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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 493 558
Rank change year-on-year +5 +65 +44
Contract jobs citing ActiveMQ 49 23 24
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.074% 0.062%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.70% 0.34% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 18 20
10th Percentile £418 £309 -
25th Percentile £493 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £493 £545
Median % change year-on-year +31.98% -9.63% -13.66%
75th Percentile £700 £603 £641
90th Percentile £750 £834 £731
UK median daily rate £550 £490 £540
% change year-on-year +12.36% -9.35% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £75.60
25th Percentile £61.25 - £76.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £78.00
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £78.00

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 6,968 6,730 8,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.69% 21.72% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,693 4,269 6,227
10th Percentile £350 £360 £369
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -5.16%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 105 179
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.40 £65.00 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +22.64% -18.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.43 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -15.38% +19.13% -12.93%

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 29 November 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 29 November 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 -21 23 £650 +26.95%
London +30 21 £513 -15.01%
Yorkshire -14 15 £650 +21.72%
North West -20 6 £435 -11.22%
North East - 3 - -
Midlands -33 2 £468 +5.29%
East Midlands -14 1 £435 -2.03%
West Midlands - 1 £500 -
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 (6.12%) Confluence
1 3 (6.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (4.08%) Anypoint
2 2 (4.08%) Mule
3 1 (2.04%) Apache
3 1 (2.04%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 17 (34.69%) AWS
2 14 (28.57%) Azure
3 11 (22.45%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (18.37%) Serverless
5 7 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (14.29%) Amazon S3
6 6 (12.24%) Amazon Glacier
6 6 (12.24%) Amazon Kinesis
6 6 (12.24%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (6.12%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (6.12%) Azure AKS
7 3 (6.12%) Azure App Service
7 3 (6.12%) Azure Functions
7 3 (6.12%) Azure Storage
8 2 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.08%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 1 (2.04%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (2.04%) AWS KMS
9 1 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.04%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) AMQP
1 2 (4.08%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (48.98%) MongoDB
2 17 (34.69%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (14.29%) DynamoDB
4 6 (12.24%) Redis
5 4 (8.16%) NoSQL
5 4 (8.16%) SQL Server
6 3 (6.12%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (6.12%) Hadoop
6 3 (6.12%) MySQL
6 3 (6.12%) Oracle Database
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (2.04%) GIS
8 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (57.14%) Mockito
2 12 (24.49%) Jenkins
3 8 (16.33%) Git
4 5 (10.20%) JUnit
5 3 (6.12%) Bitbucket
5 3 (6.12%) JIRA
5 3 (6.12%) Maven
6 2 (4.08%) GitLab
6 2 (4.08%) Liquibase
6 2 (4.08%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (2.04%) CircleCI
7 1 (2.04%) DbUnit
7 1 (2.04%) Eclipse
7 1 (2.04%) Gradle
7 1 (2.04%) jMock
7 1 (2.04%) NeoLoad
7 1 (2.04%) Postman
7 1 (2.04%) Selenium
7 1 (2.04%) SoapUI
General
1 12 (24.49%) Public Sector
2 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.24%) Banking
3 6 (12.24%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Military
5 1 (2.04%) Finance
5 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (71.43%) Developer
2 32 (65.31%) Java Developer
3 15 (30.61%) Senior
4 13 (26.53%) Senior Developer
4 13 (26.53%) Senior Java Developer
5 8 (16.33%) Architect
6 7 (14.29%) Lead
7 6 (12.24%) Cloud Architect
7 6 (12.24%) Lead Developer
7 6 (12.24%) Lead Java Developer
8 4 (8.16%) Backend Developer
9 3 (6.12%) Data Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 2 (4.08%) Applications Architect
10 2 (4.08%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 2 (4.08%) Digital Developer
10 2 (4.08%) Digital Transformation
10 2 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
11 1 (2.04%) .NET Developer
11 1 (2.04%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (81.63%) Kafka
2 24 (48.98%) JAX-RS
3 8 (16.33%) RESTful
4 7 (14.29%) REST
4 7 (14.29%) Spring
4 7 (14.29%) Spring Boot
5 6 (12.24%) Spring Batch
6 5 (10.20%) SOAP
7 4 (8.16%) Hibernate
8 3 (6.12%) JPA
8 3 (6.12%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (6.12%) Spring Security
8 3 (6.12%) WireMock
8 3 (6.12%) XML
9 2 (4.08%) .NET
9 2 (4.08%) Apache Camel
9 2 (4.08%) OAuth
9 2 (4.08%) OAuth2
9 2 (4.08%) Spring Integration
9 2 (4.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Cloud Native
1 5 (10.20%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (40.82%) Unix
2 19 (38.78%) Linux
3 12 (24.49%) Mac OS X
4 3 (6.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (85.71%) Agile
2 38 (77.55%) Microservices
3 33 (67.35%) TDD
4 32 (65.31%) BDD
5 18 (36.73%) Test Automation
6 17 (34.69%) Pair Programming
6 17 (34.69%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (32.65%) DevOps
8 15 (30.61%) Continuous Deployment
9 14 (28.57%) Containerisation
10 12 (24.49%) CI/CD
10 12 (24.49%) Responsive Web Design
10 12 (24.49%) Web Design
11 11 (22.45%) Web Development
12 10 (20.41%) Event-Driven
13 7 (14.29%) Computer Science
14 6 (12.24%) Architectural Design
14 6 (12.24%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 6 (12.24%) Economics
14 6 (12.24%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 44 (89.80%) Java
2 12 (24.49%) SQL
3 4 (8.16%) Bash
4 2 (4.08%) DataWeave
5 1 (2.04%) C#
5 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.04%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.04%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (40.82%) Security Cleared
2 17 (34.69%) SC Cleared
3 8 (16.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (14.29%) Degree
5 6 (12.24%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) QA
System Software
1 14 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 9 (18.37%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.12%) Ambari
2 3 (6.12%) Puppet
2 3 (6.12%) ZABBIX
3 2 (4.08%) Ansible
3 2 (4.08%) Grafana
3 2 (4.08%) Terraform
4 1 (2.04%) Kibana
4 1 (2.04%) logstash
4 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.16%) Oracle
3 3 (6.12%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.08%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.04%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.04%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (2.04%) SAP
5 1 (2.04%) Solace