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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 103 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 51 17 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.48% 0.98% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.98% 5.07% -
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 0
10th Percentile £462 £419 -
25th Percentile £550 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.00% - -
75th Percentile £631 - -
90th Percentile £677 - -
England median daily rate £525 £496 £550
% change year-on-year +5.85% -9.82% -4.35%

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 568 335 347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.51% 19.23% 18.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 216 218
10th Percentile £361 £362 £357
25th Percentile £413 £413 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £651 £641 £750
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 20 3
10th Percentile - £33.91 £22.40
25th Percentile £58.43 £35.48 £34.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -9.09% +29.41%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £65.00
90th Percentile - - £71.00
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -0.79%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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
Solihull +1 24 £475 +3.26% 2
Shropshire -33 16 £585 - 7
Birmingham -10 11 £700 +40.00% 25
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 7 (13.73%) Confluence
2 2 (3.92%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 43 (84.31%) AWS
2 20 (39.22%) Amazon S3
3 18 (35.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 18 (35.29%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (23.53%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (23.53%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (23.53%) GitHub
4 12 (23.53%) Serverless
5 10 (19.61%) Amazon SQS
5 10 (19.61%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (15.69%) AWS KMS
7 8 (15.69%) Route 53
8 3 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (5.88%) Azure
9 1 (1.96%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (17.65%) Relational Database
3 8 (15.69%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (15.69%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (15.69%) DynamoDB
4 7 (13.73%) MongoDB
5 5 (9.80%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.96%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 29 (56.86%) Jenkins
2 24 (47.06%) JUnit
2 24 (47.06%) Maven
3 23 (45.10%) Git
4 22 (43.14%) Mockito
5 15 (29.41%) SonarQube
6 12 (23.53%) GitLab
7 7 (13.73%) JIRA
8 6 (11.76%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (11.76%) DbUnit
8 6 (11.76%) jMock
9 3 (5.88%) Gatling
9 3 (5.88%) Selenium
10 2 (3.92%) REST Assured
10 2 (3.92%) Serenity BDD
General
1 20 (39.22%) Public Sector
2 12 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.92%) Finance
4 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (58.82%) Developer
1 30 (58.82%) Java Developer
2 13 (25.49%) Senior
2 13 (25.49%) Senior Developer
2 13 (25.49%) Senior Java Developer
3 11 (21.57%) Lead
4 9 (17.65%) Scrum Master
5 8 (15.69%) Java Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Lead Developer
6 5 (9.80%) Lead Java Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Java Scrum Master
8 2 (3.92%) Lead Java Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Technical Leader
9 1 (1.96%) Digital Developer
9 1 (1.96%) Lead Test Engineer
9 1 (1.96%) Principal Engineer
9 1 (1.96%) Principal Test Engineer
9 1 (1.96%) Project Leader
9 1 (1.96%) QA Leader
9 1 (1.96%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (100.00%) Spring
2 22 (43.14%) JPA
2 22 (43.14%) RESTful
3 20 (39.22%) REST
4 17 (33.33%) Web Services
5 16 (31.37%) Hibernate
5 16 (31.37%) SOAP
5 16 (31.37%) Spring Cloud
6 15 (29.41%) ActiveMQ
6 15 (29.41%) AngularJS
7 9 (17.65%) Kafka
7 9 (17.65%) OpenAPI
7 9 (17.65%) Spring Batch
7 9 (17.65%) Spring Integration
8 6 (11.76%) Bootstrap
8 6 (11.76%) Node.js
8 6 (11.76%) PowerMock
9 4 (7.84%) Playwright
9 4 (7.84%) React
10 3 (5.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (43.14%) Cloud Native
2 12 (23.53%) Product Ownership
3 8 (15.69%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.65%) Linux
2 3 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (78.43%) Agile
1 40 (78.43%) Microservices
2 39 (76.47%) Scrum
3 33 (64.71%) CI/CD
4 23 (45.10%) DevOps
5 22 (43.14%) Test Automation
6 21 (41.18%) Technical Leadership
7 20 (39.22%) Containerisation
8 19 (37.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (35.29%) Code Quality
10 17 (33.33%) TDD
11 16 (31.37%) Sprint Planning
12 15 (29.41%) Kanban
13 14 (27.45%) Backlog Refinement
13 14 (27.45%) Observability
14 11 (21.57%) Deployment Automation
14 11 (21.57%) Software Engineering
14 11 (21.57%) Test Strategy
15 10 (19.61%) Mentoring
15 10 (19.61%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 51 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (35.29%) SQL
3 7 (13.73%) TypeScript
4 6 (11.76%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.88%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 27 (52.94%) SC Cleared
3 15 (29.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (21.57%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.69%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
System Software
1 30 (58.82%) Docker
2 5 (9.80%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 19 (37.25%) Grafana
2 15 (29.41%) Prometheus
3 10 (19.61%) Kubernetes
4 7 (13.73%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (15.69%) Jaspersoft
2 6 (11.76%) Atlassian
3 3 (5.88%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.92%) Splunk