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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 180 205
Rank change year-on-year -22 +25 +47
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 754 515 460
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.41% 1.56% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.41% 6.98% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 363 362
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% -1.78%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £629
90th Percentile £663 £613 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £461
% change year-on-year +2.70% +0.27% -7.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 10 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.75 -
25th Percentile £54.38 £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 £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 10,177 7,379 8,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.97% 22.39% 22.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,619 4,943 5,786
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £412 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £663
90th Percentile £738 £741 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 176 242
10th Percentile £28.15 £29.63 £22.86
25th Percentile £41.35 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.44 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% +3.69% -12.50%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.92 £81.18 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% +0.54%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -2 581 £525 +5.00% 458
UK excluding London -31 342 £475 +2.70% 232
London +11 314 £525 +3.96% 324
Work from Home -40 174 £491 -3.73% 238
North of England -26 134 £500 +7.53% 64
North West -48 73 £550 +32.53% 41
Scotland -17 65 £401 -10.89% 47
Midlands -38 48 £475 +29.08% 22
West Midlands -17 45 £480 +1.05% 18
Yorkshire -5 44 £500 -6.98% 9
South West -24 38 £436 -14.88% 32
East of England +6 26 £500 +6.95% 2
South East -59 24 £294 -45.34% 30
North East -33 18 £450 -8.16% 14
Wales -18 8 £394 -17.11% 13
Northern Ireland 0 2 - - 24
East Midlands -36 2 £401 +22.82% 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 35 (4.64%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.32%) Apache
3 15 (1.99%) Confluence
4 12 (1.59%) WebLogic
5 11 (1.46%) Camunda
6 10 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.66%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.53%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.53%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.53%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.40%) nginx
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%) Chatbot
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%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.27%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 427 (56.63%) AWS
2 181 (24.01%) Azure
3 130 (17.24%) GCP
3 130 (17.24%) GitHub
4 84 (11.14%) GitHub Actions
5 63 (8.36%) Serverless
6 59 (7.82%) Amazon S3
7 55 (7.29%) AWS Lambda
8 44 (5.84%) Amazon SQS
9 43 (5.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 42 (5.57%) Amazon EKS
11 40 (5.31%) Amazon ECS
11 40 (5.31%) OpenShift
12 37 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
13 22 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (1.99%) AWS KMS
15 15 (1.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 14 (1.86%) Route 53
17 11 (1.46%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.93%) HTTP
1 7 (0.93%) HTTPS
2 4 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.40%) Firewall
4 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.13%) AMQP
5 1 (0.13%) SMS
5 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (21.35%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (11.94%) Relational Database
3 83 (11.01%) NoSQL
4 77 (10.21%) MongoDB
5 62 (8.22%) MySQL
6 38 (5.04%) DynamoDB
7 37 (4.91%) Amazon RDS
8 32 (4.24%) SQL Server
9 26 (3.45%) Redis
10 24 (3.18%) Amazon Aurora
11 18 (2.39%) Flink
12 17 (2.25%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (1.86%) Big Data
13 14 (1.86%) Metadata
14 13 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (1.59%) RDBMS
16 10 (1.33%) Data Lake
17 9 (1.19%) Couchbase
18 8 (1.06%) Db2
18 8 (1.06%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 208 (27.59%) Jenkins
2 191 (25.33%) Git
3 125 (16.58%) JUnit
4 108 (14.32%) GitLab
5 95 (12.60%) Gradle
6 92 (12.20%) Maven
7 75 (9.95%) Mockito
8 44 (5.84%) SonarQube
9 38 (5.04%) JIRA
10 21 (2.79%) Liquibase
11 19 (2.52%) Cucumber
12 17 (2.25%) REST Assured
13 16 (2.12%) Selenium
14 14 (1.86%) Gatling
15 13 (1.72%) IntelliJ
16 12 (1.59%) Bitbucket Server
17 11 (1.46%) DbUnit
18 10 (1.33%) GoCD
18 10 (1.33%) jMock
19 9 (1.19%) Flyway
General
1 168 (22.28%) Finance
2 138 (18.30%) Public Sector
2 138 (18.30%) Social Skills
3 85 (11.27%) Banking
4 60 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (2.79%) Retail
6 14 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.59%) Law
7 12 (1.59%) Military
8 8 (1.06%) Financial Institution
8 8 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (0.93%) Retail Banking
10 6 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (0.80%) Publishing
11 4 (0.53%) Automotive
11 4 (0.53%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.53%) Police
12 3 (0.40%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.27%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 444 (58.89%) Developer
2 356 (47.21%) Java Developer
3 157 (20.82%) Senior
4 124 (16.45%) Java Engineer
5 101 (13.40%) Software Engineer
6 86 (11.41%) Senior Developer
7 77 (10.21%) Lead
8 70 (9.28%) Senior Java Developer
9 62 (8.22%) Full-Stack Developer
10 59 (7.82%) Java Software Engineer
11 44 (5.84%) Software Developer
12 38 (5.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 37 (4.91%) Lead Developer
14 34 (4.51%) Backend Developer
15 33 (4.38%) Senior Java Engineer
16 27 (3.58%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 25 (3.32%) Lead Java Developer
18 23 (3.05%) Data Engineer
19 21 (2.79%) Java Software Developer
20 20 (2.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 712 (94.43%) Spring
2 238 (31.56%) Kafka
3 214 (28.38%) REST
3 214 (28.38%) RESTful
4 148 (19.63%) React
5 108 (14.32%) Node.js
6 72 (9.55%) AngularJS
7 70 (9.28%) HTML
8 66 (8.75%) JPA
9 65 (8.62%) Hibernate
10 59 (7.82%) CSS
11 52 (6.90%) Spring MVC
12 48 (6.37%) Web Services
13 43 (5.70%) RabbitMQ
13 43 (5.70%) Redux
14 40 (5.31%) OAuth
15 39 (5.17%) Spring Cloud
16 36 (4.77%) OAuth2
17 32 (4.24%) HTML5
18 29 (3.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 178 (23.61%) Cloud Native
2 114 (15.12%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (7.29%) Product Ownership
4 39 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (2.12%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.86%) Data Structures
10 12 (1.59%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.46%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.46%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.19%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (0.93%) Mobile App
15 6 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
16 5 (0.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.10%) Linux
2 29 (3.85%) Unix
3 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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%) Solaris
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 478 (63.40%) Microservices
2 453 (60.08%) CI/CD
3 372 (49.34%) Agile
4 285 (37.80%) DevOps
5 233 (30.90%) Containerisation
6 215 (28.51%) Software Engineering
7 163 (21.62%) TDD
8 162 (21.49%) Event-Driven
9 161 (21.35%) Test Automation
10 142 (18.83%) Scrum
11 136 (18.04%) Full-Stack Development
12 128 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 111 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
14 108 (14.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 107 (14.19%) Code Quality
16 101 (13.40%) Observability
17 100 (13.26%) Infrastructure as Code
18 84 (11.14%) Design Patterns
19 80 (10.61%) Clean Code
20 71 (9.42%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 745 (98.81%) Java
2 259 (34.35%) SQL
3 110 (14.59%) JavaScript
4 92 (12.20%) TypeScript
5 85 (11.27%) Python
6 37 (4.91%) PL/SQL
7 28 (3.71%) Kotlin
8 19 (2.52%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.46%) Bash
10 10 (1.33%) Ruby
11 8 (1.06%) C#
11 8 (1.06%) Scala
12 5 (0.66%) 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
15 1 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 230 (30.50%) Security Cleared
2 194 (25.73%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 26 (3.45%) Degree
5 18 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.40%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.27%) 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 93 (12.33%) QA
2 66 (8.75%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.72%) 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 5 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
6 5 (0.66%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.40%) EMIR
7 3 (0.40%) ISO 15022
7 3 (0.40%) 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
1 326 (43.24%) Docker
2 8 (1.06%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 299 (39.66%) Kubernetes
2 84 (11.14%) Terraform
3 53 (7.03%) Grafana
4 41 (5.44%) Ansible
5 39 (5.17%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.12%) Control-M
6 16 (2.12%) Kibana
7 9 (1.19%) Argo
8 5 (0.66%) Istio
9 3 (0.40%) Bosun
9 3 (0.40%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.27%) Consul
10 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.13%) Kiali
Vendors
1 103 (13.66%) Oracle
2 41 (5.44%) Google
3 20 (2.65%) Microsoft
3 20 (2.65%) Splunk
4 17 (2.25%) IBM
5 13 (1.72%) Dynatrace
5 13 (1.72%) Jaspersoft
5 13 (1.72%) MuleSoft
6 11 (1.46%) Atlassian
7 10 (1.33%) Checkmarx
7 10 (1.33%) Solace
8 9 (1.19%) Databricks
8 9 (1.19%) Sybase
9 8 (1.06%) New Relic
10 7 (0.93%) TikTok
11 6 (0.80%) Okta
11 6 (0.80%) SAP
12 5 (0.66%) Confluent
13 4 (0.53%) FIS
13 4 (0.53%) ForgeRock