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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 506 584
Rank change year-on-year +38 +78 +49
Contract jobs citing JMS 97 57 58
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.27% 0.68% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 41 42
10th Percentile £335 £440 £430
25th Percentile £423 £579 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.80% +19.05% -17.65%
75th Percentile £675 £763 £631
90th Percentile £695 £863 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £473 £435
% change year-on-year +5.82% +8.62% -20.91%

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 7,654 8,325 10,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 23.01% 22.13% 22.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,034 5,296 7,693
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% -1.32% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £672
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 164 204
10th Percentile £30.18 £25.18 £38.38
25th Percentile £41.13 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £50.72 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.97% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.56
% change year-on-year -15.38% +16.99% -14.52%

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 16 October 2025.

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 12 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 16 October 2025. 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 £504 -20.04% 12
Work from Home +58 55 £588 -3.89% 8
UK excluding London +17 47 £500 +5.82% 6
London +18 37 £638 +1.19% 7
Scotland +22 22 £525 +11.70%
North of England -8 16 £500 -31.03% 2
North West - 14 £500 -
South West +16 6 £335 -
East Midlands -8 2 £393 -
Midlands -19 2 £393 - 2
Yorkshire -26 2 £412 -43.14% 2
Northern Ireland -8 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 (4.12%) Confluence
1 4 (4.12%) WebSphere
2 3 (3.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (3.09%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.06%) JBoss
4 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.03%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 23 (23.71%) Azure
2 13 (13.40%) AWS
3 9 (9.28%) Power Automate
4 6 (6.19%) GCP
5 4 (4.12%) OpenShift
6 3 (3.09%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.37%) HTTPS
2 9 (9.28%) HTTP
3 3 (3.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (48.45%) Relational Database
2 40 (41.24%) DB2
3 38 (39.18%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.15%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.09%) Oracle Database
5 3 (3.09%) Siebel EIM
5 3 (3.09%) Tableau
6 1 (1.03%) Data Mart
6 1 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (44.33%) JUnit
2 24 (24.74%) JIRA
3 20 (20.62%) Git
4 6 (6.19%) JMeter
5 5 (5.15%) Gatling
5 5 (5.15%) GitLab
5 5 (5.15%) Jenkins
6 3 (3.09%) Log4j
7 2 (2.06%) Eclipse
7 2 (2.06%) IntelliJ
7 2 (2.06%) Maven
7 2 (2.06%) Mockito
7 2 (2.06%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.06%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.03%) Ant
8 1 (1.03%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.03%) Gradle
8 1 (1.03%) NeoLoad
8 1 (1.03%) Selenium
8 1 (1.03%) SoapUI
General
1 63 (64.95%) Social Skills
2 58 (59.79%) Finance
3 53 (54.64%) Banking
4 44 (45.36%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (39.18%) Investment Banking
6 22 (22.68%) Front Office
7 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.03%) Back Office
8 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Law
8 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (82.47%) Developer
2 49 (50.52%) Java Developer
3 36 (37.11%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 36 (37.11%) SQL Developer
4 25 (25.77%) Senior
5 20 (20.62%) Senior Developer
5 20 (20.62%) Senior Java Developer
6 18 (18.56%) Linux Developer
6 18 (18.56%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
6 18 (18.56%) Senior SQL Developer
6 18 (18.56%) Sybase Developer
7 12 (12.37%) webMethods Developer
8 5 (5.15%) Performance Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Performance Test Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Senior Performance Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.09%) Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (54.64%) Kafka
2 52 (53.61%) Spring
3 26 (26.80%) XML
4 23 (23.71%) SOAP
5 15 (15.46%) REST
6 13 (13.40%) JSON
7 11 (11.34%) Middleware
8 10 (10.31%) AngularJS
8 10 (10.31%) Spring Boot
9 9 (9.28%) React
9 9 (9.28%) XSD
10 6 (6.19%) HTML
10 6 (6.19%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (5.15%) gRPC
11 5 (5.15%) Hibernate
11 5 (5.15%) Playwright
11 5 (5.15%) Rendezvous
11 5 (5.15%) TIBCO EMS
11 5 (5.15%) WebSockets
12 4 (4.12%) AWT
Miscellaneous
1 43 (44.33%) Equities
2 38 (39.18%) Data Structures
3 14 (14.43%) Cloud Native
4 8 (8.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (3.09%) Derivative
5 3 (3.09%) Equity Derivative
5 3 (3.09%) Replication
6 2 (2.06%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 52 (53.61%) Linux
2 8 (8.25%) Unix
3 2 (2.06%) Windows
4 1 (1.03%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (73.20%) Agile
2 50 (51.55%) SDLC
3 49 (50.52%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (44.33%) Multithreading
4 43 (44.33%) Performance Tuning
5 39 (40.21%) Database Tuning
5 39 (40.21%) Open Source
6 34 (35.05%) Test Automation
7 24 (24.74%) DevOps
8 21 (21.65%) CI/CD
9 17 (17.53%) OO
10 13 (13.40%) Scrum
11 11 (11.34%) Containerisation
11 11 (11.34%) Deployment Automation
12 10 (10.31%) OOP
12 10 (10.31%) User Acceptance Testing
13 9 (9.28%) Project Delivery
14 8 (8.25%) Anti-Money Laundering
14 8 (8.25%) Requirements Gathering
15 7 (7.22%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 70 (72.16%) SQL
2 64 (65.98%) Java
3 44 (45.36%) Python
4 39 (40.21%) Shell Script
5 7 (7.22%) C#
5 7 (7.22%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.15%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.03%) C++
7 1 (1.03%) Perl
Qualifications
1 24 (24.74%) Security Cleared
2 21 (21.65%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.28%) Degree
4 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.06%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.03%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (22.68%) QA
2 8 (8.25%) ISO 20022
2 8 (8.25%) PSD2
2 8 (8.25%) SEPA
3 1 (1.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (17.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (16.49%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.09%) Prometheus
2 3 (3.09%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.03%) Kibana
3 1 (1.03%) logstash
Vendors
1 39 (40.21%) Sybase
2 19 (19.59%) Oracle
3 13 (13.40%) SAP
4 12 (12.37%) webMethods
5 11 (11.34%) IBM
6 10 (10.31%) Microsoft
6 10 (10.31%) ServiceNow
7 9 (9.28%) Blue Prism
8 8 (8.25%) Software AG
9 7 (7.22%) TIBCO
10 5 (5.15%) Google
11 3 (3.09%) Dynatrace
11 3 (3.09%) Pega
11 3 (3.09%) Red Hat
11 3 (3.09%) Siebel
11 3 (3.09%) Splunk
12 2 (2.06%) Informatica
13 1 (1.03%) Murex
13 1 (1.03%) Salesforce
13 1 (1.03%) VMware