Spring Boot Contract Job Trends in the South West

Spring Boot
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 104 135
Rank change year-on-year -20 +31 -25
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 9 17 18
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.39% 0.77% 0.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.69% 4.09% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 15
10th Percentile - £417 £472
25th Percentile £270 £463 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £500 £734 £563
90th Percentile £505 - -
England median daily rate £475 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 - £76.50
% change year-on-year - - +2.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 334 416 527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.57% 18.79% 17.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 240 382
10th Percentile £350 £383 £325
25th Percentile £419 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £734 £720
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 26 44
10th Percentile £61.80 £61.88 £48.32
25th Percentile - - £48.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year - +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.40 £74.00 £75.60
England median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Spring Boot job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Spring Boot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Spring Boot

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in the South West over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Spring Boot.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Spring Boot

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Dorset +7 7 £385 -11.09% 1
Bristol -1 1 - - 4
Wiltshire - 1 £475 -
Spring Boot
England

Spring Boot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (22.22%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) Maven
3 1 (11.11%) Artifactory
3 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
3 1 (11.11%) GitLab
3 1 (11.11%) JUnit
3 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
3 1 (11.11%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Lead
1 4 (44.44%) Technical Leader
2 3 (33.33%) Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (11.11%) Java Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Java Technical Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Power Apps Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Power Apps Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) Spring
2 5 (55.56%) Middleware
2 5 (55.56%) OAuth
2 5 (55.56%) OAuth2
2 5 (55.56%) RESTful
2 5 (55.56%) SOAP
2 5 (55.56%) Spring Security
3 4 (44.44%) REST
3 4 (44.44%) Web Services
4 2 (22.22%) CSS
4 2 (22.22%) HTML
5 1 (11.11%) Bootstrap
5 1 (11.11%) CSS3
5 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
5 1 (11.11%) HTML5
5 1 (11.11%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (11.11%) JAX-RS
5 1 (11.11%) LESS
5 1 (11.11%) Sass
5 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) MVC
2 5 (55.56%) User Stories
3 4 (44.44%) Design Patterns
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
3 4 (44.44%) Scrum
4 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Microservices
5 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) Clean Code
6 1 (11.11%) Coaching
6 1 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
6 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 1 (11.11%) Front End Development
6 1 (11.11%) RBAC
6 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (11.11%) SOLID
6 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft