ActiveMQ Contracts

Apache ActiveMQ
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ActiveMQ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ActiveMQ 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 484 533 647
Rank change year-on-year +49 +114 +76
Contract jobs citing ActiveMQ 36 49 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.54% 0.55% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 34 47
10th Percentile £378 £436 £440
25th Percentile £455 £496 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £725 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +45.00% -22.48%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £700
90th Percentile £783 £871 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £440 £455
% change year-on-year +10.80% -3.30% -24.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £80.40
25th Percentile - - £84.00
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

ActiveMQ
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ActiveMQ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ActiveMQ in the UK

ActiveMQ
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ActiveMQ in the UK

ActiveMQ
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ActiveMQ over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ActiveMQ in the UK

ActiveMQ
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for ActiveMQ in the UK

ActiveMQ
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 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
England +45 34 £725 - 17
UK excluding London +70 21 £488 +10.80% 11
London +23 17 £750 - 10
Work from Home +43 14 £738 -10.61% 9
Midlands - 9 £460 - 2
South East +51 6 £500 - 7
West Midlands - 6 £420 -
North West +18 4 £464 -5.31%
North of England +10 4 £464 +5.45%
East Midlands - 3 £537 - 2
South West - 2 £575 -
Scotland - 2 £513 - 1

ActiveMQ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.78%) Apache
1 1 (2.78%) IIS
1 1 (2.78%) nginx
1 1 (2.78%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 26 (72.22%) AWS
2 13 (36.11%) Azure
2 13 (36.11%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 11 (30.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (25.00%) Serverless
6 7 (19.44%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (19.44%) Amazon Glacier
6 7 (19.44%) Amazon Kinesis
6 7 (19.44%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (13.89%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (11.11%) AWS KMS
8 4 (11.11%) Route 53
9 3 (8.33%) Kong
9 3 (8.33%) OpenShift
10 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (61.11%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (44.44%) Redis
3 12 (33.33%) DynamoDB
4 7 (19.44%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (13.89%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (13.89%) Relational Database
7 3 (8.33%) Hazelcast
7 3 (8.33%) MongoDB
7 3 (8.33%) MySQL
7 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
8 2 (5.56%) RDBMS
9 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (52.78%) Jenkins
2 11 (30.56%) Git
3 10 (27.78%) Maven
4 9 (25.00%) JUnit
5 7 (19.44%) Mockito
6 4 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (11.11%) DbUnit
6 4 (11.11%) jMock
6 4 (11.11%) SonarQube
7 3 (8.33%) Subversion
8 2 (5.56%) GitLab
8 2 (5.56%) JMeter
General
1 17 (47.22%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (38.89%) Banking
3 13 (36.11%) Investment Banking
4 11 (30.56%) Public Sector
5 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
6 7 (19.44%) Finance
6 7 (19.44%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (69.44%) Developer
2 20 (55.56%) Java Developer
3 13 (36.11%) Lead
4 12 (33.33%) Lead Developer
4 12 (33.33%) Lead Java Developer
5 7 (19.44%) Architect
6 6 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 4 (11.11%) Senior
7 4 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 4 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (8.33%) DevOps Specialist
8 3 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (5.56%) AWS Architect
9 2 (5.56%) AWS Developer
9 2 (5.56%) AWS Solution Architect
9 2 (5.56%) Java Architect
9 2 (5.56%) Java Solutions Architect
10 1 (2.78%) Backend Developer
10 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (63.89%) Kafka
2 14 (38.89%) RESTful
2 14 (38.89%) Spring
3 12 (33.33%) Web Services
4 11 (30.56%) AngularJS
4 11 (30.56%) Spring Boot
5 9 (25.00%) Hibernate
5 9 (25.00%) REST
6 7 (19.44%) JPA
6 7 (19.44%) SOAP
7 6 (16.67%) Bootstrap
7 6 (16.67%) Spring Batch
7 6 (16.67%) Spring Integration
8 5 (13.89%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (13.89%) Spring Cloud
9 4 (11.11%) HTML
9 4 (11.11%) PowerMock
10 3 (8.33%) J2EE
10 3 (8.33%) Java Concurrency
10 3 (8.33%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Public Cloud
2 6 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (8.33%) Derivative
3 3 (8.33%) Market Risk
4 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (86.11%) Agile
2 24 (66.67%) Microservices
3 20 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (52.78%) TDD
5 18 (50.00%) DevOps
6 16 (44.44%) BDD
7 13 (36.11%) Computer Science
8 12 (33.33%) CI/CD
8 12 (33.33%) SDLC
9 11 (30.56%) Containerisation
10 10 (27.78%) Architectural Design
10 10 (27.78%) Economics
10 10 (27.78%) Mathematics
10 10 (27.78%) Scrum
11 8 (22.22%) Risk Management
12 7 (19.44%) Budget Control
12 7 (19.44%) Data Pipeline
12 7 (19.44%) Event-Driven
12 7 (19.44%) Project Planning
12 7 (19.44%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 32 (88.89%) Java
2 9 (25.00%) SQL
3 7 (19.44%) JavaScript
4 5 (13.89%) Python
5 3 (8.33%) Bash
5 3 (8.33%) Perl
5 3 (8.33%) PHP
5 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.56%) PL/SQL
6 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.78%) VB
7 1 (2.78%) VB6
Qualifications
1 13 (36.11%) Degree
2 10 (27.78%) Numerate Degree
3 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
5 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (52.78%) Docker
2 5 (13.89%) Postfix
3 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 8 (22.22%) Grafana
2 8 (22.22%) Prometheus
3 3 (8.33%) Ansible
3 3 (8.33%) Control-M
3 3 (8.33%) Istio
3 3 (8.33%) Progress Chef
3 3 (8.33%) Puppet
3 3 (8.33%) Rundeck
3 3 (8.33%) Terraform
4 2 (5.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 4 (11.11%) Oracle
3 3 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 3 (8.33%) Zend
4 2 (5.56%) Dynatrace
4 2 (5.56%) SAP
4 2 (5.56%) Splunk
4 2 (5.56%) VMware