JBoss Contract Job Trends in England

Red Hat JBoss
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring JBoss skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 491 542
Rank change year-on-year -12 +51 +98
Contract jobs citing JBoss 41 16 29
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.053% 0.075%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.23% 0.48% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 8 14
10th Percentile £307 - £320
25th Percentile £352 £313 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £341 £438
Median % change year-on-year +27.75% -22.17% -27.08%
75th Percentile £491 £461 £496
90th Percentile £551 £507 £650
UK median daily rate £430 £406 £425
% change year-on-year +5.85% -4.41% -26.72%

All Application Platform Skills
England

JBoss falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,345 3,356 3,766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.80% 11.07% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,312 2,111 2,573
10th Percentile £288 £263 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £630
90th Percentile £725 £800 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 75 126
10th Percentile £15.80 £17.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.63 £17.56
Median hourly rate £33.89 £42.50 £26.39
Median % change year-on-year -20.27% +61.05% +35.33%
75th Percentile £68.90 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.75 £73.13
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £37.25 £27.00
% change year-on-year -19.46% +37.96% +38.46%

JBoss
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JBoss relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

JBoss job vacancy trend in England

JBoss
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JBoss.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JBoss

JBoss
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JBoss in England over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JBoss in England

JBoss
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JBoss.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JBoss

JBoss
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JBoss within the England region over the 6 months to 8 December 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +4 21 £370 -8.19%
North of England -21 21 £370 -8.19%
London -7 9 £528 +62.31% 7
Midlands - 9 £429 - 2
West Midlands - 9 £429 - 1
South East -14 2 £534 - 1
JBoss
UK

JBoss
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 23 (56.10%) Apache
2 13 (31.71%) WebSphere
3 11 (26.83%) IIS
4 10 (24.39%) iPlanet
4 10 (24.39%) WebLogic
4 10 (24.39%) WebSphere Application Server
5 5 (12.20%) Tomcat
6 1 (2.44%) Mule
6 1 (2.44%) Mule ESB
6 1 (2.44%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 25 (60.98%) AWS
2 15 (36.59%) OpenShift
3 8 (19.51%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.44%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (24.39%) Kerberos
2 5 (12.20%) Firewall
3 4 (9.76%) SSL
4 1 (2.44%) NetScaler
4 1 (2.44%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (2.44%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (34.15%) Oracle Database
2 8 (19.51%) MongoDB
3 7 (17.07%) Relational Database
4 5 (12.20%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (12.20%) SQL Server
5 4 (9.76%) RDBMS
6 3 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.44%) DB2
7 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (60.98%) Git
2 18 (43.90%) Jenkins
3 14 (34.15%) Bitbucket Server
3 14 (34.15%) CA Release Automation
4 13 (31.71%) Sonatype Nexus
5 10 (24.39%) JUnit
6 8 (19.51%) Eclipse
6 8 (19.51%) IntelliJ
6 8 (19.51%) Selenium
7 4 (9.76%) JIRA
7 4 (9.76%) SonarQube
7 4 (9.76%) TeamCity
8 3 (7.32%) Bitbucket
9 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
9 1 (2.44%) Gradle
9 1 (2.44%) Maven
General
1 14 (34.15%) Finance
2 13 (31.71%) Social Skills
3 8 (19.51%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Banking
5 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (19.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) Developer
2 7 (17.07%) Software Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Senior
4 5 (12.20%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Software Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Java Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) J2EE Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Principal Software Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (7.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) DevOps Specialist
7 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Linux Specialist
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Technical Specialist
8 1 (2.44%) Messaging Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (29.27%) J2EE
2 11 (26.83%) OAuth
2 11 (26.83%) OpenID
2 11 (26.83%) SAML
3 10 (24.39%) LDAP
3 10 (24.39%) REST
3 10 (24.39%) SOAP
3 10 (24.39%) Spring
4 9 (21.95%) JSON
4 9 (21.95%) XML
5 8 (19.51%) EJB
5 8 (19.51%) Hibernate
5 8 (19.51%) HTML
5 8 (19.51%) HTML5
5 8 (19.51%) J2SE
5 8 (19.51%) Play Framework
6 6 (14.63%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (14.63%) Spring Boot
7 4 (9.76%) Kafka
8 2 (4.88%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) PKI
2 3 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (60.98%) Linux
2 19 (46.34%) Windows
3 17 (41.46%) Unix
4 9 (21.95%) Windows Server
5 6 (14.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (58.54%) DevOps
2 22 (53.66%) CI/CD
3 16 (39.02%) Deployment Automation
4 14 (34.15%) Agile
4 14 (34.15%) Microservices
5 13 (31.71%) Software Engineering
6 12 (29.27%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (24.39%) Mentoring
7 10 (24.39%) Open Source
7 10 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (24.39%) Scrum
8 9 (21.95%) Continuous Delivery
8 9 (21.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure Automation
9 8 (19.51%) Identity Access Management
9 8 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (19.51%) Lean Software Development
10 5 (12.20%) Change Management
10 5 (12.20%) Data Modelling
10 5 (12.20%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (51.22%) Java
2 11 (26.83%) Groovy
2 11 (26.83%) Shell Script
3 10 (24.39%) SQL
4 8 (19.51%) Scala
5 6 (14.63%) Python
6 4 (9.76%) Perl
7 1 (2.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) AWS Certification
2 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.44%) CCIE
4 1 (2.44%) CCNP
4 1 (2.44%) CCSM
4 1 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.44%) Degree
4 1 (2.44%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 21 (51.22%) Docker
2 14 (34.15%) Active Directory
3 8 (19.51%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (36.59%) Progress Chef
2 11 (26.83%) CA Single Sign-On
3 10 (24.39%) CA Wily
4 8 (19.51%) Puppet
4 8 (19.51%) Tivoli
5 6 (14.63%) Ansible
6 5 (12.20%) Kubernetes
6 5 (12.20%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (9.76%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (56.10%) Oracle
2 15 (36.59%) AppDynamics
2 15 (36.59%) IBM
2 15 (36.59%) Splunk
3 14 (34.15%) Microsoft
4 11 (26.83%) Broadcom
5 8 (19.51%) webMethods
6 7 (17.07%) Red Hat
7 5 (12.20%) Temenos
8 3 (7.32%) Cloudera
9 2 (4.88%) CyberArk
9 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
10 1 (2.44%) CheckPoint
10 1 (2.44%) Cisco
10 1 (2.44%) Citrix
10 1 (2.44%) Dynatrace
10 1 (2.44%) Google
10 1 (2.44%) MuleSoft
10 1 (2.44%) Palo Alto
10 1 (2.44%) VMware