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

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 197 177 136
Rank change year-on-year -20 -41 +13
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 492 837 1,753
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.16% 1.47% 2.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.53% 6.31% 7.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 668 1,297
10th Percentile £375 £450 £436
25th Percentile £438 £499 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% +0.88% +9.35%
75th Percentile £615 £700 £675
90th Percentile £738 £752 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -6.70% -0.48% +11.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 22
10th Percentile - - £57.75
25th Percentile £69.50 £53.75 £60.00
Median hourly rate £72.00 £62.50 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.20% -8.76% +61.18%
75th Percentile £74.50 £78.00 £77.00
90th Percentile - £82.80 £80.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £60.00 £64.13
% change year-on-year +20.00% -6.43% +60.31%

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 8,901 13,257 23,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.92% 23.22% 26.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,172 9,669 17,311
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 - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 150 242
10th Percentile £21.25 £29.58 £22.75
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £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 £65.54
90th Percentile £74.80 £81.13 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.36% +28.36% +11.67%

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 15 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 15 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 -63 364 £525 -12.50% 162
London -31 222 £550 -15.38% 88
UK excluding London +3 210 £488 -6.70% 101
Work from Home -7 171 £525 -8.70% 111
Scotland +42 72 £461 -1.92% 18
North of England +1 59 £525 -4.55% 16
North West +28 36 £525 +8.30% 11
South East +20 31 £475 -8.65% 21
Yorkshire +14 22 £550 +3.53% 3
South West -25 18 £425 -22.73% 16
East of England +9 14 £375 -46.43% 6
Midlands +23 8 £356 -49.14% 8
Northern Ireland +11 8 £588 +30.56% 13
East Midlands +13 6 £356 -49.14% 2
West Midlands +5 2 £325 -53.57% 6
North East -13 1 £550 -21.43% 2

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 30 (6.10%) Confluence
2 12 (2.44%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.83%) JBoss
4 7 (1.42%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.02%) Apache
5 5 (1.02%) Camunda
5 5 (1.02%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.81%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.61%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.61%) nginx
7 3 (0.61%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.61%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.41%) Alfresco
8 2 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.20%) CMS
9 1 (0.20%) CoreMedia CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (1.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 228 (46.34%) AWS
2 58 (11.79%) Azure
3 50 (10.16%) GCP
4 32 (6.50%) Amazon S3
5 28 (5.69%) GitHub
6 27 (5.49%) Amazon SQS
7 23 (4.67%) Serverless
8 22 (4.47%) OpenShift
9 18 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (2.24%) Kong
13 10 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (2.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 8 (1.63%) Amazon MSK
14 8 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (1.42%) Apigee
15 7 (1.42%) Cloud Functions
15 7 (1.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 6 (1.22%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.61%) 5G
2 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.20%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (17.28%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (12.20%) Relational Database
3 37 (7.52%) NoSQL
4 21 (4.27%) MongoDB
5 20 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (3.86%) MySQL
7 17 (3.46%) Oracle Database
8 15 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (3.05%) RDBMS
9 10 (2.03%) Apache Cassandra
9 10 (2.03%) SQL Server
10 9 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.42%) BigQuery
12 6 (1.22%) DB2
12 6 (1.22%) OLAP
12 6 (1.22%) OLTP
13 5 (1.02%) Oracle OLAP
14 4 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.81%) Redis
15 3 (0.61%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 100 (20.33%) Jenkins
2 89 (18.09%) Git
3 87 (17.68%) JUnit
4 46 (9.35%) Maven
5 43 (8.74%) JIRA
6 37 (7.52%) Mockito
7 36 (7.32%) Cucumber
8 27 (5.49%) GitLab
9 20 (4.07%) Selenium
10 16 (3.25%) Postman
11 14 (2.85%) SonarQube
12 13 (2.64%) Gradle
13 11 (2.24%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (2.24%) TestNG
14 8 (1.63%) Liquibase
15 7 (1.42%) IntelliJ
15 7 (1.42%) JMeter
15 7 (1.42%) TeamCity
16 6 (1.22%) Cypress.io
17 5 (1.02%) EasyMock
General
1 79 (16.06%) Finance
2 67 (13.62%) Public Sector
3 55 (11.18%) Social Skills
4 47 (9.55%) Banking
5 20 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.07%) Front Office
6 15 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.85%) Retail
8 5 (1.02%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.02%) Law
9 4 (0.81%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.41%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.20%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 322 (65.45%) Developer
2 253 (51.42%) Java Developer
3 81 (16.46%) Senior
4 55 (11.18%) Senior Developer
5 51 (10.37%) Senior Java Developer
6 47 (9.55%) Java Engineer
6 47 (9.55%) Lead
7 39 (7.93%) Software Engineer
8 36 (7.32%) Full Stack Developer
9 29 (5.89%) Architect
10 26 (5.28%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 15 (3.05%) Backend Developer
11 15 (3.05%) Full Stack Java Developer
11 15 (3.05%) Java Software Engineer
11 15 (3.05%) Lead Developer
12 13 (2.64%) AWS Architect
12 13 (2.64%) AWS Developer
12 13 (2.64%) Full Stack Engineer
12 13 (2.64%) Senior Java Engineer
13 12 (2.44%) Java Pricing Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (79.07%) Spring
2 184 (37.40%) REST
3 100 (20.33%) React
4 91 (18.50%) Kafka
5 70 (14.23%) JPA
6 62 (12.60%) Hibernate
7 57 (11.59%) RESTful
8 48 (9.76%) Node.js
9 44 (8.94%) AngularJS
10 42 (8.54%) Web Services
11 40 (8.13%) CSS
12 38 (7.72%) HTML
13 32 (6.50%) JAX-RS
13 32 (6.50%) Spring Security
14 29 (5.89%) J2EE
15 25 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
15 25 (5.08%) Restlet
15 25 (5.08%) SOAP
16 24 (4.88%) GWT
17 23 (4.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.07%) Credit Derivative
2 19 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (3.46%) Public Cloud
4 14 (2.85%) Cloud Native
4 14 (2.85%) Data Structures
5 13 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (1.83%) Algorithms
6 9 (1.83%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.42%) Derivative
8 7 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.42%) Insider Threat
9 6 (1.22%) DataPower
10 5 (1.02%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.81%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.61%) Hedge funds
12 3 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.66%) Linux
2 12 (2.44%) Windows
3 6 (1.22%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.02%) Unix
5 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (45.12%) Microservices
2 183 (37.20%) Agile
3 149 (30.28%) CI/CD
4 108 (21.95%) DevOps
5 98 (19.92%) TDD
6 84 (17.07%) Software Engineering
7 63 (12.80%) Full Stack Development
8 59 (11.99%) SDLC
9 58 (11.79%) Scrum
10 53 (10.77%) Test Automation
11 50 (10.16%) Unit Testing
12 49 (9.96%) Front End Development
13 41 (8.33%) Mentoring
14 34 (6.91%) Continuous Integration
15 32 (6.50%) Problem-Solving
16 30 (6.10%) High Availability
17 29 (5.89%) Containerisation
18 25 (5.08%) End-to-End Testing
19 24 (4.88%) BDD
19 24 (4.88%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 485 (98.58%) Java
2 106 (21.54%) SQL
3 68 (13.82%) JavaScript
4 61 (12.40%) TypeScript
5 34 (6.91%) Python
6 19 (3.86%) C
7 17 (3.46%) Scala
8 15 (3.05%) Kotlin
9 13 (2.64%) C++
10 8 (1.63%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.22%) Perl
11 6 (1.22%) PHP
11 6 (1.22%) Swift
12 5 (1.02%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.41%) Bash
13 2 (0.41%) C#
13 2 (0.41%) Go
13 2 (0.41%) Ruby
14 1 (0.20%) Clojure
14 1 (0.20%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 147 (29.88%) Security Cleared
2 125 (25.41%) SC Cleared
3 44 (8.94%) DV Cleared
4 16 (3.25%) Degree
5 13 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.61%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.20%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.03%) Accessibility
1 10 (2.03%) QA
2 4 (0.81%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (0.61%) GRC
3 3 (0.61%) SLA
4 1 (0.20%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.20%) GDPR
4 1 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 154 (31.30%) Docker
2 6 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 139 (28.25%) Kubernetes
2 33 (6.71%) Terraform
3 26 (5.28%) Single Sign-On
4 25 (5.08%) Grafana
4 25 (5.08%) Kibana
5 10 (2.03%) Ansible
6 8 (1.63%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.63%) Zipkin
7 5 (1.02%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.81%) Packer
9 3 (0.61%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.41%) Istio
10 2 (0.41%) logstash
11 1 (0.20%) Anchore
11 1 (0.20%) Argo
11 1 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.20%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 59 (11.99%) Oracle
2 34 (6.91%) Google
3 21 (4.27%) IBM
4 15 (3.05%) Microsoft
5 11 (2.24%) Splunk
6 10 (2.03%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.22%) TSYS
8 5 (1.02%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.02%) Cognos
9 4 (0.81%) New Relic
9 4 (0.81%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.61%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.61%) Micro Focus
11 2 (0.41%) SAP
11 2 (0.41%) TIBCO
12 1 (0.20%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.20%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.20%) Databricks
12 1 (0.20%) Okta
12 1 (0.20%) Reuters