Spring Boot Contracts in the South East

Spring Boot
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 167 182
Rank change year-on-year +37 +15 +16
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 16 37 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.55% 0.66% 0.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.16% 5.05% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 27 14
10th Percentile £405 £370 £475
25th Percentile £453 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +7.40% -2.44% -8.89%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £575
90th Percentile - £650 £608
England median daily rate £500 £525 £601
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.57% +0.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £51.50 - -
25th Percentile £53.75 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
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
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 506 732 968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.25% 13.04% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 482 681
10th Percentile £331 £313 £363
25th Percentile £409 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £624 £625
90th Percentile £657 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £556
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.08% -2.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 42 36
10th Percentile £21.48 £35.18 £50.63
25th Percentile £33.68 £56.65 £55.00
Median hourly rate £54.94 £61.60 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.82% -8.74% +50.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £63.63 £74.88 £79.72
England median hourly rate £62.50 £48.43 £65.00
% change year-on-year +29.05% -25.49% +23.81%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring Boot in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Spring Boot in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring Boot in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Spring Boot in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 30 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
Thames Valley +25 8 £575 +15.00% 104
Hampshire - 7 £413 - 31
Berkshire +23 5 £538 +13.16% 73
Buckinghamshire +7 3 £575 - 22
Surrey +21 1 - - 25
Spring Boot
England

Spring Boot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (12.50%) Camunda
1 2 (12.50%) Confluence
1 2 (12.50%) JBoss
2 1 (6.25%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 4 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (18.75%) OpenShift
4 3 (18.75%) PaaS
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub
5 2 (12.50%) SaaS
5 2 (12.50%) Serverless
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (6.25%) AWS KMS
6 1 (6.25%) GCP
6 1 (6.25%) IaaS
6 1 (6.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (37.50%) Relational Database
3 4 (25.00%) RDBMS
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (12.50%) MySQL
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Git
1 8 (50.00%) JIRA
2 7 (43.75%) Jenkins
3 3 (18.75%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (18.75%) JUnit
3 3 (18.75%) Mockito
3 3 (18.75%) SonarQube
4 2 (12.50%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (12.50%) JMeter
4 2 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
4 2 (12.50%) Terragrunt
5 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
5 1 (6.25%) DbUnit
5 1 (6.25%) jMock
5 1 (6.25%) Maven
General
1 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Developer
2 7 (43.75%) Java Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Software Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Java Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Java Technical Architect
4 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Architect
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Developer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) React Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) Spring
2 9 (56.25%) Hibernate
3 8 (50.00%) REST
3 8 (50.00%) Web Services
4 7 (43.75%) RESTful
5 4 (25.00%) AngularJS
6 3 (18.75%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (18.75%) HTML
6 3 (18.75%) JSON
6 3 (18.75%) Kafka
6 3 (18.75%) React
6 3 (18.75%) XML
7 2 (12.50%) Apache Camel
7 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (12.50%) JPA
7 2 (12.50%) jQuery
7 2 (12.50%) Keycloak
7 2 (12.50%) OpenJDK
7 2 (12.50%) WireMock
8 1 (6.25%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Microservices
2 11 (68.75%) CI/CD
3 9 (56.25%) Agile
4 5 (31.25%) Design Patterns
5 4 (25.00%) BDD
5 4 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (25.00%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) Issue Tracking
5 4 (25.00%) Scrum
5 4 (25.00%) SDLC
5 4 (25.00%) SysML
5 4 (25.00%) TDD
5 4 (25.00%) UML
6 3 (18.75%) Code Quality
6 3 (18.75%) DevSecOps
6 3 (18.75%) Open Source
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Sprint Planning
7 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
7 2 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Java
2 5 (31.25%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) Perl
4 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.25%) Kotlin
5 1 (6.25%) Ruby
5 1 (6.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) OCP
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (6.25%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) NCSC
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.25%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kibana
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Grafana
3 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Splunk
2 3 (18.75%) Red Hat
3 2 (12.50%) AppDynamics
3 2 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
4 1 (6.25%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle