Spring Boot Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Spring Boot
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 101 106
Rank change year-on-year -15 +5 +41
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 24 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.04% 0.19% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.31% 0.96% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 2
10th Percentile £261 - £344
25th Percentile £371 - £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.22%
75th Percentile £527 - £591
90th Percentile £562 - £641
England median daily rate £488 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -15.22% +6.98% -14.82%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 452 313 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.65% 19.57% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 182 170
10th Percentile £361 £376 £306
25th Percentile £447 £441 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -12.20%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £575
90th Percentile £700 £750 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 2
10th Percentile £19.02 - £17.16
25th Percentile - £26.25 £17.22
Median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £17.38
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +58.27% +15.83%
75th Percentile £50.00 £28.75 £17.47
90th Percentile £77.30 - £17.49
England median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -2.40% +20.45% -20.17%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spring Boot relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Spring Boot job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Spring Boot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in the West Midlands

Spring Boot
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 January 2026. 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
Shropshire - 18 £473 -
Coventry - 3 £270 -
Birmingham - 1 £500 - 2
Staffordshire - 1 £338 -
Warwickshire - 1 - -
Spring Boot
England

Spring Boot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) JBoss
2 1 (4.17%) nginx
2 1 (4.17%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 15 (62.50%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) Serverless
4 2 (8.33%) Kong
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.17%) Azure API Management
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.17%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.17%) PaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) SSL
1 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (41.67%) MongoDB
2 4 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (8.33%) MySQL
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.17%) DocumentDB
5 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.17%) Redis
5 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Git
1 9 (37.50%) GitLab
2 7 (29.17%) JUnit
2 7 (29.17%) Mockito
3 6 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 6 (25.00%) Maven
4 5 (20.83%) Selenium
5 3 (12.50%) JIRA
6 2 (8.33%) Gatling
7 1 (4.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
7 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (4.17%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
7 1 (4.17%) Postman
7 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
7 1 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (4.17%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Developer
1 7 (29.17%) Senior
2 6 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Java Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Lead
4 3 (12.50%) Lead Java Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) QA Leader
5 2 (8.33%) Test Leader
6 1 (4.17%) Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (91.67%) Spring
2 7 (29.17%) Playwright
2 7 (29.17%) RESTful
3 6 (25.00%) JPA
3 6 (25.00%) JSON
3 6 (25.00%) Swagger
4 5 (20.83%) Gherkin
4 5 (20.83%) GraalVM
4 5 (20.83%) HTML
4 5 (20.83%) JDBC
4 5 (20.83%) OAuth
4 5 (20.83%) OAuth2
4 5 (20.83%) OpenID
4 5 (20.83%) React
5 3 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 3 (12.50%) WireMock
6 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (8.33%) Kafka
6 2 (8.33%) REST
6 2 (8.33%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) Microservices
2 12 (50.00%) Agile
3 11 (45.83%) CI/CD
4 9 (37.50%) Software Engineering
5 8 (33.33%) Scrum
6 7 (29.17%) Coaching
7 6 (25.00%) OO
8 5 (20.83%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (20.83%) Migration
8 5 (20.83%) OOD
8 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (16.67%) API Design
9 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
9 4 (16.67%) Software Testing
10 3 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
10 3 (12.50%) Front End Development
10 3 (12.50%) Integration Testing
10 3 (12.50%) TDD
10 3 (12.50%) Test Automation
10 3 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) Java
2 12 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 3 (12.50%) Kotlin
5 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.33%) Perl
6 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (54.17%) Security Cleared
2 12 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) WCAG
2 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 9 (37.50%) Kibana
3 7 (29.17%) Grafana
4 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Oracle
2 3 (12.50%) Splunk
3 2 (8.33%) Dynatrace
3 2 (8.33%) PagerDuty
3 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.17%) AppDynamics
4 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.17%) Qualys