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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 214 279
Rank change year-on-year +20 +65 -136
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 527 396 371
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.43% 1.16% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.37% 5.29% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 250 266
10th Percentile £337 £356 £418
25th Percentile £415 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £625
90th Percentile £625 £776 £794
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £438 £506
% change year-on-year +8.11% -13.54% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £40.00 - £73.05
25th Percentile £41.88 - £73.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £76.50
75th Percentile £58.44 - £77.88
90th Percentile £63.88 - £77.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £76.50
% change year-on-year - - +2.00%

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 8,274 7,490 9,727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.47% 21.91% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,474 4,765 6,913
10th Percentile £355 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.68% -0.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 97 175
10th Percentile £30.75 £21.25 £31.55
25th Percentile £43.00 £35.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.92 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.50 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -0.77% +25.26% -20.17%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 +36 419 £480 -16.52% 118
UK excluding London +32 271 £473 +8.11% 108
London -6 204 £523 -11.74% 41
Work from Home +26 140 £504 +8.16% 60
North of England +27 130 £465 +5.68% 45
North West +36 92 £450 +7.46% 28
Scotland -11 56 £588 +38.24% 9
South East +5 36 £450 +15.38% 31
Midlands - 29 £449 - 2
West Midlands - 25 £469 - 2
Yorkshire -29 24 £500 -35.90% 12
North East -3 14 £475 +6.74% 6
Wales +16 12 £475 +13.43% 5
South West -20 6 £385 -30.00% 17
East Midlands - 4 £268 -
Northern Ireland -6 2 £425 +54.55%
East of England -28 1 - - 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 19 (3.61%) Confluence
2 7 (1.33%) Apache
2 7 (1.33%) CMS
3 6 (1.14%) JBoss
4 4 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.76%) Drupal
4 4 (0.76%) Mule
4 4 (0.76%) Tomcat
4 4 (0.76%) WebLogic
4 4 (0.76%) WordPress
5 3 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.57%) Camunda
5 3 (0.57%) CICS
5 3 (0.57%) SAS
6 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.38%) Mule ESB
6 2 (0.38%) nginx
7 1 (0.19%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 283 (53.70%) AWS
2 171 (32.45%) Azure
3 92 (17.46%) GitHub
4 90 (17.08%) GCP
5 59 (11.20%) Serverless
6 46 (8.73%) AWS Lambda
7 44 (8.35%) GitHub Actions
8 38 (7.21%) Amazon S3
9 33 (6.26%) Amazon EKS
10 30 (5.69%) Amazon EC2
11 28 (5.31%) OpenShift
12 26 (4.93%) AWS CloudFormation
13 25 (4.74%) Amazon ECS
13 25 (4.74%) Amazon SQS
14 23 (4.36%) Azure AKS
14 23 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (3.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 18 (3.42%) Datadog
16 15 (2.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 14 (2.66%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.71%) SSL
2 5 (0.95%) Kerberos
3 4 (0.76%) Firewall
3 4 (0.76%) HTTP
3 4 (0.76%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.57%) VPN
5 1 (0.19%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (18.98%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (14.42%) MongoDB
3 73 (13.85%) NoSQL
4 70 (13.28%) Relational Database
5 47 (8.92%) MySQL
6 39 (7.40%) DynamoDB
7 26 (4.93%) RDBMS
8 20 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (3.23%) SQL Server
10 16 (3.04%) Redis
11 14 (2.66%) Apache Cassandra
12 13 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
13 12 (2.28%) BigQuery
14 10 (1.90%) DB2
14 10 (1.90%) Oracle Database
15 9 (1.71%) DocumentDB
15 9 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
16 8 (1.52%) HBase
17 4 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
18 3 (0.57%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 127 (24.10%) Git
2 115 (21.82%) Jenkins
3 92 (17.46%) JUnit
4 89 (16.89%) GitLab
5 52 (9.87%) Cucumber
6 49 (9.30%) Mockito
7 45 (8.54%) Maven
8 42 (7.97%) JIRA
9 39 (7.40%) Gradle
10 30 (5.69%) SonarQube
11 21 (3.98%) Bitbucket
12 20 (3.80%) Selenium
13 18 (3.42%) Postman
13 18 (3.42%) Sonatype Nexus
14 13 (2.47%) Cypress.io
14 13 (2.47%) REST Assured
15 12 (2.28%) Artifactory
16 9 (1.71%) Gatling
16 9 (1.71%) Subversion
17 8 (1.52%) IntelliJ
General
1 135 (25.62%) Social Skills
2 116 (22.01%) Finance
3 90 (17.08%) Public Sector
4 83 (15.75%) Banking
5 24 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.33%) Financial Institution
7 7 (1.33%) Investment Banking
7 7 (1.33%) Retail
8 5 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (0.95%) Retail Banking
9 4 (0.76%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.57%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.57%) Electronics
10 3 (0.57%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.57%) Marketing
