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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 191 212
Rank change year-on-year +1 +21 +56
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 792 499 475
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.48% 1.52% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.77% 5.99% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 349 362
10th Percentile £377 £313 £377
25th Percentile £425 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -9.52% -0.24%
75th Percentile £594 £550 £630
90th Percentile £688 £613 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £463 £469
% change year-on-year +8.11% -1.33% -5.64%
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 11,695 8,332 9,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.80% 25.44% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,693 5,628 6,415
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £433 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.37% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 185 196
10th Percentile £29.26 £30.45 £26.30
25th Percentile £45.63 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.75 £79.48 £74.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +4 619 £525 +5.00% 525
UK excluding London -8 371 £500 +8.11% 336
London +6 326 £525 +4.48% 319
Work from Home -28 177 £500 - 286
North of England -13 160 £537 +15.48% 101
North West -36 92 £552 +28.26% 61
Scotland -17 69 £402 -10.67% 69
Midlands -37 54 £575 +57.97% 41
Yorkshire +8 51 £500 -9.09% 18
West Midlands -18 48 £585 +17.00% 32
South West -13 37 £438 -14.63% 47
East of England +3 26 £500 +6.95% 8
South East -52 22 £290 -44.76% 42
North East -36 18 £450 -6.25% 22
Wales -19 8 £394 -17.11% 6
East Midlands -29 5 £400 +27.80% 9
Northern Ireland 0 2 - - 25

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 34 (4.29%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.16%) Apache
3 20 (2.53%) Confluence
4 18 (2.27%) Camunda
5 10 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.01%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.63%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.51%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.51%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.51%) nginx
8 4 (0.51%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.25%) Mule
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.51%) Quorum
1 4 (0.51%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.51%) Ripple
2 3 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.38%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.25%) Finacle
3 2 (0.25%) Shopify
3 2 (0.25%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 451 (56.94%) AWS
2 179 (22.60%) Azure
3 132 (16.67%) GCP
4 129 (16.29%) GitHub
5 82 (10.35%) GitHub Actions
6 64 (8.08%) Serverless
7 57 (7.20%) AWS Lambda
8 52 (6.57%) Amazon S3
9 50 (6.31%) OpenShift
10 42 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
10 42 (5.30%) Amazon EKS
11 41 (5.18%) Amazon SQS
12 39 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 30 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (2.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 12 (1.52%) GitHub Copilot
18 11 (1.39%) Amazon Cognito
18 11 (1.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.52%) HTTP
2 6 (0.76%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.38%) Firewall
4 3 (0.38%) SSL
5 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.13%) AMQP
6 1 (0.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (20.08%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (12.37%) Relational Database
3 93 (11.74%) NoSQL
4 89 (11.24%) MongoDB
5 63 (7.95%) MySQL
6 39 (4.92%) SQL Server
7 31 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
7 31 (3.91%) DynamoDB
8 30 (3.79%) Redis
9 22 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
10 18 (2.27%) Flink
11 16 (2.02%) RDBMS
12 15 (1.89%) Metadata
13 14 (1.77%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (1.77%) Big Data
13 14 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.26%) Couchbase
14 10 (1.26%) Data Lake
14 10 (1.26%) Oracle Database
15 8 (1.01%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 210 (26.52%) Jenkins
2 194 (24.49%) Git
3 134 (16.92%) JUnit
4 121 (15.28%) GitLab
5 105 (13.26%) Maven
6 104 (13.13%) Gradle
7 80 (10.10%) Mockito
8 50 (6.31%) SonarQube
9 40 (5.05%) JIRA
10 23 (2.90%) REST Assured
11 21 (2.65%) Liquibase
12 19 (2.40%) Cucumber
13 17 (2.15%) Selenium
14 13 (1.64%) Bitbucket Server
14 13 (1.64%) IntelliJ
15 12 (1.52%) Gatling
16 10 (1.26%) GoCD
17 9 (1.14%) Flyway
17 9 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
18 8 (1.01%) JProfiler
General
1 182 (22.98%) Finance
2 155 (19.57%) Social Skills
3 134 (16.92%) Public Sector
4 100 (12.63%) Banking
5 58 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.90%) Retail
7 15 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.52%) Law
9 11 (1.39%) Military
10 8 (1.01%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (0.88%) Retail Banking
12 6 (0.76%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.76%) Publishing
13 4 (0.51%) Police
14 3 (0.38%) Automotive
14 3 (0.38%) Front Office
