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 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 517 549
Rank change year-on-year +59 +32 +95
Contract jobs citing JBoss 54 16 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.050% 0.076%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.75% 0.46% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 5 21
10th Percentile £305 £374 £338
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.94% -10.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £449 £495 £576
90th Percentile £509 £519 £610
UK median daily rate £392 £438 £498
% change year-on-year -10.40% -12.06% -7.44%

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 3,093 3,456 4,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.08% 10.81% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,077 2,220 2,787
10th Percentile £275 £275 £256
25th Percentile £385 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £646
90th Percentile £713 £825 £738
UK median daily rate £485 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.62% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 69 138
10th Percentile £15.60 £18.00 £15.33
25th Percentile £23.50 £23.80 £19.15
Median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +47.83% +33.72%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £65.94
90th Percentile £72.75 £74.44 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £33.88 £37.00 £35.75
% change year-on-year -8.43% +3.50% +60.67%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +18 30 £364 -9.80%
North of England +4 30 £364 -9.80%
London +18 9 £488 -5.34% 1
Midlands - 8 £420 -
West Midlands - 6 £429 -
South East +13 4 £408 +1.88% 1
East Midlands - 2 £359 -
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 21 (38.89%) Apache
2 18 (33.33%) WebSphere
3 14 (25.93%) Tomcat
4 11 (20.37%) IIS
4 11 (20.37%) WebLogic
4 11 (20.37%) WebSphere Application Server
5 10 (18.52%) iPlanet
6 1 (1.85%) Confluence
6 1 (1.85%) Mule
6 1 (1.85%) Mule ESB
6 1 (1.85%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 36 (66.67%) AWS
2 26 (48.15%) OpenShift
3 6 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (5.56%) GitHub
5 1 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.85%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.85%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (1.85%) Azure
5 1 (1.85%) SaaS
5 1 (1.85%) Serverless
5 1 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (18.52%) Kerberos
2 4 (7.41%) Firewall
2 4 (7.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (27.78%) Oracle Database
2 8 (14.81%) Relational Database
3 5 (9.26%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (9.26%) DB2
3 5 (9.26%) RDBMS
4 4 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (7.41%) MongoDB
4 4 (7.41%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 38 (70.37%) Git
2 29 (53.70%) Jenkins
3 24 (44.44%) Sonatype Nexus
4 15 (27.78%) Bitbucket Server
4 15 (27.78%) CA Release Automation
4 15 (27.78%) JUnit
5 14 (25.93%) JIRA
6 10 (18.52%) Maven
7 8 (14.81%) Gradle
8 7 (12.96%) Bitbucket
9 6 (11.11%) IntelliJ
10 5 (9.26%) SonarQube
10 5 (9.26%) TeamCity
11 4 (7.41%) Eclipse
11 4 (7.41%) Selenium
12 1 (1.85%) Ant
12 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
12 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
General
1 22 (40.74%) Finance
2 15 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.81%) Banking
4 6 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Law
7 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (20.37%) Developer
2 9 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (14.81%) Senior
3 8 (14.81%) Software Engineer
4 7 (12.96%) Java Developer
5 5 (9.26%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Scrum Master
6 4 (7.41%) AWS Developer
7 3 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (5.56%) DevOps Specialist
7 3 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Principal Software Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.70%) Architect
8 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (35.19%) Spring
2 18 (33.33%) REST
2 18 (33.33%) SOAP
3 17 (31.48%) Spring Boot
4 12 (22.22%) OpenID
5 11 (20.37%) OAuth
5 11 (20.37%) SAML
6 10 (18.52%) LDAP
7 9 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (16.67%) J2EE
8 8 (14.81%) Web Services
9 7 (12.96%) Spring Cloud
10 6 (11.11%) EJB
10 6 (11.11%) Kafka
10 6 (11.11%) XML
11 5 (9.26%) JSON
11 5 (9.26%) Middleware
11 5 (9.26%) RAML
11 5 (9.26%) WSDL
12 4 (7.41%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.26%) Private Cloud
1 5 (9.26%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.41%) PKI
3 3 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (72.22%) Linux
2 21 (38.89%) Windows
3 20 (37.04%) Unix
4 10 (18.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (48.15%) DevOps
2 23 (42.59%) CI/CD
3 21 (38.89%) Microservices
4 18 (33.33%) Agile
5 13 (24.07%) Deployment Automation
6 11 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (18.52%) Scrum
7 10 (18.52%) Software Engineering
8 9 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (16.67%) Design Patterns
9 8 (14.81%) Identity Access Management
10 7 (12.96%) Architectural Patterns
11 6 (11.11%) Change Management
11 6 (11.11%) High Availability
11 6 (11.11%) Mentoring
11 6 (11.11%) SDLC
11 6 (11.11%) Software Testing
12 5 (9.26%) Data Modelling
12 5 (9.26%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (53.70%) Java
2 18 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 13 (24.07%) Groovy
3 13 (24.07%) SQL
4 9 (16.67%) Python
5 5 (9.26%) Perl
6 4 (7.41%) Scala
7 2 (3.70%) Bash
7 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.85%) C#
8 1 (1.85%) C++
8 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 3 (5.56%) Degree
3 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.70%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) HL7
2 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 19 (35.19%) Docker
2 15 (27.78%) Active Directory
3 8 (14.81%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 16 (29.63%) Progress Chef
2 11 (20.37%) CA Single Sign-On
3 10 (18.52%) CA Wily
4 9 (16.67%) Kubernetes
5 8 (14.81%) Ansible
5 8 (14.81%) Tivoli
6 6 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (9.26%) Kibana
7 5 (9.26%) Puppet
8 2 (3.70%) Podman
9 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (64.81%) Oracle
2 18 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 18 (33.33%) Splunk
3 16 (29.63%) AppDynamics
4 15 (27.78%) IBM
5 11 (20.37%) Broadcom
6 7 (12.96%) Red Hat
7 5 (9.26%) Temenos
8 4 (7.41%) Cloudera
8 4 (7.41%) webMethods
9 2 (3.70%) CyberArk
9 2 (3.70%) Dynatrace
9 2 (3.70%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.85%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (1.85%) MuleSoft