Spring Boot Contracts

Spring Boot
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Spring Boot skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Spring Boot over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 220 169 141
Rank change year-on-year -51 -28 +6
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 483 915 1,739
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.11% 1.54% 1.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.41% 6.65% 7.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 727 1,289
10th Percentile £375 £450 £438
25th Percentile £425 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £580 £570
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +1.75% +11.22%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 17
10th Percentile - - £54.10
25th Percentile - £53.75 £60.00
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +52.94%
75th Percentile - £78.00 £77.00
90th Percentile - £82.80 £82.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.00 £61.63
% change year-on-year - -2.64% +54.06%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Spring Boot is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,932 13,763 24,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.59% 23.23% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,201 10,039 17,650
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 153 239
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.40
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Spring Boot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring Boot.

Daily rate trend for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring Boot.

Hourly rate trend for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
England -64 357 £525 -12.54% 160
London -61 226 £550 -15.38% 82
UK excluding London -16 198 £475 -9.52% 90
Work from Home -35 165 £503 -12.52% 91
Scotland +23 72 £462 -2.69% 11
North of England -1 54 £525 -8.70% 18
North West +21 31 £525 +8.30% 10
South East +15 30 £475 -8.65% 19
Yorkshire +16 22 £550 +2.33% 5
South West -31 17 £400 -27.27% 20
East of England +12 13 £375 -46.43% 8
Midlands +19 8 £356 -49.14% 6
East Midlands +18 6 £356 -49.14% 1
Northern Ireland +7 3 £550 +22.22% 6
West Midlands +11 2 £325 -53.57% 5
Wales +16 1 £450 -7.69% 2
North East -12 1 £550 -18.52% 3

