JMS Contracts

Java Messaging Service (JMS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring JMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JMS over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 573 600
Rank change year-on-year +108 +27 +71
Contract jobs citing JMS 74 17 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.039% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.04% 0.18% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 12 63
10th Percentile £415 £409 £380
25th Percentile £453 £473 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% +1.43% -17.32%
75th Percentile £575 £816 £638
90th Percentile £750 £874 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £490 £543
% change year-on-year +12.24% -9.68% +0.46%

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 7,122 9,314 12,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.73% 21.42% 22.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,822 6,381 9,223
10th Percentile £350 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 280 155
10th Percentile £28.29 £22.50 £28.50
25th Percentile £35.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.51 £74.44 £80.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for JMS in the UK

JMS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMS over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JMS in the UK

JMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for JMS in the UK

JMS
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 JMS within the UK over the 6 months to 3 July 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
UK excluding London +75 48 £550 +12.24% 32
England +83 41 £540 +1.41% 41
Work from Home +69 40 £550 -33.33% 25
Scotland - 29 £550 - 4
London +59 24 £492 -8.98% 18
North of England +20 14 £550 +12.24% 2
North West +19 13 £550 +12.24% 1
Midlands +15 2 £393 - 9
East Midlands +4 2 £393 - 4
Wales - 2 £460 -
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 4

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 6 (8.11%) NetWeaver
2 4 (5.41%) WebSphere
3 3 (4.05%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (2.70%) Apache
4 2 (2.70%) JBoss
4 2 (2.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (2.70%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.35%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.35%) CMS
5 1 (1.35%) IIS
5 1 (1.35%) Mule
5 1 (1.35%) nginx
5 1 (1.35%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.81%) AWS
2 6 (8.11%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (5.41%) OpenShift
4 3 (4.05%) Azure
4 3 (4.05%) IBM Cloud
5 2 (2.70%) GitHub
6 1 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.35%) GCP
6 1 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.11%) HTTP
2 3 (4.05%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (54.05%) Relational Database
2 37 (50.00%) MongoDB
3 36 (48.65%) DB2
4 8 (10.81%) Siebel EIM
5 4 (5.41%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.70%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.70%) Tableau
7 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 48 (64.86%) JUnit
2 7 (9.46%) SonarQube
3 6 (8.11%) IntelliJ
4 5 (6.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (6.76%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (6.76%) Gradle
4 5 (6.76%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.76%) Maven
5 3 (4.05%) Log4j
6 2 (2.70%) Git
6 2 (2.70%) Mockito
6 2 (2.70%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.35%) Ant
7 1 (1.35%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.35%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.35%) Hudson
7 1 (1.35%) JIRA
7 1 (1.35%) NUnit
General
1 56 (75.68%) Finance
2 52 (70.27%) Social Skills
3 44 (59.46%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (55.41%) Banking
5 29 (39.19%) Investment Banking
6 18 (24.32%) Front Office
7 12 (16.22%) Public Sector
8 3 (4.05%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.35%) Billing
9 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Retail
9 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (90.54%) Developer
2 47 (63.51%) Java Developer
3 26 (35.14%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 26 (35.14%) SQL Developer
4 19 (25.68%) Senior
4 19 (25.68%) Senior Developer
4 19 (25.68%) Senior Java Developer
5 14 (18.92%) Linux Developer
5 14 (18.92%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 14 (18.92%) Senior SQL Developer
6 12 (16.22%) Sybase Developer
7 7 (9.46%) Siebel Developer
8 6 (8.11%) Integration Developer
8 6 (8.11%) SAP Developer
9 3 (4.05%) Architect
9 3 (4.05%) Pega Developer
10 2 (2.70%) .NET Developer
10 2 (2.70%) Lead
11 1 (1.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 1 (1.35%) WebSphere Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (67.57%) Spring
2 42 (56.76%) Kafka
3 16 (21.62%) SOAP
4 11 (14.86%) XML
5 10 (13.51%) JDBC
5 10 (13.51%) Middleware
5 10 (13.51%) Web Services
6 7 (9.46%) HTML
6 7 (9.46%) REST
7 6 (8.11%) EDI
7 6 (8.11%) IDoc
7 6 (8.11%) JPA
7 6 (8.11%) SAP PI
7 6 (8.11%) XSLT
8 5 (6.76%) Ajax
8 5 (6.76%) Hibernate
9 4 (5.41%) .NET Core
9 4 (5.41%) AngularJS
9 4 (5.41%) OAuth
9 4 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 39 (52.70%) Data Structures
2 36 (48.65%) Equities
3 6 (8.11%) Legacy Applications
3 6 (8.11%) Virtual Team
4 4 (5.41%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.70%) Derivative
6 2 (2.70%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.70%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.35%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 50 (67.57%) Linux
2 3 (4.05%) AIX
3 2 (2.70%) Unix
4 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (72.97%) Agile
2 51 (68.92%) SDLC
3 44 (59.46%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (56.76%) Performance Tuning
5 41 (55.41%) Open Source
6 34 (45.95%) Database Tuning
6 34 (45.95%) Multithreading
7 12 (16.22%) Migration
7 12 (16.22%) System Integration Testing
8 11 (14.86%) Scrum
9 10 (13.51%) CI/CD
10 9 (12.16%) Software Engineering
11 8 (10.81%) Data Modelling
11 8 (10.81%) EAI
11 8 (10.81%) User Acceptance Testing
12 7 (9.46%) Knowledge Transfer
12 7 (9.46%) Microservices
12 7 (9.46%) Unit Testing
13 6 (8.11%) End-to-End Testing
13 6 (8.11%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 59 (79.73%) Java
2 54 (72.97%) SQL
3 38 (51.35%) Python
4 37 (50.00%) Shell Script
5 11 (14.86%) PL/SQL
6 7 (9.46%) JavaScript
7 6 (8.11%) ABAP
8 3 (4.05%) C#
9 1 (1.35%) DataWeave
9 1 (1.35%) VB
9 1 (1.35%) VB6
Qualifications
1 11 (14.86%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.05%) Degree
4 2 (2.70%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.05%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (4.05%) NCSC
2 2 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (12.16%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.05%) Prometheus
2 3 (4.05%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.35%) Argo
3 1 (1.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 37 (50.00%) Sybase
2 15 (20.27%) Oracle
3 8 (10.81%) Siebel
3 8 (10.81%) Splunk
4 6 (8.11%) SAP
5 4 (5.41%) IBM
6 3 (4.05%) Dynatrace
6 3 (4.05%) Pega
6 3 (4.05%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.05%) VMware
7 2 (2.70%) Informatica
7 2 (2.70%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.70%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.70%) TIBCO
8 1 (1.35%) Adobe
8 1 (1.35%) Google
8 1 (1.35%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.35%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.35%) Teradata