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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 570 463 494
Rank change year-on-year -107 +31 +85
Contract jobs citing ActiveMQ 53 51 38
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.18% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.62% 0.83% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 41 25
10th Percentile £455 £410 £450
25th Percentile £456 £475 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £725
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -24.14% +11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £750
90th Percentile £720 - -
UK median daily rate £490 £537 £725
% change year-on-year -8.75% -25.93% +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 8,538 6,155 7,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.65% 22.30% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,584 4,225 5,039
10th Percentile £364 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 152 228
10th Percentile £28.86 £31.25 £23.94
25th Percentile £46.66 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -1.12% -7.29%
75th Percentile £73.11 £67.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.91 £74.13
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% +10.00% -16.67%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -44 20 £475 -5.00% 1
West Midlands -46 19 £475 - 1
North of England -67 16 £650 +21.04%
London -92 13 £650 -13.33% 5
North West -36 12 £650 +21.04%
South East -59 6 £460 -8.00% 2
Yorkshire - 3 - -
North East - 3 £500 -
South West - 1 £575 - 2
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 2 (3.77%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 36 (67.92%) AWS
2 20 (37.74%) Amazon EC2
2 20 (37.74%) Amazon S3
3 19 (35.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 18 (33.96%) Amazon SQS
5 16 (30.19%) AWS KMS
5 16 (30.19%) Route 53
6 14 (26.42%) Azure
7 8 (15.09%) GCP
8 5 (9.43%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (9.43%) Boomi
8 5 (9.43%) iPaaS
9 4 (7.55%) GitHub
9 4 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (5.66%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (5.66%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (5.66%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (5.66%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (5.66%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (37.74%) Amazon RDS
1 20 (37.74%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (33.96%) MongoDB
3 17 (32.08%) DynamoDB
4 16 (30.19%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (9.43%) NoSQL
6 3 (5.66%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 36 (67.92%) Mockito
2 24 (45.28%) Git
3 23 (43.40%) Jenkins
3 23 (43.40%) Maven
4 21 (39.62%) SonarQube
5 19 (35.85%) JUnit
6 12 (22.64%) DbUnit
7 11 (20.75%) Bitbucket Server
7 11 (20.75%) jMock
8 7 (13.21%) GitLab
9 4 (7.55%) Bitbucket
10 3 (5.66%) JIRA
11 1 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (1.89%) Gradle
General
1 29 (54.72%) Public Sector
2 12 (22.64%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (16.98%) Social Skills
4 7 (13.21%) Finance
5 3 (5.66%) Back Office
5 3 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 42 (79.25%) Developer
2 39 (73.58%) Java Developer
3 24 (45.28%) Senior
4 20 (37.74%) Senior Developer
4 20 (37.74%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (9.43%) Architect
6 4 (7.55%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Lead
6 4 (7.55%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.66%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Lead Developer
8 2 (3.77%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Data Engineer
9 1 (1.89%) AWS Developer
9 1 (1.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 1 (1.89%) Messaging Developer
9 1 (1.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (58.49%) Kafka
2 26 (49.06%) REST
3 25 (47.17%) Spring
3 25 (47.17%) Spring Boot
4 24 (45.28%) SOAP
5 19 (35.85%) Hibernate
5 19 (35.85%) JPA
6 18 (33.96%) AngularJS
6 18 (33.96%) RESTful
6 18 (33.96%) Web Services
7 17 (32.08%) JAX-RS
7 17 (32.08%) Spring Cloud
8 16 (30.19%) RabbitMQ
8 16 (30.19%) Spring Batch
8 16 (30.19%) Spring Integration
9 14 (26.42%) Node.js
10 11 (20.75%) Bootstrap
10 11 (20.75%) PowerMock
11 7 (13.21%) Middleware
12 5 (9.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (43.40%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (24.53%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.66%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 31 (58.49%) Linux
2 17 (32.08%) Unix
3 10 (18.87%) Mac OS X
4 2 (3.77%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.89%) CentOS
5 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (83.02%) Microservices
2 41 (77.36%) Agile
3 36 (67.92%) TDD
4 27 (50.94%) BDD
5 26 (49.06%) CI/CD
6 22 (41.51%) DevOps
7 21 (39.62%) Scrum
8 19 (35.85%) Containerisation
9 17 (32.08%) Continuous Integration
9 17 (32.08%) Kanban
9 17 (32.08%) Test Automation
10 16 (30.19%) Event-Driven
10 16 (30.19%) Pair Programming
11 15 (28.30%) Continuous Deployment
12 14 (26.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 13 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (24.53%) Responsive Web Design
13 13 (24.53%) Web Design
14 11 (20.75%) Open Source
15 10 (18.87%) BPMN
Programming Languages
1 43 (81.13%) Java
2 22 (41.51%) SQL
3 5 (9.43%) Python
4 4 (7.55%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.66%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.89%) Bash
6 1 (1.89%) C#
6 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (47.17%) Security Cleared
2 24 (45.28%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.66%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.66%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 22 (41.51%) Docker
2 9 (16.98%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 20 (37.74%) Grafana
2 8 (15.09%) Prometheus
3 4 (7.55%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.55%) Terraform
4 1 (1.89%) Istio
Vendors
1 15 (28.30%) Jaspersoft
2 12 (22.64%) Atlassian
3 7 (13.21%) Google
3 7 (13.21%) IBM
4 6 (11.32%) TIBCO
5 5 (9.43%) Informatica
5 5 (9.43%) MuleSoft
5 5 (9.43%) Oracle
5 5 (9.43%) WSO2
6 1 (1.89%) Solace
6 1 (1.89%) Sybase