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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 469 578
Rank change year-on-year -81 +109 +65
Contract jobs citing JMS 62 53 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.18% 0.054%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.67% 0.78% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 33 21
10th Percentile £350 £423 £436
25th Percentile £447 £460 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +4.76% -10.41%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £550
90th Percentile £665 £630 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 -
% change year-on-year +6.38% - -

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 9,204 6,783 9,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.79% 22.79% 20.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,150 4,506 6,317
10th Percentile £358 £363 £337
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% - -7.49%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £498
% change year-on-year - +0.50% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 94 221
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.75 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £72.73 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.88 £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 9 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 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 9 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 -54 53 £500 -13.79% 8
London -24 39 £516 -14.08% 2
Work from Home -27 25 £620 +33.05% 4
UK excluding London -90 17 £500 +6.38% 4
North West -19 10 £481 +3.27% 1
North of England -50 10 £481 +3.27% 1
Scotland -7 5 £635 +35.11%
Midlands - 1 £575 - 1
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 (16.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (12.90%) WebSphere
3 7 (11.29%) WebLogic
4 4 (6.45%) JBoss
5 1 (1.61%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.61%) Confluence
5 1 (1.61%) NetWeaver
5 1 (1.61%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 7 (11.29%) BusinessWorks
2 4 (6.45%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (6.45%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.61%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 20 (32.26%) AWS
1 20 (32.26%) Azure
2 7 (11.29%) GCP
3 4 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (4.84%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.61%) Boomi
5 1 (1.61%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.61%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.29%) HTTPS
2 2 (3.23%) HTTP
3 1 (1.61%) AMQP
3 1 (1.61%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (27.42%) Relational Database
2 16 (25.81%) DB2
3 13 (20.97%) SQL Server
4 8 (12.90%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.84%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.84%) Tableau
6 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.61%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (22.58%) Git
2 13 (20.97%) JIRA
2 13 (20.97%) JUnit
3 6 (9.68%) GitLab
4 5 (8.06%) Gatling
4 5 (8.06%) Jenkins
4 5 (8.06%) JMeter
5 1 (1.61%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.61%) Maven
5 1 (1.61%) Mockito
5 1 (1.61%) Postman
5 1 (1.61%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (43.55%) Banking
2 23 (37.10%) Finance
3 19 (30.65%) Social Skills
4 14 (22.58%) Investment Banking
5 13 (20.97%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (14.52%) Front Office
7 4 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 43 (69.35%) Developer
2 21 (33.87%) Java Developer
3 14 (22.58%) Senior
4 8 (12.90%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 8 (12.90%) Senior Developer
4 8 (12.90%) Senior Java Developer
4 8 (12.90%) SQL Developer
5 7 (11.29%) webMethods Developer
6 6 (9.68%) TIBCO Developer
7 5 (8.06%) Performance Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Performance Test Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Senior Performance Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Senior Test Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Test Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) Linux Developer
8 4 (6.45%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
8 4 (6.45%) Senior SQL Developer
8 4 (6.45%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (45.16%) Spring
2 22 (35.48%) Kafka
2 22 (35.48%) XML
3 21 (33.87%) REST
4 17 (27.42%) SOAP
4 17 (27.42%) Spring Boot
5 12 (19.35%) Middleware
6 11 (17.74%) Web Services
7 10 (16.13%) J2EE
8 8 (12.90%) JSON
8 8 (12.90%) XSD
9 7 (11.29%) OC4J
9 7 (11.29%) TIBCO EMS
9 7 (11.29%) WSDL
9 7 (11.29%) XSLT
10 6 (9.68%) AngularJS
11 5 (8.06%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (8.06%) gRPC
11 5 (8.06%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (8.06%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.35%) Cloud Native
1 12 (19.35%) Equities
2 8 (12.90%) Data Structures
2 8 (12.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 4 (6.45%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.61%) Clustering
5 1 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.61%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.97%) Linux
2 1 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (45.16%) Agile
2 24 (38.71%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (38.71%) Test Automation
3 22 (35.48%) CI/CD
4 21 (33.87%) DevOps
5 18 (29.03%) SDLC
6 15 (24.19%) Containerisation
7 14 (22.58%) SOA
8 11 (17.74%) Microservices
9 9 (14.52%) Multithreading
9 9 (14.52%) UML
9 9 (14.52%) Unit Testing
10 8 (12.90%) Anti-Money Laundering
10 8 (12.90%) Database Tuning
10 8 (12.90%) Open Source
10 8 (12.90%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (12.90%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (11.29%) Design Patterns
11 7 (11.29%) OOA/OOD
11 7 (11.29%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (59.68%) Java
2 27 (43.55%) SQL
3 19 (30.65%) Python
4 8 (12.90%) Shell Script
5 7 (11.29%) XPath
6 4 (6.45%) C#
7 3 (4.84%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.84%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.61%) ABAP
8 1 (1.61%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.61%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (1.61%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 13 (20.97%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.84%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (27.42%) QA
2 8 (12.90%) ISO 20022
2 8 (12.90%) PSD2
2 8 (12.90%) SEPA
3 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (24.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (24.19%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.29%) TIBCO Hawk
3 4 (6.45%) Grafana
4 3 (4.84%) Ansible
4 3 (4.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (35.48%) Oracle
2 16 (25.81%) IBM
3 9 (14.52%) Sybase
4 8 (12.90%) SAP
5 7 (11.29%) BEA
5 7 (11.29%) Pega
5 7 (11.29%) Software AG
5 7 (11.29%) TIBCO
5 7 (11.29%) webMethods
6 4 (6.45%) AppDynamics
6 4 (6.45%) Bloomberg
6 4 (6.45%) Charles River
6 4 (6.45%) Splunk
7 2 (3.23%) Informatica
7 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.61%) Blue Prism
8 1 (1.61%) Dell
8 1 (1.61%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.61%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.61%) SEEBURGER