ActiveMQ Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Apache ActiveMQ
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 330 364 397
Rank change year-on-year +34 +33 +60
Contract jobs citing ActiveMQ 41 10 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.057% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.36% 0.33% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 7 18
10th Percentile £418 £412 £543
25th Percentile £475 - £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £450 £700
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -35.71% +21.74%
75th Percentile £675 £501 -
90th Percentile - £520 £726
UK median daily rate £545 £495 £650
% change year-on-year +10.10% -23.85% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £78.00
Median hourly rate - - £84.00
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £84.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,009 3,057 3,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.10% 17.46% 17.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,981 1,840 2,724
10th Percentile £313 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £551 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £685 £683
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 160 149
10th Percentile £31.89 £27.68 £45.88
25th Percentile £45.00 £43.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £56.06
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +15.95% -13.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.45 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £62.93 £58.55
% change year-on-year -14.19% +7.49% -7.44%

ActiveMQ
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ActiveMQ relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

ActiveMQ job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ActiveMQ
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ActiveMQ.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ActiveMQ

ActiveMQ
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ActiveMQ in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ActiveMQ in the UK excluding London

ActiveMQ
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ActiveMQ.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ActiveMQ

ActiveMQ
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ActiveMQ within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -4 23 £650 +28.08% 2
Yorkshire -7 14 £650 +21.72% 2
Midlands -6 13 £500 +18.20%
West Midlands - 10 £500 -
North West -6 7 £537 +7.67%
Scotland - 4 £411 - 1
South East +5 3 £500 +11.11% 1
East Midlands -7 3 £537 +26.95%
North East - 3 - -
ActiveMQ
UK

ActiveMQ
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (4.88%) Anypoint
1 2 (4.88%) Mule
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 18 (43.90%) AWS
2 16 (39.02%) Amazon S3
3 14 (34.15%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (26.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (26.83%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (19.51%) AWS KMS
5 8 (19.51%) Route 53
6 7 (17.07%) Serverless
7 5 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (9.76%) Amazon Glacier
8 4 (9.76%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (7.32%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (4.88%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 2 (4.88%) Azure
10 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (2.44%) Datadog
11 1 (2.44%) GitHub
11 1 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) AMQP
1 2 (4.88%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (48.78%) MongoDB
2 16 (39.02%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (34.15%) DynamoDB
4 12 (29.27%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (26.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (7.32%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (7.32%) MySQL
7 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.88%) RDBMS
7 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.44%) GIS
Development Applications
1 30 (73.17%) Mockito
2 18 (43.90%) Jenkins
3 13 (31.71%) Git
4 12 (29.27%) JUnit
5 11 (26.83%) Maven
6 10 (24.39%) SonarQube
7 6 (14.63%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (14.63%) DbUnit
7 6 (14.63%) jMock
8 3 (7.32%) GitLab
9 2 (4.88%) JMeter
General
1 20 (48.78%) Public Sector
2 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Finance
4 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (78.05%) Developer
2 31 (75.61%) Java Developer
3 19 (46.34%) Senior
4 16 (39.02%) Senior Developer
4 16 (39.02%) Senior Java Developer
5 6 (14.63%) Architect
5 6 (14.63%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 4 (9.76%) AWS Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Lead
6 4 (9.76%) Lead Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Lead Java Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (7.32%) AWS Architect
8 2 (4.88%) AWS Solution Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Digital Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Digital Transformation
8 2 (4.88%) Java Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Java Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (65.85%) Kafka
2 20 (48.78%) JAX-RS
3 17 (41.46%) Spring
3 17 (41.46%) Spring Boot
4 16 (39.02%) REST
5 13 (31.71%) SOAP
6 12 (29.27%) RESTful
7 11 (26.83%) Spring Batch
7 11 (26.83%) Web Services
8 10 (24.39%) Hibernate
8 10 (24.39%) JPA
9 9 (21.95%) AngularJS
10 8 (19.51%) Bootstrap
10 8 (19.51%) Spring Cloud
10 8 (19.51%) Spring Integration
11 6 (14.63%) PowerMock
12 5 (12.20%) Apache Camel
13 4 (9.76%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (9.76%) XML
14 3 (7.32%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.83%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.88%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 23 (56.10%) Linux
2 15 (36.59%) Unix
3 11 (26.83%) Mac OS X
4 3 (7.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.44%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (97.56%) Microservices
2 37 (90.24%) Agile
3 33 (80.49%) TDD
4 29 (70.73%) BDD
5 16 (39.02%) Containerisation
6 15 (36.59%) Pair Programming
6 15 (36.59%) Test Automation
7 14 (34.15%) Scrum
8 13 (31.71%) Continuous Deployment
9 11 (26.83%) CI/CD
9 11 (26.83%) DevOps
9 11 (26.83%) Responsive Web Design
9 11 (26.83%) Web Design
9 11 (26.83%) Web Development
10 9 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (19.51%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (19.51%) Kanban
12 7 (17.07%) Event-Driven
13 6 (14.63%) Open Source
13 6 (14.63%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 40 (97.56%) Java
2 12 (29.27%) SQL
3 3 (7.32%) Bash
3 3 (7.32%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.88%) DataWeave
4 2 (4.88%) Python
4 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (41.46%) SC Cleared
1 17 (41.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (51.22%) Docker
2 6 (14.63%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 9 (21.95%) Prometheus
2 8 (19.51%) Grafana
2 8 (19.51%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.32%) Terraform
4 2 (4.88%) Ansible
4 2 (4.88%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Atlassian
1 6 (14.63%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (7.32%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.88%) Dynatrace
3 2 (4.88%) MuleSoft
3 2 (4.88%) Splunk
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle
4 1 (2.44%) VMware