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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 473 560
Rank change year-on-year -95 +87 +80
Contract jobs citing JMS 60 54 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.18% 0.056%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% 0.81% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 35 22
10th Percentile £350 £417 £439
25th Percentile £447 £460 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +7.84% -12.97%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £550
90th Percentile £665 £630 £823
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £490
% change year-on-year +4.60% -2.45% -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 9,301 6,662 8,998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.54% 22.69% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,200 4,480 6,267
10th Percentile £358 £363 £335
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 96 209
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £40.75 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £72.00 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.48 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 17 March 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 11 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 17 March 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 -77 53 £500 -9.09% 7
London -34 38 £516 -13.72% 3
Work from Home -27 23 £620 +12.73% 3
UK excluding London -110 17 £500 +4.60% 5
North West -30 10 £481 +0.68% 1
North of England -65 10 £481 +0.68% 1
Scotland -7 4 £635 +27.64%
Midlands - 1 £575 - 1
South East - 1 - - 3
South West - 1 £508 -
West Midlands - 1 £575 -

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 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (13.33%) WebSphere
3 7 (11.67%) WebLogic
4 3 (5.00%) JBoss
5 1 (1.67%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.67%) Confluence
5 1 (1.67%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (1.67%) NetWeaver
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (1.67%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (1.67%) WebSphere Portal
Business Applications
1 7 (11.67%) BusinessWorks
2 4 (6.67%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (6.67%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.67%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 20 (33.33%) AWS
1 20 (33.33%) Azure
2 7 (11.67%) GCP
3 4 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (5.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.67%) Boomi
5 1 (1.67%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.67%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.67%) HTTPS
2 3 (5.00%) HTTP
3 1 (1.67%) AMQP
3 1 (1.67%) DNS
3 1 (1.67%) Firewall
3 1 (1.67%) FTP
3 1 (1.67%) SSL
3 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 13 (21.67%) DB2
3 12 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 6 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.00%) Oracle Database
5 3 (5.00%) Tableau
6 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.67%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (23.33%) Git
2 13 (21.67%) JIRA
3 11 (18.33%) JUnit
4 7 (11.67%) GitLab
5 6 (10.00%) Jenkins
6 5 (8.33%) Gatling
6 5 (8.33%) JMeter
7 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.67%) Introscope
7 1 (1.67%) Maven
7 1 (1.67%) Mockito
7 1 (1.67%) Postman
7 1 (1.67%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (41.67%) Banking
2 21 (35.00%) Finance
3 17 (28.33%) Social Skills
4 12 (20.00%) Investment Banking
5 11 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (13.33%) Front Office
7 4 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 41 (68.33%) Developer
2 19 (31.67%) Java Developer
3 14 (23.33%) Senior
4 7 (11.67%) Senior Developer
4 7 (11.67%) Senior Java Developer
4 7 (11.67%) webMethods Developer
5 6 (10.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 6 (10.00%) SQL Developer
5 6 (10.00%) TIBCO Developer
6 5 (8.33%) Performance Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Performance Test Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Senior Performance Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Senior Test Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Test Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Electronics Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Linux Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Senior SQL Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (43.33%) Spring
2 22 (36.67%) XML
3 20 (33.33%) Kafka
3 20 (33.33%) REST
4 17 (28.33%) Spring Boot
5 16 (26.67%) SOAP
6 12 (20.00%) Middleware
7 11 (18.33%) Web Services
8 10 (16.67%) J2EE
9 8 (13.33%) JSON
9 8 (13.33%) XSD
10 7 (11.67%) OC4J
10 7 (11.67%) TIBCO EMS
10 7 (11.67%) WSDL
10 7 (11.67%) XSLT
11 6 (10.00%) AngularJS
11 6 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
12 5 (8.33%) gRPC
12 5 (8.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 10 (16.67%) Equities
3 8 (13.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 6 (10.00%) Data Structures
5 4 (6.67%) Algorithms
5 4 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.33%) Clustering
6 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.67%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.33%) Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.67%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 1 (1.67%) Unix
2 1 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (45.00%) Agile
2 24 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 23 (38.33%) CI/CD
4 22 (36.67%) DevOps
4 22 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (26.67%) SDLC
6 15 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 14 (23.33%) SOA
8 11 (18.33%) Microservices
9 9 (15.00%) UML
9 9 (15.00%) Unit Testing
10 8 (13.33%) Anti-Money Laundering
10 8 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (11.67%) Deployment Automation
11 7 (11.67%) Design Patterns
11 7 (11.67%) Multithreading
11 7 (11.67%) OOA/OOD
11 7 (11.67%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (11.67%) Resource Management
11 7 (11.67%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 34 (56.67%) Java
2 24 (40.00%) SQL
3 18 (30.00%) Python
4 7 (11.67%) XPath
5 6 (10.00%) Shell Script
6 4 (6.67%) C#
7 3 (5.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.00%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.67%) ABAP
8 1 (1.67%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.67%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (1.67%) Bash
8 1 (1.67%) DataWeave
8 1 (1.67%) Jython
8 1 (1.67%) Perl
8 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (21.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (28.33%) QA
2 8 (13.33%) ISO 20022
2 8 (13.33%) PSD2
2 8 (13.33%) SEPA
3 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.67%) TIBCO Hawk
3 4 (6.67%) Ansible
3 4 (6.67%) Grafana
4 3 (5.00%) Terraform
5 1 (1.67%) CA Wily
5 1 (1.67%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 22 (36.67%) Oracle
2 17 (28.33%) IBM
3 8 (13.33%) SAP
4 7 (11.67%) BEA
4 7 (11.67%) Pega
4 7 (11.67%) Software AG
4 7 (11.67%) Sybase
4 7 (11.67%) TIBCO
4 7 (11.67%) webMethods
5 5 (8.33%) AppDynamics
6 4 (6.67%) Bloomberg
6 4 (6.67%) Charles River
6 4 (6.67%) Splunk
7 2 (3.33%) Informatica
8 1 (1.67%) Blue Prism
8 1 (1.67%) Dell
8 1 (1.67%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.67%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.67%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.67%) SEEBURGER