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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 213 268
Rank change year-on-year +18 +55 -121
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 534 374 366
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.44% 1.17% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.45% 5.33% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 224 255
10th Percentile £350 £356 £416
25th Percentile £420 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -16.00%
75th Percentile £577 £626 £625
90th Percentile £625 £766 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £440 £523
% change year-on-year +7.50% -15.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 2
10th Percentile £42.50 - £73.05
25th Percentile £52.50 - £73.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £76.50
75th Percentile £57.50 - £77.88
90th Percentile £60.50 - £77.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £76.50
% change year-on-year - - +2.00%

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 8,283 7,014 9,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.33% 22.03% 21.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,497 4,460 6,425
10th Percentile £356 £355 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.84% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 83 168
10th Percentile £32.17 £21.40 £28.28
25th Percentile £44.75 £34.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.53
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +14.62% -16.11%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £54.53
% change year-on-year - +14.62% -16.11%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 15 January 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 +43 442 £489 -15.00% 147
UK excluding London +18 283 £473 +7.50% 119
London -2 203 £525 -11.32% 57
North of England +35 148 £475 +5.56% 31
Work from Home +22 128 £525 +11.94% 83
North West +47 101 £450 +2.86% 20
Scotland -9 53 £588 +38.24% 10
South East +13 37 £450 +15.38% 38
Midlands -13 28 £449 - 11
Yorkshire -34 28 £500 -33.33% 9
West Midlands -14 24 £469 - 10
North East -2 19 £475 +6.74% 2
South West -24 14 £409 -25.64% 24
East Midlands - 4 £268 - 1
Northern Ireland -6 2 £425 +54.55% 1
East of England -28 1 - -
Wales - 1 £475 - 4

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 17 (3.18%) Confluence
2 8 (1.50%) Apache
3 7 (1.31%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.12%) CMS
5 5 (0.94%) Camunda
6 4 (0.75%) Drupal
6 4 (0.75%) Mule
6 4 (0.75%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.75%) WordPress
7 3 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.56%) SAS
8 2 (0.37%) CICS
8 2 (0.37%) JBoss
8 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.37%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.37%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.19%) nginx
9 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 293 (54.87%) AWS
2 168 (31.46%) Azure
3 95 (17.79%) GitHub
4 85 (15.92%) GCP
5 63 (11.80%) Serverless
6 52 (9.74%) AWS Lambda
7 51 (9.55%) GitHub Actions
8 47 (8.80%) Amazon S3
9 31 (5.81%) Amazon EKS
10 30 (5.62%) AWS CloudFormation
11 29 (5.43%) Amazon ECS
12 28 (5.24%) Amazon EC2
12 28 (5.24%) OpenShift
13 25 (4.68%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (4.12%) Azure AKS
14 22 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (3.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (3.18%) Datadog
17 15 (2.81%) AWS Step Functions
18 14 (2.62%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.69%) SSL
2 7 (1.31%) Firewall
3 5 (0.94%) DNS
3 5 (0.94%) Kerberos
4 4 (0.75%) HTTP
4 4 (0.75%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.56%) VPN
6 1 (0.19%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (19.66%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (16.29%) NoSQL
3 70 (13.11%) MongoDB
4 63 (11.80%) Relational Database
5 50 (9.36%) MySQL
6 42 (7.87%) DynamoDB
7 22 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (3.93%) RDBMS
9 19 (3.56%) Redis
10 18 (3.37%) Amazon Aurora
11 14 (2.62%) Apache Cassandra
11 14 (2.62%) SQL Server
12 13 (2.43%) DocumentDB
13 12 (2.25%) BigQuery
14 9 (1.69%) DB2
15 8 (1.50%) HBase
16 7 (1.31%) Oracle Database
17 6 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
18 5 (0.94%) Big Data
19 4 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 119 (22.28%) Git
2 117 (21.91%) Jenkins
3 103 (19.29%) GitLab
4 86 (16.10%) JUnit
5 47 (8.80%) Gradle
6 43 (8.05%) Cucumber
6 43 (8.05%) Mockito
7 41 (7.68%) Maven
8 33 (6.18%) JIRA
9 19 (3.56%) SonarQube
10 18 (3.37%) Cypress.io
11 17 (3.18%) Selenium
12 15 (2.81%) Bitbucket
13 14 (2.62%) Postman
14 12 (2.25%) IntelliJ
14 12 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
15 11 (2.06%) Artifactory
16 10 (1.87%) Gatling
16 10 (1.87%) REST Assured
17 7 (1.31%) Jaeger
General
1 134 (25.09%) Social Skills
2 116 (21.72%) Finance
3 92 (17.23%) Public Sector
4 84 (15.73%) Banking
5 19 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (1.69%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.31%) Retail
9 6 (1.12%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.75%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.75%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.56%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.56%) Electronics
11 3 (0.56%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.56%) Marketing
12 2 (0.37%) Law
13 1 (0.19%) Back Office
13 1 (0.19%) Front Office
13 1 (0.19%) Military
Job Titles
1 312 (58.43%) Developer
2 239 (44.76%) Java Developer
3 115 (21.54%) Senior
4 79 (14.79%) Senior Developer
5 71 (13.30%) Java Engineer
6 66 (12.36%) Full-Stack Developer
6 66 (12.36%) Senior Java Developer
7 55 (10.30%) Software Engineer
8 54 (10.11%) Lead
9 30 (5.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 28 (5.24%) Architect
10 28 (5.24%) Lead Developer
11 25 (4.68%) Java Software Engineer
12 24 (4.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 19 (3.56%) Lead Java Developer
14 17 (3.18%) AWS Developer
14 17 (3.18%) Backend Developer
15 14 (2.62%) Azure Engineer
16 13 (2.43%) Java Architect
16 13 (2.43%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 464 (86.89%) Spring
2 158 (29.59%) Kafka
3 153 (28.65%) RESTful
4 126 (23.60%) React
5 117 (21.91%) REST
6 98 (18.35%) AngularJS
7 57 (10.67%) HTML
8 56 (10.49%) Node.js
9 52 (9.74%) Hibernate
10 41 (7.68%) CSS
10 41 (7.68%) OAuth
11 40 (7.49%) JSON
12 39 (7.30%) OAuth2
13 36 (6.74%) JPA
14 34 (6.37%) OpenTelemetry
15 30 (5.62%) Spring Cloud
16 23 (4.31%) Spring MVC
17 21 (3.93%) Jest
17 21 (3.93%) RabbitMQ
18 20 (3.75%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 88 (16.48%) Cloud Native
2 51 (9.55%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (5.43%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.37%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (2.25%) Public Cloud
6 12 (2.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 9 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
7 9 (1.69%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.12%) N-Tier
9 5 (0.94%) Data Structures
9 5 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (0.94%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.75%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.75%) NHS
11 3 (0.56%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.49%) Linux
2 9 (1.69%) Unix
3 4 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.75%) Windows
4 2 (0.37%) Android
4 2 (0.37%) zOS
5 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (66.67%) Microservices
2 294 (55.06%) CI/CD
3 228 (42.70%) Agile
4 195 (36.52%) DevOps
5 180 (33.71%) Containerisation
6 133 (24.91%) Full-Stack Development
7 114 (21.35%) Software Engineering
8 110 (20.60%) Test Automation
9 107 (20.04%) Problem-Solving
10 105 (19.66%) TDD
11 98 (18.35%) Event-Driven
12 81 (15.17%) Infrastructure as Code
13 64 (11.99%) Scrum
13 64 (11.99%) SDLC
14 62 (11.61%) API Design
14 62 (11.61%) Observability
15 60 (11.24%) Mentoring
16 54 (10.11%) BDD
16 54 (10.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 49 (9.18%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 501 (93.82%) Java
2 134 (25.09%) SQL
3 85 (15.92%) JavaScript
4 67 (12.55%) TypeScript
5 50 (9.36%) Python
6 29 (5.43%) Kotlin
7 11 (2.06%) Shell Script
8 8 (1.50%) Go
8 8 (1.50%) Rust
9 7 (1.31%) Bash
10 6 (1.12%) C#
11 5 (0.94%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.75%) PHP
12 4 (0.75%) Scala
13 3 (0.56%) Groovy
13 3 (0.56%) Ruby
14 2 (0.37%) Korn
14 2 (0.37%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.19%) JCL
15 1 (0.19%) XPath
Qualifications
1 117 (21.91%) Security Cleared
2 95 (17.79%) SC Cleared
3 23 (4.31%) Degree
4 15 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.06%) OCP
5 11 (2.06%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.37%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.37%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (12.92%) QA
2 42 (7.87%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.31%) ISO 20022
4 16 (3.00%) WCAG
5 13 (2.43%) PSD2
5 13 (2.43%) SEPA
6 8 (1.50%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.75%) NIST
8 3 (0.56%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.56%) HL7
9 2 (0.37%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.37%) NCSC
10 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.19%) GDPR
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 239 (44.76%) Docker
2 3 (0.56%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 262 (49.06%) Kubernetes
2 102 (19.10%) Terraform
3 53 (9.93%) Grafana
4 25 (4.68%) Prometheus
5 24 (4.49%) Ansible
6 13 (2.43%) Argo
7 12 (2.25%) Kibana
8 7 (1.31%) Kiali
9 5 (0.94%) Istio
10 2 (0.37%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.37%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.19%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.19%) Consul
11 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (9.55%) Oracle
2 24 (4.49%) Splunk
3 23 (4.31%) Google
4 20 (3.75%) Microsoft
5 10 (1.87%) Dynatrace
6 8 (1.50%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.12%) Confluent
7 6 (1.12%) Sybase
7 6 (1.12%) Virgin Media
8 5 (0.94%) Adobe
8 5 (0.94%) Gigya
9 4 (0.75%) CA Agile Central
9 4 (0.75%) ForgeRock
9 4 (0.75%) VMware
10 3 (0.56%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.56%) Checkmarx
10 3 (0.56%) IBM
10 3 (0.56%) PagerDuty
10 3 (0.56%) Qualys
10 3 (0.56%) SAP