JMS Contracts

Java Messaging Service (JMS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring JMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JMS over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 587 631
Rank change year-on-year +129 +44 +27
Contract jobs citing JMS 61 13 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.030% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.92% 0.15% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 10 63
10th Percentile £429 £433 £463
25th Percentile £456 £486 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £510 £580
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -12.07% -7.20%
75th Percentile £569 £540 £700
90th Percentile £618 £550 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £490 £578
% change year-on-year -2.45% -15.15% +15.50%

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 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

JMS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JMS in the UK

JMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JMS.

Daily rate trend for JMS in the UK

JMS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMS over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JMS in the UK

JMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JMS.

Hourly rate trend for JMS in the UK

JMS
Top 9 Contract 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 30 April 2025. 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
UK excluding London +92 40 £478 -2.45% 19
England +82 31 £509 -0.20% 14
Work from Home +78 31 £550 +12.70% 16
Scotland - 27 £525 - 7
London +46 21 £540 +2.86% 5
North of England +37 10 £478 -2.45% 5
North West +20 10 £478 -2.45% 4
Wales - 2 £460 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 3

JMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (11.48%) NetWeaver
2 2 (3.28%) Apache
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (3.28%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.64%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.64%) CMS
3 1 (1.64%) IIS
3 1 (1.64%) JBoss
3 1 (1.64%) Mule
3 1 (1.64%) nginx
3 1 (1.64%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.11%) AWS
2 7 (11.48%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (4.92%) Azure
4 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.64%) GCP
4 1 (1.64%) GitHub
4 1 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.48%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (57.38%) Relational Database
2 33 (54.10%) MongoDB
3 30 (49.18%) DB2
4 6 (9.84%) RDBMS
5 5 (8.20%) Siebel EIM
6 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.28%) Oracle Database
7 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (65.57%) JUnit
2 5 (8.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 5 (8.20%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (8.20%) Gradle
2 5 (8.20%) IntelliJ
2 5 (8.20%) Maven
2 5 (8.20%) SonarQube
3 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.64%) Git
4 1 (1.64%) Hudson
General
1 44 (72.13%) Finance
2 38 (62.30%) Social Skills
3 36 (59.02%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (50.82%) Banking
5 22 (36.07%) Investment Banking
6 14 (22.95%) Front Office
7 7 (11.48%) Public Sector
8 3 (4.92%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.64%) Billing
9 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.64%) Retail
9 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (90.16%) Developer
2 39 (63.93%) Java Developer
3 18 (29.51%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 18 (29.51%) SQL Developer
4 15 (24.59%) Senior
4 15 (24.59%) Senior Developer
4 15 (24.59%) Senior Java Developer
5 11 (18.03%) Linux Developer
5 11 (18.03%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 11 (18.03%) Senior SQL Developer
6 7 (11.48%) Integration Developer
6 7 (11.48%) SAP Developer
6 7 (11.48%) Sybase Developer
7 4 (6.56%) Siebel Developer
8 3 (4.92%) Architect
8 3 (4.92%) Pega Developer
9 2 (3.28%) Java Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Lead
10 1 (1.64%) Applications Architect
10 1 (1.64%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (68.85%) Spring
2 37 (60.66%) Kafka
3 14 (22.95%) SOAP
4 12 (19.67%) XML
5 11 (18.03%) Middleware
6 8 (13.11%) REST
7 7 (11.48%) EDI
7 7 (11.48%) IDoc
7 7 (11.48%) JDBC
7 7 (11.48%) SAP PI
7 7 (11.48%) XSLT
8 6 (9.84%) Web Services
9 5 (8.20%) HTML
9 5 (8.20%) JPA
10 3 (4.92%) Ajax
10 3 (4.92%) AngularJS
10 3 (4.92%) CSS
10 3 (4.92%) HTML5
10 3 (4.92%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (3.28%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 35 (57.38%) Data Structures
2 29 (47.54%) Equities
3 7 (11.48%) Legacy Applications
3 7 (11.48%) Virtual Team
4 3 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.64%) Derivative
5 1 (1.64%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (1.64%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (63.93%) Linux
2 2 (3.28%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (75.41%) Agile
2 43 (70.49%) SDLC
3 37 (60.66%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (55.74%) Open Source
5 33 (54.10%) Performance Tuning
6 29 (47.54%) Multithreading
7 27 (44.26%) Database Tuning
8 11 (18.03%) Software Engineering
9 10 (16.39%) System Integration Testing
10 8 (13.11%) Microservices
10 8 (13.11%) Scrum
10 8 (13.11%) Unit Testing
11 7 (11.48%) Performance Testing
11 7 (11.48%) User Acceptance Testing
12 5 (8.20%) CI/CD
12 5 (8.20%) Data Modelling
12 5 (8.20%) DevOps
12 5 (8.20%) EAI
12 5 (8.20%) Migration
13 4 (6.56%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 53 (86.89%) Java
2 44 (72.13%) SQL
3 34 (55.74%) Python
4 31 (50.82%) Shell Script
5 7 (11.48%) ABAP
5 7 (11.48%) PL/SQL
6 5 (8.20%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.28%) C#
8 1 (1.64%) DataWeave
8 1 (1.64%) VB
8 1 (1.64%) VB6
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) SC Cleared
1 8 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (3.28%) Degree
3 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (3.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (3.28%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (9.84%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.64%) Argo
2 1 (1.64%) Grafana
Vendors
1 31 (50.82%) Sybase
2 9 (14.75%) Oracle
3 7 (11.48%) SAP
4 5 (8.20%) Siebel
4 5 (8.20%) Splunk
5 3 (4.92%) Pega
6 2 (3.28%) Informatica
6 2 (3.28%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.28%) VMware
7 1 (1.64%) Adobe
7 1 (1.64%) Google
7 1 (1.64%) IBM
7 1 (1.64%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.64%) Salesforce