Spring Boot Contracts in the West Midlands

Spring Boot
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Spring Boot skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spring Boot over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 114 120
Rank change year-on-year +27 +6 +13
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 20 1 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.29% 0.048% 0.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.81% 0.33% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 7
10th Percentile £410 - £470
25th Percentile £416 - £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £325 £700
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% -53.57% +29.63%
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £540 £601
% change year-on-year -12.04% -10.07% +0.08%

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 256 301 361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.55% 14.56% 15.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 198 247
10th Percentile £375 £313 £350
25th Percentile £425 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £675
90th Percentile £683 £729 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 1
10th Percentile - £14.23 -
25th Percentile £33.91 £39.92 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.88% -26.90%
75th Percentile - £56.25 £43.75
90th Percentile - £60.00 -
England median hourly rate £57.63 £58.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.16% -10.31% +19.82%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Spring Boot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot in the West Midlands

Spring Boot
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring Boot in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend 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 6 July 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
Solihull - 10 £420 -
Birmingham +21 9 £475 +46.15% 7
Shropshire - 2 - - 5
Spring Boot
England

Spring Boot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (5.00%) JBoss
2 1 (5.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.00%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 17 (85.00%) AWS
2 14 (70.00%) Amazon S3
3 13 (65.00%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (65.00%) Amazon SQS
4 9 (45.00%) AWS KMS
4 9 (45.00%) Route 53
5 7 (35.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.00%) Azure
6 1 (5.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (85.00%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (75.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (65.00%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (55.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (90.00%) Jenkins
2 17 (85.00%) Maven
3 14 (70.00%) Git
3 14 (70.00%) JUnit
4 11 (55.00%) SonarQube
5 10 (50.00%) Mockito
6 7 (35.00%) Bitbucket Server
6 7 (35.00%) DbUnit
6 7 (35.00%) jMock
7 1 (5.00%) GitLab
7 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (65.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (90.00%) Developer
1 18 (90.00%) Java Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Lead
2 6 (30.00%) Lead Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Lead Java Developer
2 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 3 (15.00%) AWS Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Applications Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Java Applications Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Java Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) WebLogic Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (100.00%) Spring
2 18 (90.00%) REST
3 17 (85.00%) SOAP
4 15 (75.00%) ActiveMQ
4 15 (75.00%) Web Services
5 14 (70.00%) JPA
6 12 (60.00%) Hibernate
7 11 (55.00%) AngularJS
7 11 (55.00%) Bootstrap
7 11 (55.00%) Spring Batch
7 11 (55.00%) Spring Integration
8 10 (50.00%) RESTful
8 10 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
9 7 (35.00%) PowerMock
10 1 (5.00%) Apache Camel
10 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
10 1 (5.00%) Kafka
10 1 (5.00%) Mustache
10 1 (5.00%) React
10 1 (5.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Agile
2 19 (95.00%) Microservices
3 18 (90.00%) Scrum
4 16 (80.00%) TDD
5 13 (65.00%) DevOps
6 9 (45.00%) BDD
6 9 (45.00%) Containerisation
6 9 (45.00%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (35.00%) Kanban
7 7 (35.00%) Open Source
7 7 (35.00%) Risk Management
7 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
9 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
10 2 (10.00%) API Development
10 2 (10.00%) Biometrics
10 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
11 1 (5.00%) Business Analysis
11 1 (5.00%) Service Delivery
11 1 (5.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (70.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) C
3 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) Korn
3 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Scala
3 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (55.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 18 (90.00%) Docker
2 8 (40.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Grafana
1 10 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (35.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.00%) Trillium
3 1 (5.00%) webMethods