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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 - 114
Rank change year-on-year - - +46
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 23 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.07% - 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.46% - 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 2
10th Percentile £261 - £576
25th Percentile £416 - £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £620
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.90%
75th Percentile £540 - £659
90th Percentile £562 - £669
England median daily rate £480 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -16.52% +4.55% -12.00%

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 421 348 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.60% 18.52% 14.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 194 198
10th Percentile £373 £397 £321
25th Percentile £450 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +15.79% -7.54%
75th Percentile £602 £635 £575
90th Percentile £700 £734 £688
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 3
10th Percentile £27.21 - £17.20
25th Percentile £32.24 £26.25 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +57.14% -52.24%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £30.63
90th Percentile - - £38.50
England median hourly rate £57.40 £65.00 £54.53
% change year-on-year -11.69% +19.20% -16.11%

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025. 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 - 15 £525 - 6
Birmingham - 4 £500 - 3
Coventry - 3 £270 - 4
Solihull - 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 (8.70%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) JBoss
2 1 (4.35%) nginx
2 1 (4.35%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 18 (78.26%) AWS
2 5 (21.74%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon S3
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (17.39%) AWS KMS
3 4 (17.39%) Route 53
4 3 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (13.04%) Azure
5 2 (8.70%) Serverless
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.35%) Kong
6 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (21.74%) MongoDB
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (17.39%) DynamoDB
4 2 (8.70%) MySQL
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (52.17%) Git
2 11 (47.83%) JUnit
3 10 (43.48%) Maven
3 10 (43.48%) Mockito
4 9 (39.13%) GitLab
5 6 (26.09%) Cucumber
6 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
6 5 (21.74%) Selenium
6 5 (21.74%) SonarQube
7 4 (17.39%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (13.04%) DbUnit
8 3 (13.04%) jMock
9 2 (8.70%) Gatling
9 2 (8.70%) JIRA
10 1 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
10 1 (4.35%) CA Release Automation
10 1 (4.35%) Postman
10 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Developer
1 10 (43.48%) Java Developer
2 8 (34.78%) Senior
3 4 (17.39%) Senior Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Senior Java Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Software Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Java Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) QA Leader
5 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Test Leader
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (91.30%) Spring
2 10 (43.48%) JPA
2 10 (43.48%) RESTful
3 7 (30.43%) JSON
3 7 (30.43%) Playwright
4 6 (26.09%) AngularJS
4 6 (26.09%) REST
4 6 (26.09%) SOAP
4 6 (26.09%) Spring Batch
5 5 (21.74%) Gherkin
5 5 (21.74%) GraalVM
5 5 (21.74%) Hibernate
5 5 (21.74%) HTML
5 5 (21.74%) JDBC
5 5 (21.74%) OAuth
5 5 (21.74%) OAuth2
5 5 (21.74%) OpenID
5 5 (21.74%) React
6 4 (17.39%) Web Services
6 4 (17.39%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (82.61%) Microservices
2 17 (73.91%) Agile
3 13 (56.52%) Scrum
4 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
5 10 (43.48%) Software Engineering
6 7 (30.43%) Coaching
6 7 (30.43%) TDD
7 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
7 6 (26.09%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (26.09%) OO
7 6 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (21.74%) DevOps
8 5 (21.74%) Migration
8 5 (21.74%) OOD
9 4 (17.39%) BDD
9 4 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (17.39%) Kanban
10 3 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
10 3 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
10 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 19 (82.61%) Java
2 13 (56.52%) SQL
3 5 (21.74%) Shell Script
4 3 (13.04%) Kotlin
5 2 (8.70%) Perl
6 1 (4.35%) Bash
6 1 (4.35%) C
6 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.35%) Korn
6 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
6 1 (4.35%) Python
6 1 (4.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) SC Cleared
1 11 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) WCAG
2 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.70%) QA
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) Docker
2 3 (13.04%) Postfix
3 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (65.22%) Kubernetes
2 10 (43.48%) Grafana
3 9 (39.13%) Kibana
4 4 (17.39%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Oracle
2 3 (13.04%) Atlassian
2 3 (13.04%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (13.04%) Splunk
3 2 (8.70%) Dynatrace
3 2 (8.70%) PagerDuty
3 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.35%) AppDynamics
4 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.35%) Trillium
4 1 (4.35%) webMethods