Spring Boot Contracts in the UK excluding London

Spring Boot
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 212 198
Rank change year-on-year +47 -14 -4
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 192 197 307
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.50% 0.95% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.07% 5.98% 6.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 148 244
10th Percentile £307 £363 £438
25th Percentile £388 £400 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £477 £523
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% -8.71% -0.48%
75th Percentile £537 £550 £588
90th Percentile £580 £625 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £57.13 - -
25th Percentile £60.31 - £53.75
Median hourly rate £68.75 - £60.00
75th Percentile £80.31 - £74.44
90th Percentile £85.38 - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £73.75 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -5.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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

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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

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK excluding London

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring Boot in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK excluding London

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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 1 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
Scotland +13 74 £438 -5.25% 33
North of England +28 64 £465 -11.43% 72
North West +27 40 £402 -23.43% 44
Midlands +36 22 £402 +12.92% 38
Yorkshire +3 18 £538 -2.27% 19
South East +29 12 £519 +9.16% 80
South West +40 11 £513 +28.13% 32
West Midlands +23 11 £438 +34.62% 22
East Midlands +15 11 £358 +0.56% 13
Northern Ireland -3 8 £363 -34.09% 4
North East +6 7 £465 -15.45% 9
East of England +17 1 £468 +24.67% 22
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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 18 (9.38%) Confluence
2 13 (6.77%) JBoss
3 5 (2.60%) Camunda
3 5 (2.60%) WebLogic
4 4 (2.08%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.08%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.04%) Apache
5 2 (1.04%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.04%) GemFire
5 2 (1.04%) GeoServer
5 2 (1.04%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 97 (50.52%) AWS
2 19 (9.90%) Amazon S3
3 18 (9.38%) OpenShift
4 15 (7.81%) Azure
4 15 (7.81%) Serverless
5 12 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
6 10 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (4.69%) Slack
8 8 (4.17%) GitHub
9 7 (3.65%) AWS KMS
9 7 (3.65%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (3.65%) Route 53
10 6 (3.13%) GCP
10 6 (3.13%) Kong
11 5 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.08%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.60%) HTTP
2 2 (1.04%) SMS
3 1 (0.52%) FTP
3 1 (0.52%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (30.21%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (19.27%) Relational Database
3 30 (15.63%) MySQL
4 26 (13.54%) MongoDB
5 20 (10.42%) RDBMS
6 17 (8.85%) NoSQL
7 16 (8.33%) DB2
8 15 (7.81%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (7.29%) Apache Cassandra
10 11 (5.73%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (5.21%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (4.17%) DynamoDB
12 8 (4.17%) SQL Server
13 3 (1.56%) MariaDB
14 2 (1.04%) Data Lake
14 2 (1.04%) Flink
14 2 (1.04%) GIS
14 2 (1.04%) Metadata
14 2 (1.04%) Oracle Database
14 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 51 (26.56%) JUnit
2 50 (26.04%) Jenkins
3 47 (24.48%) Git
4 35 (18.23%) JIRA
5 27 (14.06%) Mockito
6 24 (12.50%) GitLab
7 21 (10.94%) Maven
8 20 (10.42%) SonarQube
9 16 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
10 15 (7.81%) Bitbucket Server
10 15 (7.81%) Gradle
11 13 (6.77%) CA Release Automation
11 13 (6.77%) Cucumber
12 12 (6.25%) Bitbucket
13 10 (5.21%) Jasmine
13 10 (5.21%) Liquibase
13 10 (5.21%) TeamCity
14 7 (3.65%) Artifactory
15 6 (3.13%) Selenium
16 5 (2.60%) IntelliJ
General
1 58 (30.21%) Finance
2 52 (27.08%) Public Sector
3 25 (13.02%) Banking
4 19 (9.90%) Social Skills
5 12 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.21%) Electronics
6 10 (5.21%) Manufacturing
6 10 (5.21%) Marketing
6 10 (5.21%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.65%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.13%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.13%) Front Office
9 3 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 129 (67.19%) Developer
2 103 (53.65%) Java Developer
