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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 149 196
Rank change year-on-year -59 +47 +7
Contract jobs citing JBoss 5 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.080% 0.13% 0.035%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.04% 1.15% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £346 £400
Median % change year-on-year +15.61% -13.50% -33.33%
England median daily rate £428 £388 £406
% change year-on-year +10.32% -4.62% -21.69%

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 479 347 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 7.67% 11.27% 6.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 211 243
10th Percentile £281 £220 £254
25th Percentile £425 £369 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +11.11% -7.93%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £700 £634 £621
England median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 15 34
10th Percentile £16.33 £16.29 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.44 £32.05 £23.06
Median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £46.75
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +12.30% -16.89%
75th Percentile £45.04 £61.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £56.29 £68.40 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £31.71
% change year-on-year -38.10% +65.56% -34.62%

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 27 June 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 - 5 £400 -
Thames Valley - 5 £400 -
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 3 (60.00%) Appian
1 3 (60.00%) IIS
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (60.00%) Tomcat
1 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
2 2 (40.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (40.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Appian Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Middleware Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) SOAP
1 3 (60.00%) Web Services
2 2 (40.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (60.00%) N-Tier
2 2 (40.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Business Process Modelling
1 3 (60.00%) SOA
2 2 (40.00%) Build Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Process Management
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Perl
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat