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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 468 574
Rank change year-on-year -48 +106 +61
Contract jobs citing JMS 76 58 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.19% 0.055%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.88% 0.84% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 36 23
10th Percentile £350 £460 £441
25th Percentile £452 £539 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £659 £630 £550
90th Percentile £688 £681 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £502 -
% change year-on-year -0.30% - -

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 8,626 6,926 9,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.12% 22.42% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,755 4,420 6,583
10th Percentile £358 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +0.47% -6.96%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 86 193
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.32 £25.80
25th Percentile £50.13 £38.69 £45.88
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.83 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -46 64 £500 -16.67% 13
London -33 42 £550 -8.33% 11
Work from Home +6 36 £650 +8.33% 9
UK excluding London -59 24 £500 -0.30% 4
North of England -40 16 £492 -18.20% 1
North West -8 15 £496 +3.77% 1
Scotland +4 7 £635 +27.64%
Yorkshire -58 1 £325 -55.24%
South West - 1 £508 -

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 10 (13.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (10.53%) WebSphere
3 7 (9.21%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.32%) Confluence
4 1 (1.32%) JBoss
4 1 (1.32%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 7 (9.21%) BusinessWorks
2 3 (3.95%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (3.95%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.32%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 25 (32.89%) Azure
2 24 (31.58%) AWS
3 8 (10.53%) GCP
4 3 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (3.95%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.32%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.32%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (21.05%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (27.63%) Relational Database
2 20 (26.32%) DB2
3 13 (17.11%) SQL Server
4 12 (15.79%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.26%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.95%) Oracle Database
6 3 (3.95%) Tableau
7 2 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.32%) Redis
8 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (21.05%) JIRA
2 15 (19.74%) Git
3 14 (18.42%) JUnit
4 6 (7.89%) GitLab
5 5 (6.58%) Gatling
5 5 (6.58%) JMeter
6 3 (3.95%) Jenkins
7 2 (2.63%) Maven
8 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.32%) Mockito
8 1 (1.32%) Postman
8 1 (1.32%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (47.37%) Banking
2 31 (40.79%) Finance
3 28 (36.84%) Social Skills
4 19 (25.00%) Investment Banking
5 16 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (13.16%) Front Office
7 4 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (73.68%) Developer
2 26 (34.21%) Java Developer
3 16 (21.05%) webMethods Developer
4 15 (19.74%) Senior
5 12 (15.79%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 12 (15.79%) SQL Developer
6 10 (13.16%) Senior Developer
6 10 (13.16%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (7.89%) Linux Developer
7 6 (7.89%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
7 6 (7.89%) Senior SQL Developer
7 6 (7.89%) Sybase Developer
7 6 (7.89%) TIBCO Developer
8 5 (6.58%) Performance Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Performance Test Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Senior Performance Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (43.42%) Spring
2 30 (39.47%) XML
3 28 (36.84%) Kafka
4 24 (31.58%) REST
5 23 (30.26%) SOAP
6 21 (27.63%) Spring Boot
7 16 (21.05%) JSON
8 11 (14.47%) Middleware
9 8 (10.53%) TIBCO EMS
9 8 (10.53%) Web Services
9 8 (10.53%) XSD
10 7 (9.21%) J2EE
10 7 (9.21%) OC4J
10 7 (9.21%) WSDL
10 7 (9.21%) XSLT
11 6 (7.89%) AngularJS
12 5 (6.58%) FIX Protocol
12 5 (6.58%) gRPC
12 5 (6.58%) Playwright
12 5 (6.58%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.05%) Equities
2 15 (19.74%) Cloud Native
3 12 (15.79%) Data Structures
3 12 (15.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (3.95%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.32%) Clustering
6 1 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.32%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 18 (23.68%) Linux
2 1 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (47.37%) Test Automation
2 34 (44.74%) DevOps
3 33 (43.42%) Agile
4 30 (39.47%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (34.21%) CI/CD
5 26 (34.21%) SDLC
6 18 (23.68%) Containerisation
7 14 (18.42%) Deployment Automation
7 14 (18.42%) Multithreading
8 13 (17.11%) Performance Tuning
8 13 (17.11%) SOA
9 12 (15.79%) Anti-Money Laundering
9 12 (15.79%) Database Tuning
9 12 (15.79%) Microservices
9 12 (15.79%) Open Source
9 12 (15.79%) Unit Testing
9 12 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
10 10 (13.16%) Integration Testing
11 9 (11.84%) Requirements Gathering
11 9 (11.84%) UML
Programming Languages
1 44 (57.89%) Java
2 35 (46.05%) SQL
3 24 (31.58%) Python
4 12 (15.79%) Shell Script
5 7 (9.21%) XPath
6 6 (7.89%) C#
7 3 (3.95%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.95%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.32%) C++
Qualifications
1 22 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 19 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (5.26%) Degree
4 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (27.63%) QA
2 12 (15.79%) ISO 20022
2 12 (15.79%) PSD2
2 12 (15.79%) SEPA
3 1 (1.32%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.21%) TIBCO Hawk
3 3 (3.95%) Grafana
3 3 (3.95%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (34.21%) Oracle
2 21 (27.63%) IBM
3 17 (22.37%) SAP
4 16 (21.05%) webMethods
5 13 (17.11%) Sybase
6 12 (15.79%) Software AG
7 8 (10.53%) TIBCO
8 7 (9.21%) BEA
8 7 (9.21%) Pega
9 3 (3.95%) AppDynamics
9 3 (3.95%) Bloomberg
9 3 (3.95%) Charles River
9 3 (3.95%) Splunk
10 2 (2.63%) Informatica
10 2 (2.63%) Microsoft
10 2 (2.63%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.32%) Azul
11 1 (1.32%) Blue Prism
11 1 (1.32%) Google
11 1 (1.32%) Salesforce