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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 473 539
Rank change year-on-year +6 +66 +47
Contract jobs citing JMS 78 49 35
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.16% 0.089%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.12% 0.72% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 35 28
10th Percentile £341 £569 £471
25th Percentile £415 £600 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £630 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +20.00% -19.23%
75th Percentile £650 £781 £598
90th Percentile £688 £870 £798
UK median daily rate £524 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -16.20% +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 6,942 6,790 8,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.70% 21.72% 21.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,677 4,330 6,328
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £631 £666 £675
90th Percentile £734 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 102 183
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £36.37
25th Percentile £43.00 £42.63 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.25 £73.98 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.12% -14.67%

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 22 November 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 22 November 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 +8 46 £600 -4.76% 20
North of England -19 18 £500 -31.03% 5
North West - 16 £500 - 4
South West +2 6 £335 -
Yorkshire -38 2 £412 -43.14% 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 8 (10.26%) WebSphere
2 6 (7.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (6.41%) Confluence
3 5 (6.41%) WebLogic
4 3 (3.85%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (6.41%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (1.28%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (1.28%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.28%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 30 (38.46%) Azure
2 19 (24.36%) AWS
3 8 (10.26%) Power Automate
4 7 (8.97%) GCP
5 3 (3.85%) Azure AKS
5 3 (3.85%) IBM Cloud
5 3 (3.85%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.28%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.67%) HTTPS
2 8 (10.26%) HTTP
3 3 (3.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (35.90%) Relational Database
2 20 (25.64%) DB2
3 15 (19.23%) MongoDB
4 7 (8.97%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.85%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.56%) Siebel EIM
7 1 (1.28%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.28%) Redis
7 1 (1.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (30.77%) JIRA
2 20 (25.64%) Git
3 17 (21.79%) JUnit
4 6 (7.69%) GitLab
4 6 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.69%) JMeter
5 5 (6.41%) Gatling
6 3 (3.85%) Log4j
6 3 (3.85%) Maven
7 2 (2.56%) Eclipse
7 2 (2.56%) IntelliJ
7 2 (2.56%) Postman
8 1 (1.28%) Ant
8 1 (1.28%) Gradle
8 1 (1.28%) NeoLoad
8 1 (1.28%) NUnit
8 1 (1.28%) Selenium
8 1 (1.28%) SoapUI
General
1 37 (47.44%) Social Skills
2 33 (42.31%) Finance
3 31 (39.74%) Banking
4 20 (25.64%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (21.79%) Investment Banking
6 6 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Front Office
8 1 (1.28%) Law
8 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (76.92%) Developer
2 28 (35.90%) Java Developer
3 24 (30.77%) Senior
4 19 (24.36%) Senior Developer
4 19 (24.36%) Senior Java Developer
5 15 (19.23%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 15 (19.23%) Linux Developer
5 15 (19.23%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 15 (19.23%) Senior SQL Developer
5 15 (19.23%) SQL Developer
6 13 (16.67%) webMethods Developer
7 5 (6.41%) Performance Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Performance Test Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Senior Performance Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Senior Test Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Test Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) TIBCO Developer
8 3 (3.85%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (42.31%) Kafka
2 32 (41.03%) Spring
3 29 (37.18%) XML
4 25 (32.05%) SOAP
5 18 (23.08%) REST
6 16 (20.51%) Spring Boot
7 14 (17.95%) JSON
8 13 (16.67%) AngularJS
8 13 (16.67%) XSD
9 10 (12.82%) React
9 10 (12.82%) TIBCO EMS
10 9 (11.54%) Middleware
11 8 (10.26%) Web Services
12 6 (7.69%) J2EE
13 5 (6.41%) gRPC
13 5 (6.41%) HTML
13 5 (6.41%) Rendezvous
13 5 (6.41%) WebSockets
13 5 (6.41%) WSDL
13 5 (6.41%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 21 (26.92%) Equities
2 16 (20.51%) Cloud Native
3 15 (19.23%) Data Structures
4 10 (12.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (3.85%) Replication
6 1 (1.28%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (30.77%) Linux
2 4 (5.13%) Unix
3 1 (1.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (57.69%) Agile
2 39 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 30 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (37.18%) DevOps
5 26 (33.33%) SDLC
6 25 (32.05%) CI/CD
7 20 (25.64%) Multithreading
8 18 (23.08%) Containerisation
8 18 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
9 16 (20.51%) Open Source
10 15 (19.23%) Database Tuning
10 15 (19.23%) OO
11 12 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
12 10 (12.82%) Anti-Money Laundering
12 10 (12.82%) Scrum
12 10 (12.82%) User Acceptance Testing
13 9 (11.54%) OOP
13 9 (11.54%) Requirements Gathering
14 8 (10.26%) Integration Testing
14 8 (10.26%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (57.69%) SQL
2 42 (53.85%) Java
3 25 (32.05%) Python
4 15 (19.23%) Shell Script
5 5 (6.41%) C#
5 5 (6.41%) XPath
6 4 (5.13%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.85%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.85%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.28%) C++
Qualifications
1 27 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 24 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.97%) Degree
4 2 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.56%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (30.77%) QA
2 10 (12.82%) ISO 20022
2 10 (12.82%) PSD2
2 10 (12.82%) SEPA
System Software
1 21 (26.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (26.92%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.41%) TIBCO Hawk
3 3 (3.85%) Prometheus
3 3 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.85%) Terraform
4 1 (1.28%) Grafana
4 1 (1.28%) Kibana
4 1 (1.28%) logstash
Vendors
1 20 (25.64%) Oracle
2 19 (24.36%) IBM
3 16 (20.51%) Sybase
4 14 (17.95%) SAP
5 13 (16.67%) webMethods
6 12 (15.38%) TIBCO
7 11 (14.10%) Software AG
8 9 (11.54%) Microsoft
9 8 (10.26%) Blue Prism
9 8 (10.26%) ServiceNow
10 5 (6.41%) BEA
10 5 (6.41%) Google
11 4 (5.13%) Splunk
12 3 (3.85%) Dynatrace
12 3 (3.85%) Red Hat
13 2 (2.56%) Pega
13 2 (2.56%) Siebel
14 1 (1.28%) Azul
14 1 (1.28%) Bloomberg
14 1 (1.28%) Charles River