Java Messaging Service (JMS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring JMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited JMS over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 672 711 870
Rank change year-on-year +39 +159 +103
Permanent jobs citing JMS 30 197 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.19% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.31% 0.92% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 10 22 82
10th Percentile £71,125 £75,750 £61,180
25th Percentile £72,188 £96,250 £67,078
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile - - £105,000
90th Percentile £129,375 £104,500 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £50,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +50.00% -28.00% +9.37%

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 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 9,568 21,459 28,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 20.70% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,873 15,949 17,957
10th Percentile £38,350 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing JMS.

Salary trend for JMS in the UK

JMS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JMS over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for JMS in the UK

JMS
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JMS within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +175 30 £75,000 -25.00% 20
Work from Home +135 21 £75,000 -25.00% 19
London +103 20 £112,500 +12.50% 8
UK excluding London +18 10 £75,000 +50.00% 17
Midlands - 8 £75,000 - 9
West Midlands - 8 £75,000 - 3
South West - 2 - -

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 2 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Apache
2 1 (3.33%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 7 (23.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.33%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 18 (60.00%) AWS
2 14 (46.67%) Amazon EC2
2 14 (46.67%) Amazon EKS
2 14 (46.67%) Amazon S3
2 14 (46.67%) AWS Lambda
2 14 (46.67%) Datadog
2 14 (46.67%) Serverless
3 1 (3.33%) Azure
3 1 (3.33%) GCP
3 1 (3.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (63.33%) Git
2 18 (60.00%) JUnit
2 18 (60.00%) Maven
3 17 (56.67%) Jenkins
4 15 (50.00%) IntelliJ
5 14 (46.67%) Cucumber
5 14 (46.67%) GitLab
5 14 (46.67%) Mockito
6 2 (6.67%) JIRA
7 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
7 1 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (3.33%) Crucible
7 1 (3.33%) Gradle
7 1 (3.33%) Postman
7 1 (3.33%) SoapUI
7 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
7 1 (3.33%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (63.33%) Finance
2 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
3 10 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (16.67%) Banking
5 4 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (13.33%) Law
6 1 (3.33%) Agriculture
6 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.33%) Front Office
6 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (83.33%) Developer
2 17 (56.67%) Java Developer
3 15 (50.00%) Senior
3 15 (50.00%) Senior Developer
4 14 (46.67%) AWS Developer
4 14 (46.67%) AWS DevOps
4 14 (46.67%) DevOps Developer
4 14 (46.67%) Java Pricing Developer
4 14 (46.67%) Pricing Developer
4 14 (46.67%) Senior DevOps
4 14 (46.67%) Senior Java Developer
5 7 (23.33%) Integration Developer
6 6 (20.00%) Integration Specialist
6 6 (20.00%) SAP Developer
7 5 (16.67%) Java Engineer
8 4 (13.33%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (13.33%) Software Engineer
9 2 (6.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 2 (6.67%) Java Software Developer
9 2 (6.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (66.67%) Spring
2 14 (46.67%) ActiveMQ
2 14 (46.67%) Spring Boot
3 11 (36.67%) REST
4 9 (30.00%) SOAP
5 8 (26.67%) Middleware
6 7 (23.33%) BAPI
6 7 (23.33%) IBM Integration Bus
6 7 (23.33%) OAuth
6 7 (23.33%) SAML
7 3 (10.00%) Hibernate
8 2 (6.67%) Java EE
8 2 (6.67%) Kafka
8 2 (6.67%) React
9 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
9 1 (3.33%) Entity Framework
9 1 (3.33%) JDBC
9 1 (3.33%) JPA
9 1 (3.33%) Swagger
9 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (73.33%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (46.67%) Credit Derivative
2 14 (46.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 15 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) SDLC
1 19 (63.33%) Software Engineering
2 17 (56.67%) CI/CD
3 15 (50.00%) DevOps
4 14 (46.67%) Analytics
4 14 (46.67%) Deployment Automation
4 14 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (23.33%) API Management
5 7 (23.33%) Event-Driven
5 7 (23.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 7 (23.33%) High Availability
5 7 (23.33%) Migration
6 5 (16.67%) Agile
7 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.00%) Microservices
9 2 (6.67%) Community of Practice
9 2 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (6.67%) Decision-Making
9 2 (6.67%) Machine Learning
9 2 (6.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (70.00%) Java
2 14 (46.67%) C++
3 3 (10.00%) SQL
4 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.33%) ActionScript
5 1 (3.33%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (3.33%) C#
5 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (46.67%) Ansible
1 14 (46.67%) Terraform
2 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.33%) Argo
3 1 (3.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (70.00%) IBM
2 8 (26.67%) SAP
3 6 (20.00%) Oracle
4 3 (10.00%) Sybase
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.33%) OpenLink
5 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.33%) Splunk
5 1 (3.33%) webMethods