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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 179 209
Rank change year-on-year -17 +30 +48
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 752 518 465
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.41% 1.57% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.43% 7.03% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 366 364
10th Percentile £377 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -1.87%
75th Percentile £586 £550 £625
90th Percentile £663 £613 £747
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £469
% change year-on-year +4.51% -3.04% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 10 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.75 -
25th Percentile £54.38 £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 £88.70 £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 10,118 7,367 8,577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 22.37% 22.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,590 4,943 5,790
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £632 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 174 243
10th Percentile £28.04 £29.48 £22.55
25th Percentile £41.28 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% +0.54%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -4 579 £525 +5.00% 498
UK excluding London -43 340 £475 +4.51% 259
London -2 313 £525 +3.96% 341
Work from Home -37 173 £492 -1.60% 225
North of England -23 133 £500 +7.53% 76
North West -42 72 £550 +34.64% 49
Scotland -13 65 £401 -10.89% 51
Midlands -46 48 £475 +30.49% 26
West Midlands -15 45 £485 +2.11% 20
Yorkshire -2 44 £500 -6.98% 11
South West -11 39 £436 -14.88% 34
East of England +5 26 £500 +6.95% 3
South East -55 23 £297 -44.69% 36
North East -32 18 £450 -8.16% 16
Wales -18 7 £375 -21.05% 15
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 20
East Midlands -38 2 £401 +23.01% 6

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 36 (4.79%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.32%) Apache
3 15 (1.99%) Confluence
4 12 (1.60%) Camunda
4 12 (1.60%) WebLogic
5 10 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.66%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.53%) Ethereum
7 4 (0.53%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.53%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.40%) nginx
8 3 (0.40%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.27%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.27%) Mule
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.13%) CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
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%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.27%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 424 (56.38%) AWS
2 178 (23.67%) Azure
3 130 (17.29%) GCP
4 127 (16.89%) GitHub
5 82 (10.90%) GitHub Actions
6 63 (8.38%) Serverless
7 60 (7.98%) Amazon S3
8 55 (7.31%) AWS Lambda
9 43 (5.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 43 (5.72%) Amazon EKS
9 43 (5.72%) Amazon SQS
10 41 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
11 40 (5.32%) OpenShift
12 37 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (1.99%) AWS KMS
14 15 (1.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 14 (1.86%) Route 53
16 11 (1.46%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.93%) HTTP
1 7 (0.93%) HTTPS
2 4 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.40%) Firewall
4 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.13%) AMQP
5 1 (0.13%) SMS
5 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (21.28%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (11.97%) Relational Database
3 81 (10.77%) NoSQL
4 77 (10.24%) MongoDB
5 62 (8.24%) MySQL
6 38 (5.05%) DynamoDB
7 37 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (3.99%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.32%) Redis
10 24 (3.19%) Amazon Aurora
11 19 (2.53%) Flink
12 17 (2.26%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (1.86%) Big Data
14 13 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (1.73%) Metadata
15 12 (1.60%) RDBMS
16 10 (1.33%) Data Lake
17 9 (1.20%) Couchbase
18 8 (1.06%) Db2
18 8 (1.06%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 205 (27.26%) Jenkins
2 189 (25.13%) Git
3 124 (16.49%) JUnit
4 107 (14.23%) GitLab
5 94 (12.50%) Gradle
6 91 (12.10%) Maven
7 74 (9.84%) Mockito
8 44 (5.85%) SonarQube
9 38 (5.05%) JIRA
10 21 (2.79%) Liquibase
11 19 (2.53%) Cucumber
12 17 (2.26%) REST Assured
12 17 (2.26%) Selenium
13 14 (1.86%) Gatling
14 13 (1.73%) IntelliJ
15 12 (1.60%) Bitbucket Server
16 11 (1.46%) DbUnit
17 10 (1.33%) GoCD
17 10 (1.33%) jMock
18 9 (1.20%) Flyway
General
1 166 (22.07%) Finance
2 138 (18.35%) Public Sector
2 138 (18.35%) Social Skills
3 84 (11.17%) Banking
4 59 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (2.79%) Retail
6 12 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (1.60%) Law
6 12 (1.60%) Military
7 8 (1.06%) Financial Institution
7 8 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (0.93%) Retail Banking
9 6 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (0.80%) Publishing
10 4 (0.53%) Automotive
10 4 (0.53%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.53%) Police
11 3 (0.40%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.27%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 445 (59.18%) Developer
2 358 (47.61%) Java Developer
3 154 (20.48%) Senior
4 122 (16.22%) Java Engineer
5 98 (13.03%) Software Engineer
6 85 (11.30%) Senior Developer
7 77 (10.24%) Lead
8 70 (9.31%) Senior Java Developer
9 61 (8.11%) Full-Stack Developer
10 57 (7.58%) Java Software Engineer
11 44 (5.85%) Software Developer
12 37 (4.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 37 (4.92%) Lead Developer
13 35 (4.65%) Backend Developer
14 32 (4.26%) Senior Java Engineer
15 27 (3.59%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 25 (3.32%) Lead Java Developer
17 23 (3.06%) Data Engineer
18 21 (2.79%) Java Software Developer
19 19 (2.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 709 (94.28%) Spring
2 237 (31.52%) Kafka
3 214 (28.46%) RESTful
4 210 (27.93%) REST
5 145 (19.28%) React
6 109 (14.49%) Node.js
7 71 (9.44%) AngularJS
8 69 (9.18%) HTML
9 67 (8.91%) JPA
10 66 (8.78%) Hibernate
11 58 (7.71%) CSS
12 52 (6.91%) Spring MVC
13 49 (6.52%) Web Services
14 43 (5.72%) RabbitMQ
14 43 (5.72%) Redux
15 40 (5.32%) OAuth
16 38 (5.05%) Spring Cloud
17 36 (4.79%) OAuth2
18 32 (4.26%) HTML5
19 29 (3.86%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 176 (23.40%) Cloud Native
2 112 (14.89%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (7.18%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (2.13%) Public Cloud
10 14 (1.86%) Data Structures
11 12 (1.60%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.46%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.33%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.20%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 7 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
16 7 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
16 7 (0.93%) Mobile App
17 6 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
18 5 (0.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.12%) Linux
2 29 (3.86%) Unix
3 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.27%) VMS
3 2 (0.27%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) Android
4 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.13%) Solaris
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (63.16%) Microservices
2 449 (59.71%) CI/CD
3 368 (48.94%) Agile
4 282 (37.50%) DevOps
5 235 (31.25%) Containerisation
6 209 (27.79%) Software Engineering
7 160 (21.28%) TDD
8 159 (21.14%) Test Automation
9 158 (21.01%) Event-Driven
10 142 (18.88%) Scrum
11 133 (17.69%) Full-Stack Development
12 128 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 110 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
14 107 (14.23%) Code Quality
15 106 (14.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 99 (13.16%) Observability
17 97 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
18 84 (11.17%) Design Patterns
19 77 (10.24%) Clean Code
20 69 (9.18%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 743 (98.80%) Java
2 257 (34.18%) SQL
3 109 (14.49%) JavaScript
4 90 (11.97%) TypeScript
5 86 (11.44%) Python
6 37 (4.92%) PL/SQL
7 28 (3.72%) Kotlin
8 19 (2.53%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.46%) Bash
10 9 (1.20%) Ruby
11 8 (1.06%) C#
11 8 (1.06%) Scala
12 5 (0.66%) 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
15 1 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 230 (30.59%) Security Cleared
2 193 (25.66%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 25 (3.32%) Degree
5 18 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.73%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.60%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.40%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.27%) 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 91 (12.10%) QA
2 66 (8.78%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.73%) ISO 20022
4 9 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.20%) WCAG
5 7 (0.93%) GDPR
5 7 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (0.93%) SEPA
6 5 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
6 5 (0.66%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.40%) EMIR
7 3 (0.40%) ISO 15022
7 3 (0.40%) MiFID
8 1 (0.13%) HL7
8 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.13%) ITGC
8 1 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 327 (43.48%) Docker
2 8 (1.06%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 298 (39.63%) Kubernetes
2 82 (10.90%) Terraform
3 53 (7.05%) Grafana
4 41 (5.45%) Ansible
5 40 (5.32%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.13%) Control-M
6 16 (2.13%) Kibana
7 9 (1.20%) Argo
8 5 (0.66%) Istio
9 3 (0.40%) Bosun
9 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.27%) Consul
10 2 (0.27%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.13%) Kiali
Vendors
1 100 (13.30%) Oracle
2 41 (5.45%) Google
3 20 (2.66%) Microsoft
4 19 (2.53%) Splunk
5 17 (2.26%) IBM
6 13 (1.73%) Dynatrace
6 13 (1.73%) Jaspersoft
6 13 (1.73%) MuleSoft
7 11 (1.46%) Atlassian
8 10 (1.33%) Checkmarx
8 10 (1.33%) Solace
9 9 (1.20%) Databricks
9 9 (1.20%) Sybase
10 8 (1.06%) New Relic
11 7 (0.93%) TikTok
12 6 (0.80%) Okta
12 6 (0.80%) SAP
13 5 (0.66%) Confluent
14 4 (0.53%) FIS
14 4 (0.53%) ForgeRock