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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 210 265
Rank change year-on-year +21 +55 -119
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 570 384 393
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.48% 1.23% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.67% 5.48% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 230 284
10th Percentile £353 £355 £405
25th Percentile £420 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -16.33%
75th Percentile £575 £629 £625
90th Percentile £630 £748 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £440 £503
% change year-on-year +7.95% -12.52% -8.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 1
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile £81.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.76%

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 8,543 7,010 9,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.26% 22.39% 21.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,689 4,448 6,566
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £770 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 89 190
10th Percentile £35.00 £24.47 £25.98
25th Percentile £49.06 £38.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.44 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.95 £77.45 £76.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%

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 28 January 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 28 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 16 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 28 January 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 +36 478 £492 -14.43% 150
UK excluding London +32 307 £475 +7.95% 123
London -1 211 £525 -10.87% 58
North of England +31 171 £475 +5.56% 28
Work from Home +16 144 £500 +5.93% 82
North West +51 119 £475 +13.43% 19
Scotland -10 52 £600 +41.18% 12
South East +12 38 £450 +15.38% 41
Yorkshire -35 32 £500 -4.76% 7
Midlands -27 26 £469 - 9
West Midlands -16 25 £470 - 8
North East -5 20 £476 +7.02% 2
South West -22 17 £409 -25.64% 29
Northern Ireland -6 2 £425 +54.55%
East of England -18 2 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £220 - 1

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 18 (3.16%) Confluence
2 11 (1.93%) Camunda
3 8 (1.40%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.88%) Apache
4 5 (0.88%) CMS
4 5 (0.88%) Ethereum
4 5 (0.88%) Hyperledger
5 4 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.35%) Drupal
7 2 (0.35%) JBoss
7 2 (0.35%) Mule
7 2 (0.35%) Mule ESB
7 2 (0.35%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.35%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.35%) WordPress
8 1 (0.18%) CICS
8 1 (0.18%) SAS
8 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 311 (54.56%) AWS
2 175 (30.70%) Azure
3 105 (18.42%) GitHub
4 92 (16.14%) GCP
5 67 (11.75%) Serverless
6 58 (10.18%) AWS Lambda
7 57 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
8 54 (9.47%) Amazon S3
9 34 (5.96%) Amazon ECS
10 32 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 31 (5.44%) Amazon EC2
12 29 (5.09%) OpenShift
13 28 (4.91%) Amazon EKS
14 24 (4.21%) Amazon SQS
15 20 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (3.51%) Azure AKS
16 18 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
17 17 (2.98%) Datadog
18 16 (2.81%) AWS Fargate
19 15 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.75%) SSL
2 9 (1.58%) Firewall
2 9 (1.58%) HTTP
3 5 (0.88%) DNS
3 5 (0.88%) Kerberos
4 4 (0.70%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.53%) VPN
6 1 (0.18%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (19.30%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (15.61%) NoSQL
3 77 (13.51%) MongoDB
4 64 (11.23%) Relational Database
5 56 (9.82%) MySQL
6 43 (7.54%) DynamoDB
7 29 (5.09%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (3.86%) RDBMS
9 19 (3.33%) Redis
10 18 (3.16%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (2.98%) SQL Server
12 15 (2.63%) DocumentDB
13 14 (2.46%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (2.28%) BigQuery
15 10 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
16 8 (1.40%) DB2
16 8 (1.40%) HBase
16 8 (1.40%) Oracle Database
17 7 (1.23%) Big Data
18 4 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 129 (22.63%) Git
2 126 (22.11%) Jenkins
3 112 (19.65%) GitLab
4 94 (16.49%) JUnit
5 52 (9.12%) Gradle
6 47 (8.25%) Maven
7 45 (7.89%) Cucumber
8 44 (7.72%) Mockito
9 40 (7.02%) JIRA
10 22 (3.86%) Selenium
11 21 (3.68%) Cypress.io
12 18 (3.16%) Postman
13 14 (2.46%) SonarQube
14 13 (2.28%) IntelliJ
15 12 (2.11%) REST Assured
15 12 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
16 11 (1.93%) Artifactory
16 11 (1.93%) Bitbucket
17 10 (1.75%) Gatling
18 9 (1.58%) Jaeger
General
1 143 (25.09%) Social Skills
2 122 (21.40%) Finance
3 103 (18.07%) Public Sector
4 87 (15.26%) Banking
5 21 (3.68%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (1.75%) Financial Institution
8 8 (1.40%) Retail
9 6 (1.05%) Investment Banking
10 5 (0.88%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.70%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.53%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.53%) Electronics
12 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.53%) Marketing
12 3 (0.53%) Military
13 2 (0.35%) Law
14 1 (0.18%) Front Office
14 1 (0.18%) Legal
Job Titles
1 327 (57.37%) Developer
2 243 (42.63%) Java Developer
3 133 (23.33%) Senior
4 86 (15.09%) Senior Developer
5 85 (14.91%) Java Engineer
6 75 (13.16%) Full-Stack Developer
7 72 (12.63%) Senior Java Developer
8 61 (10.70%) Software Engineer
9 54 (9.47%) Lead
10 31 (5.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 31 (5.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 28 (4.91%) Architect
11 28 (4.91%) Java Software Engineer
12 26 (4.56%) Lead Developer
13 19 (3.33%) AWS Developer
13 19 (3.33%) Backend Developer
14 17 (2.98%) Lead Java Developer
15 15 (2.63%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 15 (2.63%) Software Developer
16 14 (2.46%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 507 (88.95%) Spring
2 172 (30.18%) RESTful
3 171 (30.00%) Kafka
4 138 (24.21%) React
5 126 (22.11%) REST
6 107 (18.77%) AngularJS
7 65 (11.40%) Node.js
8 59 (10.35%) HTML
9 51 (8.95%) Hibernate
10 41 (7.19%) CSS
11 40 (7.02%) OAuth
12 38 (6.67%) JPA
12 38 (6.67%) OAuth2
13 37 (6.49%) OpenTelemetry
14 36 (6.32%) JSON
15 30 (5.26%) Spring MVC
16 29 (5.09%) Spring Cloud
17 26 (4.56%) Jest
18 24 (4.21%) Playwright
18 24 (4.21%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 95 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 54 (9.47%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (6.84%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 11 (1.93%) Public Cloud
8 10 (1.75%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.58%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.05%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.05%) N-Tier
11 5 (0.88%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.70%) NHS
13 3 (0.53%) Distributed Applications
13 3 (0.53%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 31 (5.44%) Linux
2 9 (1.58%) Unix
3 5 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.88%) Windows
4 1 (0.18%) Android
4 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.18%) VMS
4 1 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (65.44%) Microservices
2 323 (56.67%) CI/CD
3 246 (43.16%) Agile
4 208 (36.49%) DevOps
5 192 (33.68%) Containerisation
6 155 (27.19%) Full-Stack Development
7 123 (21.58%) Software Engineering
7 123 (21.58%) Test Automation
8 120 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
9 106 (18.60%) Event-Driven
10 105 (18.42%) TDD
11 77 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
12 75 (13.16%) Scrum
13 71 (12.46%) SDLC
14 66 (11.58%) API Design
14 66 (11.58%) Observability
15 62 (10.88%) Mentoring
16 59 (10.35%) BDD
16 59 (10.35%) Code Quality
17 56 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 534 (93.68%) Java
2 138 (24.21%) SQL
3 88 (15.44%) JavaScript
4 74 (12.98%) TypeScript
5 47 (8.25%) Python
6 25 (4.39%) Kotlin
7 13 (2.28%) Go
8 12 (2.11%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.75%) Rust
10 5 (0.88%) C#
11 4 (0.70%) Bash
11 4 (0.70%) Scala
12 3 (0.53%) Groovy
13 2 (0.35%) Perl
13 2 (0.35%) PHP
13 2 (0.35%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.18%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.18%) JCL
14 1 (0.18%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.18%) REXX
Qualifications
1 128 (22.46%) Security Cleared
2 104 (18.25%) SC Cleared
3 25 (4.39%) Degree
4 17 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.93%) OCP
5 11 (1.93%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (0.70%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.35%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.35%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (11.40%) QA
2 47 (8.25%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.21%) ISO 20022
4 18 (3.16%) WCAG
5 15 (2.63%) PSD2
5 15 (2.63%) SEPA
6 8 (1.40%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.70%) NIST
8 3 (0.53%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.53%) HL7
9 2 (0.35%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.35%) NCSC
10 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.18%) GDPR
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 256 (44.91%) Docker
2 3 (0.53%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 278 (48.77%) Kubernetes
2 98 (17.19%) Terraform
3 61 (10.70%) Grafana
4 32 (5.61%) Prometheus
5 22 (3.86%) Ansible
6 14 (2.46%) Argo
7 12 (2.11%) Kibana
8 9 (1.58%) Kiali
9 6 (1.05%) Istio
10 2 (0.35%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.35%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.18%) Consul
11 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 60 (10.53%) Oracle
2 28 (4.91%) Splunk
3 25 (4.39%) Google
4 18 (3.16%) Microsoft
5 10 (1.75%) Dynatrace
5 10 (1.75%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.05%) Confluent
6 6 (1.05%) Sybase
6 6 (1.05%) Virgin Media
7 5 (0.88%) Adobe
7 5 (0.88%) Gigya
7 5 (0.88%) PagerDuty
8 4 (0.70%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (0.70%) ForgeRock
8 4 (0.70%) IBM
8 4 (0.70%) VMware
9 3 (0.53%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.53%) Informatica
9 3 (0.53%) Qualys
9 3 (0.53%) SAP