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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 187 200
Rank change year-on-year +12 +13 +28
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 782 482 530
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.49% 1.49% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.64% 6.59% 5.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 342 416
10th Percentile £381 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -7.08%
75th Percentile £588 £545 £631
90th Percentile £663 £609 £759
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £452 £475
% change year-on-year +8.35% -4.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 10 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.75 -
25th Percentile £62.00 £51.25 £69.50
Median hourly rate £76.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% -23.61% -7.69%
75th Percentile £90.00 £83.44 £74.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.50 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +37.27% -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 10,235 7,315 9,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.50% 22.65% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,706 4,941 6,413
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £655
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 154 282
10th Percentile £30.00 £29.12 £22.75
25th Percentile £50.38 £38.16 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% -0.22% -14.42%
75th Percentile £74.63 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.43 £79.61 £74.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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 +9 632 £518 +9.05% 228
UK excluding London -16 368 £490 +8.35% 157
London +16 317 £525 +5.00% 121
Work from Home -28 176 £490 -4.39% 84
North of England -18 148 £500 +10.01% 37
North West -15 88 £531 +35.18% 18
South West +5 51 £409 -23.91% 58
Midlands -51 51 £475 +18.16% 20
Scotland -16 50 £405 -10.00% 12
West Midlands -36 48 £485 +2.11% 17
Yorkshire -16 44 £475 -9.52% 11
East of England +8 32 £504 +7.70% 3
South East -41 31 £450 -17.20% 18
North East -21 19 £450 -8.16% 8
Wales -19 7 £375 -21.05% 5
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 4
East Midlands -33 2 £401 +20.42% 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 45 (5.75%) Apache Spark
2 23 (2.94%) Apache
3 20 (2.56%) Confluence
4 14 (1.79%) Camunda
5 13 (1.66%) WebLogic
6 11 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.28%) Ethereum
7 10 (1.28%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.64%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.38%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.26%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.26%) Drupal
11 2 (0.26%) Mule
11 2 (0.26%) nginx
11 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.26%) WordPress
12 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.64%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.51%) Quorum
2 4 (0.51%) Ripple
3 3 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.26%) Shopify
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 426 (54.48%) AWS
2 194 (24.81%) Azure
3 135 (17.26%) GCP
4 119 (15.22%) GitHub
5 78 (9.97%) GitHub Actions
6 72 (9.21%) Amazon S3
7 70 (8.95%) Serverless
8 62 (7.93%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (5.75%) Amazon EC2
10 43 (5.50%) Amazon SQS
11 37 (4.73%) OpenShift
12 36 (4.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 34 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
14 29 (3.71%) Amazon EKS
15 25 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (2.43%) Azure AKS
16 19 (2.43%) Route 53
17 18 (2.30%) AWS KMS
18 17 (2.17%) Cloud Run
19 16 (2.05%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.41%) HTTP
2 5 (0.64%) Firewall
3 4 (0.51%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.13%) DNS
4 1 (0.13%) SMS
4 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (20.20%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (11.89%) NoSQL
3 92 (11.76%) Relational Database
4 83 (10.61%) MongoDB
5 58 (7.42%) MySQL
6 48 (6.14%) Amazon RDS
7 47 (6.01%) DynamoDB
8 33 (4.22%) SQL Server
9 22 (2.81%) Amazon Aurora
10 21 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
11 20 (2.56%) Flink
11 20 (2.56%) Redis
12 19 (2.43%) Big Data
13 15 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
14 14 (1.79%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.41%) Metadata
16 10 (1.28%) Data Lake
17 9 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (1.15%) Db2
18 8 (1.02%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 190 (24.30%) Jenkins
2 183 (23.40%) Git
3 131 (16.75%) JUnit
4 104 (13.30%) GitLab
5 75 (9.59%) Gradle
6 73 (9.34%) Mockito
7 70 (8.95%) Maven
8 47 (6.01%) JIRA
9 37 (4.73%) SonarQube
10 24 (3.07%) Selenium
11 21 (2.69%) REST Assured
12 20 (2.56%) Cucumber
13 18 (2.30%) Liquibase
14 16 (2.05%) Gatling
15 15 (1.92%) IntelliJ
16 14 (1.79%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.66%) jMock
18 12 (1.53%) Bitbucket Server
18 12 (1.53%) Serenity BDD
19 10 (1.28%) Postman
General
1 169 (21.61%) Finance
2 149 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 139 (17.77%) Public Sector
4 84 (10.74%) Banking
5 47 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.43%) Retail
7 14 (1.79%) Financial Institution
8 13 (1.66%) Military
9 12 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.53%) Law
10 7 (0.90%) Retail Banking
11 6 (0.77%) Publishing
