JMS Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for JMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JMS over the 3 months to 22 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Java Messaging Service (JMS) UK / England
Location	3 months to 22 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	358	351	378
Rank change year-on-year	-7	+27
Contract jobs citing JMS	251	308	257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.58%	0.62%	0.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category	1.80%	2.15%	1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted	179	228	179
Median daily rate	£513	£475	£475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+7.89%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£375	£375	£350
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£700	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£464	£425	£400
% change year-on-year	+9.17%	+6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	2	4
Median hourly rate	-	£55.00	£56.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-	-1.78%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	£55.00	£49.50
% change year-on-year	-	+11.11%

JMS is in the industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills.

Contract Software Library & Framework Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills	13923	14344	14192
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	32.35%	28.96%	27.75%
Number of daily rates quoted	9670	10235	9678
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£388
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+9.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£320	£300	£288
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£588	£570	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	194	164	188
Median hourly rate	£41.50	£36.00	£35.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+15.27%	+2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£19.26	£18.80	£16.43
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.50	£50.00	£55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£36.00	£38.89
% change year-on-year	+18.05%	-7.41%

JMS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing JMS as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category.

JMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing JMS in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for JMS in England

JMS
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing JMS in England over the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for JMS in England

JMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMS in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for JMS in England

JMS
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 JMS within the England region over the 3 months to 22 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-7	172	£525	+5.00%	28
South East	-3	33	£475	-9.52%	5
East of England	+4	15	£525	+10.52%	1
Yorkshire	+31	9	£375	-9.09%	2
North West	+19	8	£450	+25.34%	4
South West	+17	5	-	-	3
West Midlands	+9	4	£600	+43.28%	3
East Midlands	-12	1	£350	-16.66%	1
JMS UK

JMS
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 22 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing JMS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for JMS.

1	442 (90.57%)	Java
2	283 (57.99%)	Spring
3	268 (54.92%)	Agile Software Development
4	196 (40.16%)	Oracle
5	184 (37.70%)	Web Services
6	173 (35.45%)	SQL
7	170 (34.84%)	Linux
8	164 (33.61%)	XML
9	158 (32.38%)	Hibernate
10	156 (31.97%)	REST
11	152 (31.15%)	SOAP
12	143 (29.30%)	Finance
13	139 (28.48%)	Maven
14	138 (28.28%)	TDD
15	123 (25.20%)	J2EE

16	111 (22.75%)	Relational Database
17	109 (22.34%)	SOA
18	105 (21.52%)	Unix
18	105 (21.52%)	Git (software)
19	103 (21.11%)	JavaScript
19	103 (21.11%)	Scrum
20	102 (20.90%)	JUnit
20	102 (20.90%)	Java EE
21	100 (20.49%)	JDBC
22	95 (19.47%)	Banking
23	94 (19.26%)	Continuous Integration
24	93 (19.06%)	Jenkins
25	91 (18.65%)	HTML
26	88 (18.03%)	Subversion
27	87 (17.83%)	WebSphere

JMS
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	87 (17.83%)	WebSphere
2	86 (17.62%)	WebLogic
3	68 (13.93%)	JBoss
4	65 (13.32%)	Apache
5	62 (12.70%)	Tomcat
6	53 (10.86%)	Oracle SOA Suite
7	35 (7.17%)	WebSphere Application Server
8	26 (5.33%)	Confluence
9	25 (5.12%)	Oracle Workflow
10	21 (4.30%)	CMS
11	20 (4.10%)	Mule
12	17 (3.48%)	Cloud Foundry
13	15 (3.07%)	MQSeries
14	14 (2.87%)	Oracle Coherence
15	13 (2.66%)	Apache Spark
16	12 (2.46%)	Apache Solr
17	10 (2.05%)	Elasticsearch
18	8 (1.64%)	ATG Dynamo
18	8 (1.64%)	GlassFish
19	7 (1.43%)	Apache Pig

