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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 195 201
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 710 404 511
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.45% 1.40% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.41% 6.13% 5.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 273 391
10th Percentile £384 £325 £375
25th Percentile £425 £402 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -2.44% -10.87%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £657 £620 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £450 £479
% change year-on-year +6.11% -6.05% -6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 9 1
10th Percentile - £47.00 -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -23.61% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81.00 £88.75 £74.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -23.61% +15.20%

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 9,586 6,592 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.59% 22.87% 21.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,298 4,509 6,249
10th Percentile £363 £359 £350
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £521 £536
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -2.85% -2.59%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 117 254
10th Percentile £31.03 £29.18 £21.81
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.75 £65.95
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.15 £74.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.43
% change year-on-year - +34.21% -25.49%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +33 601 £525 +5.00% 162
UK excluding London -8 341 £478 +6.11% 110
London +31 293 £525 - 77
Work from Home -11 169 £490 -6.22% 143
North of England +6 150 £500 +7.53% 46
North West +18 100 £510 +26.87% 28
South West +8 50 £409 -25.64% 18
Midlands -50 48 £472 +12.38% 3
West Midlands -36 45 £475 - 1
Scotland -30 38 £410 -6.40% 4
Yorkshire -36 34 £475 -9.52% 12
East of England -2 31 £507 +8.45% 5
South East -50 26 £513 -4.56% 14
North East -14 19 £475 +2.15% 7
East Midlands -38 2 £401 +12.01% 2
Northern Ireland -1 1 - - 6
Wales -15 1 - - 15

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 43 (6.06%) Apache Spark
2 23 (3.24%) Confluence
3 16 (2.25%) Apache
3 16 (2.25%) Camunda
4 10 (1.41%) Ethereum
4 10 (1.41%) Hyperledger
5 9 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.27%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.28%) Drupal
8 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.28%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.28%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.28%) WordPress
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.14%) CICS
9 1 (0.14%) JBoss
9 1 (0.14%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.70%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.56%) Quorum
2 4 (0.56%) Ripple
3 3 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.28%) Shopify
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 372 (52.39%) AWS
2 167 (23.52%) Azure
3 118 (16.62%) GitHub
4 113 (15.92%) GCP
5 77 (10.85%) GitHub Actions
6 73 (10.28%) Amazon S3
7 71 (10.00%) Serverless
8 64 (9.01%) AWS Lambda
9 43 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
10 41 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
11 37 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 33 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
13 32 (4.51%) Amazon EKS
13 32 (4.51%) OpenShift
14 22 (3.10%) Route 53
15 19 (2.68%) Azure AKS
15 19 (2.68%) Cloud Run
16 18 (2.54%) AWS KMS
16 18 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
17 16 (2.25%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.41%) Firewall
1 10 (1.41%) HTTP
2 5 (0.70%) SSL
3 4 (0.56%) DNS
3 4 (0.56%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (19.44%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (12.82%) NoSQL
3 79 (11.13%) Relational Database
4 75 (10.56%) MongoDB
5 56 (7.89%) MySQL
6 53 (7.46%) DynamoDB
7 49 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (3.66%) SQL Server
9 24 (3.38%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (2.68%) Big Data
10 19 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (2.39%) Redis
12 15 (2.11%) Flink
13 13 (1.83%) Apache Cassandra
14 10 (1.41%) DocumentDB
14 10 (1.41%) RDBMS
15 8 (1.13%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.99%) DB2
17 6 (0.85%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 159 (22.39%) Jenkins
2 157 (22.11%) Git
3 113 (15.92%) JUnit
4 112 (15.77%) GitLab
5 71 (10.00%) Gradle
6 68 (9.58%) Mockito
7 53 (7.46%) Maven
8 49 (6.90%) JIRA
9 35 (4.93%) SonarQube
10 26 (3.66%) Selenium
11 23 (3.24%) IntelliJ
12 22 (3.10%) Cucumber
12 22 (3.10%) REST Assured
13 18 (2.54%) Liquibase
14 17 (2.39%) Gatling
15 14 (1.97%) DbUnit
16 13 (1.83%) jMock
17 12 (1.69%) Bitbucket Server
17 12 (1.69%) Serenity BDD
18 10 (1.41%) Jaeger
General
1 147 (20.70%) Finance
2 129 (18.17%) Social Skills
3 115 (16.20%) Public Sector
4 79 (11.13%) Banking
5 36 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.68%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.54%) Retail
8 11 (1.55%) Law
9 10 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.99%) Military
10 7 (0.99%) Retail Banking
11 6 (0.85%) Publishing
12 5 (0.70%) Automotive
12 5 (0.70%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.28%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.28%) Legal
15 2 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 383 (53.94%) Developer
2 285 (40.14%) Java Developer
3 156 (21.97%) Senior
4 130 (18.31%) Java Engineer
5 104 (14.65%) Software Engineer
6 85 (11.97%) Senior Developer
7 70 (9.86%) Lead
8 65 (9.15%) Senior Java Developer
9 63 (8.87%) Full-Stack Developer
10 56 (7.89%) Java Software Engineer
11 44 (6.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 33 (4.65%) Backend Developer
13 32 (4.51%) Software Developer
14 29 (4.08%) Lead Developer
15 25 (3.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 25 (3.52%) Senior Java Engineer
16 23 (3.24%) Data Engineer
17 21 (2.96%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 19 (2.68%) Lead Java Developer
19 18 (2.54%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 662 (93.24%) Spring
2 210 (29.58%) Kafka
3 184 (25.92%) RESTful
4 172 (24.23%) REST
5 142 (20.00%) React
6 102 (14.37%) Node.js
7 78 (10.99%) AngularJS
8 57 (8.03%) Hibernate
9 56 (7.89%) JPA
10 55 (7.75%) HTML
11 50 (7.04%) Spring Cloud
12 47 (6.62%) OpenTelemetry
13 42 (5.92%) CSS
14 41 (5.77%) Spring MVC
15 38 (5.35%) Web Services
16 37 (5.21%) OAuth
17 34 (4.79%) Next.js
17 34 (4.79%) OAuth2
18 32 (4.51%) Jest
18 32 (4.51%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 135 (19.01%) Cloud Native
2 82 (11.55%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (1.97%) Mobile App
6 13 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (1.83%) Data Structures
6 13 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.41%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.41%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.27%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
11 7 (0.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (0.85%) Blockchain
12 6 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 51 (7.18%) Linux
2 17 (2.39%) Unix
3 6 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.42%) Windows
5 2 (0.28%) Android
5 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.28%) VMS
6 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (59.30%) Microservices
2 411 (57.89%) CI/CD
3 280 (39.44%) Agile
4 271 (38.17%) DevOps
5 244 (34.37%) Containerisation
6 188 (26.48%) Software Engineering
7 153 (21.55%) Full-Stack Development
8 143 (20.14%) TDD
9 124 (17.46%) Event-Driven
10 121 (17.04%) Test Automation
11 112 (15.77%) Observability
12 104 (14.65%) Code Quality
13 99 (13.94%) Scrum
14 96 (13.52%) Continuous Improvement
15 90 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
16 82 (11.55%) Infrastructure as Code
17 77 (10.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 67 (9.44%) Mentoring
19 65 (9.15%) BDD
20 60 (8.45%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 685 (96.48%) Java
2 221 (31.13%) SQL
3 107 (15.07%) JavaScript
4 98 (13.80%) TypeScript
5 78 (10.99%) Python
6 45 (6.34%) Kotlin
7 16 (2.25%) PL/SQL
8 15 (2.11%) Go
9 14 (1.97%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.55%) C#
11 9 (1.27%) Rust
12 7 (0.99%) Scala
13 5 (0.70%) Perl
13 5 (0.70%) Ruby
13 5 (0.70%) Solidity
14 4 (0.56%) Bash
15 2 (0.28%) PHP
15 2 (0.28%) PromQL
15 2 (0.28%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.14%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 199 (28.03%) Security Cleared
2 163 (22.96%) SC Cleared
3 35 (4.93%) Degree
4 32 (4.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.97%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.99%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.85%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (9.15%) QA
2 62 (8.73%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.97%) ISO 20022
4 12 (1.69%) WCAG
5 10 (1.41%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.41%) SEPA
6 8 (1.13%) GDPR
7 7 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.85%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.85%) PSD2
9 5 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.56%) NIST
11 3 (0.42%) EMIR
11 3 (0.42%) MiFID
12 2 (0.28%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.28%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.28%) NCSC
13 1 (0.14%) HL7
13 1 (0.14%) ITGC
13 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 319 (44.93%) Docker
2 11 (1.55%) Postfix
3 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 313 (44.08%) Kubernetes
2 91 (12.82%) Grafana
3 83 (11.69%) Terraform
4 60 (8.45%) Prometheus
5 33 (4.65%) Ansible
6 14 (1.97%) Argo
7 10 (1.41%) Istio
7 10 (1.41%) Kiali
8 8 (1.13%) Kibana
9 4 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.28%) Consul
10 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.14%) Control-M
11 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 57 (8.03%) Oracle
2 36 (5.07%) Splunk
3 31 (4.37%) Google
4 27 (3.80%) Microsoft
5 17 (2.39%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (1.97%) Atlassian
7 11 (1.55%) IBM
8 10 (1.41%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.41%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.27%) Checkmarx
10 8 (1.13%) Solace
10 8 (1.13%) Sybase
11 7 (0.99%) Databricks
12 6 (0.85%) Okta
13 5 (0.70%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.70%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.70%) New Relic
13 5 (0.70%) Teradata
14 4 (0.56%) Adobe
14 4 (0.56%) SAP