12 5 (0.64%) Automotive
12 5 (0.64%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.38%) Police
14 2 (0.26%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.26%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 443 (56.65%) Developer
2 347 (44.37%) Java Developer
3 161 (20.59%) Senior
4 133 (17.01%) Java Engineer
5 100 (12.79%) Software Engineer
6 84 (10.74%) Lead
7 83 (10.61%) Senior Developer
8 68 (8.70%) Senior Java Developer
9 59 (7.54%) Full-Stack Developer
10 54 (6.91%) Java Software Engineer
11 38 (4.86%) Backend Developer
11 38 (4.86%) Lead Developer
12 37 (4.73%) Software Developer
13 33 (4.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 31 (3.96%) Senior Java Engineer
15 28 (3.58%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 25 (3.20%) Data Engineer
16 25 (3.20%) Lead Java Developer
16 25 (3.20%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 19 (2.43%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 736 (94.12%) Spring
2 238 (30.43%) Kafka
3 210 (26.85%) RESTful
4 202 (25.83%) REST
5 148 (18.93%) React
6 109 (13.94%) Node.js
7 79 (10.10%) AngularJS
8 67 (8.57%) Hibernate
9 65 (8.31%) JPA
10 60 (7.67%) HTML
11 48 (6.14%) CSS
11 48 (6.14%) Web Services
12 44 (5.63%) Spring Cloud
12 44 (5.63%) Spring MVC
13 39 (4.99%) Redux
14 35 (4.48%) OAuth
14 35 (4.48%) RabbitMQ
15 33 (4.22%) SOAP
16 32 (4.09%) HTML5
17 31 (3.96%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 149 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 94 (12.02%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (6.65%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (2.05%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (1.79%) Mobile App
8 14 (1.79%) Public Cloud
8 14 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.66%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.41%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.02%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.90%) AI Agents
12 7 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (0.77%) Blockchain
13 6 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 48 (6.14%) Linux
2 21 (2.69%) Unix
3 6 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.38%) VMS
4 3 (0.38%) Windows
5 1 (0.13%) Android
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (59.72%) Microservices
2 464 (59.34%) CI/CD
3 345 (44.12%) Agile
4 306 (39.13%) DevOps
5 256 (32.74%) Containerisation
6 198 (25.32%) Software Engineering
7 170 (21.74%) TDD
8 151 (19.31%) Event-Driven
9 150 (19.18%) Full-Stack Development
10 148 (18.93%) Test Automation
11 135 (17.26%) Scrum
12 117 (14.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 114 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
14 109 (13.94%) Code Quality
15 103 (13.17%) Observability
16 100 (12.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 82 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
18 73 (9.34%) BDD
19 72 (9.21%) Mentoring
20 64 (8.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 766 (97.95%) Java
2 252 (32.23%) SQL
3 112 (14.32%) JavaScript
4 92 (11.76%) TypeScript
5 87 (11.13%) Python
6 39 (4.99%) Kotlin
7 30 (3.84%) PL/SQL
8 18 (2.30%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.79%) C#
10 13 (1.66%) Go
11 9 (1.15%) Scala
12 6 (0.77%) Bash
12 6 (0.77%) Ruby
13 5 (0.64%) Perl
13 5 (0.64%) Solidity
14 3 (0.38%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.26%) Groovy
15 2 (0.26%) PHP
15 2 (0.26%) PromQL
15 2 (0.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 229 (29.28%) Security Cleared
2 188 (24.04%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 33 (4.22%) Degree
5 24 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.92%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.02%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.64%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.26%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.13%) CISSP
10 1 (0.13%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (11.51%) QA
2 70 (8.95%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.53%) ISO 20022
4 10 (1.28%) WCAG
5 8 (1.02%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.02%) SEPA
6 7 (0.90%) GDPR
6 7 (0.90%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.51%) PSD2
8 3 (0.38%) EMIR
8 3 (0.38%) MiFID
9 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.26%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.13%) HL7
10 1 (0.13%) ITGC
10 1 (0.13%) NIST
10 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 337 (43.09%) Docker
2 11 (1.41%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 325 (41.56%) Kubernetes
2 83 (10.61%) Terraform
3 70 (8.95%) Grafana
4 52 (6.65%) Prometheus
5 38 (4.86%) Ansible
6 12 (1.53%) Kibana
7 11 (1.41%) Control-M
8 7 (0.90%) Argo
9 6 (0.77%) Istio
10 4 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.38%) Kiali
12 2 (0.26%) Consul
12 2 (0.26%) Zipkin
13 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
13 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 88 (11.25%) Oracle
2 39 (4.99%) Google
3 32 (4.09%) Microsoft
3 32 (4.09%) Splunk
4 17 (2.17%) IBM
4 17 (2.17%) Jaspersoft
5 14 (1.79%) Atlassian
6 13 (1.66%) Dynatrace
7 12 (1.53%) Sybase
8 11 (1.41%) Databricks
8 11 (1.41%) Solace
9 10 (1.28%) Checkmarx
10 9 (1.15%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.02%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.90%) Okta
13 6 (0.77%) New Relic
13 6 (0.77%) TikTok
14 5 (0.64%) Ab Initio
14 5 (0.64%) ForgeRock
14 5 (0.64%) Informatica