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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 90 107
Rank change year-on-year -14 +17 +26
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 52 10 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.74% 0.74% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.37% 4.27% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 3 2
10th Percentile £324 - £314
25th Percentile £426 £410 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £420 £325
Median % change year-on-year +11.79% +29.23% -53.57%
75th Percentile £529 £444 £334
90th Percentile £576 £452 £336
England median daily rate £500 £528 £525
% change year-on-year -5.21% +0.48% -16.00%

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 555 234 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.59% 17.41% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 159 190
10th Percentile £360 £381 £312
25th Percentile £425 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £611
90th Percentile £658 £700 £725
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 7
10th Percentile £21.97 - £29.60
25th Percentile £41.86 £26.25 £39.92
Median hourly rate £58.00 £27.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +110.91% -31.25% -
75th Percentile £77.38 £28.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £77.50 - £56.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 -22 27 £470 -
Solihull -6 10 £475 +13.10% 1
Birmingham -17 8 £475 +4.40% 1
Coventry - 3 £270 - 1
Warwickshire - 2 £529 -
Staffordshire - 1 £338 -
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 9 (17.31%) Confluence
1 9 (17.31%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.92%) nginx
2 1 (1.92%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 33 (63.46%) AWS
2 12 (23.08%) Amazon S3
2 12 (23.08%) Amazon SQS
3 11 (21.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 11 (21.15%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (21.15%) AWS KMS
3 11 (21.15%) Route 53
4 8 (15.38%) Azure
5 3 (5.77%) Serverless
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.85%) GCP
6 2 (3.85%) GitHub
6 2 (3.85%) Kong
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.92%) Apigee
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.92%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.92%) PaaS
7 1 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) SSL
1 1 (1.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (32.69%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (28.85%) MongoDB
3 12 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (21.15%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (21.15%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.85%) MySQL
5 2 (3.85%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.92%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (50.00%) Git
2 23 (44.23%) JUnit
3 20 (38.46%) Mockito
4 19 (36.54%) Maven
5 13 (25.00%) Jenkins
6 11 (21.15%) SonarQube
7 10 (19.23%) GitLab
8 9 (17.31%) DbUnit
8 9 (17.31%) JIRA
8 9 (17.31%) jMock
9 7 (13.46%) Bitbucket Server
10 6 (11.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (11.54%) Cucumber
10 6 (11.54%) Selenium
11 2 (3.85%) Gatling
12 1 (1.92%) Postman
12 1 (1.92%) REST Assured
12 1 (1.92%) Serenity BDD
General
1 20 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 17 (32.69%) Social Skills
3 8 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Advertising
4 1 (1.92%) Banking
4 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Finance
4 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Retail
4 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (51.92%) Developer
2 26 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 11 (21.15%) Java Engineer
4 9 (17.31%) Lead
4 9 (17.31%) Senior
5 6 (11.54%) Senior Developer
5 6 (11.54%) Senior Java Developer
5 6 (11.54%) Software Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Lead Java Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Lead Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Lead Java Developer
8 1 (1.92%) Applications Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) J2EE Developer
8 1 (1.92%) Java Applications Developer
8 1 (1.92%) Java Software Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 1 (1.92%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Test Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (96.15%) Spring
2 21 (40.38%) JPA
3 17 (32.69%) REST
4 15 (28.85%) Hibernate
5 14 (26.92%) RESTful
5 14 (26.92%) SOAP
5 14 (26.92%) Spring Batch
5 14 (26.92%) Web Services
6 13 (25.00%) AngularJS
6 13 (25.00%) Spring Integration
7 12 (23.08%) Spring Cloud
8 11 (21.15%) ActiveMQ
9 9 (17.31%) Node.js
9 9 (17.31%) PowerMock
10 7 (13.46%) Bootstrap
10 7 (13.46%) Playwright
10 7 (13.46%) React
11 6 (11.54%) JSON
11 6 (11.54%) Swagger
12 5 (9.62%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (30.77%) Linux
2 6 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (71.15%) Microservices
2 28 (53.85%) Agile
3 27 (51.92%) Scrum
4 23 (44.23%) CI/CD
5 20 (38.46%) TDD
6 16 (30.77%) Containerisation
7 15 (28.85%) Kanban
7 15 (28.85%) Software Engineering
8 12 (23.08%) DevOps
8 12 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (21.15%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (17.31%) BDD
11 8 (15.38%) BPMN
11 8 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (13.46%) Biometrics
12 7 (13.46%) Open Source
12 7 (13.46%) Pair Programming
13 6 (11.54%) Coaching
13 6 (11.54%) OO
Programming Languages
1 47 (90.38%) Java
2 34 (65.38%) SQL
3 11 (21.15%) Shell Script
4 6 (11.54%) Perl
5 5 (9.62%) PL/SQL
6 4 (7.69%) Kotlin
7 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 36 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 33 (63.46%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 4 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.77%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) WCAG
2 3 (5.77%) QA
3 2 (3.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (34.62%) Docker
2 8 (15.38%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 26 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 19 (36.54%) Grafana
3 9 (17.31%) Kibana
4 5 (9.62%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (21.15%) Jaspersoft
2 9 (17.31%) Atlassian
3 8 (15.38%) Oracle
4 6 (11.54%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.77%) Splunk
6 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.92%) Google
6 1 (1.92%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.92%) Qualys