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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 443 527
Rank change year-on-year -99 +84 +60
Contract jobs citing JMS 39 32 11
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.097% 0.13% 0.030%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.49% 0.59% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 19 9
10th Percentile £368 £424 £430
25th Percentile £444 £448 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.88% +2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £520 £603 £540
90th Percentile £597 £755 £550
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -9.95%

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 7,879 5,468 7,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.56% 22.43% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,245 3,784 5,309
10th Percentile £363 £370 £350
25th Percentile £422 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 102 223
10th Percentile £33.50 £30.55 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.03 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year - +38.77% -27.94%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -44 27 £500 -7.41% 2
North West -42 6 £447 -13.04%
North of England -66 6 £447 -13.04%
West Midlands - 4 £450 -
Midlands - 4 £450 -
South East - 2 - - 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 6 (15.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 6 (15.38%) WebSphere
2 4 (10.26%) WebLogic
3 3 (7.69%) JBoss
4 2 (5.13%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (5.13%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (5.13%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (2.56%) Camunda
5 1 (2.56%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (10.26%) BusinessWorks
1 4 (10.26%) Fidessa
2 1 (2.56%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 15 (38.46%) AWS
2 14 (35.90%) Azure
3 4 (10.26%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (10.26%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (10.26%) GCP
4 3 (7.69%) Azure AKS
5 2 (5.13%) SaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) DNS
1 2 (5.13%) Firewall
1 2 (5.13%) HTTP
1 2 (5.13%) HTTPS
1 2 (5.13%) SSL
1 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.56%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.26%) DB2
2 4 (10.26%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database
3 2 (5.13%) Tableau
4 1 (2.56%) SAP HANA
4 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) JIRA
2 9 (23.08%) Git
3 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
4 3 (7.69%) JUnit
5 2 (5.13%) GitLab
5 2 (5.13%) Introscope
6 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
General
1 13 (33.33%) Banking
2 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 11 (28.21%) Finance
4 8 (20.51%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.26%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (10.26%) Front Office
5 4 (10.26%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (58.97%) Developer
2 9 (23.08%) Java Developer
3 6 (15.38%) Senior
4 5 (12.82%) Lead
5 4 (10.26%) Architect
5 4 (10.26%) Electronics Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Lead Architect
5 4 (10.26%) Pega Architect
5 4 (10.26%) Systems Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Middleware Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Pega Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (7.69%) TIBCO Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Backend Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Middleware Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) webMethods Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Integration Consultant
8 1 (2.56%) Senior ABAP Consultant
8 1 (2.56%) Senior SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (43.59%) REST
1 17 (43.59%) Spring
2 14 (35.90%) Spring Boot
3 11 (28.21%) XML
4 10 (25.64%) Kafka
5 9 (23.08%) SOAP
6 8 (20.51%) Middleware
7 7 (17.95%) J2EE
7 7 (17.95%) Web Services
8 4 (10.26%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (10.26%) OC4J
8 4 (10.26%) TIBCO EMS
8 4 (10.26%) WSDL
8 4 (10.26%) XSD
8 4 (10.26%) XSLT
9 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
9 3 (7.69%) JDBC
9 3 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (7.69%) RESTful
10 2 (5.13%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Cloud Native
2 6 (15.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 4 (10.26%) Algorithms
3 4 (10.26%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (10.26%) Equities
3 4 (10.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.13%) Clustering
5 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (5.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 2 (5.13%) Unix
2 2 (5.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) Agile
2 19 (48.72%) DevOps
3 18 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 14 (35.90%) Containerisation
4 14 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (30.77%) Microservices
5 12 (30.77%) Test Automation
6 10 (25.64%) Scrum
6 10 (25.64%) SOA
6 10 (25.64%) Unit Testing
7 8 (20.51%) Integration Testing
7 8 (20.51%) SDLC
8 6 (15.38%) Anti-Money Laundering
8 6 (15.38%) Design Patterns
8 6 (15.38%) Event-Driven
8 6 (15.38%) Integration Patterns
8 6 (15.38%) Migration
8 6 (15.38%) UML
8 6 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (12.82%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 23 (58.97%) Java
2 12 (30.77%) SQL
3 9 (23.08%) Python
4 4 (10.26%) XPath
5 3 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.13%) Bash
6 2 (5.13%) C#
6 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.13%) Jython
6 2 (5.13%) Perl
6 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.56%) ABAP
7 1 (2.56%) ActionScript
7 1 (2.56%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.64%) QA
2 6 (15.38%) ISO 20022
2 6 (15.38%) PSD2
2 6 (15.38%) SEPA
3 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.82%) Ansible
3 4 (10.26%) Grafana
3 4 (10.26%) TIBCO Hawk
4 3 (7.69%) Terraform
5 2 (5.13%) CA Wily
5 2 (5.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 15 (38.46%) Oracle
2 11 (28.21%) IBM
3 10 (25.64%) Pega
4 6 (15.38%) AppDynamics
5 4 (10.26%) BEA
5 4 (10.26%) Bloomberg
5 4 (10.26%) Charles River
5 4 (10.26%) Splunk
5 4 (10.26%) TIBCO
6 3 (7.69%) SAP
7 2 (5.13%) Informatica
7 2 (5.13%) Red Hat
7 2 (5.13%) Software AG
7 2 (5.13%) webMethods
8 1 (2.56%) Dell
8 1 (2.56%) MuleSoft
8 1 (2.56%) SEEBURGER