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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 637 468 552
Rank change year-on-year -169 +84 +53
Contract jobs citing JMS 28 84 19
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.053% 0.26% 0.046%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.27% 1.14% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 44 14
10th Percentile £417 £366 £393
25th Percentile £431 £435 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £473 £743
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -36.36% +43.83%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £819
90th Percentile £663 £728 £871
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -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 10,224 7,364 8,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.39% 22.60% 21.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,669 4,969 6,075
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £543
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.99% -1.36%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 154 260
10th Percentile £29.72 £30.08 £22.73
25th Percentile £49.20 £38.16 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.71 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.25 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +6.00% +7.20% -0.87%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -114 24 £481 +4.34% 9
London -73 17 £511 +15.35% 8
UK excluding London -153 9 £450 -5.26% 2
Work from Home -98 7 £700 +44.93% 4
Midlands -45 4 £450 +14.65%
West Midlands - 4 £450 -
South East - 2 - -
Northern Ireland +2 1 - -
Scotland -45 1 £375 -25.00%
North West -59 1 - - 1
North of England -86 1 - - 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 (14.29%) Anypoint
2 3 (10.71%) JBoss
2 3 (10.71%) Mule
3 2 (7.14%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (7.14%) WebSphere
3 2 (7.14%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (7.14%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (3.57%) Camunda
4 1 (3.57%) Confluence
4 1 (3.57%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (7.14%) Fidessa
2 1 (3.57%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (28.57%) Azure
3 4 (14.29%) GCP
4 3 (10.71%) OpenShift
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (7.14%) Boomi
5 2 (7.14%) SaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.57%) AtomSphere
6 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub
6 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) HTTP
1 3 (10.71%) SSL
2 2 (7.14%) DNS
2 2 (7.14%) Firewall
2 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.57%) AMQP
3 1 (3.57%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.57%) SAP HANA
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (42.86%) Git
2 10 (35.71%) Jenkins
3 6 (21.43%) JIRA
4 5 (17.86%) JUnit
5 4 (14.29%) Gradle
6 3 (10.71%) GoCD
7 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket
7 2 (7.14%) GitLab
7 2 (7.14%) Introscope
7 2 (7.14%) Maven
8 1 (3.57%) Bundler
8 1 (3.57%) IntelliJ
8 1 (3.57%) JProfiler
8 1 (3.57%) Leiningen
8 1 (3.57%) Mockito
8 1 (3.57%) REST Assured
8 1 (3.57%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Finance
3 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.71%) Front Office
5 2 (7.14%) Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Billing
6 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (57.14%) Developer
2 10 (35.71%) Java Developer
3 6 (21.43%) Senior
4 4 (14.29%) Architect
4 4 (14.29%) Lead
5 3 (10.71%) Backend Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Lead Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Pega Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Systems Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Electronics Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Integration Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Java Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Middleware Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) MuleSoft Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Middleware Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Lead Developer
7 1 (3.57%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (57.14%) Spring
2 13 (46.43%) REST
3 10 (35.71%) Kafka
4 9 (32.14%) Spring Boot
5 8 (28.57%) SOAP
6 6 (21.43%) Jakarta EE
6 6 (21.43%) Middleware
7 5 (17.86%) JDBC
7 5 (17.86%) RESTful
8 4 (14.29%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (14.29%) Web Services
9 3 (10.71%) JSON
9 3 (10.71%) OAuth
9 3 (10.71%) Spring MVC
9 3 (10.71%) XML
10 2 (7.14%) JSF
10 2 (7.14%) RAML
10 2 (7.14%) SAML
10 2 (7.14%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 5 (17.86%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
4 3 (10.71%) Clustering
5 2 (7.14%) Algorithms
5 2 (7.14%) Equities
5 2 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (7.14%) Spread Betting
6 1 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (3.57%) Fixed Income
6 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Linux
1 4 (14.29%) Unix
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (7.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 2 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (78.57%) Agile
2 20 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 13 (46.43%) DevOps
3 13 (46.43%) Scrum
4 12 (42.86%) Microservices
5 11 (39.29%) Integration Patterns
6 7 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 7 (25.00%) Migration
7 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (17.86%) Event-Driven
8 5 (17.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 5 (17.86%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (14.29%) Design Patterns
9 4 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
9 4 (14.29%) MVC
9 4 (14.29%) TDD
9 4 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 4 (14.29%) Unit Testing
10 3 (10.71%) Integration Testing
10 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (67.86%) Java
2 10 (35.71%) SQL
3 4 (14.29%) Python
4 2 (7.14%) Bash
4 2 (7.14%) DataWeave
4 2 (7.14%) Jython
4 2 (7.14%) Perl
4 2 (7.14%) PL/SQL
4 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.57%) ABAP
5 1 (3.57%) ActionScript
5 1 (3.57%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.57%) Ruby
5 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.57%) PSD2
2 1 (3.57%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) Ansible
2 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.14%) CA Wily
3 2 (7.14%) Grafana
3 2 (7.14%) Tivoli
4 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) Oracle
2 5 (17.86%) IBM
2 5 (17.86%) MuleSoft
3 4 (14.29%) AppDynamics
3 4 (14.29%) Pega
4 3 (10.71%) SAP
4 3 (10.71%) Splunk
5 2 (7.14%) Bloomberg
5 2 (7.14%) Charles River
5 2 (7.14%) Dell
5 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
5 2 (7.14%) Sybase
6 1 (3.57%) Google
6 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.57%) SEEBURGER
6 1 (3.57%) Solace
6 1 (3.57%) TIBCO