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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 186 203
Rank change year-on-year -2 +17 +42
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 760 506 487
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.43% 1.54% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.46% 6.83% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 361 379
10th Percentile £375 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -3.30%
75th Percentile £581 £545 £625
90th Percentile £663 £613 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £469
% change year-on-year +5.56% -4.00% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 10 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.75 -
25th Percentile £53.13 £51.25 £69.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -23.61% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76.75 £83.44 £74.50
90th Percentile £90.50 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +12.73% -23.61% -4.00%

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 10,187 7,404 8,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.23% 22.56% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,652 5,003 5,902
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 160 247
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.23 £23.38
25th Percentile £43.13 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £73.94 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.81 £80.10 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +13.04% -1.37% -0.42%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 30 July 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 +2 590 £525 +10.53% 196
UK excluding London -12 354 £475 +5.56% 127
London +2 301 £525 +4.48% 110
Work from Home -44 178 £490 -3.92% 103
North of England -22 128 £500 +13.64% 39
North West -39 71 £550 +39.95% 22
Midlands -45 58 £480 +30.43% 20
Scotland -21 57 £402 -10.67% 17
West Midlands -29 55 £505 +6.32% 17
South West -6 43 £410 -21.06% 15
Yorkshire -13 40 £500 -6.98% 8
East of England +16 32 £500 +6.95% 1
South East -55 30 £381 -29.00% 24
North East -36 18 £450 -6.25% 9
Wales -21 7 £375 -21.05% 7
Northern Ireland -4 2 - - 6
East Midlands -34 2 £401 +25.51% 3

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 40 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 23 (3.03%) Apache
3 20 (2.63%) Confluence
4 15 (1.97%) WebLogic
5 10 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.18%) Camunda
7 5 (0.66%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.53%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.53%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.53%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.39%) nginx
9 3 (0.39%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.26%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.26%) Mule
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.13%) CICS
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.53%) Quorum
1 4 (0.53%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.53%) Ripple
2 3 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.26%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 426 (56.05%) AWS
2 189 (24.87%) Azure
3 135 (17.76%) GCP
4 119 (15.66%) GitHub
5 78 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
6 65 (8.55%) Amazon S3
7 63 (8.29%) Serverless
8 54 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
9 49 (6.45%) Amazon SQS
10 42 (5.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 42 (5.53%) OpenShift
11 41 (5.39%) Amazon EKS
12 39 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
13 37 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
14 24 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (2.50%) AWS KMS
16 18 (2.37%) Route 53
17 17 (2.24%) Cloud Run
18 16 (2.11%) Azure AKS
19 14 (1.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.05%) HTTPS
2 7 (0.92%) HTTP
3 4 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.39%) Firewall
5 1 (0.13%) AMQP
5 1 (0.13%) SMS
5 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (21.84%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (11.84%) Relational Database
3 83 (10.92%) NoSQL
4 76 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 60 (7.89%) MySQL
6 44 (5.79%) DynamoDB
7 37 (4.87%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (3.95%) SQL Server
9 24 (3.16%) Amazon Aurora
10 23 (3.03%) Redis
11 20 (2.63%) Flink
12 16 (2.11%) Apache Cassandra
12 16 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
13 15 (1.97%) Big Data
14 13 (1.71%) Metadata
15 11 (1.45%) RDBMS
16 10 (1.32%) Data Lake
17 8 (1.05%) Db2
18 7 (0.92%) Couchbase
18 7 (0.92%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 199 (26.18%) Jenkins
2 192 (25.26%) Git
3 126 (16.58%) JUnit
4 102 (13.42%) GitLab
5 89 (11.71%) Gradle
6 88 (11.58%) Maven
7 77 (10.13%) Mockito
8 46 (6.05%) SonarQube
9 43 (5.66%) JIRA
10 19 (2.50%) Cucumber
10 19 (2.50%) Liquibase
11 18 (2.37%) REST Assured
12 17 (2.24%) Selenium
13 14 (1.84%) DbUnit
13 14 (1.84%) Gatling
14 13 (1.71%) Bitbucket Server
14 13 (1.71%) IntelliJ
14 13 (1.71%) jMock
15 9 (1.18%) GoCD
16 8 (1.05%) Serenity BDD
General
1 169 (22.24%) Finance
2 141 (18.55%) Public Sector
3 138 (18.16%) Social Skills
4 79 (10.39%) Banking
5 57 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (3.03%) Retail
7 12 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.58%) Law
8 11 (1.45%) Financial Institution
8 11 (1.45%) Military
9 7 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (0.79%) Publishing
10 6 (0.79%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.53%) Automotive
11 4 (0.53%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.53%) Police
12 3 (0.39%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.26%) Local Government
13 2 (0.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 449 (59.08%) Developer
2 362 (47.63%) Java Developer
3 153 (20.13%) Senior
4 123 (16.18%) Java Engineer
5 99 (13.03%) Software Engineer
6 83 (10.92%) Senior Developer
7 78 (10.26%) Lead
8 69 (9.08%) Senior Java Developer
9 57 (7.50%) Java Software Engineer
10 54 (7.11%) Full-Stack Developer
11 43 (5.66%) Software Developer
12 36 (4.74%) Lead Developer
13 34 (4.47%) Backend Developer
14 32 (4.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 30 (3.95%) Senior Java Engineer
16 27 (3.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 25 (3.29%) Lead Java Developer
18 22 (2.89%) Data Engineer
18 22 (2.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 22 (2.89%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 716 (94.21%) Spring
2 232 (30.53%) Kafka
3 213 (28.03%) RESTful
4 210 (27.63%) REST
5 142 (18.68%) React
6 107 (14.08%) Node.js
7 73 (9.61%) Hibernate
8 71 (9.34%) AngularJS
9 70 (9.21%) JPA
10 65 (8.55%) HTML
11 55 (7.24%) CSS
12 51 (6.71%) Web Services
13 49 (6.45%) Spring MVC
14 41 (5.39%) RabbitMQ
15 40 (5.26%) Redux
16 39 (5.13%) Spring Cloud
17 37 (4.87%) OAuth
18 32 (4.21%) OAuth2
18 32 (4.21%) SOAP
19 31 (4.08%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 165 (21.71%) Cloud Native
2 113 (14.87%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (6.97%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (2.37%) Data Structures
9 16 (2.11%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.71%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.71%) Mobile App
12 11 (1.45%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (1.18%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.05%) AI Agents
16 7 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
16 7 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
17 6 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
18 5 (0.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 48 (6.32%) Linux
2 26 (3.42%) Unix
3 5 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.26%) VMS
4 2 (0.26%) Windows
5 1 (0.13%) Android
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Solaris
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (62.50%) Microservices
2 462 (60.79%) CI/CD
3 357 (46.97%) Agile
4 295 (38.82%) DevOps
5 246 (32.37%) Containerisation
6 207 (27.24%) Software Engineering
7 172 (22.63%) TDD
8 157 (20.66%) Event-Driven
9 151 (19.87%) Scrum
9 151 (19.87%) Test Automation
10 128 (16.84%) Full-Stack Development
11 125 (16.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 115 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
13 112 (14.74%) Code Quality
14 108 (14.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 106 (13.95%) Observability
16 96 (12.63%) Infrastructure as Code
17 78 (10.26%) Design Patterns
18 72 (9.47%) Clean Code
19 70 (9.21%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 751 (98.82%) Java
2 257 (33.82%) SQL
3 110 (14.47%) JavaScript
4 92 (12.11%) Python
5 88 (11.58%) TypeScript
6 38 (5.00%) Kotlin
7 36 (4.74%) PL/SQL
8 18 (2.37%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.18%) Bash
9 9 (1.18%) C#
10 8 (1.05%) Ruby
10 8 (1.05%) Scala
11 6 (0.79%) Go
12 4 (0.53%) Perl
12 4 (0.53%) Solidity
13 3 (0.39%) Groovy
13 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.26%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.26%) PromQL
15 1 (0.13%) Korn
Qualifications
1 231 (30.39%) Security Cleared
2 194 (25.53%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 30 (3.95%) Degree
5 24 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.97%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.71%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.66%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.26%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.13%) CISSP
10 1 (0.13%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (11.97%) QA
2 68 (8.95%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.58%) ISO 20022
4 9 (1.18%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.05%) WCAG
6 7 (0.92%) GDPR
6 7 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.79%) SEPA
8 3 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.39%) EMIR
8 3 (0.39%) ISO 15022
8 3 (0.39%) MiFID
9 1 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.13%) ITGC
9 1 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 329 (43.29%) Docker
2 11 (1.45%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 307 (40.39%) Kubernetes
2 81 (10.66%) Terraform
3 65 (8.55%) Grafana
4 45 (5.92%) Prometheus
5 40 (5.26%) Ansible
6 15 (1.97%) Control-M
6 15 (1.97%) Kibana
7 7 (0.92%) Argo
8 5 (0.66%) Istio
9 3 (0.39%) Bosun
9 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.26%) Consul
10 2 (0.26%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.13%) Kiali
11 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 99 (13.03%) Oracle
2 47 (6.18%) Google
3 28 (3.68%) Splunk
4 25 (3.29%) Microsoft
5 18 (2.37%) IBM
6 17 (2.24%) Jaspersoft
7 14 (1.84%) Atlassian
7 14 (1.84%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.45%) MuleSoft
8 11 (1.45%) Solace
9 10 (1.32%) Checkmarx
9 10 (1.32%) Databricks
9 10 (1.32%) Sybase
10 9 (1.18%) New Relic
11 7 (0.92%) Okta
11 7 (0.92%) TikTok
12 6 (0.79%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.66%) ForgeRock
14 4 (0.53%) SAP
15 3 (0.39%) Ab Initio