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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 547 610
Rank change year-on-year +63 +63 +80
DemandTrendContract jobs citing JBoss 71 30 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.077% 0.092%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.97% 0.73% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 13 32
10th Percentile £311 £356 £353
25th Percentile £358 £356 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £425 £543
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% -21.70% -1.32%
75th Percentile £449 £495 £663
90th Percentile £537 £537 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £371 £388 £550
% change year-on-year -4.19% -29.55% -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,612 4,091 5,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.99% 10.53% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,339 2,813 3,792
10th Percentile £281 £275 £258
25th Percentile £393 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £520 £514
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% +1.22% -2.14%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £650
90th Percentile £720 £825 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £465 £475
% change year-on-year -3.12% -2.21% +1.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 104 162
10th Percentile £17.33 £16.00 £16.14
25th Percentile £25.88 £21.19 £21.00
Median hourly rate £43.09 £32.75 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.57% -35.15% +124.44%
75th Percentile £65.25 £70.00 £66.19
90th Percentile £77.98 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £45.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.62% +28.57% +75.00%

JBoss
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JBoss 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 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JBoss in the UK

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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

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Top 12 DemandTrendContract 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 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +53 56 £384 +0.72% 13
UK excluding London +49 51 £371 -4.19% 11
North West +22 29 £360 -20.00% 4
North of England +13 29 £360 -20.00% 5
Work from Home +43 21 £425 +19.38% 3
London +31 14 £513 -0.49% 2
Scotland +2 9 £424 -0.24%
Midlands -13 6 £420 +17.98% 3
South East +22 4 £346 -13.50% 2
East Midlands -3 4 £418 +17.28% 2
Wales - 3 - -
West Midlands - 2 £420 - 1

