Spring Boot Contracts in the North of England

Spring Boot
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 119 132
Rank change year-on-year +9 +13 +38
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 59 59 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.78% 1.26% 1.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.09% 6.53% 6.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 50 63
10th Percentile £367 £375 £428
25th Percentile £391 £483 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £597 £700
90th Percentile £545 £650 -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.25 £69.50 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £72.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% - -
75th Percentile £88.75 £74.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 £70.25
% change year-on-year -23.61% +2.49% +0.36%

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 649 904 1,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.61% 19.30% 19.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 609 854
10th Percentile £358 £358 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +3.96%
75th Percentile £546 £600 £600
90th Percentile £625 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £557
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.26% -2.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 30 9
10th Percentile - £13.87 £37.79
25th Percentile £70.00 £37.63 £46.18
Median hourly rate £76.25 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.11% -26.11% -3.85%
75th Percentile £91.20 £70.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.61 £72.70 £72.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +23.81%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot in the North of England

Spring Boot
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Spring Boot in the North of England

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 29 May 2025.

Daily 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 29 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
North West +8 43 £402 -23.43% 32
Yorkshire +2 10 £525 -4.55% 16
North East +5 7 £465 -15.45% 7
Spring Boot
England

Spring Boot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 12 (20.34%) JBoss
2 6 (10.17%) Tomcat
3 4 (6.78%) WebLogic
3 4 (6.78%) WebSphere
4 3 (5.08%) Confluence
5 2 (3.39%) Jupyter
6 1 (1.69%) Camunda
6 1 (1.69%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 29 (49.15%) AWS
2 9 (15.25%) OpenShift
3 5 (8.47%) Kong
4 4 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (6.78%) Serverless
5 3 (5.08%) Azure
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.69%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.69%) GitHub
7 1 (1.69%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) SMS
2 1 (1.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (35.59%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (32.20%) Relational Database
3 11 (18.64%) NoSQL
4 10 (16.95%) MongoDB
5 9 (15.25%) MySQL
6 6 (10.17%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (10.17%) RDBMS
7 4 (6.78%) DB2
7 4 (6.78%) SQL Server
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (3.39%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.39%) Metadata
8 2 (3.39%) Metadata Repository
8 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.69%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 27 (45.76%) Jenkins
2 24 (40.68%) Git
3 17 (28.81%) JUnit
4 14 (23.73%) GitLab
4 14 (23.73%) Gradle
4 14 (23.73%) Sonatype Nexus
5 13 (22.03%) SonarQube
6 12 (20.34%) JIRA
7 10 (16.95%) Liquibase
7 10 (16.95%) Maven
7 10 (16.95%) Mockito
8 8 (13.56%) CA Release Automation
9 7 (11.86%) Bitbucket Server
9 7 (11.86%) TeamCity
10 6 (10.17%) Artifactory
11 5 (8.47%) Bitbucket
11 5 (8.47%) gulp
12 2 (3.39%) IntelliJ
12 2 (3.39%) Selenium
12 2 (3.39%) Subversion
General
1 20 (33.90%) Finance
2 17 (28.81%) Public Sector
3 10 (16.95%) Electronics
3 10 (16.95%) Manufacturing
3 10 (16.95%) Marketing
3 10 (16.95%) Telecoms
4 7 (11.86%) Social Skills
5 5 (8.47%) Banking
6 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (52.54%) Developer
2 18 (30.51%) Java Developer
3 13 (22.03%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (15.25%) Lead
5 8 (13.56%) React Developer
5 8 (13.56%) Software Engineer
6 7 (11.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 7 (11.86%) Java Engineer
6 7 (11.86%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 6 (10.17%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) Software Developer
8 5 (8.47%) Lead Developer
9 4 (6.78%) Scrum Master
10 3 (5.08%) Architect
10 3 (5.08%) AWS DevOps
10 3 (5.08%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (5.08%) Lead Java Developer
10 3 (5.08%) Senior
10 3 (5.08%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (74.58%) Spring
2 25 (42.37%) Kafka
3 21 (35.59%) React
4 16 (27.12%) Node.js
5 13 (22.03%) AngularJS
6 12 (20.34%) Swagger
7 11 (18.64%) OpenAPI
8 8 (13.56%) J2EE
8 8 (13.56%) RESTful
9 7 (11.86%) Hibernate
9 7 (11.86%) Web Services
10 6 (10.17%) Apache CXF
10 6 (10.17%) Dropwizard
10 6 (10.17%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (10.17%) JAX-RS
10 6 (10.17%) REST
10 6 (10.17%) SOAP
11 5 (8.47%) Express.js
11 5 (8.47%) MEAN Stack
11 5 (8.47%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.47%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.39%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.69%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.25%) Linux
2 7 (11.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (10.17%) Windows
4 4 (6.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (72.88%) Microservices
2 30 (50.85%) CI/CD
3 29 (49.15%) Agile
4 21 (35.59%) TDD
5 18 (30.51%) DevOps
6 17 (28.81%) Full-Stack Development
7 16 (27.12%) Migration
8 15 (25.42%) Software Engineering
9 14 (23.73%) Containerisation
9 14 (23.73%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (20.34%) Event-Driven
11 11 (18.64%) Build Automation
11 11 (18.64%) Code Quality
11 11 (18.64%) Scrum
12 10 (16.95%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (16.95%) Digital Marketing
12 10 (16.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 10 (16.95%) Programme Management
13 9 (15.25%) SDLC
14 8 (13.56%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 57 (96.61%) Java
2 26 (44.07%) SQL
3 19 (32.20%) JavaScript
4 13 (22.03%) TypeScript
5 10 (16.95%) Python
6 6 (10.17%) Perl
7 2 (3.39%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.69%) Bash
8 1 (1.69%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 20 (33.90%) SC Cleared
1 20 (33.90%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.39%) GDPR
1 2 (3.39%) QA
1 2 (3.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (47.46%) Docker
2 6 (10.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (13.56%) Progress Chef
2 7 (11.86%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.86%) Terraform
3 6 (10.17%) Kibana
4 2 (3.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (16.95%) SAP
2 8 (13.56%) Oracle
3 6 (10.17%) AppDynamics
3 6 (10.17%) Red Hat
3 6 (10.17%) Splunk
4 4 (6.78%) Cloudera
5 3 (5.08%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.39%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (3.39%) Databricks
7 1 (1.69%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.69%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.69%) TIBCO