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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 454 516
Rank change year-on-year -114 +62 +86
Contract jobs citing JBoss 17 28 25
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.042% 0.11% 0.067%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.46% 0.99% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 24 14
10th Percentile £400 £326 £356
25th Percentile £401 £376 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £397 £419
Median % change year-on-year +28.88% -5.31% -33.00%
75th Percentile £613 £469 £506
90th Percentile £675 £564 £537
UK median daily rate £511 £402 £413
% change year-on-year +27.11% -2.55% -31.25%

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 3,662 2,834 3,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.06% 11.61% 9.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,542 1,900 2,489
10th Percentile £313 £289 £250
25th Percentile £406 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £608
90th Percentile £700 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 65 141
10th Percentile £15.51 £16.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £52.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +90.91% -18.52%
75th Percentile £73.19 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £78.85 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £41.00 £27.52
% change year-on-year -20.73% +49.01% -38.86%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JBoss in England over the 6 months to 2 May 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

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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 2 May 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 -70 10 £530 +32.50%
South East -52 5 £400 -14.80%
North West -46 2 £526 +34.18%
North of England -68 2 £526 +34.18%
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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 7 (41.18%) Tomcat
2 5 (29.41%) WebLogic
3 4 (23.53%) Appian
3 4 (23.53%) IIS
3 4 (23.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (17.65%) WebSphere
5 2 (11.76%) Confluence
5 2 (11.76%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (5.88%) Mule
6 1 (5.88%) Mule ESB
6 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Temenos T24
2 1 (5.88%) MetaTrader
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) NetScaler
1 1 (5.88%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (5.88%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Relational Database
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) JIRA
1 5 (29.41%) JUnit
2 4 (23.53%) Git
2 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.88%) Eclipse
3 1 (5.88%) Gradle
3 1 (5.88%) Maven
3 1 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Java Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Software Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Appian Architect
4 3 (17.65%) J2EE Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Lead
5 2 (11.76%) Lead Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Lead Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Middleware Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) T24 Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Appian Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Network Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Senior
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) Web Services
2 7 (41.18%) J2EE
3 5 (29.41%) REST
3 5 (29.41%) SOAP
4 4 (23.53%) Spring
5 3 (17.65%) JMS
5 3 (17.65%) Middleware
6 2 (11.76%) Keycloak
7 1 (5.88%) JSON
7 1 (5.88%) RESTful
7 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
7 1 (5.88%) Spring Cloud
7 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (23.53%) N-Tier
3 3 (17.65%) Client/Server
4 2 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (11.76%) PACS
4 2 (11.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Agile
2 5 (29.41%) Scrum
3 4 (23.53%) Business Process Modelling
3 4 (23.53%) SOA
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (17.65%) Process Management
4 3 (17.65%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (11.76%) Build Automation
5 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
5 2 (11.76%) DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Microservices
5 2 (11.76%) Migration
5 2 (11.76%) Open Source
5 2 (11.76%) SDLC
5 2 (11.76%) Sprint Backlog
5 2 (11.76%) Unit Testing
5 2 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (11.76%) User Stories
6 1 (5.88%) CI/CD
6 1 (5.88%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Java
2 5 (29.41%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) Shell Script
4 2 (11.76%) Bash
4 2 (11.76%) Perl
4 2 (11.76%) Python
5 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) CCIE
2 1 (5.88%) CCNP
2 1 (5.88%) CCSM
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) VCDX
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Oracle
2 5 (29.41%) IBM
2 5 (29.41%) Red Hat
3 2 (11.76%) SAP
4 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco
4 1 (5.88%) Citrix
4 1 (5.88%) Google
4 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.88%) Temenos
4 1 (5.88%) VMware