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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 123 137
Rank change year-on-year +3 +14 +46
Contract jobs citing JBoss 25 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.01% 0.088% 0.038%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.14% 0.96% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 2 0
10th Percentile £305 £365 -
25th Percentile £317 £380 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £403 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.17% - -
75th Percentile £450 £427 -
90th Percentile £481 £441 -
England median daily rate £429 £341 £438
% change year-on-year +25.99% -22.17% -27.08%

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 307 208 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.38% 9.15% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 139 112
10th Percentile £214 £203 £222
25th Percentile £317 £359 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £450 £455
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% -1.15% +1.17%
75th Percentile £500 £551 £569
90th Percentile £579 £600 £663
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 8 9
10th Percentile £19.75 £16.19 £12.95
25th Percentile £34.50 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.12 £25.03 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.25% +43.03% -
75th Percentile £70.45 £36.56 £19.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £50.70 £32.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £26.39
% change year-on-year -17.65% +61.05% +37.99%

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 5 December 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 5 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
Cheshire -5 22 £358 +0.56%
Manchester -5 3 £360 -20.00%
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 (60.00%) Apache
2 12 (48.00%) WebSphere
3 11 (44.00%) IIS
4 10 (40.00%) iPlanet
4 10 (40.00%) WebSphere Application Server
5 7 (28.00%) Tomcat
6 2 (8.00%) WebLogic
7 1 (4.00%) Mule
7 1 (4.00%) Mule ESB
Cloud Services
1 20 (80.00%) AWS
2 18 (72.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (40.00%) Kerberos
2 4 (16.00%) Firewall
2 4 (16.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (44.00%) Oracle Database
2 6 (24.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (12.00%) RDBMS
5 2 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (4.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 20 (80.00%) Git
2 19 (76.00%) Jenkins
3 16 (64.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 13 (52.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 13 (52.00%) CA Release Automation
5 7 (28.00%) JIRA
6 6 (24.00%) JUnit
7 5 (20.00%) Gradle
7 5 (20.00%) Maven
8 3 (12.00%) SonarQube
8 3 (12.00%) TeamCity
9 2 (8.00%) Bitbucket
10 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
General
1 12 (48.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Senior
3 4 (16.00%) Java Developer
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (12.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) DevOps Specialist
5 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.00%) Applications Support Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Scrum Master
6 1 (4.00%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) OAuth
1 11 (44.00%) OpenID
1 11 (44.00%) SAML
2 10 (40.00%) LDAP
3 9 (36.00%) Spring Boot
4 6 (24.00%) REST
4 6 (24.00%) SOAP
4 6 (24.00%) Spring
5 4 (16.00%) Kafka
5 4 (16.00%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (12.00%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (8.00%) Middleware
7 2 (8.00%) Web Services
8 1 (4.00%) J2EE
8 1 (4.00%) JSON
8 1 (4.00%) RAML
8 1 (4.00%) RESTful
8 1 (4.00%) Spring MVC
8 1 (4.00%) WSDL
8 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) PKI
2 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 23 (92.00%) Linux
2 18 (72.00%) Windows
3 13 (52.00%) Unix
4 9 (36.00%) Windows Server
5 3 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) DevOps
2 12 (48.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (36.00%) Microservices
4 8 (32.00%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (28.00%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (20.00%) Design Patterns
6 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (20.00%) Task Automation
7 4 (16.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (16.00%) High Availability
7 4 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (12.00%) Analytics
8 3 (12.00%) Change Management
8 3 (12.00%) Code Quality
8 3 (12.00%) Containerisation
8 3 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (12.00%) Problem Management
8 3 (12.00%) Runbook
8 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (8.00%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) Shell Script
2 11 (44.00%) Groovy
3 8 (32.00%) Java
4 3 (12.00%) Perl
4 3 (12.00%) Python
5 2 (8.00%) SQL
6 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
System Software
1 13 (52.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (48.00%) Docker
3 8 (32.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 14 (56.00%) Progress Chef
2 11 (44.00%) CA Single Sign-On
3 10 (40.00%) CA Wily
4 8 (32.00%) Tivoli
5 5 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (16.00%) Ansible
6 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
7 3 (12.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (84.00%) Oracle
2 15 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 14 (56.00%) AppDynamics
3 14 (56.00%) IBM
3 14 (56.00%) Splunk
4 11 (44.00%) Broadcom
5 3 (12.00%) Cloudera
5 3 (12.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
6 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft