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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 193 189
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 +99
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 818 476 489
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 1.45% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.96% 5.59% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 329 361
10th Percentile £377 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £631
90th Percentile £688 £613 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +8.11% +2.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 7 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £39.50 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £46.25 £69.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 - £74.50
90th Percentile £79.60 £70.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% -7.69%

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 11,754 8,517 9,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.61% 25.95% 24.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,733 5,676 6,164
10th Percentile £375 £353 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 187 189
10th Percentile £28.64 £31.25 £25.56
25th Percentile £49.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.83% -12.48% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.80 £74.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £58.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.84% -9.62% +10.11%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +8 633 £525 +5.00% 534
UK excluding London 0 382 £500 +8.11% 319
London +10 326 £530 +0.95% 313
Work from Home -9 188 £500 -3.61% 276
North of England -15 156 £537 +14.50% 116
North West -36 89 £560 +30.23% 60
Midlands 0 79 £565 +56.94% 28
West Midlands +9 73 £575 +15.00% 22
Scotland -19 63 £402 -14.24% 67
Yorkshire +4 53 £475 -13.64% 30
South West -18 31 £463 -7.96% 42
South East -50 26 £358 -13.33% 25
East of England - 22 £495 - 3
North East -37 15 £450 -10.00% 26
Wales -18 9 £413 -13.16% 16
East Midlands -29 5 £400 +29.87% 6
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 22

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 30 (3.67%) Confluence
2 29 (3.55%) Apache
3 28 (3.42%) Apache Spark
4 18 (2.20%) Camunda
5 9 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.98%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.61%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.61%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.49%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.49%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.49%) nginx
9 3 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.24%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.24%) Mule
10 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.12%) JBoss
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.12%) Solana
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.61%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.49%) Quorum
2 4 (0.49%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.49%) Ripple
3 3 (0.37%) Finacle
3 3 (0.37%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.24%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 475 (58.07%) AWS
2 178 (21.76%) Azure
3 135 (16.50%) GitHub
4 127 (15.53%) GCP
5 85 (10.39%) GitHub Actions
6 68 (8.31%) Serverless
7 64 (7.82%) AWS Lambda
8 62 (7.58%) Amazon S3
9 51 (6.23%) OpenShift
10 49 (5.99%) Amazon ECS
10 49 (5.99%) Amazon EKS
11 45 (5.50%) Amazon SQS
12 39 (4.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (4.28%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (2.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 16 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (1.96%) GitHub Copilot
17 15 (1.83%) Anthropic Claude
18 12 (1.47%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.59%) HTTP
2 7 (0.86%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.37%) Firewall
4 3 (0.37%) SSL
5 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) AMQP
6 1 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.12%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (20.42%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (13.69%) MongoDB
3 101 (12.35%) Relational Database
4 97 (11.86%) NoSQL
5 52 (6.36%) MySQL
6 39 (4.77%) SQL Server
7 34 (4.16%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (3.67%) Redis
9 26 (3.18%) DynamoDB
10 23 (2.81%) Flink
11 21 (2.57%) Amazon Aurora
12 16 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
13 15 (1.83%) Metadata
13 15 (1.83%) RDBMS
14 14 (1.71%) Big Data
15 13 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
15 13 (1.59%) Oracle Database
16 12 (1.47%) Couchbase
17 11 (1.34%) Data Lake
18 8 (0.98%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 226 (27.63%) Jenkins
2 210 (25.67%) Git
3 145 (17.73%) JUnit
4 138 (16.87%) GitLab
5 135 (16.50%) Maven
6 115 (14.06%) Gradle
7 97 (11.86%) Mockito
8 53 (6.48%) SonarQube
9 47 (5.75%) JIRA
10 32 (3.91%) Cucumber
11 28 (3.42%) REST Assured
12 22 (2.69%) Selenium
13 17 (2.08%) Liquibase
14 15 (1.83%) Gatling
15 14 (1.71%) Bitbucket Server
16 11 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
17 10 (1.22%) Claude Code
17 10 (1.22%) GoCD
17 10 (1.22%) IntelliJ
18 9 (1.10%) Flyway
General
1 190 (23.23%) Finance
2 168 (20.54%) Social Skills
3 148 (18.09%) Public Sector
4 120 (14.67%) Banking
5 69 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.18%) Retail
7 19 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.47%) Military
10 8 (0.98%) Front Office
10 8 (0.98%) Law
10 8 (0.98%) Retail Banking
