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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 212 285
Rank change year-on-year +21 +73 -143
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 528 433 360
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.45% 1.20% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.42% 5.49% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 275 267
10th Percentile £325 £363 £414
25th Percentile £412 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £568 £630 £639
90th Percentile £620 £780 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £439 £503
% change year-on-year +5.70% -12.77% -8.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £73.05
25th Percentile - - £73.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £76.50
75th Percentile £43.75 - £77.88
90th Percentile £46.00 - £77.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - £76.50
% change year-on-year - - +2.00%

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 8,221 7,894 9,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.53% 21.85% 22.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,461 4,981 7,083
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £650
90th Percentile £716 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 113 183
10th Percentile £30.10 £22.00 £32.60
25th Percentile £43.00 £38.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.35 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.54% +23.81% -19.23%

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 December 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 December 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 +17 421 £473 -17.74% 137
UK excluding London +22 274 £464 +5.70% 133
London -19 202 £513 -13.43% 39
Work from Home +10 142 £504 +5.50% 84
North of England +20 126 £450 +1.12% 49
North West +40 91 £449 +12.13% 28
Scotland -12 57 £575 +35.29% 16
South East +13 35 £450 -19.64% 36
Midlands - 33 £349 - 7
West Midlands - 22 £470 - 4
Yorkshire -26 19 £525 -30.00% 15
North East 0 16 £488 +9.55% 7
Wales +6 12 £475 +13.43% 1
East Midlands - 11 £270 - 3
South West -15 9 £475 -13.64% 21
Northern Ireland -2 2 £425 - 3
East of England -24 1 - - 1

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 22 (4.17%) Confluence
2 12 (2.27%) JBoss
3 9 (1.70%) Tomcat
4 7 (1.33%) Apache
4 7 (1.33%) CMS
5 6 (1.14%) Camunda
6 5 (0.95%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.76%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.76%) Drupal
7 4 (0.76%) Mule
7 4 (0.76%) WordPress
8 3 (0.57%) CICS
8 3 (0.57%) SAS
9 2 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.38%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.38%) nginx
10 1 (0.19%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 292 (55.30%) AWS
2 170 (32.20%) Azure
3 88 (16.67%) GitHub
4 86 (16.29%) GCP
5 58 (10.98%) Serverless
6 47 (8.90%) AWS Lambda
7 39 (7.39%) GitHub Actions
8 38 (7.20%) Amazon S3
9 32 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
9 32 (6.06%) OpenShift
10 28 (5.30%) Amazon EKS
11 26 (4.92%) Amazon SQS
11 26 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
13 23 (4.36%) Azure AKS
13 23 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (3.41%) Datadog
15 17 (3.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 16 (3.03%) Apigee
17 12 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.95%) Kerberos
1 5 (0.95%) SSL
2 4 (0.76%) HTTP
2 4 (0.76%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.57%) VPN
4 1 (0.19%) DNS
4 1 (0.19%) Firewall
4 1 (0.19%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (20.27%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (14.02%) NoSQL
3 71 (13.45%) MongoDB
3 71 (13.45%) Relational Database
4 49 (9.28%) MySQL
5 37 (7.01%) DynamoDB
6 25 (4.73%) RDBMS
7 21 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (3.79%) SQL Server
9 16 (3.03%) Redis
10 14 (2.65%) Amazon Aurora
10 14 (2.65%) Apache Cassandra
11 12 (2.27%) Oracle Database
12 11 (2.08%) DB2
13 8 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (1.52%) HBase
14 7 (1.33%) BigQuery
15 5 (0.95%) DocumentDB
16 4 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
17 3 (0.57%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 140 (26.52%) Git
2 122 (23.11%) Jenkins
3 113 (21.40%) JUnit
4 83 (15.72%) GitLab
5 59 (11.17%) Cucumber
6 57 (10.80%) Mockito
7 56 (10.61%) JIRA
7 56 (10.61%) Maven
8 38 (7.20%) Gradle
9 36 (6.82%) SonarQube
10 28 (5.30%) Sonatype Nexus
11 26 (4.92%) Bitbucket
12 22 (4.17%) Selenium
13 18 (3.41%) Postman
14 14 (2.65%) Artifactory
15 11 (2.08%) Cypress.io
15 11 (2.08%) REST Assured
16 9 (1.70%) Subversion
17 8 (1.52%) Gatling
18 7 (1.33%) JMeter
General
1 134 (25.38%) Social Skills
2 114 (21.59%) Finance
3 86 (16.29%) Banking
4 85 (16.10%) Public Sector
5 30 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.52%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.14%) Financial Institution
9 4 (0.76%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.57%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.57%) Automotive
10 3 (0.57%) Electronics
10 3 (0.57%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.57%) Marketing
10 3 (0.57%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.38%) Front Office
11 2 (0.38%) Law
11 2 (0.38%) Retail
12 1 (0.19%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 335 (63.45%) Developer
2 270 (51.14%) Java Developer
3 97 (18.37%) Senior
4 75 (14.20%) Senior Developer
5 68 (12.88%) Senior Java Developer
6 57 (10.80%) Full-Stack Developer
7 56 (10.61%) Lead
8 52 (9.85%) Java Engineer
9 39 (7.39%) Software Engineer
10 32 (6.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 27 (5.11%) Architect
11 27 (5.11%) Lead Developer
12 26 (4.92%) AWS Developer
13 21 (3.98%) Lead Java Developer
14 17 (3.22%) Backend Developer
15 14 (2.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 14 (2.65%) Java Software Engineer
15 14 (2.65%) Technical Architect
16 12 (2.27%) Azure Engineer
16 12 (2.27%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 452 (85.61%) Spring
2 160 (30.30%) RESTful
3 148 (28.03%) Kafka
4 131 (24.81%) REST
5 124 (23.48%) React
6 94 (17.80%) AngularJS
7 66 (12.50%) Hibernate
8 56 (10.61%) HTML
9 48 (9.09%) Node.js
10 47 (8.90%) JPA
11 44 (8.33%) CSS
12 40 (7.58%) JSON
13 38 (7.20%) OAuth
14 37 (7.01%) OAuth2
15 34 (6.44%) Spring Cloud
16 28 (5.30%) SOAP
16 28 (5.30%) Swagger
17 25 (4.73%) J2EE
17 25 (4.73%) Spring MVC
18 23 (4.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 78 (14.77%) Cloud Native
2 47 (8.90%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (5.11%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.22%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 11 (2.08%) Public Cloud
7 10 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.14%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.14%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.14%) N-Tier
11 5 (0.95%) Distributed Applications
12 4 (0.76%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (0.76%) NHS
12 4 (0.76%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.57%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.55%) Linux
2 16 (3.03%) Unix
3 8 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.14%) Windows
5 3 (0.57%) Android
6 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (71.59%) Microservices
2 306 (57.95%) CI/CD
3 260 (49.24%) Agile
4 193 (36.55%) DevOps
5 157 (29.73%) Containerisation
6 130 (24.62%) Problem-Solving
7 120 (22.73%) TDD
8 118 (22.35%) Test Automation
9 112 (21.21%) Full-Stack Development
10 93 (17.61%) Software Engineering
11 92 (17.42%) Event-Driven
12 69 (13.07%) Scrum
12 69 (13.07%) SDLC
13 66 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
14 57 (10.80%) Mentoring
15 56 (10.61%) BDD
16 54 (10.23%) API Design
16 54 (10.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 51 (9.66%) Code Quality
18 50 (9.47%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 496 (93.94%) Java
2 136 (25.76%) SQL
3 84 (15.91%) JavaScript
4 67 (12.69%) TypeScript
5 61 (11.55%) Python
6 19 (3.60%) Kotlin
6 19 (3.60%) Shell Script
7 10 (1.89%) Bash
7 10 (1.89%) Ruby
8 8 (1.52%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.33%) Groovy
10 5 (0.95%) C#
10 5 (0.95%) Go
10 5 (0.95%) Perl
10 5 (0.95%) Scala
11 4 (0.76%) PHP
12 2 (0.38%) COBOL
12 2 (0.38%) JCL
12 2 (0.38%) Korn
12 2 (0.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 108 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 85 (16.10%) SC Cleared
3 17 (3.22%) Degree
4 13 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.27%) OCP
5 12 (2.27%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (14.02%) QA
2 27 (5.11%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.79%) ISO 20022
4 14 (2.65%) WCAG
5 11 (2.08%) PSD2
5 11 (2.08%) SEPA
6 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.57%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.57%) HL7
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 223 (42.23%) Docker
2 4 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.38%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 225 (42.61%) Kubernetes
2 88 (16.67%) Terraform
3 29 (5.49%) Grafana
4 20 (3.79%) Ansible
5 15 (2.84%) Kibana
5 15 (2.84%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.14%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.95%) Argo
8 2 (0.38%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.38%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.19%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.19%) Consul
9 1 (0.19%) Control-M
9 1 (0.19%) logstash
9 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (12.31%) Oracle
2 29 (5.49%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.36%) Google
4 22 (4.17%) Splunk
5 13 (2.46%) Dynatrace
6 9 (1.70%) CA Agile Central
6 9 (1.70%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.33%) AppDynamics
7 7 (1.33%) Veracode
8 6 (1.14%) Sybase
9 5 (0.95%) Gigya
9 5 (0.95%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.95%) Virgin Media
10 4 (0.76%) ForgeRock
10 4 (0.76%) IBM
10 4 (0.76%) VMware
11 3 (0.57%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.57%) Confluent
11 3 (0.57%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.57%) SAP