Spring Boot Contract Job Trends in Essex

Spring Boot
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 19 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 10 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 3.23% 0.91% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.00% 7.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile £485 - -
25th Percentile £500 £459 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £468 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £580 £476 -
90th Percentile £600 - -
East of England median daily rate £500 £468 £375
% change year-on-year +6.95% +24.67% -46.43%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 50 14 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 16.13% 12.73% 16.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 12 18
10th Percentile £343 £319 £198
25th Percentile £453 £353 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.38% -20.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £580 £473 £569
90th Percentile £600 £498 £598
East of England median daily rate £528 £500 £465
% change year-on-year +5.50% +7.53% -10.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 3
10th Percentile - - £16.78
25th Percentile £17.12 - £17.99
Median hourly rate £55.25 - £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -69.58%
75th Percentile £69.44 - £30.00
90th Percentile £73.00 - £36.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year - +51.16% -25.22%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spring Boot relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Spring Boot job vacancy trend in Essex

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Spring Boot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in Essex over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in Essex

Spring Boot
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Spring Boot.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 24 July 2026. 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
Basildon - 9 £510 -
Brentwood +2 5 £500 +6.95%
Spring Boot
East of England

Spring Boot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) GCP
1 9 (90.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Redis
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) JUnit
1 9 (90.00%) SonarQube
2 8 (80.00%) Git
3 7 (70.00%) IntelliJ
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Automotive
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Java Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) GCP Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) GCP Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Backend Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (20.00%) GCP Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Java Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Java Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Java Software Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) GCP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) Spring
2 4 (40.00%) Node.js
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (10.00%) JWT
3 1 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) OAuth
3 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) BDD
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (80.00%) TDD
2 7 (70.00%) Code Quality
2 7 (70.00%) Open Source
2 7 (70.00%) Security Testing
2 7 (70.00%) Software Engineering
3 6 (60.00%) Application Security
3 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (60.00%) Static Application Security Testing
4 5 (50.00%) Architectural Design
4 5 (50.00%) DevOps
5 4 (40.00%) SDLC
6 3 (30.00%) Process Improvement
6 3 (30.00%) Regulatory Compliance
6 3 (30.00%) Software Architecture
6 3 (30.00%) Software Testing
7 1 (10.00%) Agile
7 1 (10.00%) High Availability
7 1 (10.00%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Checkmarx
1 9 (90.00%) Google