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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 182 197
Rank change year-on-year -9 +15 +80
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 817 501 476
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 1.52% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.91% 5.95% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 349 363
10th Percentile £380 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% -0.94%
75th Percentile £589 £550 £630
90th Percentile £688 £613 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £465 £461
% change year-on-year +6.45% +0.81% -6.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 10 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £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 £83.44 £74.50
90th Percentile £86.10 £92.50 -
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 11,830 8,415 9,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.71% 25.51% 24.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,757 5,661 6,332
10th Percentile £375 £356 £359
25th Percentile £435 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £634 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 182 187
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £45.94 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -14.77% +0.57%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £74.75 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.18% -15.38% +8.33%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +3 640 £525 +5.00% 289
UK excluding London -19 375 £495 +6.45% 188
London +14 342 £530 +5.47% 177
Work from Home -26 187 £500 - 163
North of England -23 157 £537 +15.48% 51
North West -40 90 £550 +30.18% 31
Scotland -32 65 £405 -10.11% 35
Midlands -27 64 £575 +57.97% 20
West Midlands -2 58 £575 +15.00% 17
Yorkshire -2 52 £500 -9.09% 11
South West -21 35 £450 -11.55% 33
East of England -3 26 £500 +6.95% 2
South East -53 24 £291 -47.09% 32
North East -39 16 £450 -6.25% 9
Wales -16 8 £394 -17.11% 6
East Midlands -32 5 £400 +27.80% 3
Northern Ireland +1 2 - - 12

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 31 (3.79%) Apache Spark
2 28 (3.43%) Confluence
3 22 (2.69%) Apache
4 19 (2.33%) Camunda
5 10 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.98%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.61%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.49%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.49%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.49%) nginx
8 4 (0.49%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.24%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.24%) Mule
10 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.12%) CMS
11 1 (0.12%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
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%) Distributed Ledger
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 Hybris
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 469 (57.41%) AWS
2 180 (22.03%) Azure
3 137 (16.77%) GitHub
4 134 (16.40%) GCP
5 87 (10.65%) GitHub Actions
6 67 (8.20%) Serverless
7 62 (7.59%) AWS Lambda
8 58 (7.10%) Amazon S3
9 50 (6.12%) OpenShift
10 45 (5.51%) Amazon ECS
10 45 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
11 41 (5.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 41 (5.02%) Amazon SQS
12 34 (4.16%) Amazon EC2
13 20 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (2.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 14 (1.71%) Anthropic Claude
16 14 (1.71%) GitHub Copilot
17 11 (1.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.47%) HTTP
2 6 (0.73%) 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%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
2 105 (12.85%) Relational Database
3 97 (11.87%) MongoDB
3 97 (11.87%) NoSQL
4 63 (7.71%) MySQL
5 39 (4.77%) SQL Server
6 33 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
7 31 (3.79%) DynamoDB
8 30 (3.67%) Redis
9 22 (2.69%) Amazon Aurora
10 18 (2.20%) Flink
11 16 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (1.96%) RDBMS
12 15 (1.84%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (1.84%) Metadata
13 14 (1.71%) Big Data
14 12 (1.47%) Oracle Database
15 11 (1.35%) Couchbase
16 10 (1.22%) Data Lake
17 8 (0.98%) Db2
Development Applications
1 226 (27.66%) Jenkins
2 207 (25.34%) Git
3 148 (18.12%) JUnit
4 131 (16.03%) GitLab
5 118 (14.44%) Maven
6 111 (13.59%) Gradle
7 94 (11.51%) Mockito
8 57 (6.98%) SonarQube
9 47 (5.75%) JIRA
10 27 (3.30%) REST Assured
11 25 (3.06%) Cucumber
12 22 (2.69%) Liquibase
13 20 (2.45%) Selenium
14 14 (1.71%) Bitbucket Server
15 13 (1.59%) Gatling
15 13 (1.59%) IntelliJ
16 10 (1.22%) GoCD
16 10 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
17 9 (1.10%) Flyway
18 8 (0.98%) JProfiler
General
1 190 (23.26%) Finance
2 168 (20.56%) Social Skills
3 143 (17.50%) Public Sector
4 108 (13.22%) Banking
5 69 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.82%) Retail
7 17 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.47%) Law
9 12 (1.47%) Military
10 7 (0.86%) Financial Institution
10 7 (0.86%) Front Office
10 7 (0.86%) Retail Banking
11 6 (0.73%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (0.73%) Publishing
12 4 (0.49%) Police
13 3 (0.37%) Automotive
14 2 (0.24%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.24%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 469 (57.41%) Developer
2 374 (45.78%) Java Developer
3 179 (21.91%) Senior
4 131 (16.03%) Java Engineer
5 104 (12.73%) Software Engineer
6 94 (11.51%) Senior Developer
7 89 (10.89%) Lead
8 74 (9.06%) Senior Java Developer
9 65 (7.96%) Full-Stack Developer
10 56 (6.85%) Java Software Engineer
11 44 (5.39%) Lead Developer
12 43 (5.26%) Software Developer
13 42 (5.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 38 (4.65%) Senior Java Engineer
15 33 (4.04%) Backend Developer
15 33 (4.04%) Lead Java Developer
16 27 (3.30%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 24 (2.94%) Architect
18 23 (2.82%) Data Engineer
19 22 (2.69%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 771 (94.37%) Spring
2 283 (34.64%) Kafka
3 243 (29.74%) REST
4 222 (27.17%) RESTful
5 162 (19.83%) React
6 106 (12.97%) Node.js
7 86 (10.53%) JPA
8 85 (10.40%) Terraform
9 84 (10.28%) HTML
10 81 (9.91%) AngularJS
11 80 (9.79%) Hibernate
12 72 (8.81%) CSS
13 58 (7.10%) Web Services
14 55 (6.73%) Spring MVC
15 51 (6.24%) RabbitMQ
16 50 (6.12%) Redux
17 44 (5.39%) OAuth
18 42 (5.14%) Spring Cloud
19 41 (5.02%) OpenAPI
20 38 (4.65%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 209 (25.58%) Cloud Native
2 121 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (7.96%) Product Ownership
4 46 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (2.20%) Data Structures
9 17 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.96%) AI Agents
11 15 (1.84%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.47%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 11 (1.35%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.10%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 7 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
16 6 (0.73%) Fixed Income
16 6 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
17 5 (0.61%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.51%) Linux
2 31 (3.79%) Unix
3 2 (0.24%) VMS
3 2 (0.24%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) AIX
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%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (64.75%) Microservices
2 492 (60.22%) CI/CD
3 409 (50.06%) Agile
4 301 (36.84%) DevOps
5 249 (30.48%) Containerisation
5 249 (30.48%) Software Engineering
6 208 (25.46%) Test Automation
7 192 (23.50%) Event-Driven
8 176 (21.54%) TDD
9 168 (20.56%) Scrum
10 143 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 139 (17.01%) Full-Stack Development
12 128 (15.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 123 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
14 122 (14.93%) Code Quality
15 118 (14.44%) Observability
16 101 (12.36%) Infrastructure as Code
17 96 (11.75%) SDLC
18 90 (11.02%) Clean Code
19 86 (10.53%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 808 (98.90%) Java
2 274 (33.54%) SQL
3 130 (15.91%) JavaScript
4 108 (13.22%) TypeScript
5 85 (10.40%) Python
6 38 (4.65%) PL/SQL
7 28 (3.43%) Kotlin
8 23 (2.82%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.59%) Bash
10 10 (1.22%) Scala
11 9 (1.10%) Ruby
12 7 (0.86%) C#
13 5 (0.61%) Groovy
14 4 (0.49%) Go
14 4 (0.49%) Solidity
15 3 (0.37%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.24%) Korn
16 2 (0.24%) PromQL
16 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 235 (28.76%) Security Cleared
2 197 (24.11%) SC Cleared
3 69 (8.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 36 (4.41%) Degree
5 28 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.71%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.71%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.24%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.24%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.12%) CISSP
8 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (12.48%) QA
2 70 (8.57%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.57%) ISO 20022
4 12 (1.47%) WCAG
5 11 (1.35%) SEPA
6 10 (1.22%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.86%) GDPR
8 6 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.49%) ISO 15022
10 4 (0.49%) PSD2
10 4 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.37%) EMIR
11 3 (0.37%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) HL7
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 343 (41.98%) Docker
2 5 (0.61%) Postfix
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 317 (38.80%) Kubernetes
2 61 (7.47%) Grafana
3 49 (6.00%) Prometheus
4 40 (4.90%) Ansible
5 22 (2.69%) Kibana
6 16 (1.96%) Control-M
7 10 (1.22%) Argo
8 8 (0.98%) Istio
9 4 (0.49%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.37%) Bosun
10 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.24%) Consul
11 2 (0.24%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.12%) Kiali
12 1 (0.12%) logstash
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 126 (15.42%) Oracle
2 42 (5.14%) Google
3 30 (3.67%) IBM
4 22 (2.69%) Microsoft
5 19 (2.33%) Splunk
6 17 (2.08%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.59%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.22%) Checkmarx
8 10 (1.22%) Solace
9 9 (1.10%) Databricks
9 9 (1.10%) Sybase
10 8 (0.98%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (0.98%) Veracode
11 7 (0.86%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.86%) New Relic
11 7 (0.86%) TikTok
12 6 (0.73%) FIS
12 6 (0.73%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.61%) Confluent
14 4 (0.49%) Mistral