Spring Boot Contracts

Spring Boot
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Spring Boot skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spring Boot over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 280 135
Rank change year-on-year +84 -145 -20
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 488 445 1,764
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.27% 0.89% 2.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.70% 4.01% 7.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 332 1,301
10th Percentile £374 £425 £454
25th Percentile £425 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £588
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -9.79% +11.90%
75th Percentile £631 £678 £688
90th Percentile £748 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £497 £525
% change year-on-year -9.41% -5.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 28
10th Percentile - £75.25 £60.00
25th Percentile £69.50 - £63.25
Median hourly rate £72.00 £78.00 £72.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +7.96% +14.23%
75th Percentile £74.50 £87.00 £75.29
90th Percentile - £90.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £78.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% +11.43% +10.24%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Spring Boot falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,560 11,098 23,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.30% 22.26% 26.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,563 7,950 16,765
10th Percentile £350 £375 £406
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +14.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 181 208
10th Percentile £25.60 £35.63 £19.22
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.18 £45.94
Median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £62.58
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -4.13% +27.72%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £74.89 £78.00 £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £58.81 £63.60
% change year-on-year +10.53% -7.53% +29.80%

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 20 September 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 14 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 20 September 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 +61 375 £550 -4.35% 120
London +55 250 £550 -10.24% 70
UK excluding London +86 208 £450 -9.41% 73
Work from Home +94 164 £528 +2.93% 77
Scotland +53 77 £435 -5.74% 19
North of England +45 53 £550 +7.32% 8
North West +32 33 £394 -12.50% 6
South East +29 29 £610 -0.81% 12
South West +5 21 £538 +2.97% 19
Yorkshire +13 17 £575 +9.52% 2
East of England +35 14 £375 -16.67% 3
Northern Ireland - 12 £575 - 3
North East - 3 £585 -
Wales - 2 £419 - 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 17 (3.48%) Confluence
2 15 (3.07%) Camunda
3 8 (1.64%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.23%) JBoss
5 5 (1.02%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.02%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.82%) Apache
7 2 (0.41%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.41%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.41%) IIS
7 2 (0.41%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.41%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Magnolia
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) ION MarketView
1 2 (0.41%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 213 (43.65%) AWS
2 90 (18.44%) Azure
3 56 (11.48%) GCP
4 47 (9.63%) GitHub
5 28 (5.74%) OpenShift
6 26 (5.33%) Serverless
7 22 (4.51%) Amazon S3
8 21 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (2.46%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (1.84%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (1.43%) Amazon ECR
16 6 (1.23%) Azure AKS
16 6 (1.23%) Datadog
16 6 (1.23%) Kong
17 5 (1.02%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.43%) HTTP
2 5 (1.02%) SSL
3 2 (0.41%) AMQP
3 2 (0.41%) SMS
3 2 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (20.70%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (11.89%) NoSQL
3 56 (11.48%) Relational Database
4 37 (7.58%) MongoDB
5 24 (4.92%) MySQL
6 23 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
7 21 (4.30%) SQL Server
8 16 (3.28%) Redis
9 15 (3.07%) DB2
10 14 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
11 12 (2.46%) Oracle Database
12 11 (2.25%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.64%) Bigtable
14 7 (1.43%) Couchbase
14 7 (1.43%) NewSQL
15 5 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
16 4 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
17 3 (0.61%) DynamoDB
17 3 (0.61%) Informix
Development Applications
1 104 (21.31%) Git
2 98 (20.08%) Jenkins
3 48 (9.84%) Maven
4 47 (9.63%) JUnit
5 39 (7.99%) JIRA
6 25 (5.12%) GitLab
7 17 (3.48%) Cucumber
7 17 (3.48%) Cypress.io
8 15 (3.07%) Gradle
9 14 (2.87%) Selenium
10 12 (2.46%) Bitbucket
10 12 (2.46%) TeamCity
11 10 (2.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 10 (2.05%) Mockito
12 9 (1.84%) IntelliJ
13 8 (1.64%) Eclipse
13 8 (1.64%) SonarQube
14 7 (1.43%) Ant
14 7 (1.43%) fastlane
14 7 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 77 (15.78%) Finance
2 65 (13.32%) Public Sector
3 62 (12.70%) Social Skills
4 52 (10.66%) Banking
5 25 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.69%) Retail
7 11 (2.25%) Investment Banking
7 11 (2.25%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.02%) Front Office
8 5 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.82%) Aviation
