JBoss Contract Job Trends in the North West

Red Hat JBoss
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring JBoss skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 116 145
Rank change year-on-year +10 +29 +40
Contract jobs citing JBoss 30 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.31% 0.085% 0.035%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.91% 1.14% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 2 0
10th Percentile £305 £365 -
25th Percentile £334 £380 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £364 £403 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% - -
75th Percentile £443 £427 -
90th Percentile £480 £441 -
England median daily rate £378 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -15.94% -10.00% -8.05%

All Application Platform Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 275 176 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.02% 7.44% 7.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 110 143
10th Percentile £274 £213 £209
25th Percentile £339 £394 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £456 £463
Median % change year-on-year -9.59% -1.35% +3.93%
75th Percentile £488 £552 £575
90th Percentile £575 £643 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 13
10th Percentile £28.60 £26.56 -
25th Percentile £34.50 £28.45 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.06 £33.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.42% +73.68% -72.86%
75th Percentile £63.40 £38.44 £22.53
90th Percentile £70.58 £44.63 £36.75
England median hourly rate £35.25 £42.50 £27.25
% change year-on-year -17.06% +55.96% +36.25%

JBoss
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

JBoss job vacancy trend in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing JBoss

JBoss
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JBoss in the North West over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JBoss in the North West

JBoss
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing JBoss

JBoss
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JBoss within the North West region over the 6 months to 21 October 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
Cheshire 0 25 £358 +0.56%
Manchester -3 4 £364 -19.22%
JBoss
England

JBoss
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 15 (50.00%) Apache
2 14 (46.67%) WebSphere
3 11 (36.67%) IIS
3 11 (36.67%) Tomcat
4 10 (33.33%) iPlanet
4 10 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
5 4 (13.33%) WebLogic
6 1 (3.33%) Mule
6 1 (3.33%) Mule ESB
Cloud Services
1 25 (83.33%) AWS
2 21 (70.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (33.33%) Kerberos
2 4 (13.33%) Firewall
2 4 (13.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) Oracle Database
2 7 (23.33%) Relational Database
3 4 (13.33%) RDBMS
3 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
4 3 (10.00%) DB2
4 3 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 25 (83.33%) Git
2 22 (73.33%) Jenkins
3 19 (63.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 14 (46.67%) Bitbucket Server
4 14 (46.67%) CA Release Automation
5 10 (33.33%) JIRA
6 8 (26.67%) JUnit
7 7 (23.33%) Gradle
7 7 (23.33%) Maven
8 4 (13.33%) Bitbucket
8 4 (13.33%) SonarQube
8 4 (13.33%) TeamCity
9 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
General
1 15 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Developer
1 7 (23.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 5 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (10.00%) AWS Developer
3 3 (10.00%) DevOps Specialist
3 3 (10.00%) Scrum Master
3 3 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Software Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Applications Support
5 1 (3.33%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (46.67%) Spring Boot
2 11 (36.67%) OAuth
2 11 (36.67%) OpenID
2 11 (36.67%) SAML
3 10 (33.33%) LDAP
3 10 (33.33%) REST
3 10 (33.33%) SOAP
3 10 (33.33%) Spring
4 6 (20.00%) Spring Cloud
5 4 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (13.33%) Kafka
5 4 (13.33%) Web Services
6 3 (10.00%) J2EE
6 3 (10.00%) RAML
6 3 (10.00%) Spring MVC
6 3 (10.00%) WSDL
7 2 (6.67%) EJB
7 2 (6.67%) JSP
7 2 (6.67%) Middleware
7 2 (6.67%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) PKI
2 3 (10.00%) Private Cloud
2 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 26 (86.67%) Linux
2 19 (63.33%) Windows
3 15 (50.00%) Unix
4 9 (30.00%) Windows Server
5 4 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) DevOps
2 13 (43.33%) CI/CD
3 12 (40.00%) Microservices
4 8 (26.67%) Deployment Automation
4 8 (26.67%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (23.33%) Design Patterns
6 6 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (16.67%) Task Automation
8 4 (13.33%) Agile
8 4 (13.33%) Analytics
8 4 (13.33%) Change Management
8 4 (13.33%) Code Quality
8 4 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (13.33%) High Availability
8 4 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (13.33%) Runbook
8 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (10.00%) MVC
9 3 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 13 (43.33%) Java
3 11 (36.67%) Groovy
4 4 (13.33%) Perl
4 4 (13.33%) Python
4 4 (13.33%) SQL
5 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
System Software
1 14 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 13 (43.33%) Docker
3 8 (26.67%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 15 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 11 (36.67%) CA Single Sign-On
3 10 (33.33%) CA Wily
4 8 (26.67%) Tivoli
5 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
5 5 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (13.33%) Ansible
6 4 (13.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 25 (83.33%) Oracle
2 18 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 15 (50.00%) AppDynamics
3 15 (50.00%) Splunk
4 14 (46.67%) IBM
5 11 (36.67%) Broadcom
6 4 (13.33%) Cloudera
6 4 (13.33%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.33%) Dynatrace
7 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft