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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 215 250
Rank change year-on-year +21 +35 -106
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 589 379 417
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 1.22% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.79% 5.44% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 222 303
10th Percentile £350 £351 £403
25th Percentile £413 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £617 £625
90th Percentile £638 £744 £795
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile £81.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.59%

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 8,679 6,971 9,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.16% 22.37% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,777 4,439 6,565
10th Percentile £358 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +0.66% -7.13%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 87 192
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.34 £25.78
25th Percentile £50.19 £38.88 £45.88
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.95 £77.70 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -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 6 February 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 6 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 15 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 6 February 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 +44 496 £488 -15.22% 149
UK excluding London +24 321 £475 +8.57% 112
London -3 215 £525 -10.26% 70
North of England +33 167 £475 +5.56% 27
Work from Home +12 147 £500 +3.09% 77
North West +47 114 £465 +11.04% 21
Scotland -5 52 £600 +51.61% 9
South East +4 43 £450 +15.38% 39
Yorkshire -39 35 £500 -4.76% 6
Midlands -30 29 £469 - 10
West Midlands -20 28 £470 - 8
South West -12 23 £394 -28.41% 23
North East -4 20 £478 +7.30%
East of England -24 9 £600 +60.00% 3
East Midlands - 1 £220 - 1

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 21 (3.57%) Confluence
2 12 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.87%) Camunda
4 6 (1.02%) Ethereum
4 6 (1.02%) Hyperledger
5 5 (0.85%) Apache
6 4 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.68%) CMS
7 3 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.51%) Drupal
7 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.51%) WordPress
8 2 (0.34%) CICS
8 2 (0.34%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.17%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.17%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 316 (53.65%) AWS
2 179 (30.39%) Azure
3 105 (17.83%) GitHub
4 89 (15.11%) GCP
5 67 (11.38%) Serverless
6 60 (10.19%) GitHub Actions
7 59 (10.02%) Amazon S3
8 58 (9.85%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
9 31 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 30 (5.09%) Amazon EC2
10 30 (5.09%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (4.58%) OpenShift
12 21 (3.57%) Azure AKS
13 19 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
14 18 (3.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (2.38%) Datadog
17 13 (2.21%) AWS Fargate
18 12 (2.04%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.87%) HTTP
2 10 (1.70%) SSL
3 9 (1.53%) Firewall
4 5 (0.85%) DNS
4 5 (0.85%) HTTPS
4 5 (0.85%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.51%) VPN
6 1 (0.17%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (19.02%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (14.94%) NoSQL
3 79 (13.41%) MongoDB
4 65 (11.04%) Relational Database
5 50 (8.49%) MySQL
6 37 (6.28%) DynamoDB
7 27 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (3.06%) SQL Server
9 16 (2.72%) RDBMS
9 16 (2.72%) Redis
10 15 (2.55%) DocumentDB
11 13 (2.21%) Amazon Aurora
12 12 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (1.53%) BigQuery
13 9 (1.53%) DB2
13 9 (1.53%) Oracle Database
14 8 (1.36%) Big Data
14 8 (1.36%) HBase
15 4 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 129 (21.90%) Jenkins
2 125 (21.22%) Git
3 117 (19.86%) GitLab
4 94 (15.96%) JUnit
5 49 (8.32%) Gradle
6 45 (7.64%) Cucumber
6 45 (7.64%) Mockito
7 44 (7.47%) JIRA
7 44 (7.47%) Maven
8 23 (3.90%) Selenium
9 20 (3.40%) Cypress.io
10 15 (2.55%) Postman
10 15 (2.55%) REST Assured
11 13 (2.21%) IntelliJ
12 12 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (1.87%) Artifactory
13 11 (1.87%) Gatling
14 10 (1.70%) Bitbucket
14 10 (1.70%) Mocha
15 9 (1.53%) Jaeger
General
1 142 (24.11%) Social Skills
2 127 (21.56%) Finance
3 101 (17.15%) Public Sector
4 80 (13.58%) Banking
5 20 (3.40%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.21%) Financial Institution
7 11 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.36%) Retail
9 5 (0.85%) Investment Banking
9 5 (0.85%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.68%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.51%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.51%) Electronics
11 3 (0.51%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.51%) Marketing
11 3 (0.51%) Military
12 2 (0.34%) Law
12 2 (0.34%) Legal
13 1 (0.17%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 340 (57.72%) Developer
2 249 (42.28%) Java Developer
3 134 (22.75%) Senior
4 87 (14.77%) Java Engineer
5 86 (14.60%) Senior Developer
6 78 (13.24%) Full-Stack Developer
7 70 (11.88%) Senior Java Developer
8 60 (10.19%) Lead
8 60 (10.19%) Software Engineer
9 37 (6.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 31 (5.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 30 (5.09%) Java Software Engineer
12 28 (4.75%) Lead Developer
13 21 (3.57%) Architect
14 20 (3.40%) AWS Developer
14 20 (3.40%) Backend Developer
15 19 (3.23%) Lead Java Developer
16 16 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
16 16 (2.72%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 16 (2.72%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 529 (89.81%) Spring
2 180 (30.56%) Kafka
3 174 (29.54%) RESTful
4 139 (23.60%) React
5 135 (22.92%) REST
6 106 (18.00%) AngularJS
7 65 (11.04%) Node.js
8 58 (9.85%) HTML
9 53 (9.00%) Hibernate
10 40 (6.79%) CSS
10 40 (6.79%) JPA
10 40 (6.79%) OAuth
11 37 (6.28%) OAuth2
11 37 (6.28%) OpenTelemetry
12 32 (5.43%) JSON
13 29 (4.92%) Spring MVC
14 28 (4.75%) Spring Cloud
15 27 (4.58%) Jest
16 26 (4.41%) Playwright
16 26 (4.41%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 99 (16.81%) Cloud Native
2 51 (8.66%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (6.28%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
4 15 (2.55%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 10 (1.70%) Management Information System
7 9 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.53%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
8 8 (1.36%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.02%) Mobile App
10 5 (0.85%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.68%) NHS
12 3 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.51%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.51%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 33 (5.60%) Linux
2 7 (1.19%) Unix
3 6 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.51%) Windows
5 2 (0.34%) zOS
6 1 (0.17%) Android
6 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (65.37%) Microservices
2 337 (57.22%) CI/CD
3 250 (42.44%) Agile
4 223 (37.86%) DevOps
5 193 (32.77%) Containerisation
6 161 (27.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 128 (21.73%) Software Engineering
8 122 (20.71%) Test Automation
9 120 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
10 106 (18.00%) Event-Driven
11 101 (17.15%) TDD
12 83 (14.09%) Scrum
13 77 (13.07%) Infrastructure as Code
14 72 (12.22%) Observability
15 70 (11.88%) Code Quality
16 66 (11.21%) SDLC
17 61 (10.36%) API Design
17 61 (10.36%) Mentoring
18 58 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
19 57 (9.68%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 552 (93.72%) Java
2 138 (23.43%) SQL
3 90 (15.28%) JavaScript
4 77 (13.07%) TypeScript
5 46 (7.81%) Python
6 28 (4.75%) Kotlin
7 16 (2.72%) Go
8 13 (2.21%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.70%) Rust
10 7 (1.19%) C#
11 4 (0.68%) Bash
11 4 (0.68%) PHP
11 4 (0.68%) Scala
12 3 (0.51%) Groovy
12 3 (0.51%) Perl
13 1 (0.17%) C++
13 1 (0.17%) COBOL
13 1 (0.17%) JCL
13 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 134 (22.75%) Security Cleared
2 109 (18.51%) SC Cleared
3 29 (4.92%) Degree
4 19 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.87%) OCP
6 11 (1.87%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (0.51%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.51%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (10.70%) QA
2 50 (8.49%) Accessibility
3 23 (3.90%) ISO 20022
4 18 (3.06%) WCAG
5 14 (2.38%) PSD2
5 14 (2.38%) SEPA
6 9 (1.53%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.68%) NIST
8 3 (0.51%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.51%) HL7
9 2 (0.34%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.34%) NCSC
10 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.17%) GDPR
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 255 (43.29%) Docker
2 3 (0.51%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 284 (48.22%) Kubernetes
2 95 (16.13%) Terraform
3 64 (10.87%) Grafana
4 36 (6.11%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.57%) Ansible
6 14 (2.38%) Argo
7 12 (2.04%) Kibana
8 9 (1.53%) Kiali
9 6 (1.02%) Istio
10 2 (0.34%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.34%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.17%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.17%) Consul
11 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 59 (10.02%) Oracle
2 30 (5.09%) Splunk
3 24 (4.07%) Google
3 24 (4.07%) Microsoft
4 11 (1.87%) Red Hat
5 9 (1.53%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.19%) Sybase
7 6 (1.02%) Adobe
7 6 (1.02%) Confluent
7 6 (1.02%) PagerDuty
7 6 (1.02%) Virgin Media
8 5 (0.85%) ForgeRock
8 5 (0.85%) IBM
9 4 (0.68%) CA Agile Central
9 4 (0.68%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.68%) VMware
10 3 (0.51%) Informatica
10 3 (0.51%) Qualys
10 3 (0.51%) SAP
10 3 (0.51%) Solace