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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 122 140
Rank change year-on-year -33 +18 +29
Contract jobs citing JBoss 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.068% 0.099% 0.035%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.60% 0.74% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £404 £369 -
25th Percentile £408 £373 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £379 £528
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% -28.22% -4.00%
75th Percentile £460 £385 £542
90th Percentile £472 £389 -
England median daily rate £440 £401 £425
% change year-on-year +9.73% -5.65% -29.17%

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 334 270 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 11.38% 13.33% 6.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 188 119
10th Percentile £150 £157 £222
25th Percentile £326 £320 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £438 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.49% +9.38% -15.79%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £515
90th Percentile £600 £600 £613
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 7 28
10th Percentile £19.75 £16.18 £13.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £17.75 £13.75
Median hourly rate £63.40 £24.76 £27.31
Median % change year-on-year +156.06% -9.33% +12.61%
75th Percentile £74.26 £43.39 £45.30
90th Percentile £75.00 £48.13 £46.18
England median hourly rate £27.21 £51.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -47.17% +106.00% +12.82%

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

JBoss
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
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 13 March 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
Cheshire -19 2 £428 +12.80%
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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) iPlanet
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (50.00%) CA Release Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Gradle
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) CA Single Sign-On
1 1 (50.00%) CA Wily
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (50.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (50.00%) Broadcom
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk