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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 499 529
Rank change year-on-year +1 +30 +115
Contract jobs citing JBoss 52 16 37
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.051% 0.094%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.56% 0.47% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 8 21
10th Percentile £307 - £338
25th Percentile £350 £313 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £341 £498
Median % change year-on-year +23.35% -31.56% -16.21%
75th Percentile £481 £461 £576
90th Percentile £544 £507 £650
UK median daily rate £411 £425 £486
% change year-on-year -3.29% -12.60% -15.43%

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 3,340 3,414 3,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.04% 10.96% 9.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,285 2,144 2,643
10th Percentile £285 £263 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £725 £810 £706
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 79 128
10th Percentile £17.42 £17.00 £14.50
25th Percentile £21.03 £22.90 £17.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £41.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.98% +64.00% +28.21%
75th Percentile £70.36 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.80 £74.13
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £34.04 £26.78
% change year-on-year +2.84% +27.09% +34.91%

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 24 November 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 24 November 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 +5 27 £360 -10.67%
North of England -11 27 £360 -10.67%
London -12 11 £528 +62.31% 6
Midlands - 10 £429 - 1
West Midlands - 9 £429 - 1
South East -1 3 £525 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £360 -
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 24 (46.15%) Apache
2 14 (26.92%) WebSphere
3 11 (21.15%) IIS
3 11 (21.15%) Tomcat
4 10 (19.23%) iPlanet
4 10 (19.23%) WebLogic
4 10 (19.23%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (1.92%) Confluence
5 1 (1.92%) Mule
5 1 (1.92%) Mule ESB
5 1 (1.92%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 34 (65.38%) AWS
2 24 (46.15%) OpenShift
3 9 (17.31%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.85%) GitHub
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.92%) Azure
5 1 (1.92%) GCP
5 1 (1.92%) SaaS
5 1 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.23%) Kerberos
2 5 (9.62%) Firewall
3 4 (7.69%) SSL
4 1 (1.92%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.92%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.92%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (28.85%) Oracle Database
2 8 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 8 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 5 (9.62%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (9.62%) RDBMS
3 5 (9.62%) SQL Server
4 4 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.92%) DB2
6 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 34 (65.38%) Git
2 26 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 21 (40.38%) Sonatype Nexus
4 17 (32.69%) JUnit
5 15 (28.85%) Bitbucket Server
5 15 (28.85%) CA Release Automation
6 12 (23.08%) JIRA
7 9 (17.31%) IntelliJ
8 8 (15.38%) Eclipse
8 8 (15.38%) Maven
8 8 (15.38%) Selenium
9 7 (13.46%) Gradle
10 5 (9.62%) SonarQube
10 5 (9.62%) TeamCity
11 3 (5.77%) Bitbucket
12 1 (1.92%) Ant
12 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
12 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
General
1 17 (32.69%) Finance
1 17 (32.69%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
3 6 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.62%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Law
5 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (25.00%) Developer
2 9 (17.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) Java Developer
4 7 (13.46%) Senior
5 6 (11.54%) Software Developer
6 5 (9.62%) Java Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) AWS Developer
8 3 (5.77%) DevOps Specialist
8 3 (5.77%) J2EE Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Principal Software Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (5.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Linux Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Linux Specialist
9 2 (3.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (34.62%) Spring
2 17 (32.69%) SOAP
3 16 (30.77%) REST
4 13 (25.00%) J2EE
4 13 (25.00%) Spring Boot
5 12 (23.08%) OpenID
6 11 (21.15%) OAuth
6 11 (21.15%) SAML
7 10 (19.23%) LDAP
7 10 (19.23%) XML
8 9 (17.31%) JSON
9 8 (15.38%) EJB
9 8 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (15.38%) Hibernate
9 8 (15.38%) HTML
9 8 (15.38%) HTML5
9 8 (15.38%) J2SE
9 8 (15.38%) Play Framework
10 6 (11.54%) Kafka
10 6 (11.54%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) PKI
2 3 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (65.38%) Linux
2 23 (44.23%) Unix
3 20 (38.46%) Windows
4 9 (17.31%) Windows Server
5 8 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (53.85%) DevOps
2 25 (48.08%) CI/CD
3 22 (42.31%) Microservices
4 17 (32.69%) Deployment Automation
5 16 (30.77%) Agile
6 15 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (26.92%) Software Engineering
8 13 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (19.23%) Mentoring
9 10 (19.23%) Open Source
9 10 (19.23%) Scrum
10 9 (17.31%) Continuous Delivery
10 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure Automation
11 8 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
11 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (15.38%) Lean Software Development
12 7 (13.46%) Design Patterns
13 6 (11.54%) Architectural Patterns
13 6 (11.54%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (57.69%) Java
2 17 (32.69%) Shell Script
3 12 (23.08%) Groovy
4 11 (21.15%) SQL
5 8 (15.38%) Python
5 8 (15.38%) Scala
6 5 (9.62%) Perl
7 1 (1.92%) Bash
7 1 (1.92%) C#
7 1 (1.92%) C++
7 1 (1.92%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (11.54%) AWS Certification
2 4 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.85%) Degree
5 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.92%) CCIE
5 1 (1.92%) CCNP
5 1 (1.92%) CCSM
5 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.92%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) HL7
1 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 22 (42.31%) Docker
2 15 (28.85%) Active Directory
3 8 (15.38%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (30.77%) Progress Chef
2 11 (21.15%) CA Single Sign-On
3 10 (19.23%) CA Wily
4 9 (17.31%) Puppet
5 8 (15.38%) Tivoli
6 7 (13.46%) Ansible
6 7 (13.46%) Kubernetes
7 6 (11.54%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (9.62%) Kibana
9 1 (1.92%) Podman
Vendors
1 31 (59.62%) Oracle
2 17 (32.69%) Splunk
3 16 (30.77%) AppDynamics
3 16 (30.77%) Microsoft
4 15 (28.85%) IBM
5 11 (21.15%) Broadcom
6 9 (17.31%) Red Hat
7 8 (15.38%) webMethods
8 5 (9.62%) Temenos
9 4 (7.69%) Cloudera
10 2 (3.85%) CyberArk
10 2 (3.85%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.92%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (1.92%) CheckPoint
11 1 (1.92%) Cisco
11 1 (1.92%) Citrix
11 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
11 1 (1.92%) MuleSoft
11 1 (1.92%) Palo Alto
11 1 (1.92%) VMware