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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 484 550
Rank change year-on-year +26 +66 +30
Contract jobs citing JMS 61 42 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.97% 0.57% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 28 41
10th Percentile £335 £560 £400
25th Percentile £415 £605 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £630 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.63% +20.00% -19.23%
75th Percentile £675 £800 £638
90th Percentile £770 £875 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -20.00% +19.05% -19.23%

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 6,298 7,374 9,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.64% 22.38% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,266 4,854 6,779
10th Percentile £350 £355 £377
25th Percentile £413 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £810 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 178 168
10th Percentile £31.50 £27.53 £37.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.93 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% +4.88% -5.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £72.41
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.46 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.85 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.96% +2.67% -4.00%

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
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 19 September 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 19 September 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 0 31 £625 -0.79% 6
North of England -11 16 £500 -31.03% 5
North West - 14 £500 - 3
South West +22 6 £335 - 2
East Midlands -4 2 £393 - 1
Midlands -13 2 £393 - 4
Yorkshire -15 2 £412 -43.14%
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 (6.56%) Confluence
2 3 (4.92%) WebSphere
2 3 (4.92%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (3.28%) NetWeaver
3 2 (3.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 17 (27.87%) Azure
2 8 (13.11%) AWS
2 8 (13.11%) Power Automate
3 3 (4.92%) IBM Cloud
3 3 (4.92%) OpenShift
4 2 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.64%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.39%) HTTP
2 7 (11.48%) HTTPS
3 3 (4.92%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (40.98%) Relational Database
2 17 (27.87%) DB2
2 17 (27.87%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.56%) Siebel EIM
4 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.28%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.28%) Tableau
6 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (32.79%) JIRA
1 20 (32.79%) JUnit
2 17 (27.87%) Git
3 5 (8.20%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.92%) Log4j
5 2 (3.28%) Eclipse
5 2 (3.28%) IntelliJ
5 2 (3.28%) Maven
5 2 (3.28%) Mockito
5 2 (3.28%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.28%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.64%) Ant
6 1 (1.64%) Gradle
6 1 (1.64%) JMeter
6 1 (1.64%) NeoLoad
6 1 (1.64%) NUnit
6 1 (1.64%) Postman
6 1 (1.64%) Selenium
6 1 (1.64%) SoapUI
General
1 38 (62.30%) Social Skills
2 35 (57.38%) Finance
3 31 (50.82%) Banking
4 21 (34.43%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (29.51%) Investment Banking
6 6 (9.84%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Law
7 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (83.61%) Developer
2 27 (44.26%) Java Developer
3 19 (31.15%) Senior
3 19 (31.15%) Senior Developer
3 19 (31.15%) Senior Java Developer
4 17 (27.87%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 17 (27.87%) Linux Developer
4 17 (27.87%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
4 17 (27.87%) Senior SQL Developer
4 17 (27.87%) SQL Developer
5 7 (11.48%) webMethods Developer
6 4 (6.56%) Siebel Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Middleware Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Architect
8 2 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Integration Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Messaging Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Pega Developer
8 2 (3.28%) SAP Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (45.90%) Spring
2 26 (42.62%) Kafka
3 21 (34.43%) XML
4 19 (31.15%) SOAP
5 10 (16.39%) REST
6 8 (13.11%) AngularJS
6 8 (13.11%) JSON
6 8 (13.11%) React
6 8 (13.11%) Spring Boot
6 8 (13.11%) XSD
7 6 (9.84%) JDBC
8 5 (8.20%) Middleware
8 5 (8.20%) Rendezvous
8 5 (8.20%) TIBCO EMS
8 5 (8.20%) Web Services
9 4 (6.56%) AWT
9 4 (6.56%) GWT
9 4 (6.56%) Hibernate
9 4 (6.56%) HTML
10 3 (4.92%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (36.07%) Equities
2 17 (27.87%) Data Structures
3 9 (14.75%) Cloud Native
4 7 (11.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (4.92%) Replication
6 2 (3.28%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (3.28%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (3.28%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (45.90%) Linux
2 6 (9.84%) Unix
3 1 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (75.41%) Agile
2 30 (49.18%) SDLC
3 25 (40.98%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (36.07%) Multithreading
4 22 (36.07%) Performance Tuning
4 22 (36.07%) Test Automation
5 18 (29.51%) Open Source
6 17 (27.87%) Database Tuning
7 16 (26.23%) DevOps
8 15 (24.59%) OO
9 14 (22.95%) CI/CD
9 14 (22.95%) Scrum
10 11 (18.03%) User Acceptance Testing
11 10 (16.39%) Containerisation
12 9 (14.75%) OOP
12 9 (14.75%) Requirements Gathering
13 8 (13.11%) Migration
13 8 (13.11%) Project Delivery
14 7 (11.48%) Anti-Money Laundering
15 6 (9.84%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 43 (70.49%) SQL
2 39 (63.93%) Java
3 19 (31.15%) Python
4 17 (27.87%) Shell Script
5 5 (8.20%) C#
5 5 (8.20%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.20%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.28%) ABAP
7 1 (1.64%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (31.15%) Security Cleared
2 18 (29.51%) SC Cleared
3 8 (13.11%) Degree
4 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.28%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (24.59%) QA
2 7 (11.48%) ISO 20022
2 7 (11.48%) PSD2
2 7 (11.48%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (18.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (18.03%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.92%) Prometheus
2 3 (4.92%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.64%) Kibana
3 1 (1.64%) logstash
Vendors
1 17 (27.87%) Sybase
2 16 (26.23%) Oracle
3 10 (16.39%) Microsoft
3 10 (16.39%) SAP
4 8 (13.11%) Blue Prism
4 8 (13.11%) IBM
4 8 (13.11%) ServiceNow
5 7 (11.48%) TIBCO
5 7 (11.48%) webMethods
6 5 (8.20%) Google
6 5 (8.20%) Software AG
7 4 (6.56%) Siebel
8 3 (4.92%) Dynatrace
8 3 (4.92%) Red Hat
8 3 (4.92%) Splunk
9 2 (3.28%) Informatica
9 2 (3.28%) Pega
10 1 (1.64%) Azul
10 1 (1.64%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.64%) Teradata