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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
19 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 206 248
Rank change year-on-year +22 +42 -93
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 641 384 418
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.48% 1.31% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.90% 5.78% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 240 312
10th Percentile £350 £356 £393
25th Percentile £413 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £522 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% +4.40% -17.36%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £615
90th Percentile £634 £689 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £441 £490
% change year-on-year +7.71% -9.91% -9.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 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 9,284 6,648 8,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.42% 22.70% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,205 4,469 6,272
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 95 205
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £38.88 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.58 £75.00
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 19 March 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 19 March 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 19 March 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 +40 539 £485 -9.09% 124
UK excluding London +25 351 £475 +7.71% 99
London +2 224 £525 -8.70% 43
North of England +14 166 £475 +5.56% 53
Work from Home +10 152 £488 -6.25% 71
North West +37 115 £475 +13.16% 24
Midlands -30 52 £469 +11.67% 6
West Midlands -17 51 £470 +11.79% 4
South East -9 49 £450 -16.20% 14
Scotland -13 45 £600 +37.14% 5
Yorkshire -43 33 £500 -4.76% 15
South West -4 29 £384 -28.56% 12
North East +2 20 £475 +7.95% 14
East of England - 13 £555 - 3
East Midlands -39 1 £220 -32.52% 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 27 (4.21%) Confluence
2 23 (3.59%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.87%) Camunda
4 9 (1.40%) WebLogic
5 8 (1.25%) Apache
6 6 (0.94%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.94%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.31%) CICS
9 2 (0.31%) CMS
9 2 (0.31%) Drupal
9 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.31%) WordPress
10 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 361 (56.32%) AWS
2 182 (28.39%) Azure
3 116 (18.10%) GitHub
4 96 (14.98%) GCP
5 84 (13.10%) Serverless
6 81 (12.64%) Amazon S3
7 71 (11.08%) AWS Lambda
8 68 (10.61%) GitHub Actions
9 44 (6.86%) Amazon EC2
10 40 (6.24%) Amazon ECS
11 39 (6.08%) Amazon EKS
12 33 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
13 32 (4.99%) Amazon SQS
14 30 (4.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 30 (4.68%) OpenShift
15 22 (3.43%) Azure AKS
16 18 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
17 17 (2.65%) Datadog
18 16 (2.50%) AWS Fargate
19 14 (2.18%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.72%) HTTP
2 10 (1.56%) SSL
3 9 (1.40%) Firewall
4 7 (1.09%) HTTPS
5 5 (0.78%) DNS
5 5 (0.78%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.47%) VPN
7 1 (0.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (20.59%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (13.88%) NoSQL
3 75 (11.70%) MongoDB
4 70 (10.92%) Relational Database
5 51 (7.96%) DynamoDB
6 47 (7.33%) MySQL
7 41 (6.40%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (3.28%) SQL Server
9 20 (3.12%) Amazon Aurora
10 15 (2.34%) DocumentDB
10 15 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (2.03%) RDBMS
11 13 (2.03%) Redis
12 11 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
13 9 (1.40%) Big Data
13 9 (1.40%) DB2
14 8 (1.25%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.25%) HBase
15 7 (1.09%) Flink
15 7 (1.09%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 144 (22.46%) Jenkins
2 143 (22.31%) Git
3 113 (17.63%) GitLab
4 112 (17.47%) JUnit
5 56 (8.74%) Mockito
6 50 (7.80%) JIRA
6 50 (7.80%) Maven
7 47 (7.33%) Gradle
8 44 (6.86%) Cucumber
9 22 (3.43%) Selenium
10 19 (2.96%) SonarQube
11 15 (2.34%) Cypress.io
12 14 (2.18%) IntelliJ
12 14 (2.18%) Postman
13 13 (2.03%) Gatling
13 13 (2.03%) REST Assured
14 12 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
15 11 (1.72%) Artifactory
16 10 (1.56%) Mocha
17 9 (1.40%) Bitbucket
General
1 146 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 123 (19.19%) Finance
3 114 (17.78%) Public Sector
4 70 (10.92%) Banking
5 26 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.03%) Financial Institution
7 12 (1.87%) Retail
8 7 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.62%) Aerospace
9 4 (0.62%) Automotive
9 4 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (0.62%) Investment Banking
9 4 (0.62%) Law
9 4 (0.62%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.62%) Military
9 4 (0.62%) Retail Banking
9 4 (0.62%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.47%) Electronics
10 3 (0.47%) Marketing
11 2 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 377 (58.81%) Developer
2 269 (41.97%) Java Developer
3 131 (20.44%) Senior
4 107 (16.69%) Java Engineer
