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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 190 199
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 +76
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 820 494 482
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.51% 1.50% 1.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.97% 5.83% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 336 362
10th Percentile £375 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £497 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% -5.33% -
75th Percentile £594 £556 £631
90th Percentile £688 £613 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £468 £450
% change year-on-year +1.44% +4.06% -9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 10 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £69.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 £83.44 £74.50
90th Percentile £84.80 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% -7.69%

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 11,764 8,473 9,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.68% 25.72% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,728 5,672 6,318
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £435 £413 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £634 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.37% -5.00% -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 182 187
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £47.90 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.66 £53.25 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +25.18% -13.56% -2.99%
75th Percentile £76.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.45 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.18% -15.38% +4.00%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -7 642 £525 +5.00% 736
UK excluding London -14 379 £475 +1.44% 459
London +2 336 £530 +1.92% 420
Work from Home -15 192 £500 -1.48% 361
North of England -25 152 £537 +14.99% 147
North West -33 85 £555 +29.07% 90
Midlands -8 72 £551 +51.24% 50
West Midlands -3 66 £570 +14.00% 36
Scotland -20 63 £403 -12.81% 96
Yorkshire -2 53 £488 -11.36% 28
South West -21 39 £410 -19.41% 65
South East -54 26 £297 -46.00% 44
East of England 0 23 £495 +5.88% 8
North East -33 15 £450 -6.25% 29
Wales -16 8 £394 -17.11% 10
East Midlands -25 5 £400 +27.80% 14
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 41

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 31 (3.78%) Apache Spark
2 28 (3.41%) Confluence
3 25 (3.05%) Apache
4 19 (2.32%) Camunda
5 10 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.98%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.61%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.49%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.49%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.49%) nginx
8 4 (0.49%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.24%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.24%) Mule
10 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.12%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.61%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.49%) Quorum
2 4 (0.49%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.49%) Ripple
3 3 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.37%) Finacle
3 3 (0.37%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.24%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 470 (57.32%) AWS
2 181 (22.07%) Azure
3 133 (16.22%) GCP
3 133 (16.22%) GitHub
4 85 (10.37%) GitHub Actions
5 67 (8.17%) Serverless
6 63 (7.68%) AWS Lambda
7 60 (7.32%) Amazon S3
8 51 (6.22%) OpenShift
9 47 (5.73%) Amazon ECS
9 47 (5.73%) Amazon EKS
10 44 (5.37%) Amazon SQS
11 40 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 35 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (2.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 16 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (1.71%) Anthropic Claude
16 14 (1.71%) GitHub Copilot
17 12 (1.46%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.46%) HTTP
2 6 (0.73%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.37%) Firewall
4 3 (0.37%) SSL
5 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) AMQP
6 1 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.12%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (20.85%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (13.17%) Relational Database
3 105 (12.80%) MongoDB
4 97 (11.83%) NoSQL
5 64 (7.80%) MySQL
6 41 (5.00%) SQL Server
7 34 (4.15%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (3.78%) Redis
9 29 (3.54%) DynamoDB
10 22 (2.68%) Amazon Aurora
11 21 (2.56%) Flink
12 16 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (1.95%) RDBMS
13 15 (1.83%) Apache Cassandra
13 15 (1.83%) Big Data
13 15 (1.83%) Metadata
14 12 (1.46%) Couchbase
14 12 (1.46%) Oracle Database
15 11 (1.34%) Data Lake
16 8 (0.98%) Db2
Development Applications
1 224 (27.32%) Jenkins
2 210 (25.61%) Git
3 141 (17.20%) JUnit
4 129 (15.73%) GitLab
5 128 (15.61%) Maven
6 113 (13.78%) Gradle
7 91 (11.10%) Mockito
8 55 (6.71%) SonarQube
9 47 (5.73%) JIRA
10 27 (3.29%) Cucumber
11 26 (3.17%) REST Assured
12 22 (2.68%) Selenium
13 18 (2.20%) Liquibase
14 14 (1.71%) Bitbucket Server
15 13 (1.59%) Gatling
16 12 (1.46%) IntelliJ
17 10 (1.22%) GoCD
17 10 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
18 9 (1.10%) Flyway
19 8 (0.98%) JProfiler
General
1 191 (23.29%) Finance
2 171 (20.85%) Social Skills
3 144 (17.56%) Public Sector
4 114 (13.90%) Banking
5 71 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (2.93%) Retail
7 17 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.46%) Military
10 10 (1.22%) Law
