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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 184 205
Rank change year-on-year -16 +21 +55
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 751 507 470
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.40% 1.55% 1.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.40% 6.10% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 358 365
10th Percentile £376 £313 £376
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -9.05% -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £630
90th Percentile £663 £613 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £463
% change year-on-year +2.70% - -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 10 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £69.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -23.61% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76.25 £83.44 £74.50
90th Percentile £88.70 £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 11,743 8,312 9,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.92% 25.36% 24.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,724 5,611 6,463
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £634 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 184 227
10th Percentile £29.54 £30.08 £22.50
25th Percentile £47.60 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -4.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £81.01 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +22.67% -10.71% +4.35%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -16 580 £525 +5.00% 141
UK excluding London -27 340 £475 +2.70% 122
London +11 316 £525 +0.96% 61
Work from Home -49 171 £500 -2.44% 98
North of England -28 141 £500 +7.53% 40
North West -34 78 £550 +27.91% 20
Scotland -14 67 £402 -10.67% 10
Yorkshire -2 46 £500 -9.09% 7
Midlands -47 40 £538 +46.13% 16
South West -23 37 £463 -9.76% 20
West Midlands -33 35 £551 +15.89% 13
East of England +10 25 £500 +6.95% 1
South East -57 23 £294 -46.00% 28
North East -26 18 £450 -8.16% 13
Wales -21 8 £394 -17.11% 6
East Midlands -35 4 £400 +22.51% 3
Northern Ireland -2 2 - - 3

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 33 (4.39%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.33%) Apache
3 15 (2.00%) Confluence
4 12 (1.60%) Camunda
5 10 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.93%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.67%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.53%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.53%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.53%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.40%) nginx
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
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%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.53%) Quorum
1 4 (0.53%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.53%) Ripple
2 3 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.27%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 429 (57.12%) AWS
2 179 (23.83%) Azure
3 129 (17.18%) GCP
4 128 (17.04%) GitHub
5 83 (11.05%) GitHub Actions
6 61 (8.12%) Serverless
7 54 (7.19%) AWS Lambda
8 52 (6.92%) Amazon S3
9 43 (5.73%) OpenShift
10 42 (5.59%) Amazon EKS
11 41 (5.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 41 (5.46%) Amazon SQS
12 38 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
13 32 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
15 15 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (2.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 12 (1.60%) AWS KMS
16 12 (1.60%) Route 53
17 11 (1.46%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.20%) HTTP
2 6 (0.80%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.40%) Firewall
5 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.13%) AMQP
6 1 (0.13%) SMS
6 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (21.44%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (12.25%) Relational Database
3 85 (11.32%) NoSQL
4 81 (10.79%) MongoDB
5 63 (8.39%) MySQL
6 35 (4.66%) SQL Server
7 34 (4.53%) Amazon RDS
7 34 (4.53%) DynamoDB
8 28 (3.73%) Redis
9 24 (3.20%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (2.26%) Flink
11 16 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (2.00%) Metadata
13 14 (1.86%) Big Data
14 13 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (1.73%) RDBMS
15 10 (1.33%) Data Lake
16 9 (1.20%) Couchbase
17 8 (1.07%) InterSystems Cache
17 8 (1.07%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 208 (27.70%) Jenkins
2 190 (25.30%) Git
3 124 (16.51%) JUnit
4 109 (14.51%) GitLab
5 97 (12.92%) Gradle
6 91 (12.12%) Maven
7 73 (9.72%) Mockito
8 42 (5.59%) SonarQube
9 37 (4.93%) JIRA
10 21 (2.80%) Liquibase
11 20 (2.66%) Cucumber
12 18 (2.40%) REST Assured
13 16 (2.13%) Selenium
14 13 (1.73%) Gatling
14 13 (1.73%) IntelliJ
15 10 (1.33%) GoCD
16 9 (1.20%) Bitbucket Server
16 9 (1.20%) Flyway
17 8 (1.07%) DbUnit
17 8 (1.07%) JProfiler
General
1 170 (22.64%) Finance
2 144 (19.17%) Social Skills
3 134 (17.84%) Public Sector
4 83 (11.05%) Banking
5 55 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (3.06%) Retail
7 15 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.60%) Law
9 11 (1.46%) Military
10 8 (1.07%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (0.93%) Retail Banking
12 6 (0.80%) Publishing
13 5 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.53%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.53%) Police
15 3 (0.40%) Automotive
15 3 (0.40%) Front Office
16 2 (0.27%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.27%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 432 (57.52%) Developer
2 345 (45.94%) Java Developer
3 159 (21.17%) Senior
4 123 (16.38%) Java Engineer
5 106 (14.11%) Software Engineer
6 86 (11.45%) Senior Developer
7 77 (10.25%) Lead
8 69 (9.19%) Senior Java Developer
9 62 (8.26%) Full-Stack Developer
10 59 (7.86%) Java Software Engineer
11 43 (5.73%) Software Developer
12 38 (5.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 36 (4.79%) Lead Developer
14 33 (4.39%) Backend Developer
15 32 (4.26%) Senior Java Engineer
16 25 (3.33%) Lead Java Developer
16 25 (3.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 23 (3.06%) Data Engineer
18 22 (2.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 21 (2.80%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 712 (94.81%) Spring
2 239 (31.82%) Kafka
3 216 (28.76%) REST
4 215 (28.63%) RESTful
5 153 (20.37%) React
6 108 (14.38%) Node.js
7 83 (11.05%) Terraform
8 73 (9.72%) HTML
9 70 (9.32%) AngularJS
10 65 (8.66%) JPA
11 64 (8.52%) Hibernate
12 62 (8.26%) CSS
13 56 (7.46%) Spring MVC
14 45 (5.99%) RabbitMQ
14 45 (5.99%) Web Services
15 43 (5.73%) Redux
16 41 (5.46%) OAuth
17 37 (4.93%) OAuth2
18 35 (4.66%) Spring Cloud
19 33 (4.39%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 183 (24.37%) Cloud Native
2 115 (15.31%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (7.46%) Product Ownership
4 39 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (1.86%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.86%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.86%) Public Cloud
9 11 (1.46%) AI Agents
9 11 (1.46%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.20%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.80%) Mobile App
14 5 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
14 5 (0.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.46%) Linux
2 28 (3.73%) Unix
3 2 (0.27%) VMS
3 2 (0.27%) 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
1 478 (63.65%) Microservices
2 458 (60.99%) CI/CD
3 370 (49.27%) Agile
4 283 (37.68%) DevOps
5 231 (30.76%) Containerisation
6 224 (29.83%) Software Engineering
7 170 (22.64%) Test Automation
8 169 (22.50%) Event-Driven
9 157 (20.91%) TDD
10 139 (18.51%) Full-Stack Development
11 136 (18.11%) Scrum
12 127 (16.91%) Continuous Improvement
13 114 (15.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 107 (14.25%) Code Quality
14 107 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
15 104 (13.85%) Observability
16 101 (13.45%) Infrastructure as Code
17 83 (11.05%) Design Patterns
18 81 (10.79%) Clean Code
19 73 (9.72%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 742 (98.80%) Java
2 254 (33.82%) SQL
3 116 (15.45%) JavaScript
4 98 (13.05%) TypeScript
5 83 (11.05%) Python
6 31 (4.13%) PL/SQL
7 28 (3.73%) Kotlin
8 19 (2.53%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.46%) Bash
10 10 (1.33%) Ruby
11 8 (1.07%) C#
11 8 (1.07%) Scala
12 5 (0.67%) Groovy
13 4 (0.53%) Go
13 4 (0.53%) Solidity
14 2 (0.27%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.27%) PromQL
14 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.13%) Korn
Qualifications
1 221 (29.43%) Security Cleared
2 182 (24.23%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 25 (3.33%) Degree
5 17 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.73%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.27%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.27%) 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 92 (12.25%) QA
2 69 (9.19%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.60%) ISO 20022
4 10 (1.33%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.33%) WCAG
5 7 (0.93%) GDPR
5 7 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (0.93%) SEPA
6 6 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.40%) EMIR
8 3 (0.40%) MiFID
9 2 (0.27%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.13%) HL7
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.13%) ITGC
10 1 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 325 (43.28%) Docker
2 6 (0.80%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 302 (40.21%) Kubernetes
2 50 (6.66%) Grafana
3 42 (5.59%) Ansible
4 38 (5.06%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.13%) Control-M
5 16 (2.13%) Kibana
6 9 (1.20%) Argo
7 7 (0.93%) Istio
8 3 (0.40%) Bosun
8 3 (0.40%) Kustomize
8 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.27%) Consul
9 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.13%) Kiali
10 1 (0.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 105 (13.98%) Oracle
2 40 (5.33%) Google
3 21 (2.80%) Microsoft
4 18 (2.40%) IBM
5 17 (2.26%) Splunk
6 13 (1.73%) Dynatrace
6 13 (1.73%) MuleSoft
7 10 (1.33%) Checkmarx
7 10 (1.33%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (1.33%) Solace
8 8 (1.07%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.07%) Databricks
8 8 (1.07%) New Relic
9 7 (0.93%) Sybase
9 7 (0.93%) TikTok
10 6 (0.80%) Okta
11 5 (0.67%) Confluent
11 5 (0.67%) SAP
12 4 (0.53%) FIS
12 4 (0.53%) ForgeRock