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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 186 197
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 +61
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 775 506 479
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.45% 1.54% 1.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.56% 6.82% 5.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 365 372
10th Percentile £375 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -0.94%
75th Percentile £583 £545 £625
90th Percentile £663 £613 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £469
% change year-on-year +5.56% -4.00% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 10 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.75 -
25th Percentile £53.75 £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 £76.50 £83.44 £74.50
90th Percentile £90.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +15.45% -23.61% -5.88%

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 10,248 7,420 8,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.22% 22.56% 21.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,681 5,013 5,855
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £635 £663
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 270 163 246
10th Percentile £28.33 £30.05 £23.28
25th Percentile £41.59 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £73.46 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.36 £79.74 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £58.60
% change year-on-year +15.56% -4.01% +1.04%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -5 599 £525 +10.53% 245
UK excluding London -19 362 £475 +5.56% 149
London +8 307 £525 +4.48% 149
Work from Home -31 181 £490 -4.39% 143
North of England -19 131 £500 +11.11% 42
North West -38 73 £550 +38.36% 27
Scotland -16 62 £400 -11.11% 25
Midlands -38 59 £480 +30.43% 18
West Midlands -26 56 £505 +6.32% 15
South West -10 42 £410 -20.96% 17
Yorkshire -2 41 £500 -6.98% 7
East of England +14 32 £500 +6.95% 1
South East -51 30 £381 -29.85% 31
North East -30 18 £450 -6.25% 8
Wales -16 7 £375 -21.05% 6
Northern Ireland -3 2 - - 10
East Midlands -38 2 £401 +25.51% 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 40 (5.16%) Apache Spark
2 23 (2.97%) Apache
3 20 (2.58%) Confluence
4 15 (1.94%) WebLogic
5 10 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.29%) Camunda
6 5 (0.65%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.52%) Ethereum
7 4 (0.52%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.52%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.39%) nginx
8 3 (0.39%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.26%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.26%) Mule
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
10 1 (0.13%) CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.52%) Quorum
1 4 (0.52%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.52%) Ripple
2 3 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.26%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 434 (56.00%) AWS
2 189 (24.39%) Azure
3 136 (17.55%) GCP
4 122 (15.74%) GitHub
5 80 (10.32%) GitHub Actions
6 69 (8.90%) Amazon S3
7 67 (8.65%) Serverless
8 58 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
9 49 (6.32%) Amazon SQS
10 46 (5.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 44 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
12 43 (5.55%) OpenShift
13 42 (5.42%) Amazon EC2
14 41 (5.29%) Amazon ECS
15 24 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (2.45%) AWS KMS
17 18 (2.32%) Route 53
18 17 (2.19%) Cloud Run
19 16 (2.06%) Azure AKS
20 14 (1.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.16%) HTTPS
2 8 (1.03%) HTTP
3 4 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.39%) Firewall
5 2 (0.26%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.13%) AMQP
6 1 (0.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (21.81%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (11.61%) Relational Database
3 84 (10.84%) NoSQL
4 79 (10.19%) MongoDB
5 60 (7.74%) MySQL
6 44 (5.68%) DynamoDB
7 40 (5.16%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (3.87%) SQL Server
9 24 (3.10%) Amazon Aurora
9 24 (3.10%) Redis
10 20 (2.58%) Flink
11 17 (2.19%) Apache Cassandra
12 16 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
13 15 (1.94%) Big Data
14 13 (1.68%) Metadata
15 11 (1.42%) RDBMS
16 10 (1.29%) Data Lake
17 8 (1.03%) Db2
17 8 (1.03%) InterSystems Cache
18 7 (0.90%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 207 (26.71%) Jenkins
2 197 (25.42%) Git
3 129 (16.65%) JUnit
4 107 (13.81%) GitLab
5 92 (11.87%) Gradle
6 90 (11.61%) Maven
7 79 (10.19%) Mockito
8 46 (5.94%) SonarQube
9 44 (5.68%) JIRA
10 20 (2.58%) Liquibase
11 19 (2.45%) Cucumber
12 18 (2.32%) REST Assured
13 17 (2.19%) Selenium
14 14 (1.81%) DbUnit
14 14 (1.81%) Gatling
15 13 (1.68%) Bitbucket Server
15 13 (1.68%) IntelliJ
15 13 (1.68%) jMock
16 10 (1.29%) GoCD
17 8 (1.03%) Serenity BDD
General
1 171 (22.06%) Finance
2 142 (18.32%) Social Skills
3 141 (18.19%) Public Sector
4 81 (10.45%) Banking
5 57 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.10%) Retail
7 12 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.55%) Law
8 11 (1.42%) Military
9 10 (1.29%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (0.77%) Publishing
11 6 (0.77%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.52%) Automotive
12 4 (0.52%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.52%) Police
13 3 (0.39%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.26%) Local Government
14 2 (0.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 460 (59.35%) Developer
2 371 (47.87%) Java Developer
3 154 (19.87%) Senior
4 125 (16.13%) Java Engineer
5 102 (13.16%) Software Engineer
6 84 (10.84%) Senior Developer
7 81 (10.45%) Lead
8 70 (9.03%) Senior Java Developer
9 60 (7.74%) Java Software Engineer
10 59 (7.61%) Full-Stack Developer
11 44 (5.68%) Software Developer
12 37 (4.77%) Lead Developer
13 36 (4.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 35 (4.52%) Backend Developer
15 30 (3.87%) Senior Java Engineer
16 27 (3.48%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 26 (3.35%) Lead Java Developer
18 22 (2.84%) Data Engineer
18 22 (2.84%) Java Software Developer
19 21 (2.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 731 (94.32%) Spring
2 235 (30.32%) Kafka
3 217 (28.00%) RESTful
4 214 (27.61%) REST
5 148 (19.10%) React
6 110 (14.19%) Node.js
7 75 (9.68%) AngularJS
8 74 (9.55%) Hibernate
9 71 (9.16%) JPA
10 68 (8.77%) HTML
11 58 (7.48%) CSS
12 53 (6.84%) Web Services
13 50 (6.45%) Spring MVC
14 42 (5.42%) Redux
15 41 (5.29%) RabbitMQ
16 39 (5.03%) Spring Cloud
17 38 (4.90%) OAuth
18 33 (4.26%) HTML5
18 33 (4.26%) OAuth2
19 32 (4.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 171 (22.06%) Cloud Native
2 117 (15.10%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (7.10%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
7 22 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (2.32%) Data Structures
9 16 (2.06%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.68%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.68%) Mobile App
12 11 (1.42%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (1.16%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.03%) AI Agents
16 7 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
16 7 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
17 6 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
18 5 (0.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.32%) Linux
2 26 (3.35%) Unix
3 5 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.26%) VMS
4 2 (0.26%) Windows
5 1 (0.13%) Android
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Solaris
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 486 (62.71%) Microservices
2 472 (60.90%) CI/CD
3 368 (47.48%) Agile
4 299 (38.58%) DevOps
5 247 (31.87%) Containerisation
6 212 (27.35%) Software Engineering
7 174 (22.45%) TDD
8 159 (20.52%) Event-Driven
9 155 (20.00%) Scrum
10 153 (19.74%) Test Automation
11 132 (17.03%) Full-Stack Development
12 130 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 115 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
14 113 (14.58%) Code Quality
15 110 (14.19%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 107 (13.81%) Observability
17 98 (12.65%) Infrastructure as Code
18 80 (10.32%) Design Patterns
19 73 (9.42%) Clean Code
20 72 (9.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 766 (98.84%) Java
2 261 (33.68%) SQL
3 111 (14.32%) JavaScript
4 94 (12.13%) Python
5 90 (11.61%) TypeScript
6 38 (4.90%) Kotlin
7 37 (4.77%) PL/SQL
8 18 (2.32%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.16%) Bash
9 9 (1.16%) C#
9 9 (1.16%) Ruby
10 8 (1.03%) Scala
11 6 (0.77%) Go
12 4 (0.52%) Perl
12 4 (0.52%) Solidity
13 3 (0.39%) Groovy
13 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.26%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.26%) PromQL
15 1 (0.13%) Korn
Qualifications
1 235 (30.32%) Security Cleared
2 197 (25.42%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 30 (3.87%) Degree
5 24 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.94%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.81%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.65%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.26%) 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 91 (11.74%) QA
2 70 (9.03%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.55%) ISO 20022
4 9 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.16%) WCAG
5 7 (0.90%) GDPR
5 7 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.77%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.77%) SEPA
7 3 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.39%) EMIR
7 3 (0.39%) ISO 15022
7 3 (0.39%) MiFID
8 1 (0.13%) HL7
8 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.13%) ITGC
8 1 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 334 (43.10%) Docker
2 11 (1.42%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 311 (40.13%) Kubernetes
2 82 (10.58%) Terraform
3 66 (8.52%) Grafana
4 45 (5.81%) Prometheus
5 41 (5.29%) Ansible
6 16 (2.06%) Control-M
6 16 (2.06%) Kibana
7 7 (0.90%) Argo
8 5 (0.65%) Istio
9 3 (0.39%) Bosun
9 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.26%) Consul
10 2 (0.26%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.13%) Kiali
11 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 101 (13.03%) Oracle
2 47 (6.06%) Google
3 28 (3.61%) Splunk
4 25 (3.23%) Microsoft
5 18 (2.32%) IBM
6 17 (2.19%) Jaspersoft
7 14 (1.81%) Atlassian
7 14 (1.81%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.55%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.55%) Solace
9 10 (1.29%) Checkmarx
9 10 (1.29%) Databricks
9 10 (1.29%) Sybase
10 9 (1.16%) New Relic
11 7 (0.90%) Okta
11 7 (0.90%) TikTok
12 6 (0.77%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.65%) ForgeRock
14 4 (0.52%) FIS
14 4 (0.52%) SAP