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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 463 565
Rank change year-on-year -150 +102 +60
Contract jobs citing JMS 32 74 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.063% 0.25% 0.039%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.32% 1.08% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 40 12
10th Percentile £407 £414 £409
25th Percentile £438 £452 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £533
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -2.35% +1.43%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £816
90th Percentile £575 £753 £874
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% -9.68%

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 9,907 6,842 9,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.53% 22.85% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,502 4,663 6,379
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 131 280
10th Percentile £30.15 £29.07 £22.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £38.52 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £74.45 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £57.13
% change year-on-year +4.00% +9.41% -12.12%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 -112 30 £491 -5.65% 3
London -72 21 £500 +1.73% 2
Work from Home -78 9 £500 -9.09% 2
UK excluding London -141 9 £481 -8.33% 2
Midlands -53 4 £450 +14.65% 1
West Midlands - 4 £450 -
North West -47 3 £491 -10.80%
North of England -84 3 £491 -10.80%
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 (12.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 4 (12.50%) WebSphere
2 3 (9.38%) Anypoint
2 3 (9.38%) JBoss
3 2 (6.25%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (6.25%) Mule
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (6.25%) WebLogic
3 2 (6.25%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (6.25%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (3.13%) Camunda
4 1 (3.13%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (9.38%) Fidessa
2 2 (6.25%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 13 (40.63%) AWS
2 8 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (9.38%) GCP
4 2 (6.25%) SaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.13%) Boomi
5 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) HTTP
2 2 (6.25%) DNS
2 2 (6.25%) Firewall
2 2 (6.25%) SSL
2 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.13%) AMQP
3 1 (3.13%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.25%) Db2
4 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
4 2 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (6.25%) Tableau
5 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.13%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (31.25%) Git
2 7 (21.88%) JIRA
3 6 (18.75%) Jenkins
4 4 (12.50%) JUnit
5 3 (9.38%) Gradle
6 2 (6.25%) GitLab
6 2 (6.25%) GoCD
6 2 (6.25%) Introscope
7 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.13%) Maven
7 1 (3.13%) Mockito
7 1 (3.13%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Banking
2 9 (28.13%) Finance
3 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Front Office
4 4 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 3 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (50.00%) Developer
2 8 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Lead
3 4 (12.50%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Electronics Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Java Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Lead Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Middleware Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Pega Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Systems Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Backend Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Pega Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Middleware Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Messaging Developer
6 1 (3.13%) MuleSoft Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Performance Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) SAP Integration Consultant
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (50.00%) Spring
2 15 (46.88%) REST
3 12 (37.50%) Spring Boot
4 9 (28.13%) Kafka
4 9 (28.13%) Middleware
4 9 (28.13%) XML
5 7 (21.88%) SOAP
6 6 (18.75%) Web Services
7 5 (15.63%) J2EE
7 5 (15.63%) RESTful
8 4 (12.50%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (9.38%) Apache Camel
9 3 (9.38%) JDBC
9 3 (9.38%) JSON
9 3 (9.38%) Spring MVC
10 2 (6.25%) WebSphere MQ
10 2 (6.25%) WSDL
10 2 (6.25%) XSD
10 2 (6.25%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Cloud Native
1 5 (15.63%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (15.63%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.38%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.38%) Clustering
2 3 (9.38%) Equities
2 3 (9.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (9.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.13%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) Linux
2 3 (9.38%) Unix
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 2 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) Agile
2 16 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 14 (43.75%) Scrum
4 13 (40.63%) DevOps
5 12 (37.50%) Microservices
6 9 (28.13%) Integration Patterns
6 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (21.88%) Containerisation
7 7 (21.88%) SOA
7 7 (21.88%) Unit Testing
8 6 (18.75%) Migration
9 5 (15.63%) Design Patterns
9 5 (15.63%) Electronic Trading
9 5 (15.63%) Integration Testing
9 5 (15.63%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (15.63%) SDLC
9 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
10 4 (12.50%) Event-Driven
10 4 (12.50%) Order Management
10 4 (12.50%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 21 (65.63%) Java
2 11 (34.38%) SQL
3 5 (15.63%) Python
4 2 (6.25%) Bash
4 2 (6.25%) C#
4 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.25%) Jython
4 2 (6.25%) Perl
4 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.25%) XPath
5 1 (3.13%) ABAP
5 1 (3.13%) ActionScript
5 1 (3.13%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (3.13%) DataWeave
5 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (9.38%) ISO 20022
2 3 (9.38%) PSD2
2 3 (9.38%) SEPA
3 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Ansible
2 5 (15.63%) Kubernetes
3 3 (9.38%) Grafana
4 2 (6.25%) CA Wily
4 2 (6.25%) TIBCO Hawk
4 2 (6.25%) Tivoli
5 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (43.75%) Oracle
2 8 (25.00%) IBM
2 8 (25.00%) Pega
3 5 (15.63%) AppDynamics
4 4 (12.50%) MuleSoft
5 3 (9.38%) Bloomberg
5 3 (9.38%) Charles River
5 3 (9.38%) Splunk
5 3 (9.38%) TIBCO
6 2 (6.25%) BEA
6 2 (6.25%) Informatica
6 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.13%) Dell
7 1 (3.13%) Google
7 1 (3.13%) SAP
7 1 (3.13%) SEEBURGER
7 1 (3.13%) Solace
7 1 (3.13%) Sybase