3 25 (13.02%) Software Engineer
4 24 (12.50%) Java Engineer
4 24 (12.50%) Lead
5 23 (11.98%) Senior
6 20 (10.42%) Senior Developer
7 19 (9.90%) Full-Stack Developer
7 19 (9.90%) Java Software Engineer
8 16 (8.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 16 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
9 15 (7.81%) Lead Developer
10 12 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 12 (6.25%) React Developer
11 8 (4.17%) Lead Java Developer
12 7 (3.65%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
13 6 (3.13%) Software Developer
14 5 (2.60%) Architect
14 5 (2.60%) Junior
14 5 (2.60%) Junior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (82.29%) Spring
2 47 (24.48%) React
3 45 (23.44%) Kafka
4 35 (18.23%) RESTful
5 34 (17.71%) REST
6 32 (16.67%) Hibernate
7 31 (16.15%) AngularJS
8 26 (13.54%) Node.js
8 26 (13.54%) Web Services
9 22 (11.46%) Swagger
10 20 (10.42%) OpenAPI
11 19 (9.90%) SOAP
11 19 (9.90%) Spring Batch
12 18 (9.38%) HTML
13 14 (7.29%) J2EE
14 13 (6.77%) CSS
14 13 (6.77%) Spring Security
15 11 (5.73%) ActiveMQ
16 10 (5.21%) JPA
16 10 (5.21%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.73%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.21%) Public Cloud
3 9 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 7 (3.65%) Equity Derivative
6 6 (3.13%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.60%) Private Cloud
8 4 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.08%) Derivative
8 4 (2.08%) Equities
8 4 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.56%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.56%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.04%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.04%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.52%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (23.96%) Linux
2 21 (10.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (7.29%) Unix
4 8 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (58.33%) Microservices
2 95 (49.48%) CI/CD
3 88 (45.83%) Agile
4 66 (34.38%) TDD
5 57 (29.69%) DevOps
6 55 (28.65%) Software Engineering
7 38 (19.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 35 (18.23%) Containerisation
9 32 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
9 32 (16.67%) Scrum
10 30 (15.63%) BDD
11 29 (15.10%) Code Quality
12 25 (13.02%) Mentoring
12 25 (13.02%) Migration
12 25 (13.02%) Test Automation
13 23 (11.98%) SDLC
14 22 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (10.94%) Process Improvement
16 20 (10.42%) Continuous Delivery
16 20 (10.42%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 182 (94.79%) Java
2 66 (34.38%) SQL
3 42 (21.88%) JavaScript
4 30 (15.63%) TypeScript
5 27 (14.06%) Python
6 13 (6.77%) Bash
7 12 (6.25%) Shell Script
8 9 (4.69%) Perl
9 4 (2.08%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.04%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.04%) Ruby
11 1 (0.52%) C#
11 1 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 48 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 43 (22.40%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.56%) Degree
3 3 (1.56%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.04%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.52%) OCP
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.52%) Sun Certification
5 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.13%) QA
2 4 (2.08%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.56%) GDPR
4 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.04%) NCSC
4 2 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 61 (31.77%) Docker
2 9 (4.69%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.60%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 46 (23.96%) Kubernetes
2 38 (19.79%) Terraform
3 13 (6.77%) Progress Chef
4 11 (5.73%) Kibana
5 9 (4.69%) Grafana
6 7 (3.65%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.08%) Puppet
8 3 (1.56%) Ansible
9 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.52%) Rancher
Vendors
1 19 (9.90%) Oracle
2 12 (6.25%) Splunk
3 10 (5.21%) SAP
4 9 (4.69%) AppDynamics
4 9 (4.69%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.13%) Jaspersoft
5 6 (3.13%) Sybase
6 5 (2.60%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.08%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (2.08%) Microsoft
7 4 (2.08%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.56%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.56%) DocuSign
8 3 (1.56%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.56%) IBM
8 3 (1.56%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.56%) Veracode
9 2 (1.04%) Databricks
9 2 (1.04%) Google
10 1 (0.52%) Ping Identity