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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 90 107
Rank change year-on-year -14 +17 +33
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 49 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.82% 0.57% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.02% 3.07% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 2 2
10th Percentile £324 £414 £344
25th Percentile £426 £421 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £438 £488
Median % change year-on-year +7.31% -10.26% -30.36%
75th Percentile £529 £451 £591
90th Percentile £576 £455 £641
England median daily rate £485 £545 £534
% change year-on-year -11.01% +2.11% -17.88%

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 543 261 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.22% 18.70% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 157 175
10th Percentile £375 £381 £313
25th Percentile £449 £434 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% +13.51% -14.15%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £605
90th Percentile £677 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 6
10th Percentile £19.64 - £15.63
25th Percentile £27.21 £26.25 £17.22
Median hourly rate £38.61 £27.50 £28.71
Median % change year-on-year +40.38% -4.21% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £28.75 £39.92
90th Percentile £77.28 - £39.96
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 -17 28 £470 - 3
Birmingham -12 9 £475 +4.40% 1
Solihull -4 5 - - 5
Coventry - 3 £270 -
Warwickshire - 2 £529 -
Staffordshire - 1 £338 -
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 9 (18.37%) Confluence
1 9 (18.37%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.04%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 30 (61.22%) AWS
2 9 (18.37%) Azure
3 8 (16.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (16.33%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (16.33%) Amazon S3
3 8 (16.33%) Amazon SQS
3 8 (16.33%) AWS KMS
3 8 (16.33%) Route 53
4 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.08%) GCP
4 2 (4.08%) GitHub
4 2 (4.08%) Kong
4 2 (4.08%) Serverless
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.04%) Apigee
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.04%) BrowserStack
5 1 (2.04%) Cloud Run
5 1 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) SSL
1 1 (2.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (32.65%) MongoDB
2 12 (24.49%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (20.41%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (16.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (16.33%) DynamoDB
5 2 (4.08%) MySQL
5 2 (4.08%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.08%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.04%) DocumentDB
6 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.04%) Redis
6 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (44.90%) Git
2 20 (40.82%) JUnit
3 17 (34.69%) Mockito
4 16 (32.65%) Maven
5 11 (22.45%) GitLab
6 9 (18.37%) Jenkins
6 9 (18.37%) JIRA
7 8 (16.33%) SonarQube
8 6 (12.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (12.24%) Cucumber
8 6 (12.24%) DbUnit
8 6 (12.24%) jMock
8 6 (12.24%) Selenium
9 4 (8.16%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (6.12%) Gatling
11 1 (2.04%) Postman
11 1 (2.04%) REST Assured
11 1 (2.04%) Serenity BDD
General
1 17 (34.69%) Public Sector
1 17 (34.69%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.08%) Banking
4 1 (2.04%) Advertising
4 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Finance
4 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Retail
4 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (46.94%) Developer
2 22 (44.90%) Java Developer
3 11 (22.45%) Java Engineer
4 9 (18.37%) Lead
5 8 (16.33%) Senior
6 6 (12.24%) Software Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Lead Java Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 4 (8.16%) Senior Developer
7 4 (8.16%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (4.08%) QA Leader
8 2 (4.08%) Test Leader
9 1 (2.04%) J2EE Developer
9 1 (2.04%) Java Software Engineer
9 1 (2.04%) PL/SQL Developer
9 1 (2.04%) SQL Developer
9 1 (2.04%) Support Engineer
9 1 (2.04%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (95.92%) Spring
2 17 (34.69%) JPA
3 12 (24.49%) REST
4 11 (22.45%) Hibernate
4 11 (22.45%) RESTful
4 11 (22.45%) Spring Batch
5 10 (20.41%) AngularJS
5 10 (20.41%) SOAP
6 9 (18.37%) Spring Cloud
6 9 (18.37%) Spring Integration
6 9 (18.37%) Web Services
7 8 (16.33%) ActiveMQ
7 8 (16.33%) Node.js
7 8 (16.33%) Playwright
8 6 (12.24%) JSON
8 6 (12.24%) PowerMock
8 6 (12.24%) React
8 6 (12.24%) Swagger
9 5 (10.20%) GraalVM
9 5 (10.20%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (8.16%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (26.53%) Linux
2 6 (12.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (67.35%) Microservices
2 24 (48.98%) Agile
3 23 (46.94%) CI/CD
3 23 (46.94%) Scrum
4 16 (32.65%) TDD
5 15 (30.61%) Software Engineering
6 13 (26.53%) Containerisation
7 12 (24.49%) Kanban
7 12 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (22.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (18.37%) DevOps
10 8 (16.33%) BPMN
10 8 (16.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (14.29%) Coaching
11 7 (14.29%) Pair Programming
12 6 (12.24%) BDD
12 6 (12.24%) Biometrics
12 6 (12.24%) Innovative Thinking
12 6 (12.24%) OO
12 6 (12.24%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 44 (89.80%) Java
2 31 (63.27%) SQL
3 11 (22.45%) Shell Script
4 6 (12.24%) Perl
5 5 (10.20%) PL/SQL
6 4 (8.16%) Kotlin
7 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 33 (67.35%) Security Cleared
2 31 (63.27%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.16%) Azure Certification
3 4 (8.16%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (6.12%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) WCAG
2 4 (8.16%) QA
3 3 (6.12%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (28.57%) Docker
2 5 (10.20%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 26 (53.06%) Kubernetes
2 17 (34.69%) Grafana
3 10 (20.41%) Kibana
4 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (18.37%) Oracle
2 8 (16.33%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (12.24%) Atlassian
3 6 (12.24%) Red Hat
4 4 (8.16%) Splunk
5 2 (4.08%) Dynatrace
5 2 (4.08%) PagerDuty
6 1 (2.04%) Google
6 1 (2.04%) Qualys