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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 197 195
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 +94
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 829 477 493
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.51% 1.44% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.98% 5.53% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 331 362
10th Percentile £378 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £565 £631
90th Percentile £688 £613 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +8.11% +2.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 6 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £38.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £44.38 £69.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -27.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 £55.00 £74.50
90th Percentile £79.60 - -
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 11,884 8,631 9,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.66% 26.04% 24.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,808 5,738 6,150
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £440 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 187 188
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -14.19% +4.88%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.34% -11.54% +11.11%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +3 637 £525 +5.00% 635
UK excluding London -13 383 £500 +8.11% 504
London +13 332 £533 +1.43% 331
Work from Home -23 191 £500 -2.44% 412
North of England -24 157 £537 +14.38% 146
North West -31 89 £560 +30.23% 85
Midlands -7 79 £558 +55.80% 40
West Midlands +11 73 £575 +15.00% 28
Scotland -15 66 £402 -15.37% 123
Yorkshire +6 52 £475 -13.64% 28
South West -19 30 £500 -0.50% 55
South East -58 25 £358 -20.56% 50
East of England - 21 £495 - 7
North East -42 17 £450 -10.00% 33
Wales -16 9 £413 -13.16% 35
East Midlands -30 5 £400 +44.93% 12
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 49

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 30 (3.62%) Apache
2 29 (3.50%) Confluence
3 27 (3.26%) Apache Spark
4 17 (2.05%) Camunda
5 9 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.97%) WebLogic
7 6 (0.72%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.60%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.48%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.48%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.48%) nginx
10 3 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.24%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.24%) Mule
11 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) Solana
12 1 (0.12%) JBoss
12 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.60%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.48%) Quorum
2 4 (0.48%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.48%) Ripple
3 3 (0.36%) Finacle
3 3 (0.36%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.24%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 476 (57.42%) AWS
2 181 (21.83%) Azure
3 134 (16.16%) GitHub
4 129 (15.56%) GCP
5 86 (10.37%) GitHub Actions
6 66 (7.96%) Serverless
7 62 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
8 59 (7.12%) Amazon S3
9 50 (6.03%) OpenShift
10 49 (5.91%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (5.79%) Amazon EKS
12 43 (5.19%) Amazon SQS
13 37 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 34 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
16 18 (2.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 16 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
18 15 (1.81%) Anthropic Claude
18 15 (1.81%) GitHub Copilot
19 12 (1.45%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.57%) HTTP
2 7 (0.84%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.36%) Firewall
4 3 (0.36%) SSL
5 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) AMQP
6 1 (0.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (20.27%) PostgreSQL
2 110 (13.27%) MongoDB
3 107 (12.91%) Relational Database
4 96 (11.58%) NoSQL
5 50 (6.03%) MySQL
6 41 (4.95%) SQL Server
7 33 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (3.62%) Redis
9 24 (2.90%) Flink
10 23 (2.77%) DynamoDB
11 21 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
12 16 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
13 15 (1.81%) Metadata
13 15 (1.81%) RDBMS
14 14 (1.69%) Oracle Database
15 13 (1.57%) Big Data
16 12 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
16 12 (1.45%) Couchbase
17 10 (1.21%) Data Lake
18 8 (0.97%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 226 (27.26%) Jenkins
2 215 (25.93%) Git
3 146 (17.61%) JUnit
4 142 (17.13%) GitLab
5 135 (16.28%) Maven
6 119 (14.35%) Gradle
7 98 (11.82%) Mockito
8 51 (6.15%) SonarQube
9 46 (5.55%) JIRA
10 33 (3.98%) Cucumber
11 29 (3.50%) REST Assured
12 23 (2.77%) Selenium
13 17 (2.05%) Liquibase
14 15 (1.81%) Gatling
15 13 (1.57%) Bitbucket Server
16 11 (1.33%) Claude Code
16 11 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
17 10 (1.21%) GoCD
18 9 (1.09%) Flyway
18 9 (1.09%) IntelliJ
General
1 196 (23.64%) Finance
2 172 (20.75%) Social Skills
3 150 (18.09%) Public Sector
4 123 (14.84%) Banking
5 73 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.14%) Retail
7 19 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.45%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.45%) Military
10 10 (1.21%) Front Office
11 8 (0.97%) Law
12 7 (0.84%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.84%) Retail Banking
13 6 (0.72%) Back Office
