Spring Boot Contract Job Trends

Spring Boot
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 187 197
Rank change year-on-year -7 +10 +77
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 786 498 476
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.46% 1.52% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.71% 6.01% 5.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 347 366
10th Percentile £377 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £678 £613 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £455 £458
% change year-on-year +10.01% -0.66% -7.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 10 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £69.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 £83.44 £74.50
90th Percentile £86.10 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% -7.69%

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 11,706 8,290 9,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.80% 25.31% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,705 5,607 6,426
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £633 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.21% -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 182 205
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.30 £23.80
25th Percentile £45.00 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £53.25 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +22.07% -13.56% -2.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.96 £78.33 £74.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.73% -12.00% +4.17%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spring Boot relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Spring Boot job vacancy trend in the UK

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spring Boot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot over the 6 months to 27 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spring Boot.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring Boot over the 6 months to 27 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 17 Contract Job 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 27 August 2026. 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 +3 611 £525 +5.00% 543
UK excluding London -14 367 £500 +10.01% 323
London +9 321 £525 +2.44% 333
Work from Home -37 176 £500 -1.48% 289
North of England -14 157 £524 +12.58% 108
North West -32 90 £550 +27.91% 67
Scotland -9 69 £402 -10.67% 56
Midlands -39 51 £575 +57.97% 39
Yorkshire -6 50 £500 -9.09% 17
West Midlands -21 45 £585 +23.16% 33
South West -16 38 £450 -12.20% 50
East of England +3 26 £500 +6.95% 6
South East -46 23 £294 -44.10% 41
North East -31 18 £450 -8.16% 24
Wales -19 8 £394 -17.11% 7
East Midlands -30 5 £400 +27.80% 6
Northern Ireland -3 2 - - 19

Spring Boot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 34 (4.33%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.18%) Apache
3 17 (2.16%) Confluence
4 16 (2.04%) Camunda
5 10 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.02%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.64%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.51%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.51%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.51%) nginx
8 4 (0.51%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.25%) Mule
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.51%) Quorum
1 4 (0.51%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.51%) Ripple
2 3 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.25%) Finacle
3 2 (0.25%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.25%) Shopify
3 2 (0.25%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 451 (57.38%) AWS
2 181 (23.03%) Azure
3 132 (16.79%) GCP
4 129 (16.41%) GitHub
5 83 (10.56%) GitHub Actions
6 64 (8.14%) Serverless
7 57 (7.25%) AWS Lambda
8 51 (6.49%) Amazon S3
9 48 (6.11%) OpenShift
10 42 (5.34%) Amazon EKS
11 40 (5.09%) Amazon ECS
11 40 (5.09%) Amazon SQS
12 38 (4.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 29 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (2.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 11 (1.40%) Amazon Cognito
17 11 (1.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 11 (1.40%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.40%) HTTP
2 6 (0.76%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.38%) Firewall
4 3 (0.38%) SSL
5 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.13%) AMQP
6 1 (0.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (20.23%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (12.21%) Relational Database
3 94 (11.96%) NoSQL
4 91 (11.58%) MongoDB
5 64 (8.14%) MySQL
6 41 (5.22%) SQL Server
7 32 (4.07%) DynamoDB
8 31 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
9 29 (3.69%) Redis
10 22 (2.80%) Amazon Aurora
11 18 (2.29%) Flink
12 16 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
12 16 (2.04%) RDBMS
13 15 (1.91%) Metadata
14 14 (1.78%) Big Data
14 14 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (1.27%) Couchbase
15 10 (1.27%) Data Lake
16 9 (1.15%) Oracle Database
17 8 (1.02%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 208 (26.46%) Jenkins
2 193 (24.55%) Git
3 134 (17.05%) JUnit
4 122 (15.52%) GitLab
5 102 (12.98%) Gradle
5 102 (12.98%) Maven
6 79 (10.05%) Mockito
7 47 (5.98%) SonarQube
8 38 (4.83%) JIRA
9 22 (2.80%) REST Assured
10 21 (2.67%) Liquibase
11 20 (2.54%) Cucumber
12 17 (2.16%) Selenium
13 13 (1.65%) IntelliJ
14 12 (1.53%) Bitbucket Server
14 12 (1.53%) Gatling
15 10 (1.27%) GoCD
16 9 (1.15%) Flyway
17 8 (1.02%) JProfiler
17 8 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 180 (22.90%) Finance
2 154 (19.59%) Social Skills
3 136 (17.30%) Public Sector
4 95 (12.09%) Banking
5 56 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.93%) Retail
7 15 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.53%) Law
9 11 (1.40%) Military
10 8 (1.02%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (0.89%) Retail Banking
12 6 (0.76%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.76%) Publishing
13 4 (0.51%) Police
14 3 (0.38%) Automotive
14 3 (0.38%) Front Office
15 2 (0.25%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.25%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 453 (57.63%) Developer
2 360 (45.80%) Java Developer
3 164 (20.87%) Senior
4 132 (16.79%) Java Engineer
5 106 (13.49%) Software Engineer
6 87 (11.07%) Senior Developer
7 81 (10.31%) Lead
8 70 (8.91%) Senior Java Developer
9 66 (8.40%) Full-Stack Developer
10 59 (7.51%) Java Software Engineer
11 43 (5.47%) Software Developer
12 40 (5.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 39 (4.96%) Lead Developer
14 35 (4.45%) Senior Java Engineer
15 33 (4.20%) Backend Developer
16 28 (3.56%) Lead Java Developer
17 24 (3.05%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 23 (2.93%) Data Engineer
19 21 (2.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 21 (2.67%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 741 (94.27%) Spring
2 265 (33.72%) Kafka
3 222 (28.24%) REST
4 211 (26.84%) RESTful
5 161 (20.48%) React
6 109 (13.87%) Node.js
7 84 (10.69%) Terraform
8 82 (10.43%) HTML
9 72 (9.16%) AngularJS
10 71 (9.03%) CSS
10 71 (9.03%) JPA
11 67 (8.52%) Hibernate
12 55 (7.00%) Spring MVC
13 48 (6.11%) RabbitMQ
14 47 (5.98%) Redux
14 47 (5.98%) Web Services
15 44 (5.60%) OAuth
16 38 (4.83%) OAuth2
17 36 (4.58%) OpenAPI
18 35 (4.45%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 191 (24.30%) Cloud Native
2 116 (14.76%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (7.51%) Product Ownership
4 42 (5.34%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (2.04%) Data Structures
9 16 (2.04%) Public Cloud
10 14 (1.78%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.40%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.15%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.02%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (0.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 5 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
15 5 (0.64%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.47%) Linux
2 30 (3.82%) Unix
3 2 (0.25%) VMS
3 2 (0.25%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) AIX
4 1 (0.13%) Android
4 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.13%) Solaris
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 500 (63.61%) Microservices
2 468 (59.54%) CI/CD
3 394 (50.13%) Agile
4 290 (36.90%) DevOps
5 238 (30.28%) Software Engineering
6 233 (29.64%) Containerisation
7 181 (23.03%) Test Automation
8 180 (22.90%) Event-Driven
9 164 (20.87%) TDD
10 149 (18.96%) Scrum
11 140 (17.81%) Full-Stack Development
12 128 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 120 (15.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 112 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
15 111 (14.12%) Code Quality
16 108 (13.74%) Observability
17 101 (12.85%) Infrastructure as Code
18 87 (11.07%) Clean Code
19 84 (10.69%) Design Patterns
20 83 (10.56%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 777 (98.85%) Java
2 263 (33.46%) SQL
3 126 (16.03%) JavaScript
4 102 (12.98%) TypeScript
5 86 (10.94%) Python
6 33 (4.20%) PL/SQL
7 27 (3.44%) Kotlin
8 21 (2.67%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.65%) Bash
10 10 (1.27%) Ruby
11 8 (1.02%) Scala
12 7 (0.89%) C#
13 5 (0.64%) Groovy
14 4 (0.51%) Solidity
15 3 (0.38%) Go
15 3 (0.38%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.25%) Korn
16 2 (0.25%) PromQL
16 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 225 (28.63%) Security Cleared
2 187 (23.79%) SC Cleared
3 66 (8.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 32 (4.07%) Degree
5 24 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.78%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.40%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.25%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.25%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.13%) CISSP
9 1 (0.13%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (11.70%) QA
2 70 (8.91%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.04%) ISO 20022
4 10 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.27%) WCAG
5 8 (1.02%) GDPR
5 8 (1.02%) SEPA
6 7 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.64%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.51%) ISO 15022
10 3 (0.38%) EMIR
10 3 (0.38%) MiFID
10 3 (0.38%) PSD2
11 1 (0.13%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.13%) ITGC
System Software
1 330 (41.98%) Docker
2 5 (0.64%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 310 (39.44%) Kubernetes
2 49 (6.23%) Grafana
3 40 (5.09%) Ansible
3 40 (5.09%) Prometheus
4 20 (2.54%) Kibana
5 16 (2.04%) Control-M
6 9 (1.15%) Argo
7 8 (1.02%) Istio
8 3 (0.38%) Bosun
8 3 (0.38%) Kustomize
8 3 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.25%) Consul
9 2 (0.25%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.13%) Kiali
10 1 (0.13%) logstash
10 1 (0.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 113 (14.38%) Oracle
2 41 (5.22%) Google
3 27 (3.44%) IBM
4 23 (2.93%) Microsoft
5 19 (2.42%) Splunk
6 17 (2.16%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.65%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.27%) Checkmarx
8 10 (1.27%) Solace
9 9 (1.15%) Databricks
10 8 (1.02%) Jaspersoft
11 7 (0.89%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.89%) New Relic
11 7 (0.89%) Sybase
11 7 (0.89%) TikTok
12 6 (0.76%) Veracode
13 5 (0.64%) Confluent
13 5 (0.64%) FIS
13 5 (0.64%) SAP
14 4 (0.51%) Okta