ActiveMQ Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Apache ActiveMQ
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring ActiveMQ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 162 176
Rank change year-on-year -4 +14 +56
Contract jobs citing ActiveMQ 23 3 18
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.56% 0.073% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.60% 0.42% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 15
10th Percentile £537 £493 £590
25th Percentile £578 £497 £656
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £508 £700
Median % change year-on-year +28.08% -27.50% +1.82%
75th Percentile £675 £523 -
90th Percentile £693 £529 -
England median daily rate £613 £495 £650
% change year-on-year +23.74% -23.85% +5.05%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

ActiveMQ 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 884 716 1,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 21.65% 17.31% 20.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 463 823
10th Percentile £339 £356 £375
25th Percentile £387 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 36
10th Percentile £27.20 £14.28 £45.88
25th Percentile £29.00 £28.88 -
Median hourly rate £51.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +10.44% - -34.03%
75th Percentile £76.81 £63.75 £62.44
90th Percentile £89.08 £73.60 £70.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £58.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +11.11% -10.00%

ActiveMQ
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ActiveMQ relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

ActiveMQ job vacancy trend in the North of England

ActiveMQ
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing ActiveMQ.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing ActiveMQ

ActiveMQ
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ActiveMQ in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ActiveMQ in the North of England

ActiveMQ
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ActiveMQ within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 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
Yorkshire -7 14 £650 +21.72% 2
North West -6 7 £537 +7.67%
North East - 3 - -
ActiveMQ
England

ActiveMQ
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (13.04%) Amazon Glacier
1 3 (13.04%) Amazon Kinesis
1 3 (13.04%) Amazon S3
1 3 (13.04%) AWS
1 3 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (13.04%) Serverless
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Data Pipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (86.96%) MongoDB
2 3 (13.04%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (13.04%) DynamoDB
2 3 (13.04%) MySQL
2 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.35%) GIS
Development Applications
1 20 (86.96%) Mockito
2 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (30.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (78.26%) Developer
1 18 (78.26%) Java Developer
2 15 (65.22%) Senior
3 13 (56.52%) Senior Developer
3 13 (56.52%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Architect
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Solution Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Digital Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Digital Transformation
5 2 (8.70%) Java Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Java Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Agile Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Agile Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Agile Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Agile Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (100.00%) Kafka
2 20 (86.96%) JAX-RS
3 3 (13.04%) Spring
3 3 (13.04%) Spring Batch
3 3 (13.04%) Spring Boot
3 3 (13.04%) Spring Security
4 2 (8.70%) RESTful
5 1 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (69.57%) Linux
2 15 (65.22%) Unix
3 11 (47.83%) Mac OS X
4 3 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Microservices
2 20 (86.96%) Agile
2 20 (86.96%) BDD
2 20 (86.96%) TDD
3 15 (65.22%) Pair Programming
3 15 (65.22%) Test Automation
4 13 (56.52%) Continuous Deployment
5 11 (47.83%) Responsive Web Design
5 11 (47.83%) Web Design
6 10 (43.48%) Web Development
7 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
9 5 (21.74%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 3 (13.04%) API Development
10 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
10 3 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
10 3 (13.04%) Event-Driven
10 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
10 3 (13.04%) SDLC
10 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (13.04%) Bash
2 3 (13.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) SC Cleared
1 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Red Hat