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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 187 199
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 +81
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 820 500 487
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.51% 1.52% 1.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.97% 5.93% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 345 369
10th Percentile £380 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £408 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% -0.47%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £630
90th Percentile £688 £613 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £468 £450
% change year-on-year +2.25% +3.89% -9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 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 £84.80 £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 11,772 8,431 9,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.65% 25.61% 24.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,730 5,662 6,398
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £435 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.74% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 181 187
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £48.45 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.83 £52.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +25.39% -14.77% -1.83%
75th Percentile £76.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.00 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.18% -15.38% +6.12%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -1 643 £525 +5.00% 415
UK excluding London -8 377 £478 +2.25% 271
London +1 342 £525 +0.96% 248
Work from Home -27 189 £500 -1.48% 581
North of England -20 153 £537 +15.48% 81
North West -44 87 £550 +27.91% 54
Midlands -11 70 £551 +51.24% 26
West Midlands +1 64 £570 +14.00% 22
Scotland -19 64 £402 -13.08% 59
Yorkshire +3 52 £500 -9.09% 15
South West -21 35 £450 -11.55% 39
South East -48 26 £297 -46.00% 38
East of England +3 25 £500 +6.95% 3
North East -35 15 £450 -6.25% 12
Wales -19 8 £394 -17.11% 7
East Midlands -31 5 £400 +27.80% 4
Northern Ireland +1 2 - - 21

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 31 (3.78%) Apache Spark
2 28 (3.41%) Confluence
3 22 (2.68%) Apache
4 19 (2.32%) Camunda
5 10 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.98%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.61%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.49%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.49%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.49%) nginx
8 4 (0.49%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.24%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.24%) Mule
10 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.12%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.61%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.49%) Quorum
2 4 (0.49%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.49%) Ripple
3 3 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.37%) Finacle
3 3 (0.37%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.24%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 466 (56.83%) AWS
2 180 (21.95%) Azure
3 136 (16.59%) GCP
3 136 (16.59%) GitHub
4 86 (10.49%) GitHub Actions
5 65 (7.93%) Serverless
6 60 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
7 57 (6.95%) Amazon S3
8 51 (6.22%) OpenShift
9 44 (5.37%) Amazon ECS
10 43 (5.24%) Amazon EKS
11 40 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 40 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
12 33 (4.02%) Amazon EC2
13 20 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (2.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 16 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (1.71%) Anthropic Claude
16 14 (1.71%) GitHub Copilot
17 12 (1.46%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.46%) HTTP
2 6 (0.73%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.37%) Firewall
4 3 (0.37%) SSL
5 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) AMQP
6 1 (0.12%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (20.98%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (13.17%) Relational Database
3 102 (12.44%) MongoDB
4 99 (12.07%) NoSQL
5 64 (7.80%) MySQL
6 40 (4.88%) SQL Server
7 32 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (3.66%) DynamoDB
8 30 (3.66%) Redis
9 22 (2.68%) Amazon Aurora
10 18 (2.20%) Flink
11 16 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (1.95%) RDBMS
12 15 (1.83%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (1.83%) Big Data
12 15 (1.83%) Metadata
13 12 (1.46%) Couchbase
13 12 (1.46%) Oracle Database
14 11 (1.34%) Data Lake
15 8 (0.98%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 226 (27.56%) Jenkins
2 208 (25.37%) Git
3 146 (17.80%) JUnit
4 130 (15.85%) GitLab
5 124 (15.12%) Maven
6 115 (14.02%) Gradle
7 94 (11.46%) Mockito
8 57 (6.95%) SonarQube
9 47 (5.73%) JIRA
10 27 (3.29%) REST Assured
11 26 (3.17%) Cucumber
12 21 (2.56%) Liquibase
13 20 (2.44%) Selenium
14 14 (1.71%) Bitbucket Server
15 13 (1.59%) Gatling
16 12 (1.46%) IntelliJ
17 10 (1.22%) GoCD
17 10 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
18 9 (1.10%) Flyway
19 8 (0.98%) JProfiler
General
1 191 (23.29%) Finance
2 170 (20.73%) Social Skills
3 143 (17.44%) Public Sector
4 110 (13.41%) Banking
5 68 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.80%) Retail
7 17 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.46%) Military
10 11 (1.34%) Law
11 8 (0.98%) Retail Banking
12 7 (0.85%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.85%) Front Office
13 6 (0.73%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.61%) Publishing
15 4 (0.49%) Police
16 3 (0.37%) Automotive
16 3 (0.37%) Corporate Banking
16 3 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 468 (57.07%) Developer
2 377 (45.98%) Java Developer
3 180 (21.95%) Senior
4 133 (16.22%) Java Engineer
5 103 (12.56%) Software Engineer
6 93 (11.34%) Senior Developer
7 89 (10.85%) Lead
8 73 (8.90%) Senior Java Developer
9 66 (8.05%) Full-Stack Developer
10 55 (6.71%) Java Software Engineer
11 45 (5.49%) Software Developer
12 44 (5.37%) Lead Developer
13 43 (5.24%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 39 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
15 33 (4.02%) Lead Java Developer
16 31 (3.78%) Backend Developer
17 26 (3.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 25 (3.05%) Architect
19 23 (2.80%) Data Engineer
19 23 (2.80%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 773 (94.27%) Spring
2 286 (34.88%) Kafka
3 247 (30.12%) REST
4 221 (26.95%) RESTful
5 163 (19.88%) React
6 106 (12.93%) Node.js
7 87 (10.61%) JPA
8 85 (10.37%) HTML
9 82 (10.00%) AngularJS
9 82 (10.00%) Terraform
10 79 (9.63%) Hibernate
11 73 (8.90%) CSS
12 58 (7.07%) Web Services
13 55 (6.71%) Spring MVC
14 50 (6.10%) RabbitMQ
14 50 (6.10%) Redux
15 43 (5.24%) OAuth
16 42 (5.12%) Spring Cloud
17 41 (5.00%) OpenAPI
18 40 (4.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 210 (25.61%) Cloud Native
2 124 (15.12%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (8.41%) Product Ownership
4 47 (5.73%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (2.20%) Data Structures
9 17 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.95%) AI Agents
11 15 (1.83%) Public Cloud
12 13 (1.59%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 12 (1.46%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.10%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 6 (0.73%) Fixed Income
15 6 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
15 6 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
16 5 (0.61%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.98%) Linux
2 35 (4.27%) Unix
3 2 (0.24%) VMS
3 2 (0.24%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) AIX
4 1 (0.12%) Android
4 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.12%) Solaris
4 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (64.88%) Microservices
2 493 (60.12%) CI/CD
3 410 (50.00%) Agile
4 301 (36.71%) DevOps
5 252 (30.73%) Software Engineering
6 249 (30.37%) Containerisation
7 207 (25.24%) Test Automation
8 193 (23.54%) Event-Driven
9 171 (20.85%) TDD
10 168 (20.49%) Scrum
11 141 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 138 (16.83%) Full-Stack Development
13 128 (15.61%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 124 (15.12%) Code Quality
15 122 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
16 120 (14.63%) Observability
17 101 (12.32%) Infrastructure as Code
18 95 (11.59%) SDLC
19 91 (11.10%) Clean Code
20 86 (10.49%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 812 (99.02%) Java
2 282 (34.39%) SQL
3 131 (15.98%) JavaScript
4 108 (13.17%) TypeScript
5 84 (10.24%) Python
6 38 (4.63%) PL/SQL
7 26 (3.17%) Kotlin
8 23 (2.80%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.59%) Bash
10 10 (1.22%) Scala
11 8 (0.98%) Ruby
12 7 (0.85%) C#
13 5 (0.61%) Groovy
14 4 (0.49%) Solidity
15 3 (0.37%) Go
15 3 (0.37%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.24%) Korn
16 2 (0.24%) PromQL
16 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 236 (28.78%) Security Cleared
2 199 (24.27%) SC Cleared
3 71 (8.66%) BPSS Clearance
4 39 (4.76%) Degree
5 30 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.83%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.71%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.37%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.37%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.12%) CISSP
10 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (12.68%) QA
2 70 (8.54%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.56%) ISO 20022
4 12 (1.46%) SEPA
4 12 (1.46%) WCAG
5 10 (1.22%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.85%) GDPR
7 6 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.61%) PSD2
9 4 (0.49%) ISO 15022
9 4 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.37%) EMIR
10 3 (0.37%) MiFID
11 1 (0.12%) HL7
11 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 344 (41.95%) Docker
2 5 (0.61%) Postfix
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 320 (39.02%) Kubernetes
2 62 (7.56%) Grafana
3 50 (6.10%) Prometheus
4 40 (4.88%) Ansible
5 23 (2.80%) Kibana
6 16 (1.95%) Control-M
7 10 (1.22%) Argo
8 7 (0.85%) Istio
9 4 (0.49%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.37%) Bosun
10 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.24%) Consul
11 2 (0.24%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.12%) Kiali
12 1 (0.12%) logstash
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 127 (15.49%) Oracle
2 44 (5.37%) Google
3 30 (3.66%) IBM
4 21 (2.56%) Microsoft
5 20 (2.44%) Splunk
6 19 (2.32%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.71%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.22%) Solace
9 9 (1.10%) Checkmarx
9 9 (1.10%) Databricks
9 9 (1.10%) Sybase
10 8 (0.98%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (0.98%) Veracode
11 7 (0.85%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.85%) FIS
11 7 (0.85%) New Relic
11 7 (0.85%) TikTok
12 6 (0.73%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.61%) Confluent
13 5 (0.61%) Temenos