JMS Contract Job Trends in England

Java Messaging Service (JMS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring JMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 471 539
Rank change year-on-year +10 +68 +23
Contract jobs citing JMS 72 47 32
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.15% 0.083%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.04% 0.70% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 33 26
10th Percentile £340 £509 £495
25th Percentile £415 £600 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £630 £533
Median % change year-on-year -20.63% +18.31% -18.08%
75th Percentile £650 £758 £633
90th Percentile £688 £820 £813
UK median daily rate £504 £619 £533
% change year-on-year -18.59% +16.20% -14.80%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

JMS 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 6,949 6,675 8,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.34% 21.83% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,671 4,252 6,119
10th Percentile £350 £358 £369
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £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 168 99 174
10th Percentile £31.10 £26.45 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.33 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.66% -15.72%

JMS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JMS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

JMS job vacancy trend in England

JMS
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JMS

JMS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMS in England over the 6 months to 6 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JMS in England

JMS
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JMS

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 6 months to 6 December 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
London +2 43 £600 -4.76% 5
North of England -32 16 £496 -17.54% 2
North West -10 15 £500 +4.60% 2
South West +2 6 £335 -
Yorkshire -35 1 £325 -55.24%
JMS
UK

JMS
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 6 (8.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (6.94%) Confluence
2 5 (6.94%) WebLogic
2 5 (6.94%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (6.94%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (1.39%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (1.39%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.39%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 31 (43.06%) Azure
2 20 (27.78%) AWS
3 8 (11.11%) Power Automate
4 7 (9.72%) GCP
5 3 (4.17%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.39%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.06%) HTTPS
2 8 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (36.11%) Relational Database
2 18 (25.00%) DB2
3 13 (18.06%) MongoDB
4 7 (9.72%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.39%) Redis
7 1 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (34.72%) JIRA
2 21 (29.17%) Git
3 15 (20.83%) JUnit
4 6 (8.33%) GitLab
4 6 (8.33%) JMeter
5 5 (6.94%) Gatling
6 3 (4.17%) Jenkins
6 3 (4.17%) Maven
7 2 (2.78%) Eclipse
7 2 (2.78%) IntelliJ
7 2 (2.78%) Postman
8 1 (1.39%) Ant
8 1 (1.39%) Gradle
8 1 (1.39%) NeoLoad
8 1 (1.39%) NUnit
8 1 (1.39%) Selenium
8 1 (1.39%) SoapUI
General
1 31 (43.06%) Social Skills
2 30 (41.67%) Finance
3 28 (38.89%) Banking
4 16 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (20.83%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Front Office
8 1 (1.39%) Law
8 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (79.17%) Developer
2 27 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 22 (30.56%) Senior
4 17 (23.61%) Senior Developer
4 17 (23.61%) Senior Java Developer
5 13 (18.06%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 13 (18.06%) Linux Developer
5 13 (18.06%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 13 (18.06%) Senior SQL Developer
5 13 (18.06%) SQL Developer
5 13 (18.06%) webMethods Developer
6 5 (6.94%) Performance Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Performance Test Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Senior Performance Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Senior Test Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Test Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) TIBCO Developer
7 3 (4.17%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (43.06%) Spring
2 29 (40.28%) Kafka
2 29 (40.28%) XML
3 23 (31.94%) SOAP
4 19 (26.39%) REST
5 17 (23.61%) Spring Boot
6 14 (19.44%) JSON
7 13 (18.06%) AngularJS
7 13 (18.06%) XSD
8 10 (13.89%) React
8 10 (13.89%) TIBCO EMS
9 9 (12.50%) Middleware
10 6 (8.33%) J2EE
10 6 (8.33%) Web Services
11 5 (6.94%) Playwright
11 5 (6.94%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (6.94%) Rendezvous
11 5 (6.94%) WebSockets
11 5 (6.94%) WSDL
11 5 (6.94%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 19 (26.39%) Equities
2 14 (19.44%) Cloud Native
3 13 (18.06%) Data Structures
4 11 (15.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (4.17%) Replication
6 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (5.56%) Unix
3 1 (1.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (58.33%) Agile
2 40 (55.56%) Test Automation
3 30 (41.67%) DevOps
4 27 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (31.94%) CI/CD
5 23 (31.94%) SDLC
6 18 (25.00%) Multithreading
7 16 (22.22%) Containerisation
8 15 (20.83%) OO
9 14 (19.44%) Open Source
9 14 (19.44%) Performance Tuning
10 13 (18.06%) Database Tuning
11 12 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
12 11 (15.28%) Anti-Money Laundering
12 11 (15.28%) User Acceptance Testing
13 9 (12.50%) Integration Testing
13 9 (12.50%) OOP
13 9 (12.50%) Unit Testing
14 8 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
14 8 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 42 (58.33%) SQL
2 41 (56.94%) Java
3 23 (31.94%) Python
4 13 (18.06%) Shell Script
5 5 (6.94%) C#
5 5 (6.94%) XPath
6 4 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.17%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.39%) C++
8 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (34.72%) Security Cleared
2 22 (30.56%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.72%) Degree
4 2 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (34.72%) QA
2 11 (15.28%) ISO 20022
2 11 (15.28%) PSD2
2 11 (15.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 19 (26.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (26.39%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.94%) TIBCO Hawk
3 3 (4.17%) Terraform
4 1 (1.39%) Grafana
4 1 (1.39%) Kibana
4 1 (1.39%) logstash
Vendors
1 19 (26.39%) Oracle
2 16 (22.22%) IBM
3 14 (19.44%) SAP
3 14 (19.44%) Sybase
4 13 (18.06%) webMethods
5 11 (15.28%) Software AG
6 10 (13.89%) TIBCO
7 9 (12.50%) Microsoft
8 8 (11.11%) Blue Prism
8 8 (11.11%) ServiceNow
9 5 (6.94%) BEA
9 5 (6.94%) Google
10 2 (2.78%) Pega
11 1 (1.39%) AppDynamics
11 1 (1.39%) Azul
11 1 (1.39%) Bloomberg
11 1 (1.39%) Charles River
11 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
11 1 (1.39%) Splunk