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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 464 561
Rank change year-on-year -97 +97 +81
Contract jobs citing JMS 58 54 22
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.18% 0.050%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.62% 0.81% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 35 20
10th Percentile £350 £417 £435
25th Percentile £447 £460 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year -7.09% +11.11% -15.53%
75th Percentile £615 £585 £550
90th Percentile £670 £630 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £490
% change year-on-year +4.60% -2.45% -15.15%

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 9,352 6,661 8,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.33% 22.71% 20.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,252 4,486 6,245
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £495
% change year-on-year +0.91% +0.10% -2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 96 203
10th Percentile £35.13 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.06 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.19 £64.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.53 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 21 March 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 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 21 March 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 -86 51 £500 -9.09% 6
London -39 38 £516 -11.12% 4
Work from Home -29 23 £620 +12.73% 3
UK excluding London -100 15 £500 +4.60% 2
North West -27 9 £491 +2.64%
North of England -67 9 £491 +2.64%
Scotland -9 4 £635 +27.64%
South East - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 £575 -
Midlands - 1 £575 - 1

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 (17.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (13.79%) WebSphere
3 7 (12.07%) WebLogic
4 3 (5.17%) JBoss
5 1 (1.72%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.72%) Confluence
5 1 (1.72%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (1.72%) NetWeaver
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (1.72%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (1.72%) WebSphere Portal
Business Applications
1 7 (12.07%) BusinessWorks
2 4 (6.90%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (6.90%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.72%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 19 (32.76%) AWS
2 18 (31.03%) Azure
3 7 (12.07%) GCP
4 4 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (5.17%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.72%) Boomi
6 1 (1.72%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.07%) HTTPS
2 2 (3.45%) HTTP
3 1 (1.72%) AMQP
3 1 (1.72%) DNS
3 1 (1.72%) Firewall
3 1 (1.72%) FTP
3 1 (1.72%) SSL
3 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (24.14%) Relational Database
2 13 (22.41%) DB2
3 12 (20.69%) SQL Server
4 6 (10.34%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.17%) Oracle Database
5 3 (5.17%) Tableau
6 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.72%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (20.69%) Git
2 11 (18.97%) JIRA
2 11 (18.97%) JUnit
3 7 (12.07%) GitLab
4 6 (10.34%) Jenkins
5 5 (8.62%) Gatling
5 5 (8.62%) JMeter
6 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.72%) Introscope
6 1 (1.72%) Maven
6 1 (1.72%) Mockito
6 1 (1.72%) Postman
6 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (41.38%) Banking
2 20 (34.48%) Finance
3 17 (29.31%) Social Skills
4 12 (20.69%) Investment Banking
5 11 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (13.79%) Front Office
7 4 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (67.24%) Developer
2 18 (31.03%) Java Developer
3 14 (24.14%) Senior
4 7 (12.07%) Senior Developer
4 7 (12.07%) Senior Java Developer
4 7 (12.07%) webMethods Developer
5 6 (10.34%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 6 (10.34%) SQL Developer
5 6 (10.34%) TIBCO Developer
6 5 (8.62%) Performance Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Performance Test Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Senior Performance Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Senior Test Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Test Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Electronics Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Java Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Linux Developer
8 3 (5.17%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (43.10%) Spring
2 21 (36.21%) XML
3 20 (34.48%) Kafka
4 19 (32.76%) REST
5 16 (27.59%) Spring Boot
6 15 (25.86%) SOAP
7 12 (20.69%) Middleware
8 11 (18.97%) Web Services
9 10 (17.24%) J2EE
10 8 (13.79%) JSON
11 7 (12.07%) OC4J
11 7 (12.07%) TIBCO EMS
11 7 (12.07%) WSDL
11 7 (12.07%) XSD
11 7 (12.07%) XSLT
12 6 (10.34%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (8.62%) AngularJS
13 5 (8.62%) FIX Protocol
13 5 (8.62%) gRPC
13 5 (8.62%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.97%) Cloud Native
2 10 (17.24%) Equities
3 7 (12.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 6 (10.34%) Data Structures
5 4 (6.90%) Algorithms
5 4 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.45%) Clustering
6 2 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.72%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.97%) Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.72%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 1 (1.72%) Unix
2 1 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.10%) Agile
2 22 (37.93%) CI/CD
2 22 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (37.93%) Test Automation
3 21 (36.21%) DevOps
4 16 (27.59%) SDLC
5 14 (24.14%) Containerisation
5 14 (24.14%) SOA
6 11 (18.97%) Microservices
7 9 (15.52%) UML
7 9 (15.52%) Unit Testing
8 7 (12.07%) Anti-Money Laundering
8 7 (12.07%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (12.07%) Design Patterns
8 7 (12.07%) Multithreading
8 7 (12.07%) OOA/OOD
8 7 (12.07%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (12.07%) Resource Management
8 7 (12.07%) RUP
8 7 (12.07%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (56.90%) Java
2 22 (37.93%) SQL
3 18 (31.03%) Python
4 7 (12.07%) XPath
5 6 (10.34%) Shell Script
6 4 (6.90%) C#
7 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.17%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.72%) ABAP
8 1 (1.72%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.72%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (1.72%) Bash
8 1 (1.72%) DataWeave
8 1 (1.72%) Jython
8 1 (1.72%) Perl
8 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (5.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (27.59%) QA
2 7 (12.07%) ISO 20022
2 7 (12.07%) PSD2
2 7 (12.07%) SEPA
3 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (24.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (24.14%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.07%) TIBCO Hawk
3 4 (6.90%) Ansible
3 4 (6.90%) Grafana
4 3 (5.17%) Terraform
5 1 (1.72%) CA Wily
5 1 (1.72%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 21 (36.21%) Oracle
2 17 (29.31%) IBM
3 8 (13.79%) SAP
4 7 (12.07%) BEA
4 7 (12.07%) Pega
4 7 (12.07%) Software AG
4 7 (12.07%) Sybase
4 7 (12.07%) TIBCO
4 7 (12.07%) webMethods
5 5 (8.62%) AppDynamics
6 4 (6.90%) Bloomberg
6 4 (6.90%) Charles River
6 4 (6.90%) Splunk
7 2 (3.45%) Informatica
8 1 (1.72%) Dell
8 1 (1.72%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.72%) SEEBURGER