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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 242 179
Rank change year-on-year +17 -63 -41
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 279 364 696
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.15% 1.00% 1.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.17% 4.87% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 291 555
10th Percentile £358 £375 £463
25th Percentile £404 £450 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £625 £713
90th Percentile £709 £838 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £503 £575
% change year-on-year -0.60% -12.52% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile £41.00 - -
25th Percentile £50.00 £69.50 £53.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +15.20% -14.97%
75th Percentile £67.50 £74.50 £78.00
90th Percentile £80.25 - £82.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £72.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -9.72% +15.20% -8.76%

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 5,401 7,473 11,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.25% 20.55% 23.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,745 5,302 8,243
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -0.88%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £798 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 229 133
10th Percentile £32.35 £22.35 £26.60
25th Percentile £50.27 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +28.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.58 £75.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -23 156 £530 -3.64% 173
North of England +20 61 £465 -11.43% 65
North West +15 43 £398 -24.29% 44
Midlands +33 27 £385 +8.15% 37
East Midlands +18 15 £358 +0.56% 10
South East +33 13 £537 +13.05% 102
Yorkshire +5 13 £525 -4.55% 14
West Midlands +21 12 £420 +29.23% 25
South West +31 8 £525 +23.53% 36
North East +4 6 £465 -15.45% 7
East of England +12 1 £468 +24.67% 3
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 24 (8.60%) Confluence
2 18 (6.45%) JBoss
3 8 (2.87%) Camunda
3 8 (2.87%) Tomcat
4 6 (2.15%) Apache
5 5 (1.79%) WebLogic
6 4 (1.43%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.43%) WebSphere
7 3 (1.08%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.72%) Alfresco
8 2 (0.72%) CICS
8 2 (0.72%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.36%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.36%) Mule
9 1 (0.36%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.72%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 138 (49.46%) AWS
2 38 (13.62%) Azure
3 21 (7.53%) GCP
4 20 (7.17%) OpenShift
4 20 (7.17%) Serverless
5 19 (6.81%) GitHub
6 16 (5.73%) Amazon S3
7 15 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (5.38%) Amazon SQS
8 12 (4.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (4.30%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (4.30%) Slack
9 10 (3.58%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (3.23%) AWS KMS
10 9 (3.23%) Route 53
11 7 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.15%) Kong
12 6 (2.15%) PaaS
13 5 (1.79%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.23%) HTTP
2 5 (1.79%) HTTPS
2 5 (1.79%) SSL
3 3 (1.08%) Kerberos
3 3 (1.08%) SMS
4 2 (0.72%) IPsec
5 1 (0.36%) Internet
5 1 (0.36%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (40.86%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (24.01%) MongoDB
3 64 (22.94%) Relational Database
4 45 (16.13%) NoSQL
5 44 (15.77%) MySQL
6 17 (6.09%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (6.09%) Apache Cassandra
7 16 (5.73%) RDBMS
8 14 (5.02%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (4.66%) SQL Server
10 11 (3.94%) DynamoDB
11 10 (3.58%) Redis
12 7 (2.51%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (2.51%) Oracle Database
13 6 (2.15%) DB2
14 3 (1.08%) Big Data
14 3 (1.08%) Neo4j
15 2 (0.72%) Data Lake
15 2 (0.72%) Flink
15 2 (0.72%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 97 (34.77%) Jenkins
2 87 (31.18%) JUnit
3 76 (27.24%) Git
4 57 (20.43%) Maven
5 51 (18.28%) Mockito
6 46 (16.49%) JIRA
7 43 (15.41%) Gradle
8 39 (13.98%) GitLab
9 29 (10.39%) SonarQube
10 27 (9.68%) Liquibase
11 24 (8.60%) Cucumber
12 19 (6.81%) Sonatype Nexus
13 15 (5.38%) Bitbucket Server
14 13 (4.66%) Bitbucket
14 13 (4.66%) CA Release Automation
14 13 (4.66%) IntelliJ
14 13 (4.66%) Jasmine
15 11 (3.94%) TeamCity
16 10 (3.58%) Selenium
17 8 (2.87%) Subversion
General
1 76 (27.24%) Public Sector
2 68 (24.37%) Finance
3 48 (17.20%) Social Skills
4 31 (11.11%) Banking
5 23 (8.24%) Marketing
6 22 (7.89%) Telecoms
7 21 (7.53%) Electronics
7 21 (7.53%) Manufacturing
8 15 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (3.58%) Retail
10 4 (1.43%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.08%) Back Office
12 2 (0.72%) Front Office
12 2 (0.72%) Military
13 1 (0.36%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 183 (65.59%) Developer
2 144 (51.61%) Java Developer
3 45 (16.13%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 43 (15.41%) Senior
5 38 (13.62%) Lead
6 33 (11.83%) Senior Developer
7 30 (10.75%) Java Engineer
7 30 (10.75%) Senior Java Developer
8 29 (10.39%) Software Engineer
9 27 (9.68%) Full-Stack Developer
10 26 (9.32%) Lead Developer
11 24 (8.60%) Lead Java Developer
12 22 (7.89%) Architect
13 18 (6.45%) React Developer
14 17 (6.09%) Java Software Engineer
15 13 (4.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 13 (4.66%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
16 9 (3.23%) Software Developer
17 8 (2.87%) Java Architect
17 8 (2.87%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (85.30%) Spring
2 94 (33.69%) Kafka
3 76 (27.24%) React
4 59 (21.15%) RESTful
5 54 (19.35%) AngularJS
6 53 (19.00%) Swagger
7 48 (17.20%) OpenAPI
8 47 (16.85%) REST
9 46 (16.49%) Hibernate
10 41 (14.70%) HTML
10 41 (14.70%) Web Services
11 30 (10.75%) JPA
12 28 (10.04%) Node.js
13 26 (9.32%) Spring Batch
14 25 (8.96%) CSS
15 23 (8.24%) SOAP
16 19 (6.81%) Spring Security
17 16 (5.73%) J2EE
18 15 (5.38%) Spring Cloud
19 13 (4.66%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.32%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (5.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 13 (4.66%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.94%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.87%) PKI
6 7 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.15%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.79%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.79%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.43%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.08%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.08%) State Machine
11 1 (0.36%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.36%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.36%) Equities
11 1 (0.36%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.36%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.36%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (16.49%) Linux
2 28 (10.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (3.94%) Windows
4 8 (2.87%) Unix
5 3 (1.08%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.72%) zOS
7 1 (0.36%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (69.53%) Microservices
2 132 (47.31%) Agile
3 129 (46.24%) CI/CD
4 98 (35.13%) DevOps
5 96 (34.41%) TDD
6 75 (26.88%) Containerisation
7 64 (22.94%) Software Engineering
8 53 (19.00%) Continuous Integration
9 42 (15.05%) Migration
10 40 (14.34%) API Development
10 40 (14.34%) BDD
10 40 (14.34%) Full-Stack Development
11 38 (13.62%) Test Automation
12 36 (12.90%) Clean Code
12 36 (12.90%) Event-Driven
12 36 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
13 35 (12.54%) Scrum
14 33 (11.83%) Code Quality
15 29 (10.39%) Mentoring
16 28 (10.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 263 (94.27%) Java
2 127 (45.52%) SQL
3 62 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 43 (15.41%) TypeScript
5 34 (12.19%) Python
6 16 (5.73%) Bash
7 11 (3.94%) PL/SQL
8 10 (3.58%) Kotlin
9 9 (3.23%) Perl
10 8 (2.87%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.79%) Scala
12 4 (1.43%) C#
12 4 (1.43%) Groovy
12 4 (1.43%) Ruby
13 3 (1.08%) Rust
14 2 (0.72%) Go
15 1 (0.36%) C
15 1 (0.36%) C++
15 1 (0.36%) COBOL
15 1 (0.36%) JCL
Qualifications
1 110 (39.43%) Security Cleared
2 105 (37.63%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.02%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (3.23%) Degree
5 6 (2.15%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.08%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.72%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.72%) OCP
8 2 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.72%) Sun Certification
9 1 (0.36%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.51%) Accessibility
1 7 (2.51%) QA
2 3 (1.08%) GDPR
2 3 (1.08%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.72%) NCSC
3 2 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.36%) SEPA
4 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 143 (51.25%) Docker
2 12 (4.30%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.79%) Postfix
4 3 (1.08%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.72%) RACF
Systems Management
1 104 (37.28%) Kubernetes
2 34 (12.19%) Terraform
3 15 (5.38%) Grafana
3 15 (5.38%) Prometheus
4 14 (5.02%) Kibana
5 13 (4.66%) Progress Chef
6 12 (4.30%) Ansible
7 5 (1.79%) Puppet
8 4 (1.43%) Argo
8 4 (1.43%) Istio
9 2 (0.72%) Packer
9 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.36%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.36%) Rancher
Vendors
1 30 (10.75%) Oracle
2 21 (7.53%) SAP
3 19 (6.81%) Splunk
4 12 (4.30%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.58%) Microsoft
6 9 (3.23%) AppDynamics
7 8 (2.87%) CA Agile Central
7 8 (2.87%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.15%) Jaspersoft
9 5 (1.79%) TIBCO
10 4 (1.43%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.43%) IBM
11 3 (1.08%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.08%) Google
11 3 (1.08%) Veracode
11 3 (1.08%) Virgin Media
12 2 (0.72%) Databricks
12 2 (0.72%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.36%) New Relic
13 1 (0.36%) WSO2