JMS Contracts in England

Java Messaging Service (JMS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring JMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JMS over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 540 578
Rank change year-on-year +83 +38 +36
Contract jobs citing JMS 41 16 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.043% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.70% 0.20% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 45
10th Percentile £386 £409 £368
25th Percentile £439 £473 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% +1.43% -17.32%
75th Percentile £625 £816 £700
90th Percentile £775 £874 £715
UK median daily rate £540 £533 £525
% change year-on-year +1.41% +1.43% -17.32%

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 5,868 7,952 10,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.48% 21.28% 22.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,045 5,540 7,925
10th Percentile £355 £350 £385
25th Percentile £413 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £800 £798
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 264 138
10th Percentile £30.50 £23.80 £30.53
25th Percentile £43.44 £43.00 £50.31
Median hourly rate £57.63 £58.15 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -10.54% +22.64%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.51 £74.48 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%

JMS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing JMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for JMS in England

JMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JMS in England.

Daily rate trend for JMS in England

JMS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMS in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JMS in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JMS in England.

Hourly rate trend for JMS in England

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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 3 July 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 +59 24 £492 -8.98% 40
North of England +20 14 £550 +12.24% 2
North West +19 13 £550 +12.24% 1
Midlands +15 2 £393 - 8
East Midlands +4 2 £393 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 1
JMS
UK

JMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (9.76%) NetWeaver
1 4 (9.76%) WebSphere
2 3 (7.32%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (4.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (2.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (2.44%) Apache
4 1 (2.44%) CMS
4 1 (2.44%) JBoss
4 1 (2.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.63%) AWS
2 4 (9.76%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (7.32%) IBM Cloud
3 3 (7.32%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.44%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.76%) HTTP
2 3 (7.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (36.59%) Relational Database
2 14 (34.15%) DB2
2 14 (34.15%) MongoDB
3 8 (19.51%) Siebel EIM
4 2 (4.88%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.88%) Tableau
5 1 (2.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (53.66%) JUnit
2 7 (17.07%) SonarQube
3 6 (14.63%) IntelliJ
4 5 (12.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (12.20%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (12.20%) Gradle
4 5 (12.20%) Maven
5 4 (9.76%) Jenkins
6 3 (7.32%) Log4j
7 2 (4.88%) Mockito
7 2 (4.88%) TeamCity
8 1 (2.44%) Ant
8 1 (2.44%) Eclipse
8 1 (2.44%) Hudson
8 1 (2.44%) NUnit
General
1 30 (73.17%) Finance
2 28 (68.29%) Social Skills
3 25 (60.98%) Banking
4 22 (53.66%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (34.15%) Investment Banking
6 9 (21.95%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.44%) Billing
Job Titles
1 36 (87.80%) Developer
2 22 (53.66%) Java Developer
3 19 (46.34%) Senior
3 19 (46.34%) Senior Developer
3 19 (46.34%) Senior Java Developer
4 14 (34.15%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 14 (34.15%) Linux Developer
4 14 (34.15%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
4 14 (34.15%) Senior SQL Developer
4 14 (34.15%) SQL Developer
5 7 (17.07%) Siebel Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Integration Developer
6 4 (9.76%) SAP Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Pega Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Architect
9 1 (2.44%) Applications Architect
9 1 (2.44%) Consultant
9 1 (2.44%) Siebel Architect
9 1 (2.44%) WebSphere Consultant
9 1 (2.44%) WebSphere Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (56.10%) Spring
2 16 (39.02%) Kafka
3 13 (31.71%) SOAP
4 10 (24.39%) Web Services
5 8 (19.51%) JDBC
5 8 (19.51%) XML
6 5 (12.20%) JPA
6 5 (12.20%) Middleware
6 5 (12.20%) REST
7 4 (9.76%) EDI
7 4 (9.76%) Hibernate
7 4 (9.76%) HTML
7 4 (9.76%) IDoc
7 4 (9.76%) SAP PI
7 4 (9.76%) XSLT
8 3 (7.32%) JNDI
8 3 (7.32%) LDAP
8 3 (7.32%) OAuth
8 3 (7.32%) SAML
8 3 (7.32%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (34.15%) Data Structures
1 14 (34.15%) Equities
2 4 (9.76%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (9.76%) Virtual Team
3 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.88%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.44%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (58.54%) Linux
2 2 (4.88%) Unix
3 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (70.73%) SDLC
2 23 (56.10%) Agile
3 22 (53.66%) Performance Tuning
4 17 (41.46%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (39.02%) Open Source
6 14 (34.15%) Database Tuning
6 14 (34.15%) Multithreading
7 12 (29.27%) Migration
8 10 (24.39%) System Integration Testing
9 9 (21.95%) CI/CD
10 8 (19.51%) Data Modelling
10 8 (19.51%) EAI
10 8 (19.51%) Scrum
11 6 (14.63%) Change Management
11 6 (14.63%) End-to-End Testing
11 6 (14.63%) Microservices
11 6 (14.63%) Requirements Gathering
11 6 (14.63%) User Acceptance Testing
12 5 (12.20%) Knowledge Transfer
12 5 (12.20%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (70.73%) Java
2 24 (58.54%) SQL
3 14 (34.15%) Python
3 14 (34.15%) Shell Script
4 8 (19.51%) PL/SQL
5 4 (9.76%) ABAP
5 4 (9.76%) JavaScript
6 3 (7.32%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 9 (21.95%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) Degree
4 2 (4.88%) IBM Certification
5 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (19.51%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.32%) Prometheus
2 3 (7.32%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.44%) Argo
3 1 (2.44%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (34.15%) Sybase
2 12 (29.27%) Oracle
3 8 (19.51%) Siebel
3 8 (19.51%) Splunk
4 4 (9.76%) IBM
4 4 (9.76%) SAP
5 3 (7.32%) Dynatrace
5 3 (7.32%) Pega
5 3 (7.32%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.88%) Informatica
6 2 (4.88%) TIBCO
7 1 (2.44%) Adobe
7 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.44%) Teradata