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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 190 199
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 +76
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 816 504 481
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.49% 1.53% 1.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.89% 5.98% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 349 366
10th Percentile £384 £313 £376
25th Percentile £425 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% -0.47%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £630
90th Percentile £688 £613 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £465 £466
% change year-on-year +4.62% -0.16% -5.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 10 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £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 £86.10 £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 11,843 8,430 9,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.69% 25.53% 24.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,765 5,674 6,372
10th Percentile £375 £355 £359
25th Percentile £435 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £634 £629 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.63% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 182 187
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £45.31 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.83 £52.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +27.30% -14.77% -1.44%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £74.75 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.64% -15.38% +8.33%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +2 639 £525 +5.00% 374
UK excluding London -11 375 £487 +4.62% 255
London +8 341 £530 +4.95% 215
Work from Home -38 186 £500 - 507
North of England -27 155 £537 +15.48% 67
North West -34 88 £550 +30.18% 41
Scotland -11 65 £405 -10.11% 54
Midlands -20 65 £570 +56.59% 28
West Midlands -5 59 £575 +15.00% 23
Yorkshire +3 52 £500 -9.09% 13
South West -26 35 £450 -11.55% 37
East of England -7 26 £500 +6.95% 6
South East -45 25 £294 -46.55% 41
North East -39 16 £450 -6.25% 13
Wales -19 8 £394 -17.11% 8
East Midlands -28 5 £400 +27.80% 5
Northern Ireland -1 2 - - 18

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 31 (3.80%) Apache Spark
2 28 (3.43%) Confluence
3 22 (2.70%) Apache
4 19 (2.33%) Camunda
5 10 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.98%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.61%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.49%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.49%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.49%) nginx
8 4 (0.49%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.25%) Mule
10 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.12%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.61%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.49%) Quorum
2 4 (0.49%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.49%) Ripple
3 3 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.37%) Finacle
3 3 (0.37%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.25%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 467 (57.23%) AWS
2 182 (22.30%) Azure
3 138 (16.91%) GitHub
4 137 (16.79%) GCP
5 87 (10.66%) GitHub Actions
6 66 (8.09%) Serverless
7 61 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
8 58 (7.11%) Amazon S3
9 51 (6.25%) OpenShift
10 45 (5.51%) Amazon ECS
10 45 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
11 41 (5.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 41 (5.02%) Amazon SQS
12 34 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
13 20 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (2.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 14 (1.72%) Anthropic Claude
15 14 (1.72%) GitHub Copilot
16 12 (1.47%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.47%) HTTP
2 6 (0.74%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.37%) Firewall
4 3 (0.37%) SSL
5 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) AMQP
6 1 (0.12%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (20.59%) PostgreSQL
2 106 (12.99%) Relational Database
3 99 (12.13%) MongoDB
3 99 (12.13%) NoSQL
4 64 (7.84%) MySQL
5 39 (4.78%) SQL Server
6 33 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
7 31 (3.80%) DynamoDB
8 30 (3.68%) Redis
9 22 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
10 18 (2.21%) Flink
11 16 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (1.96%) RDBMS
12 15 (1.84%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (1.84%) Big Data
12 15 (1.84%) Metadata
13 12 (1.47%) Oracle Database
14 11 (1.35%) Couchbase
14 11 (1.35%) Data Lake
15 8 (0.98%) Db2
Development Applications
1 227 (27.82%) Jenkins
2 207 (25.37%) Git
3 148 (18.14%) JUnit
4 130 (15.93%) GitLab
5 120 (14.71%) Maven
6 112 (13.73%) Gradle
7 94 (11.52%) Mockito
8 58 (7.11%) SonarQube
9 47 (5.76%) JIRA
10 27 (3.31%) REST Assured
11 26 (3.19%) Cucumber
12 21 (2.57%) Liquibase
13 20 (2.45%) Selenium
14 14 (1.72%) Bitbucket Server
15 13 (1.59%) Gatling
15 13 (1.59%) IntelliJ
16 10 (1.23%) GoCD
16 10 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
17 9 (1.10%) Flyway
18 8 (0.98%) JProfiler
General
1 189 (23.16%) Finance
2 170 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 143 (17.52%) Public Sector
4 109 (13.36%) Banking
5 68 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.82%) Retail
7 17 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.47%) Military
10 11 (1.35%) Law
11 8 (0.98%) Retail Banking
12 7 (0.86%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.86%) Front Office
