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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 452 523
Rank change year-on-year -87 +71 +78
Contract jobs citing JMS 48 27 17
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.11% 0.045%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.60% 0.49% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 17 16
10th Percentile £350 £414 £431
25th Percentile £442 £455 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +11.11% -15.53%
75th Percentile £561 £600 £529
90th Percentile £650 £648 £545
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £495
% change year-on-year -6.10% +7.58% -15.53%

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 8,013 5,487 7,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.68% 22.52% 19.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,366 3,797 5,387
10th Percentile £359 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 87 156
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.76 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.95 £83.38 £73.13
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -26.92%

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 April 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 April 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 -39 34 £500 -9.09% 3
North West -44 8 £481 +0.68%
North of England -74 8 £481 +0.68% 1
West Midlands - 3 £513 -
Midlands - 3 £513 - 1
South East - 2 - - 3
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 (20.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 9 (18.75%) WebSphere
3 7 (14.58%) WebLogic
4 3 (6.25%) JBoss
5 2 (4.17%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (4.17%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (4.17%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (4.17%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (2.08%) Camunda
6 1 (2.08%) Confluence
6 1 (2.08%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 7 (14.58%) BusinessWorks
2 4 (8.33%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (8.33%) Fidessa
3 1 (2.08%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 18 (37.50%) AWS
2 17 (35.42%) Azure
3 4 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (8.33%) GCP
4 3 (6.25%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.08%) Boomi
5 1 (2.08%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) HTTPS
2 2 (4.17%) DNS
2 2 (4.17%) Firewall
2 2 (4.17%) HTTP
2 2 (4.17%) SSL
2 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.08%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.92%) SQL Server
2 8 (16.67%) DB2
2 8 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.25%) Oracle Database
3 3 (6.25%) Tableau
4 2 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.08%) SAP HANA
5 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (25.00%) JIRA
2 10 (20.83%) Git
3 6 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 5 (10.42%) GitLab
4 5 (10.42%) JUnit
5 2 (4.17%) Gatling
5 2 (4.17%) Introscope
5 2 (4.17%) JMeter
6 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.08%) Maven
6 1 (2.08%) Postman
General
1 17 (35.42%) Banking
2 15 (31.25%) Finance
3 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
4 7 (14.58%) Public Sector
5 6 (12.50%) Investment Banking
6 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (8.33%) Front Office
8 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (62.50%) Developer
2 12 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 9 (18.75%) Senior
4 6 (12.50%) TIBCO Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Electronics Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Lead
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (8.33%) webMethods Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Lead Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Middleware Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Pega Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Pega Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Systems Architect
6 3 (6.25%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Performance Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Performance Test Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (39.58%) REST
1 19 (39.58%) Spring
2 17 (35.42%) XML
3 15 (31.25%) Spring Boot
4 13 (27.08%) Kafka
4 13 (27.08%) SOAP
5 10 (20.83%) J2EE
5 10 (20.83%) Middleware
5 10 (20.83%) Web Services
6 7 (14.58%) OC4J
6 7 (14.58%) TIBCO EMS
6 7 (14.58%) WSDL
6 7 (14.58%) XSD
6 7 (14.58%) XSLT
7 5 (10.42%) AngularJS
7 5 (10.42%) HTML
7 5 (10.42%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (8.33%) HTML5
8 4 (8.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 7 (14.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 5 (10.42%) Equities
4 4 (8.33%) Algorithms
4 4 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.17%) Clustering
5 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.58%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 2 (4.17%) Unix
2 2 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (45.83%) Agile
2 19 (39.58%) CI/CD
2 19 (39.58%) DevOps
3 16 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 15 (31.25%) Containerisation
4 15 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (29.17%) SOA
6 11 (22.92%) SDLC
7 10 (20.83%) Microservices
8 9 (18.75%) UML
8 9 (18.75%) Unit Testing
9 7 (14.58%) Anti-Money Laundering
9 7 (14.58%) Design Patterns
9 7 (14.58%) OOA/OOD
9 7 (14.58%) Resource Management
9 7 (14.58%) RUP
9 7 (14.58%) Scrum
9 7 (14.58%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
10 6 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 26 (54.17%) Java
2 16 (33.33%) SQL
3 12 (25.00%) Python
4 7 (14.58%) XPath
5 3 (6.25%) C#
5 3 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.25%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.17%) Bash
6 2 (4.17%) Jython
6 2 (4.17%) Perl
6 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.08%) ABAP
7 1 (2.08%) ActionScript
7 1 (2.08%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (27.08%) QA
2 7 (14.58%) ISO 20022
2 7 (14.58%) PSD2
2 7 (14.58%) SEPA
3 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.58%) TIBCO Hawk
3 5 (10.42%) Ansible
4 4 (8.33%) Grafana
5 3 (6.25%) Terraform
6 2 (4.17%) CA Wily
6 2 (4.17%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 21 (43.75%) Oracle
2 16 (33.33%) IBM
3 10 (20.83%) Pega
4 7 (14.58%) BEA
4 7 (14.58%) TIBCO
5 6 (12.50%) AppDynamics
6 5 (10.42%) SAP
7 4 (8.33%) Bloomberg
7 4 (8.33%) Charles River
7 4 (8.33%) Software AG
7 4 (8.33%) Splunk
7 4 (8.33%) webMethods
8 2 (4.17%) Informatica
8 2 (4.17%) Red Hat
8 2 (4.17%) Sybase
9 1 (2.08%) Dell
9 1 (2.08%) MuleSoft
9 1 (2.08%) SEEBURGER