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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 190 226
Rank change year-on-year +9 +36 -61
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 694 416 463
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.48% 1.42% 1.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.36% 6.25% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 271 351
10th Percentile £353 £356 £375
25th Percentile £411 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £441 £480
% change year-on-year +7.71% -8.13% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 6 0
10th Percentile - £45.00 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.88 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £73.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.03% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £91.56 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £68.75 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

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 9,433 6,653 8,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.08% 22.66% 20.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,259 4,565 6,164
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £780 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 111 224
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.11 £20.91
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.50 £39.98
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.96 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 28 April 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 28 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 14 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 28 April 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 +43 584 £500 -4.76% 185
UK excluding London +3 349 £475 +7.71% 136
London +22 271 £525 -4.55% 102
Work from Home +9 164 £481 -8.33% 143
North of England +5 160 £475 +2.15% 50
North West +32 113 £470 +16.92% 39
West Midlands -23 48 £469 +7.20% 3
Midlands -40 48 £469 +16.67% 5
Scotland -31 44 £550 +25.71% 5
South West -9 39 £402 -22.46% 17
South East -36 38 £500 -3.57% 41
Yorkshire -46 34 £475 -11.63% 4
East of England -10 22 £540 +15.51% 4
North East -11 15 £475 +2.15% 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 35 (5.04%) Apache Spark
2 28 (4.03%) Confluence
3 15 (2.16%) Camunda
4 12 (1.73%) Apache
5 9 (1.30%) WebLogic
6 7 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.86%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.86%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.29%) CICS
10 2 (0.29%) Drupal
10 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.29%) WordPress
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.14%) CMS
11 1 (0.14%) JBoss
11 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.14%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 388 (55.91%) AWS
2 184 (26.51%) Azure
3 125 (18.01%) GitHub
4 112 (16.14%) GCP
5 87 (12.54%) Serverless
6 84 (12.10%) Amazon S3
7 75 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
8 74 (10.66%) GitHub Actions
9 42 (6.05%) Amazon EC2
10 41 (5.91%) Amazon ECS
11 39 (5.62%) Amazon EKS
12 37 (5.33%) Amazon SQS
13 36 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 30 (4.32%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (4.18%) OpenShift
16 27 (3.89%) Azure AKS
17 18 (2.59%) Route 53
18 17 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
19 15 (2.16%) Cloud Run
20 14 (2.02%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.87%) HTTP
2 10 (1.44%) Firewall
2 10 (1.44%) SSL
3 8 (1.15%) HTTPS
4 5 (0.72%) DNS
5 3 (0.43%) VPN
6 1 (0.14%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.14%) SMS
6 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (19.60%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (13.26%) NoSQL
3 77 (11.10%) Relational Database
4 71 (10.23%) MongoDB
5 63 (9.08%) MySQL
6 57 (8.21%) DynamoDB
7 42 (6.05%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
8 22 (3.17%) SQL Server
9 17 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (2.16%) Big Data
10 15 (2.16%) DocumentDB
10 15 (2.16%) Redis
11 11 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (1.30%) Flink
13 8 (1.15%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.15%) DB2
13 8 (1.15%) RDBMS
14 7 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.86%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 152 (21.90%) Git
1 152 (21.90%) Jenkins
2 107 (15.42%) GitLab
3 106 (15.27%) JUnit
4 56 (8.07%) Mockito
5 53 (7.64%) JIRA
6 52 (7.49%) Gradle
7 47 (6.77%) Maven
8 29 (4.18%) SonarQube
9 23 (3.31%) Cucumber
10 21 (3.03%) IntelliJ
11 16 (2.31%) Selenium
12 13 (1.87%) Cypress.io
12 13 (1.87%) Postman
13 11 (1.59%) DbUnit
13 11 (1.59%) Gatling
13 11 (1.59%) jMock
14 10 (1.44%) Jaeger
14 10 (1.44%) Mocha
15 9 (1.30%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 139 (20.03%) Finance
2 136 (19.60%) Social Skills
3 122 (17.58%) Public Sector
4 66 (9.51%) Banking
5 29 (4.18%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.02%) Financial Institution
7 13 (1.87%) Retail
8 6 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (0.86%) Retail Banking
9 5 (0.72%) Automotive
9 5 (0.72%) Law
10 4 (0.58%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.58%) Publishing
10 4 (0.58%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.43%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.43%) Military
11 3 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.29%) Legal
12 2 (0.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 406 (58.50%) Developer
2 292 (42.07%) Java Developer
3 137 (19.74%) Senior
4 114 (16.43%) Java Engineer
5 82 (11.82%) Full-Stack Developer
5 82 (11.82%) Senior Developer
6 73 (10.52%) Software Engineer
7 63 (9.08%) Lead
8 61 (8.79%) Senior Java Developer
9 44 (6.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 38 (5.48%) Java Software Engineer
11 32 (4.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 31 (4.47%) Backend Developer
13 28 (4.03%) Software Developer
14 27 (3.89%) Lead Developer
15 25 (3.60%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 24 (3.46%) Architect
17 17 (2.45%) Azure Engineer
17 17 (2.45%) Data Engineer
18 16 (2.31%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 646 (93.08%) Spring
2 202 (29.11%) RESTful
3 189 (27.23%) Kafka
4 163 (23.49%) REST
5 145 (20.89%) React
6 105 (15.13%) AngularJS
7 97 (13.98%) Node.js
8 68 (9.80%) Hibernate
9 67 (9.65%) HTML
10 48 (6.92%) CSS
10 48 (6.92%) Spring MVC
11 47 (6.77%) JPA
12 42 (6.05%) OpenTelemetry
13 41 (5.91%) OAuth
14 39 (5.62%) Spring Cloud
15 38 (5.48%) OAuth2
16 37 (5.33%) Jest
17 34 (4.90%) Next.js
18 32 (4.61%) Web Services
19 29 (4.18%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 118 (17.00%) Cloud Native
2 75 (10.81%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.76%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (2.59%) Mobile App
5 18 (2.59%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (1.87%) Data Structures
7 10 (1.44%) Algorithms
7 10 (1.44%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
8 9 (1.30%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
9 7 (1.01%) NHS
10 6 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 4 (0.58%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.77%) Linux
2 13 (1.87%) Unix
3 6 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.43%) Windows
5 2 (0.29%) VMS
5 2 (0.29%) zOS
6 1 (0.14%) Android
6 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (61.38%) Microservices
2 398 (57.35%) CI/CD
3 269 (38.76%) Agile
4 264 (38.04%) DevOps
5 235 (33.86%) Containerisation
6 170 (24.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 143 (20.61%) Software Engineering
8 133 (19.16%) TDD
9 127 (18.30%) Event-Driven
10 120 (17.29%) Test Automation
11 111 (15.99%) Code Quality
12 106 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
13 97 (13.98%) Observability
14 95 (13.69%) Scrum
15 87 (12.54%) Continuous Improvement
15 87 (12.54%) Infrastructure as Code
16 78 (11.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 75 (10.81%) API Design
18 71 (10.23%) Mentoring
19 62 (8.93%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 658 (94.81%) Java
2 195 (28.10%) SQL
3 106 (15.27%) JavaScript
4 92 (13.26%) TypeScript
5 77 (11.10%) Python
6 48 (6.92%) Kotlin
7 19 (2.74%) Go
8 13 (1.87%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.44%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.30%) Rust
11 8 (1.15%) C#
12 6 (0.86%) Perl
13 5 (0.72%) Scala
14 4 (0.58%) Ruby
15 3 (0.43%) Bash
15 3 (0.43%) PHP
16 2 (0.29%) Groovy
17 1 (0.14%) Korn
17 1 (0.14%) PowerShell
17 1 (0.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 189 (27.23%) Security Cleared
2 154 (22.19%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.19%) Degree
4 27 (3.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.15%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.86%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.72%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.72%) OCP
8 5 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (10.52%) QA
2 54 (7.78%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.45%) ISO 20022
4 11 (1.59%) WCAG
5 9 (1.30%) SEPA
6 8 (1.15%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.15%) PSD2
7 6 (0.86%) GDPR
8 4 (0.58%) HL7
8 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.58%) NIST
8 4 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.43%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.29%) EMIR
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.29%) MiFID
10 2 (0.29%) NCSC
11 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 301 (43.37%) Docker
2 10 (1.44%) Postfix
3 3 (0.43%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 315 (45.39%) Kubernetes
2 93 (13.40%) Terraform
3 82 (11.82%) Grafana
4 50 (7.20%) Prometheus
5 22 (3.17%) Ansible
6 13 (1.87%) Argo
7 10 (1.44%) Kiali
7 10 (1.44%) Kibana
8 9 (1.30%) Istio
9 2 (0.29%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.29%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 56 (8.07%) Oracle
2 37 (5.33%) Splunk
3 33 (4.76%) Google
3 33 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 14 (2.02%) Jaspersoft
5 11 (1.59%) Atlassian
6 10 (1.44%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.30%) Checkmarx
7 9 (1.30%) ForgeRock
8 8 (1.15%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.15%) IBM
9 7 (1.01%) Databricks
10 6 (0.86%) Adobe
10 6 (0.86%) Okta
10 6 (0.86%) Solace
10 6 (0.86%) Sybase
11 5 (0.72%) Ab Initio
11 5 (0.72%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.72%) SAP
11 5 (0.72%) Teradata