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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 79 113
Rank change year-on-year -36 +34 +1
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 45 22 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.41% 1.56% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.45% 9.05% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 2
10th Percentile £424 £410 £314
25th Percentile £458 £416 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £325
Median % change year-on-year - +46.15% -53.57%
75th Percentile £529 £500 £334
90th Percentile £667 - £336
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -13.79%

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 476 243 277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.95% 17.21% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 157 195
10th Percentile £350 £375 £313
25th Percentile £413 £419 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £573 £594 £641
90th Percentile £645 £688 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 9
10th Percentile - - £14.23
25th Percentile £56.50 £33.91 £39.92
Median hourly rate £60.67 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.33% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £77.50 - £56.25
90th Percentile - - £60.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -34 16 £469 -
Solihull -10 14 £475 +13.10%
Birmingham -21 12 £475 -
Warwickshire - 2 £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 (17.78%) WebLogic
2 7 (15.56%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 29 (64.44%) AWS
2 18 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 18 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
3 17 (37.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 17 (37.78%) Amazon EC2
3 17 (37.78%) AWS KMS
3 17 (37.78%) Route 53
4 8 (17.78%) Azure
5 3 (6.67%) GitHub
6 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.44%) GCP
6 2 (4.44%) Serverless
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.22%) Apigee
7 1 (2.22%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.22%) BrowserStack
7 1 (2.22%) Cloud Run
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (46.67%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (37.78%) Amazon Aurora
2 17 (37.78%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (37.78%) DynamoDB
3 10 (22.22%) MongoDB
4 4 (8.89%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.22%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 24 (53.33%) Git
2 22 (48.89%) JUnit
3 21 (46.67%) Jenkins
4 19 (42.22%) Maven
4 19 (42.22%) Mockito
5 17 (37.78%) SonarQube
6 13 (28.89%) DbUnit
6 13 (28.89%) jMock
7 11 (24.44%) Bitbucket Server
8 7 (15.56%) JIRA
9 5 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (11.11%) GitLab
10 3 (6.67%) Gatling
10 3 (6.67%) REST Assured
10 3 (6.67%) Selenium
10 3 (6.67%) Serenity BDD
General
1 24 (53.33%) Public Sector
2 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
3 12 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Advertising
5 1 (2.22%) Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (64.44%) Developer
1 29 (64.44%) Java Developer
2 7 (15.56%) Java Engineer
2 7 (15.56%) Lead
3 6 (13.33%) Senior
3 6 (13.33%) Senior Developer
3 6 (13.33%) Senior Java Developer
4 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Lead Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Lead Java Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Lead Java Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Lead Test Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Test Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Architect
7 1 (2.22%) J2EE Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Mobile Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Principal Test Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (97.78%) Spring
2 21 (46.67%) JPA
2 21 (46.67%) REST
3 20 (44.44%) Hibernate
3 20 (44.44%) Web Services
4 19 (42.22%) SOAP
4 19 (42.22%) Spring Batch
4 19 (42.22%) Spring Cloud
4 19 (42.22%) Spring Integration
5 17 (37.78%) ActiveMQ
5 17 (37.78%) AngularJS
6 13 (28.89%) Node.js
6 13 (28.89%) PowerMock
7 12 (26.67%) RESTful
8 11 (24.44%) Bootstrap
9 4 (8.89%) Kafka
10 3 (6.67%) Playwright
11 2 (4.44%) OpenAPI
11 2 (4.44%) React
11 2 (4.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.11%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (8.89%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 19 (42.22%) Linux
2 5 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (68.89%) Microservices
2 26 (57.78%) Scrum
3 24 (53.33%) TDD
4 23 (51.11%) Agile
5 22 (48.89%) CI/CD
6 20 (44.44%) Kanban
7 19 (42.22%) Containerisation
7 19 (42.22%) DevOps
8 13 (28.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (26.67%) BDD
9 12 (26.67%) BPMN
10 11 (24.44%) Biometrics
10 11 (24.44%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (24.44%) Open Source
10 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (20.00%) Decision-Making
12 9 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 6 (13.33%) Pair Programming
13 6 (13.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 44 (97.78%) Java
2 33 (73.33%) SQL
3 7 (15.56%) Shell Script
4 6 (13.33%) PL/SQL
5 5 (11.11%) Perl
6 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.22%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 33 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 30 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.33%) Azure Certification
4 5 (11.11%) AWS Certification
5 4 (8.89%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.44%) QA
System Software
1 22 (48.89%) Docker
2 11 (24.44%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 20 (44.44%) Grafana
2 11 (24.44%) Kubernetes
3 7 (15.56%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.44%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (37.78%) Jaspersoft
2 13 (28.89%) Atlassian
3 5 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 4 (8.89%) Oracle
4 4 (8.89%) Splunk
5 1 (2.22%) Google
5 1 (2.22%) Qualys