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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 186 235
Rank change year-on-year +10 +49 -72
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 683 420 441
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.48% 1.43% 1.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.24% 6.31% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 272 330
10th Percentile £350 £356 £387
25th Percentile £411 £406 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £826
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £441 £480
% change year-on-year +7.71% -8.03% -8.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 5 0
10th Percentile - £46.00 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £82.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £92.50 -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -33.33% - -

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 9,428 6,651 8,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.49% 22.66% 20.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,290 4,556 6,230
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -0.57% -4.00%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 101 193
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.50 £20.48
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.00 £36.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £71.62 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £84.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -26.11%

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 17 April 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 17 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 14 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 17 April 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 +35 577 £500 -5.66% 100
UK excluding London +6 354 £475 +7.71% 71
London +2 261 £525 -3.67% 53
North of England +7 160 £475 +2.15% 25
Work from Home +5 158 £483 -7.98% 76
North West +25 113 £475 +18.16% 13
West Midlands -16 52 £469 +11.67% 2
Midlands -39 52 £469 +14.11% 3
Scotland -24 44 £588 +36.63% 9
South East -23 40 £500 -6.89% 19
South West -2 39 £402 -23.38% 12
Yorkshire -38 34 £475 -11.63% 3
East of England -8 21 £570 +21.93% 3
North East -11 15 £475 +2.15% 9

