JMS Contract Job Trends in London

Java Messaging Service (JMS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring JMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 341 402
Rank change year-on-year +11 +61 +55
Contract jobs citing JMS 37 41 34
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.28% 0.26% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.06% 0.94% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 30 27
10th Percentile £482 £490 £463
25th Percentile £585 £600 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £630 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% +16.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £656 £797 £650
90th Percentile £686 £875 £805
England median daily rate £504 £630 £525
% change year-on-year -20.04% +20.00% -19.23%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,499 4,345 5,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.15% 27.02% 26.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,375 2,891 4,082
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £800 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 23 41
10th Percentile £31.77 £23.88 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.17 £36.50 £41.25
Median hourly rate £51.97 £42.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.28% -29.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £61.56 £61.97 £73.65
90th Percentile £85.95 £74.20 £90.00
England median hourly rate £54.35 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -16.38% +13.04% -11.54%

JMS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JMS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

JMS job vacancy trend in London

JMS
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing JMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing JMS

JMS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMS in London over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JMS in London

JMS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing JMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing JMS

JMS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMS within the London region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
East London - 1 £540 -
JMS
England

JMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 4 (10.81%) Confluence
2 3 (8.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.70%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.70%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.92%) Azure
2 6 (16.22%) AWS
3 5 (13.51%) GCP
4 1 (2.70%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (48.65%) DB2
1 18 (48.65%) MongoDB
1 18 (48.65%) Relational Database
2 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.11%) Oracle Database
3 3 (8.11%) Tableau
4 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 18 (48.65%) JUnit
2 6 (16.22%) JMeter
3 5 (13.51%) Gatling
3 5 (13.51%) GitLab
3 5 (13.51%) JIRA
4 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
5 2 (5.41%) Git
5 2 (5.41%) Maven
6 1 (2.70%) Eclipse
6 1 (2.70%) Gradle
6 1 (2.70%) IntelliJ
6 1 (2.70%) Log4j
6 1 (2.70%) NeoLoad
6 1 (2.70%) Postman
6 1 (2.70%) Selenium
6 1 (2.70%) SoapUI
General
1 26 (70.27%) Social Skills
2 23 (62.16%) Finance
3 22 (59.46%) Banking
4 19 (51.35%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (51.35%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (67.57%) Developer
2 23 (62.16%) Senior
3 20 (54.05%) Java Developer
4 18 (48.65%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 18 (48.65%) Linux Developer
4 18 (48.65%) Senior Developer
4 18 (48.65%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
4 18 (48.65%) Senior Java Developer
4 18 (48.65%) Senior SQL Developer
4 18 (48.65%) SQL Developer
5 5 (13.51%) Performance Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Performance Test Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Senior Performance Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Senior Test Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Test Automation Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Test Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Middleware Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) webMethods Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Messaging Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (81.08%) Kafka
2 19 (51.35%) Spring
3 8 (21.62%) Middleware
4 7 (18.92%) XML
5 6 (16.22%) REST
6 5 (13.51%) gRPC
6 5 (13.51%) Playwright
6 5 (13.51%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (13.51%) Rendezvous
6 5 (13.51%) TIBCO EMS
6 5 (13.51%) WebSockets
7 4 (10.81%) AWT
7 4 (10.81%) GWT
7 4 (10.81%) HTML
7 4 (10.81%) JSON
8 3 (8.11%) HTML5
9 2 (5.41%) SOAP
10 1 (2.70%) LDAP
10 1 (2.70%) SAML
10 1 (2.70%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (62.16%) Equities
2 18 (48.65%) Data Structures
3 6 (16.22%) Cloud Native
4 3 (8.11%) Replication
5 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (64.86%) Linux
2 4 (10.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (72.97%) Agile
2 23 (62.16%) Multithreading
3 21 (56.76%) SDLC
4 19 (51.35%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (48.65%) Database Tuning
5 18 (48.65%) Open Source
5 18 (48.65%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (24.32%) Test Automation
7 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
8 6 (16.22%) OO
9 5 (13.51%) API Testing
9 5 (13.51%) Observability
9 5 (13.51%) OOD
9 5 (13.51%) Performance Engineering
9 5 (13.51%) Performance Testing
9 5 (13.51%) Test Strategy
10 4 (10.81%) DevOps
10 4 (10.81%) Garbage Collection
10 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (10.81%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 29 (78.38%) Java
2 23 (62.16%) Python
2 23 (62.16%) SQL
3 18 (48.65%) Shell Script
4 5 (13.51%) C#
5 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.70%) C++
6 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) Degree
2 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) QA
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (18.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.70%) Kibana
2 1 (2.70%) logstash
2 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (48.65%) Sybase
2 6 (16.22%) TIBCO
3 4 (10.81%) Google
3 4 (10.81%) Oracle
4 3 (8.11%) IBM
4 3 (8.11%) Pega
4 3 (8.11%) SAP
4 3 (8.11%) webMethods
5 2 (5.41%) Informatica
5 2 (5.41%) Software AG
6 1 (2.70%) Azul
6 1 (2.70%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.70%) Splunk