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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 197 197
Rank change year-on-year +13 0 -20
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 712 398 492
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.48% 1.37% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.52% 6.03% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 264 372
10th Percentile £359 £329 £375
25th Percentile £420 £402 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year - -0.60% -12.52%
75th Percentile £581 £561 £615
90th Percentile £650 £644 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £424 £488
% change year-on-year +12.03% -13.03% -6.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 7 1
10th Percentile - £44.00 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £69.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -9.72% +15.20%
75th Percentile £81.00 £90.63 £74.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +4.55% -23.61% +20.00%

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 9,463 6,596 8,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.70% 22.64% 20.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,238 4,524 6,175
10th Percentile £360 £363 £350
25th Percentile £417 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £727 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 108 245
10th Percentile £32.50 £29.20 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £72.50 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.36 £74.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.36%

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 16 May 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 16 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 16 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 16 May 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 +41 605 £500 -3.61% 164
UK excluding London +11 351 £475 +12.03% 116
London +31 288 £525 -0.94% 70
Work from Home +13 172 £481 -8.36% 359
North of England +14 168 £475 +2.15% 55
North West +25 117 £475 +19.50% 34
Midlands -47 47 £470 +21.95% 5
West Midlands -28 46 £470 +11.90% 3
South West -3 43 £409 -22.10% 18
Scotland -25 41 £438 +2.58% 8
Yorkshire -34 35 £475 -9.52% 14
East of England -3 29 £509 +8.77% 3
South East -55 26 £513 -4.56% 22
North East -8 19 £475 +2.15% 7
Wales -11 1 - - 3
East Midlands -39 1 £402 +12.29% 2

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 40 (5.62%) Apache Spark
2 27 (3.79%) Confluence
3 16 (2.25%) Apache
4 15 (2.11%) Camunda
5 8 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.12%) WebLogic
6 6 (0.84%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.84%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.28%) CICS
9 2 (0.28%) Drupal
9 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.28%) WordPress
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.14%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.28%) Shopify
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 381 (53.51%) AWS
2 166 (23.31%) Azure
3 121 (16.99%) GitHub
4 106 (14.89%) GCP
5 82 (11.52%) Serverless
6 79 (11.10%) Amazon S3
7 73 (10.25%) GitHub Actions
8 71 (9.97%) AWS Lambda
9 40 (5.62%) Amazon SQS
10 39 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
11 38 (5.34%) Amazon ECS
12 37 (5.20%) Amazon EKS
13 32 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 30 (4.21%) OpenShift
15 23 (3.23%) Azure AKS
16 22 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
17 19 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (2.67%) Cloud Run
18 18 (2.53%) Route 53
19 14 (1.97%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.40%) Firewall
1 10 (1.40%) HTTP
1 10 (1.40%) SSL
2 5 (0.70%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.56%) DNS
4 3 (0.42%) VPN
4 3 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (18.82%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 82 (11.52%) Relational Database
4 76 (10.67%) MongoDB
5 55 (7.72%) MySQL
6 54 (7.58%) DynamoDB
7 42 (5.90%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (3.65%) SQL Server
9 22 (3.09%) Amazon Aurora
10 18 (2.53%) Redis
11 17 (2.39%) Big Data
12 15 (2.11%) DocumentDB
12 15 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
13 14 (1.97%) Flink
14 9 (1.26%) Apache Cassandra
14 9 (1.26%) RDBMS
15 8 (1.12%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.12%) DB2
16 7 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
17 6 (0.84%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 151 (21.21%) Git
2 150 (21.07%) Jenkins
3 117 (16.43%) GitLab
4 102 (14.33%) JUnit
5 66 (9.27%) Gradle
6 60 (8.43%) Mockito
7 52 (7.30%) JIRA
8 51 (7.16%) Maven
9 32 (4.49%) SonarQube
10 24 (3.37%) Selenium
11 23 (3.23%) IntelliJ
12 22 (3.09%) Cucumber
13 20 (2.81%) REST Assured
14 17 (2.39%) Gatling
15 13 (1.83%) Liquibase
16 12 (1.69%) Cypress.io
16 12 (1.69%) Serenity BDD
17 11 (1.54%) DbUnit
17 11 (1.54%) jMock
18 10 (1.40%) Mocha
General
1 142 (19.94%) Finance
2 133 (18.68%) Social Skills
3 120 (16.85%) Public Sector
4 64 (8.99%) Banking
5 32 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.53%) Financial Institution
7 14 (1.97%) Retail
8 6 (0.84%) Law
8 6 (0.84%) Publishing
8 6 (0.84%) Retail Banking
9 5 (0.70%) Automotive
9 5 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (0.70%) Military
10 4 (0.56%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.28%) Legal
12 2 (0.28%) Police
12 2 (0.28%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 398 (55.90%) Developer
2 283 (39.75%) Java Developer
3 148 (20.79%) Senior
4 128 (17.98%) Java Engineer
5 91 (12.78%) Software Engineer
6 85 (11.94%) Senior Developer
7 72 (10.11%) Full-Stack Developer
8 66 (9.27%) Lead
9 64 (8.99%) Senior Java Developer
10 49 (6.88%) Java Software Engineer
11 47 (6.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 35 (4.92%) Backend Developer
13 30 (4.21%) Software Developer
14 26 (3.65%) Lead Developer
15 24 (3.37%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 23 (3.23%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 22 (3.09%) Data Engineer
18 20 (2.81%) Senior Java Engineer
19 16 (2.25%) Lead Java Developer
20 15 (2.11%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 664 (93.26%) Spring
2 203 (28.51%) Kafka
3 195 (27.39%) RESTful
4 167 (23.46%) REST
5 142 (19.94%) React
6 99 (13.90%) Node.js
7 87 (12.22%) AngularJS
8 61 (8.57%) HTML
9 57 (8.01%) Hibernate
10 50 (7.02%) Spring Cloud
11 47 (6.60%) JPA
12 45 (6.32%) OpenTelemetry
13 43 (6.04%) CSS
13 43 (6.04%) Spring MVC
14 40 (5.62%) OAuth
15 37 (5.20%) OAuth2
16 36 (5.06%) Next.js
17 34 (4.78%) Jest
17 34 (4.78%) Web Services
18 30 (4.21%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 128 (17.98%) Cloud Native
2 74 (10.39%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (5.48%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.65%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (2.53%) Mobile App
6 15 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (1.83%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.40%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.40%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
9 9 (1.26%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 7 (0.98%) NHS
11 6 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.46%) Linux
2 14 (1.97%) Unix
3 5 (0.70%) 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
5 2 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (59.97%) Microservices
2 405 (56.88%) CI/CD
3 267 (37.50%) DevOps
4 263 (36.94%) Agile
5 247 (34.69%) Containerisation
6 167 (23.46%) Software Engineering
7 160 (22.47%) Full-Stack Development
8 142 (19.94%) TDD
9 129 (18.12%) Event-Driven
10 128 (17.98%) Test Automation
11 107 (15.03%) Code Quality
12 106 (14.89%) Observability
13 105 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
14 94 (13.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 86 (12.08%) Scrum
16 85 (11.94%) Infrastructure as Code
17 79 (11.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 74 (10.39%) API Design
19 67 (9.41%) Mentoring
20 62 (8.71%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 678 (95.22%) Java
2 203 (28.51%) SQL
3 109 (15.31%) JavaScript
4 94 (13.20%) TypeScript
5 80 (11.24%) Python
6 48 (6.74%) Kotlin
7 17 (2.39%) Go
8 12 (1.69%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.40%) C#
9 10 (1.40%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.26%) Rust
11 7 (0.98%) Scala
12 5 (0.70%) Bash
12 5 (0.70%) Perl
13 4 (0.56%) Ruby
14 3 (0.42%) PHP
15 2 (0.28%) Groovy
15 2 (0.28%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.14%) Solidity
16 1 (0.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 206 (28.93%) Security Cleared
2 166 (23.31%) SC Cleared
3 35 (4.92%) Degree
4 24 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.54%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.84%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.28%) OCP
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (9.55%) QA
2 59 (8.29%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.25%) ISO 20022
4 13 (1.83%) WCAG
5 12 (1.69%) SEPA
6 8 (1.12%) GDPR
6 8 (1.12%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.12%) PSD2
7 7 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.70%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.56%) NIST
10 3 (0.42%) HL7
11 2 (0.28%) EMIR
11 2 (0.28%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.28%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.28%) MiFID
11 2 (0.28%) NCSC
12 1 (0.14%) ITGC
12 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 312 (43.82%) Docker
2 10 (1.40%) Postfix
3 3 (0.42%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 315 (44.24%) Kubernetes
2 86 (12.08%) Grafana
2 86 (12.08%) Terraform
3 58 (8.15%) Prometheus
4 27 (3.79%) Ansible
5 13 (1.83%) Argo
6 10 (1.40%) Istio
6 10 (1.40%) Kiali
7 9 (1.26%) Kibana
8 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 50 (7.02%) Oracle
2 38 (5.34%) Splunk
3 28 (3.93%) Microsoft
4 27 (3.79%) Google
5 14 (1.97%) Jaspersoft
6 11 (1.54%) Atlassian
7 9 (1.26%) Checkmarx
7 9 (1.26%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.26%) IBM
7 9 (1.26%) Red Hat
8 7 (0.98%) Databricks
9 6 (0.84%) Adobe
9 6 (0.84%) Okta
9 6 (0.84%) Solace
9 6 (0.84%) Sybase
10 5 (0.70%) Ab Initio
10 5 (0.70%) ForgeRock
10 5 (0.70%) Teradata
11 4 (0.56%) Confluent
11 4 (0.56%) New Relic