Spring Boot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 31 (6.42%) Confluence
2 10 (2.07%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.86%) JBoss
4 8 (1.66%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.45%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (1.04%) Apache
6 5 (1.04%) Camunda
6 5 (1.04%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.62%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.62%) nginx
8 3 (0.62%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.62%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.41%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.21%) CMS
10 1 (0.21%) CoreMedia CMS
10 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.83%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 222 (45.96%) AWS
2 46 (9.52%) Azure
3 45 (9.32%) GCP
4 38 (7.87%) Amazon S3
5 29 (6.00%) Serverless
6 28 (5.80%) Amazon SQS
7 27 (5.59%) OpenShift
8 25 (5.18%) GitHub
9 22 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (2.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 10 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (1.86%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (1.86%) Amazon MSK
14 9 (1.86%) Kong
15 7 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (1.45%) Cloud Functions
15 7 (1.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 6 (1.24%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.62%) 5G
2 1 (0.21%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.21%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (19.46%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (12.63%) Relational Database
3 36 (7.45%) NoSQL
4 22 (4.55%) MySQL
5 21 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (4.14%) MongoDB
7 17 (3.52%) Oracle Database
8 16 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (3.11%) RDBMS
10 13 (2.69%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (2.28%) SQL Server
12 9 (1.86%) Apache Cassandra
13 7 (1.45%) BigQuery
13 7 (1.45%) Redis
14 6 (1.24%) DB2
15 4 (0.83%) OLAP
15 4 (0.83%) OLTP
15 4 (0.83%) Oracle OLAP
15 4 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
16 3 (0.62%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 117 (24.22%) Jenkins
2 96 (19.88%) JUnit
3 93 (19.25%) Git
4 43 (8.90%) Maven
5 41 (8.49%) Cucumber
6 40 (8.28%) JIRA
7 38 (7.87%) Mockito
8 28 (5.80%) GitLab
9 20 (4.14%) Selenium
10 16 (3.31%) Postman
11 14 (2.90%) Gradle
11 14 (2.90%) SonarQube
12 11 (2.28%) Sonatype Nexus
12 11 (2.28%) TestNG
13 10 (2.07%) Cypress.io
14 9 (1.86%) Liquibase
15 7 (1.45%) IntelliJ
15 7 (1.45%) JMeter
15 7 (1.45%) TeamCity
16 5 (1.04%) EasyMock
General
1 75 (15.53%) Finance
2 72 (14.91%) Public Sector
3 50 (10.35%) Social Skills
4 44 (9.11%) Banking
5 22 (4.55%) Front Office
6 19 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.69%) Retail
9 5 (1.04%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.04%) Law
10 4 (0.83%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.41%) Electronics
12 2 (0.41%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 332 (68.74%) Developer
2 258 (53.42%) Java Developer
3 80 (16.56%) Senior
4 57 (11.80%) Senior Developer
5 50 (10.35%) Senior Java Developer
6 45 (9.32%) Full Stack Developer
7 43 (8.90%) Java Engineer
7 43 (8.90%) Lead
8 34 (7.04%) Software Engineer
9 29 (6.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 24 (4.97%) Architect
11 19 (3.93%) Full Stack Java Developer
12 15 (3.11%) Backend Developer
12 15 (3.11%) Lead Developer
13 14 (2.90%) Java Software Engineer
14 13 (2.69%) AWS Developer
15 12 (2.48%) Full Stack Engineer
15 12 (2.48%) Java Pricing Developer
15 12 (2.48%) Pricing Developer
15 12 (2.48%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 394 (81.57%) Spring
2 198 (40.99%) REST
3 99 (20.50%) React
4 88 (18.22%) Kafka
5 76 (15.73%) JPA
6 68 (14.08%) Hibernate
7 57 (11.80%) RESTful
8 47 (9.73%) AngularJS
8 47 (9.73%) Node.js
9 43 (8.90%) CSS
10 42 (8.70%) Spring Security
10 42 (8.70%) Web Services
11 40 (8.28%) HTML
12 31 (6.42%) JAX-RS
13 27 (5.59%) Elastic Stack
13 27 (5.59%) SOAP
14 24 (4.97%) Restlet
15 23 (4.76%) GWT
16 22 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
16 22 (4.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.14%) Credit Derivative
2 19 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (3.52%) Public Cloud
4 13 (2.69%) Cloud Native
5 12 (2.48%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.86%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.66%) Derivative
8 8 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.45%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.45%) Insider Threat
10 5 (1.04%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.83%) DataPower
11 4 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.83%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.62%) Hedge funds
12 3 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.52%) Linux
2 9 (1.86%) Windows
3 6 (1.24%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.62%) Unix
6 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (46.58%) Microservices
2 194 (40.17%) Agile
3 158 (32.71%) CI/CD
4 103 (21.33%) TDD
5 102 (21.12%) DevOps
6 77 (15.94%) Software Engineering
7 72 (14.91%) Full Stack Development
8 61 (12.63%) Scrum
9 60 (12.42%) SDLC
10 54 (11.18%) Front End Development
11 52 (10.77%) Test Automation
12 48 (9.94%) Unit Testing
13 41 (8.49%) Mentoring
14 32 (6.63%) Continuous Integration
15 31 (6.42%) High Availability
15 31 (6.42%) Observability
16 30 (6.21%) Problem-Solving
17 29 (6.00%) BDD
18 28 (5.80%) Containerisation
19 27 (5.59%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 477 (98.76%) Java
2 107 (22.15%) SQL
3 72 (14.91%) JavaScript
4 61 (12.63%) TypeScript
5 29 (6.00%) Python
6 15 (3.11%) Scala
7 13 (2.69%) Kotlin
8 9 (1.86%) C
9 8 (1.66%) PL/SQL
10 7 (1.45%) Perl
11 6 (1.24%) PHP
11 6 (1.24%) Swift
12 5 (1.04%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.62%) C++
14 2 (0.41%) Bash
14 2 (0.41%) C#
14 2 (0.41%) Go
14 2 (0.41%) Ruby
15 1 (0.21%) Bicep
15 1 (0.21%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 151 (31.26%) Security Cleared
2 132 (27.33%) SC Cleared
3 38 (7.87%) DV Cleared
4 15 (3.11%) Degree
5 12 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.41%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.21%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.90%) Accessibility
2 13 (2.69%) QA
3 4 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (0.83%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.62%) GRC
4 3 (0.62%) SLA
5 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.21%) GDPR
5 1 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 155 (32.09%) Docker
2 6 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 136 (28.16%) Kubernetes
2 25 (5.18%) Grafana
2 25 (5.18%) Kibana
2 25 (5.18%) Terraform
3 23 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (2.69%) Ansible
5 7 (1.45%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.24%) Zipkin
7 5 (1.04%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.83%) Packer
9 3 (0.62%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.41%) Istio
10 2 (0.41%) logstash
11 1 (0.21%) Anchore
11 1 (0.21%) Argo
11 1 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.21%) Rancher
Vendors
1 58 (12.01%) Oracle
2 33 (6.83%) Google
3 20 (4.14%) IBM
4 13 (2.69%) Microsoft
5 10 (2.07%) Red Hat
6 8 (1.66%) Splunk
7 5 (1.04%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.04%) Cognos
7 5 (1.04%) New Relic
8 4 (0.83%) TSYS
9 3 (0.62%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.62%) Micro Focus
9 3 (0.62%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.41%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.41%) SAP
11 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.21%) Databricks
11 1 (0.21%) Reuters
11 1 (0.21%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.21%) WSO2