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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 481 528
Rank change year-on-year -25 +47 +106
Contract jobs citing JBoss 29 11 22
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.093% 0.041% 0.060%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.89% 0.37% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 6 9
10th Percentile £307 - £340
25th Percentile £395 £313 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £325 £450
Median % change year-on-year +36.31% -27.78% -26.23%
75th Percentile £503 £351 £650
90th Percentile £639 £426 £705
UK median daily rate £440 £341 £450
% change year-on-year +29.22% -24.33% -25.00%

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 3,253 2,957 3,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.45% 10.98% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,273 1,837 2,395
10th Percentile £290 £262 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £613
90th Percentile £705 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 59 126
10th Percentile £15.36 £17.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.98% +77.08% +36.29%
75th Percentile £69.40 £64.50 £59.00
90th Percentile £82.40 £67.87 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -32.03% +54.17% +35.44%

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 11 January 2026.

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 11 January 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -12 14 £433 +21.63% 1
North of England -26 14 £433 +21.63% 1
West Midlands - 9 £429 -
Midlands - 9 £429 -
London -14 4 £650 +100.00% 2
South East - 2 £534 - 5
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 20 (68.97%) Apache
2 12 (41.38%) WebSphere
3 11 (37.93%) IIS
4 10 (34.48%) iPlanet
4 10 (34.48%) WebSphere Application Server
5 9 (31.03%) WebLogic
6 4 (13.79%) Tomcat
7 1 (3.45%) Mule
7 1 (3.45%) Mule ESB
Cloud Services
1 21 (72.41%) AWS
2 12 (41.38%) OpenShift
3 8 (27.59%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (34.48%) Kerberos
2 2 (6.90%) Firewall
3 1 (3.45%) NetScaler
3 1 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (3.45%) SSL
3 1 (3.45%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (34.48%) Oracle Database
2 8 (27.59%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (72.41%) Git
2 15 (51.72%) Jenkins
3 12 (41.38%) Bitbucket Server
3 12 (41.38%) CA Release Automation
4 10 (34.48%) JUnit
4 10 (34.48%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (27.59%) Eclipse
5 8 (27.59%) IntelliJ
5 8 (27.59%) Selenium
6 2 (6.90%) JIRA
7 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.45%) Gradle
7 1 (3.45%) Maven
7 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
7 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (37.93%) Finance
2 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
3 8 (27.59%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Developer
2 6 (20.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Senior
4 4 (13.79%) Java Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Software Developer
5 3 (10.34%) J2EE Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (10.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Linux Specialist
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Specialist
7 1 (3.45%) Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Messaging Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Network Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (41.38%) J2EE
2 11 (37.93%) OAuth
2 11 (37.93%) OpenID
2 11 (37.93%) SAML
3 10 (34.48%) LDAP
3 10 (34.48%) Spring
4 9 (31.03%) JSON
4 9 (31.03%) REST
4 9 (31.03%) SOAP
4 9 (31.03%) XML
5 8 (27.59%) EJB
5 8 (27.59%) Hibernate
5 8 (27.59%) HTML
5 8 (27.59%) HTML5
5 8 (27.59%) J2SE
5 8 (27.59%) Play Framework
6 3 (10.34%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (10.34%) Spring Boot
7 2 (6.90%) Keycloak
7 2 (6.90%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.45%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (58.62%) Unix
2 16 (55.17%) Linux
3 13 (44.83%) Windows
4 9 (31.03%) Windows Server
5 3 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (68.97%) DevOps
2 18 (62.07%) CI/CD
3 14 (48.28%) Deployment Automation
4 11 (37.93%) Microservices
4 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (34.48%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (34.48%) Open Source
6 9 (31.03%) Agile
6 9 (31.03%) Mentoring
6 9 (31.03%) Software Engineering
7 8 (27.59%) Continuous Delivery
7 8 (27.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (27.59%) Identity Access Management
7 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure Automation
7 8 (27.59%) Lean Software Development
7 8 (27.59%) Scrum
8 5 (17.24%) Task Automation
9 3 (10.34%) Containerisation
9 3 (10.34%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) Java
2 11 (37.93%) Groovy
2 11 (37.93%) Shell Script
3 9 (31.03%) SQL
4 8 (27.59%) Scala
5 3 (10.34%) Python
6 1 (3.45%) Perl
6 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) AWS Certification
2 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.45%) CCIE
4 1 (3.45%) CCNP
4 1 (3.45%) CCSM
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.45%) Degree
4 1 (3.45%) VCDX
System Software
1 18 (62.07%) Docker
2 11 (37.93%) Active Directory
3 8 (27.59%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (37.93%) CA Single Sign-On
1 11 (37.93%) Progress Chef
2 10 (34.48%) CA Wily
3 8 (27.59%) Puppet
3 8 (27.59%) Tivoli
4 5 (17.24%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (10.34%) Ansible
6 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
7 1 (3.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (48.28%) Oracle
2 12 (41.38%) AppDynamics
2 12 (41.38%) IBM
2 12 (41.38%) Splunk
3 11 (37.93%) Broadcom
4 10 (34.48%) Microsoft
5 8 (27.59%) webMethods
6 4 (13.79%) Red Hat
7 2 (6.90%) CyberArk
7 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
8 1 (3.45%) CheckPoint
8 1 (3.45%) Cisco
8 1 (3.45%) Citrix
8 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
8 1 (3.45%) Google
8 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft
8 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
8 1 (3.45%) VMware