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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 455 505
Rank change year-on-year -131 +50 +52
Contract jobs citing ActiveMQ 56 64 21
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.23% 0.064%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.57% 0.91% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 46 13
10th Percentile - £439 -
25th Percentile £455 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £613 £602
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +1.83% -7.46%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £738
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £490 £545 £602
% change year-on-year -10.09% -9.39% -7.46%
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 9,906 7,059 8,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.28% 25.38% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,513 4,805 5,494
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% -5.73% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £666
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 278 169 179
10th Percentile £29.72 £31.54 £27.60
25th Percentile £52.97 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -12.00% -1.57%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.83% -11.20% -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 19 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 19 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 -91 19 £663 -11.67% 12
North of England -84 10 £650 - 1
South East -53 9 £460 -8.00% 3
North West -55 6 £650 +21.04% 1
Yorkshire -49 3 - -
North East -50 3 £500 -
South West - 1 £575 - 1
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 (17.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 45 (80.36%) AWS
2 17 (30.36%) Azure
3 16 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 15 (26.79%) Amazon EC2
4 15 (26.79%) Amazon S3
5 14 (25.00%) GCP
6 10 (17.86%) Amazon SQS
7 9 (16.07%) AWS KMS
7 9 (16.07%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (16.07%) Boomi
7 9 (16.07%) iPaaS
7 9 (16.07%) Route 53
8 7 (12.50%) GitHub
8 7 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
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%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.07%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (26.79%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (21.43%) MongoDB
4 11 (19.64%) Relational Database
5 9 (16.07%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (16.07%) DynamoDB
6 6 (10.71%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (8.93%) NoSQL
8 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.79%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.79%) Couchbase
9 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 30 (53.57%) Mockito
2 26 (46.43%) Git
3 25 (44.64%) Jenkins
3 25 (44.64%) Maven
4 24 (42.86%) SonarQube
5 20 (35.71%) JUnit
6 11 (19.64%) GitLab
6 11 (19.64%) JIRA
7 7 (12.50%) Bitbucket
7 7 (12.50%) DbUnit
8 6 (10.71%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (10.71%) jMock
9 2 (3.57%) Gradle
10 1 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
General
1 22 (39.29%) Public Sector
2 19 (33.93%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (26.79%) Social Skills
4 10 (17.86%) Finance
5 6 (10.71%) Back Office
5 6 (10.71%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Banking
6 2 (3.57%) Front Office
6 2 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (67.86%) Developer
2 34 (60.71%) Java Developer
3 28 (50.00%) Senior
4 22 (39.29%) Senior Developer
4 22 (39.29%) Senior Java Developer
5 9 (16.07%) Architect
6 8 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (12.50%) Lead
8 6 (10.71%) Lead Developer
9 5 (8.93%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (8.93%) Data Engineer
9 5 (8.93%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
10 4 (7.14%) Lead Java Developer
10 4 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
11 2 (3.57%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 1 (1.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 1 (1.79%) Messaging Developer
12 1 (1.79%) Principal Engineer
12 1 (1.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (55.36%) Kafka
2 30 (53.57%) REST
3 29 (51.79%) SOAP
4 27 (48.21%) Spring
4 27 (48.21%) Spring Boot
5 24 (42.86%) RabbitMQ
6 22 (39.29%) RESTful
7 20 (35.71%) AngularJS
8 19 (33.93%) Hibernate
8 19 (33.93%) JPA
8 19 (33.93%) Web Services
9 17 (30.36%) Spring Cloud
10 11 (19.64%) JAX-RS
10 11 (19.64%) Middleware
11 10 (17.86%) Node.js
11 10 (17.86%) XML
12 9 (16.07%) GraphQL
12 9 (16.07%) Spring Batch
12 9 (16.07%) Spring Integration
12 9 (16.07%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 27 (48.21%) Cloud Native
2 22 (39.29%) 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%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 19 (33.93%) Linux
2 11 (19.64%) Unix
3 5 (8.93%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.79%) CentOS
4 1 (1.79%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (71.43%) Microservices
2 36 (64.29%) Agile
3 34 (60.71%) CI/CD
4 30 (53.57%) TDD
5 25 (44.64%) Event-Driven
6 22 (39.29%) Containerisation
6 22 (39.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 21 (37.50%) Scrum
8 20 (35.71%) Kanban
9 19 (33.93%) Test Automation
10 18 (32.14%) BDD
11 17 (30.36%) DevOps
12 15 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (25.00%) Code Quality
13 14 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (23.21%) API Management
14 13 (23.21%) Continuous Integration
15 12 (21.43%) API Design
15 12 (21.43%) API Development
15 12 (21.43%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 39 (69.64%) Java
2 18 (32.14%) SQL
3 11 (19.64%) TypeScript
4 8 (14.29%) Python
5 6 (10.71%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.57%) C#
7 1 (1.79%) Bash
7 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 21 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (5.36%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.79%) Degree
5 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 23 (41.07%) Docker
2 5 (8.93%) 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 12 (21.43%) Google
2 11 (19.64%) IBM
3 10 (17.86%) Oracle
3 10 (17.86%) TIBCO
4 9 (16.07%) Informatica
4 9 (16.07%) MuleSoft
4 9 (16.07%) WSO2
5 8 (14.29%) Jaspersoft
6 7 (12.50%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.79%) Solace
7 1 (1.79%) Sybase