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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 187 206
Rank change year-on-year -7 +19 +71
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 791 502 475
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.47% 1.52% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.76% 5.99% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 351 362
10th Percentile £377 £313 £377
25th Percentile £425 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £630
90th Percentile £688 £613 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £463 £469
% change year-on-year +7.57% -1.33% -5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 10 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £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 £86.10 £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 11,693 8,375 9,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.76% 25.41% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,693 5,653 6,417
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £433 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.26% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 185 197
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.45 £26.44
25th Percentile £45.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.59 £79.48 £74.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +8.33%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -5 616 £525 +5.00% 326
UK excluding London -13 369 £498 +7.57% 211
London +17 325 £525 +3.96% 199
Work from Home -30 178 £500 - 180
North of England -18 160 £537 +15.48% 67
North West -35 93 £550 +27.91% 37
Scotland -15 69 £402 -10.67% 40
Midlands -34 52 £575 +57.97% 25
Yorkshire -1 50 £500 -9.09% 13
West Midlands -15 46 £585 +17.00% 21
South West -16 37 £438 -14.63% 37
East of England +9 26 £500 +6.95% 2
South East -58 22 £290 -44.76% 31
North East -27 18 £450 -6.25% 17
Wales -19 8 £394 -17.11% 3
East Midlands -28 5 £400 +27.80% 4
Northern Ireland -1 2 - - 9

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 34 (4.30%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.16%) Apache
3 18 (2.28%) Camunda
3 18 (2.28%) Confluence
4 10 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.01%) WebLogic
6 5 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.63%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.51%) Ethereum
7 4 (0.51%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.51%) nginx
7 4 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.25%) Mule
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.13%) CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.51%) Quorum
1 4 (0.51%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.51%) Ripple
2 3 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.38%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.25%) Finacle
3 2 (0.25%) Shopify
3 2 (0.25%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 450 (56.89%) AWS
2 180 (22.76%) Azure
3 131 (16.56%) GCP
4 128 (16.18%) GitHub
5 81 (10.24%) GitHub Actions
6 65 (8.22%) Serverless
7 58 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
8 52 (6.57%) Amazon S3
9 50 (6.32%) OpenShift
10 42 (5.31%) Amazon ECS
10 42 (5.31%) Amazon EKS
11 41 (5.18%) Amazon SQS
12 39 (4.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 30 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (2.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 12 (1.52%) GitHub Copilot
18 11 (1.39%) Amazon Cognito
18 11 (1.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.52%) HTTP
2 6 (0.76%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.38%) Firewall
4 3 (0.38%) SSL
5 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.13%) AMQP
6 1 (0.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (19.85%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (12.14%) Relational Database
3 93 (11.76%) NoSQL
4 89 (11.25%) MongoDB
5 64 (8.09%) MySQL
6 40 (5.06%) SQL Server
7 31 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
7 31 (3.92%) DynamoDB
8 29 (3.67%) Redis
9 22 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
10 18 (2.28%) Flink
11 16 (2.02%) RDBMS
12 15 (1.90%) Metadata
13 14 (1.77%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (1.77%) Big Data
13 14 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.26%) Couchbase
14 10 (1.26%) Data Lake
14 10 (1.26%) Oracle Database
15 8 (1.01%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 208 (26.30%) Jenkins
2 193 (24.40%) Git
3 133 (16.81%) JUnit
4 121 (15.30%) GitLab
5 104 (13.15%) Gradle
6 103 (13.02%) Maven
7 78 (9.86%) Mockito
8 48 (6.07%) SonarQube
9 39 (4.93%) JIRA
10 23 (2.91%) REST Assured
11 21 (2.65%) Liquibase
12 19 (2.40%) Cucumber
13 17 (2.15%) Selenium
14 13 (1.64%) Bitbucket Server
14 13 (1.64%) IntelliJ
15 12 (1.52%) Gatling
16 10 (1.26%) GoCD
17 9 (1.14%) Flyway
17 9 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
18 8 (1.01%) JProfiler
General
1 182 (23.01%) Finance
2 155 (19.60%) Social Skills
3 136 (17.19%) Public Sector
4 99 (12.52%) Banking
5 56 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.91%) Retail
7 15 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.52%) Law
9 11 (1.39%) Military
10 8 (1.01%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (0.88%) Retail Banking
12 6 (0.76%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.76%) Publishing
