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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 116 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing JBoss 14 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.56% 0.095% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.84% 0.95% -
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 0
10th Percentile £305 £365 -
25th Percentile £324 £380 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £403 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% - -
75th Percentile £480 £427 -
90th Percentile £489 £441 -
England median daily rate £443 £325 £450
% change year-on-year +36.31% -27.78% -26.23%

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 289 210 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 11.55% 10.02% 5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 140 99
10th Percentile £173 £182 £221
25th Percentile £313 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £539 £575
90th Percentile £576 £589 £663
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 5 11
10th Percentile £19.75 £16.14 -
25th Percentile £37.15 £16.25 £13.00
Median hourly rate £62.49 £19.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +220.44% +11.43% +2.74%
75th Percentile £72.03 £24.76 £19.38
90th Percentile £74.26 £43.05 £23.75
England median hourly rate £27.21 £41.91 £24.00
% change year-on-year -35.08% +74.63% +35.44%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -7 12 £433 +21.63%
Manchester -13 2 £416 -7.67% 1
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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 12 (85.71%) Apache
2 11 (78.57%) IIS
2 11 (78.57%) WebSphere
3 10 (71.43%) iPlanet
3 10 (71.43%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (14.29%) Tomcat
5 1 (7.14%) Mule
5 1 (7.14%) Mule ESB
5 1 (7.14%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) AWS
2 11 (78.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) Kerberos
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (71.43%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (85.71%) Git
1 12 (85.71%) Jenkins
2 11 (78.57%) Bitbucket Server
2 11 (78.57%) CA Release Automation
3 9 (64.29%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (14.29%) JUnit
5 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
5 1 (7.14%) Gradle
5 1 (7.14%) JIRA
5 1 (7.14%) Maven
General
1 10 (71.43%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (78.57%) OAuth
1 11 (78.57%) OpenID
1 11 (78.57%) SAML
2 10 (71.43%) LDAP
3 2 (14.29%) Middleware
3 2 (14.29%) Spring
3 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.14%) J2EE
4 1 (7.14%) JSON
4 1 (7.14%) Kafka
4 1 (7.14%) REST
4 1 (7.14%) SOAP
4 1 (7.14%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Web Services
4 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (7.14%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (92.86%) Linux
2 12 (85.71%) Windows
3 9 (64.29%) Unix
3 9 (64.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) DevOps
2 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
3 8 (57.14%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (35.71%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (35.71%) Task Automation
5 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
5 3 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) Problem Management
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Microservices
6 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (7.14%) Analytical Thinking
7 1 (7.14%) API Development
7 1 (7.14%) Architectural Patterns
7 1 (7.14%) Continuous Deployment
7 1 (7.14%) Design Patterns
7 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
7 1 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (7.14%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Groovy
2 9 (64.29%) Shell Script
3 2 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 9 (64.29%) Docker
3 8 (57.14%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) CA Single Sign-On
2 10 (71.43%) CA Wily
2 10 (71.43%) Progress Chef
3 8 (57.14%) Tivoli
4 5 (35.71%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (7.14%) Ansible
5 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Oracle
2 11 (78.57%) AppDynamics
2 11 (78.57%) Broadcom
2 11 (78.57%) IBM
2 11 (78.57%) Splunk
3 10 (71.43%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
4 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft