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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 186 199
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 +57
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 746 506 463
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.39% 1.54% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.35% 6.08% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 357 364
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% -0.47%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £630
90th Percentile £663 £613 £751
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 11,739 8,318 9,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.94% 25.33% 24.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,720 5,624 6,459
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £651
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £503 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.79% -5.00% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 181 231
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £45.94 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +22.67% -10.71% +4.35%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -16 575 £525 +5.00% 212
UK excluding London -38 337 £475 +2.70% 174
London +8 314 £525 +3.96% 102
Work from Home -51 168 £500 -1.48% 126
North of England -13 138 £500 +7.53% 58
North West -31 75 £550 +27.91% 35
Scotland -13 67 £402 -10.67% 30
Yorkshire 0 46 £500 -6.98% 10
Midlands -55 40 £551 +49.59% 20
South West -13 37 £463 -9.76% 22
West Midlands -35 36 £551 +15.89% 17
East of England +5 25 £500 +6.95% 4
South East -50 23 £294 -45.34% 31
North East -28 18 £450 -8.16% 13
Wales -20 8 £394 -17.11% 6
East Midlands -37 3 £401 +22.82% 3
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 5

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 33 (4.42%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.35%) Apache
3 15 (2.01%) Confluence
4 12 (1.61%) Camunda
5 10 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.94%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.67%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.54%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.54%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.54%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.40%) nginx
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
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 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.54%) Quorum
1 4 (0.54%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.54%) 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
1 426 (57.10%) AWS
2 180 (24.13%) Azure
3 129 (17.29%) GCP
4 128 (17.16%) GitHub
5 83 (11.13%) GitHub Actions
6 61 (8.18%) Serverless
7 54 (7.24%) AWS Lambda
8 53 (7.10%) Amazon S3
9 42 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 42 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
9 42 (5.63%) Amazon SQS
9 42 (5.63%) OpenShift
10 38 (5.09%) Amazon ECS
11 33 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
12 22 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (2.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 13 (1.74%) AWS KMS
14 13 (1.74%) Route 53
15 11 (1.47%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.94%) HTTP
2 6 (0.80%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.54%) 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 (21.72%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (11.93%) Relational Database
3 84 (11.26%) NoSQL
4 81 (10.86%) MongoDB
5 62 (8.31%) MySQL
6 35 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
6 35 (4.69%) DynamoDB
6 35 (4.69%) SQL Server
7 28 (3.75%) Redis
8 25 (3.35%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (2.28%) Flink
10 16 (2.14%) Apache Cassandra
11 15 (2.01%) Metadata
12 14 (1.88%) Big Data
13 13 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (1.61%) RDBMS
15 10 (1.34%) Data Lake
16 9 (1.21%) Couchbase
17 8 (1.07%) InterSystems Cache
17 8 (1.07%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 207 (27.75%) Jenkins
2 189 (25.34%) Git
3 125 (16.76%) JUnit
4 108 (14.48%) GitLab
5 96 (12.87%) Gradle
6 91 (12.20%) Maven
7 74 (9.92%) Mockito
8 42 (5.63%) SonarQube
9 37 (4.96%) JIRA
10 21 (2.82%) Liquibase
11 20 (2.68%) Cucumber
12 17 (2.28%) REST Assured
13 15 (2.01%) Selenium
14 13 (1.74%) Gatling
14 13 (1.74%) IntelliJ
15 10 (1.34%) Bitbucket Server
15 10 (1.34%) GoCD
16 9 (1.21%) DbUnit
16 9 (1.21%) Flyway
17 8 (1.07%) JProfiler
General
1 169 (22.65%) Finance
2 144 (19.30%) Social Skills
3 135 (18.10%) Public Sector
4 83 (11.13%) Banking
5 56 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (3.08%) Retail
7 15 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.61%) 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 (0.54%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.54%) Police
14 3 (0.40%) Automotive
15 2 (0.27%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.27%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.27%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 432 (57.91%) Developer
2 346 (46.38%) Java Developer
3 157 (21.05%) Senior
4 121 (16.22%) Java Engineer
5 103 (13.81%) Software Engineer
6 85 (11.39%) Senior Developer
7 77 (10.32%) Lead
8 69 (9.25%) Senior Java Developer
9 62 (8.31%) Full-Stack Developer
10 58 (7.77%) Java Software Engineer
11 43 (5.76%) Software Developer
12 38 (5.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 36 (4.83%) Lead Developer
14 33 (4.42%) Backend Developer
15 32 (4.29%) Senior Java Engineer
16 25 (3.35%) Lead Java Developer
16 25 (3.35%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 23 (3.08%) Data Engineer
18 21 (2.82%) Architect
19 20 (2.68%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 707 (94.77%) Spring
2 235 (31.50%) Kafka
3 215 (28.82%) REST
4 213 (28.55%) RESTful
5 151 (20.24%) React
6 109 (14.61%) Node.js
7 83 (11.13%) Terraform
8 72 (9.65%) HTML
9 70 (9.38%) AngularJS
10 65 (8.71%) JPA
11 64 (8.58%) Hibernate
12 61 (8.18%) CSS
13 56 (7.51%) Spring MVC
14 46 (6.17%) Web Services
15 45 (6.03%) RabbitMQ
16 43 (5.76%) Redux
17 40 (5.36%) OAuth
18 36 (4.83%) OAuth2
18 36 (4.83%) Spring Cloud
19 32 (4.29%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 179 (23.99%) Cloud Native
2 113 (15.15%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (7.24%) Product Ownership
4 39 (5.23%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (1.88%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.88%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.88%) Public Cloud
9 11 (1.47%) AI Agents
9 11 (1.47%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.21%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.80%) Mobile App
14 5 (0.67%) Mainframe
14 5 (0.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 42 (5.63%) Linux
2 28 (3.75%) 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
1 474 (63.54%) Microservices
2 455 (60.99%) CI/CD
3 369 (49.46%) Agile
4 283 (37.94%) DevOps
5 231 (30.97%) Containerisation
6 220 (29.49%) Software Engineering
7 166 (22.25%) Test Automation
8 165 (22.12%) Event-Driven
9 158 (21.18%) TDD
10 137 (18.36%) Full-Stack Development
10 137 (18.36%) Scrum
11 126 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 111 (14.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 107 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
14 106 (14.21%) Code Quality
15 101 (13.54%) Infrastructure as Code
16 100 (13.40%) Observability
17 82 (10.99%) Design Patterns
18 81 (10.86%) Clean Code
19 72 (9.65%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 737 (98.79%) Java
2 253 (33.91%) SQL
3 114 (15.28%) JavaScript
4 98 (13.14%) TypeScript
5 83 (11.13%) Python
6 31 (4.16%) PL/SQL
7 27 (3.62%) Kotlin
8 19 (2.55%) 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 (0.54%) Go
13 4 (0.54%) 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 (29.62%) Security Cleared
2 183 (24.53%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 25 (3.35%) Degree
5 17 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.74%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.61%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.40%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.27%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
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 (12.20%) QA
2 69 (9.25%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.61%) 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%) MiFID
9 2 (0.27%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.13%) HL7
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.13%) ITGC
10 1 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 324 (43.43%) Docker
2 7 (0.94%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 299 (40.08%) Kubernetes
2 51 (6.84%) Grafana
3 42 (5.63%) Ansible
4 38 (5.09%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.14%) Control-M
5 16 (2.14%) Kibana
6 9 (1.21%) Argo
7 7 (0.94%) Istio
8 3 (0.40%) Bosun
8 3 (0.40%) Kustomize
8 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.27%) Consul
9 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.13%) Kiali
10 1 (0.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 104 (13.94%) Oracle
2 40 (5.36%) Google
3 21 (2.82%) Microsoft
4 18 (2.41%) IBM
5 17 (2.28%) Splunk
6 13 (1.74%) Dynatrace
6 13 (1.74%) MuleSoft
7 11 (1.47%) Jaspersoft
8 10 (1.34%) Checkmarx
8 10 (1.34%) Solace
9 9 (1.21%) Atlassian
10 8 (1.07%) Databricks
10 8 (1.07%) New Relic
11 7 (0.94%) Sybase
11 7 (0.94%) TikTok
12 6 (0.80%) Okta
13 5 (0.67%) Confluent
13 5 (0.67%) SAP
14 4 (0.54%) FIS
14 4 (0.54%) ForgeRock