11 7 (0.86%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.73%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.37%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.37%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.37%) iGaming
14 3 (0.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 454 (55.50%) Developer
2 366 (44.74%) Java Developer
3 185 (22.62%) Senior
4 143 (17.48%) Java Engineer
5 100 (12.22%) Software Engineer
6 94 (11.49%) Senior Developer
7 90 (11.00%) Lead
8 74 (9.05%) Senior Java Developer
9 64 (7.82%) Full-Stack Developer
10 55 (6.72%) Java Software Engineer
11 44 (5.38%) Lead Developer
11 44 (5.38%) Senior Java Engineer
12 42 (5.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 41 (5.01%) Software Developer
14 33 (4.03%) Lead Java Developer
15 29 (3.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 28 (3.42%) Backend Developer
17 27 (3.30%) Architect
18 23 (2.81%) Senior Software Engineer
19 22 (2.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 769 (94.01%) Spring
2 296 (36.19%) Kafka
3 249 (30.44%) REST
4 215 (26.28%) RESTful
5 150 (18.34%) React
6 107 (13.08%) Node.js
7 96 (11.74%) JPA
8 89 (10.88%) Terraform
9 83 (10.15%) Hibernate
10 79 (9.66%) AngularJS
11 76 (9.29%) HTML
12 65 (7.95%) CSS
13 59 (7.21%) Web Services
14 49 (5.99%) Spring MVC
15 47 (5.75%) OAuth
15 47 (5.75%) RabbitMQ
16 46 (5.62%) OpenAPI
17 43 (5.26%) Redux
17 43 (5.26%) SOAP
18 41 (5.01%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 217 (26.53%) Cloud Native
2 135 (16.50%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (8.80%) Product Ownership
4 47 (5.75%) Enterprise Software
5 31 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (2.44%) AI Agents
9 16 (1.96%) Data Structures
9 16 (1.96%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.83%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 14 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.47%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.86%) Fixed Income
13 7 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (0.73%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
14 6 (0.73%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 52 (6.36%) Linux
2 37 (4.52%) Unix
3 2 (0.24%) AIX
3 2 (0.24%) Mac OS X
3 2 (0.24%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) Android
4 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.12%) Solaris
4 1 (0.12%) VMS
4 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (64.79%) Microservices
2 498 (60.88%) CI/CD
3 417 (50.98%) Agile
4 299 (36.55%) DevOps
5 252 (30.81%) Software Engineering
6 237 (28.97%) Containerisation
7 212 (25.92%) Test Automation
8 204 (24.94%) Event-Driven
9 177 (21.64%) Scrum
10 164 (20.05%) TDD
11 137 (16.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 135 (16.50%) Full-Stack Development
13 133 (16.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 121 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
15 114 (13.94%) Observability
16 110 (13.45%) Code Quality
17 99 (12.10%) Infrastructure as Code
18 93 (11.37%) Clean Code
19 90 (11.00%) SDLC
20 89 (10.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 807 (98.66%) Java
2 274 (33.50%) SQL
3 125 (15.28%) JavaScript
4 105 (12.84%) TypeScript
5 79 (9.66%) Python
6 39 (4.77%) PL/SQL
7 29 (3.55%) Shell Script
8 23 (2.81%) Kotlin
9 14 (1.71%) Bash
10 11 (1.34%) Scala
11 9 (1.10%) Ruby
12 6 (0.73%) C#
13 5 (0.61%) Groovy
14 4 (0.49%) Solidity
15 3 (0.37%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.24%) Go
16 2 (0.24%) Korn
16 2 (0.24%) PromQL
16 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.12%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 235 (28.73%) Security Cleared
2 201 (24.57%) SC Cleared
3 79 (9.66%) BPSS Clearance
4 39 (4.77%) Degree
5 31 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.08%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.71%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.37%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.37%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.12%) CISSP
10 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (13.69%) QA
2 71 (8.68%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.81%) ISO 20022
4 14 (1.71%) SEPA
5 11 (1.34%) WCAG
6 9 (1.10%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.86%) GDPR
8 6 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.61%) PSD2
10 4 (0.49%) ISO 15022
10 4 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.37%) EMIR
11 3 (0.37%) MiFID
12 2 (0.24%) NIST
13 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 1 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 340 (41.56%) Docker
2 4 (0.49%) Postfix
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 323 (39.49%) Kubernetes
2 59 (7.21%) Grafana
3 47 (5.75%) Prometheus
4 38 (4.65%) Ansible
5 29 (3.55%) Kibana
6 16 (1.96%) Control-M
7 11 (1.34%) Argo
8 7 (0.86%) Istio
9 4 (0.49%) Bosun
9 4 (0.49%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.24%) Consul
10 2 (0.24%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.12%) Kiali
11 1 (0.12%) logstash
11 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 124 (15.16%) Oracle
2 41 (5.01%) Google
3 30 (3.67%) IBM
4 21 (2.57%) Splunk
5 19 (2.32%) Microsoft
6 16 (1.96%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.59%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.10%) Databricks
8 9 (1.10%) New Relic
8 9 (1.10%) Sybase
8 9 (1.10%) Veracode
9 8 (0.98%) Solace
10 7 (0.86%) FIS
10 7 (0.86%) Jaspersoft
10 7 (0.86%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.86%) TikTok
11 6 (0.73%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.73%) Checkmarx
12 5 (0.61%) Confluent
12 5 (0.61%) Temenos