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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 200 196
Rank change year-on-year +15 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 711 402 499
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.46% 1.41% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.48% 6.18% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 272 384
10th Percentile £375 £325 £377
25th Percentile £424 £402 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £557 £620
90th Percentile £650 £630 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £439 £489
% change year-on-year +8.14% -10.17% -4.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 8 1
10th Percentile - £45.50 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £69.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -16.67% +2.49%
75th Percentile £81.00 £89.69 £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 9,510 6,500 8,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.59% 22.73% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,248 4,454 6,211
10th Percentile £363 £361 £345
25th Percentile £420 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 105 250
10th Percentile £30.77 £27.44 £21.68
25th Percentile £51.25 £37.80 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.75 £65.95
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.22 £74.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.43
% change year-on-year - +34.21% -25.49%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +39 606 £510 +2.00% 121
UK excluding London 0 349 £475 +8.14% 86
London +21 288 £525 -0.94% 54
Work from Home -8 169 £490 -6.67% 55
North of England +12 160 £475 +2.15% 41
North West +25 110 £500 +24.38% 28
Midlands -44 51 £469 +16.67% 2
South West +9 48 £409 -22.10% 12
West Midlands -31 48 £470 +6.82%
Scotland -29 37 £407 -6.91% 2
Yorkshire -31 35 £475 -9.52% 10
East of England -6 31 £507 +8.45% 5
South East -52 25 £525 -2.23% 17
North East -11 18 £475 +2.15% 4
East Midlands -42 2 £401 +12.01% 2
Wales -11 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 41 (5.77%) Apache Spark
2 24 (3.38%) Confluence
3 15 (2.11%) Apache
3 15 (2.11%) Camunda
4 8 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.13%) WebLogic
5 6 (0.84%) Ethereum
5 6 (0.84%) Hyperledger
6 4 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.28%) Drupal
8 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.28%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.28%) WordPress
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.14%) CICS
9 1 (0.14%) CMS
9 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
1 378 (53.16%) AWS
2 162 (22.78%) Azure
3 121 (17.02%) GitHub
4 109 (15.33%) GCP
5 76 (10.69%) Amazon S3
5 76 (10.69%) GitHub Actions
6 74 (10.41%) Serverless
7 65 (9.14%) AWS Lambda
8 44 (6.19%) Amazon SQS
9 43 (6.05%) Amazon EC2
10 37 (5.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (4.64%) Amazon ECS
11 33 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
12 30 (4.22%) OpenShift
13 22 (3.09%) Route 53
14 19 (2.67%) Azure AKS
14 19 (2.67%) Cloud Run
15 18 (2.53%) AWS KMS
15 18 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
16 16 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.41%) Firewall
1 10 (1.41%) HTTP
2 7 (0.98%) SSL
3 5 (0.70%) HTTPS
4 4 (0.56%) DNS
4 4 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.28%) VPN
6 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (19.41%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (12.94%) NoSQL
3 80 (11.25%) Relational Database
4 76 (10.69%) MongoDB
5 55 (7.74%) DynamoDB
6 53 (7.45%) MySQL
7 47 (6.61%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (3.52%) Amazon Aurora
8 25 (3.52%) SQL Server
9 19 (2.67%) Big Data
10 17 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
10 17 (2.39%) Redis
11 14 (1.97%) Flink
12 12 (1.69%) DocumentDB
13 10 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
13 10 (1.41%) RDBMS
14 8 (1.13%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (0.98%) DB2
16 6 (0.84%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 155 (21.80%) Git
1 155 (21.80%) Jenkins
2 112 (15.75%) GitLab
3 111 (15.61%) JUnit
4 68 (9.56%) Gradle
5 67 (9.42%) Mockito
6 52 (7.31%) Maven
7 50 (7.03%) JIRA
8 34 (4.78%) SonarQube
9 24 (3.38%) Selenium
10 23 (3.23%) Cucumber
10 23 (3.23%) IntelliJ
11 20 (2.81%) REST Assured
12 17 (2.39%) Gatling
13 16 (2.25%) Liquibase
14 14 (1.97%) DbUnit
15 13 (1.83%) jMock
16 12 (1.69%) Serenity BDD
17 11 (1.55%) Bitbucket Server
18 10 (1.41%) Jaeger
General
1 145 (20.39%) Finance
2 130 (18.28%) Social Skills
3 120 (16.88%) Public Sector
4 69 (9.70%) Banking
5 35 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.67%) Financial Institution
7 17 (2.39%) Retail
8 8 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.13%) Law
9 7 (0.98%) Retail Banking
10 6 (0.84%) Military
10 6 (0.84%) Publishing
11 5 (0.70%) Automotive
11 5 (0.70%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.56%) 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
1 393 (55.27%) Developer
2 288 (40.51%) Java Developer
3 150 (21.10%) Senior
4 127 (17.86%) Java Engineer
5 95 (13.36%) Software Engineer
6 83 (11.67%) Senior Developer
7 69 (9.70%) Full-Stack Developer
7 69 (9.70%) Lead
8 64 (9.00%) Senior Java Developer
9 51 (7.17%) Java Software Engineer
10 44 (6.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 36 (5.06%) Backend Developer
12 30 (4.22%) Software Developer
13 27 (3.80%) Lead Developer
14 25 (3.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 23 (3.23%) Senior Java Engineer
16 22 (3.09%) Data Engineer
17 21 (2.95%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 18 (2.53%) Lead Java Developer
19 16 (2.25%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 661 (92.97%) Spring
2 206 (28.97%) Kafka
3 189 (26.58%) RESTful
4 172 (24.19%) REST
5 143 (20.11%) React
6 96 (13.50%) Node.js
7 81 (11.39%) AngularJS
8 57 (8.02%) Hibernate
9 55 (7.74%) HTML
10 53 (7.45%) Spring Cloud
11 52 (7.31%) JPA
12 47 (6.61%) OpenTelemetry
13 44 (6.19%) OAuth
14 41 (5.77%) CSS
14 41 (5.77%) OAuth2
15 40 (5.63%) Spring MVC
16 37 (5.20%) Web Services
17 36 (5.06%) Next.js
18 32 (4.50%) SOAP
19 31 (4.36%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 128 (18.00%) Cloud Native
2 80 (11.25%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (5.06%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (2.67%) Mobile App
6 14 (1.97%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.69%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.41%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.41%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.27%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (1.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (0.70%) NHS
14 5 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.89%) Linux
2 14 (1.97%) Unix
3 5 (0.70%) 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
6 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (59.92%) Microservices
2 405 (56.96%) CI/CD
3 270 (37.97%) Agile
4 269 (37.83%) DevOps
5 243 (34.18%) Containerisation
6 174 (24.47%) Software Engineering
7 155 (21.80%) Full-Stack Development
8 141 (19.83%) TDD
9 123 (17.30%) Event-Driven
10 119 (16.74%) Test Automation
11 109 (15.33%) Observability
12 104 (14.63%) Code Quality
13 98 (13.78%) Continuous Improvement
13 98 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
14 96 (13.50%) Scrum
15 82 (11.53%) Infrastructure as Code
16 80 (11.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 70 (9.85%) API Design
18 69 (9.70%) Mentoring
19 65 (9.14%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 682 (95.92%) Java
2 216 (30.38%) SQL
3 107 (15.05%) JavaScript
4 88 (12.38%) TypeScript
5 77 (10.83%) Python
6 47 (6.61%) Kotlin
7 17 (2.39%) Go
8 11 (1.55%) C#
8 11 (1.55%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.55%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.27%) Rust
10 7 (0.98%) Scala
11 5 (0.70%) Perl
11 5 (0.70%) Ruby
12 4 (0.56%) Bash
13 2 (0.28%) PHP
13 2 (0.28%) PromQL
13 2 (0.28%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.14%) Korn
14 1 (0.14%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 201 (28.27%) Security Cleared
2 162 (22.78%) SC Cleared
3 34 (4.78%) Degree
4 26 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.83%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.98%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.84%) 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 64 (9.00%) QA
2 61 (8.58%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.11%) ISO 20022
4 12 (1.69%) WCAG
5 11 (1.55%) SEPA
6 9 (1.27%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.13%) GDPR
8 7 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.84%) PSD2
10 5 (0.70%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.56%) NIST
12 2 (0.28%) EMIR
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%) HL7
13 1 (0.14%) ITGC
13 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 317 (44.59%) Docker
2 11 (1.55%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 315 (44.30%) Kubernetes
2 92 (12.94%) Grafana
3 80 (11.25%) Terraform
4 61 (8.58%) Prometheus
5 31 (4.36%) Ansible
6 14 (1.97%) Argo
7 10 (1.41%) Istio
7 10 (1.41%) Kiali
8 9 (1.27%) Kibana
9 4 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.28%) Consul
10 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 50 (7.03%) Oracle
2 38 (5.34%) Splunk
3 28 (3.94%) Microsoft
4 27 (3.80%) Google
5 17 (2.39%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (1.97%) Atlassian
7 10 (1.41%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.27%) Checkmarx
8 9 (1.27%) IBM
8 9 (1.27%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.13%) Solace
9 8 (1.13%) Sybase
10 7 (0.98%) Databricks
11 6 (0.84%) Okta
12 5 (0.70%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.70%) Adobe
12 5 (0.70%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.70%) New Relic
12 5 (0.70%) Teradata
13 4 (0.56%) SAP