Spring Boot Contracts

Spring Boot
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Spring Boot skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spring Boot over the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 283 131
Rank change year-on-year +87 -152 -13
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 473 469 1,794
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.24% 0.92% 2.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.58% 4.13% 7.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 357 1,327
10th Percentile £375 £425 £450
25th Percentile £425 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £580
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -6.90% +10.48%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £688
90th Percentile £751 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £461 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% -5.71% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 27
10th Percentile - £75.80 £60.00
25th Percentile £69.50 - £63.25
Median hourly rate £72.00 £78.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £74.50 £84.00 £75.32
90th Percentile - £90.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £78.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% +11.43% +16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,471 11,362 23,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.23% 22.36% 26.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,629 8,167 17,044
10th Percentile £350 £375 £405
25th Percentile £430 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.26% +10.48%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £675
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 171 203
10th Percentile £25.60 £35.00 £18.58
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.18 £40.88
Median hourly rate £62.00 £59.03 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% -1.62% +23.51%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.91 £78.00 £75.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £58.59 £60.00
% change year-on-year +10.94% -2.35% +22.45%

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 7 September 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 14 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 7 September 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 +74 369 £550 -4.35% 44
London +30 240 £575 -4.17% 20
UK excluding London +88 207 £461 -6.82% 39
Work from Home +104 159 £550 +4.76% 143
Scotland +53 72 £435 -5.74% 5
North of England +45 55 £538 +4.88% 8
North West +43 37 £489 +9.89% 5
South East +33 28 £620 +18.10% 7
South West +5 23 £519 -0.62% 6
Yorkshire +11 17 £575 +9.52% 3
East of England +32 15 £375 -16.67% 2
Northern Ireland - 12 £575 - 8
Wales - 2 £419 -
North East - 1 £550 -

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 19 (4.02%) Confluence
2 12 (2.54%) Camunda
3 9 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.27%) JBoss
5 5 (1.06%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.85%) Apache
6 4 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.85%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.42%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.42%) CMS
7 2 (0.42%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.42%) IIS
7 2 (0.42%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) Magnolia
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.21%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (1.06%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.06%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.42%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 202 (42.71%) AWS
2 92 (19.45%) Azure
3 54 (11.42%) GCP
4 47 (9.94%) GitHub
5 26 (5.50%) OpenShift
6 24 (5.07%) Serverless
7 21 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (4.02%) Amazon S3
9 16 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (2.11%) Kong
13 9 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.48%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (1.48%) Datadog
15 5 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (1.06%) Apigee
15 5 (1.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 4 (0.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.27%) HTTP
2 4 (0.85%) SSL
3 2 (0.42%) AMQP
3 2 (0.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (20.30%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (12.26%) NoSQL
3 56 (11.84%) Relational Database
4 36 (7.61%) MongoDB
5 23 (4.86%) Elasticsearch
6 22 (4.65%) MySQL
7 21 (4.44%) SQL Server
8 15 (3.17%) DB2
9 14 (2.96%) Oracle Database
9 14 (2.96%) Redis
10 11 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (2.33%) BigQuery
11 9 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
12 8 (1.69%) Bigtable
12 8 (1.69%) NewSQL
13 7 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (1.27%) CockroachDB
14 6 (1.27%) Couchbase
15 5 (1.06%) OLAP
15 5 (1.06%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 94 (19.87%) Git
2 88 (18.60%) Jenkins
3 47 (9.94%) JUnit
4 43 (9.09%) Maven
5 41 (8.67%) JIRA
6 22 (4.65%) GitLab
7 16 (3.38%) Cucumber
7 16 (3.38%) Cypress.io
8 14 (2.96%) Gradle
9 13 (2.75%) Selenium
10 12 (2.54%) Mockito
11 11 (2.33%) TeamCity
12 10 (2.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 8 (1.69%) Bitbucket
13 8 (1.69%) IntelliJ
13 8 (1.69%) SonarQube
14 7 (1.48%) Eclipse
14 7 (1.48%) fastlane
15 6 (1.27%) Ant
15 6 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 73 (15.43%) Finance
2 63 (13.32%) Social Skills
3 62 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 47 (9.94%) Banking
5 23 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.59%) Retail
7 10 (2.11%) Investment Banking
7 10 (2.11%) Telecoms
8 9 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.27%) Front Office
10 4 (0.85%) Aviation
11 3 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.42%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.21%) Games
13 1 (0.21%) Italian Language
13 1 (0.21%) Law
13 1 (0.21%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 293 (61.95%) Developer
2 220 (46.51%) Java Developer
3 64 (13.53%) Senior
4 47 (9.94%) Lead
4 47 (9.94%) Senior Developer
5 43 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 43 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 39 (8.25%) Java Engineer
7 36 (7.61%) Architect
7 36 (7.61%) Senior Java Developer
8 24 (5.07%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 17 (3.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 15 (3.17%) AWS Architect
10 15 (3.17%) Software Developer
10 15 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
11 14 (2.96%) GCP Developer
11 14 (2.96%) Lead Developer
11 14 (2.96%) Lead Java Developer
11 14 (2.96%) React Developer
11 14 (2.96%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 372 (78.65%) Spring
2 140 (29.60%) REST
3 137 (28.96%) React
4 80 (16.91%) RESTful
5 79 (16.70%) Kafka
6 64 (13.53%) Node.js
7 63 (13.32%) AngularJS
8 59 (12.47%) CSS
8 59 (12.47%) JPA
9 55 (11.63%) HTML
10 53 (11.21%) Hibernate
11 41 (8.67%) J2EE
12 37 (7.82%) Web Services
13 34 (7.19%) Spring MVC
14 25 (5.29%) GraphQL
15 24 (5.07%) Spring Security
16 21 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
16 21 (4.44%) HTML5
17 20 (4.23%) Java EE
17 20 (4.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.86%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.81%) Data Structures
3 17 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.38%) Algorithms
5 15 (3.17%) Credit Derivative
6 11 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.90%) Derivative
8 9 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.90%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.48%) Mainframe
9 7 (1.48%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.27%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.06%) DataPower
11 5 (1.06%) Fixed Income
11 5 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.06%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.85%) Private Cloud
13 3 (0.63%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.02%) Linux
2 16 (3.38%) Unix
3 10 (2.11%) Windows
4 3 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.42%) CentOS
6 1 (0.21%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (48.63%) Microservices
2 186 (39.32%) Agile
3 171 (36.15%) CI/CD
4 157 (33.19%) DevOps
5 104 (21.99%) Software Engineering
6 88 (18.60%) Scrum
7 76 (16.07%) TDD
8 74 (15.64%) Full-Stack Development
9 62 (13.11%) Unit Testing
10 58 (12.26%) Test Automation
11 49 (10.36%) Mentoring
12 44 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
13 39 (8.25%) Code Quality
13 39 (8.25%) Design Patterns
14 37 (7.82%) MVC
14 37 (7.82%) SDLC
15 32 (6.77%) Front End Development
16 30 (6.34%) Continuous Integration
17 28 (5.92%) Data Modelling
17 28 (5.92%) OO
Programming Languages
1 460 (97.25%) Java
2 108 (22.83%) SQL
3 92 (19.45%) JavaScript
4 73 (15.43%) TypeScript
5 48 (10.15%) Python
6 27 (5.71%) C
7 26 (5.50%) Kotlin
8 24 (5.07%) C++
9 11 (2.33%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.90%) Scala
11 5 (1.06%) Bash
11 5 (1.06%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.85%) C#
13 3 (0.63%) Go
14 2 (0.42%) OpenEdge ABL
14 2 (0.42%) Progress 4GL
14 2 (0.42%) Ruby
14 2 (0.42%) Rust
14 2 (0.42%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.21%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 122 (25.79%) Security Cleared
2 88 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 51 (10.78%) DV Cleared
4 28 (5.92%) Degree
5 20 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.75%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.69%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.42%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.75%) QA
2 12 (2.54%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (0.85%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.63%) NCSC
5 3 (0.63%) SLA
6 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.21%) GDPR
6 1 (0.21%) GRC
System Software
1 131 (27.70%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.21%) IAG
Systems Management
1 142 (30.02%) Kubernetes
2 51 (10.78%) Terraform
3 39 (8.25%) Grafana
4 20 (4.23%) Ansible
5 18 (3.81%) Kibana
6 14 (2.96%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.48%) Zipkin
9 4 (0.85%) Istio
9 4 (0.85%) logstash
9 4 (0.85%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.63%) Puppet
11 2 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.42%) Packer
12 1 (0.21%) Anchore
12 1 (0.21%) Argo
12 1 (0.21%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.21%) Podman
Vendors
1 49 (10.36%) Oracle
2 30 (6.34%) Google
3 26 (5.50%) Microsoft
4 15 (3.17%) IBM
5 12 (2.54%) Red Hat
6 7 (1.48%) TIBCO
7 6 (1.27%) MuleSoft
7 6 (1.27%) Splunk
8 5 (1.06%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.06%) New Relic
8 5 (1.06%) TSYS
9 4 (0.85%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.42%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.42%) ION Trading
10 2 (0.42%) MarketAxess
10 2 (0.42%) Progress
10 2 (0.42%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.42%) SAP
10 2 (0.42%) Spotify
10 2 (0.42%) Tradeweb