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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 204 204
Rank change year-on-year +34 0 -38
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 183 204 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.42% 1.01% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.71% 6.29% 6.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 155 209
10th Percentile £300 £363 £436
25th Percentile £367 £406 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £486 £513
Median % change year-on-year -12.55% -5.17% -2.38%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £588
90th Percentile £545 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £51.00 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £69.50 £53.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +20.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £71.88 £74.50 £74.44
90th Percentile £82.00 - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £72.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -9.72% +15.20% -3.85%

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 2,374 3,244 4,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.37% 16.01% 18.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,127 3,158
10th Percentile £325 £323 £356
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 213 87
10th Percentile £35.08 £21.88 £22.20
25th Percentile £56.03 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £69.06 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.35 £74.49 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

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 21 May 2025.

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
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 21 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 21 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 0 62 £434 -3.61% 49
North of England +24 59 £463 -11.90% 69
North West +17 43 £398 -24.29% 42
Midlands +39 31 £402 +12.92% 33
West Midlands +24 16 £423 +30.00% 25
East Midlands +20 15 £358 +0.56% 8
South East +25 14 £537 +13.05% 85
Yorkshire +5 11 £525 -4.55% 16
South West +27 8 £525 +16.67% 37
Northern Ireland -7 8 £363 -38.30% 19
North East +2 6 £465 -15.45% 11
East of England +14 1 £468 +24.67% 1
Wales - 1 £325 - 16
Spring Boot
UK

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 15 (8.20%) JBoss
2 13 (7.10%) Confluence
3 5 (2.73%) Camunda
3 5 (2.73%) Tomcat
3 5 (2.73%) WebLogic
4 4 (2.19%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.64%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (1.09%) Apache
6 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.09%) GemFire
6 2 (1.09%) GeoServer
6 2 (1.09%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.55%) CMS
7 1 (0.55%) Mule
7 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 92 (50.27%) AWS
2 23 (12.57%) Amazon S3
3 21 (11.48%) OpenShift
4 18 (9.84%) Azure
5 16 (8.74%) Serverless
6 15 (8.20%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (8.20%) Amazon SQS
7 10 (5.46%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (4.92%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (4.37%) GCP
9 8 (4.37%) GitHub
10 7 (3.83%) AWS KMS
10 7 (3.83%) Route 53
11 6 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (3.28%) Kong
12 5 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (2.19%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (2.19%) SaaS
13 4 (2.19%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.73%) HTTPS
2 4 (2.19%) HTTP
2 4 (2.19%) SSL
3 2 (1.09%) SMS
4 1 (0.55%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (30.05%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (20.77%) Relational Database
3 25 (13.66%) MongoDB
4 22 (12.02%) MySQL
5 20 (10.93%) NoSQL
5 20 (10.93%) RDBMS
6 18 (9.84%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (7.10%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (7.10%) DB2
8 11 (6.01%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (4.92%) DynamoDB
10 8 (4.37%) SQL Server
11 7 (3.83%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (3.28%) Oracle Database
13 3 (1.64%) MariaDB
14 2 (1.09%) Apache Ignite
14 2 (1.09%) Data Lake
14 2 (1.09%) Flink
14 2 (1.09%) Metadata
14 2 (1.09%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 64 (34.97%) Jenkins
2 57 (31.15%) Git
3 51 (27.87%) JUnit
4 33 (18.03%) Mockito
5 31 (16.94%) Maven
6 27 (14.75%) GitLab
7 26 (14.21%) JIRA
8 24 (13.11%) SonarQube
9 21 (11.48%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (9.84%) Gradle
11 16 (8.74%) Bitbucket Server
12 13 (7.10%) Bitbucket
12 13 (7.10%) CA Release Automation
13 10 (5.46%) Liquibase
13 10 (5.46%) TeamCity
14 8 (4.37%) Artifactory
15 7 (3.83%) Cucumber
16 6 (3.28%) Selenium
17 5 (2.73%) gulp
17 5 (2.73%) IntelliJ
General
1 53 (28.96%) Finance
2 48 (26.23%) Public Sector
3 25 (13.66%) Social Skills
4 21 (11.48%) Banking
5 13 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.46%) Electronics
6 10 (5.46%) Manufacturing
6 10 (5.46%) Marketing
6 10 (5.46%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.28%) Front Office
8 4 (2.19%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.64%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.09%) Retail
11 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 123 (67.21%) Developer
2 98 (53.55%) Java Developer
3 24 (13.11%) Software Engineer
4 21 (11.48%) Java Engineer
5 20 (10.93%) Full-Stack Developer
5 20 (10.93%) Lead
6 19 (10.38%) Senior
7 18 (9.84%) Java Software Engineer
8 17 (9.29%) Senior Developer
9 15 (8.20%) React Developer
9 15 (8.20%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 14 (7.65%) Lead Developer
10 14 (7.65%) Senior Java Developer
11 13 (7.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 10 (5.46%) Lead Java Developer
13 8 (4.37%) Software Developer
14 7 (3.83%) Architect
14 7 (3.83%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
15 6 (3.28%) Java Software Developer
16 5 (2.73%) Junior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (83.06%) Spring
2 55 (30.05%) React
3 45 (24.59%) Kafka
4 40 (21.86%) REST
5 39 (21.31%) AngularJS
5 39 (21.31%) RESTful
6 36 (19.67%) Hibernate
7 33 (18.03%) Web Services
8 29 (15.85%) Node.js
9 21 (11.48%) HTML
10 19 (10.38%) Swagger
11 18 (9.84%) JPA
11 18 (9.84%) SOAP
11 18 (9.84%) Spring Batch
12 16 (8.74%) CSS
12 16 (8.74%) OpenAPI
13 14 (7.65%) ActiveMQ
14 13 (7.10%) Spring Cloud
15 11 (6.01%) Bootstrap
15 11 (6.01%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (6.01%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.83%) Equity Derivative
4 6 (3.28%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.73%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.19%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.19%) Derivative
6 4 (2.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.19%) Equities
6 4 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.64%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.64%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.64%) State Machine
8 2 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.55%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 30 (16.39%) Linux
2 14 (7.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (4.92%) Unix
4 8 (4.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (62.30%) Microservices
2 95 (51.91%) CI/CD
3 92 (50.27%) Agile
4 63 (34.43%) DevOps
5 56 (30.60%) TDD
6 45 (24.59%) Software Engineering
7 40 (21.86%) Scrum
8 38 (20.77%) Full-Stack Development
9 36 (19.67%) Containerisation
10 29 (15.85%) Continuous Integration
11 28 (15.30%) Code Quality
12 27 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (13.11%) BDD
14 22 (12.02%) Test Automation
15 21 (11.48%) Migration
15 21 (11.48%) SDLC
16 20 (10.93%) Event-Driven
17 16 (8.74%) API Development
18 15 (8.20%) Mentoring
18 15 (8.20%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 172 (93.99%) Java
2 63 (34.43%) SQL
3 45 (24.59%) JavaScript
4 27 (14.75%) Python
4 27 (14.75%) TypeScript
5 9 (4.92%) Perl
6 6 (3.28%) Bash
6 6 (3.28%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.19%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.09%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.09%) Ruby
9 1 (0.55%) C#
9 1 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 47 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 42 (22.95%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.64%) Degree
3 3 (1.64%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.09%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.55%) OCP
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.55%) Sun Certification
5 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.28%) QA
2 3 (1.64%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.64%) GDPR
3 2 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.09%) NCSC
3 2 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.55%) SLA
4 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 67 (36.61%) Docker
2 9 (4.92%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.73%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 47 (25.68%) Kubernetes
2 27 (14.75%) Terraform
3 13 (7.10%) Progress Chef
4 12 (6.56%) Grafana
5 11 (6.01%) Kibana
6 9 (4.92%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.19%) Puppet
8 3 (1.64%) Ansible
9 2 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.55%) Rancher
Vendors
1 25 (13.66%) Oracle
2 12 (6.56%) Splunk
3 10 (5.46%) Red Hat
3 10 (5.46%) SAP
4 9 (4.92%) AppDynamics
5 6 (3.28%) Jaspersoft
5 6 (3.28%) Sybase
6 5 (2.73%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.19%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (2.19%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.64%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.64%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.64%) IBM
8 3 (1.64%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.64%) Veracode
9 2 (1.09%) Databricks
9 2 (1.09%) Google
10 1 (0.55%) Confluent
10 1 (0.55%) Okta
10 1 (0.55%) Ping Identity