Spring Boot Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Spring Boot
Cheshire > Knutsford

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 19 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 29 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 11.65% 7.96% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.22% 19.57% -
Number of daily rates quoted 28 5 0
10th Percentile £354 £328 -
25th Percentile £391 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.56% - -
75th Percentile £494 £391 -
90th Percentile £515 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £356 -
% change year-on-year +25.56% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 115 46 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 46.18% 40.71% 15.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 36 14
10th Percentile £330 £306 £454
25th Percentile £358 £356 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £390 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -27.44% +20.79%
75th Percentile £468 £506 £562
90th Percentile £500 £619 £582
Cheshire median daily rate £425 £391 £500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -21.80% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £96.50 £85.00 £11.50
% change year-on-year +13.53% +639.13% -

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Spring Boot job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in Knutsford over the 6 months to 6 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in Knutsford

Spring Boot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.45%) JBoss
1 1 (3.45%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 23 (79.31%) AWS
2 17 (58.62%) Azure
3 11 (37.93%) GCP
4 5 (17.24%) GitHub
4 5 (17.24%) GitHub Copilot
5 4 (13.79%) Apigee
6 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) HTTP
1 4 (13.79%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) MySQL
1 5 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (17.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (72.41%) Git
2 12 (41.38%) JIRA
3 6 (20.69%) GitLab
3 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
4 4 (13.79%) Postman
5 1 (3.45%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.45%) Gradle
5 1 (3.45%) JUnit
5 1 (3.45%) Maven
5 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (62.07%) Banking
2 14 (48.28%) Finance
3 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
4 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (68.97%) Developer
2 16 (55.17%) Java Developer
3 7 (24.14%) Architect
3 7 (24.14%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (13.79%) Apigee Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Payments Architect
4 4 (13.79%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Senior
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (100.00%) Spring
2 13 (44.83%) REST
3 11 (37.93%) JMS
4 9 (31.03%) Hibernate
4 9 (31.03%) RESTful
5 4 (13.79%) JAX-RS
5 4 (13.79%) JSON
5 4 (13.79%) JWT
5 4 (13.79%) OAuth
5 4 (13.79%) OAuth2
5 4 (13.79%) Spring MVC
5 4 (13.79%) Spring Security
5 4 (13.79%) XML
6 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.45%) Kafka
6 1 (3.45%) React
6 1 (3.45%) SOAP
6 1 (3.45%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 11 (37.93%) Cloud Native
1 11 (37.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 7 (24.14%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (72.41%) CI/CD
2 20 (68.97%) Containerisation
3 18 (62.07%) Microservices
4 16 (55.17%) Agile
4 16 (55.17%) Test Automation
5 15 (51.72%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (41.38%) DevOps
7 11 (37.93%) Anti-Money Laundering
7 11 (37.93%) SDLC
7 11 (37.93%) User Acceptance Testing
8 9 (31.03%) API Design
8 9 (31.03%) Integration Testing
9 8 (27.59%) Architectural Patterns
9 8 (27.59%) Computer Science
9 8 (27.59%) Requirements Gathering
9 8 (27.59%) Unit Testing
10 7 (24.14%) Data Modelling
10 7 (24.14%) OOA/OOD
10 7 (24.14%) UML
11 6 (20.69%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (37.93%) SQL
3 1 (3.45%) Python
3 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (27.59%) Degree
2 6 (20.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (62.07%) ISO 20022
2 12 (41.38%) QA
3 11 (37.93%) PSD2
3 11 (37.93%) SEPA
4 4 (13.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (86.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (68.97%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (55.17%) Oracle
2 5 (17.24%) Google
3 4 (13.79%) Splunk