Spring Boot Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Spring Boot
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 117 130
Rank change year-on-year +14 +13 +28
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 7 8 12
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.41% 0.37% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.17% 1.97% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 1
10th Percentile £430 £358 -
25th Percentile £475 - £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £390 £225
Median % change year-on-year +37.82% +73.33% -55.00%
75th Percentile £602 - £238
90th Percentile £628 £445 -
South East median daily rate £450 £610 £570
% change year-on-year -26.23% +7.02% +3.64%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 322 406 390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.82% 18.87% 14.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 269 277
10th Percentile £311 £375 £308
25th Percentile £400 £430 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £565 £638 £625
90th Percentile £625 £653 £680
South East median daily rate £471 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -10.29% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 10
10th Percentile - £50.87 £46.68
25th Percentile £13.25 - £50.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £61.60 £52.28
Median % change year-on-year -78.08% +17.83% -18.86%
75th Percentile £23.03 - £81.70
90th Percentile £28.60 £64.25 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Spring Boot job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Spring Boot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Spring Boot

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Spring Boot.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Berkshire +10 6 £538 +37.82% 7
Buckinghamshire - 1 - - 2
Spring Boot
South East

Spring Boot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (28.57%) CMS
2 1 (14.29%) Drupal
2 1 (14.29%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS KMS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Datadog
4 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 1 (14.29%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
2 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 3 (42.86%) JUnit
1 3 (42.86%) Mockito
2 2 (28.57%) JMeter
3 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 1 (14.29%) DbUnit
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) jMock
3 1 (14.29%) Maven
3 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Backend Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) React Developer
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Spring
2 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
3 3 (42.86%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (42.86%) REST
3 3 (42.86%) RESTful
3 3 (42.86%) Web Services
4 2 (28.57%) Apache Camel
4 2 (28.57%) HTML
4 2 (28.57%) JPA
4 2 (28.57%) jQuery
4 2 (28.57%) JSON
4 2 (28.57%) React
4 2 (28.57%) Spring Batch
4 2 (28.57%) WireMock
4 2 (28.57%) XML
5 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
5 1 (14.29%) SOAP
5 1 (14.29%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (14.29%) Spring MVC
5 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
1 6 (85.71%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) TDD
3 3 (42.86%) BDD
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Process Management
4 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Workflow
5 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 1 (14.29%) Kanban
5 1 (14.29%) Multithreading
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
5 1 (14.29%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Kibana
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 1 (14.29%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat