JMS Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Java Messaging Service (JMS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 177 172 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing JMS 16 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.38% 0.024% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.75% 0.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 0
10th Percentile £415 - -
25th Percentile £475 £688 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £725 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% - -
75th Percentile £688 £763 -
90th Percentile £775 - -
England median daily rate £504 £630 £525
% change year-on-year -20.04% +20.00% -19.23%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 916 708 1,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 21.90% 17.09% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 661 461 829
10th Percentile £340 £350 £370
25th Percentile £390 £413 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £619
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 37
10th Percentile £27.60 £27.45 £45.88
25th Percentile £30.00 £43.64 -
Median hourly rate £48.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +3.94% - -34.26%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.69 £62.00
90th Percentile £86.35 £74.20 £69.25
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 the North of England

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

JMS job vacancy trend in the North of England

JMS
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

JMS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for JMS in the North of England

JMS
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing JMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing JMS

JMS
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 JMS within the North of England 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
North West - 14 £500 - 2
Yorkshire -16 2 £412 -43.14%
JMS
England

JMS
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) WebSphere
1 1 (6.25%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
2 1 (6.25%) IBM Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) HTTPS
2 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Siebel EIM
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Git
1 8 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Ant
2 1 (6.25%) Eclipse
2 1 (6.25%) IntelliJ
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JUnit
2 1 (6.25%) Log4j
2 1 (6.25%) NUnit
General
1 11 (68.75%) Banking
1 11 (68.75%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Siebel Developer
4 2 (12.50%) webMethods Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Migration Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) WebSphere Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) WebSphere MQ Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) WebSphere MQ Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) WebSphere Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) Spring
2 8 (50.00%) REST
2 8 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 5 (31.25%) SOAP
4 4 (25.00%) Web Services
5 3 (18.75%) XML
6 2 (12.50%) .NET
6 2 (12.50%) JDBC
6 2 (12.50%) JSON
6 2 (12.50%) Kafka
7 1 (6.25%) ADO.NET
7 1 (6.25%) Ajax
7 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
7 1 (6.25%) EJB
7 1 (6.25%) HTML
7 1 (6.25%) J2EE
7 1 (6.25%) JNDI
7 1 (6.25%) JSP
7 1 (6.25%) JSTL
7 1 (6.25%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 7 (43.75%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) DevOps
2 10 (62.50%) Agile
3 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
3 9 (56.25%) SDLC
4 8 (50.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 8 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 8 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 8 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (37.50%) Integration Testing
6 5 (31.25%) Unit Testing
7 4 (25.00%) Migration
7 4 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (18.75%) Change Management
8 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
8 3 (18.75%) EAI
8 3 (18.75%) End-to-End Testing
8 3 (18.75%) System Integration Testing
9 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) SQL
2 10 (62.50%) Java
3 3 (18.75%) PL/SQL
4 2 (12.50%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.25%) IBM Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) ISO 20022
1 8 (50.00%) PSD2
1 8 (50.00%) QA
1 8 (50.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) IBM
2 3 (18.75%) SAP
2 3 (18.75%) Siebel
3 2 (12.50%) Software AG
3 2 (12.50%) webMethods
4 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
4 1 (6.25%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) TIBCO