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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 185 209
Rank change year-on-year -15 +24 +43
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 748 504 464
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.40% 1.54% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.38% 6.86% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 357 364
10th Percentile £375 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -0.47%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £630
90th Percentile £663 £614 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £463
% change year-on-year +2.70% - -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 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 £90.00 £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 10,136 7,346 8,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.92% 22.39% 22.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,589 4,921 5,783
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £411 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £663
90th Percentile £738 £740 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 177 230
10th Percentile £28.00 £29.70 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.19 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% -1.35% -6.54%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.63 £81.15 £74.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +15.56% -8.69% +5.14%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -7 578 £525 +5.00% 322
UK excluding London -25 338 £475 +2.70% 223
London +10 316 £525 +2.44% 184
Work from Home -54 166 £500 -2.44% 170
North of England -35 137 £500 +7.53% 69
North West -47 74 £550 +30.18% 42
Scotland -14 67 £402 -10.67% 39
Yorkshire -3 46 £500 -6.98% 11
Midlands -40 40 £538 +46.13% 29
South West -17 38 £436 -14.88% 27
West Midlands -35 37 £551 +15.89% 22
East of England -2 26 £500 +6.95% 6
South East -64 23 £294 -45.34% 33
North East -28 18 £450 -8.16% 16
Wales -20 8 £394 -17.11% 9
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 13
East Midlands -36 2 £401 +22.82% 7

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 34 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.34%) Apache
3 14 (1.87%) Confluence
4 12 (1.60%) Camunda
5 10 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.94%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.67%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.53%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.53%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.53%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.40%) nginx
9 3 (0.40%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.27%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.27%) Mule
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.53%) Quorum
1 4 (0.53%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.53%) Ripple
2 3 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.27%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 428 (57.22%) AWS
2 182 (24.33%) Azure
3 129 (17.25%) GCP
3 129 (17.25%) GitHub
4 84 (11.23%) GitHub Actions
5 64 (8.56%) Serverless
6 57 (7.62%) Amazon S3
7 56 (7.49%) AWS Lambda
8 43 (5.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 43 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
8 43 (5.75%) Amazon SQS
9 42 (5.61%) OpenShift
10 40 (5.35%) Amazon ECS
11 36 (4.81%) Amazon EC2
12 22 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (2.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 14 (1.87%) AWS KMS
16 13 (1.74%) Route 53
17 11 (1.47%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.94%) HTTP
2 6 (0.80%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.40%) Firewall
5 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.13%) AMQP
6 1 (0.13%) SMS
6 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (21.66%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (12.03%) Relational Database
3 87 (11.63%) NoSQL
4 78 (10.43%) MongoDB
5 62 (8.29%) MySQL
6 37 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
6 37 (4.95%) DynamoDB
7 34 (4.55%) SQL Server
8 27 (3.61%) Redis
9 26 (3.48%) Amazon Aurora
10 18 (2.41%) Flink
11 16 (2.14%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (2.01%) Metadata
13 14 (1.87%) Big Data
14 13 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (1.60%) RDBMS
16 10 (1.34%) Data Lake
17 9 (1.20%) Couchbase
18 8 (1.07%) Db2
18 8 (1.07%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 208 (27.81%) Jenkins
2 189 (25.27%) Git
3 125 (16.71%) JUnit
4 107 (14.30%) GitLab
5 94 (12.57%) Gradle
6 91 (12.17%) Maven
7 73 (9.76%) Mockito
8 43 (5.75%) SonarQube
9 36 (4.81%) JIRA
10 20 (2.67%) Liquibase
11 19 (2.54%) Cucumber
12 16 (2.14%) REST Assured
13 15 (2.01%) Selenium
14 13 (1.74%) Gatling
14 13 (1.74%) IntelliJ
15 11 (1.47%) Bitbucket Server
16 10 (1.34%) DbUnit
16 10 (1.34%) GoCD
17 9 (1.20%) Flyway
17 9 (1.20%) jMock
General
1 169 (22.59%) Finance
2 141 (18.85%) Social Skills
3 134 (17.91%) Public Sector
4 84 (11.23%) Banking
5 56 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.94%) Retail
7 15 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.60%) Law
9 11 (1.47%) Military
10 8 (1.07%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (0.94%) Retail Banking
12 6 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.80%) Publishing
