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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 647 467 493
Rank change year-on-year -180 +26 +80
Contract jobs citing JMS 28 93 57
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.051% 0.28% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.23% 1.09% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 44 41
10th Percentile £425 £335 £440
25th Percentile £450 £421 £579
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £579 £504 £625
Median % change year-on-year +14.89% -19.40% +19.05%
75th Percentile £655 £675 £763
90th Percentile £729 £695 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £473
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.82% +8.62%

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 11,916 8,548 9,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.70% 25.96% 24.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,822 5,680 5,977
10th Percentile £380 £356 £355
25th Percentile £440 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -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% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 188 171
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.18 £25.40
25th Percentile £50.25 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +10.11%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.90 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.67% -15.38% +13.04%

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 13 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 13 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 -166 23 £595 +19.00% 19
London -97 18 £635 +1.60% 15
Work from Home -109 8 £609 +3.62% 5
UK excluding London -126 7 £450 -10.00% 6
Midlands -42 3 £595 +51.59% 2
West Midlands - 3 £595 - 2
Northern Ireland +4 1 - - 1
South West -37 1 - -
Scotland -46 1 £375 -28.57% 1
South East - 1 £450 -

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 9 (32.14%) Confluence
2 6 (21.43%) Traefik
3 3 (10.71%) Anypoint
3 3 (10.71%) Mule
4 1 (3.57%) Appian
4 1 (3.57%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 17 (60.71%) AWS
2 11 (39.29%) Azure
3 9 (32.14%) Amazon S3
4 7 (25.00%) OpenShift
5 5 (17.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.14%) GCP
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (3.57%) AtomSphere
7 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (3.57%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.57%) Boomi
7 1 (3.57%) GitHub
7 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
1 1 (3.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 8 (28.57%) MySQL
3 5 (17.86%) Oracle Database
4 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (46.43%) Git
2 10 (35.71%) Jenkins
3 9 (32.14%) JIRA
4 5 (17.86%) Bitbucket
4 5 (17.86%) Maven
5 4 (14.29%) GitLab
5 4 (14.29%) Gradle
5 4 (14.29%) JUnit
6 3 (10.71%) GoCD
7 2 (7.14%) REST Assured
8 1 (3.57%) Bundler
8 1 (3.57%) IntelliJ
8 1 (3.57%) JProfiler
8 1 (3.57%) Leiningen
8 1 (3.57%) Postman
8 1 (3.57%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (32.14%) Finance
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.14%) German Language
2 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.57%) Banking
3 1 (3.57%) Billing
3 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.57%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 15 (53.57%) Developer
2 11 (39.29%) Java Developer
3 7 (25.00%) Senior
4 6 (21.43%) Senior Developer
5 5 (17.86%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Java Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) webMethods Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Architect
7 2 (7.14%) Consultant
7 2 (7.14%) Lead
8 1 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Backend Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Integration Architect
8 1 (3.57%) Integration Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Messaging Developer
8 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Pega Architect
8 1 (3.57%) Remote Support Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Integration Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (53.57%) Spring
2 11 (39.29%) SOAP
3 10 (35.71%) REST
4 9 (32.14%) OpenAPI
4 9 (32.14%) Swagger
5 7 (25.00%) Jakarta EE
6 6 (21.43%) JDBC
6 6 (21.43%) OAuth
6 6 (21.43%) Spring Boot
7 3 (10.71%) Hibernate
7 3 (10.71%) J2SE
7 3 (10.71%) Kafka
7 3 (10.71%) Middleware
7 3 (10.71%) OpenID
7 3 (10.71%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (10.71%) SAML
8 2 (7.14%) JPA
8 2 (7.14%) JSF
8 2 (7.14%) JSON
8 2 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (21.43%) Security Posture
3 5 (17.86%) Spread Betting
4 3 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (3.57%) Credit Risk
6 1 (3.57%) Derivative
6 1 (3.57%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (3.57%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Unix
3 1 (3.57%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (75.00%) Agile
2 16 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 12 (42.86%) Integration Patterns
3 12 (42.86%) Microservices
4 11 (39.29%) Containerisation
5 8 (28.57%) Scrum
6 7 (25.00%) DevSecOps
6 7 (25.00%) User Experience
7 6 (21.43%) Secure Coding
7 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
8 5 (17.86%) DevOps
8 5 (17.86%) SDLC
9 4 (14.29%) TDD
9 4 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (14.29%) Unit Testing
9 4 (14.29%) User Stories
10 3 (10.71%) AI
10 3 (10.71%) Event-Driven
10 3 (10.71%) Integration Testing
10 3 (10.71%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) SQL
2 17 (60.71%) Java
3 5 (17.86%) PL/SQL
4 2 (7.14%) Bash
5 1 (3.57%) DataWeave
5 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.57%) Python
5 1 (3.57%) Ruby
5 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (39.29%) Security Cleared
2 10 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (32.14%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (46.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (64.29%) Kubernetes
2 8 (28.57%) Ansible
3 6 (21.43%) Istio
4 3 (10.71%) Grafana
4 3 (10.71%) Prometheus
5 2 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (3.57%) Argo
6 1 (3.57%) Podman
Vendors
1 18 (64.29%) Oracle
2 7 (25.00%) webMethods
3 3 (10.71%) IBM
3 3 (10.71%) MuleSoft
4 2 (7.14%) Dynatrace
4 2 (7.14%) Google
4 2 (7.14%) SAP
4 2 (7.14%) Splunk
4 2 (7.14%) Sybase
4 2 (7.14%) TIBCO
5 1 (3.57%) Dell
5 1 (3.57%) Pega
5 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.57%) Solace