JBoss Contract Job Trends in the South East

Red Hat JBoss
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring JBoss skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 176 212
Rank change year-on-year +8 +36 +46
Contract jobs citing JBoss 4 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.11% 0.071% 0.072%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.13% 0.80% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £283 - -
25th Percentile £288 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £542 - £550
90th Percentile £549 - -
England median daily rate £384 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -14.67% -10.00% -6.98%

All Application Platform Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 353 374 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 9.62% 8.85% 10.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 216 381
10th Percentile £207 £250 £209
25th Percentile £380 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +5.41%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £634 £678
England median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 30 41
10th Percentile £13.21 £30.00 £24.00
25th Percentile £13.25 £41.25 £30.00
Median hourly rate £29.64 £63.15 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.07% +9.83% +207.24%
75th Percentile £65.69 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.05 - £76.10
England median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% +57.41% +35.00%

JBoss
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

JBoss job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing JBoss.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing JBoss

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JBoss in the South East over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JBoss in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing JBoss.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing JBoss

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JBoss within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 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
Hampshire +7 2 £534 -
West Sussex -5 2 £285 -28.75% 2
JBoss
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) IntelliJ
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leader
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) RAD
1 2 (50.00%) Service Management
1 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk