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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 574 617
Rank change year-on-year +108 +43 +49
Contract jobs citing JMS 63 13 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.030% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.95% 0.15% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 10 57
10th Percentile £431 £403 £463
25th Percentile £458 £448 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £510 £580
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -12.07% -7.20%
75th Percentile £575 £540 £700
90th Percentile £639 £550 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £490 £580
% change year-on-year +9.69% -15.52% +10.48%

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 6,605 8,912 13,621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.69% 20.66% 23.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,522 6,184 9,928
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -2.91% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 241 153
10th Percentile £29.45 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £51.06 £40.31 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.79 £75.00 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +29.29%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +93 41 £538 +9.69% 21
England +93 33 £540 +5.88% 24
Work from Home +72 33 £550 +12.70% 19
Scotland - 27 £550 - 2
London +62 22 £540 +2.86% 9
North of England +30 11 £514 +4.90% 8
North West +23 11 £514 +4.90% 7
Wales - 2 £460 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 1

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 (11.11%) NetWeaver
2 2 (3.17%) Apache
2 2 (3.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (3.17%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.59%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.59%) CMS
3 1 (1.59%) IIS
3 1 (1.59%) JBoss
3 1 (1.59%) Mule
3 1 (1.59%) nginx
3 1 (1.59%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.70%) AWS
2 7 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (4.76%) Azure
4 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.59%) GCP
4 1 (1.59%) GitHub
4 1 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (57.14%) Relational Database
2 34 (53.97%) MongoDB
3 32 (50.79%) DB2
4 6 (9.52%) Siebel EIM
5 5 (7.94%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.17%) Oracle Database
6 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (65.08%) JUnit
2 5 (7.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 5 (7.94%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (7.94%) Gradle
2 5 (7.94%) IntelliJ
2 5 (7.94%) Maven
2 5 (7.94%) SonarQube
3 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.59%) Git
4 1 (1.59%) Hudson
General
1 47 (74.60%) Finance
2 41 (65.08%) Social Skills
3 37 (58.73%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (52.38%) Banking
5 23 (36.51%) Investment Banking
6 15 (23.81%) Front Office
7 8 (12.70%) Public Sector
8 3 (4.76%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.59%) Billing
9 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.59%) Retail
9 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (90.48%) Developer
2 40 (63.49%) Java Developer
3 19 (30.16%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 19 (30.16%) SQL Developer
4 16 (25.40%) Senior
4 16 (25.40%) Senior Developer
4 16 (25.40%) Senior Java Developer
5 12 (19.05%) Linux Developer
5 12 (19.05%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 12 (19.05%) Senior SQL Developer
6 7 (11.11%) Integration Developer
6 7 (11.11%) SAP Developer
6 7 (11.11%) Sybase Developer
7 5 (7.94%) Siebel Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Architect
8 3 (4.76%) Pega Developer
9 2 (3.17%) Java Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) Lead
10 1 (1.59%) Applications Architect
10 1 (1.59%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (68.25%) Spring
2 38 (60.32%) Kafka
3 15 (23.81%) SOAP
4 12 (19.05%) XML
5 10 (15.87%) Middleware
6 8 (12.70%) REST
7 7 (11.11%) EDI
7 7 (11.11%) IDoc
7 7 (11.11%) JDBC
7 7 (11.11%) SAP PI
7 7 (11.11%) Web Services
7 7 (11.11%) XSLT
8 5 (7.94%) HTML
8 5 (7.94%) JPA
9 3 (4.76%) Ajax
9 3 (4.76%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.76%) CSS
9 3 (4.76%) HTML5
9 3 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (3.17%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 36 (57.14%) Data Structures
2 31 (49.21%) Equities
3 7 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
3 7 (11.11%) Virtual Team
4 3 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.17%) Derivative
5 2 (3.17%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (1.59%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.59%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (65.08%) Linux
2 2 (3.17%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (74.60%) Agile
2 45 (71.43%) SDLC
3 38 (60.32%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (55.56%) Open Source
4 35 (55.56%) Performance Tuning
5 31 (49.21%) Multithreading
6 29 (46.03%) Database Tuning
7 11 (17.46%) Software Engineering
7 11 (17.46%) System Integration Testing
8 8 (12.70%) Microservices
8 8 (12.70%) Scrum
8 8 (12.70%) Unit Testing
9 7 (11.11%) Performance Testing
9 7 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (9.52%) Data Modelling
10 6 (9.52%) EAI
10 6 (9.52%) Migration
11 5 (7.94%) CI/CD
11 5 (7.94%) DevOps
11 5 (7.94%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 54 (85.71%) Java
2 46 (73.02%) SQL
3 35 (55.56%) Python
4 33 (52.38%) Shell Script
5 8 (12.70%) PL/SQL
6 7 (11.11%) ABAP
7 5 (7.94%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.17%) C#
9 1 (1.59%) DataWeave
9 1 (1.59%) VB
9 1 (1.59%) VB6
Qualifications
1 9 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 9 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (3.17%) Degree
3 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (3.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) Argo
2 1 (1.59%) Grafana
Vendors
1 33 (52.38%) Sybase
2 10 (15.87%) Oracle
3 7 (11.11%) SAP
4 6 (9.52%) Siebel
5 5 (7.94%) Splunk
6 3 (4.76%) Pega
7 2 (3.17%) Informatica
7 2 (3.17%) Microsoft
7 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.17%) VMware
8 1 (1.59%) Adobe
8 1 (1.59%) Google
8 1 (1.59%) IBM
8 1 (1.59%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.59%) Salesforce