JMX Contract Job Trends

Java Management Extensions (JMX)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring JMX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JMX 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.012% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

JMX 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 8,321 7,044 9,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.31% 22.14% 21.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,527 4,470 6,601
10th Percentile £356 £356 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 91 177
10th Percentile £33.00 £22.00 £28.21
25th Percentile £46.00 £35.88 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £77.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £63.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.96% +15.91% -15.38%

JMX
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JMX relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

JMX job vacancy trend in the UK

JMX
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JMX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JMX

JMX
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JMX.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JMX

JMX
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMX within the UK over the 6 months to 17 January 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
London - 1 £475 -
England - 1 £475 -
Work from Home - 1 £475 -

JMX
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft