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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 455 491
Rank change year-on-year -149 +36 +65
Contract jobs citing JMS 22 51 28
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.048% 0.18% 0.084%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.26% 0.83% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 25 18
10th Percentile £425 £335 £492
25th Percentile £450 £375 £630
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £453 £748
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -39.40% +42.38%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £819
90th Percentile £601 £775 £875
UK median daily rate £450 £470 £683
% change year-on-year -4.26% -31.14% +30.00%

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 8,502 6,121 7,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.54% 22.02% 22.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,556 4,186 5,034
10th Percentile £365 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £816
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 158 225
10th Percentile £28.79 £31.25 £24.51
25th Percentile £46.53 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.70 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £50.00
% change year-on-year +18.45% +9.75% -16.67%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 -83 16 £525 +19.59% 11
Midlands -44 4 £450 +14.65%
West Midlands - 4 £450 -
South East - 2 - -
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 3 (13.64%) Anypoint
1 3 (13.64%) Mule
2 2 (9.09%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (9.09%) WebSphere
2 2 (9.09%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (9.09%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (4.55%) Camunda
3 1 (4.55%) Confluence
3 1 (4.55%) JBoss
3 1 (4.55%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (4.55%) Fidessa
1 1 (4.55%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) AWS
2 7 (31.82%) Azure
3 5 (22.73%) OpenShift
4 4 (18.18%) GCP
5 2 (9.09%) Boomi
5 2 (9.09%) SaaS
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (4.55%) AtomSphere
6 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) SSL
2 2 (9.09%) DNS
2 2 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) HTTP
2 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.55%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle Database
2 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.55%) SAP HANA
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Git
1 8 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 4 (18.18%) Bitbucket
3 3 (13.64%) Gradle
3 3 (13.64%) JIRA
4 2 (9.09%) GitLab
4 2 (9.09%) GoCD
4 2 (9.09%) Introscope
5 1 (4.55%) JUnit
5 1 (4.55%) Maven
5 1 (4.55%) REST Assured
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Finance
3 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Billing
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.55%) Front Office
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Developer
2 8 (36.36%) Java Developer
2 8 (36.36%) Senior
3 4 (18.18%) Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Lead
4 3 (13.64%) Lead Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Pega Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Systems Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Backend Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Integration Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Middleware Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Middleware Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) SAP Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Senior ABAP Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (54.55%) Spring
2 11 (50.00%) REST
3 8 (36.36%) Kafka
4 7 (31.82%) JDBC
4 7 (31.82%) SOAP
5 6 (27.27%) Jakarta EE
5 6 (27.27%) Spring Boot
6 5 (22.73%) Middleware
7 4 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (13.64%) J2SE
8 3 (13.64%) OAuth
9 2 (9.09%) IDoc
9 2 (9.09%) JSF
9 2 (9.09%) JSON
9 2 (9.09%) RESTful
9 2 (9.09%) SAML
9 2 (9.09%) Spring MVC
9 2 (9.09%) WebSphere MQ
9 2 (9.09%) XML
10 1 (4.55%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Product Ownership
2 5 (22.73%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (18.18%) Spread Betting
4 3 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
5 2 (9.09%) Clustering
6 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
6 1 (4.55%) Equities
6 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
1 3 (13.64%) Unix
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (9.09%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) Agile
2 17 (77.27%) CI/CD
3 11 (50.00%) DevOps
3 11 (50.00%) Microservices
4 10 (45.45%) Scrum
5 9 (40.91%) Integration Patterns
6 7 (31.82%) Migration
7 5 (22.73%) Event-Driven
7 5 (22.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (22.73%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
8 4 (18.18%) Design Patterns
8 4 (18.18%) SDLC
9 3 (13.64%) Case Management
9 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (13.64%) MVC
9 3 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (13.64%) SFIA
9 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) Java
2 8 (36.36%) SQL
3 4 (18.18%) PL/SQL
4 3 (13.64%) Python
5 2 (9.09%) Bash
5 2 (9.09%) Jython
5 2 (9.09%) Perl
5 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.55%) ABAP
6 1 (4.55%) ActionScript
6 1 (4.55%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (4.55%) DataWeave
6 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Ansible
2 7 (31.82%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.09%) CA Wily
3 2 (9.09%) Tivoli
4 1 (4.55%) Grafana
4 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) Oracle
2 5 (22.73%) IBM
3 4 (18.18%) MuleSoft
3 4 (18.18%) Pega
4 3 (13.64%) AppDynamics
4 3 (13.64%) SAP
5 2 (9.09%) Dell
5 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 2 (9.09%) Splunk
6 1 (4.55%) Bloomberg
6 1 (4.55%) Charles River
6 1 (4.55%) Google
6 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
6 1 (4.55%) SEEBURGER
6 1 (4.55%) Solace
6 1 (4.55%) Sybase
6 1 (4.55%) TIBCO