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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 643 460 540
Rank change year-on-year -183 +80 +53
Contract jobs citing JMS 24 94 42
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.045% 0.29% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.21% 1.13% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 48 30
10th Percentile £425 £351 £458
25th Percentile £444 £435 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £628
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -20.32% +19.52%
75th Percentile £619 £647 £784
90th Percentile £774 £695 £864
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 11,695 8,332 9,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.80% 25.44% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,693 5,628 6,415
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £433 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.37% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 185 196
10th Percentile £29.26 £30.45 £26.30
25th Percentile £45.63 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.75 £79.48 £74.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +8.33%

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 1 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 1 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 -158 22 £525 +5.00% 28
London -92 15 £525 -2.78% 17
UK excluding London -141 9 £450 -10.00% 20
Midlands -51 5 £523 +33.12% 4
West Midlands - 5 £523 - 2
Work from Home -100 4 - - 16
South East - 2 - - 3
Northern Ireland +4 1 - - 3
Scotland -45 1 £375 -28.57% 3

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 (12.50%) Anypoint
1 3 (12.50%) Mule
2 2 (8.33%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (8.33%) WebSphere
2 2 (8.33%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (8.33%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (4.17%) Camunda
3 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) Azure
3 6 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 4 (16.67%) GCP
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (8.33%) SaaS
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (4.17%) AtomSphere
6 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) Boomi
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub
6 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) SSL
2 2 (8.33%) DNS
2 2 (8.33%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) HTTP
2 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle Database
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (45.83%) Git
2 9 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 5 (20.83%) Bitbucket
4 4 (16.67%) GitLab
4 4 (16.67%) Gradle
4 4 (16.67%) Maven
5 3 (12.50%) GoCD
5 3 (12.50%) JIRA
5 3 (12.50%) JUnit
6 2 (8.33%) Introscope
6 2 (8.33%) REST Assured
7 1 (4.17%) Bundler
7 1 (4.17%) IntelliJ
7 1 (4.17%) JProfiler
7 1 (4.17%) Leiningen
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Billing
5 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Developer
2 10 (41.67%) Java Developer
3 8 (33.33%) Senior
4 5 (20.83%) Senior Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (16.67%) Architect
5 4 (16.67%) Lead
6 3 (12.50%) Backend Developer
6 3 (12.50%) Java Engineer
6 3 (12.50%) Lead Architect
6 3 (12.50%) Pega Architect
6 3 (12.50%) Systems Architect
7 2 (8.33%) Middleware Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) Senior Middleware Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Lead Developer
8 1 (4.17%) Messaging Developer
8 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft Developer
8 1 (4.17%) Performance Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (66.67%) Spring
2 10 (41.67%) REST
3 9 (37.50%) Spring Boot
4 8 (33.33%) Kafka
5 7 (29.17%) JDBC
6 6 (25.00%) Jakarta EE
6 6 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (25.00%) SOAP
7 5 (20.83%) OAuth
8 4 (16.67%) Middleware
9 3 (12.50%) J2SE
9 3 (12.50%) OpenAPI
9 3 (12.50%) OpenID
9 3 (12.50%) Swagger
10 2 (8.33%) gRPC
10 2 (8.33%) JSON
10 2 (8.33%) Protocol Buffers
10 2 (8.33%) RESTful
10 2 (8.33%) SAML
10 2 (8.33%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Product Ownership
2 5 (20.83%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (20.83%) Spread Betting
3 3 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 2 (8.33%) Clustering
5 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
1 4 (16.67%) Unix
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) Agile
2 20 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 14 (58.33%) Microservices
4 12 (50.00%) Scrum
5 11 (45.83%) DevOps
6 7 (29.17%) Integration Patterns
6 7 (29.17%) Migration
7 5 (20.83%) Event-Driven
7 5 (20.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (20.83%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (20.83%) SDLC
7 5 (20.83%) Test Automation
8 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 4 (16.67%) Design Patterns
8 4 (16.67%) Integration Testing
8 4 (16.67%) TDD
8 4 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (12.50%) Observability
9 3 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (70.83%) Java
2 9 (37.50%) SQL
3 5 (20.83%) PL/SQL
4 2 (8.33%) Bash
4 2 (8.33%) Jython
4 2 (8.33%) Perl
4 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.33%) Python
5 1 (4.17%) DataWeave
5 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.17%) Ruby
5 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (41.67%) Ansible
1 10 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) CA Wily
2 2 (8.33%) Grafana
2 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 2 (8.33%) Tivoli
3 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Oracle
2 5 (20.83%) IBM
3 4 (16.67%) MuleSoft
3 4 (16.67%) Pega
4 2 (8.33%) AppDynamics
4 2 (8.33%) Dynatrace
4 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 2 (8.33%) SAP
4 2 (8.33%) Sybase
5 1 (4.17%) Dell
5 1 (4.17%) Google
5 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.17%) Solace
5 1 (4.17%) Splunk
5 1 (4.17%) TIBCO