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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
24 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 204 243
Rank change year-on-year +16 +39 -98
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 613 391 421
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 1.29% 0.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.80% 5.70% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 235 304
10th Percentile £350 £350 £400
25th Percentile £413 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% -0.19% -16.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £625
90th Percentile £635 £730 £826
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £441 £500
% change year-on-year +7.71% -11.80% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £81.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 9,013 6,863 9,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.00% 22.72% 20.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,042 4,455 6,433
10th Percentile £358 £359 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.69% -7.13%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 88 219
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.95 £22.35
25th Percentile £52.50 £38.44 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £74.26 £67.63 £66.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.30 £75.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 24 February 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 24 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 15 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 24 February 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 +40 519 £485 -11.01% 122
UK excluding London +33 340 £475 +7.71% 99
London -10 214 £525 -8.70% 49
North of England +15 162 £475 +5.56% 29
Work from Home +28 150 £483 -3.38% 61
North West +36 109 £465 +6.29% 18
Midlands -19 50 £469 +25.74% 12
West Midlands -14 49 £470 +7.31% 11
South East +7 47 £450 +12.15% 28
Scotland -15 45 £600 +45.45% 11
Yorkshire -39 35 £500 -4.76% 8
South West -7 28 £384 -33.22% 16
North East -6 20 £478 +6.11% 3
East of England -13 10 £600 - 2
East Midlands -32 1 £220 -30.93% 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 25 (4.08%) Confluence
2 20 (3.26%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.12%) Camunda
4 9 (1.47%) WebLogic
5 6 (0.98%) Ethereum
5 6 (0.98%) Hyperledger
6 5 (0.82%) Apache
7 4 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.49%) CMS
8 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.33%) CICS
9 2 (0.33%) Drupal
9 2 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.33%) WordPress
10 1 (0.16%) JBoss
10 1 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.49%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 337 (54.98%) AWS
2 176 (28.71%) Azure
3 106 (17.29%) GitHub
4 95 (15.50%) GCP
5 75 (12.23%) Amazon S3
6 74 (12.07%) Serverless
7 64 (10.44%) AWS Lambda
8 62 (10.11%) GitHub Actions
9 41 (6.69%) Amazon EC2
10 36 (5.87%) Amazon ECS
11 35 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
12 31 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
13 29 (4.73%) OpenShift
14 28 (4.57%) Amazon SQS
15 26 (4.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 21 (3.43%) Azure AKS
17 17 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
17 17 (2.77%) Cloud Run
17 17 (2.77%) Datadog
18 14 (2.28%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.79%) HTTP
2 10 (1.63%) SSL
3 9 (1.47%) Firewall
4 7 (1.14%) HTTPS
5 5 (0.82%) DNS
5 5 (0.82%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.49%) VPN
7 1 (0.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (18.76%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (14.68%) NoSQL
3 78 (12.72%) MongoDB
4 68 (11.09%) Relational Database
5 48 (7.83%) MySQL
6 46 (7.50%) DynamoDB
7 38 (6.20%) Amazon RDS
8 19 (3.10%) Amazon Aurora
8 19 (3.10%) SQL Server
9 16 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (2.45%) DocumentDB
10 15 (2.45%) RDBMS
11 14 (2.28%) Redis
12 11 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
13 10 (1.63%) DB2
14 9 (1.47%) Big Data
15 8 (1.31%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.31%) HBase
16 7 (1.14%) Flink
16 7 (1.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 132 (21.53%) Git
1 132 (21.53%) Jenkins
2 113 (18.43%) GitLab
3 103 (16.80%) JUnit
4 51 (8.32%) Mockito
5 49 (7.99%) Maven
6 47 (7.67%) Gradle
7 45 (7.34%) Cucumber
7 45 (7.34%) JIRA
8 24 (3.92%) Selenium
9 17 (2.77%) Cypress.io
10 15 (2.45%) REST Assured
11 14 (2.28%) SonarQube
12 13 (2.12%) IntelliJ
12 13 (2.12%) Postman
13 12 (1.96%) Gatling
13 12 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (1.79%) Artifactory
15 10 (1.63%) Bitbucket
15 10 (1.63%) Mocha
General
1 144 (23.49%) Social Skills
2 117 (19.09%) Finance
3 110 (17.94%) Public Sector
4 70 (11.42%) Banking
5 25 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.12%) Financial Institution
6 13 (2.12%) Retail
7 11 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (0.82%) Investment Banking
8 5 (0.82%) Retail Banking
9 4 (0.65%) Aerospace
9 4 (0.65%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.65%) Military
9 4 (0.65%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.49%) Electronics
10 3 (0.49%) Marketing
11 2 (0.33%) Automotive
11 2 (0.33%) Law
11 2 (0.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 360 (58.73%) Developer
2 262 (42.74%) Java Developer
3 131 (21.37%) Senior
4 96 (15.66%) Java Engineer
5 81 (13.21%) Senior Developer
6 76 (12.40%) Full-Stack Developer
7 65 (10.60%) Senior Java Developer
7 65 (10.60%) Software Engineer
8 59 (9.62%) Lead
9 36 (5.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 35 (5.71%) Java Software Engineer
11 28 (4.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 26 (4.24%) Lead Developer
13 24 (3.92%) Backend Developer
14 22 (3.59%) AWS Developer
15 21 (3.43%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 20 (3.26%) Architect
17 18 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
17 18 (2.94%) Software Developer
18 16 (2.61%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 552 (90.05%) Spring
2 185 (30.18%) Kafka
3 178 (29.04%) RESTful
4 146 (23.82%) REST
5 134 (21.86%) React
6 108 (17.62%) AngularJS
7 74 (12.07%) Node.js
8 61 (9.95%) Hibernate
9 58 (9.46%) HTML
10 45 (7.34%) JPA
11 41 (6.69%) CSS
12 37 (6.04%) OAuth
12 37 (6.04%) OpenTelemetry
13 34 (5.55%) OAuth2
13 34 (5.55%) Spring Cloud
14 31 (5.06%) JSON
15 29 (4.73%) Spring MVC
16 27 (4.40%) Jest
17 26 (4.24%) Playwright
17 26 (4.24%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 97 (15.82%) Cloud Native
2 54 (8.81%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (6.36%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.45%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (2.12%) Mobile App
6 11 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
7 10 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.47%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.47%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (0.82%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.82%) NHS
11 4 (0.65%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.49%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.85%) Linux
2 9 (1.47%) Unix
3 7 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.49%) Windows
5 2 (0.33%) zOS
6 1 (0.16%) Android
6 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (64.11%) Microservices
2 346 (56.44%) CI/CD
3 252 (41.11%) Agile
4 229 (37.36%) DevOps
5 193 (31.48%) Containerisation
6 152 (24.80%) Full-Stack Development
7 135 (22.02%) Software Engineering
8 120 (19.58%) Test Automation
9 117 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
10 114 (18.60%) TDD
11 109 (17.78%) Event-Driven
12 93 (15.17%) Scrum
13 82 (13.38%) Observability
14 75 (12.23%) Code Quality
15 73 (11.91%) Infrastructure as Code
16 65 (10.60%) API Design
17 64 (10.44%) Mentoring
18 63 (10.28%) Continuous Improvement
19 62 (10.11%) SDLC
20 61 (9.95%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 578 (94.29%) Java
2 153 (24.96%) SQL
3 87 (14.19%) JavaScript
4 75 (12.23%) TypeScript
5 51 (8.32%) Python
6 38 (6.20%) Kotlin
7 16 (2.61%) Go
8 14 (2.28%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.63%) Rust
10 7 (1.14%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.98%) C#
11 6 (0.98%) Perl
12 4 (0.65%) Scala
13 3 (0.49%) PHP
14 2 (0.33%) Bash
14 2 (0.33%) Groovy
15 1 (0.16%) Assembly Language
15 1 (0.16%) JCL
15 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.16%) REXX
Qualifications
1 156 (25.45%) Security Cleared
2 130 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 29 (4.73%) Degree
4 22 (3.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.79%) OCP
6 11 (1.79%) Oracle Certification
7 7 (1.14%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.98%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.82%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (10.11%) QA
2 47 (7.67%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.26%) ISO 20022
4 18 (2.94%) WCAG
5 10 (1.63%) PSD2
5 10 (1.63%) SEPA
6 9 (1.47%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.65%) NIST
8 3 (0.49%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.49%) HL7
9 2 (0.33%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.33%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.33%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.16%) GDPR
10 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 255 (41.60%) Docker
2 5 (0.82%) Postfix
3 3 (0.49%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 285 (46.49%) Kubernetes
2 90 (14.68%) Terraform
3 82 (13.38%) Grafana
4 42 (6.85%) Prometheus
5 19 (3.10%) Ansible
6 14 (2.28%) Argo
7 12 (1.96%) Kibana
8 9 (1.47%) Kiali
9 6 (0.98%) Istio
10 2 (0.33%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.33%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.16%) Consul
11 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 54 (8.81%) Oracle
2 38 (6.20%) Splunk
3 29 (4.73%) Google
4 28 (4.57%) Microsoft
5 12 (1.96%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.47%) Dynatrace
6 9 (1.47%) Sybase
7 8 (1.31%) Jaspersoft
8 6 (0.98%) Adobe
8 6 (0.98%) Atlassian
8 6 (0.98%) Databricks
8 6 (0.98%) IBM
8 6 (0.98%) PagerDuty
8 6 (0.98%) Virgin Media
9 5 (0.82%) ForgeRock
10 4 (0.65%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.65%) SAP
10 4 (0.65%) VMware
11 3 (0.49%) Confluent
11 3 (0.49%) Solace
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