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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 520 581
Rank change year-on-year +58 +61 +72
Contract jobs citing JBoss 55 16 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.049% 0.070%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.76% 0.46% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 5 22
10th Percentile £305 £374 £339
25th Percentile £350 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 £450 £506
Median % change year-on-year -14.67% -11.11% -6.90%
75th Percentile £438 £495 £600
90th Percentile £488 £519 £661
UK median daily rate £393 £438 £500
% change year-on-year -10.17% -12.50% -9.09%

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 3,123 3,506 4,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.26% 10.65% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,056 2,380 3,039
10th Percentile £275 £285 £250
25th Percentile £390 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £850 £745
UK median daily rate £485 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -7.62% +2.94% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 81 143
10th Percentile £16.60 £17.08 £15.63
25th Percentile £25.75 £23.80 £20.63
Median hourly rate £41.45 £47.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -12.74% +2.86% +109.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £71.95
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.44 £78.60
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £38.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -3.95% -29.63% +140.00%

JBoss
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing JBoss as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for JBoss 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 September 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 September 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 +24 35 £370 -8.19% 3
North of England +16 35 £370 -8.19% 3
London +35 9 £488 -5.34% 7
Midlands - 5 £390 -
South East +18 3 £290 -27.50% 4
East Midlands - 3 £360 -
West Midlands - 2 £420 -
JBoss
UK

JBoss
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (36.36%) WebSphere
2 17 (30.91%) Apache
2 17 (30.91%) Tomcat
3 10 (18.18%) IIS
3 10 (18.18%) WebSphere Application Server
4 9 (16.36%) iPlanet
4 9 (16.36%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.82%) CMS
5 1 (1.82%) Confluence
5 1 (1.82%) Mule
5 1 (1.82%) Mule ESB
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 38 (69.09%) AWS
2 29 (52.73%) OpenShift
3 3 (5.45%) GitHub
4 2 (3.64%) Azure
4 2 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (1.82%) SaaS
5 1 (1.82%) Serverless
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.36%) Kerberos
2 4 (7.27%) Firewall
2 4 (7.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.45%) Oracle Database
2 11 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 8 (14.55%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (14.55%) RDBMS
4 7 (12.73%) DB2
5 5 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (7.27%) SQL Server
7 3 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 39 (70.91%) Git
2 32 (58.18%) Jenkins
3 27 (49.09%) Sonatype Nexus
4 18 (32.73%) Bitbucket Server
4 18 (32.73%) CA Release Automation
4 18 (32.73%) JIRA
5 11 (20.00%) JUnit
6 10 (18.18%) Bitbucket
6 10 (18.18%) Maven
7 9 (16.36%) SonarQube
7 9 (16.36%) TeamCity
8 8 (14.55%) Gradle
9 2 (3.64%) IntelliJ
10 1 (1.82%) Ant
10 1 (1.82%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.82%) Hudson
General
1 24 (43.64%) Finance
2 11 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.55%) Banking
4 7 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Law
6 1 (1.82%) Billing
Job Titles
1 9 (16.36%) Developer
2 8 (14.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) Scrum Master
3 7 (12.73%) Senior
4 6 (10.91%) AWS DevOps
4 6 (10.91%) Java Developer
4 6 (10.91%) Software Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) AWS Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Architect
7 3 (5.45%) DevOps Specialist
7 3 (5.45%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Principal Software Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Applications Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (41.82%) Spring Boot
2 18 (32.73%) Spring
3 17 (30.91%) REST
3 17 (30.91%) SOAP
4 12 (21.82%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (20.00%) OpenID
5 11 (20.00%) Web Services
6 10 (18.18%) OAuth
6 10 (18.18%) SAML
7 9 (16.36%) LDAP
8 7 (12.73%) J2EE
8 7 (12.73%) RAML
8 7 (12.73%) Spring Cloud
8 7 (12.73%) WSDL
9 6 (10.91%) Kafka
9 6 (10.91%) Middleware
10 5 (9.09%) JSP
10 5 (9.09%) Servlets
11 4 (7.27%) EJB
11 4 (7.27%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Private Cloud
2 7 (12.73%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.27%) PKI
4 2 (3.64%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (74.55%) Linux
2 23 (41.82%) Windows
3 15 (27.27%) Unix
4 13 (23.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (14.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (45.45%) DevOps
2 22 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 22 (40.00%) Microservices
3 16 (29.09%) Agile
4 12 (21.82%) Deployment Automation
5 9 (16.36%) Code Quality
5 9 (16.36%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (16.36%) Design Patterns
5 9 (16.36%) SDLC
6 8 (14.55%) Build Automation
6 8 (14.55%) Change Management
6 8 (14.55%) Migration
6 8 (14.55%) Scrum
6 8 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (12.73%) Analytics
7 7 (12.73%) API Development
7 7 (12.73%) Budget Control
7 7 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (12.73%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 30 (54.55%) Java
2 16 (29.09%) Shell Script
3 12 (21.82%) Groovy
3 12 (21.82%) Python
4 11 (20.00%) SQL
5 9 (16.36%) Perl
6 5 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.64%) Bash
8 1 (1.82%) C#
8 1 (1.82%) C++
8 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) AWS Certification
2 3 (5.45%) Degree
3 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.82%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) HL7
2 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 18 (32.73%) Active Directory
1 18 (32.73%) Docker
2 7 (12.73%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 19 (34.55%) Progress Chef
2 13 (23.64%) Kubernetes
3 10 (18.18%) CA Single Sign-On
4 9 (16.36%) CA Wily
4 9 (16.36%) Kibana
5 7 (12.73%) Ansible
5 7 (12.73%) Tivoli
6 5 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (3.64%) Podman
8 1 (1.82%) Puppet
8 1 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (65.45%) Oracle
2 21 (38.18%) Splunk
3 19 (34.55%) AppDynamics
4 17 (30.91%) Microsoft
5 15 (27.27%) IBM
6 11 (20.00%) Red Hat
7 10 (18.18%) Broadcom
8 7 (12.73%) Cloudera
9 5 (9.09%) Temenos
10 2 (3.64%) Dynatrace
11 1 (1.82%) Adobe
11 1 (1.82%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (1.82%) CyberArk
11 1 (1.82%) MuleSoft
11 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow