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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 457 520
Rank change year-on-year -126 +63 +52
Contract jobs citing JBoss 16 54 26
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.036% 0.20% 0.073%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.40% 1.77% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 45 12
10th Percentile - £323 -
25th Percentile £400 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £393 £400
Median % change year-on-year +8.78% -1.75% -22.89%
75th Percentile £533 £438 £461
90th Percentile £675 £537 £531
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -25.23%

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 4,025 3,055 3,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.98% 11.21% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,665 2,018 2,645
10th Percentile £308 £290 £275
25th Percentile £405 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.04%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £738 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £479 £507
% change year-on-year +4.38% -5.52% +1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 78 118
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £13.78
25th Percentile £19.00 £26.14 £20.03
Median hourly rate £32.50 £46.65 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.33% +43.54% -29.62%
75th Percentile £62.00 £69.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.13 £74.61
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £47.12 £32.50
% change year-on-year -25.72% +44.98% -36.59%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -68 11 £428 -14.50% 5
South East -71 3 £400 +15.61% 1
North West -70 1 £650 +77.11%
North of England -96 1 £650 +77.11%
South West - 1 £938 -
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 5 (31.25%) Confluence
2 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (18.75%) WebLogic
4 2 (12.50%) Apache
4 2 (12.50%) Appian
4 2 (12.50%) IIS
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (12.50%) Tomcat
4 2 (12.50%) WebSphere
4 2 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
5 1 (6.25%) Mule
5 1 (6.25%) Mule ESB
Business Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Temenos T24
2 1 (6.25%) MetaTrader
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (6.25%) Collibra
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
2 1 (6.25%) IBM Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
1 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.25%) Dremio
3 1 (6.25%) Metadata
3 1 (6.25%) MySQL
3 1 (6.25%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
1 4 (25.00%) JUnit
2 3 (18.75%) Git
2 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.25%) Eclipse
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.25%) Legal
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Migration Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Java Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) T24 Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Appian Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Middleware Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Appian Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Virtualisation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Web Services
2 5 (31.25%) Jakarta EE
3 4 (25.00%) Middleware
4 3 (18.75%) JMS
4 3 (18.75%) REST
4 3 (18.75%) Spring
5 2 (12.50%) JSON
5 2 (12.50%) SOAP
6 1 (6.25%) EDI
6 1 (6.25%) Kafka
6 1 (6.25%) LAMP
6 1 (6.25%) RESTful
6 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (12.50%) N-Tier
2 2 (12.50%) PACS
3 1 (6.25%) Client/Server
3 1 (6.25%) Clustering
3 1 (6.25%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Agile
2 8 (50.00%) Scrum
3 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) Migration
3 5 (31.25%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (18.75%) Data Validation
5 3 (18.75%) Database Migration
5 3 (18.75%) Sprint Backlog
5 3 (18.75%) System Integration Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Validation
6 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
6 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
6 2 (12.50%) ITIL
6 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (12.50%) Regression Testing
6 2 (12.50%) SOA
6 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
6 2 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Java
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) Bash
3 3 (18.75%) Perl
3 3 (18.75%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.25%) ActionScript
4 1 (6.25%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (6.25%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Puppet
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) IBM
2 6 (37.50%) Oracle
3 5 (31.25%) Red Hat
4 4 (25.00%) Temenos
5 3 (18.75%) jBASE
5 3 (18.75%) SAP
6 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
7 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
7 1 (6.25%) Cisco
7 1 (6.25%) Databricks
7 1 (6.25%) Denodo
7 1 (6.25%) Google
7 1 (6.25%) Informatica
7 1 (6.25%) Sybase
7 1 (6.25%) TIBCO
7 1 (6.25%) VMware