Applications
1	2 (0.41%)	Microsoft Excel

Business Applications
1	20 (4.10%)	Oracle BPM
2	10 (2.05%)	SAP Hybris
3	6 (1.23%)	Unica
4	5 (1.02%)	BusinessWorks
5	4 (0.82%)	ION MarketView
5	4 (0.82%)	Murex MxG2000
6	2 (0.41%)	Global One
6	2 (0.41%)	Oracle EBS
6	2 (0.41%)	Oracle EBS R12
6	2 (0.41%)	Oracle ERP
6	2 (0.41%)	SunGard Martini
7	1 (0.20%)	Pega PRPC
7	1 (0.20%)	Remedy ITSM
7	1 (0.20%)	RMDS
7	1 (0.20%)	SAP Oil and Gas

Cloud Services
1	53 (10.86%)	Amazon AWS
2	22 (4.51%)	Microsoft Azure
3	21 (4.30%)	PaaS
4	15 (3.07%)	GitHub
5	14 (2.87%)	Bluemix
5	14 (2.87%)	IBM Cloud
6	9 (1.84%)	IaaS
7	6 (1.23%)	Cloud Computing
7	6 (1.23%)	Silverpop
8	4 (0.82%)	Boomi
8	4 (0.82%)	iPaaS
9	3 (0.61%)	SaaS
10	2 (0.41%)	Amazon EC2
10	2 (0.41%)	Office 365
10	2 (0.41%)	OpenShift
11	1 (0.20%)	Amazon S3
11	1 (0.20%)	Amazon SQS
11	1 (0.20%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11	1 (0.20%)	AWS Lambda
11	1 (0.20%)	Heroku

Communications & Networking
1	32 (6.56%)	HTTP
2	22 (4.51%)	Internet
3	16 (3.28%)	FTP
4	14 (2.87%)	LDAP
5	10 (2.05%)	SSL
6	8 (1.64%)	AMQP
6	8 (1.64%)	HTTPS
6	8 (1.64%)	Wireshark
7	5 (1.02%)	TCP/IP
8	4 (0.82%)	Network Security
8	4 (0.82%)	SMS
9	2 (0.41%)	DNS
9	2 (0.41%)	IPv6
9	2 (0.41%)	Kerberos
9	2 (0.41%)	S/MIME
9	2 (0.41%)	SNMP
10	1 (0.20%)	MPLS
10	1 (0.20%)	PBX
10	1 (0.20%)	SMTP
10	1 (0.20%)	VPN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	111 (22.75%)	Relational Database
2	56 (11.48%)	Oracle Database
3	52 (10.66%)	MySQL
3	52 (10.66%)	NoSQL
4	48 (9.84%)	RDBMS
5	46 (9.43%)	SQL Server
6	35 (7.17%)	Oracle Database 11g
7	34 (6.97%)	DB2
8	33 (6.76%)	MongoDB
9	31 (6.35%)	Big Data
10	29 (5.94%)	Hadoop
11	22 (4.51%)	Oracle Database 10g
11	22 (4.51%)	Oracle Database 12c
12	18 (3.69%)	KDB
13	17 (3.48%)	MarkLogic
14	16 (3.28%)	PostgreSQL
15	14 (2.87%)	Kdb+
16	13 (2.66%)	Endeca
17	12 (2.46%)	Apache Cassandra
17	12 (2.46%)	Redis

Development Applications
1	139 (28.48%)	Maven
2	105 (21.52%)	Git (software)
3	102 (20.90%)	JUnit
4	93 (19.06%)	Jenkins
5	88 (18.03%)	Subversion
6	62 (12.70%)	Mockito
7	58 (11.89%)	JIRA
8	41 (8.40%)	Cucumber
9	40 (8.20%)	TeamCity
10	36 (7.38%)	Ant
11	30 (6.15%)	Sonatype Nexus
12	29 (5.94%)	Eclipse
13	28 (5.74%)	Gradle
14	21 (4.30%)	Selenium
15	18 (3.69%)	Spock
16	17 (3.48%)	Hudson
17	13 (2.66%)	Team Foundation Server
18	12 (2.46%)	JBehave
19	10 (2.05%)	Bitbucket
19	10 (2.05%)	EasyMock

General
1	143 (29.30%)	Finance
2	95 (19.47%)	Banking
3	53 (10.86%)	Front Office
4	37 (7.58%)	Investment Banking
5	28 (5.74%)	Financial Institution
6	27 (5.53%)	Retail
7	12 (2.46%)	Games
8	11 (2.25%)	Marketing
9	9 (1.84%)	Publishing
10	8 (1.64%)	Billing
10	8 (1.64%)	Telecoms
11	7 (1.43%)	Advertising
12	3 (0.61%)	Legal
12	3 (0.61%)	Prime Brokerage
13	2 (0.41%)	Back Office
14	1 (0.20%)	Automotive
14	1 (0.20%)	Law
14	1 (0.20%)	Multimedia
14	1 (0.20%)	Pharmaceutical

Job Titles
1	345 (70.70%)	Developer
2	273 (55.94%)	Java Developer
3	87 (17.83%)	Senior Developer
4	75 (15.37%)	Architect
5	68 (13.93%)	Senior Java Developer
6	20 (4.10%)	Solutions Architect
7	16 (3.28%)	Oracle Developer
8	15 (3.07%)	Cloud Architect
9	14 (2.87%)	Integration Developer
9	14 (2.87%)	Software Engineer
10	13 (2.66%)	Digital Developer
11	12 (2.46%)	Agile Developer
11	12 (2.46%)	KDB Developer
12	11 (2.25%)	Agile Java Developer
12	11 (2.25%)	Consultant
12	11 (2.25%)	E-Commerce Architect
12	11 (2.25%)	Front Office Developer
12	11 (2.25%)	Integration Architect
13	10 (2.05%)	E-Commerce Solution Architect
13	10 (2.05%)	Software Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	283 (57.99%)	Spring
2	184 (37.70%)	Web Services
3	164 (33.61%)	XML
4	158 (32.38%)	Hibernate
5	156 (31.97%)	REST
6	152 (31.15%)	SOAP
7	123 (25.20%)	J2EE
8	102 (20.90%)	Java EE
9	100 (20.49%)	JDBC
10	91 (18.65%)	HTML
11	82 (16.80%)	XSLT
12	73 (14.96%)	JSP
13	72 (14.75%)	CSS
13	72 (14.75%)	EJB
14	70 (14.34%)	Servlets
15	60 (12.30%)	ActiveMQ
15	60 (12.30%)	JPA
16	58 (11.89%)	Middleware
17	57 (11.68%)	Spring MVC
18	55 (11.27%)	RESTful

Miscellaneous
1	46 (9.43%)	Analytical Skills
2	40 (8.20%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
2	40 (8.20%)	Greenfield Project
3	33 (6.76%)	Derivative
4	24 (4.92%)	Enterprise Software
5	22 (4.51%)	iPad
6	18 (3.69%)	Computer Science
6	18 (3.69%)	Equities
7	17 (3.48%)	Equity Derivative
8	16 (3.28%)	User Experience
8	16 (3.28%)	Virtual Team
9	14 (2.87%)	Cloud Native
10	10 (2.05%)	Fixed Income
11	8 (1.64%)	Data Structures
11	8 (1.64%)	OTC Derivatives
12	6 (1.23%)	Clustering
12	6 (1.23%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
12	6 (1.23%)	Mainframe
12	6 (1.23%)	Mobile App
12	6 (1.23%)	Smart Meter

Operating Systems
1	170 (34.84%)	Linux
2	105 (21.52%)	Unix
3	23 (4.71%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4	20 (4.10%)	Windows
5	5 (1.02%)	Oracle Linux
5	5 (1.02%)	VMS
6	4 (0.82%)	Apple iOS
7	3 (0.61%)	Android
8	2 (0.41%)	CentOS
8	2 (0.41%)	HPUX
8	2 (0.41%)	Solaris
9	1 (0.20%)	Fedora
9	1 (0.20%)	Mac OS X

Processes & Methodologies
1	268 (54.92%)	Agile Software Development
2	138 (28.28%)	TDD
3	109 (22.34%)	SOA
4	103 (21.11%)	Scrum
5	94 (19.26%)	Continuous Integration
6	82 (16.80%)	BDD
7	74 (15.16%)	Microservices
8	71 (14.55%)	SDLC
9	70 (14.34%)	MVC
10	68 (13.93%)	OO
11	56 (11.48%)	Multithreading
12	52 (10.66%)	Open Source
12	52 (10.66%)	Software Engineering
13	48 (9.84%)	E-Commerce
14	41 (8.40%)	Unit Testing
15	40 (8.20%)	High Availability
16	38 (7.79%)	Low Latency
17	37 (7.58%)	Electronic Trading
18	35 (7.17%)	UML
19	34 (6.97%)	Workflow

Programming Languages
1	442 (90.57%)	Java
2	173 (35.45%)	SQL
3	103 (21.11%)	JavaScript
4	46 (9.43%)	PL/SQL
5	42 (8.61%)	Perl
6	41 (8.40%)	Bash Shell
7	36 (7.38%)	Python
8	31 (6.35%)	Shell Script
9	24 (4.92%)	C#
10	20 (4.10%)	Ruby
11	18 (3.69%)	Go
12	15 (3.07%)	Scala
13	14 (2.87%)	XPath
14	13 (2.66%)	Groovy
15	12 (2.46%)	Korn
16	11 (2.25%)	C++
17	8 (1.64%)	VB.NET
18	6 (1.23%)	C
18	6 (1.23%)	ES6
19	5 (1.02%)	ActionScript 2.0

Qualifications
1	34 (6.97%)	Degree
2	26 (5.33%)	Security Cleared
3	16 (3.28%)	CISSP
4	14 (2.87%)	SC Cleared
5	11 (2.25%)	RHCE
5	11 (2.25%)	RHCSA
6	9 (1.84%)	DV Cleared
7	8 (1.64%)	OCPJP
8	6 (1.23%)	Sun Certification
9	5 (1.02%)	CISA
9	5 (1.02%)	CISM
9	5 (1.02%)	Computer Science Degree
10	4 (0.82%)	Microsoft Certification
11	3 (0.61%)	MCPD
12	2 (0.41%)	CCNA
12	2 (0.41%)	Cisco Certification
12	2 (0.41%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
12	2 (0.41%)	Master's Degree
12	2 (0.41%)	PMI Certification
12	2 (0.41%)	RHCT

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	38 (7.79%)	QA
2	14 (2.87%)	MiFID
3	8 (1.64%)	PCI DSS
4	7 (1.43%)	FATCA
5	5 (1.02%)	FedRAMP
6	2 (0.41%)	ISO/IEC 27001
7	1 (0.20%)	Disclosure Scotland
7	1 (0.20%)	PA-DSS

System Software
1	11 (2.25%)	Docker
2	7 (1.43%)	Apache ZooKeeper
3	5 (1.02%)	Apache Flume
4	4 (0.82%)	HDFS
5	3 (0.61%)	Active Directory
6	2 (0.41%)	VMware Infrastructure
6	2 (0.41%)	vSphere
7	1 (0.20%)	NDS
7	1 (0.20%)	NetIQ eDirectory
7	1 (0.20%)	Squid
7	1 (0.20%)	Virtual Machines

Systems Management
1	10 (2.05%)	Puppet
2	9 (1.84%)	Opscode Chef
3	6 (1.23%)	Ansible
3	6 (1.23%)	MOM
4	5 (1.02%)	Cobbler
4	5 (1.02%)	Kibana
4	5 (1.02%)	logstash
5	3 (0.61%)	Hadoop YARN
5	3 (0.61%)	Kubernetes
5	3 (0.61%)	Mesos
5	3 (0.61%)	Rundeck
6	2 (0.41%)	FTK
6	2 (0.41%)	HAProxy
6	2 (0.41%)	Tivoli
6	2 (0.41%)	vCenter Server
7	1 (0.20%)	Amdocs OSS
7	1 (0.20%)	CloudHub
7	1 (0.20%)	Nagios
7	1 (0.20%)	Netcool
7	1 (0.20%)	Salt

Vendors
1	196 (40.16%)	Oracle
2	58 (11.89%)	IBM
3	53 (10.86%)	TIBCO
4	48 (9.84%)	Sybase
5	24 (4.92%)	ATG
6	23 (4.71%)	SAP
7	22 (4.51%)	Solace
8	21 (4.30%)	Red Hat
9	18 (3.69%)	Currenex
10	16 (3.28%)	MuleSoft
11	10 (2.05%)	Fidessa
11	10 (2.05%)	hybris
11	10 (2.05%)	Pega
12	9 (1.84%)	Bloomberg
12	9 (1.84%)	Murex
13	8 (1.64%)	Google
13	8 (1.64%)	Informatica
13	8 (1.64%)	ION Trading
14	6 (1.23%)	Atlassian
14	6 (1.23%)	Reuters