ActiveMQ Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Apache ActiveMQ
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring ActiveMQ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 92 -
Rank change year-on-year -49 - -
Contract jobs citing ActiveMQ 14 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.45% 0.44% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.88% 2.65% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £410 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% - -
75th Percentile £488 £465 -
90th Percentile - £486 -
England median daily rate £475 £725 £725
% change year-on-year -34.48% - +22.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

ActiveMQ 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 486 226 255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.53% 16.51% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 150 187
10th Percentile £350 £381 £313
25th Percentile £413 £414 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +0.75% -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £610 £641
90th Percentile £645 £694 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 8
10th Percentile £35.31 £28.55 £14.21
25th Percentile £56.50 £32.00 £33.50
Median hourly rate £59.33 £33.91 £39.96
Median % change year-on-year +74.97% -15.14% -
75th Percentile £73.37 - £55.31
90th Percentile £77.50 - £56.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

ActiveMQ
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ActiveMQ relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

ActiveMQ job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

ActiveMQ
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing ActiveMQ.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing ActiveMQ

ActiveMQ
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ActiveMQ within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Solihull -8 9 - -
Birmingham -22 7 £475 - 2
ActiveMQ
England

ActiveMQ
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 14 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 14 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 14 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
1 14 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 14 (100.00%) Route 53
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 14 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 14 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 14 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (100.00%) Git
1 14 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 14 (100.00%) JUnit
1 14 (100.00%) Maven
1 14 (100.00%) Mockito
1 14 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 11 (78.57%) DbUnit
2 11 (78.57%) jMock
3 9 (64.29%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 14 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Developer
1 14 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 14 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 14 (100.00%) JPA
1 14 (100.00%) REST
1 14 (100.00%) SOAP
1 14 (100.00%) Spring
1 14 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 14 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 14 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
1 14 (100.00%) Spring Integration
1 14 (100.00%) Web Services
2 11 (78.57%) PowerMock
3 10 (71.43%) Node.js
4 9 (64.29%) Bootstrap
4 9 (64.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (78.57%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Agile
1 14 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 14 (100.00%) Microservices
1 14 (100.00%) Scrum
1 14 (100.00%) TDD
2 13 (92.86%) DevOps
3 12 (85.71%) Kanban
4 10 (71.43%) BPMN
5 9 (64.29%) BDD
5 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
5 9 (64.29%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (64.29%) Open Source
6 8 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
6 8 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (50.00%) Biometrics
7 7 (50.00%) Decision-Making
8 4 (28.57%) Risk Management
9 3 (21.43%) Digital Identity
9 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
10 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (85.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (92.86%) Security Cleared
2 12 (85.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) AWS Certification
3 4 (28.57%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 14 (100.00%) Docker
2 10 (71.43%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) Grafana
2 4 (28.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Jaspersoft
2 11 (78.57%) Atlassian