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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 462 577
Rank change year-on-year -133 +115 +50
Contract jobs citing JMS 38 63 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.080% 0.21% 0.030%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.40% 0.94% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 39 10
10th Percentile £413 £431 £403
25th Percentile £447 £458 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £510
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +5.88% -12.07%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £540
90th Percentile £608 £639 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £538 £490
% change year-on-year -16.28% +9.69% -15.52%

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 9,455 6,675 8,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.79% 22.71% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,241 4,579 6,200
10th Percentile £360 £363 £343
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £650
90th Percentile £726 £776 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 114 242
10th Percentile £35.00 £29.55 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.20 £82.70 £74.95
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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -114 36 £491 -9.14% 3
London -53 24 £500 -7.41% 1
Work from Home -56 14 £500 -9.09% 1
UK excluding London -125 12 £450 -16.28% 2
North West -43 6 £447 -13.04%
North of England -65 6 £447 -13.04%
Midlands - 4 £450 -
West Midlands - 4 £450 -
South East - 2 - - 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 4 (10.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 4 (10.53%) WebSphere
2 3 (7.89%) JBoss
3 2 (5.26%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (5.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (5.26%) WebLogic
3 2 (5.26%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (5.26%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (2.63%) Anypoint
4 1 (2.63%) Camunda
4 1 (2.63%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (10.53%) Fidessa
2 2 (5.26%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 15 (39.47%) AWS
2 14 (36.84%) Azure
3 4 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (10.53%) GCP
4 3 (7.89%) Azure AKS
5 2 (5.26%) SaaS
6 1 (2.63%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) HTTP
2 2 (5.26%) DNS
2 2 (5.26%) Firewall
2 2 (5.26%) SSL
2 2 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.63%) AMQP
3 1 (2.63%) FTP
3 1 (2.63%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.89%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.26%) DB2
3 2 (5.26%) Oracle Database
3 2 (5.26%) Tableau
4 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.63%) SAP HANA
4 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (28.95%) Git
2 10 (26.32%) JIRA
3 6 (15.79%) Jenkins
4 4 (10.53%) JUnit
5 2 (5.26%) GitLab
5 2 (5.26%) Introscope
6 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.63%) Mockito
6 1 (2.63%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (36.84%) Banking
2 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
3 11 (28.95%) Finance
4 8 (21.05%) Public Sector
5 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (13.16%) Front Office
5 5 (13.16%) Investment Banking
6 4 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (55.26%) Developer
2 9 (23.68%) Java Developer
3 6 (15.79%) Senior
4 5 (13.16%) Lead
5 4 (10.53%) Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Electronics Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Lead Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Pega Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Systems Architect
6 3 (7.89%) Middleware Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Pega Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Backend Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Java Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Middleware Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Integration Consultant
8 1 (2.63%) MuleSoft Developer
8 1 (2.63%) SAP Integration Consultant
8 1 (2.63%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (47.37%) Spring
2 17 (44.74%) REST
3 15 (39.47%) Spring Boot
4 10 (26.32%) Kafka
5 9 (23.68%) XML
6 8 (21.05%) Middleware
6 8 (21.05%) SOAP
7 6 (15.79%) Web Services
8 5 (13.16%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (13.16%) J2EE
8 5 (13.16%) RESTful
9 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
9 3 (7.89%) JDBC
9 3 (7.89%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (7.89%) Spring MVC
10 2 (5.26%) TIBCO EMS
10 2 (5.26%) WebSphere MQ
10 2 (5.26%) WSDL
10 2 (5.26%) XSD
10 2 (5.26%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Cloud Native
2 6 (15.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 4 (10.53%) Algorithms
3 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (10.53%) Equities
3 4 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (10.53%) Product Ownership
4 3 (7.89%) Clustering
4 3 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.63%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.79%) Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (5.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 2 (5.26%) Unix
2 2 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (57.89%) Agile
2 20 (52.63%) CI/CD
3 19 (50.00%) DevOps
4 15 (39.47%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (36.84%) Containerisation
6 13 (34.21%) Microservices
7 11 (28.95%) Test Automation
8 10 (26.32%) Scrum
8 10 (26.32%) Unit Testing
9 8 (21.05%) Integration Testing
9 8 (21.05%) SDLC
9 8 (21.05%) SOA
10 7 (18.42%) Integration Patterns
11 6 (15.79%) Anti-Money Laundering
11 6 (15.79%) Event-Driven
11 6 (15.79%) Migration
11 6 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
12 5 (13.16%) Code Quality
12 5 (13.16%) Electronic Trading
12 5 (13.16%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 24 (63.16%) Java
2 13 (34.21%) SQL
3 9 (23.68%) Python
4 3 (7.89%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.26%) Bash
5 2 (5.26%) C#
5 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.26%) Jython
5 2 (5.26%) Perl
5 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.26%) XPath
6 1 (2.63%) ABAP
6 1 (2.63%) ActionScript
6 1 (2.63%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (2.63%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 7 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (26.32%) QA
2 6 (15.79%) ISO 20022
2 6 (15.79%) PSD2
2 6 (15.79%) SEPA
3 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.16%) Ansible
3 4 (10.53%) Grafana
4 3 (7.89%) Terraform
5 2 (5.26%) CA Wily
5 2 (5.26%) TIBCO Hawk
5 2 (5.26%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 14 (36.84%) Oracle
2 10 (26.32%) Pega
3 8 (21.05%) IBM
4 6 (15.79%) AppDynamics
5 4 (10.53%) Bloomberg
5 4 (10.53%) Charles River
5 4 (10.53%) Splunk
6 2 (5.26%) BEA
6 2 (5.26%) Informatica
6 2 (5.26%) MuleSoft
6 2 (5.26%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.26%) SAP
6 2 (5.26%) TIBCO
7 1 (2.63%) Dell
7 1 (2.63%) SEEBURGER
7 1 (2.63%) Software AG
7 1 (2.63%) webMethods