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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 195 194
Rank change year-on-year +19 -1 +16
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 754 428 525
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 1.44% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.67% 6.31% 5.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 292 409
10th Percentile £384 £314 £375
25th Percentile £425 £401 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £506
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -5.14% -12.00%
75th Percentile £588 £545 £625
90th Percentile £657 £615 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £444 £485
% change year-on-year +8.87% -8.41% -5.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 9 1
10th Percentile £52.50 £47.00 -
25th Percentile £56.75 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £76.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% -23.61% -7.69%
75th Percentile £87.75 £88.75 £74.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% -23.61% +15.20%

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 9,826 6,783 9,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.50% 22.79% 21.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,451 4,628 6,345
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -3.74% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 127 275
10th Percentile £30.45 £29.18 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.19 £40.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £68.38
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.15 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +32 631 £518 +3.50% 154
UK excluding London -3 356 £483 +8.87% 121
London +46 312 £525 +5.00% 69
Work from Home -21 170 £490 -5.77% 72
North of England +4 156 £500 +8.11% 45
North West +8 99 £525 +33.59% 26
South West +18 53 £409 -23.91% 21
Midlands -47 48 £475 +18.16% 6
West Midlands -28 45 £475 - 3
Scotland -26 41 £405 -6.69% 9
Yorkshire -32 39 £488 -7.14% 15
East of England +4 32 £504 +7.70% 5
South East -45 27 £500 -6.89% 16
North East -23 21 £450 -8.16% 6
Wales -12 2 - - 7
East Midlands -39 2 £401 +17.94% 3
Northern Ireland -4 1 - - 13

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 43 (5.70%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.65%) Confluence
3 18 (2.39%) Apache
4 16 (2.12%) Camunda
5 11 (1.46%) WebLogic
6 10 (1.33%) Ethereum
6 10 (1.33%) Hyperledger
7 9 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.40%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.27%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.27%) Drupal
10 2 (0.27%) Mule
10 2 (0.27%) nginx
10 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.27%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.27%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.66%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.53%) Quorum
2 4 (0.53%) Ripple
3 3 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.27%) Shopify
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 404 (53.58%) AWS
2 181 (24.01%) Azure
3 126 (16.71%) GCP
4 115 (15.25%) GitHub
5 78 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
6 74 (9.81%) Amazon S3
7 71 (9.42%) Serverless
8 65 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (5.97%) Amazon SQS
10 43 (5.70%) Amazon EC2
11 38 (5.04%) OpenShift
12 37 (4.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 34 (4.51%) Amazon ECS
14 29 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
15 22 (2.92%) Route 53
16 21 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (2.52%) Azure AKS
18 18 (2.39%) AWS KMS
19 16 (2.12%) AWS Fargate
19 16 (2.12%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.46%) HTTP
2 9 (1.19%) Firewall
3 4 (0.53%) DNS
3 4 (0.53%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.13%) SMS
4 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (20.16%) PostgreSQL
2 95 (12.60%) NoSQL
3 85 (11.27%) Relational Database
4 76 (10.08%) MongoDB
5 62 (8.22%) MySQL
6 51 (6.76%) DynamoDB
7 49 (6.50%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (3.58%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.32%) Amazon Aurora
10 22 (2.92%) Redis
11 19 (2.52%) Big Data
11 19 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (2.25%) Flink
13 14 (1.86%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (1.59%) RDBMS
15 8 (1.06%) Data Lake
15 8 (1.06%) Db2
16 7 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
17 6 (0.80%) Hadoop
17 6 (0.80%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 177 (23.47%) Jenkins
2 169 (22.41%) Git
3 121 (16.05%) JUnit
4 108 (14.32%) GitLab
5 74 (9.81%) Gradle
6 70 (9.28%) Mockito
7 62 (8.22%) Maven
8 46 (6.10%) JIRA
9 36 (4.77%) SonarQube
10 24 (3.18%) Selenium
11 21 (2.79%) Cucumber
11 21 (2.79%) REST Assured
12 20 (2.65%) IntelliJ
13 18 (2.39%) Liquibase
14 17 (2.25%) Gatling
15 14 (1.86%) DbUnit
16 13 (1.72%) jMock
17 12 (1.59%) Bitbucket Server
17 12 (1.59%) Serenity BDD
18 10 (1.33%) Mocha
General
1 162 (21.49%) Finance
2 140 (18.57%) Social Skills
3 122 (16.18%) Public Sector
4 83 (11.01%) Banking
5 41 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (2.25%) Financial Institution
6 17 (2.25%) Retail
7 12 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.59%) Law
8 10 (1.33%) Military
9 6 (0.80%) Publishing
9 6 (0.80%) Retail Banking
10 5 (0.66%) Automotive
10 5 (0.66%) Investment Banking
10 5 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.40%) Police
12 2 (0.27%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.27%) Legal
12 2 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 419 (55.57%) Developer
2 324 (42.97%) Java Developer
3 163 (21.62%) Senior
4 132 (17.51%) Java Engineer
5 106 (14.06%) Software Engineer
6 83 (11.01%) Senior Developer
7 75 (9.95%) Lead
8 67 (8.89%) Senior Java Developer
9 61 (8.09%) Full-Stack Developer
10 56 (7.43%) Java Software Engineer
11 40 (5.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 36 (4.77%) Software Developer
13 35 (4.64%) Backend Developer
14 33 (4.38%) Lead Developer
15 30 (3.98%) Senior Java Engineer
16 26 (3.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 23 (3.05%) Data Engineer
17 23 (3.05%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 22 (2.92%) Lead Java Developer
19 21 (2.79%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 699 (92.71%) Spring
2 230 (30.50%) Kafka
3 199 (26.39%) RESTful
4 183 (24.27%) REST
5 149 (19.76%) React
6 103 (13.66%) Node.js
7 76 (10.08%) AngularJS
8 67 (8.89%) Hibernate
9 62 (8.22%) JPA
10 54 (7.16%) HTML
11 50 (6.63%) Spring Cloud
12 46 (6.10%) Spring MVC
13 45 (5.97%) CSS
14 43 (5.70%) Web Services
15 38 (5.04%) OAuth
16 36 (4.77%) OAuth2
17 34 (4.51%) OpenTelemetry
18 33 (4.38%) RabbitMQ
18 33 (4.38%) Redux
19 32 (4.24%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 143 (18.97%) Cloud Native
2 90 (11.94%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (5.84%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (1.86%) Data Structures
7 14 (1.86%) Mobile App
8 12 (1.59%) Public Cloud
8 12 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.46%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.46%) Onboarding
10 7 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (0.93%) Management Information System
10 7 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 6 (0.80%) Blockchain
11 6 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.63%) Linux
2 21 (2.79%) Unix
3 6 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.40%) VMS
5 2 (0.27%) Windows
6 1 (0.13%) Android
6 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (58.49%) Microservices
2 434 (57.56%) CI/CD
3 316 (41.91%) Agile
4 295 (39.12%) DevOps
5 248 (32.89%) Containerisation
6 195 (25.86%) Software Engineering
7 157 (20.82%) Full-Stack Development
7 157 (20.82%) TDD
8 140 (18.57%) Event-Driven
9 131 (17.37%) Test Automation
10 118 (15.65%) Scrum
11 110 (14.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 109 (14.46%) Observability
13 107 (14.19%) Code Quality
14 101 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
15 92 (12.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 82 (10.88%) Infrastructure as Code
17 72 (9.55%) BDD
18 70 (9.28%) Mentoring
19 62 (8.22%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 735 (97.48%) Java
2 245 (32.49%) SQL
3 108 (14.32%) JavaScript
4 94 (12.47%) TypeScript
5 86 (11.41%) Python
6 42 (5.57%) Kotlin
7 27 (3.58%) PL/SQL
8 15 (1.99%) Go
8 15 (1.99%) Shell Script
9 12 (1.59%) C#
10 7 (0.93%) Scala
11 6 (0.80%) Ruby
11 6 (0.80%) Rust
12 5 (0.66%) Bash
12 5 (0.66%) Perl
12 5 (0.66%) Solidity
13 3 (0.40%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.27%) Korn
14 2 (0.27%) PHP
14 2 (0.27%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 209 (27.72%) Security Cleared
2 172 (22.81%) SC Cleared
3 42 (5.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 30 (3.98%) Degree
5 19 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.93%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.80%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (11.27%) QA
2 67 (8.89%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.86%) ISO 20022
4 11 (1.46%) WCAG
5 10 (1.33%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.33%) SEPA
6 7 (0.93%) GDPR
6 7 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.80%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.80%) PSD2
8 5 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.53%) NIST
10 3 (0.40%) EMIR
10 3 (0.40%) MiFID
11 2 (0.27%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.27%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.27%) NCSC
12 1 (0.13%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) ITGC
12 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 325 (43.10%) Docker
2 11 (1.46%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 311 (41.25%) Kubernetes
2 80 (10.61%) Grafana
2 80 (10.61%) Terraform
3 57 (7.56%) Prometheus
4 37 (4.91%) Ansible
5 10 (1.33%) Argo
5 10 (1.33%) Kibana
6 9 (1.19%) Control-M
7 7 (0.93%) Istio
7 7 (0.93%) Kiali
8 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.27%) Consul
9 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 76 (10.08%) Oracle
2 35 (4.64%) Google
3 34 (4.51%) Splunk
4 28 (3.71%) Microsoft
5 17 (2.25%) Jaspersoft
6 16 (2.12%) IBM
7 14 (1.86%) Atlassian
8 12 (1.59%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.46%) Sybase
10 10 (1.33%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.19%) Checkmarx
11 9 (1.19%) Databricks
11 9 (1.19%) Solace
12 6 (0.80%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.80%) Okta
13 5 (0.66%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.66%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.66%) New Relic
13 5 (0.66%) Teradata
13 5 (0.66%) TikTok