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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 125 131
Rank change year-on-year -37 +6 +33
Contract jobs citing JBoss 2 8 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.063% 0.41% 0.036%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.59% 2.75% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile £424 £364 -
25th Percentile £458 £385 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £393 £528
Median % change year-on-year +33.84% -25.57% -4.00%
75th Percentile £607 £395 £542
90th Percentile £648 £402 -
England median daily rate £476 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +18.88% -5.88% -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 340 291 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 10.68% 15.03% 6.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 210 126
10th Percentile £156 £185 £207
25th Percentile £331 £325 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £538 £516 £524
90th Percentile £616 £600 £613
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 11 25
10th Percentile £19.57 £16.25 -
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.01 £13.00
Median hourly rate £64.50 £40.59 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +58.91% +26.39% +73.59%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.13 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.50 £46.18
England median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £28.75
% change year-on-year -38.10% +82.61% +26.01%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JBoss in the North West over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JBoss in the North West

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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

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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 10 April 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 -24 2 £526 +33.84%
JBoss
England

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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%) Mule
1 1 (50.00%) Mule ESB
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Gradle
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Innovative Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle