JBoss Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Red Hat JBoss
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring JBoss skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 346 391
Rank change year-on-year -14 +45 +78
Contract jobs citing JBoss 29 8 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.054% 0.077%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.56% 0.49% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 5 4
10th Percentile £305 £366 £306
25th Percentile £339 £381 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £425 £320
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +32.81% -44.83%
75th Percentile £480 £450 £387
90th Percentile £519 £623 £507
UK median daily rate £443 £388 £450
% change year-on-year +14.32% -13.89% -25.00%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,856 1,631 1,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.21% 10.92% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,268 949 1,240
10th Percentile £213 £206 £213
25th Percentile £360 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £563 £552 £594
90th Percentile £669 £638 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 59 102
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.95 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £20.77 £16.40
Median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £23.13
Median % change year-on-year -35.98% +83.78% +32.14%
75th Percentile £69.45 £64.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.00 £72.45
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -22.26% +29.63% +46.14%

JBoss
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JBoss relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

JBoss job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

JBoss
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JBoss.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JBoss

JBoss
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JBoss in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JBoss in the UK excluding London

JBoss
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JBoss.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JBoss

JBoss
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JBoss within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
North West -7 18 £411 +1.99% 2
North of England -31 18 £411 +1.99% 2
Midlands - 9 £429 -
West Midlands - 9 £429 -
South East -19 2 £534 - 1
JBoss
UK

JBoss
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 20 (68.97%) Apache
2 12 (41.38%) WebSphere
3 11 (37.93%) IIS
4 10 (34.48%) iPlanet
4 10 (34.48%) WebLogic
4 10 (34.48%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (10.34%) Tomcat
6 1 (3.45%) Mule
6 1 (3.45%) Mule ESB
Cloud Services
1 25 (86.21%) AWS
2 15 (51.72%) OpenShift
3 8 (27.59%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 10 (34.48%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (34.48%) Oracle Database
2 8 (27.59%) MongoDB
3 4 (13.79%) RDBMS
3 4 (13.79%) Relational Database
4 3 (10.34%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.45%) DB2
5 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (86.21%) Git
2 18 (62.07%) Jenkins
3 14 (48.28%) Bitbucket Server
3 14 (48.28%) CA Release Automation
4 13 (44.83%) Sonatype Nexus
5 10 (34.48%) JUnit
6 8 (27.59%) Eclipse
6 8 (27.59%) IntelliJ
6 8 (27.59%) Selenium
7 4 (13.79%) JIRA
7 4 (13.79%) SonarQube
7 4 (13.79%) TeamCity
8 3 (10.34%) Bitbucket
9 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
9 1 (3.45%) Gradle
9 1 (3.45%) Maven
General
1 13 (44.83%) Finance
2 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
3 8 (27.59%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Senior
3 4 (13.79%) Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Java Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Java Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (10.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) DevOps Specialist
5 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Linux Specialist
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Technical Specialist
6 1 (3.45%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Messaging Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Scrum Master
6 1 (3.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) OAuth
1 11 (37.93%) OpenID
1 11 (37.93%) SAML
2 10 (34.48%) LDAP
2 10 (34.48%) REST
2 10 (34.48%) SOAP
2 10 (34.48%) Spring
3 9 (31.03%) J2EE
3 9 (31.03%) JSON
3 9 (31.03%) XML
4 8 (27.59%) EJB
4 8 (27.59%) Hibernate
4 8 (27.59%) HTML
4 8 (27.59%) HTML5
4 8 (27.59%) J2SE
4 8 (27.59%) Play Framework
5 6 (20.69%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (20.69%) Spring Boot
6 2 (6.90%) Middleware
6 2 (6.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (3.45%) PKI
1 1 (3.45%) Private Cloud
1 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (65.52%) Linux
2 17 (58.62%) Unix
3 16 (55.17%) Windows
4 9 (31.03%) Windows Server
5 6 (20.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (79.31%) DevOps
2 21 (72.41%) CI/CD
3 16 (55.17%) Deployment Automation
4 14 (48.28%) Microservices
5 12 (41.38%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (34.48%) Agile
6 10 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (31.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (31.03%) Infrastructure Automation
7 9 (31.03%) Mentoring
7 9 (31.03%) Scrum
7 9 (31.03%) Software Engineering
8 8 (27.59%) Continuous Delivery
8 8 (27.59%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (27.59%) Lean Software Development
8 8 (27.59%) Open Source
9 5 (17.24%) Change Management
9 5 (17.24%) Task Automation
10 4 (13.79%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) Java
2 11 (37.93%) Groovy
2 11 (37.93%) Shell Script
3 10 (34.48%) SQL
4 8 (27.59%) Scala
5 6 (20.69%) Python
6 4 (13.79%) Perl
7 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.45%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 21 (72.41%) Docker
2 14 (48.28%) Active Directory
3 8 (27.59%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 14 (48.28%) Progress Chef
2 11 (37.93%) CA Single Sign-On
3 10 (34.48%) CA Wily
4 8 (27.59%) Puppet
4 8 (27.59%) Tivoli
5 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
5 5 (17.24%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (13.79%) Kibana
7 3 (10.34%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (51.72%) AppDynamics
1 15 (51.72%) Splunk
2 14 (48.28%) Oracle
3 11 (37.93%) Broadcom
3 11 (37.93%) IBM
3 11 (37.93%) Microsoft
4 8 (27.59%) webMethods
5 4 (13.79%) Red Hat
6 3 (10.34%) Cloudera
7 2 (6.90%) CyberArk
7 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
8 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
8 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft