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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 191 247
Rank change year-on-year +2 +56 -93
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 653 404 425
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.48% 1.39% 0.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.98% 6.13% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 256 316
10th Percentile £352 £356 £388
25th Percentile £412 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £574 £585 £619
90th Percentile £630 £681 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +5.11% -8.16% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 3 0
10th Percentile - £65.25 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £69.38 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £82.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £90.63 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £91.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -33.33% - -

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 9,361 6,592 8,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.23% 22.71% 20.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,230 4,502 6,265
10th Percentile £358 £363 £331
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £498
% change year-on-year +0.78% -0.28% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 98 189
10th Percentile £35.15 £26.25 £20.72
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.13 £37.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +2.77% +29.82% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £85.05 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 27 March 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 27 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 15 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 27 March 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 +19 552 £481 -9.20% 132
UK excluding London +4 355 £473 +5.11% 94
London -12 232 £525 -8.70% 55
North of England +9 164 £475 +4.40% 47
Work from Home -7 153 £483 -3.38% 108
North West +34 116 £475 +8.57% 30
Midlands -29 53 £469 +11.67% 5
West Midlands -16 52 £470 +11.79% 3
South East -13 45 £456 -15.13% 16
Scotland -21 44 £588 +33.22% 7
South West +2 36 £400 -25.58% 14
Yorkshire -40 34 £500 -6.98% 10
North East -9 16 £475 +4.40% 7
East of England -17 15 £510 +9.09% 2
East Midlands -36 1 £220 -45.07% 2

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 27 (4.13%) Confluence
2 24 (3.68%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.14%) Camunda
4 9 (1.38%) WebLogic
5 8 (1.23%) Apache
6 6 (0.92%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.92%) Hyperledger
7 5 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.31%) CICS
10 2 (0.31%) Drupal
10 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.31%) WordPress
11 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.15%) CMS
11 1 (0.15%) nginx
11 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.46%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 367 (56.20%) AWS
2 182 (27.87%) Azure
3 119 (18.22%) GitHub
4 99 (15.16%) GCP
5 87 (13.32%) Serverless
6 79 (12.10%) Amazon S3
7 74 (11.33%) AWS Lambda
8 70 (10.72%) GitHub Actions
9 45 (6.89%) Amazon EC2
10 40 (6.13%) Amazon ECS
11 36 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
12 33 (5.05%) AWS CloudFormation
13 32 (4.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 32 (4.90%) Amazon SQS
14 28 (4.29%) OpenShift
15 25 (3.83%) Azure AKS
16 19 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
17 16 (2.45%) AWS Fargate
18 14 (2.14%) Cloud Run
18 14 (2.14%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.68%) HTTP
2 10 (1.53%) SSL
3 9 (1.38%) Firewall
4 7 (1.07%) HTTPS
5 5 (0.77%) DNS
5 5 (0.77%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.46%) VPN
7 1 (0.15%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (20.21%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (14.40%) NoSQL
3 77 (11.79%) MongoDB
4 76 (11.64%) Relational Database
5 58 (8.88%) MySQL
6 55 (8.42%) DynamoDB
7 42 (6.43%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (3.52%) SQL Server
9 21 (3.22%) Amazon Aurora
10 15 (2.30%) DocumentDB
10 15 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (2.14%) Redis
12 12 (1.84%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (1.84%) RDBMS
13 10 (1.53%) Big Data
13 10 (1.53%) DB2
14 9 (1.38%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.23%) HBase
16 7 (1.07%) Flink
17 6 (0.92%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 148 (22.66%) Git
2 145 (22.21%) Jenkins
3 113 (17.30%) GitLab
3 113 (17.30%) JUnit
4 56 (8.58%) Mockito
5 52 (7.96%) JIRA
6 51 (7.81%) Maven
7 48 (7.35%) Gradle
8 37 (5.67%) Cucumber
9 21 (3.22%) Selenium
9 21 (3.22%) SonarQube
10 16 (2.45%) IntelliJ
11 14 (2.14%) Cypress.io
11 14 (2.14%) Postman
12 13 (1.99%) Gatling
13 12 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (1.68%) Artifactory
15 10 (1.53%) Mocha
15 10 (1.53%) REST Assured
16 9 (1.38%) Jaeger
General
1 145 (22.21%) Social Skills
2 125 (19.14%) Finance
3 112 (17.15%) Public Sector
4 67 (10.26%) Banking
5 28 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (1.99%) Financial Institution
7 12 (1.84%) Retail
8 6 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (0.92%) Law
9 5 (0.77%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.61%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.61%) Automotive
10 4 (0.61%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.61%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.61%) Military
10 4 (0.61%) Publishing
10 4 (0.61%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.46%) Electronics
11 3 (0.46%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 390 (59.72%) Developer
2 277 (42.42%) Java Developer
3 134 (20.52%) Senior
4 104 (15.93%) Java Engineer
5 82 (12.56%) Senior Developer
6 81 (12.40%) Full-Stack Developer
7 72 (11.03%) Software Engineer
8 63 (9.65%) Senior Java Developer
9 56 (8.58%) Lead
10 42 (6.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 39 (5.97%) Java Software Engineer
12 30 (4.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 27 (4.13%) Backend Developer
14 26 (3.98%) Software Developer
15 24 (3.68%) Lead Developer
16 23 (3.52%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 21 (3.22%) Architect
18 19 (2.91%) AWS Developer
18 19 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
19 14 (2.14%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 596 (91.27%) Spring
2 194 (29.71%) RESTful
3 187 (28.64%) Kafka
4 161 (24.66%) REST
5 146 (22.36%) React
6 110 (16.85%) AngularJS
7 88 (13.48%) Node.js
8 66 (10.11%) HTML
9 63 (9.65%) Hibernate
10 49 (7.50%) JPA
11 48 (7.35%) CSS
12 41 (6.28%) OAuth
12 41 (6.28%) Spring MVC
13 38 (5.82%) OAuth2
13 38 (5.82%) OpenTelemetry
14 35 (5.36%) Spring Cloud
15 33 (5.05%) Jest
16 31 (4.75%) RabbitMQ
17 29 (4.44%) JSON
18 28 (4.29%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 102 (15.62%) Cloud Native
2 66 (10.11%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (5.97%) Product Ownership
4 19 (2.91%) Onboarding
5 18 (2.76%) Mobile App
6 17 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.53%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.53%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
9 9 (1.38%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.07%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 6 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (0.92%) NHS
12 4 (0.61%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.43%) Linux
2 9 (1.38%) Unix
3 6 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.46%) Windows
5 2 (0.31%) VMS
5 2 (0.31%) zOS
6 1 (0.15%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (62.33%) Microservices
2 366 (56.05%) CI/CD
3 268 (41.04%) Agile
4 252 (38.59%) DevOps
5 200 (30.63%) Containerisation
6 169 (25.88%) Full-Stack Development
7 137 (20.98%) Software Engineering
8 123 (18.84%) TDD
9 119 (18.22%) Test Automation
10 117 (17.92%) Event-Driven
11 112 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
12 95 (14.55%) Scrum
13 92 (14.09%) Code Quality
14 88 (13.48%) Observability
15 77 (11.79%) Infrastructure as Code
16 72 (11.03%) API Design
16 72 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
17 70 (10.72%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 66 (10.11%) Mentoring
19 64 (9.80%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 614 (94.03%) Java
2 167 (25.57%) SQL
3 96 (14.70%) JavaScript
4 89 (13.63%) TypeScript
5 59 (9.04%) Python
6 48 (7.35%) Kotlin
7 19 (2.91%) Go
8 14 (2.14%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.38%) Rust
10 8 (1.23%) C#
11 7 (1.07%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.92%) Perl
13 4 (0.61%) Scala
14 3 (0.46%) PHP
15 2 (0.31%) Bash
15 2 (0.31%) Ruby
16 1 (0.15%) Groovy
16 1 (0.15%) Korn
16 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 169 (25.88%) Security Cleared
2 135 (20.67%) SC Cleared
3 35 (5.36%) Degree
4 22 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.68%) OCP
6 11 (1.68%) Oracle Certification
7 8 (1.23%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.92%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.61%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (10.41%) QA
2 49 (7.50%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.91%) ISO 20022
4 18 (2.76%) WCAG
5 9 (1.38%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.38%) PSD2
5 9 (1.38%) SEPA
6 4 (0.61%) HL7
6 4 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.61%) NIST
7 3 (0.46%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.46%) GDPR
7 3 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.31%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.31%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.31%) NCSC
9 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 266 (40.74%) Docker
2 7 (1.07%) Postfix
3 3 (0.46%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 301 (46.09%) Kubernetes
2 87 (13.32%) Grafana
3 84 (12.86%) Terraform
4 47 (7.20%) Prometheus
5 22 (3.37%) Ansible
6 14 (2.14%) Argo
7 11 (1.68%) Kibana
8 9 (1.38%) Kiali
9 7 (1.07%) Istio
10 2 (0.31%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.31%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.15%) Consul
11 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 59 (9.04%) Oracle
2 37 (5.67%) Splunk
3 32 (4.90%) Microsoft
4 31 (4.75%) Google
5 11 (1.68%) Red Hat
6 10 (1.53%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (1.38%) Sybase
8 8 (1.23%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.23%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.07%) ForgeRock
9 7 (1.07%) IBM
10 6 (0.92%) Adobe
10 6 (0.92%) Databricks
10 6 (0.92%) PagerDuty
10 6 (0.92%) SAP
10 6 (0.92%) Virgin Media
11 5 (0.77%) Solace
12 4 (0.61%) Checkmarx
12 4 (0.61%) Confluent
12 4 (0.61%) OpenAI