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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 385 425
Rank change year-on-year +85 +40 +38
Contract jobs citing JMS 43 2 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.010% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.82% 0.062% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 1 19
10th Percentile £415 - £436
25th Percentile £459 £485 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £490 £580
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -15.52% +10.48%
75th Percentile £575 £495 £638
90th Percentile £609 - £700
UK median daily rate £502 £510 £580
% change year-on-year -1.67% -12.07% -7.20%

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 2,358 3,247 4,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.39% 15.97% 18.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,629 2,121 3,183
10th Percentile £335 £325 £353
25th Percentile £402 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £690 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 210 94
10th Percentile £35.46 £21.68 £22.31
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.35
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.36% +29.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.50
90th Percentile £81.35 £75.00 £78.83
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

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 15 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 15 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 £550 - 1
North of England +27 11 £514 +4.90% 8
North West +19 11 £514 +4.90% 7
Midlands +20 2 £393 - 9
East Midlands +12 2 £393 - 6
Wales - 2 £460 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 2
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 (13.95%) NetWeaver
2 2 (4.65%) Apache
2 2 (4.65%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.33%) Anypoint
3 1 (2.33%) CMS
3 1 (2.33%) IIS
3 1 (2.33%) JBoss
3 1 (2.33%) Mule
3 1 (2.33%) nginx
3 1 (2.33%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.95%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (6.98%) AWS
2 3 (6.98%) Azure
3 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.33%) GCP
3 1 (2.33%) GitHub
3 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (53.49%) Relational Database
2 22 (51.16%) MongoDB
3 20 (46.51%) DB2
4 6 (13.95%) Siebel EIM
5 4 (9.30%) RDBMS
6 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (60.47%) JUnit
2 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.65%) Mockito
2 2 (4.65%) SonarQube
2 2 (4.65%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.33%) Git
3 1 (2.33%) Hudson
General
1 31 (72.09%) Finance
2 24 (55.81%) Social Skills
3 21 (48.84%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (41.86%) Banking
5 15 (34.88%) Front Office
6 11 (25.58%) Investment Banking
7 9 (20.93%) Public Sector
8 3 (6.98%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.33%) Billing
9 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.33%) Retail
9 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (86.05%) Developer
2 24 (55.81%) Java Developer
3 7 (16.28%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 7 (16.28%) SQL Developer
3 7 (16.28%) Sybase Developer
4 6 (13.95%) Integration Developer
4 6 (13.95%) SAP Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Siebel Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Java Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) .NET Developer
8 1 (2.33%) Applications Architect
8 1 (2.33%) Java Software Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.33%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (2.33%) Server Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) Siebel Architect
8 1 (2.33%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (65.12%) Spring
2 25 (58.14%) Kafka
3 14 (32.56%) SOAP
4 9 (20.93%) Middleware
5 7 (16.28%) REST
5 7 (16.28%) Web Services
5 7 (16.28%) XML
6 6 (13.95%) EDI
6 6 (13.95%) IDoc
6 6 (13.95%) JDBC
6 6 (13.95%) SAP PI
6 6 (13.95%) XSLT
7 3 (6.98%) Ajax
7 3 (6.98%) AngularJS
7 3 (6.98%) CSS
7 3 (6.98%) Hibernate
7 3 (6.98%) HTML
7 3 (6.98%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (4.65%) .NET Framework
8 2 (4.65%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 24 (55.81%) Data Structures
2 19 (44.19%) Equities
3 6 (13.95%) Legacy Applications
3 6 (13.95%) Virtual Team
4 3 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.65%) Derivative
5 2 (4.65%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (4.65%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (67.44%) Linux
2 2 (4.65%) AIX
2 2 (4.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (81.40%) Agile
2 30 (69.77%) SDLC
3 26 (60.47%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (53.49%) Open Source
4 23 (53.49%) Performance Tuning
5 19 (44.19%) Multithreading
6 17 (39.53%) Database Tuning
7 10 (23.26%) System Integration Testing
8 9 (20.93%) Scrum
9 8 (18.60%) User Acceptance Testing
10 7 (16.28%) Migration
10 7 (16.28%) Software Engineering
11 6 (13.95%) Data Modelling
11 6 (13.95%) EAI
11 6 (13.95%) Knowledge Transfer
11 6 (13.95%) Performance Testing
12 5 (11.63%) Test Automation
13 4 (9.30%) Change Management
13 4 (9.30%) End-to-End Testing
13 4 (9.30%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 35 (81.40%) Java
2 33 (76.74%) SQL
3 23 (53.49%) Python
4 21 (48.84%) Shell Script
5 8 (18.60%) PL/SQL
6 6 (13.95%) ABAP
7 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.33%) DataWeave
8 1 (2.33%) VB
8 1 (2.33%) VB6
Qualifications
1 10 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (4.65%) NCSC
2 2 (4.65%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
1 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (48.84%) Sybase
2 10 (23.26%) Oracle
3 6 (13.95%) SAP
3 6 (13.95%) Siebel
4 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.65%) VMware
5 1 (2.33%) Adobe
5 1 (2.33%) Google
5 1 (2.33%) IBM
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.33%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.33%) Teradata