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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 189 190
Rank change year-on-year +11 +1 +15
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 706 408 512
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.44% 1.40% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.35% 6.12% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 275 391
10th Percentile £384 £325 £375
25th Percentile £425 £402 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £490 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -4.39% -10.87%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £653 £618 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £441 £479
% change year-on-year +7.99% -7.93% -6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 1
10th Percentile - £47.00 -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -23.61% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81.00 £88.75 £74.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +12.73% -23.61% +15.20%

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 9,605 6,671 9,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.63% 22.90% 21.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,310 4,572 6,280
10th Percentile £363 £360 £350
25th Percentile £421 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £521 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% -3.07% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 117 257
10th Percentile £31.03 £29.18 £21.89
25th Percentile £52.00 £39.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.15 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.43
% change year-on-year - +34.21% -25.49%

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 1 June 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 1 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 16 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 1 June 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 +34 598 £521 +4.20% 123
UK excluding London -1 338 £476 +7.99% 94
London +29 291 £525 - 55
Work from Home -15 170 £490 -6.22% 62
North of England +10 151 £500 +7.53% 40
North West +7 101 £500 +24.38% 24
Midlands -39 50 £470 +11.79% 3
South West +11 49 £409 -25.64% 16
West Midlands -29 47 £473 +1.61% 1
Scotland -24 37 £410 -4.77% 2
Yorkshire -35 34 £475 -9.52% 11
East of England -2 31 £507 +8.45% 5
South East -54 23 £525 -2.23% 13
North East -14 19 £475 +2.15% 6
East Midlands -40 2 £401 +12.01% 2
Wales -11 1 - - 7

