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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 447 514
Rank change year-on-year -130 +67 +79
Contract jobs citing ActiveMQ 43 53 43
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.096% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.50% 0.88% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 43 26
10th Percentile £456 £365 £450
25th Percentile £463 £465 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £725
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -25.52% +7.41%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £750
90th Percentile £720 - -
UK median daily rate £515 £537 £706
% change year-on-year -4.10% -23.96% +4.63%
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 8,520 6,057 7,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.93% 22.25% 21.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,604 4,167 5,354
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £430 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £743 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £508 £539
% change year-on-year +3.45% -5.84% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 135 251
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +3.45% -8.66%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -51 20 £475 -2.56% 3
West Midlands -54 19 £475 - 2
North of England -71 13 £675 +45.47% 4
North West -46 10 £675 +45.47% 3
London -80 10 £600 -20.00%
Yorkshire - 3 - -
South East -58 2 £460 -8.00% 2
North East - 2 - - 1
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 (4.65%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 29 (67.44%) AWS
2 21 (48.84%) Amazon EC2
2 21 (48.84%) Amazon S3
3 20 (46.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 20 (46.51%) Amazon SQS
4 18 (41.86%) AWS KMS
4 18 (41.86%) Route 53
5 11 (25.58%) Azure
6 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.98%) GCP
6 3 (6.98%) GitHub
6 3 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.65%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (4.65%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.65%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (4.65%) Kong
7 2 (4.65%) Serverless
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (48.84%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (46.51%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (44.19%) DynamoDB
4 18 (41.86%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (34.88%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (79.07%) Mockito
2 22 (51.16%) Jenkins
2 22 (51.16%) Maven
3 21 (48.84%) Git
4 20 (46.51%) SonarQube
5 19 (44.19%) JUnit
6 14 (32.56%) DbUnit
7 13 (30.23%) jMock
8 11 (25.58%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (11.63%) GitLab
10 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
10 2 (4.65%) JIRA
11 1 (2.33%) Gradle
General
1 28 (65.12%) Public Sector
2 10 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (16.28%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.63%) Finance
5 3 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Back Office
7 1 (2.33%) Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 38 (88.37%) Developer
2 36 (83.72%) Java Developer
3 18 (41.86%) Senior
4 16 (37.21%) Senior Developer
4 16 (37.21%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Lead
5 2 (4.65%) Lead Developer
5 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (2.33%) Architect
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Developer
6 1 (2.33%) Data Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) Integration Architect
6 1 (2.33%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (2.33%) Messaging Developer
6 1 (2.33%) Messaging Specialist
6 1 (2.33%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (53.49%) Spring
1 23 (53.49%) Spring Boot
2 22 (51.16%) Kafka
3 21 (48.84%) REST
4 20 (46.51%) SOAP
5 19 (44.19%) Hibernate
5 19 (44.19%) JPA
5 19 (44.19%) Web Services
6 18 (41.86%) Spring Batch
6 18 (41.86%) Spring Integration
7 17 (39.53%) AngularJS
7 17 (39.53%) Spring Cloud
8 15 (34.88%) JAX-RS
9 14 (32.56%) Node.js
9 14 (32.56%) RESTful
10 13 (30.23%) PowerMock
11 11 (25.58%) Bootstrap
12 9 (20.93%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (6.98%) Middleware
14 2 (4.65%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 19 (44.19%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (11.63%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 31 (72.09%) Linux
2 15 (34.88%) Unix
3 10 (23.26%) Mac OS X
4 2 (4.65%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.33%) CentOS
5 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (90.70%) Microservices
2 37 (86.05%) Agile
3 34 (79.07%) TDD
4 27 (62.79%) BDD
5 22 (51.16%) DevOps
6 20 (46.51%) CI/CD
6 20 (46.51%) Scrum
7 19 (44.19%) Containerisation
8 16 (37.21%) Kanban
9 14 (32.56%) Continuous Integration
9 14 (32.56%) Pair Programming
9 14 (32.56%) Test Automation
10 13 (30.23%) Continuous Deployment
11 12 (27.91%) BPMN
12 11 (25.58%) Open Source
12 11 (25.58%) Performance Tuning
12 11 (25.58%) Responsive Web Design
12 11 (25.58%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (25.58%) Web Design
13 10 (23.26%) Biometrics
Programming Languages
1 39 (90.70%) Java
2 20 (46.51%) SQL
3 4 (9.30%) Python
4 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.33%) Bash
5 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (51.16%) Security Cleared
2 21 (48.84%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) AWS Certification
3 5 (11.63%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.98%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 21 (48.84%) Docker
2 11 (25.58%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 20 (46.51%) Grafana
2 6 (13.95%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (39.53%) Jaspersoft
2 14 (32.56%) Atlassian
3 3 (6.98%) IBM
4 2 (4.65%) Google
4 2 (4.65%) TIBCO
5 1 (2.33%) Informatica
5 1 (2.33%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle
5 1 (2.33%) Solace
5 1 (2.33%) Sybase
5 1 (2.33%) WSO2