13 4 (0.51%) Police
14 3 (0.38%) Automotive
14 3 (0.38%) Front Office
15 2 (0.25%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.25%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 453 (57.27%) Developer
2 358 (45.26%) Java Developer
3 162 (20.48%) Senior
4 132 (16.69%) Java Engineer
5 106 (13.40%) Software Engineer
6 85 (10.75%) Senior Developer
7 83 (10.49%) Lead
8 67 (8.47%) Full-Stack Developer
8 67 (8.47%) Senior Java Developer
9 58 (7.33%) Java Software Engineer
10 43 (5.44%) Software Developer
11 41 (5.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 40 (5.06%) Lead Developer
13 35 (4.42%) Senior Java Engineer
14 33 (4.17%) Backend Developer
15 29 (3.67%) Lead Java Developer
16 24 (3.03%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 23 (2.91%) Data Engineer
18 22 (2.78%) Architect
19 21 (2.65%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 744 (94.06%) Spring
2 269 (34.01%) Kafka
3 226 (28.57%) REST
4 210 (26.55%) RESTful
5 162 (20.48%) React
6 108 (13.65%) Node.js
7 83 (10.49%) Terraform
8 82 (10.37%) HTML
9 72 (9.10%) JPA
10 71 (8.98%) AngularJS
10 71 (8.98%) CSS
11 68 (8.60%) Hibernate
12 54 (6.83%) Spring MVC
13 49 (6.19%) RabbitMQ
13 49 (6.19%) Redux
13 49 (6.19%) Web Services
14 43 (5.44%) OAuth
15 37 (4.68%) OAuth2
16 36 (4.55%) OpenAPI
17 35 (4.42%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 193 (24.40%) Cloud Native
2 117 (14.79%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (7.59%) Product Ownership
4 42 (5.31%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
7 22 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (2.15%) Data Structures
9 16 (2.02%) Public Cloud
10 14 (1.77%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.52%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.14%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (1.14%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 7 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
15 5 (0.63%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.44%) Linux
2 30 (3.79%) Unix
3 2 (0.25%) VMS
3 2 (0.25%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) AIX
4 1 (0.13%) Android
4 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.13%) Solaris
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 503 (63.59%) Microservices
2 470 (59.42%) CI/CD
3 394 (49.81%) Agile
4 290 (36.66%) DevOps
5 241 (30.47%) Software Engineering
6 232 (29.33%) Containerisation
7 185 (23.39%) Test Automation
8 181 (22.88%) Event-Driven
9 164 (20.73%) TDD
10 151 (19.09%) Scrum
11 142 (17.95%) Full-Stack Development
12 130 (16.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 121 (15.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 110 (13.91%) Code Quality
14 110 (13.91%) Observability
14 110 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
15 101 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
16 87 (11.00%) Clean Code
17 84 (10.62%) SDLC
18 83 (10.49%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 782 (98.86%) Java
2 265 (33.50%) SQL
3 128 (16.18%) JavaScript
4 101 (12.77%) TypeScript
5 86 (10.87%) Python
6 35 (4.42%) PL/SQL
7 26 (3.29%) Kotlin
8 21 (2.65%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.64%) Bash
10 10 (1.26%) Ruby
11 8 (1.01%) Scala
12 7 (0.88%) C#
13 5 (0.63%) Groovy
14 4 (0.51%) Solidity
15 3 (0.38%) Go
15 3 (0.38%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.25%) Korn
16 2 (0.25%) PromQL
16 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 226 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 188 (23.77%) SC Cleared
3 66 (8.34%) BPSS Clearance
4 33 (4.17%) Degree
5 25 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.77%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.25%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.25%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.13%) CISSP
9 1 (0.13%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (12.01%) QA
2 70 (8.85%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.15%) ISO 20022
4 10 (1.26%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.26%) WCAG
5 9 (1.14%) SEPA
6 8 (1.01%) GDPR
7 7 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.51%) ISO 15022
11 3 (0.38%) EMIR
11 3 (0.38%) MiFID
11 3 (0.38%) PSD2
12 1 (0.13%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.13%) ITGC
System Software
1 328 (41.47%) Docker
2 5 (0.63%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 310 (39.19%) Kubernetes
2 49 (6.19%) Grafana
3 40 (5.06%) Ansible
3 40 (5.06%) Prometheus
4 20 (2.53%) Kibana
5 16 (2.02%) Control-M
6 9 (1.14%) Argo
7 8 (1.01%) Istio
8 3 (0.38%) Bosun
8 3 (0.38%) Kustomize
8 3 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.25%) Consul
9 2 (0.25%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.13%) Kiali
10 1 (0.13%) logstash
10 1 (0.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 115 (14.54%) Oracle
2 41 (5.18%) Google
3 28 (3.54%) IBM
4 23 (2.91%) Microsoft
5 19 (2.40%) Splunk
6 17 (2.15%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.64%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.26%) Checkmarx
8 10 (1.26%) Solace
9 9 (1.14%) Databricks
10 8 (1.01%) Jaspersoft
11 7 (0.88%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.88%) New Relic
11 7 (0.88%) Sybase
11 7 (0.88%) TikTok
11 7 (0.88%) Veracode
12 5 (0.63%) Confluent
12 5 (0.63%) FIS
12 5 (0.63%) SAP
13 4 (0.51%) Okta