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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 468 529
Rank change year-on-year -68 +61 +82
Contract jobs citing JBoss 26 17 32
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.075% 0.066% 0.085%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.75% 0.58% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 16
10th Percentile £393 - £350
25th Percentile £424 £313 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £362 £463
Median % change year-on-year +24.34% -21.84% -15.91%
75th Percentile £510 £398 £529
90th Percentile £590 £552 £663
UK median daily rate £446 £367 £450
% change year-on-year +21.53% -18.44% -19.64%

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 3,476 2,946 3,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.02% 11.48% 9.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,429 1,835 2,444
10th Percentile £306 £263 £225
25th Percentile £404 £395 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £489
Median % change year-on-year - +2.30% -6.90%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £493
% change year-on-year - +1.52% -5.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 55 151
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.85 £13.89
25th Percentile £17.50 £23.80 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £53.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.66% +107.84% +15.07%
75th Percentile £73.82 £64.50 £44.77
90th Percentile £82.90 £66.00 £67.56
UK median hourly rate £26.31 £41.91 £26.78
% change year-on-year -37.22% +56.50% +20.85%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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
West Midlands - 8 £429 -
Midlands - 8 £429 -
North West -27 7 £453 +23.43% 3
London -42 7 £530 +63.08% 1
North of England -48 7 £453 +23.43% 5
South East -25 4 £543 +1.02% 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 14 (53.85%) Apache
2 12 (46.15%) WebLogic
3 9 (34.62%) IIS
4 7 (26.92%) Tomcat
5 6 (23.08%) WebSphere
6 5 (19.23%) iPlanet
6 5 (19.23%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (15.38%) Appian
7 4 (15.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) AWS
2 8 (30.77%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (23.08%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) Kerberos
2 2 (7.69%) Firewall
3 1 (3.85%) NetScaler
3 1 (3.85%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (3.85%) SSL
3 1 (3.85%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) MongoDB
1 8 (30.77%) Oracle Database
2 4 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (61.54%) Git
2 11 (42.31%) JUnit
3 9 (34.62%) Jenkins
4 8 (30.77%) Eclipse
4 8 (30.77%) IntelliJ
4 8 (30.77%) Selenium
5 6 (23.08%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (19.23%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (19.23%) CA Release Automation
7 2 (7.69%) JIRA
8 1 (3.85%) Gradle
8 1 (3.85%) Maven
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Senior
3 5 (19.23%) Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Java Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Software Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Appian Architect
5 3 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) J2EE Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (11.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Lead
6 2 (7.69%) Lead Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Lead Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Linux Specialist
7 1 (3.85%) Network Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (50.00%) J2EE
1 13 (50.00%) REST
1 13 (50.00%) SOAP
2 11 (42.31%) Spring
3 8 (30.77%) EJB
3 8 (30.77%) Hibernate
3 8 (30.77%) HTML
3 8 (30.77%) HTML5
3 8 (30.77%) J2SE
3 8 (30.77%) JSON
3 8 (30.77%) Play Framework
3 8 (30.77%) XML
4 6 (23.08%) Web Services
5 5 (19.23%) LDAP
5 5 (19.23%) OAuth
5 5 (19.23%) OpenID
5 5 (19.23%) SAML
6 2 (7.69%) JMS
6 2 (7.69%) Keycloak
7 1 (3.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (15.38%) N-Tier
3 3 (11.54%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (53.85%) Unix
2 8 (30.77%) Linux
3 6 (23.08%) Windows
4 3 (11.54%) Windows Server
5 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Agile
1 14 (53.85%) DevOps
2 13 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 10 (38.46%) Open Source
3 10 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (38.46%) Scrum
4 9 (34.62%) Microservices
5 8 (30.77%) Continuous Delivery
5 8 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
5 8 (30.77%) Lean Software Development
5 8 (30.77%) Mentoring
5 8 (30.77%) Software Engineering
6 5 (19.23%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (19.23%) Task Automation
7 4 (15.38%) Business Process Modelling
7 4 (15.38%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Java
2 12 (46.15%) SQL
3 8 (30.77%) Scala
4 7 (26.92%) Shell Script
5 5 (19.23%) Groovy
6 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.85%) CCIE
3 1 (3.85%) CCNP
3 1 (3.85%) CCSM
3 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.85%) VCDX
System Software
1 13 (50.00%) Docker
2 5 (19.23%) Active Directory
2 5 (19.23%) Tivoli Directory Server
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Puppet
2 6 (23.08%) Progress Chef
3 5 (19.23%) CA Single Sign-On
3 5 (19.23%) CA Wily
3 5 (19.23%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (19.23%) Tivoli
4 4 (15.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Oracle
2 8 (30.77%) webMethods
3 7 (26.92%) IBM
4 5 (19.23%) AppDynamics
4 5 (19.23%) Broadcom
4 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
4 5 (19.23%) Splunk
5 3 (11.54%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.85%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.85%) Cisco
6 1 (3.85%) Citrix
6 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.85%) Google
6 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.85%) VMware