Spring Boot Contracts

Spring Boot
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 224 160 144
Rank change year-on-year -64 -16 -1
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 464 949 1,713
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.07% 1.58% 1.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.19% 6.79% 7.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 755 1,267
10th Percentile £375 £450 £440
25th Percentile £425 £500 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +0.87% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £704 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -8.57% - +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 16
10th Percentile - - £53.63
25th Percentile - £53.75 £56.00
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £60.00
75th Percentile - £74.44 £75.73
90th Percentile - £78.00 £82.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +50.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,938 13,979 24,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.52% 23.31% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,209 10,212 17,679
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £764 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 155 243
10th Percentile £20.82 £30.30 £21.20
25th Percentile £39.94 £46.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.70 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £63.25 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.90% +29.08% +8.89%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Spring Boot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring Boot.

Daily rate trend for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring Boot.

Hourly rate trend for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 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
England -89 342 £525 -13.37% 169
London -58 217 £550 -15.38% 96
UK excluding London -16 191 £480 -8.57% 89
Work from Home -56 160 £506 -12.00% 93
Scotland +12 70 £463 -2.06% 12
North of England -4 54 £525 -8.70% 17
North West +25 30 £525 +8.00% 9
South East +22 28 £475 -8.65% 16
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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 31 (6.68%) Confluence
2 9 (1.94%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.72%) JBoss
3 8 (1.72%) OpenStack
4 7 (1.51%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.08%) Apache
5 5 (1.08%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.65%) Camunda
7 3 (0.65%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.65%) nginx
7 3 (0.65%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.65%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.43%) Alfresco
8 2 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.22%) CMS
9 1 (0.22%) CoreMedia CMS
9 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.86%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 216 (46.55%) AWS
2 40 (8.62%) Azure
3 37 (7.97%) Amazon S3
4 36 (7.76%) GCP
5 28 (6.03%) Serverless
6 27 (5.82%) Amazon SQS
6 27 (5.82%) OpenShift
7 22 (4.74%) GitHub
8 21 (4.53%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (4.09%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (2.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 11 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (1.94%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (1.94%) Amazon MSK
11 9 (1.94%) Kong
12 7 (1.51%) Cloud Functions
12 7 (1.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.08%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.65%) 5G
2 1 (0.22%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.22%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (18.97%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (12.72%) Relational Database
3 35 (7.54%) NoSQL
4 22 (4.74%) MySQL
5 21 (4.53%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (4.31%) MongoDB
7 17 (3.66%) Oracle Database
8 16 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (3.23%) RDBMS
10 13 (2.80%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (2.16%) SQL Server
12 8 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
13 7 (1.51%) BigQuery
13 7 (1.51%) Redis
14 6 (1.29%) DB2
15 4 (0.86%) OLAP
15 4 (0.86%) OLTP
15 4 (0.86%) Oracle OLAP
15 4 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
16 3 (0.65%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 115 (24.78%) Jenkins
2 92 (19.83%) JUnit
3 91 (19.61%) Git
4 40 (8.62%) JIRA
5 39 (8.41%) Cucumber
6 37 (7.97%) Mockito
7 35 (7.54%) Maven
8 28 (6.03%) GitLab
9 17 (3.66%) Selenium
10 16 (3.45%) Postman
11 14 (3.02%) SonarQube
12 13 (2.80%) Gradle
13 11 (2.37%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (2.37%) TestNG
14 10 (2.16%) Cypress.io
15 9 (1.94%) Liquibase
16 7 (1.51%) TeamCity
17 6 (1.29%) IntelliJ
17 6 (1.29%) JMeter
18 5 (1.08%) EasyMock
General
1 76 (16.38%) Finance
2 71 (15.30%) Public Sector
3 51 (10.99%) Social Skills
4 44 (9.48%) Banking
5 22 (4.74%) Front Office
6 19 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.59%) Retail
9 5 (1.08%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.08%) Law
10 4 (0.86%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.43%) Electronics
12 2 (0.43%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 319 (68.75%) Developer
2 246 (53.02%) Java Developer
3 78 (16.81%) Senior
4 56 (12.07%) Senior Developer
5 48 (10.34%) Senior Java Developer
6 42 (9.05%) Full Stack Developer
7 41 (8.84%) Lead
8 38 (8.19%) Java Engineer
9 33 (7.11%) Software Engineer
10 28 (6.03%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 23 (4.96%) Architect
12 17 (3.66%) Full Stack Java Developer
13 14 (3.02%) Backend Developer
13 14 (3.02%) Lead Developer
14 13 (2.80%) AWS Developer
15 12 (2.59%) Full Stack Engineer
15 12 (2.59%) Java Pricing Developer
15 12 (2.59%) Pricing Developer
16 11 (2.37%) Java Software Engineer
16 11 (2.37%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 377 (81.25%) Spring
2 184 (39.66%) REST
3 92 (19.83%) React
4 86 (18.53%) Kafka
5 76 (16.38%) JPA
6 67 (14.44%) Hibernate
7 55 (11.85%) RESTful
8 45 (9.70%) Node.js
9 44 (9.48%) AngularJS
10 43 (9.27%) CSS
10 43 (9.27%) Web Services
11 41 (8.84%) HTML
11 41 (8.84%) Spring Security
12 26 (5.60%) Elastic Stack
12 26 (5.60%) SOAP
13 25 (5.39%) JAX-RS
14 22 (4.74%) J2EE
14 22 (4.74%) OAuth
14 22 (4.74%) RabbitMQ
15 21 (4.53%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.31%) Credit Derivative
2 17 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (3.66%) Public Cloud
3 13 (2.80%) Cloud Native
3 13 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 8 (1.72%) Data Structures
5 8 (1.72%) Derivative
6 7 (1.51%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.51%) Insider Threat
6 7 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.08%) Fixed Income
8 4 (0.86%) DataPower
8 4 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (0.86%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.65%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.65%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.66%) Linux
2 9 (1.94%) Windows
3 6 (1.29%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.65%) Unix
6 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (46.77%) Microservices
2 189 (40.73%) Agile
3 153 (32.97%) CI/CD
4 99 (21.34%) DevOps
5 90 (19.40%) TDD
6 75 (16.16%) Software Engineering
7 69 (14.87%) Full Stack Development
8 61 (13.15%) Scrum
9 58 (12.50%) SDLC
10 54 (11.64%) Front End Development
11 45 (9.70%) Unit Testing
12 44 (9.48%) Test Automation
13 41 (8.84%) Mentoring
14 31 (6.68%) Observability
14 31 (6.68%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (6.47%) Continuous Integration
15 30 (6.47%) High Availability
16 28 (6.03%) Containerisation
17 27 (5.82%) BDD
17 27 (5.82%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 457 (98.49%) Java
2 105 (22.63%) SQL
3 69 (14.87%) JavaScript
4 59 (12.72%) TypeScript
5 30 (6.47%) Python
6 14 (3.02%) Scala
7 11 (2.37%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.16%) C
9 8 (1.72%) PL/SQL
10 7 (1.51%) Perl
11 6 (1.29%) PHP
11 6 (1.29%) Swift
12 5 (1.08%) C++
12 5 (1.08%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.43%) Bash
13 2 (0.43%) Ruby
14 1 (0.22%) Bicep
14 1 (0.22%) Clojure
14 1 (0.22%) Go
14 1 (0.22%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 144 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 126 (27.16%) SC Cleared
3 37 (7.97%) DV Cleared
4 14 (3.02%) Degree
5 11 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.02%) Accessibility
2 11 (2.37%) QA
3 4 (0.86%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.65%) GRC
4 3 (0.65%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.65%) SLA
5 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.22%) GDPR
5 1 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 150 (32.33%) Docker
2 6 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 132 (28.45%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.17%) Terraform
3 23 (4.96%) Grafana
3 23 (4.96%) Kibana
4 19 (4.09%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (2.80%) Ansible
6 6 (1.29%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.08%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.08%) Zipkin
8 4 (0.86%) Packer
9 3 (0.65%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.43%) Istio
10 2 (0.43%) logstash
11 1 (0.22%) Anchore
11 1 (0.22%) Argo
11 1 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.22%) Rancher
Vendors
1 56 (12.07%) Oracle
2 26 (5.60%) Google
3 20 (4.31%) IBM
4 12 (2.59%) Microsoft
5 9 (1.94%) Red Hat
6 7 (1.51%) Splunk
7 5 (1.08%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.08%) Cognos
8 4 (0.86%) New Relic
8 4 (0.86%) TSYS
9 3 (0.65%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.65%) Micro Focus
10 2 (0.43%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.43%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.43%) SAP
11 1 (0.22%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.22%) Databricks
11 1 (0.22%) Reuters
11 1 (0.22%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.22%) WSO2