11 2 (0.38%) Automotive
11 2 (0.38%) Front Office
11 2 (0.38%) Law
12 1 (0.19%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 317 (60.15%) Developer
2 248 (47.06%) Java Developer
3 106 (20.11%) Senior
4 76 (14.42%) Senior Developer
5 65 (12.33%) Senior Java Developer
6 63 (11.95%) Java Engineer
7 57 (10.82%) Full-Stack Developer
8 51 (9.68%) Lead
9 46 (8.73%) Software Engineer
10 31 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 26 (4.93%) Architect
12 25 (4.74%) Lead Developer
13 22 (4.17%) AWS Developer
14 20 (3.80%) Java Software Engineer
15 19 (3.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 19 (3.61%) Lead Java Developer
16 18 (3.42%) Backend Developer
17 14 (2.66%) Technical Architect
18 13 (2.47%) Azure Engineer
19 12 (2.28%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 455 (86.34%) Spring
2 151 (28.65%) Kafka
3 146 (27.70%) RESTful
4 119 (22.58%) REST
5 117 (22.20%) React
6 100 (18.98%) AngularJS
7 57 (10.82%) Hibernate
7 57 (10.82%) HTML
8 54 (10.25%) Node.js
9 42 (7.97%) JSON
10 41 (7.78%) CSS
11 37 (7.02%) JPA
12 34 (6.45%) OAuth
13 32 (6.07%) OAuth2
14 29 (5.50%) Spring Cloud
15 25 (4.74%) Swagger
16 22 (4.17%) J2EE
16 22 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
16 22 (4.17%) Spring MVC
17 20 (3.80%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 81 (15.37%) Cloud Native
2 48 (9.11%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (5.50%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.42%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (2.28%) Public Cloud
5 12 (2.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 8 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
7 7 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.14%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.14%) N-Tier
9 5 (0.95%) Data Structures
9 5 (0.95%) Distributed Applications
9 5 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.76%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.76%) NHS
10 4 (0.76%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.57%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.55%) Linux
2 9 (1.71%) Unix
3 8 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (1.52%) Windows
4 3 (0.57%) Android
5 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (69.64%) Microservices
2 302 (57.31%) CI/CD
3 235 (44.59%) Agile
4 190 (36.05%) DevOps
5 166 (31.50%) Containerisation
6 121 (22.96%) Problem-Solving
7 117 (22.20%) Test Automation
8 116 (22.01%) Full-Stack Development
9 104 (19.73%) TDD
10 103 (19.54%) Software Engineering
11 93 (17.65%) Event-Driven
12 74 (14.04%) Infrastructure as Code
13 71 (13.47%) SDLC
14 63 (11.95%) API Design
14 63 (11.95%) Scrum
15 58 (11.01%) Mentoring
16 56 (10.63%) BDD
17 55 (10.44%) Observability
18 54 (10.25%) Code Quality
19 52 (9.87%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 487 (92.41%) Java
2 124 (23.53%) SQL
3 83 (15.75%) JavaScript
4 66 (12.52%) TypeScript
5 56 (10.63%) Python
6 27 (5.12%) Kotlin
7 13 (2.47%) Shell Script
8 10 (1.90%) Bash
8 10 (1.90%) Ruby
9 7 (1.33%) Groovy
9 7 (1.33%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.95%) C#
10 5 (0.95%) Go
10 5 (0.95%) Perl
10 5 (0.95%) Rust
11 4 (0.76%) PHP
11 4 (0.76%) Scala
12 2 (0.38%) JCL
12 2 (0.38%) Korn
12 2 (0.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 110 (20.87%) Security Cleared
2 87 (16.51%) SC Cleared
3 22 (4.17%) Degree
4 13 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.28%) OCP
5 12 (2.28%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.38%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (12.33%) QA
2 35 (6.64%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.98%) ISO 20022
4 15 (2.85%) WCAG
5 11 (2.09%) PSD2
5 11 (2.09%) SEPA
6 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.57%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.57%) HL7
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.19%) GDPR
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 231 (43.83%) Docker
2 4 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.57%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 251 (47.63%) Kubernetes
2 94 (17.84%) Terraform
3 42 (7.97%) Grafana
4 22 (4.17%) Ansible
5 21 (3.98%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.85%) Kibana
7 11 (2.09%) Argo
8 6 (1.14%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.95%) Istio
10 4 (0.76%) Kiali
11 2 (0.38%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.38%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.19%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.19%) Consul
12 1 (0.19%) Control-M
12 1 (0.19%) logstash
12 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (11.57%) Oracle
2 28 (5.31%) Splunk
3 26 (4.93%) Google
4 24 (4.55%) Microsoft
5 14 (2.66%) Dynatrace
6 10 (1.90%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.71%) CA Agile Central
8 7 (1.33%) AppDynamics
8 7 (1.33%) Virgin Media
9 6 (1.14%) Sybase
10 5 (0.95%) Gigya
10 5 (0.95%) IBM
11 4 (0.76%) Confluent
11 4 (0.76%) ForgeRock
11 4 (0.76%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.76%) VMware
12 3 (0.57%) Adobe
12 3 (0.57%) Checkmarx
12 3 (0.57%) Qualys
12 3 (0.57%) SAP