9 4 (0.82%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.41%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.20%) Games
12 1 (0.20%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.20%) Law
12 1 (0.20%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 310 (63.52%) Developer
2 236 (48.36%) Java Developer
3 65 (13.32%) Senior
4 53 (10.86%) Lead
5 46 (9.43%) Senior Developer
6 41 (8.40%) Full-Stack Developer
6 41 (8.40%) Software Engineer
7 36 (7.38%) Java Engineer
8 34 (6.97%) Senior Java Developer
9 32 (6.56%) Architect
10 24 (4.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 16 (3.28%) Lead Developer
11 16 (3.28%) Lead Java Developer
11 16 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (3.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 15 (3.07%) GCP Developer
12 15 (3.07%) Software Developer
12 15 (3.07%) Technical Leader
13 14 (2.87%) React Developer
13 14 (2.87%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (77.87%) Spring
2 137 (28.07%) React
3 133 (27.25%) REST
4 80 (16.39%) RESTful
5 78 (15.98%) Kafka
6 63 (12.91%) Node.js
7 62 (12.70%) AngularJS
8 55 (11.27%) CSS
8 55 (11.27%) Hibernate
9 52 (10.66%) JPA
10 51 (10.45%) HTML
11 40 (8.20%) J2EE
12 35 (7.17%) Web Services
13 32 (6.56%) Spring MVC
14 27 (5.53%) GraphQL
15 24 (4.92%) Spring Security
15 24 (4.92%) XML
16 22 (4.51%) Elastic Stack
16 22 (4.51%) Java EE
17 20 (4.10%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 19 (3.89%) Cloud Native
1 19 (3.89%) Data Structures
2 17 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (3.28%) Algorithms
4 14 (2.87%) Credit Derivative
5 10 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.84%) Derivative
7 8 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.64%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.43%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.23%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.02%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.02%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.02%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.82%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.61%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.51%) Linux
2 19 (3.89%) Unix
3 10 (2.05%) Windows
4 3 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.41%) CentOS
6 1 (0.20%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.20%) VMS
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (47.75%) Microservices
2 185 (37.91%) Agile
3 183 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 166 (34.02%) DevOps
5 111 (22.75%) Software Engineering
6 91 (18.65%) Scrum
7 77 (15.78%) TDD
8 71 (14.55%) Full-Stack Development
9 66 (13.52%) Unit Testing
10 59 (12.09%) Test Automation
11 54 (11.07%) Mentoring
12 50 (10.25%) Problem-Solving
13 45 (9.22%) Code Quality
14 40 (8.20%) Design Patterns
15 35 (7.17%) MVC
16 33 (6.76%) Front End Development
16 33 (6.76%) SDLC
17 30 (6.15%) Continuous Integration
18 28 (5.74%) Infrastructure as Code
19 27 (5.53%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 474 (97.13%) Java
2 105 (21.52%) SQL
3 91 (18.65%) JavaScript
4 64 (13.11%) TypeScript
5 52 (10.66%) Python
6 25 (5.12%) C
6 25 (5.12%) Kotlin
7 24 (4.92%) C++
8 9 (1.84%) PL/SQL
8 9 (1.84%) Scala
9 5 (1.02%) Bash
9 5 (1.02%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.82%) C#
11 3 (0.61%) Go
12 2 (0.41%) OpenEdge ABL
12 2 (0.41%) Progress 4GL
12 2 (0.41%) Ruby
12 2 (0.41%) Rust
12 2 (0.41%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.20%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 132 (27.05%) Security Cleared
2 98 (20.08%) SC Cleared
3 49 (10.04%) DV Cleared
4 27 (5.53%) Degree
5 19 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.66%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.64%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.41%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.41%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.20%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.66%) QA
2 11 (2.25%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (1.02%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.61%) NCSC
4 3 (0.61%) SLA
5 2 (0.41%) GDPR
6 1 (0.20%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 132 (27.05%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.20%) IAG
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 162 (33.20%) Kubernetes
2 55 (11.27%) Terraform
3 40 (8.20%) Grafana
4 21 (4.30%) Ansible
4 21 (4.30%) Kibana
5 14 (2.87%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.43%) Zipkin
7 6 (1.23%) Argo
8 4 (0.82%) Istio
8 4 (0.82%) logstash
8 4 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.61%) Puppet
10 2 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.41%) Packer
11 1 (0.20%) Anchore
11 1 (0.20%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.20%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.20%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 48 (9.84%) Oracle
2 32 (6.56%) Google
3 25 (5.12%) Microsoft
4 12 (2.46%) Red Hat
5 9 (1.84%) IBM
6 8 (1.64%) TIBCO
7 7 (1.43%) Splunk
8 6 (1.23%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.02%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.02%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.02%) New Relic
10 2 (0.41%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.41%) Databricks
10 2 (0.41%) ION Trading
10 2 (0.41%) MarketAxess
10 2 (0.41%) Progress
10 2 (0.41%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.41%) SAP
10 2 (0.41%) Tradeweb
10 2 (0.41%) TSYS