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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 186 198
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 +35
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 785 488 502
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.48% 1.50% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.61% 6.64% 5.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 348 391
10th Percentile £376 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £402 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £576 £545 £625
90th Percentile £663 £613 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +6.22% -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 £76.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% -23.61% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85.50 £83.44 £74.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £73.50 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +33.64% -23.61% +15.20%

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 10,309 7,350 8,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.49% 22.58% 21.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,745 4,965 6,172
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £539
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -5.84% -2.00%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £471 £500
% change year-on-year +6.16% -5.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 154 269
10th Percentile £29.72 £30.08 £22.50
25th Percentile £49.20 £38.16 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.09
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.15
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.48% -1.49%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +7 622 £515 +7.85% 116
UK excluding London -14 372 £478 +6.22% 80
London +15 311 £525 +5.00% 61
Work from Home -32 186 £500 -1.48% 55
North of England -17 142 £505 +19.53% 21
North West -32 82 £540 +37.40% 8
Scotland -18 55 £405 -10.11% 8
Midlands -42 54 £475 +18.16% 15
South West +2 51 £409 -23.91% 8
West Midlands -28 51 £485 +2.11% 11
Yorkshire -2 46 £475 -11.63% 8
East of England +13 33 £500 +6.95% 1
South East -41 32 £450 -17.20% 22
North East -24 17 £450 -8.16% 5
Wales -18 7 £375 -21.05% 5
Northern Ireland -1 2 - -
East Midlands -32 2 £401 +20.42% 4

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 (5.35%) Apache Spark
2 23 (2.93%) Apache
3 20 (2.55%) Confluence
4 15 (1.91%) Camunda
5 14 (1.78%) WebLogic
6 10 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.27%) Ethereum
6 10 (1.27%) Hyperledger
7 5 (0.64%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.51%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.38%) nginx
9 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.25%) Drupal
10 2 (0.25%) Mule
10 2 (0.25%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 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 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.25%) Shopify
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 432 (55.03%) AWS
2 198 (25.22%) Azure
3 144 (18.34%) GCP
4 123 (15.67%) GitHub
5 80 (10.19%) GitHub Actions
6 71 (9.04%) Amazon S3
7 68 (8.66%) Serverless
8 59 (7.52%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (5.73%) Amazon EC2
9 45 (5.73%) Amazon SQS
10 42 (5.35%) OpenShift
11 37 (4.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (4.33%) Amazon ECS
13 32 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (2.42%) AWS KMS
16 18 (2.29%) Azure AKS
16 18 (2.29%) Route 53
17 17 (2.17%) Cloud Run
18 14 (1.78%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.66%) HTTP
2 7 (0.89%) 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
1 159 (20.25%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (12.48%) Relational Database
3 87 (11.08%) NoSQL
4 83 (10.57%) MongoDB
5 64 (8.15%) MySQL
6 45 (5.73%) DynamoDB
7 44 (5.61%) Amazon RDS
8 32 (4.08%) SQL Server
9 22 (2.80%) Amazon Aurora
10 21 (2.68%) Flink
11 20 (2.55%) Redis
12 19 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
13 17 (2.17%) Big Data
14 16 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
15 13 (1.66%) Metadata
16 11 (1.40%) RDBMS
17 10 (1.27%) Data Lake
18 8 (1.02%) Oracle Database
19 7 (0.89%) Couchbase
19 7 (0.89%) Db2
Development Applications
1 200 (25.48%) Git
2 198 (25.22%) Jenkins
3 130 (16.56%) JUnit
4 100 (12.74%) GitLab
5 90 (11.46%) Gradle
6 87 (11.08%) Maven
7 72 (9.17%) Mockito
8 48 (6.11%) JIRA
9 42 (5.35%) SonarQube
10 24 (3.06%) Selenium
11 22 (2.80%) REST Assured
12 21 (2.68%) Cucumber
13 18 (2.29%) Liquibase
14 17 (2.17%) Gatling
15 14 (1.78%) DbUnit
15 14 (1.78%) IntelliJ
16 13 (1.66%) Bitbucket Server
16 13 (1.66%) jMock
17 12 (1.53%) Serenity BDD
18 10 (1.27%) Postman
General
1 171 (21.78%) Finance
2 146 (18.60%) Social Skills
3 141 (17.96%) Public Sector
4 83 (10.57%) Banking
5 57 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (2.55%) Retail
7 13 (1.66%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.53%) Law
8 12 (1.53%) Military
9 6 (0.76%) Publishing
9 6 (0.76%) Retail Banking
10 5 (0.64%) Automotive
10 5 (0.64%) Investment Banking
10 5 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.51%) Police
12 3 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.25%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 456 (58.09%) Developer
2 361 (45.99%) Java Developer
3 161 (20.51%) Senior
4 124 (15.80%) Java Engineer
5 97 (12.36%) Software Engineer
6 86 (10.96%) Senior Developer
7 85 (10.83%) Lead
8 69 (8.79%) Senior Java Developer
9 57 (7.26%) Full-Stack Developer
10 51 (6.50%) Java Software Engineer
11 41 (5.22%) Software Developer
12 40 (5.10%) Lead Developer
13 38 (4.84%) Backend Developer
14 32 (4.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 31 (3.95%) Senior Java Engineer
16 30 (3.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 30 (3.82%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 26 (3.31%) Lead Java Developer
18 22 (2.80%) Data Engineer
19 20 (2.55%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 739 (94.14%) Spring
2 238 (30.32%) Kafka
3 216 (27.52%) RESTful
4 210 (26.75%) REST
5 152 (19.36%) React
6 105 (13.38%) Node.js
7 78 (9.94%) AngularJS
8 70 (8.92%) Hibernate
9 68 (8.66%) JPA
10 66 (8.41%) HTML
11 55 (7.01%) CSS
12 52 (6.62%) Spring MVC
13 51 (6.50%) Web Services
14 42 (5.35%) Redux
15 41 (5.22%) Spring Cloud
16 37 (4.71%) RabbitMQ
17 35 (4.46%) OAuth
18 33 (4.20%) SOAP
19 32 (4.08%) Spring Batch
20 30 (3.82%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 149 (18.98%) Cloud Native
2 98 (12.48%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (7.13%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
5 21 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (2.17%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.91%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.78%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.66%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.53%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.02%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.89%) AI Agents
15 6 (0.76%) Blockchain
15 6 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
15 6 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.50%) Linux
2 22 (2.80%) Unix
3 6 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.38%) VMS
4 3 (0.38%) Windows
5 1 (0.13%) Android
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Solaris
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 480 (61.15%) Microservices
2 471 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 356 (45.35%) Agile
4 308 (39.24%) DevOps
5 248 (31.59%) Containerisation
6 197 (25.10%) Software Engineering
7 166 (21.15%) TDD
8 155 (19.75%) Test Automation
9 151 (19.24%) Event-Driven
10 147 (18.73%) Scrum
11 146 (18.60%) Full-Stack Development
12 126 (16.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 122 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
14 116 (14.78%) Code Quality
15 108 (13.76%) Observability
16 101 (12.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 86 (10.96%) Infrastructure as Code
18 76 (9.68%) Design Patterns
19 74 (9.43%) BDD
20 69 (8.79%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 771 (98.22%) Java
2 254 (32.36%) SQL
3 115 (14.65%) JavaScript
4 93 (11.85%) TypeScript
5 88 (11.21%) Python
6 38 (4.84%) Kotlin
7 34 (4.33%) PL/SQL
8 17 (2.17%) Shell Script
9 12 (1.53%) C#
9 12 (1.53%) Go
10 8 (1.02%) Scala
11 7 (0.89%) Bash
11 7 (0.89%) Ruby
12 5 (0.64%) Perl
12 5 (0.64%) Solidity
13 3 (0.38%) Groovy
13 3 (0.38%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.25%) PHP
14 2 (0.25%) PromQL
15 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 239 (30.45%) Security Cleared
2 200 (25.48%) SC Cleared
3 49 (6.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 32 (4.08%) Degree
5 25 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.91%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.40%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.64%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.25%) 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 87 (11.08%) QA
2 70 (8.92%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.40%) ISO 20022
4 9 (1.15%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.15%) WCAG
5 7 (0.89%) GDPR
5 7 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (0.89%) SEPA
6 6 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.38%) EMIR
7 3 (0.38%) MiFID
8 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.25%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.25%) PSD2
9 1 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.13%) ITGC
9 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 337 (42.93%) Docker
2 11 (1.40%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 318 (40.51%) Kubernetes
2 80 (10.19%) Terraform
3 70 (8.92%) Grafana
4 53 (6.75%) Prometheus
5 39 (4.97%) Ansible
6 13 (1.66%) Control-M
7 10 (1.27%) Kibana
8 7 (0.89%) Argo
9 6 (0.76%) Istio
10 4 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.25%) Consul
11 2 (0.25%) Kiali
11 2 (0.25%) 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
1 102 (12.99%) Oracle
2 46 (5.86%) Google
3 32 (4.08%) Splunk
4 31 (3.95%) Microsoft
5 19 (2.42%) IBM
6 17 (2.17%) Jaspersoft
7 14 (1.78%) Atlassian
8 13 (1.66%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.40%) Databricks
9 11 (1.40%) Solace
10 10 (1.27%) Checkmarx
10 10 (1.27%) MuleSoft
10 10 (1.27%) Sybase
11 8 (1.02%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.89%) Okta
12 7 (0.89%) TikTok
13 6 (0.76%) New Relic
14 5 (0.64%) ForgeRock
15 4 (0.51%) Ab Initio
15 4 (0.51%) Teradata