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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 123 145
Rank change year-on-year +6 +22 +40
DemandTrendContract jobs citing JMS 18 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.82% 0.041% 0.070%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.93% 0.26% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 1 1
10th Percentile £420 - -
25th Percentile £492 £485 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £490 £490
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% - -24.62%
75th Percentile £688 £495 £495
90th Percentile £775 - -
England median daily rate £500 £735 £525
% change year-on-year -31.97% +40.00% -17.61%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 458 391 573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 20.74% 16.04% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 269 452
10th Percentile £313 £350 £363
25th Percentile £371 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £495 £520
Median % change year-on-year -10.01% -4.90% -0.95%
75th Percentile £527 £610 £619
90th Percentile £621 £825 £673
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 22
10th Percentile £27.20 £41.09 £45.88
25th Percentile £29.00 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £51.00 £56.59 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -9.88% +22.54% -34.03%
75th Percentile £74.69 £70.81 -
90th Percentile £83.13 £73.00 £64.88
England median hourly rate £54.70 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.48% - +4.17%

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

JMS
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

JMS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMS in the North West over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JMS in the North West

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DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Merseyside - 8 £750 -
Cheshire - 7 £492 - 2
Manchester -2 1 £550 +12.24%
Lancashire - 1 £675 - 2
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 1 (5.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) CMS
1 1 (5.56%) JBoss
1 1 (5.56%) NetWeaver
1 1 (5.56%) Tomcat
1 1 (5.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) HTTP
1 1 (5.56%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Git
1 6 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Ant
2 1 (5.56%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.56%) Hudson
2 1 (5.56%) IntelliJ
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) JUnit
2 1 (5.56%) NUnit
General
1 14 (77.78%) Banking
1 14 (77.78%) Finance
2 8 (44.44%) Public Sector
3 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Billing
Job Titles
1 15 (83.33%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Siebel Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Applications Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Integration Developer
5 1 (5.56%) SAP Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Siebel Architect
5 1 (5.56%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) SOAP
2 10 (55.56%) Web Services
3 8 (44.44%) REST
3 8 (44.44%) Spring
4 6 (33.33%) Spring Boot
5 3 (16.67%) XML
6 2 (11.11%) Ajax
6 2 (11.11%) Hibernate
6 2 (11.11%) HTML
6 2 (11.11%) JDBC
6 2 (11.11%) JSP
6 2 (11.11%) Middleware
6 2 (11.11%) Struts
7 1 (5.56%) ADO.NET
7 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET
7 1 (5.56%) CSS
7 1 (5.56%) EJB
7 1 (5.56%) JavaBeans
7 1 (5.56%) Servlets
7 1 (5.56%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 5 (27.78%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) SDLC
2 11 (61.11%) Requirements Gathering
3 8 (44.44%) Data Modelling
3 8 (44.44%) EAI
3 8 (44.44%) Migration
3 8 (44.44%) Performance Tuning
4 7 (38.89%) Agile
4 7 (38.89%) DevOps
4 7 (38.89%) System Integration Testing
4 7 (38.89%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (33.33%) Anti-Money Laundering
5 6 (33.33%) Change Management
5 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 6 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
5 6 (33.33%) Integration Testing
5 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 5 (27.78%) Containerisation
6 5 (27.78%) Unit Testing
7 3 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) SQL
2 9 (50.00%) Java
3 8 (44.44%) PL/SQL
4 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.56%) ABAP
5 1 (5.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) ISO 20022
1 6 (33.33%) PSD2
1 6 (33.33%) QA
1 6 (33.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (77.78%) Oracle
2 8 (44.44%) Siebel
3 2 (11.11%) IBM
3 2 (11.11%) SAP
4 1 (5.56%) Adobe
4 1 (5.56%) Software AG
4 1 (5.56%) webMethods