JMS Contracts in England

Java Messaging Service (JMS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring JMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JMS over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 499 553
Rank change year-on-year +38 +54 +55
Contract jobs citing JMS 51 25 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.075% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.84% 0.34% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 17 48
10th Percentile £335 £491 £371
25th Percentile £383 £630 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £750 £525
Median % change year-on-year -39.47% +42.86% -17.45%
75th Percentile £569 £825 £641
90th Percentile £775 £875 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £735 £525
% change year-on-year -36.05% +40.00% -17.32%

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 6,074 7,339 9,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.97% 22.03% 21.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,156 5,030 7,253
10th Percentile £350 £360 £380
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 227 142
10th Percentile £31.25 £24.67 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.25 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% -6.53% +3.81%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.44 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -1.02% -8.33% +2.32%

JMS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing JMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for JMS in England

JMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JMS in England.

Daily rate trend for JMS in England

JMS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMS in England over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JMS in England

JMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JMS in England.

Hourly rate trend for JMS in England

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 14 August 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 +23 25 £439 -42.43% 18
North of England +1 16 £550 +12.24% 5
North West +6 15 £550 +12.24% 4
South West +33 5 £335 - 1
East Midlands -1 2 £393 - 1
Midlands -11 2 £393 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 1
JMS
UK

JMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.84%) Confluence
1 4 (7.84%) NetWeaver
1 4 (7.84%) WebSphere
2 3 (5.88%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (3.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.96%) Apache
4 1 (1.96%) CMS
4 1 (1.96%) JBoss
4 1 (1.96%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 11 (21.57%) Azure
2 7 (13.73%) Power Automate
3 4 (7.84%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (5.88%) AWS
4 3 (5.88%) IBM Cloud
4 3 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (21.57%) HTTP
2 3 (5.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (43.14%) Relational Database
2 15 (29.41%) DB2
2 15 (29.41%) MongoDB
3 8 (15.69%) Siebel EIM
4 3 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.92%) Tableau
6 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 18 (35.29%) JUnit
2 13 (25.49%) JIRA
3 10 (19.61%) Git
4 5 (9.80%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.88%) Log4j
6 2 (3.92%) Eclipse
6 2 (3.92%) IntelliJ
6 2 (3.92%) Mockito
6 2 (3.92%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.92%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.96%) Ant
7 1 (1.96%) Gradle
7 1 (1.96%) Hudson
7 1 (1.96%) JMeter
7 1 (1.96%) Maven
7 1 (1.96%) NeoLoad
7 1 (1.96%) NUnit
7 1 (1.96%) Postman
7 1 (1.96%) Selenium
7 1 (1.96%) SoapUI
General
1 34 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 33 (64.71%) Finance
3 28 (54.90%) Banking
4 19 (37.25%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (29.41%) Investment Banking
6 9 (17.65%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.96%) Billing
7 1 (1.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 42 (82.35%) Developer
2 21 (41.18%) Java Developer
3 17 (33.33%) Senior
3 17 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 17 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
4 15 (29.41%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 15 (29.41%) Linux Developer
4 15 (29.41%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
4 15 (29.41%) Senior SQL Developer
4 15 (29.41%) SQL Developer
5 7 (13.73%) Siebel Developer
6 4 (7.84%) Integration Developer
6 4 (7.84%) SAP Developer
7 3 (5.88%) Middleware Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Pega Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Architect
8 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Messaging Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Unix Engineer
9 1 (1.96%) WebSphere Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (43.14%) Spring
2 21 (41.18%) Kafka
3 20 (39.22%) SOAP
4 16 (31.37%) XML
5 10 (19.61%) Web Services
6 8 (15.69%) AngularJS
6 8 (15.69%) JDBC
6 8 (15.69%) Middleware
6 8 (15.69%) REST
7 7 (13.73%) React
7 7 (13.73%) XSD
8 5 (9.80%) Hibernate
8 5 (9.80%) HTML
9 4 (7.84%) AWT
9 4 (7.84%) EDI
9 4 (7.84%) GWT
9 4 (7.84%) Rendezvous
9 4 (7.84%) SAP PI
9 4 (7.84%) TIBCO EMS
9 4 (7.84%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 19 (37.25%) Equities
2 15 (29.41%) Data Structures
3 5 (9.80%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.84%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (7.84%) Virtual Team
5 3 (5.88%) Replication
6 2 (3.92%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (3.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 29 (56.86%) Linux
2 6 (11.76%) Unix
3 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (74.51%) Agile
2 31 (60.78%) SDLC
3 23 (45.10%) Performance Tuning
4 19 (37.25%) Multithreading
4 19 (37.25%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (33.33%) Open Source
6 15 (29.41%) Database Tuning
6 15 (29.41%) Scrum
7 12 (23.53%) Migration
7 12 (23.53%) OO
8 10 (19.61%) System Integration Testing
8 10 (19.61%) Test Automation
9 8 (15.69%) CI/CD
9 8 (15.69%) Data Modelling
9 8 (15.69%) EAI
9 8 (15.69%) User Acceptance Testing
10 7 (13.73%) OOP
10 7 (13.73%) Project Delivery
10 7 (13.73%) Requirements Gathering
11 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 38 (74.51%) SQL
2 32 (62.75%) Java
3 15 (29.41%) Python
3 15 (29.41%) Shell Script
4 9 (17.65%) PL/SQL
5 6 (11.76%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.84%) ABAP
7 3 (5.88%) C#
Qualifications
1 16 (31.37%) Security Cleared
2 15 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.73%) Degree
4 2 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.92%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.61%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) ISO 20022
2 2 (3.92%) PSD2
2 2 (3.92%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (9.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.80%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.88%) Prometheus
2 3 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.96%) Kibana
3 1 (1.96%) logstash
Vendors
1 15 (29.41%) Oracle
1 15 (29.41%) Sybase
2 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.69%) Siebel
3 7 (13.73%) Blue Prism
3 7 (13.73%) ServiceNow
4 6 (11.76%) TIBCO
5 4 (7.84%) Google
5 4 (7.84%) IBM
5 4 (7.84%) SAP
6 3 (5.88%) Dynatrace
6 3 (5.88%) Pega
6 3 (5.88%) Red Hat
6 3 (5.88%) Splunk
7 2 (3.92%) Informatica
8 1 (1.96%) Adobe
8 1 (1.96%) Teradata