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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 186 195
Rank change year-on-year -6 +9 +86
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 819 491 480
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.51% 1.51% 1.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.95% 5.91% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 336 362
10th Percentile £377 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £497 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% -5.33% -
75th Percentile £588 £556 £631
90th Percentile £688 £613 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £468 £450
% change year-on-year +1.44% +4.06% -9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 10 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £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 £84.80 £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 11,783 8,312 9,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.65% 25.61% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,748 5,566 6,315
10th Percentile £375 £353 £356
25th Percentile £435 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £634 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 180 187
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.20 £25.60
25th Percentile £49.00 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -2.99%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.20 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +4.00%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -5 642 £525 +5.00% 718
UK excluding London -17 377 £475 +1.44% 455
London +12 340 £525 +0.96% 411
Work from Home -28 189 £500 -1.96% 353
North of England -18 153 £537 +14.99% 147
North West -31 85 £555 +29.07% 91
Midlands -11 71 £551 +51.24% 47
West Midlands -3 65 £565 +13.00% 35
Scotland -14 63 £402 -13.08% 94
Yorkshire +10 53 £488 -11.36% 29
South West -26 37 £424 -16.71% 65
South East -50 26 £297 -46.00% 42
East of England -7 23 £495 +5.88% 10
North East -31 16 £450 -6.25% 27
Wales -17 8 £394 -17.11% 10
East Midlands -26 5 £400 +27.80% 12
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 42

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 31 (3.79%) Apache Spark
2 28 (3.42%) Confluence
3 23 (2.81%) Apache
4 19 (2.32%) Camunda
5 10 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.98%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.61%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.49%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.49%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.49%) nginx
8 4 (0.49%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.24%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.24%) Mule
10 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.12%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.61%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.49%) Quorum
2 4 (0.49%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.49%) Ripple
3 3 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.37%) Finacle
3 3 (0.37%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.24%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 464 (56.65%) AWS
2 180 (21.98%) Azure
3 133 (16.24%) GCP
4 132 (16.12%) GitHub
5 85 (10.38%) GitHub Actions
6 64 (7.81%) Serverless
7 60 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
8 57 (6.96%) Amazon S3
9 51 (6.23%) OpenShift
10 45 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
11 44 (5.37%) Amazon EKS
12 41 (5.01%) Amazon SQS
13 40 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 33 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
16 18 (2.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 16 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
18 14 (1.71%) Anthropic Claude
18 14 (1.71%) GitHub Copilot
19 12 (1.47%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.47%) HTTP
2 6 (0.73%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.37%) Firewall
4 3 (0.37%) SSL
5 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) AMQP
6 1 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.12%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (21.00%) PostgreSQL
2 109 (13.31%) Relational Database
3 103 (12.58%) MongoDB
4 97 (11.84%) NoSQL
5 64 (7.81%) MySQL
6 41 (5.01%) SQL Server
7 32 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (3.66%) Redis
9 29 (3.54%) DynamoDB
10 22 (2.69%) Amazon Aurora
11 19 (2.32%) Flink
12 16 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (1.95%) RDBMS
13 15 (1.83%) Apache Cassandra
13 15 (1.83%) Big Data
13 15 (1.83%) Metadata
14 12 (1.47%) Couchbase
14 12 (1.47%) Oracle Database
15 11 (1.34%) Data Lake
16 8 (0.98%) Db2
Development Applications
1 224 (27.35%) Jenkins
2 208 (25.40%) Git
3 142 (17.34%) JUnit
4 128 (15.63%) GitLab
5 126 (15.38%) Maven
6 115 (14.04%) Gradle
7 92 (11.23%) Mockito
8 55 (6.72%) SonarQube
9 47 (5.74%) JIRA
10 27 (3.30%) REST Assured
11 26 (3.17%) Cucumber
12 21 (2.56%) Selenium
13 20 (2.44%) Liquibase
14 14 (1.71%) Bitbucket Server
15 13 (1.59%) Gatling
16 12 (1.47%) IntelliJ
17 10 (1.22%) GoCD
17 10 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
18 9 (1.10%) Flyway
19 8 (0.98%) JProfiler
General
1 190 (23.20%) Finance
2 172 (21.00%) Social Skills
3 144 (17.58%) Public Sector
4 111 (13.55%) Banking
5 71 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.81%) Retail
7 17 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.47%) Military
10 10 (1.22%) Law
11 8 (0.98%) Retail Banking
12 7 (0.85%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.85%) Front Office
13 6 (0.73%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.61%) Publishing
15 4 (0.49%) Police
16 3 (0.37%) Corporate Banking
16 3 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
17 2 (0.24%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 468 (57.14%) Developer
2 377 (46.03%) Java Developer
3 180 (21.98%) Senior
4 133 (16.24%) Java Engineer
5 101 (12.33%) Software Engineer
6 93 (11.36%) Senior Developer
7 90 (10.99%) Lead
8 73 (8.91%) Senior Java Developer
9 69 (8.42%) Full-Stack Developer
10 54 (6.59%) Java Software Engineer
11 45 (5.49%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 44 (5.37%) Lead Developer
12 44 (5.37%) Software Developer
13 39 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
14 33 (4.03%) Lead Java Developer
15 28 (3.42%) Backend Developer
16 26 (3.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 24 (2.93%) Architect
18 23 (2.81%) Data Engineer
18 23 (2.81%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 772 (94.26%) Spring
2 283 (34.55%) Kafka
3 249 (30.40%) REST
4 221 (26.98%) RESTful
5 164 (20.02%) React
6 107 (13.06%) Node.js
7 87 (10.62%) JPA
8 86 (10.50%) HTML
9 84 (10.26%) Terraform
10 83 (10.13%) AngularJS
11 79 (9.65%) Hibernate
12 74 (9.04%) CSS
13 58 (7.08%) Web Services
14 56 (6.84%) Spring MVC
15 50 (6.11%) RabbitMQ
15 50 (6.11%) Redux
16 43 (5.25%) OAuth
17 42 (5.13%) Spring Cloud
18 41 (5.01%) OpenAPI
19 40 (4.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 210 (25.64%) Cloud Native
2 124 (15.14%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (8.67%) Product Ownership
4 48 (5.86%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (2.20%) Data Structures
9 16 (1.95%) AI Agents
10 15 (1.83%) Public Cloud
11 14 (1.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 13 (1.59%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.47%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.10%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 6 (0.73%) Fixed Income
15 6 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
15 6 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
16 5 (0.61%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.11%) Linux
2 36 (4.40%) Unix
3 2 (0.24%) VMS
3 2 (0.24%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) AIX
4 1 (0.12%) Android
4 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.12%) Solaris
4 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (64.84%) Microservices
2 491 (59.95%) CI/CD
3 412 (50.31%) Agile
4 301 (36.75%) DevOps
5 251 (30.65%) Software Engineering
6 250 (30.53%) Containerisation
7 205 (25.03%) Test Automation
8 192 (23.44%) Event-Driven
9 169 (20.63%) Scrum
10 167 (20.39%) TDD
11 142 (17.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 140 (17.09%) Full-Stack Development
13 127 (15.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 125 (15.26%) Code Quality
15 124 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
16 120 (14.65%) Observability
17 102 (12.45%) Infrastructure as Code
18 95 (11.60%) SDLC
19 92 (11.23%) Clean Code
20 86 (10.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 810 (98.90%) Java
2 282 (34.43%) SQL
3 134 (16.36%) JavaScript
4 109 (13.31%) TypeScript
5 83 (10.13%) Python
6 38 (4.64%) PL/SQL
7 25 (3.05%) Kotlin
8 24 (2.93%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.59%) Bash
10 10 (1.22%) Scala
11 8 (0.98%) Ruby
12 6 (0.73%) C#
13 5 (0.61%) Groovy
14 4 (0.49%) Solidity
15 3 (0.37%) Go
15 3 (0.37%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.24%) Korn
16 2 (0.24%) PromQL
16 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.12%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 235 (28.69%) Security Cleared
2 198 (24.18%) SC Cleared
3 72 (8.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 42 (5.13%) Degree
5 32 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.83%) AWS Certification
6 15 (1.83%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.49%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.37%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.24%) 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
1 106 (12.94%) QA
2 69 (8.42%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.69%) ISO 20022
4 13 (1.59%) SEPA
5 11 (1.34%) WCAG
6 10 (1.22%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.85%) GDPR
8 6 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.61%) PSD2
10 4 (0.49%) ISO 15022
10 4 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.37%) EMIR
11 3 (0.37%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) HL7
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 343 (41.88%) Docker
2 5 (0.61%) Postfix
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 320 (39.07%) Kubernetes
2 62 (7.57%) Grafana
3 50 (6.11%) Prometheus
4 40 (4.88%) Ansible
5 23 (2.81%) Kibana
6 16 (1.95%) Control-M
7 10 (1.22%) Argo
8 7 (0.85%) Istio
9 4 (0.49%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.37%) Bosun
10 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.24%) Consul
11 2 (0.24%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.12%) Kiali
12 1 (0.12%) logstash
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 127 (15.51%) Oracle
2 42 (5.13%) Google
3 30 (3.66%) IBM
4 22 (2.69%) Microsoft
5 20 (2.44%) Splunk
6 19 (2.32%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.71%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.22%) Solace
9 9 (1.10%) Databricks
9 9 (1.10%) Sybase
10 8 (0.98%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (0.98%) Veracode
11 7 (0.85%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.85%) Checkmarx
11 7 (0.85%) FIS
11 7 (0.85%) New Relic
11 7 (0.85%) TikTok
12 6 (0.73%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.61%) Confluent
13 5 (0.61%) Temenos