13 6 (0.74%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.61%) Publishing
15 4 (0.49%) Police
16 3 (0.37%) Automotive
16 3 (0.37%) Corporate Banking
16 3 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 467 (57.23%) Developer
2 375 (45.96%) Java Developer
3 180 (22.06%) Senior
4 130 (15.93%) Java Engineer
5 103 (12.62%) Software Engineer
6 94 (11.52%) Senior Developer
7 89 (10.91%) Lead
8 74 (9.07%) Senior Java Developer
9 65 (7.97%) Full-Stack Developer
10 55 (6.74%) Java Software Engineer
11 44 (5.39%) Lead Developer
11 44 (5.39%) Software Developer
12 42 (5.15%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 38 (4.66%) Senior Java Engineer
14 33 (4.04%) Lead Java Developer
15 31 (3.80%) Backend Developer
16 27 (3.31%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 25 (3.06%) Architect
18 23 (2.82%) Data Engineer
19 22 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 770 (94.36%) Spring
2 284 (34.80%) Kafka
3 244 (29.90%) REST
4 223 (27.33%) RESTful
5 163 (19.98%) React
6 108 (13.24%) Node.js
7 86 (10.54%) JPA
8 85 (10.42%) HTML
8 85 (10.42%) Terraform
9 82 (10.05%) AngularJS
10 80 (9.80%) Hibernate
11 73 (8.95%) CSS
12 58 (7.11%) Web Services
13 55 (6.74%) Spring MVC
14 51 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
15 50 (6.13%) Redux
16 42 (5.15%) OAuth
16 42 (5.15%) Spring Cloud
17 40 (4.90%) OpenAPI
18 39 (4.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 210 (25.74%) Cloud Native
2 121 (14.83%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (8.09%) Product Ownership
4 46 (5.64%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (2.21%) Data Structures
9 17 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.96%) AI Agents
11 15 (1.84%) Public Cloud
12 13 (1.59%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 12 (1.47%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.10%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 7 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
16 6 (0.74%) Fixed Income
16 6 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
17 5 (0.61%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.64%) Linux
2 32 (3.92%) Unix
3 2 (0.25%) VMS
3 2 (0.25%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) AIX
4 1 (0.12%) Android
4 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.12%) Solaris
4 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (64.95%) Microservices
2 493 (60.42%) CI/CD
3 409 (50.12%) Agile
4 303 (37.13%) DevOps
5 249 (30.51%) Containerisation
6 248 (30.39%) Software Engineering
7 207 (25.37%) Test Automation
8 191 (23.41%) Event-Driven
9 173 (21.20%) TDD
10 168 (20.59%) Scrum
11 140 (17.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 138 (16.91%) Full-Stack Development
13 127 (15.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 123 (15.07%) Code Quality
15 122 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
16 118 (14.46%) Observability
17 102 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
18 94 (11.52%) SDLC
19 89 (10.91%) Clean Code
20 86 (10.54%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 808 (99.02%) Java
2 276 (33.82%) SQL
3 132 (16.18%) JavaScript
4 108 (13.24%) TypeScript
5 85 (10.42%) Python
6 38 (4.66%) PL/SQL
7 26 (3.19%) Kotlin
8 23 (2.82%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.59%) Bash
10 10 (1.23%) Scala
11 8 (0.98%) Ruby
12 7 (0.86%) C#
13 5 (0.61%) Groovy
14 4 (0.49%) Go
14 4 (0.49%) Solidity
15 3 (0.37%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.25%) Korn
16 2 (0.25%) PromQL
16 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 236 (28.92%) Security Cleared
2 199 (24.39%) SC Cleared
3 70 (8.58%) BPSS Clearance
4 38 (4.66%) Degree
5 30 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.84%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.72%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.37%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.37%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.12%) CISSP
10 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (12.50%) QA
2 70 (8.58%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.57%) ISO 20022
4 12 (1.47%) SEPA
4 12 (1.47%) WCAG
5 10 (1.23%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.86%) GDPR
7 6 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.61%) PSD2
9 4 (0.49%) ISO 15022
9 4 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.37%) EMIR
10 3 (0.37%) MiFID
11 1 (0.12%) HL7
11 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 344 (42.16%) Docker
2 5 (0.61%) Postfix
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 320 (39.22%) Kubernetes
2 61 (7.48%) Grafana
3 49 (6.00%) Prometheus
4 40 (4.90%) Ansible
5 22 (2.70%) Kibana
6 16 (1.96%) Control-M
7 10 (1.23%) Argo
8 8 (0.98%) Istio
9 4 (0.49%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.37%) Bosun
10 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.25%) Consul
11 2 (0.25%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.12%) Kiali
12 1 (0.12%) logstash
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 127 (15.56%) Oracle
2 45 (5.51%) Google
3 30 (3.68%) IBM
4 22 (2.70%) Microsoft
5 19 (2.33%) Splunk
6 17 (2.08%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.72%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.23%) Checkmarx
8 10 (1.23%) Solace
9 9 (1.10%) Databricks
9 9 (1.10%) Sybase
10 8 (0.98%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (0.98%) Veracode
11 7 (0.86%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.86%) FIS
11 7 (0.86%) New Relic
11 7 (0.86%) TikTok
12 6 (0.74%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.61%) Confluent
13 5 (0.61%) Temenos