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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 462 570
Rank change year-on-year -111 +108 +61
Contract jobs citing JMS 48 59 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.20% 0.034%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.51% 0.88% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 38 12
10th Percentile £350 £429 £441
25th Percentile £440 £456 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £502 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.30% +1.31% -14.66%
75th Percentile £565 £569 £540
90th Percentile £663 £618 £549
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £478 £490
% change year-on-year +0.68% -2.45% -14.78%

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 9,451 6,681 8,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.43% 22.69% 20.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,290 4,581 6,209
10th Percentile £358 £363 £337
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -0.57% -4.00%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £726 £775 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 103 203
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.18 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.53 £37.35
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £71.13 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.79 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -24.00%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -106 44 £500 -1.77% 6
London -37 32 £500 -7.41% 2
Work from Home -43 18 £585 +6.36% 2
UK excluding London -126 13 £481 +0.68% 4
North West -48 7 £464 -2.90% 1
North of England -66 7 £464 -2.90% 1
Midlands - 3 £513 -
West Midlands - 3 £513 -
South East - 2 - - 2
Scotland -26 1 £635 +20.95%

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 (18.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 9 (18.75%) WebSphere
2 7 (14.58%) WebLogic
3 3 (6.25%) JBoss
4 2 (4.17%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (4.17%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (4.17%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (4.17%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (2.08%) Anypoint
5 1 (2.08%) Camunda
5 1 (2.08%) Confluence
5 1 (2.08%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 7 (14.58%) BusinessWorks
2 4 (8.33%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (8.33%) Fidessa
3 1 (2.08%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 17 (35.42%) AWS
2 16 (33.33%) Azure
3 5 (10.42%) GCP
4 4 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (6.25%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.17%) SaaS
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.08%) Boomi
7 1 (2.08%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) HTTPS
2 3 (6.25%) HTTP
3 2 (4.17%) DNS
3 2 (4.17%) Firewall
3 2 (4.17%) SSL
3 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.08%) AMQP
4 1 (2.08%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.92%) SQL Server
2 8 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 7 (14.58%) DB2
4 3 (6.25%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.17%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.17%) Tableau
6 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.08%) SAP HANA
6 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (22.92%) Git
1 11 (22.92%) JIRA
2 7 (14.58%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.42%) JUnit
4 3 (6.25%) GitLab
5 2 (4.17%) Introscope
6 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.08%) Maven
6 1 (2.08%) Mockito
6 1 (2.08%) Postman
6 1 (2.08%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (33.33%) Banking
2 14 (29.17%) Finance
2 14 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.58%) Public Sector
4 6 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.42%) Front Office
6 4 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (66.67%) Developer
2 12 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 7 (14.58%) Senior
4 6 (12.50%) TIBCO Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Electronics Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Lead
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (8.33%) webMethods Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Lead Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Middleware Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Pega Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Pega Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Systems Architect
6 3 (6.25%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Backend Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (43.75%) Spring
2 18 (37.50%) Spring Boot
3 17 (35.42%) XML
4 16 (33.33%) REST
5 14 (29.17%) SOAP
6 13 (27.08%) Kafka
7 11 (22.92%) Web Services
8 10 (20.83%) J2EE
9 8 (16.67%) Middleware
10 7 (14.58%) OC4J
10 7 (14.58%) TIBCO EMS
10 7 (14.58%) WSDL
10 7 (14.58%) XSD
10 7 (14.58%) XSLT
11 6 (12.50%) RESTful
12 5 (10.42%) AngularJS
12 5 (10.42%) FIX Protocol
12 5 (10.42%) JSON
13 4 (8.33%) HTML
14 3 (6.25%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 4 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 4 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (8.33%) Equities
3 4 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.25%) Clustering
4 3 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.08%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 2 (4.17%) Unix
2 2 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (47.92%) Agile
2 22 (45.83%) CI/CD
2 22 (45.83%) DevOps
3 17 (35.42%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (31.25%) Containerisation
5 14 (29.17%) Microservices
5 14 (29.17%) Test Automation
6 13 (27.08%) SOA
7 11 (22.92%) Unit Testing
8 9 (18.75%) Design Patterns
8 9 (18.75%) Scrum
8 9 (18.75%) UML
9 8 (16.67%) Integration Testing
9 8 (16.67%) SDLC
10 7 (14.58%) Integration Patterns
10 7 (14.58%) OOA/OOD
10 7 (14.58%) Resource Management
10 7 (14.58%) RUP
11 6 (12.50%) Anti-Money Laundering
11 6 (12.50%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 27 (56.25%) Java
2 15 (31.25%) SQL
3 9 (18.75%) Python
4 7 (14.58%) XPath
5 3 (6.25%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.17%) Bash
6 2 (4.17%) C#
6 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.17%) Jython
6 2 (4.17%) Perl
6 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.08%) ABAP
7 1 (2.08%) ActionScript
7 1 (2.08%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (2.08%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 10 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.92%) QA
2 6 (12.50%) ISO 20022
2 6 (12.50%) PSD2
2 6 (12.50%) SEPA
3 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (20.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.58%) TIBCO Hawk
3 5 (10.42%) Ansible
4 4 (8.33%) Grafana
5 3 (6.25%) Terraform
6 2 (4.17%) CA Wily
6 2 (4.17%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 20 (41.67%) Oracle
2 16 (33.33%) IBM
3 9 (18.75%) Pega
4 7 (14.58%) BEA
4 7 (14.58%) TIBCO
5 6 (12.50%) AppDynamics
6 5 (10.42%) SAP
7 4 (8.33%) Bloomberg
7 4 (8.33%) Charles River
7 4 (8.33%) Software AG
7 4 (8.33%) Splunk
7 4 (8.33%) webMethods
8 2 (4.17%) Informatica
8 2 (4.17%) MuleSoft
8 2 (4.17%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.08%) Dell
9 1 (2.08%) SEEBURGER
9 1 (2.08%) Sybase