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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 - 118
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 26 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.28% - 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.40% - 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 0 3
10th Percentile £261 - £514
25th Percentile £425 - £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £590
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.51%
75th Percentile £513 - £643
90th Percentile £562 - £662
England median daily rate £488 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -15.22% +4.55% -10.20%

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 406 346 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.02% 18.25% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 191 210
10th Percentile £361 £375 £324
25th Percentile £438 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £601 £635 £575
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 1 3
10th Percentile £27.21 - £17.20
25th Percentile £33.91 £65.00 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +300.00% -69.83%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £30.63
90th Percentile - - £38.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

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 9 November 2025.

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 9 November 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
Shropshire - 12 £531 - 5
Birmingham - 8 £500 - 1
Coventry - 3 £270 - 3
Solihull - 3 - -
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 2 (7.69%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) JBoss
2 1 (3.85%) nginx
2 1 (3.85%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.85%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 22 (84.62%) AWS
2 10 (38.46%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (38.46%) Amazon S3
3 9 (34.62%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (23.08%) AWS KMS
4 6 (23.08%) Route 53
5 4 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (11.54%) Serverless
7 2 (7.69%) Azure
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.85%) Kong
8 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (42.31%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (34.62%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (26.92%) DynamoDB
5 3 (11.54%) MongoDB
5 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
6 2 (7.69%) MySQL
6 2 (7.69%) Oracle Database
7 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
7 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (65.38%) Git
2 14 (53.85%) JUnit
2 14 (53.85%) Maven
3 12 (46.15%) Mockito
4 11 (42.31%) Jenkins
5 9 (34.62%) SonarQube
6 7 (26.92%) GitLab
7 6 (23.08%) Cucumber
8 5 (19.23%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (19.23%) Selenium
9 4 (15.38%) DbUnit
9 4 (15.38%) jMock
10 2 (7.69%) JIRA
11 1 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
11 1 (3.85%) CA Release Automation
11 1 (3.85%) Gatling
11 1 (3.85%) Postman
11 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (3.85%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (57.69%) Developer
1 15 (57.69%) Java Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Senior
3 5 (19.23%) Lead
4 4 (15.38%) Lead Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Lead Java Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Software Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) QA Leader
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (92.31%) Spring
2 13 (50.00%) JPA
3 11 (42.31%) REST
3 11 (42.31%) SOAP
4 10 (38.46%) RESTful
5 9 (34.62%) ActiveMQ
5 9 (34.62%) AngularJS
6 8 (30.77%) Web Services
7 7 (26.92%) Spring Batch
8 6 (23.08%) Bootstrap
8 6 (23.08%) Hibernate
8 6 (23.08%) JSON
8 6 (23.08%) Playwright
8 6 (23.08%) React
8 6 (23.08%) Spring Cloud
8 6 (23.08%) Spring Integration
9 5 (19.23%) GraalVM
9 5 (19.23%) HTML
9 5 (19.23%) JDBC
9 5 (19.23%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (88.46%) Microservices
2 21 (80.77%) Agile
3 18 (69.23%) Scrum
4 13 (50.00%) TDD
5 12 (46.15%) CI/CD
6 10 (38.46%) Software Engineering
7 8 (30.77%) Containerisation
7 8 (30.77%) DevOps
7 8 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (26.92%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (23.08%) BDD
9 6 (23.08%) Coaching
9 6 (23.08%) OO
10 5 (19.23%) Kanban
10 5 (19.23%) OOD
11 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
11 4 (15.38%) Migration
11 4 (15.38%) Open Source
12 3 (11.54%) Collaborative Working
12 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 22 (84.62%) Java
2 12 (46.15%) SQL
3 3 (11.54%) Kotlin
3 3 (11.54%) Shell Script
4 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.69%) Perl
5 1 (3.85%) Bash
5 1 (3.85%) C
5 1 (3.85%) Korn
5 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.85%) Python
5 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (53.85%) SC Cleared
1 14 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) WCAG
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 16 (61.54%) Docker
2 4 (15.38%) Postfix
3 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (46.15%) Grafana
3 7 (26.92%) Kibana
3 7 (26.92%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Oracle
2 4 (15.38%) Atlassian
2 4 (15.38%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 2 (7.69%) Splunk
4 1 (3.85%) AppDynamics
4 1 (3.85%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.85%) PagerDuty
4 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.85%) Trillium
4 1 (3.85%) webMethods