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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 469 519
Rank change year-on-year -9 +50 +51
Contract jobs citing JMS 75 45 30
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.16% 0.082%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.07% 0.72% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 31 26
10th Percentile £342 £495 £495
25th Percentile £417 £598 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £533
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +17.37% -18.08%
75th Percentile £647 £726 £580
90th Percentile £688 £800 £813
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £533
% change year-on-year -16.67% +12.68% -14.80%

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 7,042 6,283 7,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.21% 21.86% 21.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,690 4,010 5,762
10th Percentile £350 £358 £363
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £632 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £505 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% -1.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 77 166
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.50
25th Percentile £44.50 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £58.00 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.18 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £59.86 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -4.22% +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 25 December 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 25 December 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 +1 46 £583 -7.54% 2
North of England -38 16 £496 -17.54% 2
North West -16 15 £500 +4.60% 1
South West - 6 £335 -
Yorkshire -40 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 9 (12.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (9.33%) WebLogic
2 7 (9.33%) WebSphere
3 5 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (9.33%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (1.33%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (1.33%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.33%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 31 (41.33%) Azure
2 20 (26.67%) AWS
3 8 (10.67%) Power Automate
4 7 (9.33%) GCP
5 3 (4.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.33%) HTTPS
2 8 (10.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (34.67%) Relational Database
2 18 (24.00%) DB2
3 11 (14.67%) MongoDB
4 10 (13.33%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.67%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.67%) Tableau
7 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (33.33%) JIRA
2 21 (28.00%) Git
3 13 (17.33%) JUnit
4 6 (8.00%) GitLab
4 6 (8.00%) JMeter
5 5 (6.67%) Gatling
6 3 (4.00%) Jenkins
6 3 (4.00%) Maven
7 2 (2.67%) Eclipse
7 2 (2.67%) IntelliJ
7 2 (2.67%) Postman
8 1 (1.33%) Ant
8 1 (1.33%) Gradle
8 1 (1.33%) NeoLoad
8 1 (1.33%) NUnit
8 1 (1.33%) Selenium
8 1 (1.33%) SoapUI
General
1 30 (40.00%) Finance
1 30 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 29 (38.67%) Banking
3 15 (20.00%) Investment Banking
4 14 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Front Office
7 1 (1.33%) Law
7 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (77.33%) Developer
2 25 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 20 (26.67%) Senior
4 15 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 15 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 13 (17.33%) webMethods Developer
6 11 (14.67%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 11 (14.67%) Linux Developer
6 11 (14.67%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
6 11 (14.67%) Senior SQL Developer
6 11 (14.67%) SQL Developer
7 6 (8.00%) TIBCO Developer
8 5 (6.67%) Performance Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Performance Test Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Senior Performance Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Test Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (45.33%) XML
2 29 (38.67%) Spring
3 27 (36.00%) Kafka
4 25 (33.33%) SOAP
5 19 (25.33%) REST
6 17 (22.67%) Spring Boot
7 15 (20.00%) XSD
8 14 (18.67%) JSON
9 13 (17.33%) AngularJS
10 12 (16.00%) TIBCO EMS
11 10 (13.33%) React
12 9 (12.00%) Middleware
13 8 (10.67%) J2EE
13 8 (10.67%) Web Services
14 7 (9.33%) OC4J
14 7 (9.33%) WSDL
14 7 (9.33%) XSLT
15 6 (8.00%) HTML
16 5 (6.67%) Rendezvous
16 5 (6.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.67%) Equities
2 14 (18.67%) Cloud Native
3 11 (14.67%) Data Structures
3 11 (14.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (4.00%) Replication
5 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (24.00%) Linux
2 4 (5.33%) Unix
3 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (54.67%) Agile
2 40 (53.33%) Test Automation
3 30 (40.00%) DevOps
4 25 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (30.67%) CI/CD
6 22 (29.33%) SDLC
7 16 (21.33%) Containerisation
7 16 (21.33%) Multithreading
8 15 (20.00%) OO
9 12 (16.00%) Deployment Automation
9 12 (16.00%) Open Source
9 12 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
10 11 (14.67%) Anti-Money Laundering
10 11 (14.67%) Database Tuning
10 11 (14.67%) SOA
10 11 (14.67%) User Acceptance Testing
11 10 (13.33%) Unit Testing
12 9 (12.00%) Integration Testing
12 9 (12.00%) Scrum
12 9 (12.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 40 (53.33%) Java
1 40 (53.33%) SQL
2 21 (28.00%) Python
3 11 (14.67%) Shell Script
4 7 (9.33%) XPath
5 6 (8.00%) C#
6 5 (6.67%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.00%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.33%) C++
8 1 (1.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 22 (29.33%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.67%) Degree
4 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (33.33%) QA
2 11 (14.67%) ISO 20022
2 11 (14.67%) PSD2
2 11 (14.67%) SEPA
System Software
1 19 (25.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (25.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.33%) TIBCO Hawk
3 3 (4.00%) Terraform
4 1 (1.33%) Grafana
4 1 (1.33%) Kibana
4 1 (1.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 22 (29.33%) Oracle
2 18 (24.00%) IBM
3 14 (18.67%) SAP
4 13 (17.33%) webMethods
5 12 (16.00%) Sybase
5 12 (16.00%) TIBCO
6 11 (14.67%) Software AG
7 9 (12.00%) Microsoft
8 8 (10.67%) Blue Prism
8 8 (10.67%) ServiceNow
9 7 (9.33%) BEA
10 5 (6.67%) Google
10 5 (6.67%) Pega
11 1 (1.33%) AppDynamics
11 1 (1.33%) Azul
11 1 (1.33%) Bloomberg
11 1 (1.33%) Charles River
11 1 (1.33%) Informatica
11 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
11 1 (1.33%) Splunk