13 4 (0.53%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.53%) Police
14 3 (0.40%) Automotive
15 2 (0.27%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.27%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 433 (57.89%) Developer
2 347 (46.39%) Java Developer
3 162 (21.66%) Senior
4 123 (16.44%) Java Engineer
5 103 (13.77%) Software Engineer
6 87 (11.63%) Senior Developer
7 78 (10.43%) Lead
8 71 (9.49%) Senior Java Developer
9 62 (8.29%) Full-Stack Developer
10 58 (7.75%) Java Software Engineer
11 43 (5.75%) Software Developer
12 38 (5.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 36 (4.81%) Lead Developer
14 34 (4.55%) Backend Developer
14 34 (4.55%) Senior Java Engineer
15 25 (3.34%) Lead Java Developer
15 25 (3.34%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 23 (3.07%) Data Engineer
17 20 (2.67%) Java Software Developer
17 20 (2.67%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 707 (94.52%) Spring
2 237 (31.68%) Kafka
3 215 (28.74%) RESTful
4 213 (28.48%) REST
5 150 (20.05%) React
6 109 (14.57%) Node.js
7 72 (9.63%) HTML
8 71 (9.49%) AngularJS
9 66 (8.82%) JPA
10 64 (8.56%) Hibernate
11 61 (8.16%) CSS
12 56 (7.49%) Spring MVC
13 46 (6.15%) Web Services
14 45 (6.02%) RabbitMQ
15 43 (5.75%) Redux
16 41 (5.48%) OAuth
17 37 (4.95%) OAuth2
17 37 (4.95%) Spring Cloud
18 32 (4.28%) HTML5
19 31 (4.14%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 181 (24.20%) Cloud Native
2 115 (15.37%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (7.22%) Product Ownership
4 39 (5.21%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (3.34%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (2.14%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.87%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.87%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.47%) AI Agents
10 11 (1.47%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.20%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
14 6 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (0.80%) Mobile App
15 5 (0.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 45 (6.02%) Linux
2 30 (4.01%) Unix
3 2 (0.27%) VMS
3 2 (0.27%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) AIX
4 1 (0.13%) Android
4 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.13%) Solaris
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 478 (63.90%) Microservices
2 456 (60.96%) CI/CD
3 370 (49.47%) Agile
4 285 (38.10%) DevOps
5 235 (31.42%) Containerisation
6 220 (29.41%) Software Engineering
7 166 (22.19%) Event-Driven
7 166 (22.19%) Test Automation
8 162 (21.66%) TDD
9 138 (18.45%) Scrum
10 136 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
11 127 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 112 (14.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 108 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
14 106 (14.17%) Code Quality
15 102 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
16 101 (13.50%) Observability
17 84 (11.23%) Design Patterns
18 80 (10.70%) Clean Code
19 71 (9.49%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 739 (98.80%) Java
2 256 (34.22%) SQL
3 113 (15.11%) JavaScript
4 95 (12.70%) TypeScript
5 84 (11.23%) Python
6 31 (4.14%) PL/SQL
7 28 (3.74%) Kotlin
8 19 (2.54%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.47%) Bash
10 10 (1.34%) Ruby
11 8 (1.07%) C#
11 8 (1.07%) Scala
12 5 (0.67%) Groovy
13 4 (0.53%) Go
13 4 (0.53%) Solidity
14 2 (0.27%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.27%) PromQL
14 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.13%) Korn
Qualifications
1 221 (29.55%) Security Cleared
2 183 (24.47%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 26 (3.48%) Degree
5 18 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.74%) AWS Certification
6 13 (1.74%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.40%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.27%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.13%) CISSP
9 1 (0.13%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (12.17%) QA
2 68 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.74%) ISO 20022
4 10 (1.34%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.34%) WCAG
5 7 (0.94%) GDPR
5 7 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (0.94%) SEPA
6 6 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.40%) EMIR
8 3 (0.40%) ISO 15022
8 3 (0.40%) MiFID
9 1 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.13%) ITGC
9 1 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 327 (43.72%) Docker
2 8 (1.07%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 302 (40.37%) Kubernetes
2 83 (11.10%) Terraform
3 52 (6.95%) Grafana
4 41 (5.48%) Ansible
5 39 (5.21%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.14%) Control-M
6 16 (2.14%) Kibana
7 9 (1.20%) Argo
8 7 (0.94%) Istio
9 3 (0.40%) Bosun
9 3 (0.40%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.27%) Consul
10 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.13%) Kiali
Vendors
1 104 (13.90%) Oracle
2 40 (5.35%) Google
3 22 (2.94%) Microsoft
4 18 (2.41%) IBM
4 18 (2.41%) Splunk
5 14 (1.87%) Dynatrace
6 13 (1.74%) MuleSoft
7 12 (1.60%) Jaspersoft
8 10 (1.34%) Atlassian
8 10 (1.34%) Checkmarx
8 10 (1.34%) Solace
9 9 (1.20%) Databricks
9 9 (1.20%) Sybase
10 8 (1.07%) New Relic
11 7 (0.94%) TikTok
12 6 (0.80%) Okta
13 5 (0.67%) Confluent
13 5 (0.67%) SAP
14 4 (0.53%) FIS
14 4 (0.53%) ForgeRock