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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 455 556
Rank change year-on-year -142 +101 +50
Contract jobs citing JMS 30 67 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.062% 0.23% 0.031%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.32% 1.02% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 41 10
10th Percentile £404 £415 £403
25th Percentile £448 £453 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £478 £510
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% -6.27% -7.27%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £540
90th Percentile £558 £613 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £466 £478 £490
% change year-on-year -2.59% -2.45% -14.04%

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 9,479 6,553 8,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.58% 22.76% 20.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,231 4,491 6,213
10th Percentile £363 £361 £346
25th Percentile £420 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £736 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 106 250
10th Percentile £30.61 £27.45 £21.68
25th Percentile £51.25 £38.16 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.75 £65.95
90th Percentile £79.80 £81.35 £74.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.43
% change year-on-year - +34.21% -25.49%

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 25 May 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 9 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 25 May 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 -128 28 £481 +1.96%
London -79 18 £500 +1.73%
UK excluding London -145 10 £466 -2.59% 2
Work from Home -60 8 £500 -9.09%
North West -49 4 £481 -6.37%
Midlands -60 4 £450 +14.65%
North of England -87 4 £481 -6.37%
West Midlands - 4 £450 -
South East - 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 4 (13.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 4 (13.33%) WebSphere
2 3 (10.00%) JBoss
3 2 (6.67%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (6.67%) WebLogic
3 2 (6.67%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (6.67%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (3.33%) Anypoint
4 1 (3.33%) Camunda
4 1 (3.33%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (10.00%) Fidessa
2 2 (6.67%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) Azure
3 3 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (6.67%) SaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) HTTP
2 2 (6.67%) DNS
2 2 (6.67%) Firewall
2 2 (6.67%) SSL
2 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.33%) AMQP
3 1 (3.33%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.67%) DB2
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database
3 2 (6.67%) Tableau
4 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.33%) SAP HANA
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (30.00%) Git
2 8 (26.67%) JIRA
3 6 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (13.33%) JUnit
5 2 (6.67%) GitLab
5 2 (6.67%) Introscope
6 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.33%) Mockito
6 1 (3.33%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (36.67%) Banking
2 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 9 (30.00%) Finance
4 5 (16.67%) Investment Banking
4 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (13.33%) Front Office
6 3 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Lead
4 3 (10.00%) Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Electronics Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Lead Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Middleware Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Pega Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Pega Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior
4 3 (10.00%) Systems Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Backend Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Java Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Middleware Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Integration Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft Developer
6 1 (3.33%) SAP Integration Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Senior ABAP Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Senior SAP Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) TIBCO Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (43.33%) REST
1 13 (43.33%) Spring
2 10 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 8 (26.67%) Kafka
3 8 (26.67%) XML
4 7 (23.33%) Middleware
4 7 (23.33%) SOAP
5 6 (20.00%) Web Services
6 5 (16.67%) J2EE
6 5 (16.67%) RESTful
7 4 (13.33%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (10.00%) JDBC
8 3 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (10.00%) Spring MVC
9 2 (6.67%) HTML
9 2 (6.67%) HTML5
9 2 (6.67%) WebSphere MQ
9 2 (6.67%) WSDL
9 2 (6.67%) XSD
9 2 (6.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (13.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 3 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 3 (10.00%) Clustering
3 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (10.00%) Equities
3 3 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.33%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (6.67%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 2 (6.67%) Unix
2 2 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) Agile
2 14 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 12 (40.00%) DevOps
4 10 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (33.33%) Scrum
5 9 (30.00%) Microservices
6 8 (26.67%) SOA
6 8 (26.67%) Unit Testing
7 7 (23.33%) Containerisation
8 6 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
8 6 (20.00%) Integration Testing
8 6 (20.00%) Migration
8 6 (20.00%) SDLC
9 5 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (13.33%) Anti-Money Laundering
10 4 (13.33%) Electronic Trading
10 4 (13.33%) Runbook
10 4 (13.33%) Test Automation
10 4 (13.33%) UML
10 4 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) Java
2 10 (33.33%) SQL
3 5 (16.67%) Python
4 2 (6.67%) Bash
4 2 (6.67%) C#
4 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.67%) Jython
4 2 (6.67%) Perl
4 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.67%) XPath
5 1 (3.33%) ABAP
5 1 (3.33%) ActionScript
5 1 (3.33%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (3.33%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) QA
2 4 (13.33%) ISO 20022
2 4 (13.33%) PSD2
2 4 (13.33%) SEPA
3 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Ansible
1 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.00%) Grafana
3 2 (6.67%) CA Wily
3 2 (6.67%) TIBCO Hawk
3 2 (6.67%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) Oracle
2 9 (30.00%) Pega
3 7 (23.33%) IBM
4 5 (16.67%) AppDynamics
5 3 (10.00%) Bloomberg
5 3 (10.00%) Charles River
5 3 (10.00%) Splunk
6 2 (6.67%) BEA
6 2 (6.67%) Informatica
6 2 (6.67%) MuleSoft
6 2 (6.67%) Red Hat
6 2 (6.67%) TIBCO
7 1 (3.33%) Dell
7 1 (3.33%) SAP
7 1 (3.33%) SEEBURGER