11 8 (0.98%) Retail Banking
12 7 (0.85%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.85%) Front Office
13 6 (0.73%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.61%) Publishing
15 4 (0.49%) Police
16 3 (0.37%) Corporate Banking
16 3 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
17 2 (0.24%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 469 (57.20%) Developer
2 380 (46.34%) Java Developer
3 179 (21.83%) Senior
4 134 (16.34%) Java Engineer
5 100 (12.20%) Software Engineer
6 93 (11.34%) Senior Developer
7 90 (10.98%) Lead
8 73 (8.90%) Senior Java Developer
9 70 (8.54%) Full-Stack Developer
10 54 (6.59%) Java Software Engineer
11 47 (5.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 44 (5.37%) Lead Developer
12 44 (5.37%) Software Developer
13 39 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
14 33 (4.02%) Lead Java Developer
15 28 (3.41%) Backend Developer
16 26 (3.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 25 (3.05%) Architect
18 23 (2.80%) Data Engineer
18 23 (2.80%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 773 (94.27%) Spring
2 283 (34.51%) Kafka
3 252 (30.73%) REST
4 219 (26.71%) RESTful
5 161 (19.63%) React
6 108 (13.17%) Node.js
7 88 (10.73%) JPA
8 86 (10.49%) HTML
8 86 (10.49%) Terraform
9 84 (10.24%) AngularJS
10 79 (9.63%) Hibernate
11 74 (9.02%) CSS
12 58 (7.07%) Web Services
13 56 (6.83%) Spring MVC
14 50 (6.10%) RabbitMQ
14 50 (6.10%) Redux
15 43 (5.24%) OAuth
16 42 (5.12%) SOAP
16 42 (5.12%) Spring Cloud
17 40 (4.88%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 212 (25.85%) Cloud Native
2 126 (15.37%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (8.78%) Product Ownership
4 49 (5.98%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (2.07%) Data Structures
10 16 (1.95%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.95%) Onboarding
11 15 (1.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 14 (1.71%) Public Cloud
13 12 (1.46%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.98%) Algorithms
15 7 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 7 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
16 6 (0.73%) Fixed Income
16 6 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
17 5 (0.61%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.10%) Linux
2 36 (4.39%) Unix
3 2 (0.24%) VMS
3 2 (0.24%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) AIX
4 1 (0.12%) Android
4 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.12%) Solaris
4 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (64.63%) Microservices
2 491 (59.88%) CI/CD
3 414 (50.49%) Agile
4 305 (37.20%) DevOps
5 252 (30.73%) Software Engineering
6 249 (30.37%) Containerisation
7 206 (25.12%) Test Automation
8 195 (23.78%) Event-Driven
9 173 (21.10%) Scrum
10 164 (20.00%) TDD
11 143 (17.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 139 (16.95%) Full-Stack Development
13 129 (15.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 125 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
15 124 (15.12%) Code Quality
16 119 (14.51%) Observability
17 103 (12.56%) Infrastructure as Code
18 96 (11.71%) SDLC
19 93 (11.34%) Clean Code
20 87 (10.61%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 810 (98.78%) Java
2 283 (34.51%) SQL
3 135 (16.46%) JavaScript
4 106 (12.93%) TypeScript
5 83 (10.12%) Python
6 38 (4.63%) PL/SQL
7 25 (3.05%) Kotlin
7 25 (3.05%) Shell Script
8 14 (1.71%) Bash
9 10 (1.22%) Scala
10 8 (0.98%) Ruby
11 6 (0.73%) C#
12 5 (0.61%) Groovy
13 4 (0.49%) Solidity
14 3 (0.37%) Go
14 3 (0.37%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.24%) Korn
15 2 (0.24%) PromQL
15 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.12%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 237 (28.90%) Security Cleared
2 200 (24.39%) SC Cleared
3 74 (9.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 41 (5.00%) Degree
5 31 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.07%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.83%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.49%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.37%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.12%) CISSP
11 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (13.41%) QA
2 68 (8.29%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.80%) ISO 20022
4 14 (1.71%) SEPA
5 11 (1.34%) WCAG
6 10 (1.22%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.85%) GDPR
8 6 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.61%) PSD2
10 4 (0.49%) ISO 15022
10 4 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.37%) EMIR
11 3 (0.37%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) HL7
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 345 (42.07%) Docker
2 5 (0.61%) Postfix
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 323 (39.39%) Kubernetes
2 62 (7.56%) Grafana
3 50 (6.10%) Prometheus
4 40 (4.88%) Ansible
5 24 (2.93%) Kibana
6 16 (1.95%) Control-M
7 10 (1.22%) Argo
8 7 (0.85%) Istio
9 4 (0.49%) Bosun
9 4 (0.49%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.24%) Consul
11 2 (0.24%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.12%) Kiali
12 1 (0.12%) logstash
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 127 (15.49%) Oracle
2 42 (5.12%) Google
3 30 (3.66%) IBM
4 22 (2.68%) Microsoft
5 20 (2.44%) Splunk
6 19 (2.32%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.71%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.10%) Databricks
8 9 (1.10%) Solace
8 9 (1.10%) Sybase
9 8 (0.98%) Jaspersoft
9 8 (0.98%) New Relic
9 8 (0.98%) Veracode
10 7 (0.85%) Atlassian
10 7 (0.85%) Checkmarx
10 7 (0.85%) FIS
10 7 (0.85%) TikTok
11 6 (0.73%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.61%) Confluent
12 5 (0.61%) Temenos