Spring Boot Contracts

Spring Boot
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Spring Boot skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spring Boot over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 193 222
Rank change year-on-year +9 +29 -86
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 460 531 651
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.48% 1.22% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.53% 5.70% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 416 525
10th Percentile £313 £375 £438
25th Percentile £402 £425 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% +3.23%
75th Percentile £545 £625 £700
90th Percentile £607 £750 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £504
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.75% -2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 9
10th Percentile £41.75 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £69.50 £53.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% -7.69% +15.13%
75th Percentile £83.44 £74.50 -
90th Percentile £92.50 - £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -23.61% +15.20% -7.41%

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 7,043 9,312 12,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 21.46% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,772 6,381 9,221
10th Percentile £352 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £765 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 279 155
10th Percentile £27.97 £22.70 £28.50
25th Percentile £37.10 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.71 £74.44 £80.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Spring Boot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring Boot.

Daily rate trend for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring Boot.

Hourly rate trend for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring Boot over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 17 Contract 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 2 July 2025. 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 +2 340 £475 -12.04% 789
UK excluding London +37 217 £450 -5.26% 432
London -19 177 £500 -9.09% 473
Work from Home -2 146 £520 -5.45% 431
North of England +20 77 £457 -12.90% 134
North West +27 60 £398 -18.88% 100
Scotland -2 59 £444 -0.28% 90
Midlands +42 43 £402 +12.92% 42
East Midlands +19 22 £333 -6.46% 15
West Midlands +30 21 £475 +46.15% 27
South East +30 17 £544 -3.38% 91
South West +27 11 £538 +19.44% 42
Yorkshire -11 10 £525 -8.70% 23
North East +6 8 £490 -10.91% 11
Wales +10 6 £475 +13.43% 13
Northern Ireland -16 4 £435 -24.35% 15
East of England +8 1 £468 +24.67% 5

Spring Boot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 32 (6.96%) JBoss
2 23 (5.00%) Confluence
3 20 (4.35%) Camunda
4 16 (3.48%) Tomcat
5 11 (2.39%) Apache
6 8 (1.74%) Alfresco
6 8 (1.74%) Apache Spark
6 8 (1.74%) WebLogic
7 6 (1.30%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.65%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.43%) CICS
9 2 (0.43%) GemFire
9 2 (0.43%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.22%) CMS
10 1 (0.22%) nginx
10 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.22%) Tuxedo
10 1 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.43%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 237 (51.52%) AWS
2 58 (12.61%) Azure
3 38 (8.26%) GCP
3 38 (8.26%) OpenShift
4 37 (8.04%) Serverless
5 34 (7.39%) Amazon S3
6 32 (6.96%) Amazon SQS
6 32 (6.96%) GitHub
7 26 (5.65%) Amazon EC2
7 26 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (2.39%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (2.39%) AWS KMS
11 11 (2.39%) Route 53
12 9 (1.96%) Amazon Kinesis
13 8 (1.74%) Apigee
13 8 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (1.74%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.52%) HTTPS
2 5 (1.09%) HTTP
3 4 (0.87%) SSL
4 2 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.43%) Internet
4 2 (0.43%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.43%) LAN
4 2 (0.43%) SMS
5 1 (0.22%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (33.70%) PostgreSQL
2 97 (21.09%) Relational Database
3 75 (16.30%) MongoDB
4 59 (12.83%) MySQL
5 58 (12.61%) NoSQL
6 31 (6.74%) Amazon RDS
7 27 (5.87%) RDBMS
8 24 (5.22%) SQL Server
9 23 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
10 22 (4.78%) DynamoDB
11 20 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
12 19 (4.13%) DB2
13 12 (2.61%) Redis
14 10 (2.17%) Oracle Database
15 8 (1.74%) GIS
16 4 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
16 4 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 3 (0.65%) Big Data
17 3 (0.65%) Flink
17 3 (0.65%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 159 (34.57%) Jenkins
2 145 (31.52%) JUnit
3 121 (26.30%) Git
4 96 (20.87%) Maven
5 85 (18.48%) Mockito
6 71 (15.43%) Gradle
7 66 (14.35%) JIRA
8 59 (12.83%) SonarQube
9 57 (12.39%) GitLab
10 47 (10.22%) Sonatype Nexus
11 39 (8.48%) Liquibase
12 36 (7.83%) Cucumber
13 27 (5.87%) Bitbucket
14 25 (5.43%) Bitbucket Server
15 20 (4.35%) TeamCity
16 18 (3.91%) IntelliJ
17 17 (3.70%) CA Release Automation
17 17 (3.70%) Selenium
18 16 (3.48%) Artifactory
19 8 (1.74%) DbUnit
General
1 107 (23.26%) Finance
2 96 (20.87%) Public Sector
3 80 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 54 (11.74%) Banking
5 38 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (5.00%) Telecoms
7 22 (4.78%) Marketing
8 21 (4.57%) Electronics
8 21 (4.57%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.52%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.52%) Retail
10 6 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.30%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.09%) Front Office
11 5 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.65%) Automotive
13 3 (0.65%) Back Office
14 1 (0.22%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 308 (66.96%) Developer
2 232 (50.43%) Java Developer
3 67 (14.57%) Lead
4 61 (13.26%) Senior
5 56 (12.17%) Full-Stack Developer
6 51 (11.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 49 (10.65%) Senior Developer
8 44 (9.57%) Software Engineer
9 42 (9.13%) Java Engineer
10 40 (8.70%) Senior Java Developer
11 39 (8.48%) Lead Developer
12 32 (6.96%) Lead Java Developer
13 28 (6.09%) Architect
14 26 (5.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 24 (5.22%) Java Software Engineer
16 20 (4.35%) React Developer
17 18 (3.91%) AWS Developer
18 16 (3.48%) Software Developer
19 12 (2.61%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
20 9 (1.96%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 386 (83.91%) Spring
2 138 (30.00%) Kafka
3 137 (29.78%) React
4 111 (24.13%) REST
5 100 (21.74%) RESTful
6 84 (18.26%) Hibernate
7 80 (17.39%) AngularJS
8 65 (14.13%) HTML
9 63 (13.70%) Swagger
10 62 (13.48%) JPA
11 57 (12.39%) OpenAPI
11 57 (12.39%) Web Services
12 56 (12.17%) Node.js
13 50 (10.87%) SOAP
14 41 (8.91%) CSS
15 32 (6.96%) Spring Cloud
16 27 (5.87%) J2EE
17 22 (4.78%) Spring Batch
18 20 (4.35%) ActiveMQ
18 20 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.48%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (5.65%) Cloud Native
3 15 (3.26%) PKI
4 14 (3.04%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.17%) Data Structures
6 9 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.52%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.09%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.09%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.65%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.65%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (0.65%) Equity Derivative
10 3 (0.65%) State Machine
11 2 (0.43%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.43%) Online Banking
11 2 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 62 (13.48%) Linux
2 28 (6.09%) Unix
3 18 (3.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (3.26%) Windows
5 3 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.43%) zOS
7 1 (0.22%) AIX
7 1 (0.22%) Android
7 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (67.83%) Microservices
2 233 (50.65%) Agile
3 212 (46.09%) CI/CD
4 170 (36.96%) DevOps
5 144 (31.30%) TDD
6 100 (21.74%) Containerisation
7 95 (20.65%) Software Engineering
8 91 (19.78%) Full-Stack Development
9 72 (15.65%) Scrum
10 71 (15.43%) Migration
11 68 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
12 61 (13.26%) Continuous Integration
13 53 (11.52%) Test Automation
14 52 (11.30%) Code Quality
14 52 (11.30%) Event-Driven
15 48 (10.43%) Mentoring
16 47 (10.22%) API Development
17 43 (9.35%) Clean Code
18 42 (9.13%) Design Patterns
19 40 (8.70%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 435 (94.57%) Java
2 173 (37.61%) SQL
3 99 (21.52%) JavaScript
4 85 (18.48%) TypeScript
5 62 (13.48%) Python
6 25 (5.43%) Shell Script
7 14 (3.04%) PL/SQL
8 13 (2.83%) Perl
9 10 (2.17%) Ruby
10 8 (1.74%) Scala
11 7 (1.52%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.87%) Bash
12 4 (0.87%) C#
12 4 (0.87%) Groovy
12 4 (0.87%) Rust
13 3 (0.65%) C
14 2 (0.43%) C++
14 2 (0.43%) Go
15 1 (0.22%) COBOL
15 1 (0.22%) JCL
Qualifications
1 139 (30.22%) Security Cleared
2 132 (28.70%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.04%) Degree
4 11 (2.39%) AWS Certification
5 10 (2.17%) AWS Certified Developer
6 6 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.87%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.43%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.43%) OCP
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.43%) Sun Certification
9 1 (0.22%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.17%) QA
2 10 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.30%) GDPR
4 5 (1.09%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (0.87%) WCAG
6 2 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.43%) NCSC
6 2 (0.43%) SLA
7 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 190 (41.30%) Docker
2 16 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.96%) Postfix
4 6 (1.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 128 (27.83%) Kubernetes
2 46 (10.00%) Terraform
3 25 (5.43%) Grafana
4 21 (4.57%) Prometheus
5 20 (4.35%) Kibana
6 17 (3.70%) Progress Chef
7 12 (2.61%) Ansible
8 6 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.09%) Istio
10 4 (0.87%) Puppet
11 2 (0.43%) Argo
12 1 (0.22%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.22%) Rancher
Vendors
1 59 (12.83%) Oracle
2 29 (6.30%) Microsoft
3 26 (5.65%) Splunk
4 25 (5.43%) SAP
5 15 (3.26%) Red Hat
6 13 (2.83%) AppDynamics
7 11 (2.39%) CA Agile Central
8 10 (2.17%) Dynatrace
8 10 (2.17%) Google
8 10 (2.17%) IBM
8 10 (2.17%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (1.96%) Atlassian
9 9 (1.96%) Veracode
10 8 (1.74%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.74%) Sybase
11 7 (1.52%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.30%) Cloudera
13 5 (1.09%) TIBCO
13 5 (1.09%) Virgin Media
14 3 (0.65%) Cisco