Spring Boot Contracts

Spring Boot
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Spring Boot skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Spring Boot over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 232 161 142
Rank change year-on-year -71 -19 +2
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 451 957 1,736
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.03% 1.59% 1.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.04% 6.79% 7.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 760 1,288
10th Percentile £375 £450 £440
25th Percentile £425 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £587 £573
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +2.35% +14.65%
75th Percentile £600 £702 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -8.67% - +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 14
10th Percentile - - £52.68
25th Percentile - £53.75 £56.00
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £60.00
75th Percentile - £74.44 £76.70
90th Percentile - £78.00 £83.62
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +50.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Spring Boot is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,954 14,101 24,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.51% 23.38% 27.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,227 10,287 17,814
10th Percentile £334 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £656
90th Percentile £768 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +15.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 154 245
10th Percentile £20.77 £30.23 £21.40
25th Percentile £37.63 £46.56 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.78 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +8.89%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring Boot within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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 -99 331 £525 -13.93% 163
London -64 215 £550 -15.38% 100
UK excluding London -32 182 £480 -8.67% 83
Work from Home -50 160 £506 -12.00% 91
Scotland +10 69 £462 -2.69% 14
North of England -3 47 £525 -8.70% 17
South East +18 29 £475 -7.77% 12
North West +21 26 £525 +8.30% 10
Yorkshire +20 20 £538 -2.27% 4
East of England +10 14 £375 -40.48% 4
South West -34 14 £400 -27.27% 21
Midlands +25 8 £356 -49.14% 4
East Midlands +16 6 £356 -49.14%
West Midlands +22 2 £325 -53.57% 4
Wales +10 1 £450 -7.69% 3
North East -15 1 £550 -8.33% 3

Spring Boot
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 31 (6.87%) Confluence
2 9 (2.00%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.00%) JBoss
3 8 (1.77%) OpenStack
4 7 (1.55%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.11%) Apache
5 5 (1.11%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.89%) Camunda
6 4 (0.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.67%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.67%) nginx
7 3 (0.67%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.67%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.22%) CMS
9 1 (0.22%) CoreMedia CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.89%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 217 (48.12%) AWS
2 39 (8.65%) Amazon S3
3 36 (7.98%) Azure
4 35 (7.76%) GCP
5 28 (6.21%) OpenShift
5 28 (6.21%) Serverless
6 27 (5.99%) Amazon SQS
7 21 (4.66%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (4.43%) Amazon EKS
8 20 (4.43%) GitHub
9 11 (2.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 11 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (2.00%) Amazon MSK
11 9 (2.00%) Kong
12 7 (1.55%) Cloud Functions
12 7 (1.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (1.11%) Apigee
13 5 (1.11%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.67%) 5G
2 1 (0.22%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.22%) FTP
2 1 (0.22%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (17.07%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (10.86%) Relational Database
3 32 (7.10%) NoSQL
4 21 (4.66%) MySQL
5 20 (4.43%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (4.21%) MongoDB
7 17 (3.77%) Oracle Database
8 16 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (3.33%) RDBMS
10 13 (2.88%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (2.22%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (1.55%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.55%) Redis
13 6 (1.33%) DB2
14 5 (1.11%) OLAP
14 5 (1.11%) OLTP
15 4 (0.89%) Big Data
15 4 (0.89%) Oracle OLAP
15 4 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 115 (25.50%) Jenkins
2 85 (18.85%) JUnit
3 81 (17.96%) Git
4 40 (8.87%) Cucumber
4 40 (8.87%) JIRA
5 38 (8.43%) Mockito
6 34 (7.54%) Maven
7 28 (6.21%) GitLab
8 17 (3.77%) Selenium
9 16 (3.55%) Postman
10 15 (3.33%) SonarQube
11 14 (3.10%) Gradle
12 11 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
12 11 (2.44%) TestNG
13 10 (2.22%) Cypress.io
14 9 (2.00%) Liquibase
15 7 (1.55%) IntelliJ
16 6 (1.33%) Artifactory
16 6 (1.33%) JMeter
16 6 (1.33%) TeamCity
General
1 76 (16.85%) Finance
2 60 (13.30%) Public Sector
3 51 (11.31%) Social Skills
