Spring Boot Contracts in the South West

Spring Boot
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 1 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 132 113
Rank change year-on-year +29 -19 -27
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 11 22 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.64% 0.68% 1.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.99% 4.63% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 21 41
10th Percentile £429 £300 £431
25th Percentile £506 £363 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% +2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £722 - £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £603
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.90% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.75
Median hourly rate - - £67.75
75th Percentile - - £78.00
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 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 276 475 512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.07% 14.64% 15.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 311 408
10th Percentile £355 £325 £375
25th Percentile £425 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £626
90th Percentile £688 £700 £715
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 63 21
10th Percentile £60.63 £43.75 £52.50
25th Percentile £62.38 £45.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £66.25 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% - +2.28%
75th Percentile £68.19 £70.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 -
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Spring Boot in the South West

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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 1 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Spring Boot in the South West

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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 1 June 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
Gloucestershire +14 3 £695 +26.36% 65
Bristol +11 3 £575 +53.33% 39
Dorset +6 2 £433 +8.25% 26
Wiltshire - 2 £550 - 26
Spring Boot
England

Spring Boot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 2 (18.18%) Alfresco
1 2 (18.18%) Apache
1 2 (18.18%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) OpenShift
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
1 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (27.27%) Relational Database
2 2 (18.18%) Flink
2 2 (18.18%) MySQL
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
3 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) JUnit
3 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
3 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
3 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (9.09%) webpack
General
1 2 (18.18%) Banking
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Java Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Software Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Java Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Backend Developer
5 1 (9.09%) React Developer
5 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) Spring
2 4 (36.36%) React
2 4 (36.36%) REST
3 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
3 3 (27.27%) HTML
3 3 (27.27%) JPA
4 2 (18.18%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (18.18%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
4 2 (18.18%) Kafka
4 2 (18.18%) Keycloak
4 2 (18.18%) XML
5 1 (9.09%) CSS
5 1 (9.09%) Jest
5 1 (9.09%) Node.js
5 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (9.09%) RESTful
5 1 (9.09%) Vue
5 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Microservices
1 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (18.18%) High Availability
3 2 (18.18%) Observability
3 2 (18.18%) Process Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
3 2 (18.18%) SOLID
3 2 (18.18%) Sprint Review
3 2 (18.18%) TDD
3 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Responsive Web Design
4 1 (9.09%) Security Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
4 1 (9.09%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
2 4 (36.36%) Terraform
3 3 (27.27%) Ansible
4 2 (18.18%) Grafana
5 1 (9.09%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce