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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 461 523
Rank change year-on-year -87 +62 +78
Contract jobs citing JBoss 23 19 37
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.063% 0.077% 0.097%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.65% 0.66% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 18
10th Percentile £406 £313 £339
25th Percentile £427 £326 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £401 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.35% -5.65% -29.17%
75th Percentile £549 £537 £521
90th Percentile £639 £654 £658
UK median daily rate £440 £402 £425
% change year-on-year +9.45% -5.41% -29.17%

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 3,560 2,874 3,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.77% 11.66% 9.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,490 1,859 2,444
10th Percentile £310 £263 £229
25th Percentile £410 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £722
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -4.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 56 157
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.88 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £23.35 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £46.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.17% +85.00% +12.82%
75th Percentile £72.50 £64.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.10 £68.63 £68.63
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £41.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% +60.78% +14.20%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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
London -51 9 £540 +35.00% 2
Midlands -53 8 £429 -20.11%
West Midlands - 8 £429 -
South East -43 4 £543 +15.55% 1
North West -36 2 £428 +12.80% 1
North of England -63 2 £428 +12.80% 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 12 (52.17%) WebLogic
2 9 (39.13%) Apache
3 7 (30.43%) Tomcat
4 5 (21.74%) IIS
5 4 (17.39%) Appian
5 4 (17.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (8.70%) WebSphere
7 1 (4.35%) Confluence
7 1 (4.35%) iPlanet
7 1 (4.35%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) AWS
2 8 (34.78%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) Kerberos
1 1 (4.35%) NetScaler
1 1 (4.35%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (4.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) MongoDB
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle Database
2 4 (17.39%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (56.52%) Git
2 12 (52.17%) JUnit
3 8 (34.78%) Eclipse
3 8 (34.78%) IntelliJ
3 8 (34.78%) Selenium
4 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
5 4 (17.39%) JIRA
6 2 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (4.35%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (4.35%) Gradle
7 1 (4.35%) Maven
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Architect
2 5 (21.74%) Java Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Java Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Software Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Appian Architect
4 3 (13.04%) J2EE Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Lead Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Lead Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Appian Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Open Source Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Open Source Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) T24 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (60.87%) J2EE
2 13 (56.52%) REST
2 13 (56.52%) SOAP
3 12 (52.17%) Spring
4 8 (34.78%) EJB
4 8 (34.78%) Hibernate
4 8 (34.78%) HTML
4 8 (34.78%) HTML5
4 8 (34.78%) J2SE
4 8 (34.78%) JSON
4 8 (34.78%) Play Framework
4 8 (34.78%) XML
5 7 (30.43%) Web Services
6 3 (13.04%) JMS
7 2 (8.70%) Keycloak
8 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (4.35%) LDAP
8 1 (4.35%) SAML
8 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
8 1 (4.35%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (17.39%) N-Tier
3 3 (13.04%) Client/Server
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (4.35%) PACS
4 1 (4.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Unix
2 3 (13.04%) Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Windows
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Agile
2 12 (52.17%) Scrum
3 10 (43.48%) Open Source
3 10 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
4 9 (39.13%) Deployment Automation
4 9 (39.13%) DevOps
4 9 (39.13%) Microservices
5 8 (34.78%) Continuous Delivery
5 8 (34.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (34.78%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure Automation
5 8 (34.78%) Lean Software Development
5 8 (34.78%) Mentoring
5 8 (34.78%) Software Engineering
6 4 (17.39%) Business Process Modelling
6 4 (17.39%) SOA
7 3 (13.04%) Process Management
7 3 (13.04%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) Java
2 12 (52.17%) SQL
3 8 (34.78%) Scala
4 3 (13.04%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.35%) Groovy
5 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.35%) CCIE
3 1 (4.35%) CCNP
3 1 (4.35%) CCSM
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.35%) VCDX
System Software
1 9 (39.13%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Tivoli Directory Server
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Puppet
2 4 (17.39%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) CA Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.35%) CA Wily
3 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.35%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) webMethods
2 7 (30.43%) Oracle
3 3 (13.04%) IBM
3 3 (13.04%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.35%) AppDynamics
4 1 (4.35%) Broadcom
4 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco
4 1 (4.35%) Citrix
4 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.35%) SAP
4 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk
4 1 (4.35%) Temenos
4 1 (4.35%) VMware