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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 176 207
Rank change year-on-year -19 +31 +54
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 748 521 464
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.40% 1.57% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.38% 6.97% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 372 365
10th Percentile £376 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -1.69%
75th Percentile £581 £550 £625
90th Percentile £663 £613 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £452 £469
% change year-on-year +5.03% -3.52% -6.25%
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% -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 10,138 7,471 8,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.01% 22.53% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,600 5,028 5,801
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.50% -6.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 171 241
10th Percentile £28.00 £30.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.25 £41.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year +13.04% -2.39% +0.16%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -8 574 £525 +6.06% 316
UK excluding London -31 343 £475 +5.03% 170
London -7 305 £525 +5.00% 207
Work from Home -32 177 £490 -3.92% 149
North of England -25 128 £500 +7.53% 50
North West -40 70 £550 +34.64% 30
Scotland -11 65 £400 -11.11% 28
Midlands -36 55 £475 +30.49% 16
West Midlands -16 52 £485 +2.11% 12
Yorkshire -5 41 £500 -6.98% 9
South West -16 39 £436 -15.90% 24
East of England +8 26 £500 +6.95% 2
South East -63 24 £367 -31.61% 30
North East -32 18 £450 -8.16% 11
Wales -22 7 £375 -21.05% 13
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 9
East Midlands -31 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 (5.08%) Apache Spark
2 23 (3.07%) Apache
3 16 (2.14%) Confluence
4 14 (1.87%) WebLogic
5 12 (1.60%) Camunda
6 10 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.67%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.53%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.53%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.53%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.40%) nginx
9 3 (0.40%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.27%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.27%) Mule
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 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
1 422 (56.42%) AWS
2 173 (23.13%) Azure
3 129 (17.25%) GCP
4 121 (16.18%) GitHub
5 79 (10.56%) GitHub Actions
6 64 (8.56%) Amazon S3
6 64 (8.56%) Serverless
7 56 (7.49%) AWS Lambda
8 45 (6.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 44 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
10 43 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
11 42 (5.61%) OpenShift
12 41 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
13 39 (5.21%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (2.27%) AWS KMS
16 16 (2.14%) Route 53
17 14 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
17 14 (1.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 13 (1.74%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.07%) HTTPS
2 7 (0.94%) 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
1 159 (21.26%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 80 (10.70%) NoSQL
4 77 (10.29%) MongoDB
5 62 (8.29%) MySQL
6 41 (5.48%) DynamoDB
7 39 (5.21%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (3.74%) SQL Server
9 26 (3.48%) Amazon Aurora
10 23 (3.07%) Redis
11 19 (2.54%) Flink
12 17 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
13 15 (2.01%) Big Data
13 15 (2.01%) 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%) Db2
17 8 (1.07%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 203 (27.14%) Jenkins
2 190 (25.40%) Git
3 123 (16.44%) JUnit
4 103 (13.77%) GitLab
5 92 (12.30%) Gradle
6 89 (11.90%) Maven
7 74 (9.89%) Mockito
8 45 (6.02%) SonarQube
9 40 (5.35%) JIRA
10 21 (2.81%) Liquibase
11 18 (2.41%) Cucumber
12 17 (2.27%) REST Assured
12 17 (2.27%) Selenium
13 14 (1.87%) Gatling
14 13 (1.74%) Bitbucket Server
14 13 (1.74%) IntelliJ
15 12 (1.60%) DbUnit
16 11 (1.47%) jMock
17 10 (1.34%) GoCD
18 9 (1.20%) Flyway
General
1 163 (21.79%) Finance
2 140 (18.72%) Public Sector
3 136 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 82 (10.96%) Banking
5 55 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.81%) 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 7 (0.94%) Retail Banking
11 6 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (0.80%) Publishing
12 4 (0.53%) Automotive
12 4 (0.53%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.53%) Police
13 3 (0.40%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 439 (58.69%) Developer
2 351 (46.93%) Java Developer
3 151 (20.19%) Senior
4 124 (16.58%) Java Engineer
5 100 (13.37%) Software Engineer
6 83 (11.10%) Senior Developer
7 76 (10.16%) Lead
8 68 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
9 58 (7.75%) Java Software Engineer
10 56 (7.49%) Full-Stack Developer
11 44 (5.88%) Software Developer
12 36 (4.81%) Lead Developer
13 34 (4.55%) Backend Developer
13 34 (4.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 31 (4.14%) Senior Java Engineer
15 27 (3.61%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 24 (3.21%) Lead Java Developer
17 22 (2.94%) Data Engineer
18 21 (2.81%) Java Software Developer
19 18 (2.41%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 706 (94.39%) Spring
2 232 (31.02%) Kafka
3 208 (27.81%) RESTful
4 207 (27.67%) REST
5 144 (19.25%) React
6 111 (14.84%) Node.js
7 70 (9.36%) AngularJS
8 69 (9.22%) Hibernate
9 67 (8.96%) JPA
10 66 (8.82%) HTML
11 56 (7.49%) CSS
12 49 (6.55%) Spring MVC
13 47 (6.28%) Web Services
14 43 (5.75%) Redux
15 40 (5.35%) RabbitMQ
16 38 (5.08%) OAuth
16 38 (5.08%) Spring Cloud
17 34 (4.55%) OAuth2
18 32 (4.28%) HTML5
19 29 (3.88%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 171 (22.86%) Cloud Native
2 113 (15.11%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (7.09%) Product Ownership
4 30 (4.01%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (2.14%) Public Cloud
8 15 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.87%) Data Structures
10 12 (1.60%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.47%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.20%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.20%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.07%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
16 5 (0.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 45 (6.02%) Linux
2 26 (3.48%) 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
1 469 (62.70%) Microservices
2 450 (60.16%) CI/CD
3 361 (48.26%) Agile
4 279 (37.30%) DevOps
5 238 (31.82%) Containerisation
6 206 (27.54%) Software Engineering
7 165 (22.06%) TDD
8 155 (20.72%) Test Automation
9 152 (20.32%) Event-Driven
10 147 (19.65%) Scrum
11 126 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 126 (16.84%) Full-Stack Development
12 107 (14.30%) Code Quality
13 104 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
14 101 (13.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 101 (13.50%) Observability
15 94 (12.57%) Infrastructure as Code
16 82 (10.96%) Design Patterns
17 75 (10.03%) Clean Code
18 65 (8.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 739 (98.80%) Java
2 254 (33.96%) SQL
3 108 (14.44%) JavaScript
4 89 (11.90%) Python
5 87 (11.63%) TypeScript
6 37 (4.95%) PL/SQL
7 31 (4.14%) Kotlin
8 19 (2.54%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.47%) Bash
10 9 (1.20%) Ruby
11 8 (1.07%) C#
11 8 (1.07%) Scala
12 5 (0.67%) Groovy
13 4 (0.53%) Go
13 4 (0.53%) Solidity
14 3 (0.40%) Perl
15 2 (0.27%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.27%) PromQL
15 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.13%) Korn
Qualifications
1 232 (31.02%) Security Cleared
2 196 (26.20%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 24 (3.21%) Degree
5 18 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.87%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.74%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.40%) 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 (12.03%) QA
2 66 (8.82%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.74%) ISO 20022
4 9 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.20%) WCAG
5 7 (0.94%) GDPR
5 7 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (0.94%) SEPA
6 5 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
6 5 (0.67%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.40%) EMIR
7 3 (0.40%) ISO 15022
7 3 (0.40%) MiFID
8 1 (0.13%) HL7
8 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.13%) ITGC
8 1 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 324 (43.32%) Docker
2 9 (1.20%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 297 (39.71%) Kubernetes
2 80 (10.70%) Terraform
3 57 (7.62%) Grafana
4 41 (5.48%) Ansible
4 41 (5.48%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.14%) Control-M
5 16 (2.14%) Kibana
6 8 (1.07%) Argo
7 5 (0.67%) Istio
8 3 (0.40%) Bosun
8 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.27%) Consul
9 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.13%) Kiali
10 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 98 (13.10%) Oracle
2 44 (5.88%) Google
3 22 (2.94%) Splunk
4 20 (2.67%) Microsoft
5 17 (2.27%) IBM
6 15 (2.01%) Jaspersoft
7 13 (1.74%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.74%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.60%) Atlassian
9 10 (1.34%) Checkmarx
9 10 (1.34%) Solace
10 9 (1.20%) Databricks
10 9 (1.20%) Sybase
11 8 (1.07%) New Relic
12 7 (0.94%) TikTok
13 6 (0.80%) Okta
14 5 (0.67%) Red Hat
15 4 (0.53%) Confluent
15 4 (0.53%) FIS
15 4 (0.53%) SAP