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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 572 462 566
Rank change year-on-year -110 +104 +69
Contract jobs citing JMS 53 56 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.19% 0.041%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.56% 0.85% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 35 16
10th Percentile £350 £423 £431
25th Percentile £445 £460 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £495
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +9.09% -15.53%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £529
90th Percentile £659 £620 £545
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £477 £490
% change year-on-year +2.96% -2.76% -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 9,448 6,572 8,951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.06% 22.60% 20.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,298 4,490 6,266
10th Percentile £358 £363 £331
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £498 £500
% change year-on-year +0.50% -0.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 98 172
10th Percentile £35.03 £26.25 £20.47
25th Percentile £52.50 £40.19 £31.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.87 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £85.43 £72.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.36%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -82 48 £500 -9.09% 8
London -51 34 £500 -9.09% 3
Work from Home -43 19 £585 +6.36% 4
UK excluding London -125 15 £491 +2.96% 5
North West -45 8 £481 +0.68%
North of England -66 8 £481 +0.68% 1
Midlands - 3 £513 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £513 -
Scotland -16 2 £635 +33.68%
South East - 2 - - 3

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 (18.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 9 (16.98%) WebSphere
3 7 (13.21%) WebLogic
4 3 (5.66%) JBoss
5 2 (3.77%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (3.77%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (3.77%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (3.77%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (1.89%) Anypoint
6 1 (1.89%) Camunda
6 1 (1.89%) Confluence
6 1 (1.89%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 7 (13.21%) BusinessWorks
2 4 (7.55%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (7.55%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.89%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 19 (35.85%) AWS
2 18 (33.96%) Azure
3 5 (9.43%) GCP
4 4 (7.55%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (7.55%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (5.66%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.89%) Boomi
6 1 (1.89%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.43%) HTTPS
2 3 (5.66%) HTTP
3 2 (3.77%) DNS
3 2 (3.77%) Firewall
3 2 (3.77%) SSL
3 2 (3.77%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.89%) AMQP
4 1 (1.89%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.64%) SQL Server
2 10 (18.87%) Relational Database
3 9 (16.98%) DB2
4 3 (5.66%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.66%) Oracle Database
4 3 (5.66%) Tableau
5 2 (3.77%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.89%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (22.64%) Git
1 12 (22.64%) JIRA
2 7 (13.21%) Jenkins
2 7 (13.21%) JUnit
3 5 (9.43%) GitLab
4 2 (3.77%) Gatling
4 2 (3.77%) Introscope
4 2 (3.77%) JMeter
5 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.89%) Maven
5 1 (1.89%) Mockito
5 1 (1.89%) Postman
5 1 (1.89%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (37.74%) Banking
2 17 (32.08%) Finance
3 16 (30.19%) Social Skills
4 8 (15.09%) Investment Banking
5 7 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
6 6 (11.32%) Front Office
7 4 (7.55%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (64.15%) Developer
2 14 (26.42%) Java Developer
3 10 (18.87%) Senior
4 6 (11.32%) TIBCO Developer
5 5 (9.43%) Senior Developer
5 5 (9.43%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (9.43%) webMethods Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Electronics Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Lead
7 3 (5.66%) Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Lead Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Middleware Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Pega Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Pega Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Systems Architect
7 3 (5.66%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Performance Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Test Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) SQL Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (41.51%) Spring
2 19 (35.85%) REST
2 19 (35.85%) XML
3 17 (32.08%) Spring Boot
4 15 (28.30%) Kafka
4 15 (28.30%) SOAP
5 11 (20.75%) Web Services
6 10 (18.87%) J2EE
6 10 (18.87%) Middleware
7 7 (13.21%) OC4J
7 7 (13.21%) TIBCO EMS
7 7 (13.21%) WSDL
7 7 (13.21%) XSD
7 7 (13.21%) XSLT
8 6 (11.32%) JSON
9 5 (9.43%) AngularJS
9 5 (9.43%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (9.43%) HTML
9 5 (9.43%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (7.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) Cloud Native
2 7 (13.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 6 (11.32%) Equities
4 4 (7.55%) Algorithms
4 4 (7.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.66%) Clustering
5 3 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.77%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.89%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.09%) Linux
2 2 (3.77%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.77%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 2 (3.77%) Unix
2 2 (3.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (47.17%) Agile
2 23 (43.40%) CI/CD
3 22 (41.51%) DevOps
4 18 (33.96%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (32.08%) Test Automation
6 15 (28.30%) Containerisation
7 14 (26.42%) SOA
8 12 (22.64%) Microservices
8 12 (22.64%) SDLC
9 9 (16.98%) UML
9 9 (16.98%) Unit Testing
10 7 (13.21%) Anti-Money Laundering
10 7 (13.21%) Design Patterns
10 7 (13.21%) Integration Patterns
10 7 (13.21%) OOA/OOD
10 7 (13.21%) Resource Management
10 7 (13.21%) RUP
10 7 (13.21%) Scrum
10 7 (13.21%) User Acceptance Testing
11 6 (11.32%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (54.72%) Java
2 18 (33.96%) SQL
3 13 (24.53%) Python
4 7 (13.21%) XPath
5 3 (5.66%) C#
5 3 (5.66%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.66%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.77%) Bash
6 2 (3.77%) Jython
6 2 (3.77%) Perl
6 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.77%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.89%) ABAP
7 1 (1.89%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.89%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (1.89%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 10 (18.87%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.09%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (5.66%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (26.42%) QA
2 7 (13.21%) ISO 20022
2 7 (13.21%) PSD2
2 7 (13.21%) SEPA
3 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (22.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (22.64%) Kubernetes
2 7 (13.21%) TIBCO Hawk
3 5 (9.43%) Ansible
4 4 (7.55%) Grafana
5 3 (5.66%) Terraform
6 2 (3.77%) CA Wily
6 2 (3.77%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 22 (41.51%) Oracle
2 17 (32.08%) IBM
3 10 (18.87%) Pega
4 7 (13.21%) BEA
4 7 (13.21%) TIBCO
5 6 (11.32%) AppDynamics
5 6 (11.32%) SAP
6 5 (9.43%) Software AG
6 5 (9.43%) webMethods
7 4 (7.55%) Bloomberg
7 4 (7.55%) Charles River
7 4 (7.55%) Splunk
8 3 (5.66%) Sybase
9 2 (3.77%) Informatica
9 2 (3.77%) MuleSoft
9 2 (3.77%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.89%) Dell
10 1 (1.89%) SEEBURGER