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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 525 572
Rank change year-on-year +59 +47 +66
Contract jobs citing JMS 93 48 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.24% 0.56% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 34 50
10th Percentile £335 £447 £427
25th Percentile £435 £588 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £628 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.32% +19.52% -19.23%
75th Percentile £675 £784 £638
90th Percentile £728 £871 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £475 £560
% change year-on-year +1.79% -15.18% +3.70%

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 7,486 8,575 11,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.73% 22.42% 22.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,975 5,593 7,918
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £795 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 186 176
10th Percentile £31.25 £25.60 £35.94
25th Percentile £41.25 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +2.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £73.67
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.68 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year -15.38% +10.11% -5.55%

JMS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JMS 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 17 September 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 13 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 17 September 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 +51 60 £500 -20.63% 15
Work from Home +48 55 £550 -10.20% 13
UK excluding London +42 50 £484 +1.79% 11
London +24 32 £583 -14.65% 5
Scotland - 26 £500 -
North of England +2 15 £500 -31.03% 3
North West - 13 £500 - 1
South West +26 5 £335 - 3
East Midlands -4 2 £393 - 1
Yorkshire -9 2 £412 -43.14%
Midlands -11 2 £393 - 4
Northern Ireland -7 1 - -
Wales - 1 £453 -

JMS
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 4 (4.30%) Confluence
1 4 (4.30%) WebSphere
2 3 (3.23%) NetWeaver
2 3 (3.23%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.15%) JBoss
3 2 (2.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.15%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.08%) Apache
4 1 (1.08%) IIS
4 1 (1.08%) nginx
4 1 (1.08%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.20%) Azure
2 8 (8.60%) Power Automate
3 7 (7.53%) AWS
4 4 (4.30%) OpenShift
5 3 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (3.23%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (1.08%) GCP
6 1 (1.08%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.83%) HTTP
2 9 (9.68%) HTTPS
3 3 (3.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (50.54%) Relational Database
2 39 (41.94%) DB2
3 37 (39.78%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.30%) Siebel EIM
4 4 (4.30%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.15%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.15%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.15%) Tableau
6 1 (1.08%) Data Mart
6 1 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.08%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 44 (47.31%) JUnit
2 21 (22.58%) JIRA
3 18 (19.35%) Git
4 5 (5.38%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.23%) Log4j
6 2 (2.15%) Eclipse
6 2 (2.15%) IntelliJ
6 2 (2.15%) Maven
6 2 (2.15%) Mockito
6 2 (2.15%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.15%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.08%) Ant
7 1 (1.08%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.08%) Gradle
7 1 (1.08%) JMeter
7 1 (1.08%) NeoLoad
7 1 (1.08%) NUnit
7 1 (1.08%) Postman
7 1 (1.08%) Selenium
7 1 (1.08%) SoapUI
General
1 63 (67.74%) Social Skills
2 59 (63.44%) Finance
3 50 (53.76%) Banking
4 43 (46.24%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (38.71%) Investment Banking
6 21 (22.58%) Front Office
7 9 (9.68%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Back Office
9 1 (1.08%) Law
9 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (87.10%) Developer
2 49 (52.69%) Java Developer
3 34 (36.56%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 34 (36.56%) SQL Developer
4 19 (20.43%) Senior
4 19 (20.43%) Senior Developer
4 19 (20.43%) Senior Java Developer
5 17 (18.28%) Linux Developer
5 17 (18.28%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 17 (18.28%) Senior SQL Developer
5 17 (18.28%) Sybase Developer
6 9 (9.68%) webMethods Developer
7 4 (4.30%) Integration Developer
7 4 (4.30%) Siebel Developer
8 3 (3.23%) Administrator
8 3 (3.23%) Middleware Engineer
8 3 (3.23%) Pega Developer
8 3 (3.23%) SAP Developer
9 2 (2.15%) Architect
9 2 (2.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (54.84%) Spring
2 49 (52.69%) Kafka
3 25 (26.88%) XML
4 23 (24.73%) SOAP
5 11 (11.83%) AngularJS
5 11 (11.83%) Middleware
5 11 (11.83%) REST
6 10 (10.75%) JSON
7 8 (8.60%) React
7 8 (8.60%) Spring Boot
7 8 (8.60%) XSD
8 7 (7.53%) HTML
8 7 (7.53%) JDBC
9 5 (5.38%) .NET
9 5 (5.38%) Hibernate
9 5 (5.38%) Rendezvous
9 5 (5.38%) TIBCO EMS
9 5 (5.38%) Web Services
10 4 (4.30%) Ajax
10 4 (4.30%) GWT
Miscellaneous
1 42 (45.16%) Equities
2 39 (41.94%) Data Structures
3 8 (8.60%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (3.23%) Derivative
5 3 (3.23%) Equity Derivative
5 3 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (3.23%) Replication
5 3 (3.23%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.15%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 54 (58.06%) Linux
2 8 (8.60%) Unix
3 3 (3.23%) AIX
4 2 (2.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (78.49%) Agile
2 51 (54.84%) SDLC
3 49 (52.69%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (46.24%) Multithreading
4 43 (46.24%) Performance Tuning
5 40 (43.01%) Open Source
6 38 (40.86%) Database Tuning
7 24 (25.81%) Test Automation
8 19 (20.43%) DevOps
9 16 (17.20%) OO
10 15 (16.13%) Scrum
11 14 (15.05%) CI/CD
12 11 (11.83%) User Acceptance Testing
13 10 (10.75%) Containerisation
14 9 (9.68%) OOP
14 9 (9.68%) Requirements Gathering
15 8 (8.60%) Deployment Automation
15 8 (8.60%) Migration
15 8 (8.60%) Project Delivery
16 7 (7.53%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 71 (76.34%) SQL
2 65 (69.89%) Java
3 41 (44.09%) Python
4 40 (43.01%) Shell Script
5 8 (8.60%) JavaScript
5 8 (8.60%) PL/SQL
6 5 (5.38%) C#
7 3 (3.23%) ABAP
8 1 (1.08%) C++
8 1 (1.08%) Perl
8 1 (1.08%) VB
8 1 (1.08%) VB6
Qualifications
1 21 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 20 (21.51%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.60%) Degree
4 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.15%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.08%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.13%) QA
2 6 (6.45%) ISO 20022
2 6 (6.45%) PSD2
2 6 (6.45%) SEPA
3 3 (3.23%) NCSC
4 1 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (11.83%) Docker
2 1 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (10.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.23%) Prometheus
2 3 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.08%) Kibana
3 1 (1.08%) logstash
Vendors
1 38 (40.86%) Sybase
2 19 (20.43%) Oracle
3 13 (13.98%) SAP
4 10 (10.75%) Microsoft
5 9 (9.68%) ServiceNow
5 9 (9.68%) webMethods
6 8 (8.60%) Blue Prism
6 8 (8.60%) IBM
7 7 (7.53%) TIBCO
8 5 (5.38%) Google
8 5 (5.38%) Software AG
9 4 (4.30%) Siebel
10 3 (3.23%) Dynatrace
10 3 (3.23%) Pega
10 3 (3.23%) Red Hat
10 3 (3.23%) Splunk
10 3 (3.23%) VMware
11 2 (2.15%) Informatica
12 1 (1.08%) Murex
12 1 (1.08%) Salesforce