Apache ActiveMQ
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring ActiveMQ skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 788 609 737
Rank change year-on-year -179 +128 -5
Permanent jobs citing ActiveMQ 17 64 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.13% 0.060%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.14% 0.74% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1 23 27
10th Percentile - £53,500 £69,750
25th Percentile £85,000 £70,625 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% -9.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile - £103,250 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -9.38% +15.20%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

ActiveMQ falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 11,971 8,644 16,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.60% 17.40% 21.34%
Number of salaries quoted 8,646 5,554 10,883
10th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,236 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

ActiveMQ
Job Vacancy Trend

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

ActiveMQ job vacancy trend in the UK

ActiveMQ
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ActiveMQ.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ActiveMQ

ActiveMQ
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ActiveMQ within the UK over the 6 months to 10 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -172 15 £90,000 +24.14% 8
UK excluding London -152 12 - - 5
South East -49 9 - - 2
London -94 5 £90,000 -4.00% 4
South West -79 3 - - 1
Work from Home -48 1 £90,000 +50.00% 6

ActiveMQ
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 2 (11.76%) Apache
2 1 (5.88%) JBoss
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (5.88%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) AWS
2 10 (58.82%) Serverless
3 8 (47.06%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (41.18%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (41.18%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (17.65%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (17.65%) Azure
6 2 (11.76%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
6 2 (11.76%) Azure App Service
6 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (11.76%) Azure Functions
6 2 (11.76%) Azure Storage
6 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
7 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (5.88%) SaaS
7 1 (5.88%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) AMQP
1 2 (11.76%) MQTT
2 1 (5.88%) HTTP
2 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.88%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (47.06%) Relational Database
3 6 (35.29%) RDBMS
4 3 (17.65%) MySQL
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (64.71%) Jenkins
2 9 (52.94%) JUnit
2 9 (52.94%) Mockito
3 7 (41.18%) JMeter
4 6 (35.29%) Git
5 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
5 2 (11.76%) Liquibase
5 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio
6 1 (5.88%) Eclipse
6 1 (5.88%) GitLab
6 1 (5.88%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (5.88%) Maven
6 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (41.18%) Public Sector
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Aviation
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Developer
2 7 (41.18%) Java Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Java Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Support Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Backend Developer
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Messaging Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Messaging Specialist
4 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Java Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) WireMock
2 8 (47.06%) HTML
2 8 (47.06%) Spring
2 8 (47.06%) Spring Boot
3 7 (41.18%) Apache Camel
3 7 (41.18%) Hibernate
3 7 (41.18%) jQuery
3 7 (41.18%) JSON
3 7 (41.18%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (35.29%) REST
4 6 (35.29%) XML
5 5 (29.41%) Web Services
6 4 (23.53%) RESTful
7 3 (17.65%) Kafka
7 3 (17.65%) Terraform
8 2 (11.76%) .NET
8 2 (11.76%) JMS
8 2 (11.76%) JPA
8 2 (11.76%) Mustache
9 1 (5.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (35.29%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (29.41%) Cloud Native
4 3 (17.65%) PKI
5 2 (11.76%) Blog
5 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
6 1 (5.88%) Client/Server
6 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
6 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
6 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
6 1 (5.88%) Robotics
6 1 (5.88%) Social Media
6 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
3 1 (5.88%) CentOS
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Agile
1 12 (70.59%) CI/CD
1 12 (70.59%) Microservices
2 8 (47.06%) DevOps
2 8 (47.06%) TDD
2 8 (47.06%) Workflow
3 7 (41.18%) BDD
3 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
3 7 (41.18%) Mentoring
4 6 (35.29%) Event-Driven
4 6 (35.29%) SDLC
5 5 (29.41%) Process Management
6 4 (23.53%) AI
6 4 (23.53%) Biometrics
7 3 (17.65%) Analytics
7 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (17.65%) Integration Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Open Source
7 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (17.65%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) Java
2 11 (64.71%) Python
3 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
3 8 (47.06%) Shell Script
4 5 (29.41%) C++
5 3 (17.65%) C#
5 3 (17.65%) SQL
6 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
System Software
1 14 (82.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (70.59%) Kubernetes
2 7 (41.18%) Kibana
3 3 (17.65%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Dynatrace
1 7 (41.18%) Splunk
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) IBM
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
3 2 (11.76%) TIBCO
4 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.88%) Infor
4 1 (5.88%) Veracode