Spring Boot Contracts in the UK excluding London

Spring Boot
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Spring Boot skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Spring Boot over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 211 195 193
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 -29
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 191 310 425
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.92% 1.28% 1.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.78% 7.02% 6.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 247 323
10th Percentile £363 £438 £413
25th Percentile £413 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £625 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -13.79% +0.87% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £53.75 £56.00
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £60.00
75th Percentile - £74.44 £66.25
90th Percentile - £78.00 £76.80
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +37.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Spring Boot is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,304 4,416 6,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.90% 18.29% 20.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,159 3,310 4,417
10th Percentile £325 £353 £360
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.94%
75th Percentile £600 £599 £585
90th Percentile £688 £681 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 92 150
10th Percentile £21.25 £22.26 £20.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £49.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £63.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.90% +29.08% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £63.51
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.07 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Spring Boot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot in the UK excluding London

Spring Boot
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring Boot in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Spring Boot in the UK excluding London

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK excluding London

Spring Boot
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring Boot in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Spring Boot in the UK excluding London

Spring Boot
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Scotland +12 70 £463 -2.06% 12
North of England -4 54 £525 -8.70% 18
North West +25 30 £525 +8.00% 10
South East +22 28 £475 -8.65% 15
Yorkshire +21 23 £544 -1.14% 5
East of England +9 14 £375 -46.43% 8
South West -31 14 £400 -27.27% 20
Midlands +17 8 £356 -49.14% 6
East Midlands +19 6 £356 -49.14% 1
West Midlands +16 2 £325 -53.57% 5
Northern Ireland +4 2 £500 +11.11% 7
Wales +12 1 £450 -7.69% 3
North East -14 1 £550 -8.33% 3
Spring Boot
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Spring Boot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (8.38%) Confluence
2 7 (3.66%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.14%) JBoss
3 6 (3.14%) OpenStack
4 4 (2.09%) Apache
4 4 (2.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.57%) GeoServer
6 2 (1.05%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.52%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (2.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.09%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 98 (51.31%) AWS
2 20 (10.47%) OpenShift
2 20 (10.47%) Serverless
3 16 (8.38%) Amazon S3
3 16 (8.38%) Azure
4 14 (7.33%) GCP
5 13 (6.81%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (5.24%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (4.71%) GitHub
8 7 (3.66%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (3.66%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (2.09%) Apigee
9 4 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.09%) Kong
10 2 (1.05%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.52%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (0.52%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.57%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (16.75%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (15.18%) Relational Database
3 18 (9.42%) NoSQL
4 11 (5.76%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (5.24%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (4.71%) Oracle Database
7 8 (4.19%) MongoDB
8 6 (3.14%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.62%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (2.62%) SQL Server
10 4 (2.09%) OLAP
10 4 (2.09%) OLTP
10 4 (2.09%) Oracle OLAP
11 3 (1.57%) CockroachDB
11 3 (1.57%) GIS
12 2 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (1.05%) DynamoDB
12 2 (1.05%) MySQL
13 1 (0.52%) Big Data
13 1 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 55 (28.80%) Git
2 54 (28.27%) Jenkins
3 46 (24.08%) JUnit
4 24 (12.57%) JIRA
5 16 (8.38%) Cucumber
6 13 (6.81%) Maven
7 12 (6.28%) Mockito
7 12 (6.28%) Postman
8 6 (3.14%) SonarQube
8 6 (3.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (2.62%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (2.62%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (2.62%) GitLab
9 5 (2.62%) Gradle
9 5 (2.62%) IntelliJ
9 5 (2.62%) TeamCity
10 4 (2.09%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.05%) Capybara
11 2 (1.05%) JMeter
11 2 (1.05%) TestNG
General
1 34 (17.80%) Public Sector
2 21 (10.99%) Social Skills
3 18 (9.42%) Finance
4 13 (6.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (5.24%) Banking
6 3 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.57%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 148 (77.49%) Developer
2 113 (59.16%) Java Developer
3 26 (13.61%) Full Stack Developer
3 26 (13.61%) Senior
4 23 (12.04%) Senior Developer
5 21 (10.99%) Senior Java Developer
6 14 (7.33%) Java Engineer
7 12 (6.28%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 11 (5.76%) Full Stack Engineer
9 10 (5.24%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.19%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (4.19%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 7 (3.66%) Lead
12 6 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
13 5 (2.62%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
13 5 (2.62%) Support Engineer
14 4 (2.09%) Architect
14 4 (2.09%) Junior
14 4 (2.09%) Lead Developer
14 4 (2.09%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (85.34%) Spring
2 96 (50.26%) REST
3 50 (26.18%) Kafka
3 50 (26.18%) React
4 38 (19.90%) RESTful
5 35 (18.32%) JPA
6 29 (15.18%) CSS
7 27 (14.14%) HTML
8 26 (13.61%) AngularJS
9 23 (12.04%) Hibernate
9 23 (12.04%) Node.js
10 22 (11.52%) Web Services
11 20 (10.47%) Spring Security
12 18 (9.42%) Apache Camel
12 18 (9.42%) J2EE
13 17 (8.90%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (8.38%) RabbitMQ
15 14 (7.33%) OAuth
15 14 (7.33%) Spring MVC
16 11 (5.76%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.28%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (5.76%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.76%) Data Protection Act
2 11 (5.76%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.62%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.09%) DataPower
5 4 (2.09%) Insider Threat
6 2 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.52%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.71%) Linux
1 9 (4.71%) Windows
2 5 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.05%) Unix
4 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (53.93%) Agile
2 99 (51.83%) Microservices
3 67 (35.08%) CI/CD
4 51 (26.70%) TDD
5 46 (24.08%) DevOps
6 43 (22.51%) Full Stack Development
7 32 (16.75%) Software Engineering
8 29 (15.18%) Scrum
9 24 (12.57%) SDLC
10 23 (12.04%) Front End Development
11 19 (9.95%) Continuous Integration
11 19 (9.95%) Unit Testing
12 18 (9.42%) Mentoring
12 18 (9.42%) MVC
12 18 (9.42%) Test Automation
13 16 (8.38%) Data Modelling
14 15 (7.85%) Data Protection
15 14 (7.33%) Code Quality
15 14 (7.33%) End-to-End Testing
15 14 (7.33%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 185 (96.86%) Java
2 62 (32.46%) SQL
3 47 (24.61%) JavaScript
4 42 (21.99%) TypeScript
5 17 (8.90%) Python
6 12 (6.28%) Scala
7 7 (3.66%) C
7 7 (3.66%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.14%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.62%) Perl
9 5 (2.62%) PHP
10 2 (1.05%) Ruby
11 1 (0.52%) C++
11 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (23.04%) Security Cleared
2 33 (17.28%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.52%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.05%) Degree
5 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.28%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.09%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.05%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.05%) SLA
4 1 (0.52%) GDPR
4 1 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 71 (37.17%) Docker
2 6 (3.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (27.23%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.33%) Kibana
3 10 (5.24%) Grafana
4 9 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (3.14%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.62%) Ansible
6 5 (2.62%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.62%) Terraform
6 5 (2.62%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.52%) Anchore
7 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.52%) Packer
Vendors
1 20 (10.47%) Oracle
2 8 (4.19%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.66%) IBM
4 6 (3.14%) Google
4 6 (3.14%) Splunk
5 5 (2.62%) AppDynamics
5 5 (2.62%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.09%) TSYS
7 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.52%) Confluent
7 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.52%) New Relic