JBoss Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Red Hat JBoss
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring JBoss skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JBoss 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.29% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £395 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 - -
75th Percentile £430 - -
90th Percentile £436 - -
England median daily rate £440 £325 £450
% change year-on-year +35.38% -27.78% -26.23%

All Application Platform Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 419 211 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.46% 9.04% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 126 150
10th Percentile £291 £210 £200
25th Percentile £400 £355 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £403
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +11.80% -18.69%
75th Percentile £538 £534 £538
90th Percentile £588 £626 £662
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 14
10th Percentile £15.60 £16.55 £13.42
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.88 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.42 £18.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.19% -2.70% +9.24%
75th Percentile £27.21 £20.24 £21.06
90th Percentile £37.27 £25.64 £29.73
England median hourly rate £35.00 £41.91 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.49% +74.63% +29.73%

JBoss
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JBoss relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

JBoss job vacancy trend in the Midlands

JBoss
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing JBoss.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing JBoss

JBoss
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing JBoss.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing JBoss

JBoss
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JBoss within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
West Midlands - 9 £429 -
JBoss
England

JBoss
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 8 (88.89%) Apache
1 8 (88.89%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (88.89%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Git
2 8 (88.89%) Eclipse
2 8 (88.89%) IntelliJ
2 8 (88.89%) JUnit
2 8 (88.89%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (11.11%) CA Release Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
3 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (88.89%) Influencing Skills
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Java Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Messaging Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Open Source Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Open Source Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) EJB
1 8 (88.89%) Hibernate
1 8 (88.89%) HTML
1 8 (88.89%) HTML5
1 8 (88.89%) J2EE
1 8 (88.89%) J2SE
1 8 (88.89%) JSON
1 8 (88.89%) Play Framework
1 8 (88.89%) REST
1 8 (88.89%) SOAP
1 8 (88.89%) Spring
1 8 (88.89%) XML
2 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Unix
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 9 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) Microservices
2 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 8 (88.89%) Continuous Delivery
2 8 (88.89%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (88.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (88.89%) Infrastructure Automation
2 8 (88.89%) Lean Software Development
2 8 (88.89%) Mentoring
2 8 (88.89%) Open Source
2 8 (88.89%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (88.89%) Scrum
2 8 (88.89%) Software Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Build Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Open Source Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Java
1 8 (88.89%) Scala
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Perl
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) Kibana
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) webMethods
2 1 (11.11%) AppDynamics
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk