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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 109 -
Rank change year-on-year +14 - -
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 74 18 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.06% 0.97% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.75% 4.93% -
Number of daily rates quoted 35 9 0
10th Percentile £421 £419 -
25th Percentile £456 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -
75th Percentile £620 - -
90th Percentile £663 - -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -4.35%

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 630 365 367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.50% 19.68% 19.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 233 210
10th Percentile £363 £373 £363
25th Percentile £413 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +12.24%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £656
90th Percentile £675 £688 £750
England median daily rate £537 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 22 2
10th Percentile £56.17 - £19.33
25th Percentile £58.43 £33.91 £26.94
Median hourly rate £66.57 £50.00 £42.25
Median % change year-on-year +33.14% +18.34% +141.43%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £59.94
90th Percentile - - £68.98
England median hourly rate £65.83 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +19.69% -15.38% +8.33%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -20 30 £570 - 6
Solihull +7 27 - - 1
Birmingham -5 16 £700 +40.00% 9
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 11 (14.86%) Confluence
2 1 (1.35%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 59 (79.73%) AWS
2 20 (27.03%) Amazon S3
3 19 (25.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 19 (25.68%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (18.92%) GitHub
5 13 (17.57%) Amazon ECS
5 13 (17.57%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (17.57%) Serverless
6 12 (16.22%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (14.86%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (10.81%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (9.46%) AWS KMS
9 7 (9.46%) Route 53
10 3 (4.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (4.05%) Azure
11 1 (1.35%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (25.68%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (22.97%) MongoDB
3 12 (16.22%) Relational Database
4 7 (9.46%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (9.46%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (9.46%) DynamoDB
5 5 (6.76%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.35%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 35 (47.30%) JUnit
1 35 (47.30%) Maven
2 33 (44.59%) Jenkins
3 32 (43.24%) Mockito
4 29 (39.19%) Git
5 22 (29.73%) GitLab
6 17 (22.97%) SonarQube
7 11 (14.86%) JIRA
8 5 (6.76%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (6.76%) DbUnit
8 5 (6.76%) jMock
8 5 (6.76%) Selenium
9 4 (5.41%) Gatling
10 2 (2.70%) Cucumber
10 2 (2.70%) REST Assured
10 2 (2.70%) Serenity BDD
General
1 27 (36.49%) Public Sector
2 17 (22.97%) Social Skills
3 15 (20.27%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.05%) Finance
6 2 (2.70%) Banking
6 2 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (54.05%) Developer
1 40 (54.05%) Java Developer
2 17 (22.97%) Lead
2 17 (22.97%) Senior
3 15 (20.27%) Senior Developer
3 15 (20.27%) Senior Java Developer
4 14 (18.92%) Java Engineer
5 11 (14.86%) Scrum Master
6 8 (10.81%) Lead Developer
6 8 (10.81%) Lead Java Developer
7 6 (8.11%) Java Scrum Master
8 4 (5.41%) Technical Leader
9 3 (4.05%) Java Software Developer
9 3 (4.05%) Software Developer
10 2 (2.70%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 2 (2.70%) Lead Java Engineer
10 2 (2.70%) Project Leader
10 2 (2.70%) QA Leader
10 2 (2.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 2 (2.70%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (100.00%) Spring
2 33 (44.59%) JPA
3 28 (37.84%) RESTful
4 23 (31.08%) REST
5 19 (25.68%) Hibernate
6 18 (24.32%) AngularJS
6 18 (24.32%) Spring Cloud
7 17 (22.97%) ActiveMQ
7 17 (22.97%) OpenAPI
7 17 (22.97%) SOAP
7 17 (22.97%) Web Services
8 11 (14.86%) Kafka
9 10 (13.51%) Swagger
10 7 (9.46%) Playwright
10 7 (9.46%) Spring Batch
10 7 (9.46%) Spring Integration
11 5 (6.76%) Node.js
11 5 (6.76%) OAuth
11 5 (6.76%) OpenID
11 5 (6.76%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 29 (39.19%) Cloud Native
2 15 (20.27%) Product Ownership
3 7 (9.46%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (8.11%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.70%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.81%) Linux
2 3 (4.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (74.32%) Agile
2 53 (71.62%) Microservices
3 52 (70.27%) Scrum
4 40 (54.05%) CI/CD
5 33 (44.59%) Test Automation
6 28 (37.84%) Code Quality
7 27 (36.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (35.14%) Containerisation
8 26 (35.14%) Technical Leadership
9 25 (33.78%) DevOps
10 22 (29.73%) Sprint Planning
11 21 (28.38%) Software Engineering
12 20 (27.03%) Backlog Refinement
12 20 (27.03%) TDD
13 19 (25.68%) Kanban
14 17 (22.97%) Front End Development
14 17 (22.97%) Observability
15 15 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
15 15 (20.27%) SDLC
16 14 (18.92%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 74 (100.00%) Java
2 24 (32.43%) SQL
3 11 (14.86%) TypeScript
4 10 (13.51%) Shell Script
5 4 (5.41%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.05%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (51.35%) Security Cleared
2 35 (47.30%) SC Cleared
3 23 (31.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (17.57%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.22%) QA
2 6 (8.11%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (45.95%) Docker
2 4 (5.41%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 23 (31.08%) Grafana
2 17 (22.97%) Kubernetes
2 17 (22.97%) Prometheus
3 15 (20.27%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (9.46%) Jaspersoft
2 5 (6.76%) Atlassian
3 4 (5.41%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.70%) Splunk
5 1 (1.35%) Oracle