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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 655 448 513
Rank change year-on-year -207 +65 +69
Contract jobs citing JMS 27 92 49
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.049% 0.28% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.23% 1.09% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 44 35
10th Percentile £425 £335 £449
25th Percentile - £421 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -20.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £781
90th Percentile £760 £734 £870
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £496 £475
% change year-on-year -9.27% +4.42% -12.44%

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 11,819 8,433 9,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.66% 25.97% 24.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,774 5,630 6,231
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £504 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.00% -5.00% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 186 190
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% +2.67%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.25 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +10.11%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -174 25 £488 -2.50% 15
London -91 18 £525 -16.00% 8
UK excluding London -143 9 £450 -9.27% 10
Work from Home -106 6 £450 -18.18% 9
Midlands -47 5 £523 +33.12% 4
West Midlands - 5 £523 - 2
South East - 2 £450 -
Northern Ireland +5 1 - - 2
Scotland -47 1 £375 -31.82%

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 3 (11.11%) Anypoint
1 3 (11.11%) Mule
2 2 (7.41%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.70%) Camunda
3 1 (3.70%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (3.70%) Traefik
3 1 (3.70%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (3.70%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 13 (48.15%) AWS
2 8 (29.63%) Azure
3 7 (25.93%) OpenShift
4 5 (18.52%) GCP
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.41%) SaaS
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.70%) AtomSphere
6 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) Boomi
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub
6 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) SSL
2 1 (3.70%) DNS
2 1 (3.70%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) HTTP
2 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle Database
2 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
3 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.70%) MySQL
5 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (44.44%) Git
2 10 (37.04%) Jenkins
3 5 (18.52%) Bitbucket
3 5 (18.52%) Maven
4 4 (14.81%) GitLab
4 4 (14.81%) Gradle
4 4 (14.81%) JUnit
5 3 (11.11%) GoCD
5 3 (11.11%) JIRA
6 2 (7.41%) REST Assured
7 1 (3.70%) Bundler
7 1 (3.70%) IntelliJ
7 1 (3.70%) Introscope
7 1 (3.70%) JProfiler
7 1 (3.70%) Leiningen
7 1 (3.70%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 10 (37.04%) Finance
3 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Billing
5 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.70%) Front Office
5 1 (3.70%) German Language
5 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (55.56%) Developer
2 11 (40.74%) Java Developer
3 7 (25.93%) Senior
4 5 (18.52%) Senior Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Architect
5 4 (14.81%) Lead
6 3 (11.11%) Backend Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Java Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Lead Architect
6 3 (11.11%) Pega Architect
6 3 (11.11%) Systems Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Consultant
8 1 (3.70%) Integration Architect
8 1 (3.70%) Integration Consultant
8 1 (3.70%) Lead Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Lead Java Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Performance Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Principal Software Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (66.67%) Spring
2 11 (40.74%) REST
3 9 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 7 (25.93%) Jakarta EE
4 7 (25.93%) JDBC
4 7 (25.93%) Kafka
4 7 (25.93%) SOAP
5 5 (18.52%) OAuth
5 5 (18.52%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (14.81%) Middleware
6 4 (14.81%) OpenAPI
6 4 (14.81%) Swagger
7 3 (11.11%) Hibernate
7 3 (11.11%) J2SE
7 3 (11.11%) OpenID
8 2 (7.41%) gRPC
8 2 (7.41%) JSF
8 2 (7.41%) Protocol Buffers
8 2 (7.41%) RESTful
8 2 (7.41%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (44.44%) Product Ownership
2 5 (18.52%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (18.52%) Spread Betting
3 4 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.70%) Clustering
5 1 (3.70%) Credit Risk
5 1 (3.70%) Derivative
5 1 (3.70%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
2 3 (11.11%) Unix
3 2 (7.41%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (81.48%) Agile
2 21 (77.78%) CI/CD
3 15 (55.56%) Microservices
4 12 (44.44%) Scrum
5 10 (37.04%) DevOps
6 8 (29.63%) Integration Patterns
7 7 (25.93%) Migration
8 6 (22.22%) Containerisation
8 6 (22.22%) Event-Driven
8 6 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 6 (22.22%) Test Automation
9 5 (18.52%) SDLC
9 5 (18.52%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (14.81%) Design Patterns
10 4 (14.81%) Integration Testing
10 4 (14.81%) Performance Optimisation
10 4 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (14.81%) TDD
10 4 (14.81%) User Experience
11 3 (11.11%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 20 (74.07%) Java
2 12 (44.44%) SQL
3 5 (18.52%) PL/SQL
4 2 (7.41%) Bash
5 1 (3.70%) DataWeave
5 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.70%) Jython
5 1 (3.70%) Perl
5 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.70%) Python
5 1 (3.70%) Ruby
5 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 9 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 9 (33.33%) Ansible
3 2 (7.41%) Grafana
3 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.70%) Argo
4 1 (3.70%) CA Wily
4 1 (3.70%) Istio
4 1 (3.70%) Podman
4 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.70%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 13 (48.15%) Oracle
2 5 (18.52%) IBM
3 4 (14.81%) MuleSoft
3 4 (14.81%) Pega
4 2 (7.41%) Dynatrace
4 2 (7.41%) Google
4 2 (7.41%) SAP
4 2 (7.41%) Sybase
4 2 (7.41%) TIBCO
5 1 (3.70%) AppDynamics
5 1 (3.70%) Dell
5 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.70%) Solace
5 1 (3.70%) Splunk
5 1 (3.70%) webMethods