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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 206 295
Rank change year-on-year +1 +89 -151
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 485 441 379
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.40% 1.21% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.12% 5.53% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 297 293
10th Percentile £314 £370 £425
25th Percentile £413 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £538 £548
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -1.83% -8.75%
75th Percentile £565 £631 £675
90th Percentile £613 £759 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £45.00 - £74.15
25th Percentile £48.75 £69.50 £76.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% -7.69% +7.59%
75th Percentile - £74.50 £81.00
90th Percentile - - £86.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -23.61% -7.69% +7.59%

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 7,926 7,968 10,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.92% 21.82% 22.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,265 5,040 7,429
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £664
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 119 187
10th Percentile £29.70 £23.44 £36.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £40.63 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.09 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -3.85% +19.13% -16.06%

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 5 November 2025.

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
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 5 November 2025. 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 +14 385 £488 -15.22% 320
UK excluding London +13 253 £475 +5.56% 253
London -29 185 £513 -13.87% 161
Work from Home -10 137 £513 -2.05% 216
North of England +8 103 £488 +11.43% 56
North West +8 72 £452 +13.06% 37
Scotland -12 53 £538 +24.28% 14
Midlands - 41 £394 - 22
South East +6 30 £450 -28.00% 117
West Midlands - 26 £488 - 16
North East -2 16 £494 +10.96% 6
Yorkshire -20 15 £525 -8.70% 14
East Midlands - 15 £290 - 6
Wales +14 13 £475 +13.43% 5
South West +3 12 £500 -8.05% 15
Northern Ireland -14 2 £425 -32.00% 11
East of England -23 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 19 (3.92%) Confluence
2 16 (3.30%) JBoss
3 11 (2.27%) Tomcat
4 8 (1.65%) Camunda
4 8 (1.65%) CMS
5 5 (1.03%) Apache
5 5 (1.03%) Mule
5 5 (1.03%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.82%) Drupal
6 4 (0.82%) WordPress
7 3 (0.62%) Alfresco
7 3 (0.62%) Oracle Application Server
7 3 (0.62%) SAS
8 2 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.41%) CICS
8 2 (0.41%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.41%) nginx
9 1 (0.21%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 257 (52.99%) AWS
2 144 (29.69%) Azure
3 77 (15.88%) GCP
4 63 (12.99%) GitHub
5 45 (9.28%) Serverless
6 40 (8.25%) OpenShift
7 37 (7.63%) Amazon EC2
7 37 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
8 36 (7.42%) Amazon S3
9 35 (7.22%) Amazon SQS
10 27 (5.57%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (4.54%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (4.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 19 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
13 19 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (3.30%) Datadog
15 13 (2.68%) Azure AKS
16 11 (2.27%) Apigee
16 11 (2.27%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.44%) HTTPS
2 6 (1.24%) HTTP
2 6 (1.24%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.62%) SSL
4 2 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.21%) DNS
5 1 (0.21%) Firewall
5 1 (0.21%) FTP
5 1 (0.21%) Internet
5 1 (0.21%) LAN
5 1 (0.21%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (22.89%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (14.64%) Relational Database
3 67 (13.81%) NoSQL
4 62 (12.78%) MongoDB
5 49 (10.10%) MySQL
6 37 (7.63%) DynamoDB
7 31 (6.39%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (5.57%) RDBMS
9 23 (4.74%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (3.92%) SQL Server
11 16 (3.30%) Oracle Database
12 15 (3.09%) Redis
13 11 (2.27%) DB2
14 10 (2.06%) Apache Cassandra
15 7 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (1.24%) BigQuery
17 5 (1.03%) HBase
18 4 (0.82%) Big Data
19 3 (0.62%) MariaDB
20 2 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 148 (30.52%) Git
2 123 (25.36%) Jenkins
3 117 (24.12%) JUnit
4 72 (14.85%) Maven
5 64 (13.20%) GitLab
6 61 (12.58%) Mockito
7 57 (11.75%) Cucumber
7 57 (11.75%) JIRA
8 52 (10.72%) SonarQube
9 39 (8.04%) Gradle
10 33 (6.80%) Sonatype Nexus
11 25 (5.15%) Bitbucket
12 19 (3.92%) Selenium
13 16 (3.30%) Postman
14 13 (2.68%) Artifactory
15 12 (2.47%) Cypress.io
15 12 (2.47%) REST Assured
16 11 (2.27%) Bitbucket Server
17 10 (2.06%) Subversion
17 10 (2.06%) TeamCity
General
1 128 (26.39%) Social Skills
2 107 (22.06%) Finance
3 80 (16.49%) Banking
4 69 (14.23%) Public Sector
5 35 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.65%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.24%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.82%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.82%) Front Office
11 3 (0.62%) Automotive
11 3 (0.62%) Electronics
11 3 (0.62%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.62%) Marketing
11 3 (0.62%) Retail
11 3 (0.62%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.41%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.21%) German Language
13 1 (0.21%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 319 (65.77%) Developer
2 266 (54.85%) Java Developer
3 85 (17.53%) Senior
4 69 (14.23%) Senior Developer
5 67 (13.81%) Senior Java Developer
6 59 (12.16%) Lead
7 51 (10.52%) Full-Stack Developer
8 40 (8.25%) Software Engineer
9 37 (7.63%) Java Engineer
10 34 (7.01%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 34 (7.01%) Lead Developer
11 28 (5.77%) Lead Java Developer
12 27 (5.57%) Architect
13 25 (5.15%) AWS Developer
14 17 (3.51%) Java Software Engineer
15 14 (2.89%) Backend Developer
16 13 (2.68%) Technical Architect
17 12 (2.47%) Software Developer
18 11 (2.27%) DevOps Engineer
18 11 (2.27%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 401 (82.68%) Spring
2 142 (29.28%) RESTful
3 134 (27.63%) REST
4 132 (27.22%) Kafka
5 128 (26.39%) React
6 83 (17.11%) AngularJS
7 69 (14.23%) Hibernate
8 65 (13.40%) JPA
9 51 (10.52%) HTML
10 42 (8.66%) Web Services
11 41 (8.45%) CSS
11 41 (8.45%) Spring Cloud
12 40 (8.25%) SOAP
13 39 (8.04%) Node.js
14 37 (7.63%) JSON
15 30 (6.19%) J2EE
16 28 (5.77%) Spring Batch
17 25 (5.15%) OAuth
17 25 (5.15%) Swagger
18 24 (4.95%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 69 (14.23%) Cloud Native
2 52 (10.72%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.30%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.89%) Public Cloud
6 9 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 8 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.24%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.24%) N-Tier
9 5 (1.03%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.03%) Distributed Applications
9 5 (1.03%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.62%) State Machine
11 2 (0.41%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 32 (6.60%) Linux
2 23 (4.74%) Unix
3 9 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.44%) Windows
5 3 (0.62%) Android
6 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (70.72%) Microservices
2 255 (52.58%) CI/CD
3 249 (51.34%) Agile
4 164 (33.81%) DevOps
5 133 (27.42%) Containerisation
6 116 (23.92%) Problem-Solving
7 114 (23.51%) TDD
8 101 (20.82%) Full-Stack Development
9 90 (18.56%) Software Engineering
9 90 (18.56%) Test Automation
10 74 (15.26%) Scrum
11 63 (12.99%) Event-Driven
12 62 (12.78%) SDLC
13 59 (12.16%) Mentoring
14 57 (11.75%) BDD
15 49 (10.10%) Design Patterns
15 49 (10.10%) Infrastructure as Code
15 49 (10.10%) Unit Testing
16 45 (9.28%) Code Quality
17 44 (9.07%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 463 (95.46%) Java
2 138 (28.45%) SQL
3 84 (17.32%) JavaScript
4 58 (11.96%) TypeScript
5 53 (10.93%) Python
6 24 (4.95%) Shell Script
7 12 (2.47%) PL/SQL
8 11 (2.27%) Kotlin
8 11 (2.27%) Ruby
9 9 (1.86%) Bash
10 7 (1.44%) Groovy
11 6 (1.24%) Perl
12 5 (1.03%) C#
12 5 (1.03%) Scala
13 3 (0.62%) PHP
14 2 (0.41%) C
14 2 (0.41%) C++
14 2 (0.41%) Korn
14 2 (0.41%) Rust
15 1 (0.21%) Swift
Qualifications
1 90 (18.56%) Security Cleared
2 78 (16.08%) SC Cleared
3 12 (2.47%) Degree
4 10 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.65%) OCP
5 8 (1.65%) Oracle Certification
6 6 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.82%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.41%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (13.20%) QA
2 25 (5.15%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.89%) ISO 20022
3 14 (2.89%) WCAG
4 8 (1.65%) PSD2
4 8 (1.65%) SEPA
5 6 (1.24%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.62%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 207 (42.68%) Docker
2 5 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.82%) Postfix
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 186 (38.35%) Kubernetes
2 67 (13.81%) Terraform
3 30 (6.19%) Grafana
4 20 (4.12%) Ansible
5 18 (3.71%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.68%) Kibana
7 6 (1.24%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.62%) Argo
9 1 (0.21%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.21%) Consul
9 1 (0.21%) Control-M
9 1 (0.21%) logstash
9 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (12.58%) Oracle
2 28 (5.77%) Microsoft
3 19 (3.92%) Splunk
4 18 (3.71%) Google
5 13 (2.68%) Dynatrace
6 11 (2.27%) Red Hat
7 10 (2.06%) CA Agile Central
8 8 (1.65%) Virgin Media
9 7 (1.44%) AppDynamics
10 6 (1.24%) Sybase
10 6 (1.24%) Veracode
11 5 (1.03%) Gigya
11 5 (1.03%) IBM
11 5 (1.03%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.82%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.82%) Checkmarx
12 4 (0.82%) Cloudera
12 4 (0.82%) Jaspersoft
13 3 (0.62%) Cisco
13 3 (0.62%) Salesforce