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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 208 172
Rank change year-on-year +13 -36 +8
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 204 271 447
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.00% 1.18% 1.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.26% 6.48% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 210 345
10th Percentile £363 £438 £414
25th Percentile £406 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -0.95% +10.82%
75th Percentile £566 £588 £594
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £509 £575 £564
% change year-on-year -11.43% +2.04% +8.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 9
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile £69.50 £53.75 £63.25
Median hourly rate £72.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -7.69% +62.50%
75th Percentile £74.50 £74.44 £75.25
90th Percentile - £78.00 £77.68
UK median hourly rate £72.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.20% -3.85% +52.94%

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 3,257 4,182 6,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.03% 18.20% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,139 3,127 4,316
10th Percentile £324 £352 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £588
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 87 146
10th Percentile £21.88 £22.20 £20.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.13 £65.51
90th Percentile £74.49 £79.19 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +34 66 £450 -4.26% 18
North of England +3 57 £525 -4.55% 16
North West +24 35 £525 +12.33% 11
South East +17 31 £475 -9.52% 36
Yorkshire +6 21 £550 +3.53% 3
South West -37 19 £450 -18.18% 12
East of England +7 14 £375 -46.43% 6
Northern Ireland +10 9 £575 +27.78% 14
Midlands +21 8 £356 -49.14% 8
East Midlands +11 6 £356 -49.14% 1
West Midlands +11 2 £325 -53.57% 7
North East -8 1 £550 -21.43% 2
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 12 (5.88%) Confluence
2 10 (4.90%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.43%) JBoss
4 5 (2.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.47%) Apache
5 3 (1.47%) GeoServer
5 3 (1.47%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.98%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.49%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.49%) Camunda
7 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (2.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.94%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 105 (51.47%) AWS
2 34 (16.67%) Azure
3 24 (11.76%) GCP
4 16 (7.84%) GitHub
5 15 (7.35%) OpenShift
6 13 (6.37%) Serverless
7 12 (5.88%) Amazon S3
8 10 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.43%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (3.43%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.94%) Apigee
11 6 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.94%) Kong
12 4 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
14 2 (0.98%) Amazon MSK
15 1 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
15 1 (0.49%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.71%) Relational Database
2 29 (14.22%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (9.31%) NoSQL
4 11 (5.39%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (4.90%) MongoDB
6 9 (4.41%) Oracle Database
7 7 (3.43%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.94%) OLAP
8 6 (2.94%) OLTP
8 6 (2.94%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.45%) Oracle OLAP
10 4 (1.96%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.47%) CockroachDB
11 3 (1.47%) GIS
12 2 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.98%) Couchbase
12 2 (0.98%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.49%) Big Data
13 1 (0.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 48 (23.53%) Git
2 43 (21.08%) Jenkins
3 39 (19.12%) JUnit
4 23 (11.27%) JIRA
5 21 (10.29%) Maven
6 12 (5.88%) Mockito
7 11 (5.39%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.94%) Postman
8 6 (2.94%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (2.45%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (2.45%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (2.45%) GitLab
9 5 (2.45%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.96%) Gradle
10 4 (1.96%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.47%) JMeter
11 3 (1.47%) Selenium
12 2 (0.98%) Capybara
12 2 (0.98%) Subversion
General
1 29 (14.22%) Public Sector
2 21 (10.29%) Finance
3 19 (9.31%) Social Skills
4 16 (7.84%) Banking
5 13 (6.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.47%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 148 (72.55%) Developer
2 116 (56.86%) Java Developer
3 22 (10.78%) Senior
4 19 (9.31%) Full Stack Developer
4 19 (9.31%) Senior Developer
5 18 (8.82%) Senior Java Developer
6 17 (8.33%) Java Engineer
7 16 (7.84%) Software Engineer
8 11 (5.39%) Full Stack Engineer
9 10 (4.90%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 10 (4.90%) Lead
10 8 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (3.92%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 7 (3.43%) Architect
12 6 (2.94%) AWS Architect
12 6 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (2.94%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
13 5 (2.45%) Lead Developer
13 5 (2.45%) Software Developer
13 5 (2.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (81.86%) Spring
2 94 (46.08%) REST
3 54 (26.47%) Kafka
4 51 (25.00%) React
5 36 (17.65%) RESTful
6 35 (17.16%) JPA
7 26 (12.75%) CSS
8 25 (12.25%) AngularJS
9 24 (11.76%) HTML
10 23 (11.27%) Hibernate
11 22 (10.78%) Node.js
11 22 (10.78%) Web Services
12 18 (8.82%) RabbitMQ
13 17 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (7.84%) J2EE
14 16 (7.84%) Spring Security
15 14 (6.86%) Apache Camel
16 10 (4.90%) AWS CDK
16 10 (4.90%) Spring MVC
17 9 (4.41%) GWT
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.37%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.39%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.39%) Public Cloud
4 9 (4.41%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.94%) DataPower
5 6 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.96%) Insider Threat
7 2 (0.98%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.49%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.49%) FMCG
8 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.49%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.88%) Windows
2 9 (4.41%) Linux
3 5 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.96%) Unix
5 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (51.96%) Microservices
2 97 (47.55%) Agile
3 69 (33.82%) CI/CD
4 51 (25.00%) DevOps
5 47 (23.04%) TDD
6 41 (20.10%) Software Engineering
7 36 (17.65%) Full Stack Development
8 29 (14.22%) Scrum
9 28 (13.73%) SDLC
10 24 (11.76%) Test Automation
11 23 (11.27%) Front End Development
12 21 (10.29%) Unit Testing
13 19 (9.31%) Mentoring
14 17 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
15 15 (7.35%) Event-Driven
16 14 (6.86%) Code Quality
16 14 (6.86%) Continuous Delivery
16 14 (6.86%) End-to-End Testing
16 14 (6.86%) MVC
16 14 (6.86%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 199 (97.55%) Java
2 54 (26.47%) SQL
3 44 (21.57%) JavaScript
4 41 (20.10%) TypeScript
5 17 (8.33%) Python
6 15 (7.35%) Scala
7 12 (5.88%) C
8 10 (4.90%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.45%) C++
9 5 (2.45%) Perl
9 5 (2.45%) PHP
10 3 (1.47%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.98%) Ruby
12 1 (0.49%) C#
12 1 (0.49%) Rust
12 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (24.02%) Security Cleared
2 31 (15.20%) DV Cleared
2 31 (15.20%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.96%) Degree
4 2 (0.98%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.92%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.47%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (0.98%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.98%) QA
3 2 (0.98%) SLA
4 1 (0.49%) GDPR
System Software
1 71 (34.80%) Docker
2 6 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (28.92%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.86%) Single Sign-On
3 13 (6.37%) Kibana
4 12 (5.88%) Grafana
5 8 (3.92%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.92%) Terraform
5 8 (3.92%) Zipkin
6 5 (2.45%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.98%) Ansible
8 1 (0.49%) Anchore
8 1 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.49%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.49%) Packer
Vendors
1 20 (9.80%) Oracle
2 11 (5.39%) Google
2 11 (5.39%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.90%) Splunk
4 9 (4.41%) IBM
5 6 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.94%) TSYS
6 5 (2.45%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.98%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.49%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.49%) Dynatrace