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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 193 199
Rank change year-on-year +13 +6 +5
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 735 420 511
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.48% 1.43% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.55% 6.27% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 285 393
10th Percentile £388 £325 £375
25th Percentile £425 £402 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £494 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.24% -3.61% -10.87%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £662 £618 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £441 £481
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.32% -6.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 9 1
10th Percentile - £47.00 -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -23.61% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81.00 £88.75 £74.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -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 9,740 6,702 9,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.61% 22.89% 21.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,401 4,576 6,307
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 121 262
10th Percentile £32.50 £29.25 £22.05
25th Percentile £52.50 £41.60 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.97
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +27.64% -24.67%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.75 £67.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.35 £74.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +27 617 £524 +4.80% 113
UK excluding London -5 347 £479 +8.70% 86
London +32 305 £525 - 46
Work from Home -25 171 £490 -5.77% 64
North of England +7 153 £500 +8.11% 32
North West +10 101 £510 +29.77% 13
South West +12 52 £409 -25.64% 17
Midlands -52 46 £475 +13.10% 2
West Midlands -37 43 £475 - 2
Scotland -29 39 £410 -6.40% 7
Yorkshire -34 35 £475 -9.52% 13
East of England -1 31 £507 +8.45% 3
South East -46 27 £513 -4.56% 12
North East -11 20 £475 +0.53% 7
Wales -10 2 - - 8
East Midlands -42 2 £401 +12.01%
Northern Ireland -4 1 - - 5

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 43 (5.85%) Apache Spark
2 22 (2.99%) Confluence
3 17 (2.31%) Apache
4 16 (2.18%) Camunda
5 10 (1.36%) Ethereum
5 10 (1.36%) Hyperledger
5 10 (1.36%) WebLogic
6 9 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.27%) Drupal
9 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.27%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.27%) WordPress
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.68%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.54%) Quorum
2 4 (0.54%) Ripple
3 3 (0.41%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.27%) Shopify
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 387 (52.65%) AWS
2 172 (23.40%) Azure
3 121 (16.46%) GCP
4 120 (16.33%) GitHub
5 80 (10.88%) GitHub Actions
6 73 (9.93%) Amazon S3
7 72 (9.80%) Serverless
8 65 (8.84%) AWS Lambda
9 44 (5.99%) Amazon SQS
10 42 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
11 37 (5.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (4.63%) OpenShift
13 33 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
14 32 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
15 22 (2.99%) Route 53
16 20 (2.72%) Cloud Run
17 19 (2.59%) Azure AKS
17 19 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
18 18 (2.45%) AWS KMS
19 16 (2.18%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.36%) Firewall
1 10 (1.36%) HTTP
2 4 (0.54%) DNS
2 4 (0.54%) HTTPS
2 4 (0.54%) SSL
2 4 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (19.59%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (12.38%) NoSQL
3 81 (11.02%) Relational Database
4 75 (10.20%) MongoDB
5 59 (8.03%) MySQL
6 53 (7.21%) DynamoDB
7 49 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (3.67%) SQL Server
9 24 (3.27%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (2.59%) Big Data
10 19 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (2.45%) Redis
12 16 (2.18%) Flink
13 14 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (1.63%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.22%) DocumentDB
16 8 (1.09%) BigQuery
16 8 (1.09%) Db2
17 7 (0.95%) Data Lake
17 7 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 165 (22.45%) Jenkins
2 163 (22.18%) Git
3 115 (15.65%) JUnit
4 113 (15.37%) GitLab
5 75 (10.20%) Gradle
6 68 (9.25%) Mockito
7 55 (7.48%) Maven
8 48 (6.53%) JIRA
9 35 (4.76%) SonarQube
10 26 (3.54%) Selenium
11 24 (3.27%) IntelliJ
12 23 (3.13%) Cucumber
13 22 (2.99%) REST Assured
14 18 (2.45%) Liquibase
15 17 (2.31%) Gatling
16 14 (1.90%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.77%) jMock
18 12 (1.63%) Bitbucket Server
18 12 (1.63%) Serenity BDD
19 11 (1.50%) Mocha
General
1 158 (21.50%) Finance
2 135 (18.37%) Social Skills
3 120 (16.33%) Public Sector
4 82 (11.16%) Banking
5 37 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.59%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.45%) Retail
8 11 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.50%) Law
9 9 (1.22%) Military
10 7 (0.95%) Retail Banking
11 6 (0.82%) Publishing
12 5 (0.68%) Automotive
12 5 (0.68%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.27%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.27%) Legal
14 2 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 401 (54.56%) Developer
2 303 (41.22%) Java Developer
3 161 (21.90%) Senior
4 133 (18.10%) Java Engineer
5 106 (14.42%) Software Engineer
6 85 (11.56%) Senior Developer
7 72 (9.80%) Lead
8 66 (8.98%) Senior Java Developer
9 63 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
10 58 (7.89%) Java Software Engineer
11 45 (6.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 34 (4.63%) Backend Developer
13 32 (4.35%) Software Developer
14 31 (4.22%) Lead Developer
15 28 (3.81%) Senior Java Engineer
16 25 (3.40%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 23 (3.13%) Data Engineer
18 22 (2.99%) SC Cleared Java Developer
19 21 (2.86%) Lead Java Developer
20 18 (2.45%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 681 (92.65%) Spring
2 220 (29.93%) Kafka
3 190 (25.85%) RESTful
4 180 (24.49%) REST
5 144 (19.59%) React
6 104 (14.15%) Node.js
7 80 (10.88%) AngularJS
8 59 (8.03%) Hibernate
9 58 (7.89%) JPA
10 57 (7.76%) HTML
11 50 (6.80%) Spring Cloud
12 47 (6.39%) OpenTelemetry
13 45 (6.12%) CSS
14 43 (5.85%) Spring MVC
15 41 (5.58%) Web Services
16 38 (5.17%) OAuth
17 35 (4.76%) OAuth2
18 34 (4.63%) Next.js
19 33 (4.49%) Jest
19 33 (4.49%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 139 (18.91%) Cloud Native
2 84 (11.43%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.12%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.81%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (1.90%) Mobile App
7 13 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (1.77%) Data Structures
7 13 (1.77%) Public Cloud
8 11 (1.50%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.36%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
9 10 (1.36%) Management Information System
10 7 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (0.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 6 (0.82%) Blockchain
11 6 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (7.35%) Linux
2 21 (2.86%) Unix
3 6 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.54%) Windows
5 3 (0.41%) VMS
6 2 (0.27%) Android
6 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (59.73%) Microservices
2 424 (57.69%) CI/CD
3 296 (40.27%) Agile
4 282 (38.37%) DevOps
5 252 (34.29%) Containerisation
6 195 (26.53%) Software Engineering
7 157 (21.36%) Full-Stack Development
8 153 (20.82%) TDD
9 130 (17.69%) Event-Driven
10 127 (17.28%) Test Automation
11 116 (15.78%) Observability
12 107 (14.56%) Scrum
13 104 (14.15%) Code Quality
14 100 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
15 93 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
16 85 (11.56%) Infrastructure as Code
17 83 (11.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 70 (9.52%) Mentoring
19 67 (9.12%) BDD
20 63 (8.57%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 711 (96.73%) Java
2 227 (30.88%) SQL
3 111 (15.10%) JavaScript
4 98 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 85 (11.56%) Python
6 46 (6.26%) Kotlin
7 19 (2.59%) PL/SQL
8 16 (2.18%) Shell Script
9 15 (2.04%) Go
10 12 (1.63%) C#
11 9 (1.22%) Rust
12 7 (0.95%) Scala
13 6 (0.82%) Ruby
14 5 (0.68%) Perl
14 5 (0.68%) Solidity
15 4 (0.54%) Bash
16 3 (0.41%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.27%) Korn
17 2 (0.27%) PHP
17 2 (0.27%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 201 (27.35%) Security Cleared
2 164 (22.31%) SC Cleared
3 35 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 35 (4.76%) Degree
4 19 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.90%) DV Cleared
6 7 (0.95%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.82%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (9.66%) QA
2 68 (9.25%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.04%) ISO 20022
4 12 (1.63%) WCAG
5 10 (1.36%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.36%) SEPA
6 8 (1.09%) GDPR
7 7 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.82%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.82%) PSD2
9 5 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.54%) NIST
11 3 (0.41%) EMIR
11 3 (0.41%) ISO 15022
11 3 (0.41%) MiFID
12 2 (0.27%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.27%) NCSC
13 1 (0.14%) HL7
13 1 (0.14%) ITGC
13 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 328 (44.63%) Docker
2 11 (1.50%) Postfix
3 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 322 (43.81%) Kubernetes
2 92 (12.52%) Grafana
3 85 (11.56%) Terraform
4 61 (8.30%) Prometheus
5 35 (4.76%) Ansible
6 15 (2.04%) Argo
7 10 (1.36%) Istio
7 10 (1.36%) Kiali
8 9 (1.22%) Kibana
9 4 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.27%) Consul
10 2 (0.27%) Control-M
10 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 66 (8.98%) Oracle
2 37 (5.03%) Splunk
3 35 (4.76%) Google
4 28 (3.81%) Microsoft
5 17 (2.31%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (1.90%) Atlassian
6 14 (1.90%) IBM
7 11 (1.50%) Red Hat
8 10 (1.36%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.36%) Sybase
9 9 (1.22%) Checkmarx
10 8 (1.09%) Databricks
10 8 (1.09%) Solace
11 6 (0.82%) Okta
12 5 (0.68%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.68%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.68%) New Relic
12 5 (0.68%) Teradata
13 4 (0.54%) Adobe
13 4 (0.54%) SAP