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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 - 202
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Contract jobs citing JBoss 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.088% - 0.093%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.08% - 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £514 - -
25th Percentile £517 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile £552 - -
England median daily rate £443 £325 £475
% change year-on-year +36.31% -31.58% -20.83%

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 372 318 493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.20% 9.86% 9.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 180 321
10th Percentile £256 £218 £208
25th Percentile £413 £382 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £466 £465
Median % change year-on-year +7.24% +0.27% -2.11%
75th Percentile £612 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £634 £655
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 19 42
10th Percentile £15.12 £41.25 £24.00
25th Percentile - £55.00 £30.10
Median hourly rate £81.00 £62.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +29.60% +2.04% +38.97%
75th Percentile £95.00 £64.73 £70.00
90th Percentile £101.10 £67.87 £75.99
England median hourly rate £27.21 £45.00 £26.78
% change year-on-year -39.53% +68.04% +37.33%

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

JBoss
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

JBoss
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

JBoss
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 28 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
Berkshire - 2 - - 1
Hampshire - 2 £534 -
Thames Valley - 2 - - 1
JBoss
England

JBoss
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Appian
1 2 (50.00%) IIS
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (50.00%) WebLogic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Appian Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) SOAP
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (50.00%) N-Tier
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%) Business Process Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Process Management
1 2 (50.00%) Service Management
1 2 (50.00%) SOA
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow