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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 174 199
Rank change year-on-year -21 +25 +49
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 749 521 473
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.41% 1.58% 1.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.38% 6.98% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 372 367
10th Percentile £376 £313 £376
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -1.22%
75th Percentile £580 £546 £630
90th Percentile £663 £613 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
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 £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 £90.50 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% -5.88%

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 10,149 7,460 8,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.04% 22.67% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,627 5,030 5,830
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £671
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 267 168 245
10th Percentile £28.79 £29.78 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.83 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.44 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% +8.88% -16.67%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.30 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £57.28
% change year-on-year +15.56% -1.79% -2.24%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -4 575 £525 +9.38% 315
UK excluding London -35 347 £475 +5.56% 168
London +4 301 £525 +5.00% 205
Work from Home -40 176 £490 -2.73% 147
North of England -29 128 £500 +8.11% 52
North West -48 70 £550 +36.82% 33
Scotland -7 64 £400 -11.11% 28
Midlands -39 58 £480 +30.43% 17
West Midlands -20 55 £505 +6.32% 13
Yorkshire -11 41 £500 -6.98% 8
South West -18 40 £410 -20.96% 22
East of England +6 26 £500 +6.95% 2
South East -48 25 £367 -31.61% 32
North East -31 18 £450 -6.25% 11
Wales -16 7 £375 -21.05% 10
Northern Ireland 0 2 - - 7
East Midlands -30 2 £401 +25.51% 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 38 (5.07%) Apache Spark
2 23 (3.07%) Apache
3 18 (2.40%) Confluence
4 14 (1.87%) WebLogic
5 10 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.34%) Camunda
6 5 (0.67%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.53%) Ethereum
7 4 (0.53%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.53%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.40%) nginx
8 3 (0.40%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.27%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.27%) Mule
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.13%) CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
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 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.27%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 423 (56.48%) AWS
2 172 (22.96%) Azure
3 132 (17.62%) GCP
4 121 (16.15%) GitHub
5 79 (10.55%) GitHub Actions
6 67 (8.95%) Amazon S3
7 64 (8.54%) Serverless
8 56 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
9 47 (6.28%) Amazon SQS
10 46 (6.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 43 (5.74%) Amazon EKS
12 42 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
12 42 (5.61%) OpenShift
13 41 (5.47%) Amazon ECS
14 22 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (2.54%) AWS KMS
16 18 (2.40%) Route 53
17 17 (2.27%) Cloud Run
18 14 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
18 14 (1.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.07%) HTTPS
2 7 (0.93%) HTTP
3 4 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.40%) Firewall
5 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.13%) AMQP
6 1 (0.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (21.50%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (11.88%) Relational Database
3 78 (10.41%) NoSQL
4 77 (10.28%) MongoDB
5 62 (8.28%) MySQL
6 44 (5.87%) DynamoDB
7 40 (5.34%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (3.74%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.34%) Amazon Aurora
10 23 (3.07%) Redis
11 19 (2.54%) Flink
12 17 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
13 15 (2.00%) Big Data
13 15 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (1.74%) Metadata
15 11 (1.47%) RDBMS
16 10 (1.34%) Data Lake
17 8 (1.07%) Couchbase
17 8 (1.07%) InterSystems Cache
18 7 (0.93%) Db2
Development Applications
1 204 (27.24%) Jenkins
2 195 (26.03%) Git
3 126 (16.82%) JUnit
4 103 (13.75%) GitLab
5 90 (12.02%) Gradle
5 90 (12.02%) Maven
6 77 (10.28%) Mockito
7 47 (6.28%) SonarQube
8 42 (5.61%) JIRA
9 20 (2.67%) Liquibase
10 18 (2.40%) Cucumber
11 17 (2.27%) REST Assured
11 17 (2.27%) Selenium
12 14 (1.87%) DbUnit
12 14 (1.87%) Gatling
13 13 (1.74%) Bitbucket Server
13 13 (1.74%) IntelliJ
13 13 (1.74%) jMock
14 10 (1.34%) GoCD
15 8 (1.07%) Serenity BDD
General
1 162 (21.63%) Finance
2 140 (18.69%) Public Sector
3 135 (18.02%) Social Skills
4 79 (10.55%) Banking
5 56 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.34%) Retail
7 12 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.60%) Law
8 11 (1.47%) Military
9 8 (1.07%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (0.80%) Publishing
10 6 (0.80%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.53%) Automotive
11 4 (0.53%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.53%) Police
12 3 (0.40%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.27%) Local Government
13 2 (0.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 443 (59.15%) Developer
2 356 (47.53%) Java Developer
3 151 (20.16%) Senior
4 122 (16.29%) Java Engineer
5 99 (13.22%) Software Engineer
6 84 (11.21%) Senior Developer
7 76 (10.15%) Lead
8 70 (9.35%) Senior Java Developer
9 59 (7.88%) Java Software Engineer
10 56 (7.48%) Full-Stack Developer
11 44 (5.87%) Software Developer
12 36 (4.81%) Lead Developer
13 34 (4.54%) Backend Developer
13 34 (4.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 30 (4.01%) Senior Java Engineer
15 27 (3.60%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 24 (3.20%) Lead Java Developer
17 22 (2.94%) Data Engineer
18 21 (2.80%) Java Software Developer
19 18 (2.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 707 (94.39%) Spring
2 228 (30.44%) Kafka
3 210 (28.04%) REST
4 206 (27.50%) RESTful
5 143 (19.09%) React
6 111 (14.82%) Node.js
7 72 (9.61%) Hibernate
8 70 (9.35%) AngularJS
8 70 (9.35%) JPA
9 68 (9.08%) HTML
10 58 (7.74%) CSS
11 51 (6.81%) Spring MVC
12 50 (6.68%) Web Services
13 43 (5.74%) Redux
14 39 (5.21%) RabbitMQ
14 39 (5.21%) Spring Cloud
15 36 (4.81%) OAuth
16 34 (4.54%) HTML5
17 32 (4.27%) OAuth2
18 31 (4.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 167 (22.30%) Cloud Native
2 115 (15.35%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (7.08%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
6 23 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (2.14%) Public Cloud
9 15 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.87%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.74%) Mobile App
12 11 (1.47%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.47%) Onboarding
13 9 (1.20%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.07%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 7 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
16 5 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
16 5 (0.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 48 (6.41%) Linux
2 26 (3.47%) Unix
3 4 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.27%) VMS
4 2 (0.27%) Windows
5 1 (0.13%) Android
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Solaris
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 466 (62.22%) Microservices
2 452 (60.35%) CI/CD
3 360 (48.06%) Agile
4 284 (37.92%) DevOps
5 238 (31.78%) Containerisation
6 206 (27.50%) Software Engineering
7 172 (22.96%) TDD
8 153 (20.43%) Test Automation
9 151 (20.16%) Event-Driven
10 150 (20.03%) Scrum
11 128 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 125 (16.69%) Full-Stack Development
13 109 (14.55%) Code Quality
14 105 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
15 104 (13.89%) Observability
16 101 (13.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 94 (12.55%) Infrastructure as Code
18 79 (10.55%) Design Patterns
19 73 (9.75%) Clean Code
20 67 (8.95%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 740 (98.80%) Java
2 256 (34.18%) SQL
3 108 (14.42%) JavaScript
4 89 (11.88%) Python
5 85 (11.35%) TypeScript
6 37 (4.94%) PL/SQL
7 35 (4.67%) Kotlin
8 17 (2.27%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.20%) Bash
9 9 (1.20%) Ruby
10 8 (1.07%) C#
10 8 (1.07%) Scala
11 4 (0.53%) Go
11 4 (0.53%) Solidity
12 3 (0.40%) Groovy
12 3 (0.40%) Perl
13 2 (0.27%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.27%) PromQL
13 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.13%) Korn
Qualifications
1 234 (31.24%) Security Cleared
2 198 (26.44%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 24 (3.20%) Degree
5 18 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.00%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.87%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.67%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.27%) 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 90 (12.02%) QA
2 66 (8.81%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.60%) ISO 20022
4 9 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.20%) WCAG
5 7 (0.93%) GDPR
5 7 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.80%) SEPA
7 5 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.40%) EMIR
9 3 (0.40%) ISO 15022
9 3 (0.40%) MiFID
10 1 (0.13%) HL7
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.13%) ITGC
10 1 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 324 (43.26%) Docker
2 11 (1.47%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 295 (39.39%) Kubernetes
2 80 (10.68%) Terraform
3 64 (8.54%) Grafana
4 42 (5.61%) Prometheus
5 41 (5.47%) Ansible
6 16 (2.14%) Control-M
6 16 (2.14%) Kibana
7 7 (0.93%) Argo
8 5 (0.67%) Istio
9 3 (0.40%) Bosun
9 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.27%) Consul
10 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.13%) Kiali
11 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 97 (12.95%) Oracle
2 48 (6.41%) Google
3 26 (3.47%) Splunk
4 20 (2.67%) Microsoft
5 17 (2.27%) IBM
5 17 (2.27%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (1.87%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.74%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.74%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.34%) Checkmarx
8 10 (1.34%) Solace
9 9 (1.20%) Databricks
9 9 (1.20%) Sybase
10 8 (1.07%) New Relic
11 7 (0.93%) TikTok
12 6 (0.80%) Okta
13 5 (0.67%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.53%) FIS
14 4 (0.53%) ForgeRock
14 4 (0.53%) SAP