JMS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Java Messaging Service (JMS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 342 428
Rank change year-on-year +69 +86 +98
Contract jobs citing JMS 44 4 28
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.43% 0.027% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.61% 0.11% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 23
10th Percentile £391 £506 £487
25th Percentile £453 £612 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £825 £500
Median % change year-on-year -43.52% +65.00% -21.26%
75th Percentile £550 £869 £586
90th Percentile £575 £873 £628
UK median daily rate £475 £533 £525
% change year-on-year -10.80% +1.43% -17.32%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,735 3,702 6,002
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.90% 25.38% 24.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,955 2,604 4,465
10th Percentile £355 £350 £375
25th Percentile £416 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £825 £850 £754
UK median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 93 78
10th Percentile £25.25 £28.00 £25.75
25th Percentile £52.50 - £50.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -33.33% +22.86%
75th Percentile £68.00 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%

JMS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing JMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

JMS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

JMS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing JMS.

JMS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

JMS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing JMS over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

JMS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

JMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (11.36%) NetWeaver
2 1 (2.27%) JBoss
2 1 (2.27%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.27%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.27%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.36%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (6.82%) Azure
3 2 (4.55%) OpenShift
3 2 (4.55%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.27%) AWS
4 1 (2.27%) GitHub
4 1 (2.27%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.91%) HTTP
2 1 (2.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (81.82%) Relational Database
2 35 (79.55%) MongoDB
3 34 (77.27%) DB2
4 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (79.55%) JUnit
2 3 (6.82%) Git
2 3 (6.82%) JIRA
3 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.27%) Log4j
General
1 36 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 35 (79.55%) Finance
3 34 (77.27%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (68.18%) Banking
4 30 (68.18%) Investment Banking
5 16 (36.36%) Front Office
6 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 42 (95.45%) Developer
2 34 (77.27%) Java Developer
3 28 (63.64%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 28 (63.64%) SQL Developer
4 15 (34.09%) Linux Developer
4 15 (34.09%) Senior
4 15 (34.09%) Senior Developer
4 15 (34.09%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
4 15 (34.09%) Senior Java Developer
4 15 (34.09%) Senior SQL Developer
5 13 (29.55%) Sybase Developer
6 5 (11.36%) Integration Developer
6 5 (11.36%) SAP Developer
7 1 (2.27%) Architect
7 1 (2.27%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (2.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.27%) WebSphere Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (81.82%) Spring
2 34 (77.27%) Kafka
3 7 (15.91%) SOAP
3 7 (15.91%) XML
4 6 (13.64%) JDBC
5 5 (11.36%) EDI
5 5 (11.36%) IDoc
5 5 (11.36%) Middleware
5 5 (11.36%) REST
5 5 (11.36%) SAP PI
5 5 (11.36%) XSLT
6 2 (4.55%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.55%) React
6 2 (4.55%) XSD
7 1 (2.27%) EJB
7 1 (2.27%) Hibernate
7 1 (2.27%) JNDI
7 1 (2.27%) LDAP
7 1 (2.27%) SAML
7 1 (2.27%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 34 (77.27%) Data Structures
1 34 (77.27%) Equities
2 5 (11.36%) Legacy Applications
2 5 (11.36%) Virtual Team
3 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.55%) Derivative
3 2 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.55%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 35 (79.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (95.45%) Agile
2 39 (88.64%) SDLC
3 35 (79.55%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (77.27%) Database Tuning
4 34 (77.27%) Open Source
4 34 (77.27%) Performance Tuning
5 31 (70.45%) Multithreading
6 8 (18.18%) Scrum
7 5 (11.36%) Performance Testing
7 5 (11.36%) System Integration Testing
7 5 (11.36%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (6.82%) OO
8 3 (6.82%) Test Automation
9 2 (4.55%) Containerisation
9 2 (4.55%) OOP
9 2 (4.55%) Software Engineering
10 1 (2.27%) Architectural Patterns
10 1 (2.27%) Design Patterns
10 1 (2.27%) Front End Development
10 1 (2.27%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 41 (93.18%) Java
2 38 (86.36%) SQL
3 35 (79.55%) Python
4 34 (77.27%) Shell Script
5 5 (11.36%) ABAP
6 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
1 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (79.55%) Sybase
2 5 (11.36%) SAP
3 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.82%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.55%) Blue Prism
5 1 (2.27%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.27%) Google
5 1 (2.27%) IBM
5 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.27%) Splunk