5 80 (12.48%) Senior Developer
6 77 (12.01%) Full-Stack Developer
7 72 (11.23%) Software Engineer
8 63 (9.83%) Senior Java Developer
9 57 (8.89%) Lead
10 42 (6.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 42 (6.55%) Java Software Engineer
11 28 (4.37%) Backend Developer
12 27 (4.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 24 (3.74%) Lead Developer
13 24 (3.74%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 23 (3.59%) Software Developer
15 22 (3.43%) AWS Developer
16 20 (3.12%) Architect
17 19 (2.96%) Azure Engineer
18 14 (2.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 582 (90.80%) Spring
2 188 (29.33%) Kafka
3 184 (28.71%) RESTful
4 153 (23.87%) REST
5 137 (21.37%) React
6 108 (16.85%) AngularJS
7 83 (12.95%) Node.js
8 64 (9.98%) Hibernate
9 58 (9.05%) HTML
10 48 (7.49%) JPA
11 41 (6.40%) CSS
11 41 (6.40%) OAuth
12 38 (5.93%) OAuth2
13 37 (5.77%) OpenTelemetry
14 33 (5.15%) Spring Cloud
14 33 (5.15%) Spring MVC
15 28 (4.37%) JSON
16 27 (4.21%) Jest
16 27 (4.21%) RabbitMQ
17 25 (3.90%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 94 (14.66%) Cloud Native
2 59 (9.20%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (5.93%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.81%) Mobile App
5 16 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (1.87%) Legacy Applications
8 10 (1.56%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.40%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.40%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (0.94%) Algorithms
12 6 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.78%) NHS
14 4 (0.62%) Data Centre
14 4 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 4 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.62%) Virtual Team
15 3 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (6.40%) Linux
2 10 (1.56%) Unix
3 6 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.47%) Windows
5 2 (0.31%) VMS
5 2 (0.31%) zOS
6 1 (0.16%) Android
6 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (62.40%) Microservices
2 360 (56.16%) CI/CD
3 262 (40.87%) Agile
4 242 (37.75%) DevOps
5 196 (30.58%) Containerisation
6 163 (25.43%) Full-Stack Development
7 134 (20.90%) Software Engineering
8 124 (19.34%) TDD
9 118 (18.41%) Test Automation
10 114 (17.78%) Event-Driven
11 112 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
12 91 (14.20%) Scrum
13 87 (13.57%) Observability
14 79 (12.32%) Code Quality
15 77 (12.01%) Infrastructure as Code
16 69 (10.76%) Mentoring
17 68 (10.61%) API Design
17 68 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
18 66 (10.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 64 (9.98%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 604 (94.23%) Java
2 160 (24.96%) SQL
3 89 (13.88%) TypeScript
4 88 (13.73%) JavaScript
5 57 (8.89%) Python
6 47 (7.33%) Kotlin
7 18 (2.81%) Go
8 15 (2.34%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.40%) Rust
10 8 (1.25%) C#
11 7 (1.09%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.94%) Perl
13 4 (0.62%) Scala
14 3 (0.47%) PHP
15 2 (0.31%) Bash
15 2 (0.31%) Groovy
15 2 (0.31%) Ruby
16 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.16%) Solidity
16 1 (0.16%) Swift
Qualifications
1 170 (26.52%) Security Cleared
2 139 (21.68%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.15%) Degree
4 22 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.72%) OCP
6 11 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
7 7 (1.09%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.94%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.62%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (10.30%) QA
2 50 (7.80%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.96%) ISO 20022
4 18 (2.81%) WCAG
5 9 (1.40%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.40%) PSD2
5 9 (1.40%) SEPA
6 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.62%) NIST
7 3 (0.47%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.47%) GDPR
7 3 (0.47%) HL7
7 3 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.31%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.31%) NCSC
9 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 263 (41.03%) Docker
2 6 (0.94%) Postfix
3 3 (0.47%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 297 (46.33%) Kubernetes
2 87 (13.57%) Terraform
3 84 (13.10%) Grafana
4 44 (6.86%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.28%) Ansible
6 14 (2.18%) Argo
7 11 (1.72%) Kibana
8 9 (1.40%) Kiali
9 7 (1.09%) Istio
10 2 (0.31%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.31%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.16%) Consul
11 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 54 (8.42%) Oracle
2 38 (5.93%) Splunk
3 32 (4.99%) Microsoft
4 29 (4.52%) Google
5 11 (1.72%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.40%) Jaspersoft
6 9 (1.40%) Sybase
7 8 (1.25%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.09%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.09%) ForgeRock
9 6 (0.94%) Adobe
9 6 (0.94%) Databricks
9 6 (0.94%) IBM
9 6 (0.94%) PagerDuty
9 6 (0.94%) SAP
9 6 (0.94%) Virgin Media
10 4 (0.62%) Confluent
10 4 (0.62%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.62%) Solace
10 4 (0.62%) VMware
143 Spring Boot jobs Nationwide