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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 201 194
Rank change year-on-year +8 -7 +82
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 841 467 467
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.52% 1.41% 1.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.00% 5.42% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 323 330
10th Percentile £380 £314 £374
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £558 £638
90th Percentile £694 £613 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £469 £458
% change year-on-year +1.28% +2.51% -8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 6 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £38.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £44.38 £69.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -27.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 £55.00 £74.50
90th Percentile £77.00 - -
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 12,011 8,622 9,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.73% 25.99% 24.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,888 5,725 5,976
10th Percentile £380 £357 £355
25th Percentile £440 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 188 169
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.18 £25.56
25th Percentile £50.50 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +10.11%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.90 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.67% -15.38% +13.04%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +11 645 £525 +7.14% 515
UK excluding London -6 394 £475 +1.28% 315
London +5 331 £537 +3.27% 300
Work from Home -18 190 £500 -0.74% 256
North of England -12 170 £537 +13.65% 114
North West -22 99 £550 +23.60% 64
Midlands -8 83 £525 +44.23% 21
West Midlands +3 71 £575 +15.00% 19
Scotland -11 67 £406 -13.39% 79
Yorkshire +9 53 £500 -6.98% 25
South West -17 29 £481 -4.23% 31
South East -62 24 £297 -34.00% 29
North East -37 19 £460 -8.00% 27
East of England - 15 £475 - 8
East Midlands -23 11 £402 +38.86% 2
Wales -16 10 £413 -13.16% 12
Northern Ireland +6 2 - - 21

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 30 (3.57%) Apache
1 30 (3.57%) Confluence
2 25 (2.97%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.14%) Camunda
4 9 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.95%) WebLogic
6 6 (0.71%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.59%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.48%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.48%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.48%) nginx
9 3 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.24%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.24%) Mule
10 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) Solana
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 (0.59%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.48%) Quorum
2 4 (0.48%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.48%) Ripple
3 3 (0.36%) Finacle
3 3 (0.36%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.24%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 475 (56.48%) AWS
2 182 (21.64%) Azure
3 143 (17.00%) GitHub
4 127 (15.10%) GCP
5 91 (10.82%) GitHub Actions
6 68 (8.09%) Serverless
7 63 (7.49%) AWS Lambda
8 58 (6.90%) Amazon S3
9 55 (6.54%) Amazon ECS
10 50 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
10 50 (5.95%) OpenShift
11 44 (5.23%) Amazon SQS
12 36 (4.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 33 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
14 23 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (2.26%) GitHub Copilot
16 18 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (2.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 16 (1.90%) Anthropic Claude
18 12 (1.43%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.78%) HTTP
2 8 (0.95%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.36%) SSL
5 2 (0.24%) Firewall
5 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) AMQP
6 1 (0.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (21.17%) PostgreSQL
2 118 (14.03%) MongoDB
3 113 (13.44%) Relational Database
4 97 (11.53%) NoSQL
5 51 (6.06%) MySQL
6 45 (5.35%) SQL Server
7 33 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (3.69%) Redis
9 24 (2.85%) Flink
10 22 (2.62%) DynamoDB
11 21 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
12 17 (2.02%) Metadata
13 16 (1.90%) Oracle Database
14 15 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
14 15 (1.78%) RDBMS
15 12 (1.43%) Couchbase
16 11 (1.31%) Apache Cassandra
16 11 (1.31%) Big Data
17 10 (1.19%) Data Lake
18 8 (0.95%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 237 (28.18%) Jenkins
2 220 (26.16%) Git
3 151 (17.95%) JUnit
4 147 (17.48%) GitLab
5 139 (16.53%) Maven
6 125 (14.86%) Gradle
7 103 (12.25%) Mockito
8 48 (5.71%) JIRA
8 48 (5.71%) SonarQube
9 36 (4.28%) Cucumber
10 30 (3.57%) REST Assured
11 24 (2.85%) Selenium
12 19 (2.26%) Claude Code
13 16 (1.90%) Liquibase
14 15 (1.78%) Gatling
15 13 (1.55%) Bitbucket Server
16 12 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
17 10 (1.19%) GoCD
18 9 (1.07%) Cypress.io
18 9 (1.07%) Flyway
General
1 202 (24.02%) Finance
2 178 (21.17%) Social Skills
3 152 (18.07%) Public Sector
4 135 (16.05%) Banking
5 77 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.09%) Retail
7 22 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.78%) Investment Banking
9 13 (1.55%) Front Office
9 13 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (1.43%) Military
11 9 (1.07%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.95%) Back Office
12 8 (0.95%) Law
13 7 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.83%) Retail Banking
14 6 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.48%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.48%) iGaming
16 3 (0.36%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 462 (54.93%) Developer
2 372 (44.23%) Java Developer
3 194 (23.07%) Senior
4 148 (17.60%) Java Engineer
5 105 (12.49%) Software Engineer
6 97 (11.53%) Senior Developer
7 87 (10.34%) Lead
8 76 (9.04%) Senior Java Developer
9 68 (8.09%) Full-Stack Developer
10 56 (6.66%) Java Software Engineer
11 48 (5.71%) Senior Java Engineer
12 45 (5.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 45 (5.35%) Lead Developer
13 38 (4.52%) Software Developer
14 36 (4.28%) Lead Java Developer
15 29 (3.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 27 (3.21%) Architect
16 27 (3.21%) Backend Developer
17 26 (3.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 25 (2.97%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 791 (94.05%) Spring
2 314 (37.34%) Kafka
3 280 (33.29%) REST
4 226 (26.87%) RESTful
5 152 (18.07%) React
6 105 (12.49%) Node.js
7 99 (11.77%) JPA
8 95 (11.30%) Terraform
9 87 (10.34%) AngularJS
10 85 (10.11%) Hibernate
11 79 (9.39%) HTML
12 69 (8.20%) CSS
13 61 (7.25%) Web Services
14 51 (6.06%) OAuth
15 49 (5.83%) RabbitMQ
15 49 (5.83%) Spring MVC
16 47 (5.59%) OpenAPI
17 44 (5.23%) SOAP
18 43 (5.11%) Redux
19 41 (4.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 237 (28.18%) Cloud Native
2 156 (18.55%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (8.32%) Product Ownership
4 59 (7.02%) Enterprise Software
5 32 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
7 23 (2.73%) AI Agents
8 21 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
9 18 (2.14%) Data Structures
10 17 (2.02%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 14 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (1.66%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.31%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
15 9 (1.07%) Fixed Income
16 8 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
17 7 (0.83%) Equities
17 7 (0.83%) Mainframe
18 6 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.06%) Linux
2 35 (4.16%) Unix
3 4 (0.48%) macOS
4 3 (0.36%) AIX
5 2 (0.24%) Android
5 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.24%) Windows
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Solaris
6 1 (0.12%) VMS
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 550 (65.40%) Microservices
2 519 (61.71%) CI/CD
3 444 (52.79%) Agile
4 309 (36.74%) DevOps
5 264 (31.39%) Software Engineering
6 237 (28.18%) Test Automation
7 234 (27.82%) Containerisation
8 221 (26.28%) Event-Driven
9 182 (21.64%) Scrum
10 174 (20.69%) TDD
11 150 (17.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 145 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 145 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
13 127 (15.10%) Observability
13 127 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
14 101 (12.01%) Code Quality
14 101 (12.01%) Infrastructure as Code
15 93 (11.06%) Clean Code
16 90 (10.70%) SDLC
16 90 (10.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 830 (98.69%) Java
2 284 (33.77%) SQL
3 130 (15.46%) JavaScript
4 118 (14.03%) TypeScript
5 74 (8.80%) Python
6 40 (4.76%) PL/SQL
7 29 (3.45%) Shell Script
8 23 (2.73%) Kotlin
9 13 (1.55%) Bash
10 12 (1.43%) Scala
11 10 (1.19%) Ruby
12 6 (0.71%) C#
13 5 (0.59%) Groovy
14 4 (0.48%) Solidity
15 3 (0.36%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.24%) Bicep
16 2 (0.24%) Go
16 2 (0.24%) Korn
16 2 (0.24%) PromQL
16 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 229 (27.23%) Security Cleared
2 198 (23.54%) SC Cleared
3 80 (9.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 43 (5.11%) Degree
5 33 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.02%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.78%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.48%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.36%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.36%) 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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (13.20%) QA
2 76 (9.04%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.62%) ISO 20022
4 13 (1.55%) SEPA
4 13 (1.55%) WCAG
5 11 (1.31%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.83%) GDPR
7 6 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.59%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.59%) PSD2
9 4 (0.48%) ISO 15022
9 4 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.36%) EMIR
10 3 (0.36%) MiFID
11 2 (0.24%) NIST
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 341 (40.55%) Docker
2 3 (0.36%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 330 (39.24%) Kubernetes
2 63 (7.49%) Grafana
3 47 (5.59%) Prometheus
4 36 (4.28%) Ansible
5 27 (3.21%) Kibana
6 16 (1.90%) Control-M
7 11 (1.31%) Argo
8 5 (0.59%) Istio
9 4 (0.48%) Bosun
9 4 (0.48%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.24%) Consul
10 2 (0.24%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.12%) logstash
11 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 136 (16.17%) Oracle
2 40 (4.76%) Google
3 29 (3.45%) IBM
4 22 (2.62%) Splunk
5 21 (2.50%) Microsoft
6 18 (2.14%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.55%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.19%) Databricks
8 10 (1.19%) New Relic
9 9 (1.07%) Solace
9 9 (1.07%) Sybase
9 9 (1.07%) Veracode
10 7 (0.83%) FIS
10 7 (0.83%) ION Trading
10 7 (0.83%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.83%) TikTok
11 5 (0.59%) Confluent
11 5 (0.59%) Jaspersoft
11 5 (0.59%) Temenos
11 5 (0.59%) webMethods