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 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 466 541
Rank change year-on-year +1 +75 +32
Contract jobs citing JMS 71 49 48
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.07% 0.72% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 35 38
10th Percentile £335 £523 £410
25th Percentile £415 £600 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £630 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +20.00% -17.58%
75th Percentile £650 £781 £580
90th Percentile £688 £870 £723
UK median daily rate £508 £625 £516
% change year-on-year -18.80% +21.07% -18.06%

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 6,663 6,815 8,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.85% 21.88% 22.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,492 4,343 6,546
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £634 £663 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -7.34% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 109 179
10th Percentile £30.68 £26.90 £37.71
25th Percentile £42.63 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +17.12% -14.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.56
% change year-on-year -16.92% +16.99% -14.52%

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 1 November 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 1 November 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 +6 39 £600 -4.76% 6
North of England -26 16 £500 -31.03% 4
North West - 14 £500 - 2
South West +11 6 £335 -
Yorkshire -26 2 £412 -43.14% 2
East Midlands - 2 £393 -
Midlands - 2 £393 -
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 (8.45%) WebSphere
2 5 (7.04%) Confluence
3 4 (5.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (4.23%) WebLogic
4 3 (4.23%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 24 (33.80%) Azure
2 15 (21.13%) AWS
3 8 (11.27%) Power Automate
4 6 (8.45%) GCP
5 3 (4.23%) IBM Cloud
5 3 (4.23%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.41%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.08%) HTTPS
2 8 (11.27%) HTTP
3 3 (4.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (39.44%) Relational Database
2 20 (28.17%) DB2
3 17 (23.94%) MongoDB
4 5 (7.04%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.23%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.23%) Siebel EIM
6 2 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.41%) Redis
7 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (30.99%) JIRA
2 21 (29.58%) JUnit
3 18 (25.35%) Git
4 6 (8.45%) GitLab
4 6 (8.45%) Jenkins
4 6 (8.45%) JMeter
5 5 (7.04%) Gatling
6 3 (4.23%) Log4j
6 3 (4.23%) Maven
7 2 (2.82%) Eclipse
7 2 (2.82%) IntelliJ
7 2 (2.82%) Mockito
7 2 (2.82%) Postman
7 2 (2.82%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.82%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.41%) Ant
8 1 (1.41%) Gradle
8 1 (1.41%) NeoLoad
8 1 (1.41%) Selenium
8 1 (1.41%) SoapUI
General
1 37 (52.11%) Social Skills
2 36 (50.70%) Finance
3 31 (43.66%) Banking
4 21 (29.58%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (26.76%) Investment Banking
6 5 (7.04%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Law
7 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (77.46%) Developer
2 29 (40.85%) Java Developer
3 24 (33.80%) Senior
4 19 (26.76%) Senior Developer
4 19 (26.76%) Senior Java Developer
5 17 (23.94%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 17 (23.94%) Linux Developer
5 17 (23.94%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 17 (23.94%) Senior SQL Developer
5 17 (23.94%) SQL Developer
6 10 (14.08%) webMethods Developer
7 5 (7.04%) Performance Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Performance Test Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Senior Performance Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Senior Test Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Test Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Middleware Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Siebel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (46.48%) Kafka
2 31 (43.66%) Spring
3 24 (33.80%) XML
4 22 (30.99%) SOAP
5 14 (19.72%) REST
6 11 (15.49%) JSON
6 11 (15.49%) Spring Boot
6 11 (15.49%) XSD
7 10 (14.08%) AngularJS
7 10 (14.08%) React
8 8 (11.27%) Middleware
8 8 (11.27%) TIBCO EMS
9 7 (9.86%) Web Services
10 5 (7.04%) gRPC
10 5 (7.04%) Hibernate
10 5 (7.04%) HTML
10 5 (7.04%) Playwright
10 5 (7.04%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (7.04%) Rendezvous
10 5 (7.04%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 22 (30.99%) Equities
2 17 (23.94%) Data Structures
3 14 (19.72%) Cloud Native
4 8 (11.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (4.23%) Replication
6 2 (2.82%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (38.03%) Linux
2 6 (8.45%) Unix
3 1 (1.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (64.79%) Agile
2 30 (42.25%) Test Automation
3 27 (38.03%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (38.03%) SDLC
4 22 (30.99%) Multithreading
5 21 (29.58%) CI/CD
5 21 (29.58%) Performance Tuning
6 20 (28.17%) DevOps
7 18 (25.35%) Open Source
8 17 (23.94%) Database Tuning
9 15 (21.13%) OO
10 12 (16.90%) Scrum
11 11 (15.49%) Containerisation
12 10 (14.08%) User Acceptance Testing
13 9 (12.68%) Deployment Automation
13 9 (12.68%) OOP
14 8 (11.27%) Anti-Money Laundering
14 8 (11.27%) Requirements Gathering
15 7 (9.86%) Migration
15 7 (9.86%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 45 (63.38%) SQL
2 40 (56.34%) Java
3 23 (32.39%) Python
4 17 (23.94%) Shell Script
5 5 (7.04%) C#
6 4 (5.63%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.63%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.23%) XPath
8 1 (1.41%) C++
Qualifications
1 21 (29.58%) Security Cleared
2 18 (25.35%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.86%) Degree
4 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.82%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (29.58%) QA
2 8 (11.27%) ISO 20022
2 8 (11.27%) PSD2
2 8 (11.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 18 (25.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (25.35%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.23%) Prometheus
2 3 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (4.23%) TIBCO Hawk
3 1 (1.41%) Kibana
3 1 (1.41%) logstash
Vendors
1 19 (26.76%) Oracle
2 18 (25.35%) Sybase
3 14 (19.72%) IBM
4 11 (15.49%) SAP
5 10 (14.08%) TIBCO
5 10 (14.08%) webMethods
6 9 (12.68%) Microsoft
7 8 (11.27%) Blue Prism
7 8 (11.27%) ServiceNow
7 8 (11.27%) Software AG
8 5 (7.04%) Google
9 3 (4.23%) BEA
9 3 (4.23%) Dynatrace
9 3 (4.23%) Red Hat
9 3 (4.23%) Siebel
9 3 (4.23%) Splunk
10 1 (1.41%) Azul
10 1 (1.41%) Pega
10 1 (1.41%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.41%) Teradata