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 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 448 530
Rank change year-on-year -31 +82 +32
Contract jobs citing JMS 69 46 26
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.17% 0.072%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.99% 0.77% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 31 24
10th Percentile £350 £495 -
25th Percentile £447 £598 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £625 £533
Median % change year-on-year -18.80% +17.37% -18.08%
75th Percentile £650 £726 £580
90th Percentile £688 £800 £790
UK median daily rate £514 £600 £533
% change year-on-year -14.38% +12.68% -16.47%

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 7,001 5,963 7,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.24% 21.83% 21.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,680 3,807 5,614
10th Percentile £356 £358 £363
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £636 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £784 £763
UK median daily rate £508 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.58% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 68 161
10th Percentile £32.72 £26.25 £31.25
25th Percentile £45.00 £42.56 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.57 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.60% +19.05% -19.23%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 +1 46 £558 -11.51% 2
North of England -36 15 £492 -18.20% 2
North West -13 14 £496 +3.77% 1
South West - 2 £421 -
Yorkshire -45 1 £325 -55.24% 1
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 (14.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (10.14%) WebLogic
2 7 (10.14%) WebSphere
3 4 (5.80%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 7 (10.14%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (1.45%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (1.45%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.45%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 26 (37.68%) Azure
2 20 (28.99%) AWS
3 7 (10.14%) GCP
4 3 (4.35%) Azure AKS
4 3 (4.35%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.45%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.84%) HTTPS
2 3 (4.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (28.99%) Relational Database
2 17 (24.64%) DB2
3 11 (15.94%) SQL Server
4 10 (14.49%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.35%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.35%) Tableau
6 2 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (27.54%) JIRA
2 16 (23.19%) Git
3 11 (15.94%) JUnit
4 6 (8.70%) GitLab
4 6 (8.70%) JMeter
5 5 (7.25%) Gatling
6 3 (4.35%) Jenkins
6 3 (4.35%) Maven
7 2 (2.90%) Postman
8 1 (1.45%) Eclipse
8 1 (1.45%) Gradle
8 1 (1.45%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.45%) NeoLoad
8 1 (1.45%) Selenium
8 1 (1.45%) SoapUI
General
1 30 (43.48%) Banking
2 29 (42.03%) Finance
3 25 (36.23%) Social Skills
4 15 (21.74%) Investment Banking
5 12 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Front Office
8 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (75.36%) Developer
2 23 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 18 (26.09%) Senior
4 13 (18.84%) Senior Developer
4 13 (18.84%) Senior Java Developer
4 13 (18.84%) webMethods Developer
5 10 (14.49%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 10 (14.49%) Linux Developer
5 10 (14.49%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 10 (14.49%) Senior SQL Developer
5 10 (14.49%) SQL Developer
6 6 (8.70%) TIBCO Developer
7 5 (7.25%) Performance Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Performance Test Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Senior Performance Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Senior Test Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Test Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Pega Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (43.48%) XML
2 27 (39.13%) Spring
3 25 (36.23%) Kafka
4 20 (28.99%) SOAP
5 19 (27.54%) REST
6 17 (24.64%) Spring Boot
7 14 (20.29%) JSON
8 11 (15.94%) TIBCO EMS
9 10 (14.49%) XSD
10 9 (13.04%) Middleware
11 8 (11.59%) AngularJS
12 7 (10.14%) J2EE
12 7 (10.14%) OC4J
12 7 (10.14%) Web Services
12 7 (10.14%) WSDL
12 7 (10.14%) XSLT
13 6 (8.70%) HTML
14 5 (7.25%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (7.25%) React
14 5 (7.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.74%) Equities
2 14 (20.29%) Cloud Native
3 11 (15.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 10 (14.49%) Data Structures
5 3 (4.35%) Replication
6 1 (1.45%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (23.19%) Linux
2 3 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (50.72%) Agile
1 35 (50.72%) Test Automation
2 30 (43.48%) DevOps
3 23 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 23 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (31.88%) SDLC
5 16 (23.19%) Containerisation
6 14 (20.29%) Multithreading
7 13 (18.84%) SOA
8 12 (17.39%) Deployment Automation
9 11 (15.94%) Anti-Money Laundering
9 11 (15.94%) Performance Tuning
9 11 (15.94%) Unit Testing
9 11 (15.94%) User Acceptance Testing
10 10 (14.49%) Database Tuning
10 10 (14.49%) Open Source
10 10 (14.49%) UML
11 8 (11.59%) Design Patterns
11 8 (11.59%) Integration Testing
11 8 (11.59%) OO
Programming Languages
1 38 (55.07%) Java
2 32 (46.38%) SQL
3 20 (28.99%) Python
4 10 (14.49%) Shell Script
5 7 (10.14%) XPath
6 6 (8.70%) C#
7 4 (5.80%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.35%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.45%) C++
9 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 18 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.14%) Degree
4 2 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (30.43%) QA
2 11 (15.94%) ISO 20022
2 11 (15.94%) PSD2
2 11 (15.94%) SEPA
System Software
1 19 (27.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (27.54%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.14%) TIBCO Hawk
3 3 (4.35%) Terraform
4 1 (1.45%) Grafana
4 1 (1.45%) Kibana
4 1 (1.45%) logstash
Vendors
1 23 (33.33%) Oracle
2 18 (26.09%) IBM
3 14 (20.29%) SAP
4 13 (18.84%) webMethods
5 11 (15.94%) Software AG
5 11 (15.94%) Sybase
5 11 (15.94%) TIBCO
6 7 (10.14%) BEA
6 7 (10.14%) Pega
7 4 (5.80%) Google
7 4 (5.80%) Microsoft
8 3 (4.35%) Blue Prism
8 3 (4.35%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.90%) Informatica
10 1 (1.45%) AppDynamics
10 1 (1.45%) Azul
10 1 (1.45%) Bloomberg
10 1 (1.45%) Charles River
10 1 (1.45%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.45%) Splunk