JMS Contracts in Scotland

Java Messaging Service (JMS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 89 - 156
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing JMS 27 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.66% - 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.99% - 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 0 6
10th Percentile £442 - £456
25th Percentile £460 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £593
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.86%
75th Percentile £550 - £638
90th Percentile £575 - £691
UK median daily rate £502 £510 £580
% change year-on-year -1.67% -12.07% -7.20%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 386 467 691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.75% 21.06% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 302 527
10th Percentile £348 £328 £406
25th Percentile £408 £411 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £549
90th Percentile £600 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £33.58 £49.99
25th Percentile - £44.94 £53.38
Median hourly rate - £53.75 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -8.94% +24.93%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £64.52
90th Percentile - - £67.81
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

JMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing JMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for JMS in Scotland

JMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JMS in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for JMS in Scotland

JMS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for JMS in Scotland

JMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JMS in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for JMS in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMS within the Scotland 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
Glasgow - 25 £525 - 7
Edinburgh - 2 £513 -
JMS
UK

JMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) IIS
1 1 (3.70%) nginx
1 1 (3.70%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.70%) AWS
1 1 (3.70%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (85.19%) Relational Database
2 22 (81.48%) MongoDB
3 19 (70.37%) DB2
4 5 (18.52%) RDBMS
5 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (88.89%) JUnit
2 1 (3.70%) Git
General
1 22 (81.48%) Finance
2 20 (74.07%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (66.67%) Social Skills
4 14 (51.85%) Front Office
5 11 (40.74%) Banking
5 11 (40.74%) Investment Banking
6 3 (11.11%) Financial Institution
7 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
8 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (85.19%) Developer
2 22 (81.48%) Java Developer
3 7 (25.93%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 7 (25.93%) SQL Developer
3 7 (25.93%) Sybase Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Java Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) .NET Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Java Server Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Lead
5 1 (3.70%) Server Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (92.59%) Spring
2 24 (88.89%) Kafka
3 3 (11.11%) Middleware
4 2 (7.41%) .NET
4 2 (7.41%) .NET Core
4 2 (7.41%) .NET Framework
4 2 (7.41%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (7.41%) Ajax
4 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
4 2 (7.41%) CSS
4 2 (7.41%) Entity Framework
4 2 (7.41%) HTML
4 2 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.70%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 24 (88.89%) Data Structures
2 18 (66.67%) Equities
3 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.70%) Derivative
4 1 (3.70%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 23 (85.19%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Agile
2 25 (92.59%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (81.48%) Open Source
4 18 (66.67%) Multithreading
5 17 (62.96%) Performance Tuning
5 17 (62.96%) SDLC
6 16 (59.26%) Database Tuning
7 7 (25.93%) Software Engineering
8 4 (14.81%) Test Automation
9 3 (11.11%) Investment Management
9 3 (11.11%) Wealth Management
10 2 (7.41%) Case Management
10 2 (7.41%) Concurrent Programming
10 2 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
10 2 (7.41%) Low Latency
10 2 (7.41%) OO
10 2 (7.41%) OWASP
10 2 (7.41%) Performance Optimisation
10 2 (7.41%) Unit Testing
10 2 (7.41%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 27 (100.00%) SQL
2 26 (96.30%) Java
3 23 (85.19%) Python
4 20 (74.07%) Shell Script
5 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.41%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.70%) VB
6 1 (3.70%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (7.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 20 (74.07%) Sybase
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle
2 2 (7.41%) VMware
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow