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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 187 252
Rank change year-on-year -3 +65 -98
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 659 413 418
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.47% 1.42% 0.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.00% 6.28% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 262 311
10th Percentile £355 £356 £388
25th Percentile £411 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £613
90th Percentile £638 £674 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £474 £441 £489
% change year-on-year +7.48% -9.82% -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 0
10th Percentile - £66.63 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £72.81 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £86.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.23% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £92.50 -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -33.33% - -

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 9,417 6,577 8,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.63% 20.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,273 4,491 6,268
10th Percentile £358 £363 £334
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 99 176
10th Percentile £35.05 £26.25 £20.49
25th Percentile £52.50 £41.13 £34.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.75 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £84.95 £73.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -24.00%

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 2 April 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 2 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 14 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 2 April 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 +28 558 £497 -5.38% 132
UK excluding London +1 354 £474 +7.48% 94
London +4 240 £525 -4.11% 55
North of England +6 164 £475 +3.26% 47
Work from Home -1 150 £490 -3.92% 108
North West +37 115 £465 +15.96% 30
West Midlands -20 52 £470 +11.79% 3
Midlands -29 52 £470 +11.79% 5
Scotland -19 44 £588 +36.63% 7
South East -21 41 £473 -11.92% 16
South West +2 39 £400 -25.58% 14
Yorkshire -41 35 £500 -6.98% 10
North East -10 16 £475 +4.40% 7
East of England -17 16 £510 +9.09% 2

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 28 (4.25%) Confluence
2 26 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.97%) Camunda
4 9 (1.37%) Apache
4 9 (1.37%) WebLogic
5 6 (0.91%) Ethereum
5 6 (0.91%) Hyperledger
6 4 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.30%) CICS
8 2 (0.30%) Drupal
8 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.30%) WordPress
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.15%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.46%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 369 (55.99%) AWS
2 182 (27.62%) Azure
3 118 (17.91%) GitHub
4 98 (14.87%) GCP
5 88 (13.35%) Serverless
6 81 (12.29%) Amazon S3
7 75 (11.38%) AWS Lambda
8 69 (10.47%) GitHub Actions
9 44 (6.68%) Amazon EC2
10 41 (6.22%) Amazon ECS
11 37 (5.61%) Amazon EKS
12 34 (5.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (5.16%) Amazon SQS
13 33 (5.01%) AWS CloudFormation
14 27 (4.10%) OpenShift
15 26 (3.95%) Azure AKS
16 19 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
17 16 (2.43%) AWS Fargate
18 15 (2.28%) Route 53
19 14 (2.12%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.67%) HTTP
2 10 (1.52%) SSL
3 9 (1.37%) Firewall
4 7 (1.06%) HTTPS
5 5 (0.76%) DNS
6 3 (0.46%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.46%) VPN
7 1 (0.15%) FTP
7 1 (0.15%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (20.18%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (14.11%) NoSQL
3 75 (11.38%) Relational Database
4 73 (11.08%) MongoDB
5 63 (9.56%) MySQL
6 56 (8.50%) DynamoDB
7 42 (6.37%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (3.49%) SQL Server
9 21 (3.19%) Amazon Aurora
10 16 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (2.28%) DocumentDB
12 14 (2.12%) Redis
13 12 (1.82%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
15 10 (1.52%) Big Data
15 10 (1.52%) DB2
16 9 (1.37%) BigQuery
17 8 (1.21%) Flink
18 6 (0.91%) Hadoop
18 6 (0.91%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 153 (23.22%) Git
2 144 (21.85%) Jenkins
3 110 (16.69%) GitLab
3 110 (16.69%) JUnit
4 56 (8.50%) Mockito
5 54 (8.19%) JIRA
6 53 (8.04%) Maven
7 48 (7.28%) Gradle
8 32 (4.86%) Cucumber
9 24 (3.64%) SonarQube
10 21 (3.19%) Selenium
11 17 (2.58%) IntelliJ
12 14 (2.12%) Cypress.io
12 14 (2.12%) Postman
13 12 (1.82%) Gatling
14 10 (1.52%) jMock
14 10 (1.52%) Mocha
14 10 (1.52%) REST Assured
14 10 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
15 9 (1.37%) DbUnit
General
1 141 (21.40%) Social Skills
2 128 (19.42%) Finance
3 112 (17.00%) Public Sector
4 67 (10.17%) Banking
5 29 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.12%) Financial Institution
7 12 (1.82%) Retail
8 6 (0.91%) Law
9 5 (0.76%) Retail Banking
9 5 (0.76%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.61%) Automotive
10 4 (0.61%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.61%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.61%) Military
10 4 (0.61%) Publishing
11 3 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.46%) Electronics
11 3 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.46%) Marketing
12 2 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 390 (59.18%) Developer
2 277 (42.03%) Java Developer
3 139 (21.09%) Senior
4 109 (16.54%) Java Engineer
5 86 (13.05%) Senior Developer
6 82 (12.44%) Full-Stack Developer
7 73 (11.08%) Software Engineer
8 67 (10.17%) Senior Java Developer
9 54 (8.19%) Lead
10 43 (6.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 39 (5.92%) Java Software Engineer
12 30 (4.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 26 (3.95%) Backend Developer
13 26 (3.95%) Software Developer
14 24 (3.64%) Lead Developer
15 23 (3.49%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 21 (3.19%) Architect
17 19 (2.88%) Azure Engineer
18 17 (2.58%) AWS Developer
19 15 (2.28%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 606 (91.96%) Spring
2 194 (29.44%) RESTful
3 183 (27.77%) Kafka
4 159 (24.13%) REST
5 151 (22.91%) React
6 108 (16.39%) AngularJS
7 90 (13.66%) Node.js
8 71 (10.77%) HTML
9 62 (9.41%) Hibernate
10 53 (8.04%) CSS
11 47 (7.13%) JPA
12 45 (6.83%) Spring MVC
13 42 (6.37%) OAuth
14 39 (5.92%) OAuth2
14 39 (5.92%) OpenTelemetry
15 37 (5.61%) Jest
16 35 (5.31%) Spring Cloud
17 32 (4.86%) HTML5
18 28 (4.25%) CSS3
18 28 (4.25%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 106 (16.08%) Cloud Native
2 66 (10.02%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (6.07%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 18 (2.73%) Mobile App
6 15 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (1.67%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.52%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (1.37%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.21%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.06%) NHS
12 7 (1.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
15 4 (0.61%) Data Centre
16 3 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.37%) Linux
2 9 (1.37%) Unix
3 6 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.46%) Windows
5 2 (0.30%) VMS
5 2 (0.30%) zOS
6 1 (0.15%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (61.91%) Microservices
2 367 (55.69%) CI/CD
3 266 (40.36%) Agile
4 254 (38.54%) DevOps
5 200 (30.35%) Containerisation
6 171 (25.95%) Full-Stack Development
7 137 (20.79%) Software Engineering
8 126 (19.12%) TDD
9 118 (17.91%) Event-Driven
9 118 (17.91%) Test Automation
10 110 (16.69%) Problem-Solving
11 101 (15.33%) Code Quality
12 95 (14.42%) Scrum
13 90 (13.66%) Observability
14 81 (12.29%) Infrastructure as Code
15 77 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
16 74 (11.23%) API Design
17 72 (10.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 65 (9.86%) User Experience
19 64 (9.71%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 620 (94.08%) Java
2 174 (26.40%) SQL
3 99 (15.02%) JavaScript
4 91 (13.81%) TypeScript
5 64 (9.71%) Python
6 47 (7.13%) Kotlin
7 19 (2.88%) Go
8 14 (2.12%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.37%) Rust
10 8 (1.21%) C#
11 7 (1.06%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.91%) Perl
13 3 (0.46%) PHP
14 2 (0.30%) Bash
14 2 (0.30%) Ruby
14 2 (0.30%) Scala
15 1 (0.15%) Groovy
15 1 (0.15%) Korn
15 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 173 (26.25%) Security Cleared
2 138 (20.94%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.46%) Degree
4 22 (3.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.21%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.21%) OCP
6 8 (1.21%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (0.76%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.61%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (10.77%) QA
2 50 (7.59%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.73%) ISO 20022
3 18 (2.73%) WCAG
4 10 (1.52%) SEPA
5 9 (1.37%) PSD2
6 7 (1.06%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.61%) HL7
7 4 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.61%) NIST
8 3 (0.46%) GDPR
8 3 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.30%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.30%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.30%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 266 (40.36%) Docker
2 8 (1.21%) Postfix
3 3 (0.46%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 299 (45.37%) Kubernetes
2 87 (13.20%) Terraform
3 84 (12.75%) Grafana
4 47 (7.13%) Prometheus
5 23 (3.49%) Ansible
6 13 (1.97%) Argo
7 10 (1.52%) Kibana
8 9 (1.37%) Kiali
9 8 (1.21%) Istio
10 2 (0.30%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.30%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.15%) Consul
11 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 56 (8.50%) Oracle
2 36 (5.46%) Splunk
3 35 (5.31%) Microsoft
4 30 (4.55%) Google
5 11 (1.67%) Jaspersoft
5 11 (1.67%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.37%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.37%) Sybase
7 8 (1.21%) Dynatrace
7 8 (1.21%) ForgeRock
7 8 (1.21%) IBM
8 7 (1.06%) Databricks
9 6 (0.91%) Adobe
9 6 (0.91%) SAP
9 6 (0.91%) Solace
9 6 (0.91%) Virgin Media
10 5 (0.76%) Checkmarx
10 5 (0.76%) PagerDuty
11 4 (0.61%) Confluent
11 4 (0.61%) Okta