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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 201 203
Rank change year-on-year +23 +2 -20
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 721 399 487
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.49% 1.37% 1.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.62% 6.06% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 263 369
10th Percentile £363 £328 £375
25th Percentile £420 £402 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £558 £619
90th Percentile £650 £630 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £486
% change year-on-year +11.76% -12.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 7 1
10th Percentile - £44.00 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £69.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -9.72% +15.20%
75th Percentile £81.00 £90.63 £74.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +4.55% -23.61% +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 9,462 6,589 8,907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.61% 22.64% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,236 4,514 6,186
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £419 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £623 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 110 247
10th Percentile £32.50 £30.15 £21.25
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.75 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £82.19 £74.46
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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +48 613 £500 - 127
UK excluding London +11 355 £475 +11.76% 86
London +33 291 £525 -0.94% 58
Work from Home -4 174 £481 -8.33% 87
North of England +12 165 £475 +2.70% 41
North West +23 112 £481 +21.07% 24
Midlands -37 51 £469 +16.67% 4
West Midlands -25 48 £470 +11.24% 2
South West +6 47 £409 -22.10% 10
Scotland -23 39 £417 -3.80% 2
Yorkshire -26 37 £475 -9.52% 11
East of England +5 30 £507 +8.45% 3
South East -43 26 £513 -4.56% 18
North East -10 19 £475 +2.15% 6
East Midlands -40 2 £401 +12.01% 2
Wales -9 1 - - 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 42 (5.83%) Apache Spark
2 27 (3.74%) Confluence
3 16 (2.22%) Apache
4 15 (2.08%) Camunda
5 8 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.11%) WebLogic
6 6 (0.83%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.83%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.28%) CICS
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%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
1 3 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.28%) Shopify
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 391 (54.23%) AWS
2 163 (22.61%) Azure
3 125 (17.34%) GitHub
4 108 (14.98%) GCP
5 81 (11.23%) Amazon S3
6 80 (11.10%) Serverless
7 77 (10.68%) GitHub Actions
8 69 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
9 44 (6.10%) Amazon SQS
10 43 (5.96%) Amazon EC2
11 37 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
12 36 (4.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 36 (4.99%) Amazon ECS
13 30 (4.16%) OpenShift
14 22 (3.05%) Route 53
15 19 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
15 19 (2.64%) Azure AKS
15 19 (2.64%) Cloud Run
16 18 (2.50%) AWS KMS
16 18 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.39%) Firewall
1 10 (1.39%) HTTP
1 10 (1.39%) SSL
2 5 (0.69%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.55%) DNS
3 4 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.42%) VPN
5 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (19.42%) PostgreSQL
2 97 (13.45%) NoSQL
3 82 (11.37%) Relational Database
4 80 (11.10%) MongoDB
5 58 (8.04%) DynamoDB
6 54 (7.49%) MySQL
7 46 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (3.61%) Amazon Aurora
8 26 (3.61%) SQL Server
9 19 (2.64%) Big Data
10 18 (2.50%) Redis
11 17 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (2.08%) DocumentDB
13 14 (1.94%) Flink
14 11 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
15 10 (1.39%) RDBMS
16 8 (1.11%) BigQuery
16 8 (1.11%) DB2
17 7 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
18 6 (0.83%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 159 (22.05%) Jenkins
2 157 (21.78%) Git
3 114 (15.81%) GitLab
4 109 (15.12%) JUnit
5 67 (9.29%) Gradle
6 65 (9.02%) Mockito
7 54 (7.49%) Maven
8 52 (7.21%) JIRA
9 36 (4.99%) SonarQube
10 26 (3.61%) Selenium
11 24 (3.33%) Cucumber
12 23 (3.19%) IntelliJ
13 20 (2.77%) REST Assured
14 17 (2.36%) Gatling
15 15 (2.08%) Liquibase
16 14 (1.94%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.80%) jMock
18 12 (1.66%) Cypress.io
18 12 (1.66%) Serenity BDD
19 11 (1.53%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 145 (20.11%) Finance
2 132 (18.31%) Social Skills
3 122 (16.92%) Public Sector
4 69 (9.57%) Banking
5 35 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.64%) Financial Institution
7 17 (2.36%) Retail
8 8 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.11%) Law
9 7 (0.97%) Retail Banking
10 6 (0.83%) Military
10 6 (0.83%) Publishing
11 5 (0.69%) Automotive
11 5 (0.69%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.55%) 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%) French Language
Job Titles
1 398 (55.20%) Developer
2 285 (39.53%) Java Developer
3 152 (21.08%) Senior
4 130 (18.03%) Java Engineer
5 95 (13.18%) Software Engineer
6 85 (11.79%) Senior Developer
7 73 (10.12%) Full-Stack Developer
8 69 (9.57%) Lead
9 64 (8.88%) Senior Java Developer
10 51 (7.07%) Java Software Engineer
11 46 (6.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 35 (4.85%) Backend Developer
13 30 (4.16%) Software Developer
14 27 (3.74%) Lead Developer
15 25 (3.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 23 (3.19%) Senior Java Engineer
17 22 (3.05%) Data Engineer
17 22 (3.05%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 17 (2.36%) Lead Java Developer
19 16 (2.22%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 671 (93.07%) Spring
2 210 (29.13%) Kafka
3 198 (27.46%) RESTful
4 172 (23.86%) REST
5 145 (20.11%) React
6 103 (14.29%) Node.js
7 87 (12.07%) AngularJS
8 62 (8.60%) HTML
9 58 (8.04%) Hibernate
10 53 (7.35%) Spring Cloud
11 52 (7.21%) JPA
12 47 (6.52%) OpenTelemetry
13 45 (6.24%) OAuth
14 44 (6.10%) CSS
15 43 (5.96%) Spring MVC
16 42 (5.83%) OAuth2
17 38 (5.27%) Web Services
18 37 (5.13%) Next.js
19 34 (4.72%) Jest
20 32 (4.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 130 (18.03%) Cloud Native
2 80 (11.10%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.74%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (2.64%) Mobile App
6 15 (2.08%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.80%) Data Structures
8 12 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.39%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.39%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (1.25%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (0.83%) NHS
13 5 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.80%) Linux
2 14 (1.94%) Unix
3 5 (0.69%) 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
5 2 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (60.47%) Microservices
2 410 (56.87%) CI/CD
3 273 (37.86%) Agile
3 273 (37.86%) DevOps
4 249 (34.54%) Containerisation
5 173 (23.99%) Software Engineering
6 162 (22.47%) Full-Stack Development
7 144 (19.97%) TDD
8 126 (17.48%) Event-Driven
9 120 (16.64%) Test Automation
10 109 (15.12%) Observability
11 105 (14.56%) Code Quality
12 100 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
13 98 (13.59%) Continuous Improvement
14 95 (13.18%) Scrum
15 83 (11.51%) Infrastructure as Code
16 80 (11.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 75 (10.40%) API Design
18 70 (9.71%) Mentoring
19 67 (9.29%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 687 (95.28%) Java
2 215 (29.82%) SQL
3 113 (15.67%) JavaScript
4 93 (12.90%) TypeScript
5 77 (10.68%) Python
6 48 (6.66%) Kotlin
7 17 (2.36%) Go
8 11 (1.53%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.53%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.39%) C#
10 9 (1.25%) Rust
11 7 (0.97%) Scala
12 5 (0.69%) Bash
12 5 (0.69%) Perl
12 5 (0.69%) Ruby
13 3 (0.42%) PHP
14 2 (0.28%) Groovy
14 2 (0.28%) PromQL
14 2 (0.28%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 206 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 166 (23.02%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.99%) Degree
4 25 (3.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.66%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.97%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.83%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.28%) OCP
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (9.02%) QA
2 61 (8.46%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.22%) ISO 20022
4 13 (1.80%) WCAG
5 11 (1.53%) SEPA
6 9 (1.25%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.11%) GDPR
8 7 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.83%) PSD2
10 5 (0.69%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.55%) NIST
12 2 (0.28%) EMIR
12 2 (0.28%) HL7
12 2 (0.28%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.28%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.28%) MiFID
12 2 (0.28%) NCSC
13 1 (0.14%) ITGC
13 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 324 (44.94%) Docker
2 11 (1.53%) Postfix
3 3 (0.42%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 322 (44.66%) Kubernetes
2 91 (12.62%) Grafana
3 82 (11.37%) Terraform
4 60 (8.32%) Prometheus
5 31 (4.30%) Ansible
6 14 (1.94%) Argo
7 10 (1.39%) Istio
7 10 (1.39%) Kiali
8 9 (1.25%) Kibana
9 4 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.28%) Consul
10 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 51 (7.07%) Oracle
2 39 (5.41%) Splunk
3 28 (3.88%) Microsoft
4 27 (3.74%) Google
5 17 (2.36%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (1.94%) Atlassian
7 10 (1.39%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.39%) IBM
8 9 (1.25%) Checkmarx
8 9 (1.25%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.11%) Solace
10 7 (0.97%) Databricks
11 6 (0.83%) Adobe
11 6 (0.83%) Okta
11 6 (0.83%) Sybase
12 5 (0.69%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.69%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.69%) New Relic
12 5 (0.69%) Teradata
13 4 (0.55%) Virgin Media