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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 203 182 131
Rank change year-on-year -21 -51 +17
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 487 815 1,794
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.14% 1.42% 2.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.47% 6.15% 7.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 653 1,335
10th Percentile £375 £450 £437
25th Percentile £438 £488 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% +7.66%
75th Percentile £619 £700 £675
90th Percentile £738 £756 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £486 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -5.17% -2.38% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 21
10th Percentile - - £57.50
25th Percentile £69.50 £53.75 £60.00
Median hourly rate £72.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.20% -3.85% +48.57%
75th Percentile £74.50 £78.00 £75.39
90th Percentile - £82.80 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -7.69% +62.50%

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 8,906 13,255 23,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.94% 23.15% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,185 9,676 17,493
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +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 - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 144 238
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £22.35
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.71
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.25 £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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 20 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 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 20 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 -41 365 £525 -12.54% 182
London -29 225 £550 -15.38% 104
UK excluding London +1 204 £486 -5.17% 130
Work from Home -10 170 £525 -8.30% 110
Scotland +32 66 £450 -4.71% 20
North of England +7 56 £525 -3.45% 21
North West +23 35 £525 +12.33% 15
South East +22 31 £475 -9.52% 43
Yorkshire +11 20 £550 +3.53% 3
South West -30 19 £450 -18.18% 12
East of England +8 14 £375 -46.43% 4
Northern Ireland +11 10 £588 +30.56% 16
Midlands +9 8 £356 -49.14% 10
East Midlands +15 6 £356 -49.14% 1
West Midlands +7 2 £325 -53.57% 9
North East -10 1 £550 -21.43% 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 23 (4.72%) Confluence
2 12 (2.46%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.85%) JBoss
4 7 (1.44%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.03%) Camunda
5 5 (1.03%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.82%) Apache
6 4 (0.82%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.62%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.62%) nginx
7 3 (0.62%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.62%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.41%) Alfresco
8 2 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.21%) CMS
9 1 (0.21%) CoreMedia CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (1.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 225 (46.20%) AWS
2 61 (12.53%) Azure
3 50 (10.27%) GCP
4 31 (6.37%) GitHub
5 30 (6.16%) Amazon S3
6 25 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
7 22 (4.52%) OpenShift
7 22 (4.52%) Serverless
8 17 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (2.26%) Kong
11 10 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 8 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (1.44%) Amazon MSK
14 7 (1.44%) Apigee
14 7 (1.44%) Cloud Functions
14 7 (1.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 6 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.21%) Bluetooth
1 1 (0.21%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (17.45%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (12.32%) Relational Database
3 37 (7.60%) NoSQL
4 21 (4.31%) MongoDB
5 20 (4.11%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (3.90%) MySQL
7 17 (3.49%) Oracle Database
8 15 (3.08%) RDBMS
9 14 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (2.05%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (1.85%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.44%) BigQuery
13 6 (1.23%) DB2
13 6 (1.23%) OLAP
13 6 (1.23%) OLTP
14 5 (1.03%) Oracle OLAP
15 4 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
15 4 (0.82%) Redis
16 3 (0.62%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 94 (19.30%) Jenkins
2 83 (17.04%) Git
3 81 (16.63%) JUnit
4 48 (9.86%) Maven
5 37 (7.60%) Mockito
6 36 (7.39%) JIRA
7 30 (6.16%) Cucumber
8 27 (5.54%) GitLab
9 20 (4.11%) Selenium
10 14 (2.87%) SonarQube
11 13 (2.67%) Gradle
12 11 (2.26%) Sonatype Nexus
12 11 (2.26%) TestNG
13 10 (2.05%) Postman
14 8 (1.64%) Liquibase
15 7 (1.44%) JMeter
15 7 (1.44%) TeamCity
16 6 (1.23%) Cypress.io
17 5 (1.03%) EasyMock
17 5 (1.03%) Mocha
General
1 81 (16.63%) Finance
2 66 (13.55%) Public Sector
3 50 (10.27%) Social Skills
4 48 (9.86%) Banking
5 20 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.11%) Front Office
6 15 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.87%) Retail
8 5 (1.03%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.03%) Law
9 4 (0.82%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.41%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.21%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 315 (64.68%) Developer
2 246 (50.51%) Java Developer
3 77 (15.81%) Senior
4 51 (10.47%) Senior Developer
5 47 (9.65%) Java Engineer
5 47 (9.65%) Lead
5 47 (9.65%) Senior Java Developer
6 41 (8.42%) Software Engineer
7 36 (7.39%) Full Stack Developer
8 29 (5.95%) Architect
9 26 (5.34%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 15 (3.08%) Backend Developer
10 15 (3.08%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 15 (3.08%) Java Software Engineer
10 15 (3.08%) Lead Developer
11 13 (2.67%) AWS Architect
11 13 (2.67%) AWS Developer
11 13 (2.67%) Full Stack Engineer
11 13 (2.67%) Senior Java Engineer
12 12 (2.46%) Java Pricing Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 384 (78.85%) Spring
2 180 (36.96%) REST
3 100 (20.53%) React
4 86 (17.66%) Kafka
5 67 (13.76%) JPA
6 59 (12.11%) Hibernate
7 56 (11.50%) RESTful
8 48 (9.86%) Node.js
9 44 (9.03%) AngularJS
10 43 (8.83%) Web Services
11 40 (8.21%) CSS
12 38 (7.80%) HTML
13 32 (6.57%) JAX-RS
14 29 (5.95%) Spring Security
15 25 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
15 25 (5.13%) Restlet
15 25 (5.13%) SOAP
16 24 (4.93%) GWT
16 24 (4.93%) J2EE
17 23 (4.72%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.11%) Credit Derivative
2 19 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (3.49%) Public Cloud
4 16 (3.29%) Data Structures
5 14 (2.87%) Cloud Native
6 11 (2.26%) Algorithms
6 11 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.44%) Derivative
9 7 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.44%) Insider Threat
10 6 (1.23%) DataPower
11 5 (1.03%) Fixed Income
12 4 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.82%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.62%) Hedge funds
13 3 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.70%) Linux
2 12 (2.46%) Windows
3 6 (1.23%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.03%) Unix
5 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (45.38%) Microservices
2 175 (35.93%) Agile
3 150 (30.80%) CI/CD
4 111 (22.79%) DevOps
5 94 (19.30%) TDD
6 87 (17.86%) Software Engineering
7 63 (12.94%) Full Stack Development
8 59 (12.11%) SDLC
9 57 (11.70%) Scrum
10 54 (11.09%) Test Automation
11 52 (10.68%) Unit Testing
12 48 (9.86%) Front End Development
13 41 (8.42%) Mentoring
14 31 (6.37%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (5.95%) Containerisation
15 29 (5.95%) Continuous Integration
15 29 (5.95%) High Availability
16 24 (4.93%) BDD
16 24 (4.93%) Code Quality
17 23 (4.72%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 480 (98.56%) Java
2 99 (20.33%) SQL
3 68 (13.96%) JavaScript
4 61 (12.53%) TypeScript
5 34 (6.98%) Python
6 20 (4.11%) C
7 17 (3.49%) Kotlin
7 17 (3.49%) Scala
8 13 (2.67%) C++
9 6 (1.23%) Perl
9 6 (1.23%) PHP
9 6 (1.23%) Swift
10 5 (1.03%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.03%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.41%) Bash
11 2 (0.41%) C#
11 2 (0.41%) Go
11 2 (0.41%) Ruby
12 1 (0.21%) Clojure
12 1 (0.21%) Rust
Qualifications
1 149 (30.60%) Security Cleared
2 123 (25.26%) SC Cleared
3 48 (9.86%) DV Cleared
4 16 (3.29%) Degree
5 13 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.62%) 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 10 (2.05%) Accessibility
1 10 (2.05%) QA
2 4 (0.82%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (0.62%) GRC
3 3 (0.62%) SLA
4 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.21%) GDPR
4 1 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 150 (30.80%) Docker
2 6 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 140 (28.75%) Kubernetes
2 33 (6.78%) Terraform
3 26 (5.34%) Single Sign-On
4 25 (5.13%) Grafana
5 23 (4.72%) Kibana
6 10 (2.05%) Ansible
7 8 (1.64%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.64%) Zipkin
8 5 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.82%) Packer
10 3 (0.62%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.41%) Istio
11 2 (0.41%) logstash
12 1 (0.21%) Anchore
12 1 (0.21%) Argo
12 1 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.21%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.21%) Rancher
Vendors
1 56 (11.50%) Oracle
2 34 (6.98%) Google
3 21 (4.31%) IBM
4 14 (2.87%) Microsoft
5 11 (2.26%) Splunk
6 10 (2.05%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.23%) TSYS
8 5 (1.03%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.03%) Cognos
9 4 (0.82%) New Relic
9 4 (0.82%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.62%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.62%) Micro Focus
11 2 (0.41%) SAP
11 2 (0.41%) TIBCO
12 1 (0.21%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.21%) Databricks
12 1 (0.21%) Okta
12 1 (0.21%) Reuters