JMS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Java Messaging Service (JMS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 397 421
Rank change year-on-year +98 +24 +49
Contract jobs citing JMS 40 2 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.010% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.67% 0.061% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 1 19
10th Percentile £445 - £400
25th Percentile £460 £485 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £490 £580
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% -15.52% +16.00%
75th Percentile £575 £495 £625
90th Percentile £583 - £690
UK median daily rate £502 £510 £586
% change year-on-year -1.67% -12.97% -6.24%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,391 3,290 4,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.69% 15.85% 18.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,652 2,153 3,284
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 199 91
10th Percentile £31.71 £21.63 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -24.00% +27.55%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.80 £75.00 £78.00
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing JMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JMS in the UK excluding London

JMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JMS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for JMS in the UK excluding London

JMS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JMS in the UK excluding London

JMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JMS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for JMS in the UK excluding London

JMS
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 JMS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Scotland - 27 £525 - 6
North of England +32 10 £478 -2.45% 7
North West +23 10 £478 -2.45% 6
Wales - 2 £460 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 3
JMS
UK

JMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (15.00%) NetWeaver
2 2 (5.00%) Apache
2 2 (5.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.50%) Anypoint
3 1 (2.50%) CMS
3 1 (2.50%) IIS
3 1 (2.50%) JBoss
3 1 (2.50%) Mule
3 1 (2.50%) nginx
3 1 (2.50%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.00%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (7.50%) AWS
2 3 (7.50%) Azure
3 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.50%) GCP
3 1 (2.50%) GitHub
3 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (57.50%) Relational Database
2 22 (55.00%) MongoDB
3 19 (47.50%) DB2
4 5 (12.50%) RDBMS
4 5 (12.50%) Siebel EIM
5 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (60.00%) JUnit
2 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.50%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) Hudson
General
1 27 (67.50%) Finance
2 22 (55.00%) Social Skills
3 21 (52.50%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (42.50%) Banking
5 14 (35.00%) Front Office
6 11 (27.50%) Investment Banking
7 7 (17.50%) Public Sector
8 3 (7.50%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.50%) Billing
9 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.50%) Retail
9 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (85.00%) Developer
2 22 (55.00%) Java Developer
3 7 (17.50%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 7 (17.50%) SQL Developer
3 7 (17.50%) Sybase Developer
4 6 (15.00%) Integration Developer
4 6 (15.00%) SAP Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Siebel Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Java Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) .NET Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Applications Architect
8 1 (2.50%) Java Server Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Java Software Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Lead
8 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Server Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (65.00%) Spring
2 25 (62.50%) Kafka
3 13 (32.50%) SOAP
4 10 (25.00%) Middleware
5 7 (17.50%) REST
5 7 (17.50%) XML
6 6 (15.00%) EDI
6 6 (15.00%) IDoc
6 6 (15.00%) JDBC
6 6 (15.00%) SAP PI
6 6 (15.00%) Web Services
6 6 (15.00%) XSLT
7 3 (7.50%) Ajax
7 3 (7.50%) AngularJS
7 3 (7.50%) CSS
7 3 (7.50%) HTML
7 3 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (5.00%) .NET Framework
8 2 (5.00%) Entity Framework
8 2 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 24 (60.00%) Data Structures
2 18 (45.00%) Equities
3 6 (15.00%) Legacy Applications
3 6 (15.00%) Virtual Team
4 3 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.50%) Derivative
5 1 (2.50%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (70.00%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (82.50%) Agile
2 29 (72.50%) SDLC
3 26 (65.00%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (57.50%) Open Source
5 22 (55.00%) Performance Tuning
6 18 (45.00%) Multithreading
7 16 (40.00%) Database Tuning
8 9 (22.50%) System Integration Testing
9 7 (17.50%) Scrum
9 7 (17.50%) Software Engineering
10 6 (15.00%) Performance Testing
10 6 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
11 5 (12.50%) Data Modelling
11 5 (12.50%) EAI
11 5 (12.50%) Migration
12 4 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
12 4 (10.00%) Test Automation
13 3 (7.50%) Performance Optimisation
13 3 (7.50%) Requirements Gathering
13 3 (7.50%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (82.50%) Java
2 32 (80.00%) SQL
3 23 (57.50%) Python
4 20 (50.00%) Shell Script
5 7 (17.50%) PL/SQL
6 6 (15.00%) ABAP
7 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.50%) DataWeave
8 1 (2.50%) VB
8 1 (2.50%) VB6
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (5.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
1 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (50.00%) Sybase
2 7 (17.50%) Oracle
3 6 (15.00%) SAP
4 5 (12.50%) Siebel
5 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.00%) VMware
6 1 (2.50%) Adobe
6 1 (2.50%) Google
6 1 (2.50%) IBM
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.50%) Salesforce