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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 444 532
Rank change year-on-year -82 +88 +66
Contract jobs citing JMS 54 35 24
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.14% 0.063%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.68% 0.62% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 23 22
10th Percentile £350 £423 £439
25th Percentile £444 £472 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% -14.00%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £550
90th Percentile £653 £666 £823
UK median daily rate £508 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -7.73% +7.84% -12.97%

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 7,888 5,634 7,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.38% 22.63% 19.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,287 3,813 5,387
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £790 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 87 193
10th Percentile £35.03 £27.34 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.78 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £71.13 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.85 £83.38 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 15 March 2026.

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 15 March 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
London -34 39 £516 -13.72% 3
North West -27 10 £481 +0.68% 1
North of England -61 10 £481 +0.68% 1
Midlands - 1 £575 - 1
South East - 1 - - 2
South West - 1 £508 -
West Midlands - 1 £575 -
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 10 (18.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (14.81%) WebSphere
3 7 (12.96%) WebLogic
4 3 (5.56%) JBoss
5 1 (1.85%) Confluence
5 1 (1.85%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (1.85%) NetWeaver
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (1.85%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (1.85%) WebSphere Portal
Business Applications
1 7 (12.96%) BusinessWorks
2 4 (7.41%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (7.41%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.85%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 19 (35.19%) AWS
1 19 (35.19%) Azure
2 6 (11.11%) GCP
3 4 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (5.56%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.85%) Boomi
5 1 (1.85%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.85%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) HTTPS
2 2 (3.70%) HTTP
3 1 (1.85%) DNS
3 1 (1.85%) Firewall
3 1 (1.85%) FTP
3 1 (1.85%) SSL
3 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 11 (20.37%) DB2
2 11 (20.37%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.41%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.56%) Oracle Database
4 3 (5.56%) Tableau
5 2 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.85%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (24.07%) JIRA
2 12 (22.22%) Git
3 8 (14.81%) JUnit
4 7 (12.96%) GitLab
5 5 (9.26%) Gatling
5 5 (9.26%) Jenkins
5 5 (9.26%) JMeter
6 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.85%) Introscope
6 1 (1.85%) Maven
6 1 (1.85%) Postman
General
1 21 (38.89%) Banking
2 18 (33.33%) Finance
3 13 (24.07%) Social Skills
4 9 (16.67%) Investment Banking
5 8 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (7.41%) Front Office
6 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (66.67%) Developer
2 16 (29.63%) Java Developer
3 14 (25.93%) Senior
4 7 (12.96%) Senior Developer
4 7 (12.96%) Senior Java Developer
5 6 (11.11%) TIBCO Developer
5 6 (11.11%) webMethods Developer
6 5 (9.26%) Performance Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Performance Test Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Senior Performance Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Senior Test Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Test Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Electronics Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Linux Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Senior SQL Developer
7 4 (7.41%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (40.74%) Spring
2 20 (37.04%) REST
2 20 (37.04%) XML
3 17 (31.48%) Kafka
4 15 (27.78%) Spring Boot
5 14 (25.93%) SOAP
6 12 (22.22%) Middleware
7 10 (18.52%) J2EE
7 10 (18.52%) Web Services
8 8 (14.81%) XSD
9 7 (12.96%) OC4J
9 7 (12.96%) TIBCO EMS
9 7 (12.96%) WSDL
9 7 (12.96%) XSLT
10 6 (11.11%) AngularJS
10 6 (11.11%) JSON
10 6 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (9.26%) gRPC
11 5 (9.26%) Playwright
11 5 (9.26%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 8 (14.81%) Equities
2 8 (14.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 4 (7.41%) Algorithms
3 4 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 4 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Clustering
4 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.85%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 1 (1.85%) Unix
2 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (42.59%) Agile
1 23 (42.59%) Test Automation
2 19 (35.19%) CI/CD
2 19 (35.19%) DevOps
3 18 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (27.78%) Containerisation
5 14 (25.93%) SDLC
5 14 (25.93%) SOA
6 9 (16.67%) Microservices
6 9 (16.67%) UML
6 9 (16.67%) Unit Testing
7 8 (14.81%) Anti-Money Laundering
7 8 (14.81%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (12.96%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (12.96%) Design Patterns
8 7 (12.96%) OOA/OOD
8 7 (12.96%) Resource Management
8 7 (12.96%) RUP
9 6 (11.11%) Integration Testing
9 6 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 30 (55.56%) Java
2 21 (38.89%) SQL
3 16 (29.63%) Python
4 7 (12.96%) XPath
5 4 (7.41%) C#
5 4 (7.41%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.85%) ABAP
7 1 (1.85%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.85%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (1.85%) Bash
7 1 (1.85%) Jython
7 1 (1.85%) Perl
7 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (29.63%) QA
2 8 (14.81%) ISO 20022
2 8 (14.81%) PSD2
2 8 (14.81%) SEPA
3 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (27.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.96%) TIBCO Hawk
3 4 (7.41%) Ansible
3 4 (7.41%) Grafana
4 3 (5.56%) Terraform
5 1 (1.85%) CA Wily
5 1 (1.85%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 21 (38.89%) Oracle
2 16 (29.63%) IBM
3 7 (12.96%) BEA
3 7 (12.96%) Pega
3 7 (12.96%) SAP
3 7 (12.96%) TIBCO
4 6 (11.11%) Software AG
4 6 (11.11%) webMethods
5 5 (9.26%) AppDynamics
5 5 (9.26%) Sybase
6 4 (7.41%) Bloomberg
6 4 (7.41%) Charles River
6 4 (7.41%) Splunk
7 2 (3.70%) Informatica
8 1 (1.85%) Blue Prism
8 1 (1.85%) Dell
8 1 (1.85%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.85%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.85%) SEEBURGER
8 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow