JMS Contracts in the North West

Java Messaging Service (JMS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 136 155
Rank change year-on-year +26 +19 +15
Contract jobs citing JMS 10 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.51% 0.036% 0.063%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.29% 0.20% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile £434 - -
25th Percentile £455 £485 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £490 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% - +22.50%
75th Percentile £575 £495 £495
90th Percentile £695 - -
England median daily rate £509 £510 £600
% change year-on-year -0.20% -15.00% -5.51%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 437 503 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 22.21% 18.26% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 369 464
10th Percentile £363 £363 £337
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £577
90th Percentile £638 £750 £647
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 3
10th Percentile - £37.63 £39.24
25th Percentile £65.25 £45.88 £41.40
Median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%
75th Percentile £74.69 £71.87 -
90th Percentile £83.13 £75.05 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

JMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing JMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for JMS in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JMS in the North West.

Daily rate trend for JMS in the North West

JMS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMS in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JMS in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Merseyside - 5 £600 - 4
Cheshire - 1 £358 - 1
JMS
England

JMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (40.00%) NetWeaver
2 1 (10.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) CMS
2 1 (10.00%) JBoss
2 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Hudson
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (50.00%) Banking
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Integration Developer
2 4 (40.00%) SAP Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Siebel Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Siebel Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) SOAP
2 6 (60.00%) Web Services
3 5 (50.00%) Middleware
3 5 (50.00%) REST
4 4 (40.00%) EDI
4 4 (40.00%) IDoc
4 4 (40.00%) JDBC
4 4 (40.00%) SAP PI
4 4 (40.00%) XML
4 4 (40.00%) XSLT
5 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (10.00%) CSS
5 1 (10.00%) CSS3
5 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
5 1 (10.00%) HTML
5 1 (10.00%) HTML5
5 1 (10.00%) JSP
5 1 (10.00%) RESTful
5 1 (10.00%) Servlets
5 1 (10.00%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Legacy Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) SDLC
2 7 (70.00%) System Integration Testing
3 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 5 (50.00%) EAI
3 5 (50.00%) Migration
3 5 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (40.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) Performance Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Scrum
4 4 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Change Management
5 3 (30.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (30.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (10.00%) Analytical Thinking
6 1 (10.00%) Architectural Design
6 1 (10.00%) Critical Thinking
6 1 (10.00%) Front End Development
6 1 (10.00%) Integration Patterns
6 1 (10.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
1 5 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) ABAP
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
1 5 (50.00%) Siebel
2 4 (40.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Adobe
3 1 (10.00%) IBM