Spring Boot Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Spring Boot
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 107 119
Rank change year-on-year -34 +12 +42
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 134 83 52
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.79% 2.08% 1.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.00% 10.63% 6.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 65 45
10th Percentile £402 £315 £374
25th Percentile £425 £370 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £538
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -13.49% +4.88%
75th Percentile £585 £538 £625
90th Percentile £640 £565 £650
England median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -6.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 £76.25 £69.50
Median hourly rate £73.50 £82.50 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +14.58% -4.00%
75th Percentile £76.00 £88.75 £74.50
90th Percentile £77.00 - -
England median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +30.91% -23.61% -7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,340 781 747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.90% 19.59% 18.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 556 519
10th Percentile £370 £334 £363
25th Percentile £418 £383 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £507
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -11.24% -3.43%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £608
90th Percentile £675 £614 £738
England median daily rate £526 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.24% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 5 14
10th Percentile £46.80 £27.60 £14.28
25th Percentile £62.50 £30.00 £38.55
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +51.58% -
75th Percentile £74.26 £88.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £94.63 £71.76
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.60
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.15% -2.33%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Spring Boot job vacancy trend in the North of England

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Spring Boot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in the North of England

Spring Boot
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Spring Boot.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring Boot in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in the North of England

Spring Boot
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
North West -41 72 £550 +36.82% 20
Yorkshire -5 45 £500 -6.98% 6
North East -29 18 £450 -8.16% 11
Spring Boot
England

Spring Boot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (2.99%) Apache
1 4 (2.99%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.99%) Confluence
1 4 (2.99%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.75%) Camunda
2 1 (0.75%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.75%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 76 (56.72%) AWS
2 24 (17.91%) Azure
3 21 (15.67%) GitHub
4 20 (14.93%) GCP
5 11 (8.21%) Amazon SQS
5 11 (8.21%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (8.21%) OpenShift
5 11 (8.21%) Serverless
6 10 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (5.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 6 (4.48%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (4.48%) Apigee
10 5 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (3.73%) Cloud Run
10 5 (3.73%) Kong
11 4 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.24%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.24%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.24%) Firewall
2 1 (0.75%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (17.16%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (15.67%) Relational Database
3 18 (13.43%) MongoDB
4 12 (8.96%) NoSQL
5 11 (8.21%) MySQL
6 10 (7.46%) Redis
7 8 (5.97%) SQL Server
8 6 (4.48%) DynamoDB
9 5 (3.73%) Hazelcast
9 5 (3.73%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.75%) Metadata
11 1 (0.75%) Metadata Repository
11 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.75%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 34 (25.37%) Jenkins
2 25 (18.66%) Git
3 24 (17.91%) GitLab
4 14 (10.45%) Gradle
5 11 (8.21%) REST Assured
6 9 (6.72%) JIRA
6 9 (6.72%) Selenium
7 8 (5.97%) JUnit
7 8 (5.97%) Maven
8 7 (5.22%) Cucumber
8 7 (5.22%) Gatling
8 7 (5.22%) Mockito
9 5 (3.73%) Serenity BDD
10 4 (2.99%) Snyk
10 4 (2.99%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.49%) Burp Suite
11 2 (1.49%) Flyway
11 2 (1.49%) Liquibase
11 2 (1.49%) LoadRunner
11 2 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (27.61%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.40%) Finance
3 23 (17.16%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.97%) Banking
6 5 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.99%) Retail
8 3 (2.24%) Military
9 2 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.49%) Law
10 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.75%) Police
10 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (48.51%) Developer
2 44 (32.84%) Java Developer
3 36 (26.87%) Software Engineer
4 26 (19.40%) Java Engineer
4 26 (19.40%) Senior
5 20 (14.93%) Java Software Engineer
5 20 (14.93%) Lead
6 16 (11.94%) Software Developer
7 13 (9.70%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (9.70%) Senior Developer
8 12 (8.96%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (8.21%) AWS Software Engineer
9 11 (8.21%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (8.21%) Test Engineer
10 9 (6.72%) Backend Developer
10 9 (6.72%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (5.22%) Senior Java Engineer
12 6 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (4.48%) Cloud Software Engineer
12 6 (4.48%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (92.54%) Spring
2 45 (33.58%) Kafka
3 29 (21.64%) React
4 28 (20.90%) REST
5 23 (17.16%) Node.js
6 22 (16.42%) RESTful
7 14 (10.45%) OAuth
8 11 (8.21%) Hibernate
8 11 (8.21%) JPA
8 11 (8.21%) JWT
8 11 (8.21%) OAuth2
9 10 (7.46%) Playwright
10 9 (6.72%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (6.72%) Redux
11 8 (5.97%) AWS CDK
11 8 (5.97%) Spring Cloud
11 8 (5.97%) Spring MVC
12 7 (5.22%) AngularJS
12 7 (5.22%) HTML
12 7 (5.22%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 31 (23.13%) Cloud Native
2 17 (12.69%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.97%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.48%) AI Agents
4 6 (4.48%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.99%) Autonomous Agent
6 4 (2.99%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.24%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.24%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.49%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.49%) PKI
9 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.75%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.49%) Linux
1 2 (1.49%) VMS
2 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (61.19%) CI/CD
2 76 (56.72%) Microservices
3 57 (42.54%) Agile
3 57 (42.54%) DevOps
4 55 (41.04%) Software Engineering
5 34 (25.37%) Test Automation
6 32 (23.88%) Full-Stack Development
7 30 (22.39%) Event-Driven
8 29 (21.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (20.90%) Observability
10 25 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (17.91%) Infrastructure as Code
12 22 (16.42%) Containerisation
13 21 (15.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 21 (15.67%) TDD
14 20 (14.93%) SDLC
15 19 (14.18%) Validation
16 18 (13.43%) AI
16 18 (13.43%) Code Quality
16 18 (13.43%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 130 (97.01%) Java
2 39 (29.10%) SQL
3 14 (10.45%) JavaScript
4 12 (8.96%) Python
4 12 (8.96%) TypeScript
5 11 (8.21%) Kotlin
6 9 (6.72%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.49%) Bash
7 2 (1.49%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 29 (21.64%) Security Cleared
2 24 (17.91%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.24%) Degree
5 2 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.94%) Accessibility
2 15 (11.19%) QA
3 5 (3.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (2.99%) GDPR
4 4 (2.99%) WCAG
5 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.75%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.75%) SEPA
System Software
1 56 (41.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 52 (38.81%) Kubernetes
2 18 (13.43%) Terraform
3 13 (9.70%) Prometheus
4 12 (8.96%) Grafana
5 9 (6.72%) Control-M
6 5 (3.73%) Argo
7 4 (2.99%) Ansible
8 3 (2.24%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.49%) Consul
9 2 (1.49%) Istio
9 2 (1.49%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.75%) Kiali
Vendors
1 16 (11.94%) Oracle
2 8 (5.97%) Google
3 6 (4.48%) Splunk
4 5 (3.73%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.24%) SAP
6 2 (1.49%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.49%) Solace
7 1 (0.75%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.75%) Databricks
7 1 (0.75%) Virgin Media