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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 189 198
Rank change year-on-year +12 +9 +32
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 788 487 523
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 1.50% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.68% 6.65% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 345 414
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% -2.78%
75th Percentile £580 £545 £625
90th Percentile £663 £613 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +7.36% -5.26% -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 10,262 7,319 9,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.50% 22.55% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,720 4,947 6,290
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% -4.74% -2.18%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £756 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 161 277
10th Percentile £30.00 £29.25 £22.65
25th Percentile £50.00 £39.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -1.24%

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 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 15 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 15 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 +10 629 £513 +7.89% 206
UK excluding London -19 368 £483 +7.36% 178
London +17 316 £525 +5.00% 100
Work from Home -37 189 £492 -1.60% 169
North of England -11 145 £500 +16.28% 33
North West -21 85 £539 +37.09% 14
Scotland -21 52 £405 -10.00% 34
Midlands -45 52 £475 +18.16% 27
South West +8 51 £409 -23.91% 12
West Midlands -35 49 £485 +2.11% 15
Yorkshire -17 45 £475 -9.52% 14
East of England +11 33 £500 +6.95% 14
South East -51 30 £450 -17.20% 36
North East -29 18 £450 -8.16% 5
Wales -16 7 £375 -21.05% 13
Northern Ireland 0 2 - - 9
East Midlands -32 2 £401 +20.42% 12

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 (5.46%) Apache Spark
2 24 (3.05%) Apache
3 20 (2.54%) Confluence
4 14 (1.78%) Camunda
4 14 (1.78%) WebLogic
5 11 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.27%) Ethereum
6 10 (1.27%) Hyperledger
7 5 (0.63%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.38%) nginx
9 3 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.25%) Drupal
10 2 (0.25%) Mule
10 2 (0.25%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 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 5 (0.63%) 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 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.25%) Shopify
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 430 (54.57%) AWS
2 199 (25.25%) Azure
3 143 (18.15%) GCP
4 121 (15.36%) GitHub
5 77 (9.77%) GitHub Actions
6 71 (9.01%) Amazon S3
7 68 (8.63%) Serverless
8 60 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
10 44 (5.58%) Amazon SQS
11 40 (5.08%) OpenShift
12 36 (4.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 33 (4.19%) Amazon ECS
14 31 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (2.41%) AWS KMS
16 19 (2.41%) Azure AKS
17 18 (2.28%) Route 53
18 17 (2.16%) Cloud Run
19 14 (1.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.52%) HTTP
2 5 (0.63%) Firewall
3 4 (0.51%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.13%) SMS
4 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (20.43%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (12.18%) Relational Database
3 88 (11.17%) NoSQL
4 83 (10.53%) MongoDB
5 63 (7.99%) MySQL
6 45 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
6 45 (5.71%) DynamoDB
7 32 (4.06%) SQL Server
8 22 (2.79%) Amazon Aurora
9 21 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (2.66%) Flink
10 20 (2.54%) Redis
11 18 (2.28%) Big Data
12 16 (2.03%) Apache Cassandra
13 13 (1.65%) Metadata
14 12 (1.52%) RDBMS
15 10 (1.27%) Data Lake
16 8 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
16 8 (1.02%) Oracle Database
17 7 (0.89%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 196 (24.87%) Git
2 194 (24.62%) Jenkins
3 128 (16.24%) JUnit
4 100 (12.69%) GitLab
5 87 (11.04%) Gradle
6 83 (10.53%) Maven
7 71 (9.01%) Mockito
8 47 (5.96%) JIRA
9 41 (5.20%) SonarQube
10 24 (3.05%) Selenium
11 21 (2.66%) Cucumber
11 21 (2.66%) REST Assured
12 18 (2.28%) Liquibase
13 17 (2.16%) Gatling
14 14 (1.78%) DbUnit
14 14 (1.78%) IntelliJ
15 13 (1.65%) jMock
16 12 (1.52%) Bitbucket Server
16 12 (1.52%) Serenity BDD
17 10 (1.27%) Postman
General
1 174 (22.08%) Finance
2 147 (18.65%) Social Skills
3 143 (18.15%) Public Sector
4 85 (10.79%) Banking
5 55 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (2.54%) Retail
7 14 (1.78%) Financial Institution
8 13 (1.65%) Military
9 12 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.52%) Law
10 7 (0.89%) Retail Banking
11 6 (0.76%) Publishing
12 5 (0.63%) Automotive
12 5 (0.63%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.38%) Police
14 2 (0.25%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 453 (57.49%) Developer
2 358 (45.43%) Java Developer
3 161 (20.43%) Senior
4 129 (16.37%) Java Engineer
5 99 (12.56%) Software Engineer
6 84 (10.66%) Lead
6 84 (10.66%) Senior Developer
7 67 (8.50%) Senior Java Developer
8 58 (7.36%) Full-Stack Developer
9 53 (6.73%) Java Software Engineer
10 40 (5.08%) Software Developer
11 39 (4.95%) Lead Developer
12 38 (4.82%) Backend Developer
13 33 (4.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 31 (3.93%) Senior Java Engineer
15 30 (3.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 29 (3.68%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 25 (3.17%) Lead Java Developer
18 23 (2.92%) Data Engineer
19 20 (2.54%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 742 (94.16%) Spring
2 241 (30.58%) Kafka
3 213 (27.03%) RESTful
4 209 (26.52%) REST
5 148 (18.78%) React
6 105 (13.32%) Node.js
7 78 (9.90%) AngularJS
8 68 (8.63%) Hibernate
9 65 (8.25%) HTML
10 64 (8.12%) JPA
11 53 (6.73%) CSS
12 50 (6.35%) Spring MVC
13 48 (6.09%) Web Services
14 42 (5.33%) Spring Cloud
15 40 (5.08%) Redux
16 36 (4.57%) RabbitMQ
17 35 (4.44%) OAuth
18 33 (4.19%) SOAP
19 31 (3.93%) Spring Batch
20 30 (3.81%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 150 (19.04%) Cloud Native
2 96 (12.18%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (6.98%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (2.03%) Data Structures
7 16 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.90%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.78%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.65%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.52%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 8 (1.02%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.89%) AI Agents
15 6 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
15 6 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.35%) Linux
2 21 (2.66%) Unix
3 6 (0.76%) 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%) Solaris
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (60.28%) Microservices
2 470 (59.64%) CI/CD
3 353 (44.80%) Agile
4 312 (39.59%) DevOps
5 252 (31.98%) Containerisation
6 200 (25.38%) Software Engineering
7 164 (20.81%) TDD
8 155 (19.67%) Event-Driven
9 151 (19.16%) Test Automation
10 150 (19.04%) Full-Stack Development
11 139 (17.64%) Scrum
12 125 (15.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 123 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
14 115 (14.59%) Code Quality
15 107 (13.58%) Observability
16 102 (12.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 84 (10.66%) Infrastructure as Code
18 74 (9.39%) BDD
19 71 (9.01%) Design Patterns
20 70 (8.88%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 773 (98.10%) Java
2 256 (32.49%) SQL
3 113 (14.34%) JavaScript
4 93 (11.80%) TypeScript
5 89 (11.29%) Python
6 38 (4.82%) Kotlin
7 34 (4.31%) PL/SQL
8 16 (2.03%) Shell Script
9 12 (1.52%) C#
9 12 (1.52%) Go
10 8 (1.02%) Scala
11 7 (0.89%) Bash
12 6 (0.76%) Ruby
13 5 (0.63%) Perl
13 5 (0.63%) Solidity
14 3 (0.38%) Groovy
14 3 (0.38%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.25%) PHP
15 2 (0.25%) PromQL
15 2 (0.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 239 (30.33%) Security Cleared
2 199 (25.25%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 32 (4.06%) Degree
5 24 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.90%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.27%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.63%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.25%) 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 89 (11.29%) QA
2 69 (8.76%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.65%) ISO 20022
4 9 (1.14%) SEPA
4 9 (1.14%) WCAG
5 8 (1.02%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.89%) GDPR
6 7 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.51%) PSD2
9 3 (0.38%) EMIR
9 3 (0.38%) MiFID
10 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.13%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.13%) ITGC
11 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 341 (43.27%) Docker
2 11 (1.40%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 324 (41.12%) Kubernetes
2 80 (10.15%) Terraform
3 71 (9.01%) Grafana
4 53 (6.73%) Prometheus
5 38 (4.82%) Ansible
6 13 (1.65%) Control-M
7 10 (1.27%) Kibana
8 7 (0.89%) Argo
9 6 (0.76%) Istio
10 4 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.38%) Kiali
12 2 (0.25%) Consul
12 2 (0.25%) Zipkin
13 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
13 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 101 (12.82%) Oracle
2 45 (5.71%) Google
3 33 (4.19%) Splunk
4 32 (4.06%) Microsoft
5 18 (2.28%) IBM
6 17 (2.16%) Jaspersoft
7 14 (1.78%) Atlassian
8 13 (1.65%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.40%) Databricks
9 11 (1.40%) Solace
10 10 (1.27%) Checkmarx
10 10 (1.27%) Sybase
11 9 (1.14%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.02%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.89%) Okta
13 7 (0.89%) TikTok
14 6 (0.76%) New Relic
15 5 (0.63%) ForgeRock
16 4 (0.51%) Ab Initio
16 4 (0.51%) Teradata