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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 470 569
Rank change year-on-year -30 +99 +42
Contract jobs citing JMS 85 64 29
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.20% 0.065%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.01% 0.91% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 42 27
10th Percentile £350 £460 £478
25th Percentile £444 £519 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -13.22%
75th Percentile £651 £630 £565
90th Percentile £688 £696 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £477 -
% change year-on-year +4.09% - -

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 8,387 7,065 9,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.14% 22.40% 21.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,591 4,484 6,647
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -0.93% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £765 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 92 189
10th Percentile £34.60 £22.31 £26.62
25th Percentile £46.25 £37.88 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.10 £76.97 £76.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -0.77% +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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -42 69 £500 -16.67% 8
London -18 44 £550 -8.33% 3
Work from Home +5 41 £635 +5.83% 6
UK excluding London -54 29 £496 +4.09% 6
North of England -41 17 £492 -18.20% 3
North West -12 16 £496 +3.77% 3
Scotland +9 9 £635 +27.64%
South West - 2 £421 -
Northern Ireland -4 1 - -
Yorkshire -47 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 10 (11.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (9.41%) WebSphere
3 7 (8.24%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.35%) Confluence
5 1 (1.18%) JBoss
5 1 (1.18%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 7 (8.24%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (2.35%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (2.35%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.18%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 29 (34.12%) Azure
2 24 (28.24%) AWS
3 8 (9.41%) GCP
4 4 (4.71%) Power Automate
5 3 (3.53%) Azure AKS
6 2 (2.35%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.18%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (18.82%) HTTPS
2 4 (4.71%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (32.94%) Relational Database
2 24 (28.24%) DB2
3 16 (18.82%) MongoDB
4 13 (15.29%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.71%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.53%) Oracle Database
6 3 (3.53%) Tableau
7 2 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.18%) Data Mart
8 1 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.18%) Redis
8 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (24.71%) JIRA
2 19 (22.35%) Git
3 18 (21.18%) JUnit
4 6 (7.06%) GitLab
5 5 (5.88%) Gatling
5 5 (5.88%) JMeter
6 3 (3.53%) Jenkins
7 2 (2.35%) Maven
8 1 (1.18%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.18%) Mockito
8 1 (1.18%) Postman
8 1 (1.18%) TeamCity
General
1 41 (48.24%) Banking
2 38 (44.71%) Finance
3 36 (42.35%) Social Skills
4 23 (27.06%) Investment Banking
5 20 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (14.12%) Front Office
7 4 (4.71%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Back Office
9 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (76.47%) Developer
2 31 (36.47%) Java Developer
3 17 (20.00%) Senior
4 16 (18.82%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 16 (18.82%) SQL Developer
4 16 (18.82%) webMethods Developer
5 12 (14.12%) Senior Developer
5 12 (14.12%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (9.41%) Linux Developer
6 8 (9.41%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
6 8 (9.41%) Senior SQL Developer
6 8 (9.41%) Sybase Developer
7 6 (7.06%) TIBCO Developer
8 5 (5.88%) Performance Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Performance Test Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Senior Performance Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (44.71%) Spring
2 33 (38.82%) XML
3 32 (37.65%) Kafka
4 26 (30.59%) SOAP
5 24 (28.24%) REST
6 22 (25.88%) Spring Boot
7 16 (18.82%) JSON
8 12 (14.12%) Middleware
9 11 (12.94%) XSD
10 9 (10.59%) AngularJS
10 9 (10.59%) TIBCO EMS
11 8 (9.41%) Web Services
12 7 (8.24%) J2EE
12 7 (8.24%) OC4J
12 7 (8.24%) WSDL
12 7 (8.24%) XSLT
13 6 (7.06%) React
14 5 (5.88%) gRPC
14 5 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (5.88%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 20 (23.53%) Equities
2 16 (18.82%) Cloud Native
2 16 (18.82%) Data Structures
3 13 (15.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (2.35%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) Clustering
5 1 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.18%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (28.24%) Linux
2 2 (2.35%) Unix
3 1 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (50.59%) Agile
2 40 (47.06%) Test Automation
3 36 (42.35%) DevOps
4 34 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (35.29%) SDLC
6 28 (32.94%) CI/CD
7 19 (22.35%) Multithreading
8 18 (21.18%) Containerisation
9 17 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
10 16 (18.82%) Database Tuning
10 16 (18.82%) Open Source
11 14 (16.47%) Deployment Automation
12 13 (15.29%) Anti-Money Laundering
12 13 (15.29%) SOA
12 13 (15.29%) User Acceptance Testing
13 12 (14.12%) Unit Testing
14 11 (12.94%) Microservices
15 10 (11.76%) Integration Testing
16 9 (10.59%) Requirements Gathering
16 9 (10.59%) UML
Programming Languages
1 49 (57.65%) Java
2 44 (51.76%) SQL
3 27 (31.76%) Python
4 17 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 7 (8.24%) XPath
6 6 (7.06%) C#
7 3 (3.53%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.53%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.18%) C++
Qualifications
1 25 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 22 (25.88%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.88%) Degree
4 4 (4.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (29.41%) QA
2 13 (15.29%) ISO 20022
2 13 (15.29%) PSD2
2 13 (15.29%) SEPA
3 1 (1.18%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (24.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (24.71%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.24%) TIBCO Hawk
3 3 (3.53%) Terraform
4 2 (2.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 27 (31.76%) Oracle
2 21 (24.71%) IBM
3 17 (20.00%) SAP
3 17 (20.00%) Sybase
4 16 (18.82%) webMethods
5 12 (14.12%) Software AG
6 9 (10.59%) TIBCO
7 7 (8.24%) BEA
7 7 (8.24%) Pega
8 5 (5.88%) Microsoft
8 5 (5.88%) ServiceNow
9 4 (4.71%) Blue Prism
10 2 (2.35%) AppDynamics
10 2 (2.35%) Bloomberg
10 2 (2.35%) Charles River
10 2 (2.35%) Google
10 2 (2.35%) Informatica
10 2 (2.35%) Splunk
11 1 (1.18%) Azul
11 1 (1.18%) Salesforce