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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 464 565
Rank change year-on-year -102 +101 +64
Contract jobs citing JMS 52 59 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.20% 0.036%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.55% 0.89% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 38 14
10th Percentile £350 £429 £428
25th Percentile £442 £460 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £495
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +7.58% -15.53%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £536
90th Percentile £661 £627 £547
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £477 £490
% change year-on-year +1.00% -2.76% -14.78%

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 9,519 6,643 8,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.72% 22.69% 20.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,337 4,556 6,233
10th Percentile £358 £363 £334
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £726 £775 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £494 £500
% change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 102 185
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.28 £20.48
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.39 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +39.67% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.75 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.90 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -24.00%

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 13 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 13 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 -88 47 £500 -9.09% 9
London -41 34 £500 -9.09% 4
Work from Home -41 20 £585 +6.36% 4
UK excluding London -124 14 £481 +1.00% 5
North West -41 7 £464 -2.90% 1
North of England -72 7 £464 -2.90% 1
Midlands - 3 £513 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £513 -
Scotland -20 2 £635 +27.00%
South East - 2 - - 2

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 9 (17.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 9 (17.31%) WebSphere
2 7 (13.46%) WebLogic
3 3 (5.77%) JBoss
4 2 (3.85%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (3.85%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (3.85%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (3.85%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (1.92%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.92%) Camunda
5 1 (1.92%) Confluence
5 1 (1.92%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 7 (13.46%) BusinessWorks
2 4 (7.69%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (7.69%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.92%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 18 (34.62%) AWS
2 17 (32.69%) Azure
3 6 (11.54%) GCP
4 4 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (5.77%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.85%) SaaS
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.92%) Boomi
7 1 (1.92%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.62%) HTTPS
2 3 (5.77%) HTTP
3 2 (3.85%) DNS
3 2 (3.85%) Firewall
3 2 (3.85%) SSL
3 2 (3.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.92%) AMQP
4 1 (1.92%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.15%) SQL Server
2 10 (19.23%) Relational Database
3 9 (17.31%) DB2
4 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.85%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.85%) Tableau
6 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.92%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (21.15%) Git
1 11 (21.15%) JIRA
2 7 (13.46%) Jenkins
2 7 (13.46%) JUnit
3 4 (7.69%) GitLab
4 2 (3.85%) Introscope
5 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.92%) Gatling
5 1 (1.92%) JMeter
5 1 (1.92%) Maven
5 1 (1.92%) Mockito
5 1 (1.92%) Postman
5 1 (1.92%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (34.62%) Banking
2 16 (30.77%) Finance
2 16 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 8 (15.38%) Investment Banking
4 7 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (13.46%) Public Sector
5 6 (11.54%) Front Office
6 4 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (67.31%) Developer
2 14 (26.92%) Java Developer
3 9 (17.31%) Senior
4 6 (11.54%) TIBCO Developer
5 5 (9.62%) Senior Developer
5 5 (9.62%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (9.62%) webMethods Developer
6 4 (7.69%) Electronics Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Lead
7 3 (5.77%) Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Lead Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Middleware Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Pega Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Pega Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Systems Architect
7 3 (5.77%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Backend Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Investment Banking Java Developer
8 2 (3.85%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (44.23%) Spring
2 18 (34.62%) Spring Boot
2 18 (34.62%) XML
3 17 (32.69%) REST
4 16 (30.77%) Kafka
5 15 (28.85%) SOAP
6 11 (21.15%) Web Services
7 10 (19.23%) J2EE
8 9 (17.31%) Middleware
9 7 (13.46%) OC4J
9 7 (13.46%) TIBCO EMS
9 7 (13.46%) WSDL
9 7 (13.46%) XSD
9 7 (13.46%) XSLT
10 6 (11.54%) JSON
10 6 (11.54%) RESTful
11 5 (9.62%) AngularJS
11 5 (9.62%) FIX Protocol
12 4 (7.69%) HTML
12 4 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.54%) Equities
2 6 (11.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 4 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 4 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.77%) Clustering
4 3 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.85%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.92%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.38%) Linux
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.85%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 2 (3.85%) Unix
2 2 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (48.08%) Agile
2 23 (44.23%) CI/CD
2 23 (44.23%) DevOps
3 19 (36.54%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (30.77%) Test Automation
5 15 (28.85%) Containerisation
6 14 (26.92%) Microservices
7 13 (25.00%) SOA
8 11 (21.15%) Unit Testing
9 10 (19.23%) SDLC
10 9 (17.31%) Design Patterns
10 9 (17.31%) Scrum
10 9 (17.31%) UML
11 8 (15.38%) Integration Testing
12 7 (13.46%) Integration Patterns
12 7 (13.46%) OOA/OOD
12 7 (13.46%) Resource Management
12 7 (13.46%) RUP
13 6 (11.54%) Code Quality
13 6 (11.54%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 29 (55.77%) Java
2 17 (32.69%) SQL
3 12 (23.08%) Python
4 7 (13.46%) XPath
5 3 (5.77%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.85%) Bash
6 2 (3.85%) C#
6 2 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.85%) Jython
6 2 (3.85%) Perl
6 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.85%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.92%) ABAP
7 1 (1.92%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.92%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (1.92%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (23.08%) QA
2 6 (11.54%) ISO 20022
2 6 (11.54%) PSD2
2 6 (11.54%) SEPA
3 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (21.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (21.15%) Kubernetes
2 7 (13.46%) TIBCO Hawk
3 5 (9.62%) Ansible
4 4 (7.69%) Grafana
5 3 (5.77%) Terraform
6 2 (3.85%) CA Wily
6 2 (3.85%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 20 (38.46%) Oracle
2 17 (32.69%) IBM
3 9 (17.31%) Pega
4 7 (13.46%) BEA
4 7 (13.46%) TIBCO
5 6 (11.54%) AppDynamics
5 6 (11.54%) SAP
6 5 (9.62%) Software AG
6 5 (9.62%) webMethods
7 4 (7.69%) Bloomberg
7 4 (7.69%) Charles River
7 4 (7.69%) Splunk
8 3 (5.77%) Sybase
9 2 (3.85%) Informatica
9 2 (3.85%) MuleSoft
9 2 (3.85%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.92%) Dell
10 1 (1.92%) SEEBURGER