JMS Contracts

Java Messaging Service (JMS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for JMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JMS over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 595 636
Rank change year-on-year +32 +41 -86
Contract jobs citing JMS 12 87 203
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.16% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.13% 0.68% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 67 160
10th Percentile £400 £390 £415
25th Percentile £436 £489 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £535 £635
Median % change year-on-year -7.48% -15.75% +5.83%
75th Percentile £540 £663 £685
90th Percentile £542 £700 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £560 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% +16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

JMS is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JMS.

Daily rate trend for JMS in the UK

JMS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMS over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JMS in the UK

JMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JMS.

Hourly rate trend for JMS in the UK

JMS
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMS within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
England +34 11 £495 -9.51% 8
London +66 9 £510 -9.33% 5
Work from Home +84 3 £488 -6.15% 2
UK excluding London +10 2 £490 -12.50% 4
North of England +22 1 £490 -
North West +20 1 £490 -
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 1

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 3 (25.00%) JBoss
2 1 (8.33%) Appian
2 1 (8.33%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) AMQP
1 1 (8.33%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (8.33%) Redis
3 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Git
2 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (33.33%) JIRA
3 4 (33.33%) JUnit
4 2 (16.67%) Maven
5 1 (8.33%) Eclipse
5 1 (8.33%) GitLab
5 1 (8.33%) Gradle
5 1 (8.33%) IntelliJ
5 1 (8.33%) JMeter
5 1 (8.33%) NeoLoad
5 1 (8.33%) Postman
5 1 (8.33%) Selenium
5 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
5 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Appian Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IBM Technical Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) J2EE Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Spring
2 5 (41.67%) Web Services
3 4 (33.33%) J2EE
3 4 (33.33%) Kafka
3 4 (33.33%) REST
4 3 (25.00%) CSS
4 3 (25.00%) HTML
4 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
5 2 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
5 2 (16.67%) GraphQL
5 2 (16.67%) JSON
5 2 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (16.67%) Sass
5 2 (16.67%) SOAP
5 2 (16.67%) XML
6 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (8.33%) Node.js
6 1 (8.33%) RESTful
6 1 (8.33%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Fabric
1 1 (8.33%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 4 (33.33%) Scrum
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) ArchiMate
4 2 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
4 2 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (16.67%) High Availability
4 2 (16.67%) Microservices
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Multithreading
4 2 (16.67%) MVC
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Process Management
4 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 2 (16.67%) UML
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 2 (16.67%) Python
5 1 (8.33%) C#
5 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ISO 15022
1 1 (8.33%) ISO 20022
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (8.33%) Kibana
2 1 (8.33%) logstash
2 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (8.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (8.33%) IBM
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk