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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 190 197
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 +43
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 779 499 499
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.48% 1.53% 1.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.61% 6.76% 5.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 359 389
10th Percentile £373 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £404 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £545 £625
90th Percentile £663 £613 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £463
% change year-on-year +4.45% -1.68% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 10 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £69.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -23.61% -5.88%
75th Percentile £81.00 £83.44 £74.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +30.91% -23.61% +4.73%

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 10,235 7,379 8,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.41% 22.59% 21.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,677 4,985 6,032
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £543
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -1.36%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £664
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £472 £500
% change year-on-year +5.87% -5.54% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 155 260
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.10 £23.70
25th Percentile £46.39 £38.52 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £74.82 £67.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.61 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +8.00% +7.20% -0.87%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +2 615 £525 +9.95% 177
UK excluding London -5 373 £475 +4.45% 115
London +10 304 £525 +4.48% 94
Work from Home -37 184 £500 -1.48% 80
North of England -9 143 £500 +13.06% 32
North West -23 83 £545 +37.11% 14
Scotland -13 57 £403 -10.39% 16
Midlands -45 53 £475 +23.38% 22
South West +1 50 £409 -22.10% 12
West Midlands -30 50 £480 +1.05% 17
Yorkshire -10 45 £488 -9.30% 8
East of England +7 33 £500 +6.95% 2
South East -54 32 £438 -18.53% 27
North East -28 18 £450 -8.16% 10
Wales -22 7 £375 -21.05% 3
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 2
East Midlands -34 2 £401 +23.01% 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 42 (5.39%) Apache Spark
2 23 (2.95%) Apache
3 19 (2.44%) Confluence
4 15 (1.93%) WebLogic
5 10 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.16%) Camunda
7 6 (0.77%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.77%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.64%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.51%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.39%) nginx
10 3 (0.39%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.26%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.26%) Drupal
11 2 (0.26%) Mule
11 2 (0.26%) WordPress
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.64%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.51%) Quorum
2 4 (0.51%) Ripple
3 3 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.26%) Shopify
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 432 (55.46%) AWS
2 190 (24.39%) Azure
3 140 (17.97%) GCP
4 123 (15.79%) GitHub
5 76 (9.76%) GitHub Actions
6 68 (8.73%) Serverless
7 67 (8.60%) Amazon S3
8 59 (7.57%) AWS Lambda
9 48 (6.16%) Amazon SQS
10 42 (5.39%) Amazon EC2
11 39 (5.01%) OpenShift
12 37 (4.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 37 (4.75%) Amazon EKS
13 36 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
14 24 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (2.44%) AWS KMS
16 18 (2.31%) Route 53
17 17 (2.18%) Cloud Run
18 16 (2.05%) Azure AKS
19 14 (1.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.16%) HTTP
2 8 (1.03%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.51%) Firewall
3 4 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.13%) SMS
4 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
2 99 (12.71%) Relational Database
3 87 (11.17%) NoSQL
4 83 (10.65%) MongoDB
5 66 (8.47%) MySQL
6 47 (6.03%) DynamoDB
7 42 (5.39%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (3.98%) SQL Server
9 23 (2.95%) Redis
10 22 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
11 21 (2.70%) Flink
12 19 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
13 16 (2.05%) Apache Cassandra
13 16 (2.05%) Big Data
14 13 (1.67%) Metadata
15 11 (1.41%) RDBMS
16 10 (1.28%) Data Lake
17 8 (1.03%) Oracle Database
18 7 (0.90%) Couchbase
18 7 (0.90%) Db2
Development Applications
1 198 (25.42%) Jenkins
2 197 (25.29%) Git
3 127 (16.30%) JUnit
4 99 (12.71%) GitLab
5 92 (11.81%) Gradle
6 89 (11.42%) Maven
7 72 (9.24%) Mockito
8 44 (5.65%) JIRA
9 42 (5.39%) SonarQube
10 24 (3.08%) Selenium
11 22 (2.82%) REST Assured
12 19 (2.44%) Cucumber
13 18 (2.31%) Gatling
13 18 (2.31%) Liquibase
14 14 (1.80%) DbUnit
15 13 (1.67%) Bitbucket Server
15 13 (1.67%) IntelliJ
15 13 (1.67%) jMock
16 12 (1.54%) Serenity BDD
17 9 (1.16%) Postman
General
1 173 (22.21%) Finance
2 140 (17.97%) Social Skills
3 136 (17.46%) Public Sector
4 80 (10.27%) Banking
5 58 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.08%) Retail
7 13 (1.67%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.54%) Law
8 12 (1.54%) Military
9 6 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (0.77%) Publishing
9 6 (0.77%) Retail Banking
10 5 (0.64%) Automotive
10 5 (0.64%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.51%) Police
12 3 (0.39%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 448 (57.51%) Developer
2 356 (45.70%) Java Developer
3 163 (20.92%) Senior
4 130 (16.69%) Java Engineer
5 102 (13.09%) Software Engineer
6 86 (11.04%) Senior Developer
7 82 (10.53%) Lead
8 70 (8.99%) Senior Java Developer
9 57 (7.32%) Java Software Engineer
10 55 (7.06%) Full-Stack Developer
11 41 (5.26%) Software Developer
12 37 (4.75%) Backend Developer
12 37 (4.75%) Lead Developer
13 33 (4.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 33 (4.24%) Senior Java Engineer
14 29 (3.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 27 (3.47%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 25 (3.21%) Lead Java Developer
17 22 (2.82%) Data Engineer
18 21 (2.70%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 732 (93.97%) Spring
2 242 (31.07%) Kafka
3 216 (27.73%) RESTful
4 209 (26.83%) REST
5 150 (19.26%) React
6 106 (13.61%) Node.js
7 72 (9.24%) Hibernate
8 71 (9.11%) AngularJS
9 70 (8.99%) JPA
10 68 (8.73%) HTML
11 57 (7.32%) CSS
12 52 (6.68%) Spring MVC
12 52 (6.68%) Web Services
13 41 (5.26%) Redux
13 41 (5.26%) Spring Cloud
14 39 (5.01%) RabbitMQ
15 35 (4.49%) OAuth
16 32 (4.11%) HTML5
16 32 (4.11%) SOAP
17 30 (3.85%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 154 (19.77%) Cloud Native
2 112 (14.38%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (6.80%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (2.18%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (1.93%) Public Cloud
10 14 (1.80%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.67%) Algorithms
12 12 (1.54%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (1.16%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.03%) AI Agents
16 6 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
16 6 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
16 6 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
16 6 (0.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.42%) Linux
2 25 (3.21%) Unix
3 5 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.39%) Windows
5 2 (0.26%) VMS
6 1 (0.13%) Android
6 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) Solaris
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (61.87%) Microservices
2 468 (60.08%) CI/CD
3 354 (45.44%) Agile
4 306 (39.28%) DevOps
5 247 (31.71%) Containerisation
6 206 (26.44%) Software Engineering
7 170 (21.82%) TDD
8 157 (20.15%) Event-Driven
8 157 (20.15%) Test Automation
9 146 (18.74%) Scrum
10 143 (18.36%) Full-Stack Development
11 128 (16.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 121 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
13 115 (14.76%) Code Quality
14 111 (14.25%) Observability
15 108 (13.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 90 (11.55%) Infrastructure as Code
17 78 (10.01%) Design Patterns
18 73 (9.37%) BDD
19 71 (9.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 767 (98.46%) Java
2 256 (32.86%) SQL
3 115 (14.76%) JavaScript
4 89 (11.42%) Python
5 86 (11.04%) TypeScript
6 38 (4.88%) Kotlin
7 35 (4.49%) PL/SQL
8 17 (2.18%) Shell Script
9 12 (1.54%) Go
10 11 (1.41%) C#
11 8 (1.03%) Ruby
11 8 (1.03%) Scala
12 7 (0.90%) Bash
13 5 (0.64%) Solidity
14 4 (0.51%) Perl
15 3 (0.39%) Groovy
15 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.26%) PHP
16 2 (0.26%) PromQL
17 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 235 (30.17%) Security Cleared
2 195 (25.03%) SC Cleared
3 49 (6.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 31 (3.98%) Degree
5 24 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.93%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.41%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.64%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.26%) 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 90 (11.55%) QA
2 70 (8.99%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.54%) ISO 20022
4 9 (1.16%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.03%) WCAG
6 7 (0.90%) GDPR
6 7 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.90%) SEPA
7 6 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.39%) EMIR
8 3 (0.39%) ISO 15022
8 3 (0.39%) MiFID
9 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.26%) PSD2
10 1 (0.13%) HL7
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.13%) ITGC
System Software
1 336 (43.13%) Docker
2 11 (1.41%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 314 (40.31%) Kubernetes
2 84 (10.78%) Terraform
3 68 (8.73%) Grafana
4 52 (6.68%) Prometheus
5 39 (5.01%) Ansible
6 14 (1.80%) Control-M
7 10 (1.28%) Kibana
8 7 (0.90%) Argo
9 6 (0.77%) Istio
10 3 (0.39%) Bosun
10 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.26%) Consul
11 2 (0.26%) Kiali
11 2 (0.26%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 103 (13.22%) Oracle
2 47 (6.03%) Google
3 33 (4.24%) Splunk
4 28 (3.59%) Microsoft
5 18 (2.31%) IBM
6 17 (2.18%) Jaspersoft
7 14 (1.80%) Atlassian
8 13 (1.67%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.41%) Databricks
9 11 (1.41%) MuleSoft
9 11 (1.41%) Solace
10 10 (1.28%) Checkmarx
10 10 (1.28%) Sybase
11 9 (1.16%) New Relic
12 7 (0.90%) Okta
12 7 (0.90%) TikTok
13 6 (0.77%) Red Hat
14 5 (0.64%) ForgeRock
15 4 (0.51%) Ab Initio
15 4 (0.51%) Teradata