Spring Boot Contracts in the North West

Spring Boot
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 91 134
Rank change year-on-year +11 +43 +14
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 43 42 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.19% 1.55% 0.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.19% 8.57% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 36 14
10th Percentile £358 £375 £415
25th Percentile £382 £418 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -23.43% +0.96% -20.00%
75th Percentile £537 £550 £620
90th Percentile £545 £681 £671
England median daily rate £500 £525 £601
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.57% +0.08%
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 £78.00
% change year-on-year -23.61% -7.69% +11.43%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 422 490 566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 21.50% 18.03% 18.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 352 447
10th Percentile £358 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £545 £598 £575
90th Percentile £636 £750 £644
England median daily rate £525 £550 £557
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.26% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 20 3
10th Percentile - £37.63 £37.76
25th Percentile - £45.88 £37.77
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -42.01%
75th Percentile £79.38 £72.03 £44.78
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.15 £45.62
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot in the North West

Spring Boot
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Spring Boot in the North West

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in the North West

Spring Boot
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Manchester +12 21 £530 +0.95% 28
Cheshire +4 20 £391 -10.78% 7
Lancashire - 1 £525 - 15
Spring Boot
England

Spring Boot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (27.91%) JBoss
2 6 (13.95%) Tomcat
3 4 (9.30%) WebLogic
3 4 (9.30%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.33%) Camunda
4 1 (2.33%) Confluence
4 1 (2.33%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 21 (48.84%) AWS
2 9 (20.93%) OpenShift
3 2 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (4.65%) Serverless
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (2.33%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (41.86%) Relational Database
2 13 (30.23%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (13.95%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (13.95%) RDBMS
4 4 (9.30%) DB2
4 4 (9.30%) NoSQL
4 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.33%) MariaDB
6 1 (2.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (48.84%) Jenkins
2 16 (37.21%) Git
2 16 (37.21%) JUnit
3 14 (32.56%) Gradle
4 10 (23.26%) JIRA
4 10 (23.26%) Liquibase
4 10 (23.26%) Mockito
5 9 (20.93%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (18.60%) CA Release Automation
6 8 (18.60%) SonarQube
7 7 (16.28%) Bitbucket Server
7 7 (16.28%) TeamCity
8 6 (13.95%) GitLab
9 5 (11.63%) Bitbucket
9 5 (11.63%) Maven
10 2 (4.65%) HP UFT
10 2 (4.65%) IntelliJ
10 2 (4.65%) NetBeans
10 2 (4.65%) Selenium
10 2 (4.65%) Subversion
General
1 19 (44.19%) Finance
2 11 (25.58%) Public Sector
3 10 (23.26%) Electronics
3 10 (23.26%) Manufacturing
3 10 (23.26%) Marketing
3 10 (23.26%) Telecoms
4 5 (11.63%) Social Skills
5 4 (9.30%) Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (41.86%) Developer
2 13 (30.23%) Java Developer
3 7 (16.28%) React Developer
3 7 (16.28%) Software Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Java Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Java Software Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 6 (13.95%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Lead
6 4 (9.30%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (9.30%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (9.30%) Scrum Master
6 4 (9.30%) Software Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Architect
7 3 (6.98%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (6.98%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Senior
9 1 (2.33%) DevOps Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (72.09%) Spring
2 18 (41.86%) Kafka
3 16 (37.21%) React
4 11 (25.58%) Swagger
5 10 (23.26%) OpenAPI
6 8 (18.60%) AngularJS
6 8 (18.60%) J2EE
7 6 (13.95%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (13.95%) REST
7 6 (13.95%) SOAP
7 6 (13.95%) Web Services
8 5 (11.63%) Node.js
8 5 (11.63%) RAML
9 4 (9.30%) EJB
9 4 (9.30%) JSP
9 4 (9.30%) RESTful
9 4 (9.30%) Servlets
9 4 (9.30%) Spring Cloud
9 4 (9.30%) Spring MVC
9 4 (9.30%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Product Ownership
2 5 (11.63%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.60%) Linux
2 6 (13.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (13.95%) Windows
3 4 (9.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (72.09%) Microservices
2 24 (55.81%) CI/CD
3 22 (51.16%) Agile
4 17 (39.53%) DevOps
5 16 (37.21%) Migration
6 15 (34.88%) TDD
7 13 (30.23%) Containerisation
7 13 (30.23%) Software Engineering
8 12 (27.91%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (25.58%) Build Automation
10 10 (23.26%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (23.26%) Digital Marketing
10 10 (23.26%) Programme Management
10 10 (23.26%) Scrum
11 8 (18.60%) Code Quality
11 8 (18.60%) Deployment Automation
11 8 (18.60%) Full-Stack Development
12 7 (16.28%) API Development
12 7 (16.28%) Event-Driven
12 7 (16.28%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 41 (95.35%) Java
2 18 (41.86%) SQL
3 13 (30.23%) TypeScript
4 9 (20.93%) JavaScript
5 6 (13.95%) Perl
5 6 (13.95%) Python
6 2 (4.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (30.23%) SC Cleared
1 13 (30.23%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) GDPR
1 2 (4.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (53.49%) Docker
2 6 (13.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (18.60%) Progress Chef
2 6 (13.95%) Kibana
2 6 (13.95%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.65%) Puppet
4 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) SAP
2 8 (18.60%) Oracle
3 6 (13.95%) AppDynamics
3 6 (13.95%) Red Hat
3 6 (13.95%) Splunk
4 4 (9.30%) Cloudera
5 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.65%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (2.33%) Checkmarx
7 1 (2.33%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.33%) TIBCO