13 6 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.48%) iGaming
15 3 (0.36%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.36%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 465 (56.09%) Developer
2 374 (45.11%) Java Developer
3 185 (22.32%) Senior
4 142 (17.13%) Java Engineer
5 102 (12.30%) Software Engineer
6 94 (11.34%) Senior Developer
7 92 (11.10%) Lead
8 74 (8.93%) Senior Java Developer
9 65 (7.84%) Full-Stack Developer
10 55 (6.63%) Java Software Engineer
11 46 (5.55%) Lead Developer
12 45 (5.43%) Senior Java Engineer
13 42 (5.07%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 40 (4.83%) Software Developer
15 35 (4.22%) Lead Java Developer
16 30 (3.62%) Backend Developer
17 28 (3.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 25 (3.02%) Architect
19 23 (2.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 23 (2.77%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 779 (93.97%) Spring
2 303 (36.55%) Kafka
3 260 (31.36%) REST
4 220 (26.54%) RESTful
5 147 (17.73%) React
6 106 (12.79%) Node.js
7 98 (11.82%) JPA
8 89 (10.74%) Terraform
9 83 (10.01%) Hibernate
10 80 (9.65%) AngularJS
11 76 (9.17%) HTML
12 65 (7.84%) CSS
13 59 (7.12%) Web Services
14 50 (6.03%) Spring MVC
15 48 (5.79%) RabbitMQ
16 47 (5.67%) OAuth
17 46 (5.55%) OpenAPI
18 43 (5.19%) SOAP
19 42 (5.07%) Redux
20 40 (4.83%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 219 (26.42%) Cloud Native
2 140 (16.89%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (8.56%) Product Ownership
4 50 (6.03%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
7 26 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (2.41%) AI Agents
9 17 (2.05%) Data Structures
9 17 (2.05%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 14 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.69%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.45%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.97%) Fixed Income
14 7 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
15 6 (0.72%) Algorithms
15 6 (0.72%) Blockchain
15 6 (0.72%) Equities
15 6 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.51%) Linux
2 37 (4.46%) Unix
3 2 (0.24%) AIX
3 2 (0.24%) Mac OS X
3 2 (0.24%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) Android
4 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.12%) Solaris
4 1 (0.12%) VMS
4 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (64.78%) Microservices
2 507 (61.16%) CI/CD
3 427 (51.51%) Agile
4 298 (35.95%) DevOps
5 256 (30.88%) Software Engineering
6 239 (28.83%) Containerisation
7 215 (25.93%) Test Automation
8 208 (25.09%) Event-Driven
9 180 (21.71%) Scrum
10 165 (19.90%) TDD
11 139 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 137 (16.53%) Full-Stack Development
13 136 (16.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 124 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
15 113 (13.63%) Observability
16 103 (12.42%) Code Quality
17 98 (11.82%) Infrastructure as Code
18 93 (11.22%) Clean Code
19 89 (10.74%) SDLC
20 88 (10.62%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 817 (98.55%) Java
2 282 (34.02%) SQL
3 125 (15.08%) JavaScript
4 106 (12.79%) TypeScript
5 76 (9.17%) Python
6 40 (4.83%) PL/SQL
7 29 (3.50%) Shell Script
8 23 (2.77%) Kotlin
9 14 (1.69%) Bash
10 11 (1.33%) Scala
11 9 (1.09%) Ruby
12 6 (0.72%) C#
13 5 (0.60%) Groovy
14 4 (0.48%) Solidity
15 3 (0.36%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.24%) Korn
16 2 (0.24%) PromQL
16 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.12%) Bicep
17 1 (0.12%) C++
Qualifications
1 235 (28.35%) Security Cleared
2 203 (24.49%) SC Cleared
3 79 (9.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 39 (4.70%) Degree
5 31 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.05%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.69%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.36%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.36%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.12%) CISSP
10 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (13.27%) QA
2 74 (8.93%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.65%) ISO 20022
4 13 (1.57%) SEPA
5 12 (1.45%) WCAG
6 9 (1.09%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.84%) GDPR
8 6 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.60%) PSD2
10 4 (0.48%) ISO 15022
10 4 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.36%) EMIR
11 3 (0.36%) MiFID
12 2 (0.24%) NIST
13 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 1 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 346 (41.74%) Docker
2 3 (0.36%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 328 (39.57%) Kubernetes
2 58 (7.00%) Grafana
3 45 (5.43%) Prometheus
4 37 (4.46%) Ansible
5 29 (3.50%) Kibana
6 16 (1.93%) Control-M
7 11 (1.33%) Argo
8 6 (0.72%) Istio
9 4 (0.48%) Bosun
9 4 (0.48%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.24%) Consul
10 2 (0.24%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.12%) Kiali
11 1 (0.12%) logstash
11 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 127 (15.32%) Oracle
2 40 (4.83%) Google
3 29 (3.50%) IBM
4 21 (2.53%) Splunk
5 18 (2.17%) Microsoft
6 16 (1.93%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.57%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.09%) New Relic
8 9 (1.09%) Sybase
8 9 (1.09%) Veracode
9 8 (0.97%) Databricks
10 7 (0.84%) FIS
10 7 (0.84%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.84%) Solace
10 7 (0.84%) TikTok
11 6 (0.72%) Jaspersoft
12 5 (0.60%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.60%) ION Trading
12 5 (0.60%) Temenos
12 5 (0.60%) webMethods