JBoss Contract Job Trends

Red Hat JBoss
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring JBoss skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 476 541
Rank change year-on-year -126 +65 +62
Contract jobs citing JBoss 21 44 35
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.044% 0.15% 0.082%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.50% 1.34% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 34 18
10th Percentile £400 £358 £329
25th Percentile £402 £380 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £402 £406
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% -1.05% -30.85%
75th Percentile £581 £467 £506
90th Percentile £675 £537 £530
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £400 £359
% change year-on-year +0.50% +11.34% -40.13%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,193 3,278 4,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.71% 11.16% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,838 2,180 2,885
10th Percentile £313 £280 £258
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £684 £713 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.22% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 69 160
10th Percentile £15.70 £16.26 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.03 £22.50 £15.45
Median hourly rate £32.50 £46.18 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year -29.62% +57.88% -35.00%
75th Percentile £68.50 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.11 £52.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -33.12% +114.29% -10.91%

JBoss
Job Vacancy Trend

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

JBoss job vacancy trend in the UK

JBoss
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

JBoss
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JBoss over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JBoss in the UK

JBoss
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

JBoss
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 17 May 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
England -128 17 £511 +28.88% 1
UK excluding London -120 11 £402 +0.50%
London -61 10 £530 +24.71% 1
South East -58 5 £400 -0.50%
Scotland -3 3 - -
Work from Home -39 3 £526 +10.74% 59
North West -46 2 £526 +34.53%
North of England -76 2 £526 +34.53%
Wales -14 1 £475 -

JBoss
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 8 (38.10%) Tomcat
2 5 (23.81%) WebLogic
3 4 (19.05%) Appian
3 4 (19.05%) IIS
3 4 (19.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (19.05%) WebSphere
4 2 (9.52%) Apache
4 2 (9.52%) Confluence
4 2 (9.52%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (4.76%) Mule
5 1 (4.76%) Mule ESB
5 1 (4.76%) OpenStack
5 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Temenos T24
2 1 (4.76%) MetaTrader
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) OpenShift
2 3 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) Azure
4 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) Nutanix
4 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) NetScaler
1 1 (4.76%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (4.76%) SSH
1 1 (4.76%) VLAN
1 1 (4.76%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Relational Database
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle Database
3 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.76%) OpenStack Swift
4 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) JIRA
2 6 (28.57%) Git
3 5 (23.81%) Jenkins
3 5 (23.81%) JUnit
4 3 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (9.52%) Maven
6 1 (4.76%) Ant
6 1 (4.76%) Artifactory
6 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
6 1 (4.76%) Eclipse
6 1 (4.76%) Gradle
6 1 (4.76%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Java Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Software Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Appian Architect
4 3 (14.29%) J2EE Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Lead
5 2 (9.52%) Lead Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Lead Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Middleware Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) T24 Developer
6 1 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Linux Scripter
6 1 (4.76%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) Web Services
2 7 (33.33%) J2EE
3 5 (23.81%) REST
3 5 (23.81%) SOAP
4 4 (19.05%) Middleware
4 4 (19.05%) Spring
5 3 (14.29%) JMS
6 2 (9.52%) Keycloak
7 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
7 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (4.76%) JSON
7 1 (4.76%) Kafka
7 1 (4.76%) RESTful
7 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
7 1 (4.76%) Spring Cloud
7 1 (4.76%) Vue
7 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (19.05%) N-Tier
3 3 (14.29%) Client/Server
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
4 2 (9.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (9.52%) PACS
4 2 (9.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (4.76%) LIMS
5 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (9.52%) Windows
4 1 (4.76%) Rocky
4 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Agile
2 5 (23.81%) Scrum
3 4 (19.05%) Business Process Modelling
3 4 (19.05%) Configuration Management
3 4 (19.05%) DevOps
3 4 (19.05%) SOA
4 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 3 (14.29%) Migration
4 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (14.29%) Process Management
4 3 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (9.52%) Build Automation
5 2 (9.52%) Microservices
5 2 (9.52%) Open Source
5 2 (9.52%) SDLC
5 2 (9.52%) Sprint Backlog
5 2 (9.52%) Unit Testing
5 2 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (9.52%) User Stories
6 1 (4.76%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) Java
2 5 (23.81%) SQL
3 4 (19.05%) Bash
3 4 (19.05%) Python
4 3 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 2 (9.52%) Perl
6 1 (4.76%) Groovy
6 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) CCIE
2 1 (4.76%) CCNP
2 1 (4.76%) CCSM
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) iptables
1 1 (4.76%) NFS
1 1 (4.76%) Samba
1 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Grafana
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Podman
2 1 (4.76%) Puppet
2 1 (4.76%) Rundeck
2 1 (4.76%) SELinux
2 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.76%) systemd
2 1 (4.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Oracle
2 6 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 5 (23.81%) IBM
4 2 (9.52%) SAP
5 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco
5 1 (4.76%) Citrix
5 1 (4.76%) EnterpriseDB
5 1 (4.76%) Google
5 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.76%) SaltStack
5 1 (4.76%) Temenos
5 1 (4.76%) VMware