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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 445 572
Rank change year-on-year -168 +127 +16
Contract jobs citing JMS 33 78 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.066% 0.26% 0.039%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.34% 1.15% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 43 12
10th Percentile £410 £415 £409
25th Percentile £436 £453 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% -1.41% +1.43%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £781
90th Percentile £575 £735 £868
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% -12.50%

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 9,799 6,765 9,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.53% 22.84% 21.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,442 4,619 6,331
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -3.14% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 125 272
10th Percentile £30.35 £29.14 £22.50
25th Percentile £51.56 £39.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +11.11% -20.38%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £83.16 £81.22 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.63
% change year-on-year +4.00% +12.36% -14.42%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -118 31 £481 -7.45% 5
London -72 22 £475 -3.36% 5
Work from Home -80 9 £500 -9.09% 5
UK excluding London -157 9 £481 -8.33% 3
Midlands -53 4 £450 +14.65%
West Midlands - 4 £450 -
North West -50 3 £491 -10.80%
North of England -86 3 £491 -10.80%
South East - 2 - -

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 (12.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 4 (12.12%) WebSphere
2 3 (9.09%) Anypoint
2 3 (9.09%) JBoss
3 2 (6.06%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (6.06%) Mule
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (6.06%) WebLogic
3 2 (6.06%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (6.06%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (3.03%) Camunda
4 1 (3.03%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (9.09%) Fidessa
2 2 (6.06%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 13 (39.39%) AWS
2 8 (24.24%) Azure
3 3 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (9.09%) GCP
4 2 (6.06%) SaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.03%) Boomi
5 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) HTTP
2 2 (6.06%) DNS
2 2 (6.06%) Firewall
2 2 (6.06%) SSL
2 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.03%) AMQP
3 1 (3.03%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (24.24%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.12%) Relational Database
3 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.06%) Db2
4 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
4 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (6.06%) Tableau
5 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.03%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (30.30%) Git
2 7 (21.21%) JIRA
3 6 (18.18%) Jenkins
4 4 (12.12%) JUnit
5 3 (9.09%) Gradle
6 2 (6.06%) GitLab
6 2 (6.06%) GoCD
6 2 (6.06%) Introscope
7 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.03%) Maven
7 1 (3.03%) Mockito
7 1 (3.03%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (30.30%) Banking
1 10 (30.30%) Finance
1 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Investment Banking
2 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Front Office
4 3 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (51.52%) Developer
2 8 (24.24%) Java Developer
3 4 (12.12%) Lead
3 4 (12.12%) Senior
4 3 (9.09%) Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Electronics Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Java Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Lead Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Middleware Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Pega Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Pega Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Systems Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Backend Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Middleware Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Messaging Developer
6 1 (3.03%) MuleSoft Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Performance Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) SAP Integration Consultant
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (48.48%) Spring
2 15 (45.45%) REST
3 12 (36.36%) Spring Boot
4 10 (30.30%) XML
5 9 (27.27%) Kafka
5 9 (27.27%) Middleware
6 7 (21.21%) SOAP
7 6 (18.18%) Web Services
8 5 (15.15%) J2EE
8 5 (15.15%) RESTful
9 4 (12.12%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (12.12%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (9.09%) Apache Camel
10 3 (9.09%) JDBC
10 3 (9.09%) JSON
10 3 (9.09%) Spring MVC
11 2 (6.06%) WebSphere MQ
11 2 (6.06%) WSDL
11 2 (6.06%) XSD
11 2 (6.06%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Cloud Native
1 5 (15.15%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (15.15%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.09%) Clustering
2 3 (9.09%) Equities
2 3 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (9.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.03%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.21%) Linux
2 3 (9.09%) Unix
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.06%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 2 (6.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (66.67%) Agile
2 16 (48.48%) CI/CD
3 14 (42.42%) Scrum
4 13 (39.39%) DevOps
5 12 (36.36%) Microservices
6 9 (27.27%) Integration Patterns
6 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (24.24%) SOA
8 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
8 7 (21.21%) Unit Testing
9 6 (18.18%) Migration
10 5 (15.15%) Design Patterns
10 5 (15.15%) Electronic Trading
10 5 (15.15%) Integration Testing
10 5 (15.15%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (15.15%) SDLC
10 5 (15.15%) Test Automation
11 4 (12.12%) Event-Driven
11 4 (12.12%) Order Management
11 4 (12.12%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 21 (63.64%) Java
2 11 (33.33%) SQL
3 5 (15.15%) Python
4 2 (6.06%) Bash
4 2 (6.06%) C#
4 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.06%) Jython
4 2 (6.06%) Perl
4 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.06%) XPath
5 1 (3.03%) ABAP
5 1 (3.03%) ActionScript
5 1 (3.03%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (3.03%) DataWeave
5 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (6.06%) Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) QA
2 3 (9.09%) ISO 20022
2 3 (9.09%) PSD2
2 3 (9.09%) SEPA
3 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Ansible
2 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
3 3 (9.09%) Grafana
4 2 (6.06%) CA Wily
4 2 (6.06%) TIBCO Hawk
4 2 (6.06%) Tivoli
5 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (42.42%) Oracle
2 9 (27.27%) Pega
3 8 (24.24%) IBM
4 5 (15.15%) AppDynamics
5 4 (12.12%) MuleSoft
6 3 (9.09%) Bloomberg
6 3 (9.09%) Charles River
6 3 (9.09%) Splunk
6 3 (9.09%) TIBCO
7 2 (6.06%) BEA
7 2 (6.06%) Informatica
7 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
8 1 (3.03%) Dell
8 1 (3.03%) Google
8 1 (3.03%) SAP
8 1 (3.03%) SEEBURGER
8 1 (3.03%) Solace
8 1 (3.03%) Sybase