JMS Contract Job Trends

Java Messaging Service (JMS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring JMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 653 463 508
Rank change year-on-year -190 +45 +65
Contract jobs citing JMS 29 97 55
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.053% 0.30% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.25% 1.14% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 46 40
10th Percentile £425 £335 £438
25th Percentile £450 £426 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £504 £625
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -19.40% +19.05%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £766
90th Percentile £729 £723 £864
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £496 £475
% change year-on-year -9.27% +4.42% -15.18%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 11,828 8,514 9,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.64% 25.95% 24.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,768 5,649 6,037
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £440 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 188 188
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.10 £25.60
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -13.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +19.95% -13.46% +10.53%

JMS
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JMS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

JMS job vacancy trend in the UK

JMS
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JMS

JMS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMS over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JMS in the UK

JMS
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JMS

JMS
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 October 2026. 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 -164 24 £550 +9.18% 21
London -107 19 £550 -12.00% 17
Work from Home -118 9 £609 +10.68% 12
UK excluding London -148 7 £450 -9.27% 7
Midlands -40 3 £595 +51.59% 2
West Midlands - 3 £595 - 2
Northern Ireland +6 1 - - 1
South West -40 1 - -
Scotland -46 1 £375 -28.57% 1
South East - 1 £450 - 1

JMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 8 (27.59%) Confluence
2 6 (20.69%) Traefik
3 3 (10.34%) Anypoint
3 3 (10.34%) Mule
4 1 (3.45%) Appian
4 1 (3.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 16 (55.17%) AWS
2 10 (34.48%) Azure
3 8 (27.59%) Amazon S3
4 7 (24.14%) OpenShift
5 4 (13.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 4 (13.79%) GCP
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.90%) SaaS
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.45%) AtomSphere
7 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (3.45%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.45%) Boomi
7 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (3.45%) Serverless
7 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) SQL Server
2 7 (24.14%) MySQL
3 5 (17.24%) Oracle Database
4 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
5 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (44.83%) Git
2 10 (34.48%) Jenkins
3 8 (27.59%) JIRA
4 5 (17.24%) Bitbucket
4 5 (17.24%) Maven
5 4 (13.79%) GitLab
5 4 (13.79%) Gradle
5 4 (13.79%) JUnit
6 3 (10.34%) GoCD
7 2 (6.90%) REST Assured
8 1 (3.45%) Bundler
8 1 (3.45%) IntelliJ
8 1 (3.45%) JProfiler
8 1 (3.45%) Leiningen
8 1 (3.45%) Postman
8 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (31.03%) Finance
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.90%) German Language
3 1 (3.45%) Banking
3 1 (3.45%) Billing
3 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.45%) Front Office
3 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (58.62%) Developer
2 11 (37.93%) Java Developer
3 7 (24.14%) Senior
4 6 (20.69%) Senior Developer
5 5 (17.24%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Backend Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Java Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) webMethods Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Consultant
7 2 (6.90%) Lead
8 1 (3.45%) Integration Architect
8 1 (3.45%) Lead Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Migration Consultant
8 1 (3.45%) Performance Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Principal Software Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Senior Integration Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Support Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (58.62%) Spring
2 10 (34.48%) SOAP
3 9 (31.03%) REST
4 8 (27.59%) OpenAPI
4 8 (27.59%) Spring Boot
4 8 (27.59%) Swagger
5 7 (24.14%) Jakarta EE
6 6 (20.69%) JDBC
6 6 (20.69%) OAuth
7 5 (17.24%) Kafka
8 3 (10.34%) Hibernate
8 3 (10.34%) J2SE
8 3 (10.34%) Middleware
8 3 (10.34%) OpenID
8 3 (10.34%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (10.34%) SAML
9 2 (6.90%) JPA
9 2 (6.90%) JSF
9 2 (6.90%) JSON
9 2 (6.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (51.72%) Product Ownership
2 6 (20.69%) Security Posture
3 5 (17.24%) Spread Betting
4 4 (13.79%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
7 1 (3.45%) Credit Risk
7 1 (3.45%) Derivative
7 1 (3.45%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Unix
3 1 (3.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (75.86%) Agile
2 18 (62.07%) CI/CD
3 14 (48.28%) Microservices
4 12 (41.38%) Integration Patterns
5 10 (34.48%) Containerisation
5 10 (34.48%) Scrum
6 7 (24.14%) DevOps
6 7 (24.14%) User Experience
7 6 (20.69%) DevSecOps
7 6 (20.69%) Secure Coding
7 6 (20.69%) Test Automation
7 6 (20.69%) Unit Testing
8 5 (17.24%) Event-Driven
8 5 (17.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 5 (17.24%) Integration Testing
8 5 (17.24%) SDLC
9 4 (13.79%) Design Patterns
9 4 (13.79%) TDD
9 4 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (13.79%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 19 (65.52%) Java
2 18 (62.07%) SQL
3 5 (17.24%) PL/SQL
4 2 (6.90%) Bash
5 1 (3.45%) DataWeave
5 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.45%) Python
5 1 (3.45%) Ruby
5 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 9 (31.03%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (27.59%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (44.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (58.62%) Kubernetes
2 8 (27.59%) Ansible
3 6 (20.69%) Istio
4 3 (10.34%) Grafana
4 3 (10.34%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.90%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (3.45%) Argo
6 1 (3.45%) Podman
Vendors
1 17 (58.62%) Oracle
2 6 (20.69%) webMethods
3 3 (10.34%) IBM
3 3 (10.34%) MuleSoft
4 2 (6.90%) Dynatrace
4 2 (6.90%) Google
4 2 (6.90%) SAP
4 2 (6.90%) Splunk
4 2 (6.90%) Sybase
4 2 (6.90%) TIBCO
5 1 (3.45%) Dell
5 1 (3.45%) Pega
5 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.45%) Solace