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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 493 559
Rank change year-on-year +3 +66 +64
Contract jobs citing JMS 94 61 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.18% 0.071%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.13% 0.82% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 43 26
10th Percentile £338 £460 £495
25th Percentile £419 £504 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £533
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +12.68% -14.80%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £580
90th Percentile £688 £783 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 -
% change year-on-year -1.16% - -

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 8,330 7,400 9,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.40% 21.93% 21.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,506 4,697 6,776
10th Percentile £353 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% -1.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 91 174
10th Percentile £31.25 £21.25 £31.48
25th Percentile £44.75 £34.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.50 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -2.31% +25.26% -20.17%

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 26 December 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 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 26 December 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 -22 75 £500 -20.00% 7
Work from Home +30 47 £625 +4.17% 2
London +5 46 £583 -7.54% 3
UK excluding London -32 36 £470 -1.16% 4
North of England -44 16 £496 -17.54% 3
North West -13 15 £500 +4.60% 1
Scotland +8 13 £568 +20.74%
South West - 6 £335 -
Northern Ireland -8 1 - -
Yorkshire -39 1 £325 -55.24% 2

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 (9.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (8.51%) WebSphere
3 7 (7.45%) WebLogic
4 5 (5.32%) Confluence
5 1 (1.06%) JBoss
5 1 (1.06%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (7.45%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (1.06%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (1.06%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.06%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 33 (35.11%) Azure
2 21 (22.34%) AWS
3 9 (9.57%) Power Automate
4 8 (8.51%) GCP
5 3 (3.19%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.06%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.02%) HTTPS
2 9 (9.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (40.43%) Relational Database
2 31 (32.98%) DB2
3 22 (23.40%) MongoDB
4 11 (11.70%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.19%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.13%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.13%) Tableau
7 1 (1.06%) Data Mart
7 1 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.06%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (28.72%) JIRA
2 25 (26.60%) JUnit
3 22 (23.40%) Git
4 6 (6.38%) GitLab
4 6 (6.38%) JMeter
5 5 (5.32%) Gatling
6 3 (3.19%) Jenkins
6 3 (3.19%) Maven
7 2 (2.13%) Eclipse
7 2 (2.13%) IntelliJ
7 2 (2.13%) Postman
8 1 (1.06%) Ant
8 1 (1.06%) Gradle
8 1 (1.06%) NeoLoad
8 1 (1.06%) NUnit
8 1 (1.06%) Selenium
8 1 (1.06%) SoapUI
General
1 47 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 44 (46.81%) Finance
3 42 (44.68%) Banking
4 27 (28.72%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (27.66%) Investment Banking
6 14 (14.89%) Front Office
7 4 (4.26%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Back Office
9 1 (1.06%) Law
9 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (80.85%) Developer
2 38 (40.43%) Java Developer
3 22 (23.40%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 22 (23.40%) SQL Developer
4 21 (22.34%) Senior
5 16 (17.02%) Senior Developer
5 16 (17.02%) Senior Java Developer
5 16 (17.02%) webMethods Developer
6 11 (11.70%) Linux Developer
6 11 (11.70%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
6 11 (11.70%) Senior SQL Developer
6 11 (11.70%) Sybase Developer
7 6 (6.38%) TIBCO Developer
8 5 (5.32%) Performance Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Performance Test Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Senior Performance Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (44.68%) Spring
2 40 (42.55%) Kafka
3 38 (40.43%) XML
4 30 (31.91%) SOAP
5 20 (21.28%) REST
6 18 (19.15%) Spring Boot
7 17 (18.09%) JSON
8 16 (17.02%) XSD
9 14 (14.89%) AngularJS
10 12 (12.77%) TIBCO EMS
11 11 (11.70%) Middleware
11 11 (11.70%) React
12 8 (8.51%) J2EE
12 8 (8.51%) Web Services
13 7 (7.45%) OC4J
13 7 (7.45%) WSDL
13 7 (7.45%) XSLT
14 6 (6.38%) HTML
15 5 (5.32%) Rendezvous
15 5 (5.32%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 28 (29.79%) Equities
2 22 (23.40%) Data Structures
3 14 (14.89%) Cloud Native
4 11 (11.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (3.19%) Replication
6 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.06%) Derivative
6 1 (1.06%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (34.04%) Linux
2 6 (6.38%) Unix
3 2 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (59.57%) Agile
2 44 (46.81%) Test Automation
3 39 (41.49%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (37.23%) DevOps
5 33 (35.11%) SDLC
6 27 (28.72%) Multithreading
7 26 (27.66%) CI/CD
8 24 (25.53%) Performance Tuning
9 23 (24.47%) Database Tuning
9 23 (24.47%) Open Source
10 17 (18.09%) OO
11 16 (17.02%) Containerisation
12 14 (14.89%) Deployment Automation
13 11 (11.70%) Anti-Money Laundering
13 11 (11.70%) SOA
13 11 (11.70%) User Acceptance Testing
14 10 (10.64%) OOP
14 10 (10.64%) Scrum
14 10 (10.64%) Unit Testing
15 9 (9.57%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 55 (58.51%) SQL
2 54 (57.45%) Java
3 32 (34.04%) Python
4 23 (24.47%) Shell Script
5 7 (7.45%) XPath
6 6 (6.38%) C#
7 5 (5.32%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.19%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.06%) C++
9 1 (1.06%) Perl
9 1 (1.06%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (30.85%) Security Cleared
2 26 (27.66%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.51%) Degree
4 2 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (28.72%) QA
2 11 (11.70%) ISO 20022
2 11 (11.70%) PSD2
2 11 (11.70%) SEPA
System Software
1 19 (20.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (20.21%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.45%) TIBCO Hawk
3 3 (3.19%) Terraform
4 1 (1.06%) Grafana
4 1 (1.06%) Kibana
4 1 (1.06%) logstash
Vendors
1 24 (25.53%) Sybase
2 23 (24.47%) Oracle
3 19 (20.21%) IBM
4 17 (18.09%) SAP
5 16 (17.02%) webMethods
6 12 (12.77%) Software AG
6 12 (12.77%) TIBCO
7 10 (10.64%) Microsoft
7 10 (10.64%) ServiceNow
8 9 (9.57%) Blue Prism
9 7 (7.45%) BEA
10 5 (5.32%) Google
10 5 (5.32%) Pega
11 1 (1.06%) Azul
11 1 (1.06%) Bloomberg
11 1 (1.06%) Charles River
11 1 (1.06%) Informatica
11 1 (1.06%) Murex
11 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
11 1 (1.06%) Splunk