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 43 (6.09%) Apache Spark
2 23 (3.26%) Confluence
3 16 (2.27%) Apache
3 16 (2.27%) Camunda
4 10 (1.42%) Ethereum
4 10 (1.42%) Hyperledger
5 9 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.13%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.28%) Drupal
9 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.28%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.28%) WordPress
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.14%) CICS
10 1 (0.14%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.71%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.57%) Quorum
2 4 (0.57%) Ripple
3 3 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.28%) Shopify
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 372 (52.69%) AWS
2 167 (23.65%) Azure
3 118 (16.71%) GitHub
4 112 (15.86%) GCP
5 77 (10.91%) GitHub Actions
6 74 (10.48%) Amazon S3
7 72 (10.20%) Serverless
8 63 (8.92%) AWS Lambda
9 43 (6.09%) Amazon SQS
10 41 (5.81%) Amazon EC2
11 37 (5.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 33 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
13 32 (4.53%) Amazon EKS
14 30 (4.25%) OpenShift
15 22 (3.12%) Route 53
16 19 (2.69%) Azure AKS
16 19 (2.69%) Cloud Run
17 18 (2.55%) AWS KMS
17 18 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
18 15 (2.12%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.42%) Firewall
2 9 (1.27%) HTTP
3 5 (0.71%) SSL
4 4 (0.57%) DNS
4 4 (0.57%) HTTPS
4 4 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (19.55%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (12.75%) NoSQL
3 79 (11.19%) Relational Database
4 75 (10.62%) MongoDB
5 54 (7.65%) DynamoDB
6 53 (7.51%) MySQL
7 49 (6.94%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (3.54%) SQL Server
9 24 (3.40%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (2.69%) Big Data
11 18 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (2.27%) Redis
13 15 (2.12%) Flink
14 10 (1.42%) Apache Cassandra
14 10 (1.42%) DocumentDB
14 10 (1.42%) RDBMS
15 8 (1.13%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.99%) DB2
17 6 (0.85%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 154 (21.81%) Jenkins
2 152 (21.53%) Git
3 111 (15.72%) GitLab
4 110 (15.58%) JUnit
5 70 (9.92%) Gradle
6 68 (9.63%) Mockito
7 53 (7.51%) Maven
8 49 (6.94%) JIRA
9 35 (4.96%) SonarQube
10 26 (3.68%) Selenium
11 23 (3.26%) IntelliJ
12 22 (3.12%) Cucumber
12 22 (3.12%) REST Assured
13 18 (2.55%) Liquibase
14 17 (2.41%) Gatling
15 14 (1.98%) DbUnit
16 13 (1.84%) jMock
17 12 (1.70%) Bitbucket Server
17 12 (1.70%) Serenity BDD
18 10 (1.42%) Jaeger
General
1 142 (20.11%) Finance
2 129 (18.27%) Social Skills
3 117 (16.57%) Public Sector
4 74 (10.48%) Banking
5 36 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.69%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.55%) Retail
8 10 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.42%) Law
9 7 (0.99%) Retail Banking
10 6 (0.85%) Military
10 6 (0.85%) Publishing
11 5 (0.71%) Automotive
11 5 (0.71%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.28%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.28%) Legal
13 2 (0.28%) Police
14 1 (0.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 384 (54.39%) Developer
2 284 (40.23%) Java Developer
3 151 (21.39%) Senior
4 128 (18.13%) Java Engineer
5 100 (14.16%) Software Engineer
6 84 (11.90%) Senior Developer
7 72 (10.20%) Lead
8 64 (9.07%) Full-Stack Developer
9 63 (8.92%) Senior Java Developer
10 55 (7.79%) Java Software Engineer
11 45 (6.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 33 (4.67%) Backend Developer
13 31 (4.39%) Software Developer
14 29 (4.11%) Lead Developer
15 25 (3.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 23 (3.26%) Data Engineer
16 23 (3.26%) Senior Java Engineer
17 21 (2.97%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 19 (2.69%) Lead Java Developer
19 17 (2.41%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 657 (93.06%) Spring
2 207 (29.32%) Kafka
3 185 (26.20%) RESTful
4 169 (23.94%) REST
5 142 (20.11%) React
6 103 (14.59%) Node.js
7 80 (11.33%) AngularJS
8 54 (7.65%) Hibernate
8 54 (7.65%) HTML
9 53 (7.51%) JPA
10 51 (7.22%) Spring Cloud
11 47 (6.66%) OpenTelemetry
12 41 (5.81%) CSS
13 40 (5.67%) Spring MVC
14 38 (5.38%) OAuth
14 38 (5.38%) Web Services
15 35 (4.96%) OAuth2
16 34 (4.82%) Next.js
17 33 (4.67%) Jest
17 33 (4.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 134 (18.98%) Cloud Native
2 81 (11.47%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (6.09%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (1.98%) Mobile App
5 14 (1.98%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (1.84%) Data Structures
7 11 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.42%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.42%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.27%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
11 7 (0.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (0.85%) Blockchain
12 6 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (7.08%) Linux
2 14 (1.98%) Unix
3 6 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.42%) Windows
5 2 (0.28%) Android
5 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.28%) VMS
6 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (59.63%) Microservices
2 402 (56.94%) CI/CD
3 278 (39.38%) Agile
4 270 (38.24%) DevOps
5 242 (34.28%) Containerisation
6 184 (26.06%) Software Engineering
7 155 (21.95%) Full-Stack Development
8 142 (20.11%) TDD
9 122 (17.28%) Event-Driven
10 118 (16.71%) Test Automation
11 109 (15.44%) Observability
12 105 (14.87%) Code Quality
13 99 (14.02%) Scrum
14 95 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
15 91 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
16 81 (11.47%) Infrastructure as Code
17 76 (10.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 68 (9.63%) Mentoring
19 63 (8.92%) BDD
20 60 (8.50%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 681 (96.46%) Java
2 218 (30.88%) SQL
3 105 (14.87%) JavaScript
4 96 (13.60%) TypeScript
5 78 (11.05%) Python
6 43 (6.09%) Kotlin
7 16 (2.27%) Go
8 11 (1.56%) C#
8 11 (1.56%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.56%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.27%) Rust
10 8 (1.13%) Scala
11 5 (0.71%) Perl
11 5 (0.71%) Ruby
11 5 (0.71%) Solidity
12 4 (0.57%) Bash
13 2 (0.28%) PHP
13 2 (0.28%) PromQL
13 2 (0.28%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.14%) Korn
Qualifications
1 198 (28.05%) Security Cleared
2 163 (23.09%) SC Cleared
3 35 (4.96%) Degree
4 32 (4.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.84%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.99%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.85%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.14%) OCP
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (9.21%) QA
2 61 (8.64%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.98%) ISO 20022
4 12 (1.70%) WCAG
5 10 (1.42%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.42%) SEPA
6 8 (1.13%) GDPR
7 7 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.85%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.85%) PSD2
9 5 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.57%) NIST
11 2 (0.28%) EMIR
11 2 (0.28%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.28%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.28%) MiFID
11 2 (0.28%) NCSC
12 1 (0.14%) HL7
12 1 (0.14%) ITGC
12 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 315 (44.62%) Docker
2 11 (1.56%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 312 (44.19%) Kubernetes
2 91 (12.89%) Grafana
3 82 (11.61%) Terraform
4 61 (8.64%) Prometheus
5 32 (4.53%) Ansible
6 14 (1.98%) Argo
7 10 (1.42%) Istio
7 10 (1.42%) Kiali
8 8 (1.13%) Kibana
9 4 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.28%) Consul
10 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 52 (7.37%) Oracle
2 37 (5.24%) Splunk
3 28 (3.97%) Google
4 27 (3.82%) Microsoft
5 17 (2.41%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (1.98%) Atlassian
7 10 (1.42%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.42%) IBM
7 10 (1.42%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.27%) Checkmarx
9 8 (1.13%) Solace
9 8 (1.13%) Sybase
10 7 (0.99%) Databricks
11 6 (0.85%) Okta
12 5 (0.71%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.71%) Adobe
12 5 (0.71%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.71%) New Relic
12 5 (0.71%) Teradata
13 4 (0.57%) SAP