JBoss Contracts

Red Hat JBoss
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring JBoss skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JBoss over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 565 617
Rank change year-on-year +89 +52 +22
Contract jobs citing JBoss 43 35 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.080% 0.16%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.30% 0.84% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 17 75
10th Percentile £322 £327 £439
25th Percentile £380 £356 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £413 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% -31.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £469 £508 £730
90th Percentile £537 £532 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £356 £675
% change year-on-year +12.92% -47.26% +22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.75
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £61.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £57.50

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 3,308 4,179 6,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.31% 9.59% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,205 2,874 4,603
10th Percentile £275 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.97%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.72% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 161 147
10th Percentile £16.65 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.25 £15.42 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%
75th Percentile £64.13 £46.18 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.50 £68.00 £78.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £23.75 £26.24
% change year-on-year +94.44% -9.49% +41.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JBoss as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JBoss in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JBoss.

Daily rate trend for JBoss in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JBoss over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JBoss in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JBoss.

Hourly rate trend for JBoss in the UK

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Top 11 Contract 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 30 April 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
England +67 29 £393 -6.15% 22
UK excluding London +68 24 £402 +12.92% 20
Work from Home +54 17 £432 +21.35% 15
London +32 14 £379 -20.21% 6
North of England +37 10 £392 -25.76% 5
North West +20 10 £392 -25.76% 5
Scotland +14 7 £432 - 4
Wales - 3 - -
South East +43 2 £470 - 7
Midlands +21 2 £506 +42.13% 2
East Midlands +7 2 £506 +42.13% 2

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (39.53%) WebSphere
2 16 (37.21%) Tomcat
3 14 (32.56%) WebLogic
4 5 (11.63%) Apache
4 5 (11.63%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (6.98%) nginx
5 3 (6.98%) OpenROAD
5 3 (6.98%) WebLogic Portal
6 1 (2.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (2.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 24 (55.81%) AWS
2 14 (32.56%) OpenShift
3 7 (16.28%) Azure
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.33%) GCP
4 1 (2.33%) GitHub
4 1 (2.33%) IaaS
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.33%) OCI
4 1 (2.33%) PaaS
4 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) HTTPS
1 1 (2.33%) Network Security
1 1 (2.33%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (2.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.23%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (27.91%) Relational Database
3 9 (20.93%) RDBMS
4 8 (18.60%) DB2
5 4 (9.30%) MongoDB
6 3 (6.98%) MySQL
6 3 (6.98%) Neo4j
7 2 (4.65%) IMS/DB
7 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
8 1 (2.33%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (2.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (51.16%) Git
2 15 (34.88%) JIRA
3 14 (32.56%) Jenkins
4 13 (30.23%) SonarQube
5 11 (25.58%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (23.26%) Bitbucket Server
6 10 (23.26%) CA Release Automation
6 10 (23.26%) TeamCity
7 7 (16.28%) Bitbucket
8 5 (11.63%) JUnit
9 3 (6.98%) Maven
9 3 (6.98%) Selenium
10 2 (4.65%) Gradle
11 1 (2.33%) Ant
11 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
11 1 (2.33%) Hudson
General
1 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 11 (25.58%) Finance
3 8 (18.60%) Banking
4 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.33%) Billing
Job Titles
1 8 (18.60%) Developer
2 6 (13.95%) Scrum Master
3 5 (11.63%) AWS DevOps
3 5 (11.63%) Java Developer
3 5 (11.63%) Lead
4 4 (9.30%) Applications Support
4 4 (9.30%) Architect
4 4 (9.30%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Lead Developer
4 4 (9.30%) Middleware Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Support Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Agile Scrum Master
5 3 (6.98%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Applications Support Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Lead Java Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Python Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (44.19%) Spring Boot
2 13 (30.23%) Web Services
3 11 (25.58%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (25.58%) Middleware
4 10 (23.26%) REST
5 9 (20.93%) SOAP
6 8 (18.60%) J2EE
6 8 (18.60%) JSP
6 8 (18.60%) Spring
7 6 (13.95%) EJB
7 6 (13.95%) RAML
7 6 (13.95%) WSDL
8 5 (11.63%) Servlets
9 4 (9.30%) AngularJS
9 4 (9.30%) IBM Integration Bus
9 4 (9.30%) RESTful
9 4 (9.30%) Struts
10 3 (6.98%) Java SE
10 3 (6.98%) LDAP
10 3 (6.98%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Private Cloud
2 6 (13.95%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.65%) PKI
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.33%) LIMS
4 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 24 (55.81%) Linux
2 23 (53.49%) Windows
3 16 (37.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (16.28%) Windows Server
5 4 (9.30%) Unix
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (2.33%) CentOS
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (48.84%) Microservices
2 18 (41.86%) DevOps
3 17 (39.53%) CI/CD
4 12 (27.91%) Migration
5 11 (25.58%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (25.58%) Scrum
6 10 (23.26%) Build Automation
6 10 (23.26%) Code Quality
6 10 (23.26%) Deployment Automation
7 9 (20.93%) Agile
8 7 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (16.28%) SDLC
9 6 (13.95%) API Development
9 6 (13.95%) Backlog Management
9 6 (13.95%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 6 (13.95%) Budget Control
9 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (11.63%) Containerisation
10 5 (11.63%) Servant Leadership
10 5 (11.63%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 21 (48.84%) Java
2 13 (30.23%) Python
2 13 (30.23%) SQL
3 10 (23.26%) Perl
4 6 (13.95%) JavaScript
5 5 (11.63%) PL/SQL
6 4 (9.30%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.65%) REXX
7 2 (4.65%) Ruby
8 1 (2.33%) ActionScript
8 1 (2.33%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (2.33%) Bash
8 1 (2.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) SC Cleared
1 6 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) Degree
3 1 (2.33%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.33%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (39.53%) Docker
2 14 (32.56%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.98%) LXC
4 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (39.53%) Kubernetes
2 12 (27.91%) Kibana
3 10 (23.26%) Progress Chef
4 5 (11.63%) Ansible
5 2 (4.65%) Terraform
6 1 (2.33%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (2.33%) Podman
6 1 (2.33%) Puppet
6 1 (2.33%) vRealize
6 1 (2.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 16 (37.21%) Oracle
2 14 (32.56%) Red Hat
3 11 (25.58%) AppDynamics
3 11 (25.58%) Splunk
4 9 (20.93%) IBM
5 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
6 4 (9.30%) Dynatrace
7 3 (6.98%) Cloudera
7 3 (6.98%) MuleSoft
8 1 (2.33%) Actifio
8 1 (2.33%) Adobe
8 1 (2.33%) Cisco
8 1 (2.33%) EMC
8 1 (2.33%) F5
8 1 (2.33%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (2.33%) LabWare
8 1 (2.33%) ScienceLogic
8 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.33%) VMware