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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 183 207
Rank change year-on-year -17 +24 +45
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 747 517 464
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.40% 1.57% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.34% 6.95% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 368 364
10th Percentile £377 £313 £380
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -1.22%
75th Percentile £581 £550 £630
90th Percentile £663 £613 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 10 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.75 -
25th Percentile £53.13 £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 £90.50 £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 10,172 7,434 8,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.04% 22.62% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,633 5,010 5,809
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £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 265 169 244
10th Percentile £28.65 £29.85 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.35 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% +7.07% -14.58%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £57.28
% change year-on-year +15.56% -1.79% -2.24%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -12 574 £525 +7.14% 318
UK excluding London -30 343 £475 +5.56% 169
London +3 303 £525 +5.00% 208
Work from Home -37 175 £490 -3.45% 147
North of England -36 128 £500 +7.53% 52
North West -39 70 £550 +36.82% 32
Scotland -11 63 £400 -11.11% 28
Midlands -43 56 £480 +31.87% 17
West Midlands -27 53 £505 +6.32% 13
Yorkshire -4 41 £500 -6.98% 9
South West -8 39 £436 -15.90% 23
East of England +4 26 £500 +6.95% 2
South East -59 25 £367 -31.61% 32
North East -32 18 £450 -8.16% 11
Wales -15 7 £375 -21.05% 10
Northern Ireland +1 2 - - 7
East Midlands -36 2 £401 +25.51% 4

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 38 (5.09%) Apache Spark
2 23 (3.08%) Apache
3 16 (2.14%) Confluence
4 14 (1.87%) WebLogic
5 12 (1.61%) Camunda
6 10 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.67%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.54%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.54%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.54%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.40%) nginx
9 3 (0.40%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.27%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.27%) Mule
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.54%) Quorum
1 4 (0.54%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.54%) Ripple
2 3 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.27%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 420 (56.22%) AWS
2 171 (22.89%) Azure
3 133 (17.80%) GCP
4 121 (16.20%) GitHub
5 79 (10.58%) GitHub Actions
6 65 (8.70%) Amazon S3
7 64 (8.57%) Serverless
8 56 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (6.02%) Amazon SQS
10 44 (5.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 43 (5.76%) Amazon EKS
12 42 (5.62%) OpenShift
13 41 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
14 40 (5.35%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (2.28%) AWS KMS
16 17 (2.28%) Cloud Run
17 16 (2.14%) Route 53
18 14 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
18 14 (1.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.07%) HTTPS
2 7 (0.94%) HTTP
3 4 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.40%) Firewall
5 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.13%) AMQP
6 1 (0.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (21.29%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (11.78%) Relational Database
3 78 (10.44%) NoSQL
4 77 (10.31%) MongoDB
5 60 (8.03%) MySQL
6 42 (5.62%) DynamoDB
7 38 (5.09%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (3.75%) SQL Server
9 23 (3.08%) Amazon Aurora
9 23 (3.08%) Redis
10 19 (2.54%) Flink
11 17 (2.28%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (2.01%) Big Data
12 15 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (1.74%) Metadata
14 11 (1.47%) RDBMS
15 10 (1.34%) Data Lake
16 8 (1.07%) Couchbase
16 8 (1.07%) InterSystems Cache
17 7 (0.94%) Db2
Development Applications
1 202 (27.04%) Jenkins
2 193 (25.84%) Git
3 124 (16.60%) JUnit
4 103 (13.79%) GitLab
5 90 (12.05%) Gradle
6 88 (11.78%) Maven
7 75 (10.04%) Mockito
8 45 (6.02%) SonarQube
9 40 (5.35%) JIRA
10 20 (2.68%) Liquibase
11 18 (2.41%) Cucumber
12 17 (2.28%) REST Assured
12 17 (2.28%) Selenium
13 14 (1.87%) Gatling
14 13 (1.74%) Bitbucket Server
14 13 (1.74%) IntelliJ
15 12 (1.61%) DbUnit
16 11 (1.47%) jMock
17 10 (1.34%) GoCD
18 8 (1.07%) Serenity BDD
General
1 162 (21.69%) Finance
2 138 (18.47%) Public Sector
3 133 (17.80%) Social Skills
4 80 (10.71%) Banking
5 55 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.35%) Retail
7 12 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.61%) Law
8 11 (1.47%) Military
9 8 (1.07%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (0.94%) Retail Banking
11 6 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (0.80%) Publishing
12 4 (0.54%) Automotive
12 4 (0.54%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.54%) Police
13 3 (0.40%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.27%) Local Government
14 2 (0.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 440 (58.90%) Developer
2 352 (47.12%) Java Developer
3 150 (20.08%) Senior
4 123 (16.47%) Java Engineer
5 100 (13.39%) Software Engineer
6 83 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 76 (10.17%) Lead
8 68 (9.10%) Senior Java Developer
9 60 (8.03%) Java Software Engineer
10 56 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
11 44 (5.89%) Software Developer
12 36 (4.82%) Lead Developer
13 34 (4.55%) Backend Developer
13 34 (4.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 30 (4.02%) Senior Java Engineer
15 27 (3.61%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 24 (3.21%) Lead Java Developer
17 22 (2.95%) Data Engineer
18 21 (2.81%) Java Software Developer
19 18 (2.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 705 (94.38%) Spring
2 230 (30.79%) Kafka
3 210 (28.11%) REST
4 206 (27.58%) RESTful
5 142 (19.01%) React
6 109 (14.59%) Node.js
7 70 (9.37%) Hibernate
8 68 (9.10%) AngularJS
8 68 (9.10%) JPA
9 66 (8.84%) HTML
10 56 (7.50%) CSS
11 49 (6.56%) Spring MVC
12 48 (6.43%) Web Services
13 41 (5.49%) Redux
14 40 (5.35%) RabbitMQ
15 37 (4.95%) Spring Cloud
16 36 (4.82%) OAuth
17 32 (4.28%) HTML5
17 32 (4.28%) OAuth2
18 30 (4.02%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 169 (22.62%) Cloud Native
2 113 (15.13%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (7.10%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (2.14%) Public Cloud
8 15 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.87%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.74%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.47%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.47%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.20%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.07%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
15 5 (0.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.16%) Linux
2 26 (3.48%) Unix
3 4 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.27%) VMS
4 2 (0.27%) Windows
5 1 (0.13%) Android
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Solaris
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 466 (62.38%) Microservices
2 452 (60.51%) CI/CD
3 359 (48.06%) Agile
4 283 (37.88%) DevOps
5 237 (31.73%) Containerisation
6 208 (27.84%) Software Engineering
7 170 (22.76%) TDD
8 154 (20.62%) Test Automation
9 152 (20.35%) Event-Driven
10 148 (19.81%) Scrum
11 125 (16.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 125 (16.73%) Full-Stack Development
12 108 (14.46%) Code Quality
13 104 (13.92%) Observability
13 104 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
14 101 (13.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 94 (12.58%) Infrastructure as Code
16 79 (10.58%) Design Patterns
17 73 (9.77%) Clean Code
18 67 (8.97%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 738 (98.80%) Java
2 254 (34.00%) SQL
3 107 (14.32%) JavaScript
4 89 (11.91%) Python
5 85 (11.38%) TypeScript
6 37 (4.95%) PL/SQL
7 35 (4.69%) Kotlin
8 17 (2.28%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.20%) Bash
9 9 (1.20%) Ruby
10 8 (1.07%) C#
10 8 (1.07%) Scala
11 4 (0.54%) Go
11 4 (0.54%) Solidity
12 3 (0.40%) Groovy
12 3 (0.40%) Perl
13 2 (0.27%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.27%) PromQL
13 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.13%) Korn
Qualifications
1 232 (31.06%) Security Cleared
2 196 (26.24%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 24 (3.21%) Degree
5 18 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.87%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.74%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.40%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.27%) 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 92 (12.32%) QA
2 66 (8.84%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.61%) ISO 20022
4 9 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.20%) WCAG
5 7 (0.94%) GDPR
5 7 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.80%) SEPA
7 5 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.40%) EMIR
9 3 (0.40%) ISO 15022
9 3 (0.40%) MiFID
10 1 (0.13%) HL7
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.13%) ITGC
10 1 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 323 (43.24%) Docker
2 9 (1.20%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 296 (39.63%) Kubernetes
2 80 (10.71%) Terraform
3 62 (8.30%) Grafana
4 42 (5.62%) Prometheus
5 41 (5.49%) Ansible
6 16 (2.14%) Control-M
6 16 (2.14%) Kibana
7 7 (0.94%) Argo
8 5 (0.67%) Istio
9 3 (0.40%) Bosun
9 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.27%) Consul
10 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.13%) Kiali
11 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 97 (12.99%) Oracle
2 48 (6.43%) Google
3 26 (3.48%) Splunk
4 18 (2.41%) Microsoft
5 17 (2.28%) IBM
6 15 (2.01%) Jaspersoft
7 13 (1.74%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.74%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.61%) Atlassian
9 10 (1.34%) Checkmarx
9 10 (1.34%) Solace
10 9 (1.20%) Databricks
10 9 (1.20%) Sybase
11 8 (1.07%) New Relic
12 7 (0.94%) TikTok
13 6 (0.80%) Okta
14 5 (0.67%) Red Hat
15 4 (0.54%) FIS
15 4 (0.54%) ForgeRock
15 4 (0.54%) SAP