4 45 (9.98%) Banking
5 22 (4.88%) Front Office
6 19 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.44%) Retail
9 6 (1.33%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.11%) Law
11 4 (0.89%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.44%) Electronics
13 2 (0.44%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 310 (68.74%) Developer
2 239 (52.99%) Java Developer
3 78 (17.29%) Senior
4 57 (12.64%) Senior Developer
5 49 (10.86%) Senior Java Developer
6 42 (9.31%) Full Stack Developer
7 39 (8.65%) Lead
8 37 (8.20%) Java Engineer
9 33 (7.32%) Software Engineer
10 27 (5.99%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 23 (5.10%) Architect
12 19 (4.21%) Full Stack Java Developer
13 13 (2.88%) AWS Developer
13 13 (2.88%) Backend Developer
14 12 (2.66%) Full Stack Engineer
14 12 (2.66%) Java Pricing Developer
14 12 (2.66%) Lead Developer
14 12 (2.66%) Pricing Developer
15 11 (2.44%) Java Software Engineer
15 11 (2.44%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 367 (81.37%) Spring
2 174 (38.58%) REST
3 85 (18.85%) Kafka
4 82 (18.18%) React
5 67 (14.86%) JPA
6 57 (12.64%) Hibernate
7 55 (12.20%) RESTful
8 45 (9.98%) Web Services
9 44 (9.76%) AngularJS
9 44 (9.76%) Node.js
10 43 (9.53%) CSS
11 42 (9.31%) HTML
11 42 (9.31%) Spring Security
12 27 (5.99%) SOAP
13 26 (5.76%) Elastic Stack
14 25 (5.54%) JAX-RS
15 24 (5.32%) OAuth
16 23 (5.10%) J2EE
16 23 (5.10%) RabbitMQ
17 21 (4.66%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.43%) Credit Derivative
2 17 (3.77%) Public Cloud
3 16 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (2.88%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (2.66%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.77%) Derivative
7 7 (1.55%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.55%) Insider Threat
7 7 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.33%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.11%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.89%) DataPower
10 4 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.89%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.67%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.99%) Linux
2 7 (1.55%) Windows
3 6 (1.33%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.89%) Unix
6 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (45.68%) Microservices
2 180 (39.91%) Agile
3 151 (33.48%) CI/CD
4 90 (19.96%) TDD
5 88 (19.51%) DevOps
6 70 (15.52%) Software Engineering
7 69 (15.30%) Full Stack Development
8 56 (12.42%) SDLC
9 51 (11.31%) Scrum
10 45 (9.98%) Front End Development
11 40 (8.87%) Test Automation
12 35 (7.76%) Unit Testing
13 33 (7.32%) Mentoring
14 31 (6.87%) Observability
14 31 (6.87%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (6.43%) Continuous Integration
16 28 (6.21%) Containerisation
17 27 (5.99%) BDD
17 27 (5.99%) MVC
18 26 (5.76%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 444 (98.45%) Java
2 104 (23.06%) SQL
3 68 (15.08%) JavaScript
4 50 (11.09%) TypeScript
5 29 (6.43%) Python
6 13 (2.88%) Scala
7 11 (2.44%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.22%) C
9 8 (1.77%) PL/SQL
10 7 (1.55%) Perl
11 6 (1.33%) PHP
11 6 (1.33%) Swift
12 5 (1.11%) C++
12 5 (1.11%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.44%) Bash
13 2 (0.44%) Ruby
14 1 (0.22%) C#
14 1 (0.22%) Go
14 1 (0.22%) Groovy
14 1 (0.22%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 131 (29.05%) Security Cleared
2 114 (25.28%) SC Cleared
3 27 (5.99%) DV Cleared
4 13 (2.88%) Degree
5 10 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.22%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.10%) Accessibility
2 8 (1.77%) QA
3 4 (0.89%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.67%) GRC
4 3 (0.67%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.44%) SLA
6 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.22%) GDPR
6 1 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 142 (31.49%) Docker
2 6 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 121 (26.83%) Kubernetes
2 25 (5.54%) Terraform
3 23 (5.10%) Kibana
4 22 (4.88%) Grafana
5 20 (4.43%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (3.10%) Ansible
7 5 (1.11%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.11%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.89%) Packer
8 4 (0.89%) Zipkin
9 3 (0.67%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.44%) Istio
10 2 (0.44%) logstash
11 1 (0.22%) Anchore
11 1 (0.22%) Argo
11 1 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.22%) Podman
11 1 (0.22%) Rancher
Vendors
1 56 (12.42%) Oracle
2 26 (5.76%) Google
3 20 (4.43%) IBM
4 10 (2.22%) Microsoft
5 9 (2.00%) Red Hat
6 8 (1.77%) Splunk
7 5 (1.11%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.11%) Cognos
8 4 (0.89%) New Relic
8 4 (0.89%) TSYS
9 3 (0.67%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.67%) Micro Focus
10 2 (0.44%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.44%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.44%) SAP
11 1 (0.22%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.22%) Databricks
11 1 (0.22%) Okta
11 1 (0.22%) Reuters
11 1 (0.22%) TIBCO