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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 84 114
Rank change year-on-year -37 +30 +2
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 46 20 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.36% 1.31% 0.048%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.88% 7.87% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 11 1
10th Percentile £425 £410 -
25th Percentile £461 £416 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £325
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% +46.15% -53.57%
75th Percentile £571 £500 -
90th Percentile £666 - -
England median daily rate £513 £475 £538
% change year-on-year +7.89% -11.63% -11.45%

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 518 254 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.36% 16.61% 14.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 164 199
10th Percentile £350 £375 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £641
90th Percentile £645 £684 £740
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 9
10th Percentile - - £14.23
25th Percentile £56.50 £33.91 £39.92
Median hourly rate £60.67 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.33% +25.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £73.75 - £56.25
90th Percentile £76.00 - £60.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £58.15
% change year-on-year +12.80% -0.90% -10.54%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -33 17 £525 - 5
Solihull -8 15 £475 +13.10% 1
Birmingham -22 12 £475 - 3
Warwickshire - 1 £529 - 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 8 (17.39%) WebLogic
2 7 (15.22%) Confluence
3 1 (2.17%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 33 (71.74%) AWS
2 19 (41.30%) Amazon S3
3 18 (39.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 18 (39.13%) Amazon EC2
3 18 (39.13%) Amazon SQS
4 17 (36.96%) AWS KMS
4 17 (36.96%) Route 53
5 7 (15.22%) Azure
6 4 (8.70%) GitHub
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.35%) Serverless
8 1 (2.17%) Apigee
8 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.17%) BrowserStack
8 1 (2.17%) Cloud Run
8 1 (2.17%) GCP
8 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (43.48%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (36.96%) Amazon Aurora
2 17 (36.96%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (36.96%) DynamoDB
3 8 (17.39%) MongoDB
4 4 (8.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.17%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 24 (52.17%) Git
1 24 (52.17%) JUnit
2 22 (47.83%) Jenkins
3 21 (45.65%) Maven
3 21 (45.65%) Mockito
4 17 (36.96%) SonarQube
5 13 (28.26%) DbUnit
5 13 (28.26%) jMock
6 11 (23.91%) Bitbucket Server
7 8 (17.39%) GitLab
8 7 (15.22%) JIRA
9 5 (10.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (8.70%) Gatling
11 3 (6.52%) REST Assured
11 3 (6.52%) Selenium
11 3 (6.52%) Serenity BDD
General
1 23 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
3 12 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Advertising
5 1 (2.17%) Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (67.39%) Developer
1 31 (67.39%) Java Developer
2 9 (19.57%) Lead
3 6 (13.04%) Senior
3 6 (13.04%) Senior Developer
3 6 (13.04%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (10.87%) Java Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Lead Developer
4 5 (10.87%) Lead Java Developer
5 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Lead Test Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Test Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) J2EE Developer
8 1 (2.17%) Java Software Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Lead Java Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Mobile Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL Developer
8 1 (2.17%) Principal Test Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (97.83%) Spring
2 23 (50.00%) JPA
3 21 (45.65%) REST
4 20 (43.48%) Hibernate
4 20 (43.48%) Web Services
5 19 (41.30%) SOAP
5 19 (41.30%) Spring Batch
5 19 (41.30%) Spring Cloud
5 19 (41.30%) Spring Integration
6 17 (36.96%) ActiveMQ
6 17 (36.96%) AngularJS
7 13 (28.26%) Node.js
7 13 (28.26%) PowerMock
7 13 (28.26%) RESTful
8 11 (23.91%) Bootstrap
9 4 (8.70%) Kafka
9 4 (8.70%) OpenAPI
9 4 (8.70%) Playwright
10 2 (4.35%) React
11 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 14 (30.43%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (8.70%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (41.30%) Linux
2 5 (10.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (67.39%) Microservices
2 29 (63.04%) Scrum
3 26 (56.52%) CI/CD
4 24 (52.17%) Agile
4 24 (52.17%) TDD
5 21 (45.65%) Containerisation
6 20 (43.48%) DevOps
6 20 (43.48%) Kanban
7 14 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (26.09%) BDD
8 12 (26.09%) BPMN
9 11 (23.91%) Biometrics
9 11 (23.91%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (23.91%) Open Source
9 11 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (19.57%) Decision-Making
11 9 (19.57%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (17.39%) Technical Leadership
13 6 (13.04%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 46 (100.00%) Java
2 33 (71.74%) SQL
3 9 (19.57%) Shell Script
4 6 (13.04%) PL/SQL
5 5 (10.87%) Perl
6 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.17%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 34 (73.91%) Security Cleared
2 31 (67.39%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (10.87%) AWS Certification
4 5 (10.87%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) QA
2 3 (6.52%) Accessibility
System Software
1 23 (50.00%) Docker
2 11 (23.91%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 20 (43.48%) Grafana
2 12 (26.09%) Kubernetes
3 7 (15.22%) Prometheus
4 4 (8.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (36.96%) Jaspersoft
2 13 (28.26%) Atlassian
3 5 (10.87%) Red Hat
4 4 (8.70%) Oracle
4 4 (8.70%) Splunk
5 1 (2.17%) Google