JBoss Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Red Hat JBoss
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring JBoss skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 - 122
Rank change year-on-year - - +53
Contract jobs citing JBoss 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.31% - 0.049%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.33% - 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £422 - -
25th Percentile £425 - £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 - £590
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.00%
75th Percentile £430 - £610
90th Percentile £430 - -
England median daily rate £378 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -15.94% -10.00% -8.05%

All Application Platform Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 258 147 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.51% 7.81% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 91 142
10th Percentile £277 £250 £259
25th Percentile £400 £381 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £435 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% +2.35% -14.14%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £551
90th Percentile £588 £638 £655
England median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile - £20.90 £17.39
25th Percentile - £28.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £43.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.72% +135.62% +21.79%
75th Percentile £33.88 £60.25 £19.25
90th Percentile £34.54 £69.10 £19.40
England median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £27.25
% change year-on-year -17.65% +55.96% +36.25%

JBoss
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

JBoss job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

JBoss
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing JBoss

JBoss
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing JBoss

JBoss
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JBoss within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
Shropshire - 5 £430 - 1
Solihull - 1 £420 -
JBoss
England

JBoss
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (66.67%) Apache
1 4 (66.67%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Git
2 4 (66.67%) Eclipse
2 4 (66.67%) IntelliJ
2 4 (66.67%) JUnit
2 4 (66.67%) Selenium
3 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (16.67%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) Maven
4 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
4 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Applications Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Java Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Open Source Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Open Source Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) REST
1 5 (83.33%) Spring
2 4 (66.67%) EJB
2 4 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 4 (66.67%) HTML5
2 4 (66.67%) J2EE
2 4 (66.67%) J2SE
2 4 (66.67%) JSON
2 4 (66.67%) Play Framework
2 4 (66.67%) SOAP
2 4 (66.67%) XML
3 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (16.67%) Java SE
4 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Unix
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (83.33%) Deployment Automation
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Lean Software Development
3 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 4 (66.67%) Open Source
3 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (66.67%) Scrum
3 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Build Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) Scala
3 1 (16.67%) Perl
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Puppet
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Kibana
3 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) webMethods
2 1 (16.67%) AppDynamics
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk