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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 - 111
Rank change year-on-year - - +25
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 17 0 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.93% - 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.23% - 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 4
10th Percentile £419 - £448
25th Percentile £475 - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £545
75th Percentile - - £626
90th Percentile - - £656
England median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 325 338 320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.75% 17.66% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 199 214
10th Percentile £368 £361 £333
25th Percentile £420 £455 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £489
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.53% -5.10%
75th Percentile £600 £667 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 3
10th Percentile £33.91 £22.40 £17.20
25th Percentile £41.96 £34.63 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +214.29% -69.83%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £30.63
90th Percentile - £71.00 £38.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.93 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.60% +4.88% -5.40%

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
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
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 19 September 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
Birmingham - 8 £500 - 3
Solihull - 5 £460 -
Shropshire - 4 - - 1
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 (11.76%) JBoss
2 1 (5.88%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.88%) Tuxedo
2 1 (5.88%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) AWS
2 11 (64.71%) Amazon EC2
2 11 (64.71%) Amazon S3
3 10 (58.82%) Amazon SQS
4 7 (41.18%) AWS KMS
4 7 (41.18%) Route 53
5 5 (29.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (11.76%) Serverless
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (76.47%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (64.71%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (58.82%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (47.06%) DynamoDB
5 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
6 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (76.47%) Git
1 13 (76.47%) Jenkins
2 11 (64.71%) Maven
3 10 (58.82%) SonarQube
4 9 (52.94%) JUnit
5 7 (41.18%) Mockito
6 6 (35.29%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (29.41%) DbUnit
7 5 (29.41%) jMock
8 2 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
9 1 (5.88%) CA Release Automation
9 1 (5.88%) GitLab
9 1 (5.88%) JIRA
9 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (47.06%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Developer
1 13 (76.47%) Java Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Lead
2 4 (23.53%) Lead Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Lead Java Developer
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 3 (17.65%) AWS Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Applications Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Applications Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Java Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (94.12%) Spring
2 13 (76.47%) REST
3 11 (64.71%) SOAP
4 10 (58.82%) ActiveMQ
4 10 (58.82%) Web Services
5 9 (52.94%) JPA
6 8 (47.06%) AngularJS
6 8 (47.06%) RESTful
7 7 (41.18%) Bootstrap
7 7 (41.18%) Hibernate
7 7 (41.18%) Spring Batch
7 7 (41.18%) Spring Cloud
7 7 (41.18%) Spring Integration
8 5 (29.41%) PowerMock
9 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (11.76%) Kafka
10 1 (5.88%) Node.js
10 1 (5.88%) React
10 1 (5.88%) Swagger
10 1 (5.88%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Microservices
2 14 (82.35%) Agile
3 13 (76.47%) Scrum
4 12 (70.59%) TDD
5 9 (52.94%) DevOps
6 8 (47.06%) Containerisation
6 8 (47.06%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
8 6 (35.29%) BDD
9 5 (29.41%) Kanban
9 5 (29.41%) Open Source
9 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
11 3 (17.65%) SDLC
12 2 (11.76%) Biometrics
12 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
13 1 (5.88%) Deployment Automation
13 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
13 1 (5.88%) Technical Debt
13 1 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) Java
2 10 (58.82%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) C
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) Korn
3 1 (5.88%) Perl
3 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) Scala
3 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) SC Cleared
1 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
System Software
1 15 (88.24%) Docker
2 5 (29.41%) Postfix
3 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Grafana
1 7 (41.18%) Prometheus
2 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) Kibana
3 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Atlassian
1 5 (29.41%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) AppDynamics
3 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.88%) Splunk
3 1 (5.88%) Trillium
3 1 (5.88%) webMethods