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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 444 538
Rank change year-on-year -30 +94 +53
Contract jobs citing JMS 69 45 26
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.17% 0.068%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.95% 0.76% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 29 24
10th Percentile £350 £470 £470
25th Percentile £442 £565 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -17.65%
75th Percentile £647 £630 £558
90th Percentile £688 £753 £790
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -12.50%

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 7,237 5,927 7,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.00% 22.37% 20.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,847 3,765 5,693
10th Percentile £358 £363 £358
25th Percentile £415 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £753
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 77 183
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £25.96
25th Percentile £49.06 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.80 £77.31
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 -29 43 £550 -8.33% 5
North of England -42 18 £492 -18.20% 1
North West -10 17 £496 +3.77% 1
South West - 2 £421 -
Yorkshire -51 1 £325 -55.24%
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 (14.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (10.14%) WebLogic
2 7 (10.14%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.90%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 7 (10.14%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (2.90%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (2.90%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.45%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 28 (40.58%) Azure
2 24 (34.78%) AWS
3 7 (10.14%) GCP
4 3 (4.35%) Azure AKS
4 3 (4.35%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.45%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.84%) HTTPS
2 3 (4.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (24.64%) Relational Database
2 14 (20.29%) DB2
3 11 (15.94%) SQL Server
4 7 (10.14%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.35%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.35%) Tableau
6 1 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.45%) Redis
6 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (28.99%) JIRA
2 18 (26.09%) Git
3 8 (11.59%) JUnit
4 6 (8.70%) GitLab
5 5 (7.25%) Gatling
5 5 (7.25%) JMeter
6 2 (2.90%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.90%) Maven
7 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.45%) Postman
General
1 31 (44.93%) Banking
2 28 (40.58%) Finance
3 21 (30.43%) Social Skills
4 13 (18.84%) Investment Banking
5 10 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.90%) Front Office
9 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (73.91%) Developer
2 22 (31.88%) Java Developer
3 15 (21.74%) Senior
4 13 (18.84%) webMethods Developer
5 10 (14.49%) Senior Developer
5 10 (14.49%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (10.14%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 7 (10.14%) Linux Developer
6 7 (10.14%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
6 7 (10.14%) Senior SQL Developer
6 7 (10.14%) SQL Developer
7 6 (8.70%) TIBCO Developer
8 5 (7.25%) Performance Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Performance Test Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Senior Performance Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Test Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Pega Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (42.03%) XML
2 28 (40.58%) Spring
3 24 (34.78%) REST
4 21 (30.43%) Kafka
4 21 (30.43%) Spring Boot
5 20 (28.99%) SOAP
6 13 (18.84%) JSON
7 10 (14.49%) Middleware
7 10 (14.49%) XSD
8 9 (13.04%) TIBCO EMS
9 8 (11.59%) AngularJS
10 7 (10.14%) J2EE
10 7 (10.14%) OC4J
10 7 (10.14%) Web Services
10 7 (10.14%) WSDL
10 7 (10.14%) XSLT
11 5 (7.25%) HTML
11 5 (7.25%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (7.25%) React
11 5 (7.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 17 (24.64%) Cloud Native
2 14 (20.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 11 (15.94%) Equities
4 7 (10.14%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.90%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.84%) Linux
2 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (53.62%) Test Automation
2 32 (46.38%) Agile
2 32 (46.38%) DevOps
3 25 (36.23%) CI/CD
4 24 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (31.88%) SDLC
6 19 (27.54%) Containerisation
7 14 (20.29%) Anti-Money Laundering
7 14 (20.29%) User Acceptance Testing
8 13 (18.84%) SOA
8 13 (18.84%) Unit Testing
9 12 (17.39%) Deployment Automation
10 11 (15.94%) Integration Testing
11 10 (14.49%) Requirements Gathering
12 9 (13.04%) Microservices
12 9 (13.04%) Multithreading
12 9 (13.04%) UML
13 8 (11.59%) Design Patterns
13 8 (11.59%) Performance Tuning
14 7 (10.14%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 38 (55.07%) Java
2 32 (46.38%) SQL
3 18 (26.09%) Python
4 7 (10.14%) Shell Script
4 7 (10.14%) XPath
5 6 (8.70%) C#
6 3 (4.35%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.35%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.45%) C++
Qualifications
1 21 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 18 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (7.25%) Degree
4 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (34.78%) QA
2 14 (20.29%) ISO 20022
2 14 (20.29%) PSD2
2 14 (20.29%) SEPA
3 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (31.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (31.88%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.14%) TIBCO Hawk
3 3 (4.35%) Terraform
4 2 (2.90%) Grafana
Vendors
1 26 (37.68%) Oracle
2 20 (28.99%) IBM
3 14 (20.29%) SAP
4 13 (18.84%) webMethods
5 11 (15.94%) Software AG
6 9 (13.04%) TIBCO
7 8 (11.59%) Sybase
8 7 (10.14%) BEA
8 7 (10.14%) Pega
9 4 (5.80%) Microsoft
10 3 (4.35%) Blue Prism
10 3 (4.35%) ServiceNow
11 2 (2.90%) AppDynamics
11 2 (2.90%) Bloomberg
11 2 (2.90%) Charles River
11 2 (2.90%) Google
11 2 (2.90%) Informatica
11 2 (2.90%) Splunk
12 1 (1.45%) Azul
12 1 (1.45%) Salesforce