Spring Boot Contracts in England

Spring Boot
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 245 171
Rank change year-on-year +16 -74 -24
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 283 354 759
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.16% 0.95% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.19% 4.71% 6.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 286 604
10th Percentile £363 £363 £463
25th Percentile £410 £448 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.54% +0.04%
75th Percentile £585 £625 £716
90th Percentile £728 £838 £771
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £41.00 - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £72.81 - £74.44
90th Percentile £82.38 - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £73.75 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -5.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot in England

Spring Boot
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Spring Boot in England

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in England

Spring Boot
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Spring Boot in England

Spring Boot
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring Boot in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London -13 160 £550 - 116
North of England +28 64 £465 -11.43% 72
North West +27 40 £402 -23.43% 44
Midlands +36 22 £402 +12.92% 38
Yorkshire +3 18 £538 -2.27% 19
South East +29 12 £519 +9.16% 80
South West +40 11 £513 +28.13% 32
West Midlands +23 11 £438 +34.62% 22
East Midlands +15 11 £358 +0.56% 13
North East +6 7 £465 -15.45% 9
East of England +17 1 £468 +24.67% 22
Spring Boot
UK

Spring Boot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 30 (10.60%) Confluence
2 16 (5.65%) JBoss
3 8 (2.83%) Camunda
4 7 (2.47%) Tomcat
5 6 (2.12%) Apache
6 5 (1.77%) WebLogic
7 4 (1.41%) Apache Spark
7 4 (1.41%) Cloud Foundry
7 4 (1.41%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.71%) Alfresco
8 2 (0.71%) CICS
8 2 (0.71%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.35%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.35%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 146 (51.59%) AWS
2 31 (10.95%) Azure
3 21 (7.42%) OpenShift
4 20 (7.07%) Serverless
5 19 (6.71%) GitHub
6 18 (6.36%) GCP
6 18 (6.36%) Slack
7 16 (5.65%) Amazon S3
7 16 (5.65%) Cloud Computing
8 15 (5.30%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (5.30%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (4.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (3.53%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (3.18%) AWS KMS
11 9 (3.18%) Route 53
12 7 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.12%) Kong
13 6 (2.12%) PaaS
14 5 (1.77%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.53%) HTTP
2 2 (0.71%) IPsec
2 2 (0.71%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.71%) SMS
2 2 (0.71%) SSL
3 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (42.40%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (26.50%) MongoDB
3 63 (22.26%) Relational Database
4 50 (17.67%) MySQL
5 46 (16.25%) NoSQL
6 23 (8.13%) Apache Cassandra
7 17 (6.01%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (5.65%) RDBMS
9 14 (4.95%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (4.59%) SQL Server
11 11 (3.89%) DynamoDB
12 9 (3.18%) Redis
13 7 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.77%) DB2
15 3 (1.06%) Neo4j
15 3 (1.06%) Oracle Database
16 2 (0.71%) Data Lake
16 2 (0.71%) Flink
16 2 (0.71%) GIS
16 2 (0.71%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 92 (32.51%) JUnit
2 91 (32.16%) Jenkins
3 71 (25.09%) Git
4 56 (19.79%) Maven
5 50 (17.67%) Mockito
6 48 (16.96%) JIRA
7 43 (15.19%) GitLab
8 42 (14.84%) Gradle
9 29 (10.25%) Cucumber
10 27 (9.54%) Liquibase
10 27 (9.54%) SonarQube
11 19 (6.71%) Jasmine
12 17 (6.01%) Sonatype Nexus
13 14 (4.95%) Bitbucket Server
14 13 (4.59%) CA Release Automation
15 12 (4.24%) Bitbucket
16 11 (3.89%) IntelliJ
16 11 (3.89%) TeamCity
17 10 (3.53%) Selenium
18 8 (2.83%) Artifactory
General
1 79 (27.92%) Public Sector
2 71 (25.09%) Finance
3 41 (14.49%) Social Skills
4 31 (10.95%) Banking
5 23 (8.13%) Marketing
6 22 (7.77%) Telecoms
7 21 (7.42%) Electronics
7 21 (7.42%) Manufacturing
8 13 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (3.89%) Retail
10 6 (2.12%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.06%) Back Office
12 2 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.71%) Military
12 2 (0.71%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.35%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 182 (64.31%) Developer
2 147 (51.94%) Java Developer
3 50 (17.67%) Senior
4 48 (16.96%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 40 (14.13%) Lead
6 37 (13.07%) Senior Developer
7 35 (12.37%) Java Engineer
8 34 (12.01%) Senior Java Developer
9 31 (10.95%) Software Engineer
10 28 (9.89%) Full-Stack Developer
11 25 (8.83%) Lead Developer
12 23 (8.13%) Lead Java Developer
13 18 (6.36%) Architect
13 18 (6.36%) Java Software Engineer
14 17 (6.01%) React Developer
15 13 (4.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 13 (4.59%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
16 11 (3.89%) Senior Java Engineer
17 8 (2.83%) Software Developer
18 7 (2.47%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (86.22%) Spring
2 103 (36.40%) Kafka
3 77 (27.21%) React
4 59 (20.85%) RESTful
5 57 (20.14%) Swagger
6 53 (18.73%) OpenAPI
7 50 (17.67%) AngularJS
8 44 (15.55%) Hibernate
9 39 (13.78%) REST
10 35 (12.37%) HTML
11 34 (12.01%) Web Services
12 27 (9.54%) Node.js
13 26 (9.19%) Spring Batch
14 25 (8.83%) JPA
15 24 (8.48%) Spring Security
16 20 (7.07%) CSS
16 20 (7.07%) SOAP
17 17 (6.01%) J2EE
18 14 (4.95%) Elastic Stack
19 11 (3.89%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.48%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (6.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 13 (4.59%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.59%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.83%) PKI
5 6 (2.12%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.77%) Mainframe
6 5 (1.77%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.06%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.35%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.35%) DataPower
8 1 (0.35%) Derivative
8 1 (0.35%) Equities
8 1 (0.35%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (0.35%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.35%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.35%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 50 (17.67%) Linux
2 34 (12.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (3.89%) Windows
4 5 (1.77%) Unix
5 3 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.71%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (68.90%) Microservices
2 135 (47.70%) CI/CD
3 133 (47.00%) Agile
4 101 (35.69%) DevOps
4 101 (35.69%) TDD
5 78 (27.56%) Containerisation
6 73 (25.80%) Software Engineering
7 56 (19.79%) Continuous Integration
8 45 (15.90%) BDD
9 42 (14.84%) Full-Stack Development
10 40 (14.13%) Migration
10 40 (14.13%) Test Automation
11 39 (13.78%) API Development
12 38 (13.43%) Clean Code
13 34 (12.01%) Event-Driven
13 34 (12.01%) Scrum
14 31 (10.95%) Code Quality
14 31 (10.95%) Mentoring
15 29 (10.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 28 (9.89%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 268 (94.70%) Java
2 128 (45.23%) SQL
3 57 (20.14%) JavaScript
4 44 (15.55%) TypeScript
5 35 (12.37%) Python
6 22 (7.77%) Bash
7 10 (3.53%) Kotlin
8 9 (3.18%) Perl
8 9 (3.18%) Scala
9 7 (2.47%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.77%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.41%) C#
11 4 (1.41%) Ruby
12 3 (1.06%) Go
12 3 (1.06%) Groovy
12 3 (1.06%) Rust
13 1 (0.35%) COBOL
13 1 (0.35%) JCL
13 1 (0.35%) XPath
Qualifications
1 118 (41.70%) Security Cleared
2 113 (39.93%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.01%) AWS Certified Developer
4 10 (3.53%) Degree
5 7 (2.47%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.06%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.71%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.71%) OCP
9 2 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.71%) Sun Certification
10 1 (0.35%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.47%) Accessibility
1 7 (2.47%) QA
2 3 (1.06%) GDPR
2 3 (1.06%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.71%) NCSC
3 2 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 152 (53.71%) Docker
2 12 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.77%) Postfix
4 3 (1.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.71%) RACF
Systems Management
1 118 (41.70%) Kubernetes
2 40 (14.13%) Terraform
3 17 (6.01%) Grafana
3 17 (6.01%) Prometheus
4 14 (4.95%) Kibana
5 13 (4.59%) Progress Chef
6 11 (3.89%) Ansible
7 9 (3.18%) Istio
8 7 (2.47%) Argo
9 5 (1.77%) Puppet
10 2 (0.71%) Packer
10 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.35%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 25 (8.83%) Oracle
2 21 (7.42%) SAP
3 17 (6.01%) Splunk
4 14 (4.95%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.53%) Microsoft
6 9 (3.18%) AppDynamics
7 7 (2.47%) CA Agile Central
8 6 (2.12%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.12%) Jaspersoft
9 5 (1.77%) TIBCO
10 4 (1.41%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.06%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.06%) Google
11 3 (1.06%) IBM
11 3 (1.06%) Veracode
12 2 (0.71%) Databricks
12 2 (0.71%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.35%) Confluent
13 1 (0.35%) New Relic
13 1 (0.35%) WSO2