15 2 (0.25%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.25%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 455 (57.45%) Developer
2 360 (45.45%) Java Developer
3 163 (20.58%) Senior
4 132 (16.67%) Java Engineer
5 107 (13.51%) Software Engineer
6 86 (10.86%) Senior Developer
7 83 (10.48%) Lead
8 68 (8.59%) Senior Java Developer
9 67 (8.46%) Full-Stack Developer
10 59 (7.45%) Java Software Engineer
11 43 (5.43%) Software Developer
12 41 (5.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 40 (5.05%) Lead Developer
14 35 (4.42%) Senior Java Engineer
15 33 (4.17%) Backend Developer
16 29 (3.66%) Lead Java Developer
17 24 (3.03%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 23 (2.90%) Data Engineer
19 22 (2.78%) Architect
20 21 (2.65%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 746 (94.19%) Spring
2 270 (34.09%) Kafka
3 228 (28.79%) REST
4 211 (26.64%) RESTful
5 162 (20.45%) React
6 108 (13.64%) Node.js
7 84 (10.61%) Terraform
8 81 (10.23%) HTML
9 73 (9.22%) JPA
10 72 (9.09%) AngularJS
11 71 (8.96%) CSS
12 69 (8.71%) Hibernate
13 54 (6.82%) Spring MVC
14 51 (6.44%) Web Services
15 49 (6.19%) RabbitMQ
15 49 (6.19%) Redux
16 43 (5.43%) OAuth
17 37 (4.67%) OAuth2
18 36 (4.55%) OpenAPI
19 35 (4.42%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 194 (24.49%) Cloud Native
2 116 (14.65%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (7.45%) Product Ownership
4 42 (5.30%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
7 22 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (2.15%) Data Structures
9 16 (2.02%) Public Cloud
10 14 (1.77%) AI Agents
11 13 (1.64%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.14%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (1.14%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 7 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (0.63%) Mainframe
15 5 (0.63%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.43%) Linux
2 30 (3.79%) Unix
3 2 (0.25%) VMS
3 2 (0.25%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) AIX
4 1 (0.13%) Android
4 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.13%) Solaris
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 503 (63.51%) Microservices
2 471 (59.47%) CI/CD
3 395 (49.87%) Agile
4 289 (36.49%) DevOps
5 243 (30.68%) Software Engineering
6 233 (29.42%) Containerisation
7 186 (23.48%) Test Automation
8 182 (22.98%) Event-Driven
9 165 (20.83%) TDD
10 153 (19.32%) Scrum
11 141 (17.80%) Full-Stack Development
12 132 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 121 (15.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 112 (14.14%) Code Quality
14 112 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
15 111 (14.02%) Observability
16 102 (12.88%) Infrastructure as Code
17 87 (10.98%) Clean Code
18 85 (10.73%) SDLC
19 83 (10.48%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 783 (98.86%) Java
2 265 (33.46%) SQL
3 128 (16.16%) JavaScript
4 102 (12.88%) TypeScript
5 87 (10.98%) Python
6 35 (4.42%) PL/SQL
7 26 (3.28%) Kotlin
8 21 (2.65%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.64%) Bash
10 10 (1.26%) Ruby
11 8 (1.01%) Scala
12 7 (0.88%) C#
13 5 (0.63%) Groovy
14 4 (0.51%) Solidity
15 3 (0.38%) Go
15 3 (0.38%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.25%) Korn
16 2 (0.25%) PromQL
16 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 225 (28.41%) Security Cleared
2 187 (23.61%) SC Cleared
3 65 (8.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 33 (4.17%) Degree
5 25 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.77%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.25%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.25%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.13%) CISSP
9 1 (0.13%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (11.99%) QA
2 70 (8.84%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.15%) ISO 20022
4 10 (1.26%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.26%) WCAG
5 9 (1.14%) SEPA
6 8 (1.01%) GDPR
7 7 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.51%) ISO 15022
11 3 (0.38%) EMIR
11 3 (0.38%) MiFID
11 3 (0.38%) PSD2
12 1 (0.13%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.13%) ITGC
System Software
1 328 (41.41%) Docker
2 5 (0.63%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 310 (39.14%) Kubernetes
2 51 (6.44%) Grafana
3 42 (5.30%) Prometheus
4 40 (5.05%) Ansible
5 20 (2.53%) Kibana
6 16 (2.02%) Control-M
7 9 (1.14%) Argo
8 8 (1.01%) Istio
9 4 (0.51%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.38%) Bosun
10 3 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.25%) Consul
11 2 (0.25%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.13%) Kiali
12 1 (0.13%) logstash
12 1 (0.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 115 (14.52%) Oracle
2 41 (5.18%) Google
3 28 (3.54%) IBM
4 23 (2.90%) Microsoft
5 19 (2.40%) Splunk
6 17 (2.15%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.64%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.26%) Checkmarx
8 10 (1.26%) Solace
9 9 (1.14%) Databricks
10 8 (1.01%) Jaspersoft
11 7 (0.88%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.88%) New Relic
11 7 (0.88%) Sybase
11 7 (0.88%) TikTok
11 7 (0.88%) Veracode
12 5 (0.63%) Confluent
12 5 (0.63%) FIS
12 5 (0.63%) SAP
13 4 (0.51%) OpenAI