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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 93 106
Rank change year-on-year -24 +13 +13
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 55 20 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.59% 1.20% 0.054%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.66% 7.69% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 11 1
10th Percentile £434 £410 -
25th Percentile £461 £416 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £325
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% +46.15% -44.92%
75th Percentile £588 £500 -
90th Percentile £669 - -
England median daily rate £525 £475 £540
% change year-on-year +10.53% -12.04% -6.90%

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 516 260 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.90% 15.61% 15.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 167 194
10th Percentile £350 £355 £326
25th Percentile £407 £410 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £485 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -11.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £655
90th Percentile £655 £688 £750
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 8
10th Percentile - - £14.21
25th Percentile £56.50 £33.91 £33.50
Median hourly rate £60.67 £50.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.33% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £73.75 - £56.25
90th Percentile £76.00 - £61.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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
Solihull -2 23 £475 +13.10% 1
Shropshire -34 17 £558 - 1
Birmingham -15 13 £475 - 9
Warwickshire - 1 £529 -
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 (14.55%) Confluence
1 8 (14.55%) WebLogic
2 2 (3.64%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 41 (74.55%) AWS
2 27 (49.09%) Amazon S3
3 25 (45.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 25 (45.45%) Amazon EC2
4 19 (34.55%) Amazon SQS
5 17 (30.91%) AWS KMS
5 17 (30.91%) Route 53
6 10 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (18.18%) GitHub
6 10 (18.18%) Serverless
7 8 (14.55%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (14.55%) Azure
8 7 (12.73%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.64%) GCP
10 1 (1.82%) Apigee
10 1 (1.82%) Cloud Run
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (41.82%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (30.91%) Amazon Aurora
2 17 (30.91%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (30.91%) DynamoDB
3 6 (10.91%) MongoDB
4 4 (7.27%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.82%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 31 (56.36%) Jenkins
2 29 (52.73%) Git
3 24 (43.64%) JUnit
4 22 (40.00%) Maven
4 22 (40.00%) Mockito
5 19 (34.55%) SonarQube
6 13 (23.64%) DbUnit
6 13 (23.64%) jMock
7 11 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
8 8 (14.55%) JIRA
9 6 (10.91%) GitLab
10 4 (7.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (5.45%) Gatling
12 2 (3.64%) REST Assured
12 2 (3.64%) Selenium
12 2 (3.64%) Serenity BDD
General
1 27 (49.09%) Public Sector
2 15 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 13 (23.64%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Finance
6 1 (1.82%) Advertising
6 1 (1.82%) Banking
6 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (61.82%) Developer
1 34 (61.82%) Java Developer
2 8 (14.55%) Lead
2 8 (14.55%) Senior
2 8 (14.55%) Senior Developer
2 8 (14.55%) Senior Java Developer
3 7 (12.73%) Scrum Master
4 6 (10.91%) Java Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Lead Developer
5 4 (7.27%) Lead Java Developer
5 4 (7.27%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (5.45%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Java Scrum Master
7 2 (3.64%) Lead Java Engineer
8 1 (1.82%) Applications Developer
8 1 (1.82%) Lead Test Engineer
8 1 (1.82%) Mobile Engineer
8 1 (1.82%) Principal Test Engineer
8 1 (1.82%) Project Leader
8 1 (1.82%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (98.18%) Spring
2 24 (43.64%) JPA
2 24 (43.64%) REST
3 22 (40.00%) Hibernate
3 22 (40.00%) Web Services
4 21 (38.18%) RESTful
4 21 (38.18%) SOAP
5 20 (36.36%) Spring Cloud
6 19 (34.55%) ActiveMQ
6 19 (34.55%) AngularJS
6 19 (34.55%) Spring Batch
6 19 (34.55%) Spring Integration
7 14 (25.45%) Node.js
8 13 (23.64%) PowerMock
9 11 (20.00%) Bootstrap
10 4 (7.27%) Kafka
11 3 (5.45%) OpenAPI
11 3 (5.45%) Playwright
11 3 (5.45%) React
12 2 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 15 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (21.82%) Cloud Native
3 8 (14.55%) Product Ownership
4 4 (7.27%) Data Centre
5 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.82%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (36.36%) Linux
2 4 (7.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (76.36%) Microservices
2 37 (67.27%) Scrum
3 34 (61.82%) CI/CD
4 32 (58.18%) Agile
5 27 (49.09%) DevOps
6 26 (47.27%) TDD
7 21 (38.18%) Containerisation
7 21 (38.18%) Kanban
8 20 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (21.82%) BPMN
10 12 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (20.00%) BDD
11 11 (20.00%) Biometrics
11 11 (20.00%) Code Quality
11 11 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (20.00%) Open Source
12 10 (18.18%) Observability
12 10 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
12 10 (18.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 55 (100.00%) Java
2 33 (60.00%) SQL
3 8 (14.55%) PL/SQL
4 7 (12.73%) Shell Script
5 4 (7.27%) Perl
6 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.64%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.82%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 42 (76.36%) Security Cleared
2 38 (69.09%) SC Cleared
3 12 (21.82%) AWS Certification
4 9 (16.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (9.09%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) QA
2 2 (3.64%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (60.00%) Docker
2 11 (20.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 21 (38.18%) Grafana
2 11 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (14.55%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (30.91%) Jaspersoft
2 13 (23.64%) Atlassian
3 4 (7.27%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.45%) Oracle
4 3 (5.45%) Splunk
5 1 (1.82%) Google