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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 24 (33.80%) Tomcat
2 23 (32.39%) WebSphere
3 19 (26.76%) WebLogic
4 14 (19.72%) Apache
5 8 (11.27%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (7.04%) IIS
7 4 (5.63%) iPlanet
8 3 (4.23%) nginx
8 3 (4.23%) OpenROAD
8 3 (4.23%) WebLogic Portal
9 1 (1.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (1.41%) CMS
9 1 (1.41%) Confluence
9 1 (1.41%) Mule
9 1 (1.41%) Mule ESB
9 1 (1.41%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 42 (59.15%) AWS
2 33 (46.48%) OpenShift
3 7 (9.86%) Azure
4 5 (7.04%) GitHub
5 2 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.41%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.41%) GCP
6 1 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.41%) OCI
6 1 (1.41%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.41%) SaaS
6 1 (1.41%) Serverless
6 1 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.63%) Kerberos
1 4 (5.63%) SSL
2 3 (4.23%) Firewall
3 1 (1.41%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (25.35%) Relational Database
2 15 (21.13%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (16.90%) RDBMS
4 11 (15.49%) DB2
5 10 (14.08%) Oracle Database
6 5 (7.04%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (4.23%) Neo4j
7 3 (4.23%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.41%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.41%) IMS/DB
8 1 (1.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 47 (66.20%) Git
2 30 (42.25%) Jenkins
3 27 (38.03%) JIRA
3 27 (38.03%) Sonatype Nexus
4 17 (23.94%) Bitbucket Server
4 17 (23.94%) CA Release Automation
5 16 (22.54%) SonarQube
6 15 (21.13%) JUnit
7 13 (18.31%) Bitbucket
7 13 (18.31%) TeamCity
8 10 (14.08%) Maven
9 8 (11.27%) Gradle
10 3 (4.23%) Selenium
11 2 (2.82%) Cucumber
11 2 (2.82%) IntelliJ
12 1 (1.41%) Ant
12 1 (1.41%) Artifactory
12 1 (1.41%) Hudson
General
1 24 (33.80%) Finance
2 17 (23.94%) Social Skills
3 11 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (15.49%) Banking
4 3 (4.23%) Law
5 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.41%) Billing
Job Titles
1 17 (23.94%) Developer
2 11 (15.49%) Java Developer
3 10 (14.08%) Scrum Master
4 7 (9.86%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (8.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Software Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Lead
6 5 (7.04%) Senior
7 4 (5.63%) Architect
7 4 (5.63%) AWS Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Middleware Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) DevOps Specialist
8 3 (4.23%) Lead Developer
8 3 (4.23%) Lead Java Developer
8 3 (4.23%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Principal Software Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (43.66%) Spring Boot
2 23 (32.39%) REST
3 21 (29.58%) SOAP
4 20 (28.17%) Spring
5 15 (21.13%) Elastic Stack
5 15 (21.13%) Web Services
6 11 (15.49%) Middleware
7 10 (14.08%) RAML
7 10 (14.08%) WSDL
8 9 (12.68%) J2EE
9 8 (11.27%) JSP
10 7 (9.86%) LDAP
10 7 (9.86%) Spring Cloud
11 6 (8.45%) EJB
11 6 (8.45%) OAuth
11 6 (8.45%) OpenID
12 5 (7.04%) Kafka
12 5 (7.04%) RESTful
12 5 (7.04%) SAML
12 5 (7.04%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) Private Cloud
2 10 (14.08%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.23%) PKI
5 2 (2.82%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (67.61%) Linux
2 28 (39.44%) Windows
3 19 (26.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (16.90%) Unix
5 8 (11.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (46.48%) Microservices
2 30 (42.25%) DevOps
3 26 (36.62%) CI/CD
4 22 (30.99%) Agile
5 16 (22.54%) Scrum
6 14 (19.72%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (18.31%) Code Quality
7 13 (18.31%) Migration
8 12 (16.90%) Build Automation
8 12 (16.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (16.90%) Deployment Automation
8 12 (16.90%) SDLC
9 11 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (14.08%) API Development
10 10 (14.08%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 10 (14.08%) Budget Control
10 10 (14.08%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (12.68%) Conflict Resolution
11 9 (12.68%) Servant Leadership
11 9 (12.68%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 40 (56.34%) Java
2 20 (28.17%) SQL
3 16 (22.54%) Python
4 14 (19.72%) Shell Script
5 13 (18.31%) Perl
6 7 (9.86%) Groovy
7 5 (7.04%) JavaScript
7 5 (7.04%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.82%) Bash
8 2 (2.82%) Ruby
9 1 (1.41%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.41%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.41%) C#
9 1 (1.41%) C++
9 1 (1.41%) REXX
Qualifications
1 5 (7.04%) AWS Certification
1 5 (7.04%) Degree
2 4 (5.63%) SC Cleared
2 4 (5.63%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.41%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.63%) QA
2 3 (4.23%) HL7
3 1 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (32.39%) Docker
2 20 (28.17%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.23%) LXC
3 3 (4.23%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 1 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (29.58%) Kubernetes
2 18 (25.35%) Progress Chef
3 13 (18.31%) Kibana
4 8 (11.27%) Ansible
5 5 (7.04%) CA Single Sign-On
6 4 (5.63%) CA Wily
7 3 (4.23%) Tivoli
8 2 (2.82%) Podman
9 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.41%) Oracle Identity Management
9 1 (1.41%) Puppet
9 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.41%) Terraform
9 1 (1.41%) vRealize
9 1 (1.41%) VxRail
Vendors
1 38 (53.52%) Oracle
2 21 (29.58%) Splunk
3 19 (26.76%) AppDynamics
4 18 (25.35%) Red Hat
5 15 (21.13%) IBM
5 15 (21.13%) Microsoft
6 7 (9.86%) Cloudera
7 5 (7.04%) Broadcom
7 5 (7.04%) Dynatrace
7 5 (7.04%) Temenos
8 2 (2.82%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.41%) Adobe
9 1 (1.41%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (1.41%) Cisco
9 1 (1.41%) EMC
9 1 (1.41%) F5
9 1 (1.41%) IBM Sterling
9 1 (1.41%) ScienceLogic
9 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.41%) VMware