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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 503 581
Rank change year-on-year +25 +78 +37
Contract jobs citing JMS 101 61 37
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.17% 0.080%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.23% 0.77% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 44 29
10th Percentile £337 £460 £473
25th Percentile £415 £578 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.80% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £665 £759 £580
90th Percentile £688 £851 £790
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 8,185 7,916 10,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.82% 21.70% 22.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,431 5,001 7,327
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 114 190
10th Percentile £29.70 £22.00 £36.19
25th Percentile £42.50 £35.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.12% -14.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.66% -15.72%

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 November 2025.

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 21 November 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
England +14 77 £504 -20.04% 29
Work from Home +41 56 £630 +3.28% 18
London -7 45 £600 -4.76% 22
UK excluding London -4 42 £500 +6.38% 14
North of England -25 18 £500 -31.03% 5
Scotland +7 17 £568 +20.74% 1
North West - 16 £500 - 4
South West +5 6 £335 -
Yorkshire -38 2 £412 -43.14% 1
Northern Ireland -10 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 9 (8.91%) WebSphere
2 6 (5.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (5.94%) WebLogic
3 5 (4.95%) Confluence
4 3 (2.97%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (1.98%) JBoss
6 1 (0.99%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.95%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.99%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.99%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.99%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 31 (30.69%) Azure
2 19 (18.81%) AWS
3 9 (8.91%) Power Automate
4 7 (6.93%) GCP
5 4 (3.96%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.97%) Azure AKS
6 3 (2.97%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.99%) GitHub
7 1 (0.99%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (15.84%) HTTPS
2 9 (8.91%) HTTP
3 3 (2.97%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (43.56%) Relational Database
2 37 (36.63%) DB2
3 30 (29.70%) MongoDB
4 8 (7.92%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.97%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.98%) Siebel EIM
7 1 (0.99%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.99%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.99%) Redis
7 1 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (33.66%) JUnit
2 27 (26.73%) JIRA
3 22 (21.78%) Git
4 6 (5.94%) GitLab
4 6 (5.94%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.94%) JMeter
5 5 (4.95%) Gatling
6 3 (2.97%) Log4j
6 3 (2.97%) Maven
7 2 (1.98%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.98%) IntelliJ
7 2 (1.98%) Postman
8 1 (0.99%) Ant
8 1 (0.99%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.99%) Gradle
8 1 (0.99%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.99%) NUnit
8 1 (0.99%) Selenium
8 1 (0.99%) SoapUI
General
1 58 (57.43%) Social Skills
2 51 (50.50%) Finance
3 47 (46.53%) Banking
4 37 (36.63%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (31.68%) Investment Banking
6 18 (17.82%) Front Office
7 6 (5.94%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Back Office
9 1 (0.99%) Law
9 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (82.18%) Developer
2 45 (44.55%) Java Developer
3 30 (29.70%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 30 (29.70%) SQL Developer
4 25 (24.75%) Senior
5 20 (19.80%) Senior Developer
5 20 (19.80%) Senior Java Developer
6 16 (15.84%) webMethods Developer
7 15 (14.85%) Linux Developer
7 15 (14.85%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
7 15 (14.85%) Senior SQL Developer
7 15 (14.85%) Sybase Developer
8 5 (4.95%) Performance Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Performance Test Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Senior Performance Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Test Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) TIBCO Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (49.50%) Spring
2 49 (48.51%) Kafka
3 33 (32.67%) XML
4 29 (28.71%) SOAP
5 18 (17.82%) REST
5 18 (17.82%) Spring Boot
6 17 (16.83%) JSON
7 14 (13.86%) AngularJS
7 14 (13.86%) XSD
8 11 (10.89%) Middleware
8 11 (10.89%) React
9 10 (9.90%) TIBCO EMS
10 8 (7.92%) Web Services
11 6 (5.94%) J2EE
12 5 (4.95%) HTML
12 5 (4.95%) OC4J
12 5 (4.95%) Rendezvous
12 5 (4.95%) WebSockets
12 5 (4.95%) WSDL
12 5 (4.95%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 36 (35.64%) Equities
2 30 (29.70%) Data Structures
3 16 (15.84%) Cloud Native
4 10 (9.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (2.97%) Replication
6 1 (0.99%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.99%) Derivative
6 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.99%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.99%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 42 (41.58%) Linux
2 6 (5.94%) Unix
3 2 (1.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (62.38%) Agile
2 48 (47.52%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (41.58%) Test Automation
4 41 (40.59%) SDLC
5 35 (34.65%) Multithreading
6 34 (33.66%) DevOps
6 34 (33.66%) Performance Tuning
7 31 (30.69%) Database Tuning
7 31 (30.69%) Open Source
8 27 (26.73%) CI/CD
9 18 (17.82%) Containerisation
10 17 (16.83%) OO
11 14 (13.86%) Deployment Automation
12 11 (10.89%) Scrum
13 10 (9.90%) Anti-Money Laundering
13 10 (9.90%) OOP
13 10 (9.90%) User Acceptance Testing
14 9 (8.91%) Requirements Gathering
15 8 (7.92%) Microservices
15 8 (7.92%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 65 (64.36%) SQL
2 61 (60.40%) Java
3 40 (39.60%) Python
4 31 (30.69%) Shell Script
5 5 (4.95%) C#
5 5 (4.95%) XPath
6 4 (3.96%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.97%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.97%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.99%) C++
8 1 (0.99%) Perl
Qualifications
1 30 (29.70%) Security Cleared
2 27 (26.73%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.93%) Degree
4 2 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.98%) IBM Certification
5 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.99%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (25.74%) QA
2 10 (9.90%) ISO 20022
2 10 (9.90%) PSD2
2 10 (9.90%) SEPA
System Software
1 21 (20.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (19.80%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.95%) TIBCO Hawk
3 3 (2.97%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.97%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.97%) Terraform
4 1 (0.99%) Grafana
4 1 (0.99%) Kibana
4 1 (0.99%) logstash
Vendors
1 32 (31.68%) Sybase
2 21 (20.79%) Oracle
3 20 (19.80%) IBM
4 17 (16.83%) SAP
5 16 (15.84%) webMethods
6 12 (11.88%) Software AG
6 12 (11.88%) TIBCO
7 10 (9.90%) Microsoft
7 10 (9.90%) ServiceNow
8 9 (8.91%) Blue Prism
9 5 (4.95%) BEA
9 5 (4.95%) Google
10 4 (3.96%) Splunk
11 3 (2.97%) Dynatrace
11 3 (2.97%) Red Hat
12 2 (1.98%) Siebel
13 1 (0.99%) Azul
13 1 (0.99%) Murex
13 1 (0.99%) Pega
13 1 (0.99%) Salesforce