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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 494 577
Rank change year-on-year +27 +83 +45
Contract jobs citing JMS 98 59 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.24% 0.75% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 43 41
10th Percentile £335 £444 £425
25th Percentile £415 £577 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £625 £513
Median % change year-on-year -18.80% +21.95% -18.65%
75th Percentile £658 £760 £553
90th Percentile £691 £855 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £473 £375
% change year-on-year +5.82% +26.00% -34.01%

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 7,910 7,916 10,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.90% 21.80% 22.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,252 5,014 7,488
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £549 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -0.13% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £669
90th Percentile £720 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 119 187
10th Percentile £29.70 £23.44 £36.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £40.63 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.09 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -3.85% +19.13% -16.06%

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 4 November 2025.

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 12 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 4 November 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 -9 71 £508 -19.44% 26
Work from Home +39 54 £638 +4.51% 18
UK excluding London +15 45 £500 +5.82% 13
London -7 39 £600 -4.76% 18
Scotland +20 20 £500 +6.38% 1
North of England -26 16 £500 -31.03% 4
North West - 14 £500 - 2
South West +10 6 £335 -
Yorkshire -28 2 £412 -43.14% 2
East Midlands - 2 £393 -
Midlands - 2 £393 - 1
Northern Ireland -8 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 7 (7.14%) WebSphere
2 5 (5.10%) Confluence
3 4 (4.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (4.08%) WebLogic
4 3 (3.06%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (2.04%) JBoss
6 1 (1.02%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.06%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (2.04%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 25 (25.51%) Azure
2 15 (15.31%) AWS
3 9 (9.18%) Power Automate
4 6 (6.12%) GCP
5 4 (4.08%) OpenShift
6 3 (3.06%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (1.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.02%) GitHub
7 1 (1.02%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.29%) HTTPS
2 9 (9.18%) HTTP
3 3 (3.06%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (47.96%) Relational Database
2 40 (40.82%) DB2
3 35 (35.71%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.12%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.06%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.04%) Siebel EIM
7 1 (1.02%) Data Mart
7 1 (1.02%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.02%) Redis
7 1 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (41.84%) JUnit
2 25 (25.51%) JIRA
3 20 (20.41%) Git
4 6 (6.12%) GitLab
4 6 (6.12%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.12%) JMeter
5 5 (5.10%) Gatling
6 3 (3.06%) Log4j
6 3 (3.06%) Maven
7 2 (2.04%) Eclipse
7 2 (2.04%) IntelliJ
7 2 (2.04%) Mockito
7 2 (2.04%) Postman
7 2 (2.04%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.04%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.02%) Ant
8 1 (1.02%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.02%) NeoLoad
8 1 (1.02%) Selenium
8 1 (1.02%) SoapUI
General
1 60 (61.22%) Social Skills
2 55 (56.12%) Finance
3 48 (48.98%) Banking
4 41 (41.84%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (36.73%) Investment Banking
6 20 (20.41%) Front Office
7 5 (5.10%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.02%) Back Office
8 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Law
8 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (82.65%) Developer
2 48 (48.98%) Java Developer
3 34 (34.69%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 34 (34.69%) SQL Developer
4 24 (24.49%) Senior
5 19 (19.39%) Senior Developer
5 19 (19.39%) Senior Java Developer
6 17 (17.35%) Linux Developer
6 17 (17.35%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
6 17 (17.35%) Senior SQL Developer
6 17 (17.35%) Sybase Developer
7 14 (14.29%) webMethods Developer
8 5 (5.10%) Performance Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Performance Test Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Senior Performance Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Test Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (53.06%) Kafka
2 51 (52.04%) Spring
3 29 (29.59%) XML
4 27 (27.55%) SOAP
5 15 (15.31%) JSON
5 15 (15.31%) REST
6 12 (12.24%) AngularJS
6 12 (12.24%) Spring Boot
6 12 (12.24%) XSD
7 11 (11.22%) Middleware
7 11 (11.22%) React
8 8 (8.16%) TIBCO EMS
9 6 (6.12%) Hibernate
9 6 (6.12%) HTML
9 6 (6.12%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (6.12%) Web Services
10 5 (5.10%) gRPC
10 5 (5.10%) Playwright
10 5 (5.10%) Rendezvous
10 5 (5.10%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 40 (40.82%) Equities
2 35 (35.71%) Data Structures
3 14 (14.29%) Cloud Native
4 8 (8.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (3.06%) Replication
6 2 (2.04%) Derivative
6 2 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.04%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.02%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 48 (48.98%) Linux
2 8 (8.16%) Unix
3 2 (2.04%) Windows
4 1 (1.02%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (69.39%) Agile
2 47 (47.96%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (44.90%) SDLC
4 40 (40.82%) Multithreading
5 39 (39.80%) Performance Tuning
6 36 (36.73%) Database Tuning
6 36 (36.73%) Open Source
6 36 (36.73%) Test Automation
7 26 (26.53%) DevOps
8 23 (23.47%) CI/CD
9 17 (17.35%) OO
10 13 (13.27%) Scrum
11 12 (12.24%) Containerisation
11 12 (12.24%) Deployment Automation
12 10 (10.20%) OOP
12 10 (10.20%) User Acceptance Testing
13 8 (8.16%) Anti-Money Laundering
13 8 (8.16%) Project Delivery
14 7 (7.14%) OOD
14 7 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 68 (69.39%) SQL
2 61 (62.24%) Java
3 41 (41.84%) Python
4 36 (36.73%) Shell Script
5 5 (5.10%) C#
5 5 (5.10%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.08%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.06%) XPath
8 1 (1.02%) C++
8 1 (1.02%) Perl
Qualifications
1 25 (25.51%) Security Cleared
2 22 (22.45%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.14%) Degree
4 2 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.04%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (22.45%) QA
2 8 (8.16%) ISO 20022
2 8 (8.16%) PSD2
2 8 (8.16%) SEPA
3 1 (1.02%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (19.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (18.37%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.06%) Prometheus
2 3 (3.06%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (3.06%) TIBCO Hawk
3 1 (1.02%) Kibana
3 1 (1.02%) logstash
Vendors
1 37 (37.76%) Sybase
2 20 (20.41%) Oracle
3 16 (16.33%) IBM
4 15 (15.31%) SAP
5 14 (14.29%) webMethods
6 10 (10.20%) Microsoft
6 10 (10.20%) ServiceNow
6 10 (10.20%) Software AG
6 10 (10.20%) TIBCO
7 9 (9.18%) Blue Prism
8 5 (5.10%) Google
9 3 (3.06%) BEA
9 3 (3.06%) Dynatrace
9 3 (3.06%) Red Hat
9 3 (3.06%) Splunk
10 2 (2.04%) Siebel
11 1 (1.02%) Azul
11 1 (1.02%) Murex
11 1 (1.02%) Pega
11 1 (1.02%) Salesforce