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 29 (4.25%) Apache Spark
2 26 (3.81%) Confluence
3 14 (2.05%) Camunda
4 9 (1.32%) Apache
4 9 (1.32%) WebLogic
5 6 (0.88%) Ethereum
5 6 (0.88%) Hyperledger
6 4 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.29%) CICS
8 2 (0.29%) Drupal
8 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.29%) WordPress
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.15%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 387 (56.66%) AWS
2 183 (26.79%) Azure
3 123 (18.01%) GitHub
4 109 (15.96%) GCP
5 91 (13.32%) Serverless
6 87 (12.74%) Amazon S3
7 79 (11.57%) AWS Lambda
8 70 (10.25%) GitHub Actions
9 47 (6.88%) Amazon EC2
10 42 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
11 39 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
13 37 (5.42%) Amazon SQS
14 34 (4.98%) AWS CloudFormation
15 26 (3.81%) Azure AKS
15 26 (3.81%) OpenShift
16 18 (2.64%) Route 53
17 16 (2.34%) AWS Fargate
17 16 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
18 14 (2.05%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.61%) HTTP
2 10 (1.46%) Firewall
2 10 (1.46%) SSL
3 7 (1.02%) HTTPS
4 5 (0.73%) DNS
5 3 (0.44%) VPN
6 2 (0.29%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.15%) FTP
7 1 (0.15%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (20.35%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (13.76%) NoSQL
3 77 (11.27%) Relational Database
4 70 (10.25%) MongoDB
5 64 (9.37%) MySQL
6 62 (9.08%) DynamoDB
7 47 (6.88%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
9 22 (3.22%) SQL Server
10 17 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (2.20%) DocumentDB
12 14 (2.05%) Redis
13 12 (1.76%) Big Data
14 11 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (1.61%) RDBMS
15 10 (1.46%) DB2
16 9 (1.32%) BigQuery
17 8 (1.17%) Flink
18 7 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
19 6 (0.88%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 152 (22.25%) Git
2 148 (21.67%) Jenkins
3 112 (16.40%) JUnit
4 105 (15.37%) GitLab
5 55 (8.05%) Mockito
6 51 (7.47%) JIRA
7 50 (7.32%) Gradle
8 49 (7.17%) Maven
9 29 (4.25%) SonarQube
10 26 (3.81%) Cucumber
11 21 (3.07%) IntelliJ
12 18 (2.64%) Selenium
13 14 (2.05%) Cypress.io
14 13 (1.90%) Postman
15 12 (1.76%) Gatling
16 11 (1.61%) DbUnit
16 11 (1.61%) jMock
17 10 (1.46%) Jaeger
17 10 (1.46%) Mocha
18 9 (1.32%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 140 (20.50%) Social Skills
2 134 (19.62%) Finance
3 119 (17.42%) Public Sector
4 64 (9.37%) Banking
5 32 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.05%) Financial Institution
7 12 (1.76%) Retail
8 5 (0.73%) Automotive
8 5 (0.73%) Law
8 5 (0.73%) Retail Banking
8 5 (0.73%) Telecoms
9 4 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.59%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.59%) Publishing
10 3 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.44%) Electronics
10 3 (0.44%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.44%) Marketing
10 3 (0.44%) Military
10 3 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 406 (59.44%) Developer
2 291 (42.61%) Java Developer
3 139 (20.35%) Senior
4 113 (16.54%) Java Engineer
5 86 (12.59%) Senior Developer
6 83 (12.15%) Full-Stack Developer
7 73 (10.69%) Software Engineer
8 66 (9.66%) Senior Java Developer
9 61 (8.93%) Lead
10 45 (6.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 39 (5.71%) Java Software Engineer
12 31 (4.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 30 (4.39%) Backend Developer
14 28 (4.10%) Lead Developer
14 28 (4.10%) Software Developer
15 24 (3.51%) Architect
15 24 (3.51%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 18 (2.64%) Azure Engineer
17 16 (2.34%) AWS Developer
17 16 (2.34%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 635 (92.97%) Spring
2 203 (29.72%) RESTful
3 188 (27.53%) Kafka
4 161 (23.57%) REST
5 148 (21.67%) React
6 111 (16.25%) AngularJS
7 97 (14.20%) Node.js
8 67 (9.81%) HTML
9 66 (9.66%) Hibernate
10 48 (7.03%) CSS
11 47 (6.88%) JPA
11 47 (6.88%) Spring MVC
12 41 (6.00%) OpenTelemetry
13 40 (5.86%) OAuth
14 38 (5.56%) Spring Cloud
15 37 (5.42%) Jest
15 37 (5.42%) OAuth2
16 31 (4.54%) Next.js
16 31 (4.54%) Web Services
17 29 (4.25%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 111 (16.25%) Cloud Native
2 71 (10.40%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (6.00%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.64%) Mobile App
7 13 (1.90%) Data Structures
8 12 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.46%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.46%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (1.32%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.02%) NHS
13 6 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 5 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
15 4 (0.59%) Data Centre
16 3 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.73%) Linux
2 13 (1.90%) Unix
3 6 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.44%) Windows
5 2 (0.29%) VMS
5 2 (0.29%) zOS
6 1 (0.15%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (62.23%) Microservices
2 388 (56.81%) CI/CD
3 269 (39.39%) Agile
4 258 (37.77%) DevOps
5 220 (32.21%) Containerisation
6 175 (25.62%) Full-Stack Development
7 140 (20.50%) Software Engineering
8 132 (19.33%) TDD
9 124 (18.16%) Event-Driven
10 118 (17.28%) Test Automation
11 112 (16.40%) Code Quality
12 108 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
13 96 (14.06%) Scrum
14 94 (13.76%) Observability
15 87 (12.74%) Infrastructure as Code
16 84 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
17 77 (11.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 76 (11.13%) API Design
19 70 (10.25%) Mentoring
20 67 (9.81%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 645 (94.44%) Java
2 188 (27.53%) SQL
3 102 (14.93%) JavaScript
4 91 (13.32%) TypeScript
5 68 (9.96%) Python
6 49 (7.17%) Kotlin
7 19 (2.78%) Go
8 13 (1.90%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.32%) Rust
10 8 (1.17%) C#
10 8 (1.17%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.88%) Perl
12 3 (0.44%) Bash
12 3 (0.44%) PHP
13 2 (0.29%) Ruby
13 2 (0.29%) Scala
14 1 (0.15%) Groovy
14 1 (0.15%) Korn
14 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 182 (26.65%) Security Cleared
2 146 (21.38%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.27%) Degree
4 26 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.17%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.02%) OCP
7 7 (1.02%) Oracle Certification
8 6 (0.88%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.73%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (10.83%) QA
2 52 (7.61%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.49%) ISO 20022
4 13 (1.90%) WCAG
5 9 (1.32%) SEPA
6 8 (1.17%) PSD2
7 7 (1.02%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.59%) HL7
8 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.59%) NIST
9 3 (0.44%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.44%) GDPR
9 3 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.29%) NCSC
11 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 286 (41.87%) Docker
2 10 (1.46%) Postfix
3 3 (0.44%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 304 (44.51%) Kubernetes
2 92 (13.47%) Terraform
3 83 (12.15%) Grafana
4 47 (6.88%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.07%) Ansible
6 12 (1.76%) Argo
7 10 (1.46%) Kiali
8 9 (1.32%) Istio
8 9 (1.32%) Kibana
9 2 (0.29%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.29%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 53 (7.76%) Oracle
2 37 (5.42%) Splunk
3 34 (4.98%) Google
4 33 (4.83%) Microsoft
5 14 (2.05%) Jaspersoft
6 11 (1.61%) Atlassian
7 10 (1.46%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.32%) Checkmarx
8 9 (1.32%) Sybase
9 8 (1.17%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.17%) ForgeRock
9 8 (1.17%) IBM
10 7 (1.02%) Databricks
11 6 (0.88%) Adobe
11 6 (0.88%) SAP
11 6 (0.88%) Solace
12 5 (0.73%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.73%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.73%) Teradata
12 5 (0.73%) Virgin Media