead Developer
10 5 (8.93%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (8.93%) Data Engineer
10 5 (8.93%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
11 4 (7.14%) Lead Java Developer
11 4 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
12 3 (5.36%) C# Developer
13 2 (3.57%) AWS Developer
13 2 (3.57%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 1 (1.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (57.14%) Kafka
2 28 (50.00%) SOAP
3 27 (48.21%) REST
4 26 (46.43%) Spring
4 26 (46.43%) Spring Boot
5 23 (41.07%) RabbitMQ
6 20 (35.71%) RESTful
7 19 (33.93%) AngularJS
8 18 (32.14%) Web Services
9 17 (30.36%) Hibernate
9 17 (30.36%) JPA
10 15 (26.79%) Spring Cloud
11 12 (21.43%) Node.js
12 11 (19.64%) JAX-RS
12 11 (19.64%) Middleware
12 11 (19.64%) XML
13 10 (17.86%) React
14 9 (16.07%) GraphQL
14 9 (16.07%) OpenAPI
14 9 (16.07%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 26 (46.43%) Cloud Native
2 19 (33.93%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (10.71%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.36%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.57%) PropTech
7 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.79%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 17 (30.36%) Linux
2 11 (19.64%) Unix
3 6 (10.71%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.79%) CentOS
4 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (69.64%) Microservices
2 37 (66.07%) CI/CD
3 34 (60.71%) Agile
4 28 (50.00%) TDD
5 26 (46.43%) Event-Driven
6 22 (39.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 20 (35.71%) Containerisation
8 19 (33.93%) Scrum
8 19 (33.93%) Test Automation
9 18 (32.14%) Kanban
10 16 (28.57%) BDD
11 15 (26.79%) Code Quality
11 15 (26.79%) DevOps
11 15 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (23.21%) API Management
14 12 (21.43%) API Design
14 12 (21.43%) Integration Patterns
15 11 (19.64%) Continuous Integration
15 11 (19.64%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 39 (69.64%) Java
2 16 (28.57%) SQL
3 11 (19.64%) TypeScript
4 8 (14.29%) Python
5 7 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.14%) C#
7 1 (1.79%) Bash
7 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 20 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (5.36%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.57%) Degree
4 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 21 (37.50%) Docker
2 3 (5.36%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 21 (37.50%) Grafana
2 15 (26.79%) Prometheus
3 5 (8.93%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.79%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (23.21%) Google
2 12 (21.43%) Oracle
3 11 (19.64%) IBM
4 10 (17.86%) TIBCO
5 9 (16.07%) Informatica
5 9 (16.07%) MuleSoft
5 9 (16.07%) WSO2
6 6 (10.71%) Jaspersoft
7 5 (8.93%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.79%) Solace
8 1 (1.79%) Sybase