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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 193 199
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 +3
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 719 405 499
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.47% 1.41% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.51% 6.23% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 273 382
10th Percentile £381 £325 £375
25th Percentile £425 £405 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year - -3.61% -9.78%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £623
90th Percentile £650 £630 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £441 £485
% change year-on-year +7.71% -8.98% -5.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 8 1
10th Percentile - £45.50 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £69.50
Median hourly rate £71.00 £60.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -16.67% +2.49%
75th Percentile £81.00 £89.69 £74.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.75 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +8.64% -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 9,574 6,506 8,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.60% 22.71% 20.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,287 4,465 6,239
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
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 281 105 250
10th Percentile £31.03 £28.13 £21.68
25th Percentile £51.25 £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 £73.00 £68.75 £65.95
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.22 £74.55
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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +34 610 £512 +2.35% 123
UK excluding London +13 351 £475 +7.71% 88
London +30 291 £525 -0.94% 54
Work from Home -15 173 £490 -6.67% 60
North of England +15 160 £479 +3.09% 39
North West +26 109 £500 +24.38% 26
Midlands -46 50 £470 +14.23% 2
South West +15 49 £409 -23.91% 16
West Midlands -33 47 £473 +3.85%
Scotland -28 39 £410 -6.40% 2
Yorkshire -32 36 £475 -9.52% 10
East of England +1 31 £507 +8.45% 6
South East -44 25 £525 -2.23% 16
North East -17 18 £475 +2.15% 4
East Midlands -39 2 £401 +12.01% 2
Wales -15 1 - - 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 43 (5.98%) Apache Spark
2 24 (3.34%) Confluence
3 16 (2.23%) Apache
3 16 (2.23%) Camunda
4 9 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.25%) Ethereum
4 9 (1.25%) Hyperledger
5 8 (1.11%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.28%) Drupal
8 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.28%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.28%) WordPress
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.14%) CICS
9 1 (0.14%) CMS
9 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.56%) R3 Corda
2 3 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.42%) Quorum
2 3 (0.42%) Ripple
3 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.28%) Shopify
4 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 383 (53.27%) AWS
2 166 (23.09%) Azure
3 120 (16.69%) GitHub
4 111 (15.44%) GCP
5 77 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
6 74 (10.29%) Amazon S3
7 73 (10.15%) Serverless
8 64 (8.90%) AWS Lambda
9 44 (6.12%) Amazon SQS
10 42 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
11 37 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 33 (4.59%) Amazon ECS
12 33 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
13 31 (4.31%) OpenShift
14 22 (3.06%) Route 53
15 19 (2.64%) Azure AKS
15 19 (2.64%) Cloud Run
16 18 (2.50%) AWS KMS
17 17 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
18 15 (2.09%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.39%) Firewall
2 9 (1.25%) HTTP
3 6 (0.83%) SSL
4 4 (0.56%) DNS
4 4 (0.56%) HTTPS
4 4 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.14%) SMS
5 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (19.47%) PostgreSQL
2 95 (13.21%) NoSQL
3 79 (10.99%) Relational Database
4 77 (10.71%) MongoDB
5 55 (7.65%) DynamoDB
6 53 (7.37%) MySQL
7 49 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (3.62%) SQL Server
9 24 (3.34%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (2.78%) Big Data
11 19 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (2.36%) Redis
13 15 (2.09%) Flink
14 11 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (1.53%) DocumentDB
15 10 (1.39%) RDBMS
16 8 (1.11%) BigQuery
17 7 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
17 7 (0.97%) DB2
18 6 (0.83%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 156 (21.70%) Jenkins
2 153 (21.28%) Git
3 112 (15.58%) JUnit
4 110 (15.30%) GitLab
5 70 (9.74%) Gradle
6 68 (9.46%) Mockito
7 53 (7.37%) Maven
8 50 (6.95%) JIRA
9 35 (4.87%) SonarQube
10 26 (3.62%) Selenium
11 23 (3.20%) Cucumber
11 23 (3.20%) IntelliJ
12 22 (3.06%) REST Assured
13 17 (2.36%) Gatling
13 17 (2.36%) Liquibase
14 14 (1.95%) DbUnit
15 13 (1.81%) jMock
16 12 (1.67%) Bitbucket Server
16 12 (1.67%) Serenity BDD
17 10 (1.39%) Jaeger
General
1 147 (20.45%) Finance
2 129 (17.94%) Social Skills
3 122 (16.97%) Public Sector
4 73 (10.15%) Banking
5 36 (5.01%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.64%) Financial Institution
7 17 (2.36%) Retail
8 10 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.39%) Law
9 7 (0.97%) Retail Banking
10 6 (0.83%) Military
10 6 (0.83%) Publishing
11 5 (0.70%) Automotive
11 5 (0.70%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.28%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.28%) Legal
13 2 (0.28%) Police
14 1 (0.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 395 (54.94%) Developer
2 288 (40.06%) Java Developer
3 153 (21.28%) Senior
4 129 (17.94%) Java Engineer
5 100 (13.91%) Software Engineer
6 86 (11.96%) Senior Developer
7 72 (10.01%) Lead
8 68 (9.46%) Full-Stack Developer
9 65 (9.04%) Senior Java Developer
10 54 (7.51%) Java Software Engineer
11 44 (6.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 37 (5.15%) Backend Developer
13 32 (4.45%) Software Developer
14 29 (4.03%) Lead Developer
15 25 (3.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 23 (3.20%) Data Engineer
16 23 (3.20%) Senior Java Engineer
17 21 (2.92%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 19 (2.64%) Lead Java Developer
19 16 (2.23%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 666 (92.63%) Spring
2 209 (29.07%) Kafka
3 188 (26.15%) RESTful
4 173 (24.06%) REST
5 145 (20.17%) React
6 103 (14.33%) Node.js
7 82 (11.40%) AngularJS
8 56 (7.79%) Hibernate
8 56 (7.79%) HTML
9 53 (7.37%) JPA
10 51 (7.09%) Spring Cloud
11 47 (6.54%) OpenTelemetry
12 44 (6.12%) OAuth
13 42 (5.84%) CSS
14 41 (5.70%) OAuth2
15 40 (5.56%) Spring MVC
16 38 (5.29%) Web Services
17 36 (5.01%) Next.js
18 33 (4.59%) Jest
19 32 (4.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 133 (18.50%) Cloud Native
2 81 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.62%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (2.64%) Mobile App
6 14 (1.95%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.81%) Data Structures
8 12 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.39%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.39%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.25%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (0.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 6 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 5 (0.70%) Blockchain
15 5 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
15 5 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.95%) Linux
2 14 (1.95%) Unix
3 6 (0.83%) 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
1 433 (60.22%) Microservices
2 407 (56.61%) CI/CD
3 278 (38.66%) Agile
4 271 (37.69%) DevOps
5 244 (33.94%) Containerisation
6 184 (25.59%) Software Engineering
7 158 (21.97%) Full-Stack Development
8 145 (20.17%) TDD
9 126 (17.52%) Event-Driven
10 120 (16.69%) Test Automation
11 108 (15.02%) Observability
12 104 (14.46%) Code Quality
13 100 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
14 98 (13.63%) Problem-Solving
14 98 (13.63%) Scrum
15 82 (11.40%) Infrastructure as Code
16 81 (11.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 71 (9.87%) Mentoring
18 67 (9.32%) BDD
19 66 (9.18%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 692 (96.24%) Java
2 220 (30.60%) SQL
3 109 (15.16%) JavaScript
4 94 (13.07%) TypeScript
5 79 (10.99%) Python
6 47 (6.54%) Kotlin
7 16 (2.23%) Go
8 11 (1.53%) C#
8 11 (1.53%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.53%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.25%) Rust
10 8 (1.11%) Scala
11 5 (0.70%) Perl
11 5 (0.70%) Ruby
12 4 (0.56%) Bash
12 4 (0.56%) Solidity
13 2 (0.28%) PHP
13 2 (0.28%) PromQL
13 2 (0.28%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.14%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 201 (27.96%) Security Cleared
2 163 (22.67%) SC Cleared
3 35 (4.87%) Degree
4 31 (4.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.81%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.97%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.83%) 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 63 (8.76%) QA
2 62 (8.62%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.95%) ISO 20022
4 12 (1.67%) WCAG
5 10 (1.39%) SEPA
6 9 (1.25%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.11%) GDPR
8 7 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.83%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.70%) PSD2
11 4 (0.56%) NIST
12 2 (0.28%) EMIR
12 2 (0.28%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.28%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.28%) MiFID
12 2 (0.28%) NCSC
13 1 (0.14%) HL7
13 1 (0.14%) ITGC
13 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 320 (44.51%) Docker
2 11 (1.53%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 314 (43.67%) Kubernetes
2 92 (12.80%) Grafana
3 82 (11.40%) Terraform
4 61 (8.48%) Prometheus
5 32 (4.45%) Ansible
6 14 (1.95%) Argo
7 10 (1.39%) Istio
7 10 (1.39%) Kiali
8 9 (1.25%) Kibana
9 4 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.28%) Consul
10 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 52 (7.23%) Oracle
2 37 (5.15%) Splunk
3 28 (3.89%) Google
3 28 (3.89%) Microsoft
4 17 (2.36%) Jaspersoft
5 14 (1.95%) Atlassian
6 10 (1.39%) Dynatrace
6 10 (1.39%) IBM
6 10 (1.39%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.25%) Checkmarx
8 8 (1.11%) Solace
8 8 (1.11%) Sybase
9 7 (0.97%) Databricks
10 6 (0.83%) Okta
11 5 (0.70%) Ab Initio
11 5 (0.70%) Adobe
11 5 (0.70%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.70%) New Relic
11 5 (0.70%) Teradata
12 4 (0.56%) SAP