JMS Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Java Messaging Service (JMS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring JMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 140 132
Rank change year-on-year -50 -8 -
Contract jobs citing JMS 4 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.084% 0.080% 0.038%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.63% 0.44% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £367 -
25th Percentile - £373 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £393 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.65% - -
75th Percentile £513 £408 -
90th Percentile £550 £412 -
England median daily rate £488 £448 £748
% change year-on-year +8.82% -40.07% +42.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 638 456 447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.47% 18.16% 16.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 323 303
10th Percentile £360 £271 £319
25th Percentile £413 £368 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.06% -10.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £622
90th Percentile £638 £620 £725
England median daily rate £526 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.24% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 19 9
10th Percentile £22.50 £31.46 £20.85
25th Percentile £30.00 £33.91 £22.50
Median hourly rate £60.67 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.33% +25.00% -25.58%
75th Percentile £73.75 - £56.25
90th Percentile £76.00 - £60.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.60
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.15% -2.33%

JMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

JMS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing JMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing JMS

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing JMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing JMS

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
West Midlands - 4 £450 - 2
JMS
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (25.00%) NetWeaver
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SAP HANA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
1 3 (75.00%) Lead Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Pega Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Systems Architect
2 1 (25.00%) ABAP Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Integration Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior ABAP Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
2 3 (75.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) IDoc
3 1 (25.00%) JDBC
3 1 (25.00%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Case Management
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) SFIA
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (75.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) API Management
3 1 (25.00%) BPMN
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) SOA
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) ABAP
1 1 (25.00%) ActionScript
1 1 (25.00%) ActionScript 2.0
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Pega
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) SEEBURGER