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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 500 572
Rank change year-on-year +18 +72 +57
Contract jobs citing JMS 96 61 32
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.17% 0.071%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.17% 0.77% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 44 25
10th Percentile £336 £460 -
25th Percentile £415 £573 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +19.05% -16.00%
75th Percentile £651 £754 £650
90th Percentile £688 £818 £820
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £473 -
% change year-on-year -0.63% - -

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 8,221 7,894 9,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.53% 21.85% 22.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,461 4,981 7,083
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £650
90th Percentile £716 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 113 183
10th Percentile £30.10 £22.00 £32.60
25th Percentile £43.00 £38.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.35 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.54% +23.81% -19.23%

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 5 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 5 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 -9 73 £500 -20.63% 7
Work from Home +39 54 £625 +2.46% 6
London +5 44 £600 -4.76% 5
UK excluding London -18 39 £470 -0.63% 6
Scotland +17 16 £568 +20.74%
North of England -28 16 £496 -17.54% 2
North West -6 15 £500 +4.60% 2
South West -3 6 £335 -
Northern Ireland -6 1 - -
Yorkshire -30 1 £325 -55.24%

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 6 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 6 (6.25%) WebLogic
1 6 (6.25%) WebSphere
2 5 (5.21%) Confluence
3 2 (2.08%) JBoss
4 1 (1.04%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.21%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (1.04%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (1.04%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.04%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 33 (34.38%) Azure
2 21 (21.88%) AWS
3 9 (9.38%) Power Automate
4 8 (8.33%) GCP
5 3 (3.13%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.04%) GitHub
6 1 (1.04%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.04%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (16.67%) HTTPS
2 9 (9.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (43.75%) Relational Database
2 35 (36.46%) DB2
3 28 (29.17%) MongoDB
4 8 (8.33%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.13%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.04%) Data Mart
7 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.04%) Redis
7 1 (1.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (33.33%) JUnit
2 28 (29.17%) JIRA
3 23 (23.96%) Git
4 6 (6.25%) GitLab
4 6 (6.25%) JMeter
5 5 (5.21%) Gatling
6 3 (3.13%) Jenkins
6 3 (3.13%) Maven
7 2 (2.08%) Eclipse
7 2 (2.08%) IntelliJ
7 2 (2.08%) Postman
8 1 (1.04%) Ant
8 1 (1.04%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.04%) Gradle
8 1 (1.04%) NeoLoad
8 1 (1.04%) NUnit
8 1 (1.04%) Selenium
8 1 (1.04%) SoapUI
General
1 52 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 48 (50.00%) Finance
3 45 (46.88%) Banking
4 33 (34.38%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (31.25%) Investment Banking
6 17 (17.71%) Front Office
7 4 (4.17%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Back Office
9 1 (1.04%) Law
9 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (83.33%) Developer
2 44 (45.83%) Java Developer
3 28 (29.17%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 28 (29.17%) SQL Developer
4 24 (25.00%) Senior
5 19 (19.79%) Senior Developer
5 19 (19.79%) Senior Java Developer
6 16 (16.67%) webMethods Developer
7 14 (14.58%) Linux Developer
7 14 (14.58%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
7 14 (14.58%) Senior SQL Developer
7 14 (14.58%) Sybase Developer
8 5 (5.21%) Performance Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Performance Test Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Senior Performance Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Test Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) TIBCO Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (51.04%) Spring
2 46 (47.92%) Kafka
3 33 (34.38%) XML
4 28 (29.17%) SOAP
5 20 (20.83%) REST
6 19 (19.79%) Spring Boot
7 17 (17.71%) JSON
8 14 (14.58%) AngularJS
8 14 (14.58%) XSD
9 11 (11.46%) Middleware
9 11 (11.46%) React
10 10 (10.42%) TIBCO EMS
11 6 (6.25%) J2EE
11 6 (6.25%) Web Services
12 5 (5.21%) HTML
12 5 (5.21%) OC4J
12 5 (5.21%) Rendezvous
12 5 (5.21%) WebSockets
12 5 (5.21%) WSDL
12 5 (5.21%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 34 (35.42%) Equities
2 28 (29.17%) Data Structures
3 14 (14.58%) Cloud Native
4 11 (11.46%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (3.13%) Replication
6 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.04%) Derivative
6 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.04%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (37.50%) Linux
2 6 (6.25%) Unix
3 2 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (63.54%) Agile
2 45 (46.88%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (45.83%) Test Automation
4 38 (39.58%) SDLC
5 36 (37.50%) DevOps
6 33 (34.38%) Multithreading
7 30 (31.25%) Performance Tuning
8 29 (30.21%) Database Tuning
8 29 (30.21%) Open Source
9 26 (27.08%) CI/CD
10 17 (17.71%) Containerisation
10 17 (17.71%) OO
11 14 (14.58%) Deployment Automation
12 11 (11.46%) Anti-Money Laundering
12 11 (11.46%) User Acceptance Testing
13 10 (10.42%) OOP
14 9 (9.38%) Integration Testing
14 9 (9.38%) Scrum
14 9 (9.38%) Unit Testing
15 8 (8.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 62 (64.58%) SQL
2 60 (62.50%) Java
3 38 (39.58%) Python
4 29 (30.21%) Shell Script
5 5 (5.21%) C#
5 5 (5.21%) XPath
6 4 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.13%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.04%) C++
8 1 (1.04%) Perl
8 1 (1.04%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (30.21%) Security Cleared
2 26 (27.08%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.29%) Degree
4 2 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (28.13%) QA
2 11 (11.46%) ISO 20022
2 11 (11.46%) PSD2
2 11 (11.46%) SEPA
System Software
1 20 (20.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (19.79%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.21%) TIBCO Hawk
3 3 (3.13%) Terraform
4 1 (1.04%) Grafana
4 1 (1.04%) Kibana
4 1 (1.04%) logstash
Vendors
1 30 (31.25%) Sybase
2 20 (20.83%) Oracle
3 17 (17.71%) IBM
3 17 (17.71%) SAP
4 16 (16.67%) webMethods
5 12 (12.50%) Software AG
6 10 (10.42%) Microsoft
6 10 (10.42%) ServiceNow
6 10 (10.42%) TIBCO
7 9 (9.38%) Blue Prism
8 5 (5.21%) BEA
8 5 (5.21%) Google
9 2 (2.08%) Pega
10 1 (1.04%) AppDynamics
10 1 (1.04%) Azul
10 1 (1.04%) Bloomberg
10 1 (1.04%) Charles River
10 1 (1.04%) Murex
10 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.04%) Splunk