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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 194 201 129
Rank change year-on-year +7 -72 +12
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 512 741 1,774
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.19% 1.32% 2.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.65% 5.76% 7.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 595 1,318
10th Percentile £375 £450 £435
25th Percentile £434 £481 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -6.54% -1.44% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 23
10th Percentile - - £58.00
25th Percentile £69.50 £53.75 £60.00
Median hourly rate £72.00 £78.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +15.56% +50.00%
75th Percentile £74.50 - £76.20
90th Percentile - £90.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £62.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year +15.20% -5.66% +61.59%

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 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

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 1 June 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 16 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 1 June 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 -16 386 £525 -13.79% 156
London -19 234 £550 -15.38% 90
UK excluding London +23 222 £479 -6.54% 97
Work from Home +19 179 £538 -2.27% 88
Scotland +32 70 £450 -5.26% 19
North of England +18 60 £525 -8.70% 22
North West +44 42 £525 +0.96% 19
South East +21 37 £500 - 19
South West -22 22 £450 -14.29% 16
Yorkshire +9 17 £563 +7.14% 2
East of England +2 14 £375 -46.43%
Northern Ireland - 11 £575 - 11
Midlands +13 8 £356 -49.14% 7
East Midlands +10 6 £356 -49.14% 1
West Midlands -1 2 £325 -53.57% 6
North East -7 1 £550 -21.43% 1

