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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 188 208
Rank change year-on-year +1 +20 +36
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 778 498 494
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.47% 1.52% 1.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.60% 6.75% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 360 385
10th Percentile £365 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £402 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -0.71%
75th Percentile £581 £545 £625
90th Percentile £663 £613 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +5.56% -2.70% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 10 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £69.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -23.61% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81.00 £83.44 £74.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +30.91% -23.61% -4.00%

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 10,233 7,373 8,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.39% 22.56% 21.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,676 4,986 6,000
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £507 £545
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -6.93% -0.91%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £669
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 266 157 255
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.15 £23.17
25th Percentile £45.31 £37.80 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £74.82 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.41 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £58.30
% change year-on-year +10.20% +5.06% -1.24%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 +5 613 £525 +10.53% 192
UK excluding London -16 369 £475 +5.56% 124
London +4 307 £525 +4.48% 105
Work from Home -30 180 £500 -0.74% 82
North of England -5 139 £500 +18.34% 35
North West -23 79 £550 +39.95% 17
Scotland -18 57 £403 -10.39% 20
Midlands -43 54 £475 +29.08% 24
West Midlands -30 51 £480 +1.05% 16
South West -4 49 £409 -22.10% 12
Yorkshire -5 45 £488 -11.36% 8
East of England +13 33 £500 +6.95% 2
South East -50 32 £438 -18.53% 27
North East -25 18 £450 -8.16% 10
Wales -21 7 £375 -21.05% 3
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 2
East Midlands -34 2 £401 +25.51% 8

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 42 (5.40%) Apache Spark
2 23 (2.96%) Apache
3 19 (2.44%) Confluence
4 15 (1.93%) WebLogic
5 10 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.16%) Camunda
7 5 (0.64%) Ethereum
7 5 (0.64%) Hyperledger
7 5 (0.64%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.51%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.39%) nginx
9 3 (0.39%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.26%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.26%) Drupal
10 2 (0.26%) Mule
10 2 (0.26%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.64%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.51%) Quorum
2 4 (0.51%) Ripple
3 3 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.26%) Shopify
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 432 (55.53%) AWS
2 189 (24.29%) Azure
3 137 (17.61%) GCP
4 123 (15.81%) GitHub
5 78 (10.03%) GitHub Actions
6 69 (8.87%) Serverless
7 68 (8.74%) Amazon S3
8 60 (7.71%) AWS Lambda
9 48 (6.17%) Amazon SQS
10 43 (5.53%) Amazon EC2
11 39 (5.01%) OpenShift
12 38 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
13 37 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
14 24 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (2.44%) AWS KMS
16 18 (2.31%) Cloud Run
16 18 (2.31%) Route 53
17 16 (2.06%) Azure AKS
18 15 (1.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.03%) HTTP
1 8 (1.03%) HTTPS
2 4 (0.51%) Firewall
2 4 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.13%) AMQP
3 1 (0.13%) SMS
3 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (20.95%) PostgreSQL
2 99 (12.72%) Relational Database
3 84 (10.80%) NoSQL
4 80 (10.28%) MongoDB
5 64 (8.23%) MySQL
6 47 (6.04%) DynamoDB
7 42 (5.40%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (3.86%) SQL Server
9 23 (2.96%) Redis
10 22 (2.83%) Amazon Aurora
11 21 (2.70%) Flink
12 19 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
13 16 (2.06%) Apache Cassandra
13 16 (2.06%) Big Data
14 13 (1.67%) Metadata
15 11 (1.41%) RDBMS
16 10 (1.29%) Data Lake
17 9 (1.16%) Oracle Database
18 7 (0.90%) Couchbase
18 7 (0.90%) Db2
Development Applications
1 199 (25.58%) Jenkins
2 193 (24.81%) Git
3 124 (15.94%) JUnit
4 98 (12.60%) GitLab
5 92 (11.83%) Gradle
6 89 (11.44%) Maven
7 71 (9.13%) Mockito
8 44 (5.66%) JIRA
9 42 (5.40%) SonarQube
10 22 (2.83%) REST Assured
11 21 (2.70%) Selenium
12 19 (2.44%) Cucumber
13 18 (2.31%) Gatling
13 18 (2.31%) Liquibase
14 14 (1.80%) DbUnit
15 13 (1.67%) Bitbucket Server
15 13 (1.67%) IntelliJ
15 13 (1.67%) jMock
16 12 (1.54%) Serenity BDD
17 9 (1.16%) GoCD
General
1 173 (22.24%) Finance
2 140 (17.99%) Social Skills
3 134 (17.22%) Public Sector
4 79 (10.15%) Banking
5 57 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.08%) Retail
7 13 (1.67%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.54%) Law
8 12 (1.54%) Military
9 6 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (0.77%) Publishing
9 6 (0.77%) Retail Banking
10 5 (0.64%) Automotive
11 4 (0.51%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.51%) Police
12 3 (0.39%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 450 (57.84%) Developer
2 358 (46.02%) Java Developer
3 161 (20.69%) Senior
4 128 (16.45%) Java Engineer
5 100 (12.85%) Software Engineer
6 87 (11.18%) Senior Developer
7 82 (10.54%) Lead
8 71 (9.13%) Senior Java Developer
9 57 (7.33%) Java Software Engineer
10 55 (7.07%) Full-Stack Developer
11 41 (5.27%) Software Developer
12 37 (4.76%) Backend Developer
12 37 (4.76%) Lead Developer
13 33 (4.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 32 (4.11%) Senior Java Engineer
15 29 (3.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 27 (3.47%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 25 (3.21%) Lead Java Developer
18 22 (2.83%) Data Engineer
19 21 (2.70%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 731 (93.96%) Spring
2 239 (30.72%) Kafka
3 213 (27.38%) RESTful
4 209 (26.86%) REST
5 146 (18.77%) React
6 106 (13.62%) Node.js
7 73 (9.38%) Hibernate
8 71 (9.13%) AngularJS
9 69 (8.87%) JPA
10 68 (8.74%) HTML
11 57 (7.33%) CSS
12 51 (6.56%) Spring MVC
12 51 (6.56%) Web Services
13 41 (5.27%) Redux
13 41 (5.27%) Spring Cloud
14 38 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
15 34 (4.37%) OAuth
16 32 (4.11%) HTML5
17 31 (3.98%) SOAP
18 29 (3.73%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 158 (20.31%) Cloud Native
2 112 (14.40%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (6.68%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (2.31%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (1.93%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.67%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.67%) Mobile App
11 12 (1.54%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (1.16%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.03%) AI Agents
15 6 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
15 6 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (0.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.43%) Linux
2 25 (3.21%) Unix
3 5 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.39%) Windows
5 2 (0.26%) VMS
6 1 (0.13%) Android
6 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) Solaris
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (61.57%) Microservices
2 465 (59.77%) CI/CD
3 353 (45.37%) Agile
4 307 (39.46%) DevOps
5 249 (32.01%) Containerisation
6 207 (26.61%) Software Engineering
7 167 (21.47%) TDD
8 155 (19.92%) Event-Driven
9 154 (19.79%) Test Automation
10 144 (18.51%) Scrum
11 143 (18.38%) Full-Stack Development
12 126 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 118 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
14 116 (14.91%) Code Quality
15 111 (14.27%) Observability
16 106 (13.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 91 (11.70%) Infrastructure as Code
18 79 (10.15%) Design Patterns
19 73 (9.38%) BDD
20 72 (9.25%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 766 (98.46%) Java
2 257 (33.03%) SQL
3 111 (14.27%) JavaScript
4 90 (11.57%) Python
5 81 (10.41%) TypeScript
6 38 (4.88%) Kotlin
7 36 (4.63%) PL/SQL
8 17 (2.19%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.41%) C#
10 8 (1.03%) Go
10 8 (1.03%) Ruby
10 8 (1.03%) Scala
11 7 (0.90%) Bash
12 4 (0.51%) Perl
12 4 (0.51%) Solidity
13 3 (0.39%) Groovy
13 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.26%) PHP
14 2 (0.26%) PromQL
15 1 (0.13%) Rust
Qualifications
1 236 (30.33%) Security Cleared
2 197 (25.32%) SC Cleared
3 49 (6.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 31 (3.98%) Degree
5 24 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.93%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.54%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.64%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.26%) 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 91 (11.70%) QA
2 69 (8.87%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.54%) ISO 20022
4 9 (1.16%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.90%) GDPR
5 7 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (0.90%) SEPA
5 7 (0.90%) WCAG
6 6 (0.77%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.39%) EMIR
7 3 (0.39%) ISO 15022
7 3 (0.39%) MiFID
8 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.26%) PSD2
9 1 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.13%) ITGC
System Software
1 339 (43.57%) Docker
2 11 (1.41%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 312 (40.10%) Kubernetes
2 84 (10.80%) Terraform
3 66 (8.48%) Grafana
4 50 (6.43%) Prometheus
5 40 (5.14%) Ansible
6 14 (1.80%) Control-M
7 10 (1.29%) Kibana
8 8 (1.03%) Argo
9 6 (0.77%) Istio
10 3 (0.39%) Bosun
10 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.26%) Consul
11 2 (0.26%) Kiali
11 2 (0.26%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 103 (13.24%) Oracle
2 47 (6.04%) Google
3 33 (4.24%) Splunk
4 28 (3.60%) Microsoft
5 18 (2.31%) IBM
6 17 (2.19%) Jaspersoft
7 14 (1.80%) Atlassian
7 14 (1.80%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.41%) Databricks
8 11 (1.41%) MuleSoft
8 11 (1.41%) Solace
9 10 (1.29%) Checkmarx
9 10 (1.29%) Sybase
10 9 (1.16%) New Relic
11 7 (0.90%) Okta
11 7 (0.90%) TikTok
12 6 (0.77%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.64%) ForgeRock
14 4 (0.51%) Ab Initio
14 4 (0.51%) SAP