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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 188 199
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 +8
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 744 426 514
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.49% 1.45% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.61% 6.34% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 290 396
10th Percentile £387 £324 £375
25th Percentile £425 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £492 £509
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% -3.39% -11.43%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £663 £620 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £441 £483
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.70% -5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 1
10th Percentile - £47.00 -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £75.50 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.27% -23.61% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81.00 £88.75 £74.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +30.91% -23.61% +15.20%

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 9,780 6,720 9,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.60% 22.88% 21.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,419 4,600 6,346
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
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 279 122 263
10th Percentile £30.93 £29.35 £22.10
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.14 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +21.21% -23.85%
75th Percentile £73.23 £68.00 £68.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.32 £74.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% +15.00% -15.38%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +31 624 £523 +4.50% 131
UK excluding London 0 349 £479 +8.70% 90
London +26 310 £525 - 64
Work from Home -27 170 £495 -4.81% 83
North of England -2 152 £500 +8.70% 28
North West +3 99 £518 +31.68% 13
South West +16 53 £409 -23.91% 19
Midlands -58 46 £475 +15.57% 3
West Midlands -38 43 £475 - 2
Scotland -31 40 £407 -6.91% 8
Yorkshire -26 36 £475 -9.52% 11
East of England +7 32 £504 +7.70% 4
South East -48 27 £513 -4.56% 19
North East -14 20 £475 +0.53% 5
Wales -11 2 - - 4
East Midlands -42 2 £401 +12.01% 1
Northern Ireland -3 1 - - 6

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 (5.78%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.82%) Confluence
3 18 (2.42%) Apache
4 16 (2.15%) Camunda
5 10 (1.34%) Ethereum
5 10 (1.34%) Hyperledger
5 10 (1.34%) WebLogic
6 9 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.40%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.27%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.27%) Drupal
9 2 (0.27%) Mule
9 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.27%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.27%) WordPress
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.13%) JBoss
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.67%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.54%) Quorum
2 4 (0.54%) Ripple
3 3 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.27%) Shopify
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 396 (53.23%) AWS
2 175 (23.52%) Azure
3 123 (16.53%) GCP
4 118 (15.86%) GitHub
5 80 (10.75%) GitHub Actions
6 73 (9.81%) Amazon S3
7 71 (9.54%) Serverless
8 65 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (6.05%) Amazon SQS
10 42 (5.65%) Amazon EC2
11 37 (4.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 35 (4.70%) OpenShift
13 34 (4.57%) Amazon ECS
14 31 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
15 22 (2.96%) Route 53
16 20 (2.69%) Cloud Run
17 19 (2.55%) Azure AKS
17 19 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
18 18 (2.42%) AWS KMS
19 16 (2.15%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.34%) HTTP
2 9 (1.21%) Firewall
3 4 (0.54%) DNS
3 4 (0.54%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.40%) SSL
5 1 (0.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (19.62%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 83 (11.16%) Relational Database
4 76 (10.22%) MongoDB
5 59 (7.93%) MySQL
6 52 (6.99%) DynamoDB
7 50 (6.72%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (3.63%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.36%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (2.69%) Redis
11 19 (2.55%) Big Data
11 19 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (2.28%) Flink
13 14 (1.88%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (1.61%) RDBMS
15 8 (1.08%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.08%) Data Lake
15 8 (1.08%) Db2
15 8 (1.08%) DocumentDB
16 7 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 171 (22.98%) Jenkins
2 165 (22.18%) Git
3 118 (15.86%) JUnit
4 111 (14.92%) GitLab
5 73 (9.81%) Gradle
6 69 (9.27%) Mockito
7 57 (7.66%) Maven
8 48 (6.45%) JIRA
9 35 (4.70%) SonarQube
10 26 (3.49%) Selenium
11 23 (3.09%) Cucumber
11 23 (3.09%) IntelliJ
12 22 (2.96%) REST Assured
13 18 (2.42%) Liquibase
14 17 (2.28%) Gatling
15 14 (1.88%) DbUnit
16 13 (1.75%) jMock
17 12 (1.61%) Bitbucket Server
17 12 (1.61%) Serenity BDD
18 10 (1.34%) Mocha
General
1 158 (21.24%) Finance
2 138 (18.55%) Social Skills
3 118 (15.86%) Public Sector
4 84 (11.29%) Banking
5 37 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.96%) Retail
7 18 (2.42%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.61%) Law
9 9 (1.21%) Military
10 7 (0.94%) Retail Banking
11 6 (0.81%) Publishing
12 5 (0.67%) Automotive
12 5 (0.67%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.40%) Police
14 2 (0.27%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.27%) Legal
14 2 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 404 (54.30%) Developer
2 311 (41.80%) Java Developer
3 161 (21.64%) Senior
4 134 (18.01%) Java Engineer
5 106 (14.25%) Software Engineer
6 84 (11.29%) Senior Developer
7 72 (9.68%) Lead
8 67 (9.01%) Senior Java Developer
9 61 (8.20%) Full-Stack Developer
10 57 (7.66%) Java Software Engineer
11 43 (5.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 33 (4.44%) Backend Developer
12 33 (4.44%) Software Developer
13 31 (4.17%) Lead Developer
14 27 (3.63%) Senior Java Engineer
15 26 (3.49%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 23 (3.09%) Data Engineer
17 22 (2.96%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 21 (2.82%) Lead Java Developer
19 18 (2.42%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 691 (92.88%) Spring
2 223 (29.97%) Kafka
3 191 (25.67%) RESTful
4 182 (24.46%) REST
5 145 (19.49%) React
6 105 (14.11%) Node.js
7 80 (10.75%) AngularJS
8 60 (8.06%) Hibernate
8 60 (8.06%) JPA
9 57 (7.66%) HTML
10 51 (6.85%) Spring Cloud
11 46 (6.18%) CSS
12 44 (5.91%) Spring MVC
13 43 (5.78%) OpenTelemetry
14 41 (5.51%) Web Services
15 39 (5.24%) OAuth
16 36 (4.84%) OAuth2
17 33 (4.44%) Next.js
17 33 (4.44%) SOAP
18 31 (4.17%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 139 (18.68%) Cloud Native
2 86 (11.56%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (5.65%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (1.88%) Mobile App
8 13 (1.75%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.61%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.34%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.21%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.21%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 6 (0.81%) Blockchain
14 6 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 5 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
15 5 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (6.99%) Linux
2 20 (2.69%) Unix
3 6 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.54%) Windows
5 3 (0.40%) VMS
6 1 (0.13%) Android
6 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (59.41%) Microservices
2 430 (57.80%) CI/CD
3 307 (41.26%) Agile
4 288 (38.71%) DevOps
5 252 (33.87%) Containerisation
6 198 (26.61%) Software Engineering
7 157 (21.10%) Full-Stack Development
8 155 (20.83%) TDD
9 132 (17.74%) Event-Driven
10 126 (16.94%) Test Automation
11 114 (15.32%) Observability
12 113 (15.19%) Scrum
13 105 (14.11%) Code Quality
14 100 (13.44%) Continuous Improvement
15 95 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
16 87 (11.69%) Infrastructure as Code
17 86 (11.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 71 (9.54%) BDD
19 69 (9.27%) Mentoring
20 63 (8.47%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 721 (96.91%) Java
2 230 (30.91%) SQL
3 110 (14.78%) JavaScript
4 96 (12.90%) TypeScript
5 85 (11.42%) Python
6 43 (5.78%) Kotlin
7 20 (2.69%) PL/SQL
8 16 (2.15%) Shell Script
9 15 (2.02%) Go
10 12 (1.61%) C#
11 8 (1.08%) Rust
12 7 (0.94%) Scala
13 6 (0.81%) Ruby
14 5 (0.67%) Perl
14 5 (0.67%) Solidity
15 4 (0.54%) Bash
16 3 (0.40%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.27%) Korn
17 2 (0.27%) PHP
17 2 (0.27%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 202 (27.15%) Security Cleared
2 164 (22.04%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 34 (4.57%) Degree
5 19 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.88%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.94%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.81%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (9.81%) QA
2 66 (8.87%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.88%) ISO 20022
4 11 (1.48%) WCAG
5 10 (1.34%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.34%) SEPA
6 8 (1.08%) GDPR
7 7 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.81%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.81%) PSD2
9 5 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.54%) NIST
11 3 (0.40%) EMIR
11 3 (0.40%) MiFID
12 2 (0.27%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.27%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.27%) NCSC
13 1 (0.13%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) ITGC
13 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 327 (43.95%) Docker
2 11 (1.48%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 317 (42.61%) Kubernetes
2 88 (11.83%) Grafana
3 86 (11.56%) Terraform
4 60 (8.06%) Prometheus
5 37 (4.97%) Ansible
6 15 (2.02%) Argo
7 10 (1.34%) Istio
8 9 (1.21%) Kiali
8 9 (1.21%) Kibana
9 4 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.40%) Control-M
11 2 (0.27%) Consul
11 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 68 (9.14%) Oracle
2 35 (4.70%) Google
2 35 (4.70%) Splunk
3 28 (3.76%) Microsoft
4 17 (2.28%) Jaspersoft
5 14 (1.88%) Atlassian
5 14 (1.88%) IBM
6 11 (1.48%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.48%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.34%) Sybase
8 9 (1.21%) Checkmarx
8 9 (1.21%) Databricks
9 8 (1.08%) Solace
10 6 (0.81%) New Relic
10 6 (0.81%) Okta
11 5 (0.67%) Ab Initio
11 5 (0.67%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.67%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.67%) Teradata
12 4 (0.54%) SAP