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 22 (4.30%) Confluence
2 12 (2.34%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.56%) JBoss
4 7 (1.37%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.98%) Camunda
5 5 (0.98%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.78%) Apache
7 3 (0.59%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.59%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.59%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.39%) Alfresco
8 2 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.39%) CMS
8 2 (0.39%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.20%) CoreMedia CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Magnolia
9 1 (0.20%) nginx
9 1 (0.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 6 (1.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 233 (45.51%) AWS
2 69 (13.48%) Azure
3 54 (10.55%) GCP
4 34 (6.64%) GitHub
5 28 (5.47%) Amazon S3
6 23 (4.49%) OpenShift
6 23 (4.49%) Serverless
7 20 (3.91%) Amazon SQS
8 17 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (2.15%) Kong
12 9 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.37%) Apigee
13 7 (1.37%) Cloud Functions
13 7 (1.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 6 (1.17%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (1.17%) Amazon MSK
14 6 (1.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
1 1 (0.20%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (16.60%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (11.52%) Relational Database
3 42 (8.20%) NoSQL
4 25 (4.88%) MongoDB
5 21 (4.10%) MySQL
6 18 (3.52%) Elasticsearch
6 18 (3.52%) Oracle Database
7 14 (2.73%) RDBMS
8 11 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.95%) Apache Cassandra
10 9 (1.76%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.37%) BigQuery
13 6 (1.17%) DB2
13 6 (1.17%) OLAP
13 6 (1.17%) OLTP
14 5 (0.98%) Oracle OLAP
15 4 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
16 3 (0.59%) GIS
16 3 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 99 (19.34%) Jenkins
2 86 (16.80%) Git
3 81 (15.82%) JUnit
4 52 (10.16%) Maven
5 39 (7.62%) JIRA
6 35 (6.84%) Mockito
7 30 (5.86%) Cucumber
8 27 (5.27%) GitLab
9 20 (3.91%) Selenium
10 15 (2.93%) Gradle
11 14 (2.73%) SonarQube
12 11 (2.15%) Sonatype Nexus
13 9 (1.76%) Cypress.io
14 7 (1.37%) Postman
14 7 (1.37%) TeamCity
14 7 (1.37%) TestNG
15 6 (1.17%) JMeter
15 6 (1.17%) Liquibase
16 5 (0.98%) Artifactory
16 5 (0.98%) CA Release Automation
General
1 84 (16.41%) Finance
2 64 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 61 (11.91%) Social Skills
4 52 (10.16%) Banking
5 25 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (3.91%) Front Office
7 15 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.93%) Retail
8 10 (1.95%) Investment Banking
9 5 (0.98%) Law
10 4 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.78%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.59%) Aviation
12 2 (0.39%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.20%) Electronics
13 1 (0.20%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.20%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 324 (63.28%) Developer
2 250 (48.83%) Java Developer
3 80 (15.63%) Senior
4 52 (10.16%) Lead
4 52 (10.16%) Senior Developer
5 49 (9.57%) Java Engineer
6 48 (9.38%) Senior Java Developer
7 43 (8.40%) Software Engineer
8 38 (7.42%) Full Stack Developer
9 30 (5.86%) Architect
10 22 (4.30%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 16 (3.13%) Full Stack Java Developer
12 15 (2.93%) Java Software Engineer
12 15 (2.93%) Lead Developer
12 15 (2.93%) Software Developer
12 15 (2.93%) Technical Leader
13 14 (2.73%) Senior Java Engineer
14 13 (2.54%) AWS Architect
14 13 (2.54%) AWS Developer
14 13 (2.54%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 400 (78.13%) Spring
2 185 (36.13%) REST
3 107 (20.90%) React
4 85 (16.60%) Kafka
5 68 (13.28%) JPA
6 67 (13.09%) RESTful
7 58 (11.33%) Hibernate
8 51 (9.96%) Node.js
9 48 (9.38%) AngularJS
10 46 (8.98%) Web Services
11 45 (8.79%) CSS
12 43 (8.40%) HTML
13 32 (6.25%) J2EE
14 30 (5.86%) Spring Security
15 28 (5.47%) JAX-RS
16 25 (4.88%) Restlet
16 25 (4.88%) SOAP
17 24 (4.69%) GWT
18 23 (4.49%) RabbitMQ
18 23 (4.49%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (3.91%) Credit Derivative
2 19 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (3.32%) Public Cloud
4 16 (3.13%) Data Structures
5 14 (2.73%) Algorithms
5 14 (2.73%) Cloud Native
6 10 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.76%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.37%) Derivative
8 7 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.37%) Insider Threat
9 6 (1.17%) DataPower
9 6 (1.17%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.78%) Mainframe
10 4 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.78%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.59%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.10%) Linux
2 12 (2.34%) Windows
3 6 (1.17%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.98%) Unix
5 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (44.92%) Microservices
2 185 (36.13%) Agile
3 154 (30.08%) CI/CD
4 127 (24.80%) DevOps
5 98 (19.14%) TDD
6 89 (17.38%) Software Engineering
7 67 (13.09%) Full Stack Development
8 65 (12.70%) Scrum
9 59 (11.52%) SDLC
10 54 (10.55%) Test Automation
10 54 (10.55%) Unit Testing
11 47 (9.18%) Front End Development
12 43 (8.40%) Mentoring
13 38 (7.42%) Continuous Integration
14 36 (7.03%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (5.66%) Containerisation
16 28 (5.47%) Code Quality
16 28 (5.47%) High Availability
17 26 (5.08%) BDD
17 26 (5.08%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 500 (97.66%) Java
2 97 (18.95%) SQL
3 74 (14.45%) JavaScript
4 68 (13.28%) TypeScript
5 41 (8.01%) Python
6 28 (5.47%) C
7 24 (4.69%) C++
8 21 (4.10%) Kotlin
9 17 (3.32%) Scala
10 6 (1.17%) Perl
10 6 (1.17%) PHP
10 6 (1.17%) Swift
11 5 (0.98%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.98%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.59%) C#
13 2 (0.39%) Bash
13 2 (0.39%) Go
13 2 (0.39%) Ruby
13 2 (0.39%) Rust
14 1 (0.20%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 147 (28.71%) Security Cleared
2 119 (23.24%) SC Cleared
3 50 (9.77%) DV Cleared
4 19 (3.71%) Degree
5 15 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.59%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.39%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.20%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.34%) QA
2 11 (2.15%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.78%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.59%) GRC
4 3 (0.59%) SLA
5 1 (0.20%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.20%) GDPR
5 1 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 150 (29.30%) Docker
2 6 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 141 (27.54%) Kubernetes
2 38 (7.42%) Terraform
3 26 (5.08%) Single Sign-On
4 25 (4.88%) Grafana
5 22 (4.30%) Kibana
6 9 (1.76%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.56%) Ansible
7 8 (1.56%) Zipkin
8 5 (0.98%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.39%) Istio
9 2 (0.39%) logstash
9 2 (0.39%) Packer
10 1 (0.20%) Anchore
10 1 (0.20%) Argo
10 1 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.20%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.20%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 57 (11.13%) Oracle
2 36 (7.03%) Google
3 21 (4.10%) IBM
4 17 (3.32%) Microsoft
5 11 (2.15%) Splunk
6 7 (1.37%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.17%) TSYS
8 5 (0.98%) AppDynamics
8 5 (0.98%) New Relic
9 4 (0.78%) Cognos
9 4 (0.78%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.59%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.59%) Micro Focus
11 2 (0.39%) SAP
11 2 (0.39%) Spotify
11 2 (0.39%) TIBCO
12 1 (0.20%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.20%) Checkmarx
12 1 (0.20%) Confluent
12 1 (0.20%) Reuters