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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 184 253
Rank change year-on-year +1 +69 -94
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 682 421 430
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.49% 1.44% 0.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.17% 6.36% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 273 322
10th Percentile £352 £356 £388
25th Percentile £411 £406 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £600
90th Percentile £638 £660 £823
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £441 £485
% change year-on-year +7.71% -8.98% -7.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 4 0
10th Percentile - £66.63 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £72.81 -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £86.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.78% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £92.50 -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -33.33% - -

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 9,511 6,623 8,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.78% 22.66% 20.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,333 4,544 6,234
10th Percentile £358 £363 £334
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £729 £775 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +1.11% -1.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 101 178
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £19.43
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.50 £32.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +38.59% -28.95%
75th Percentile £71.62 £68.75 £62.85
90th Percentile £81.00 £84.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -24.00%

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 11 April 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 11 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 14 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 11 April 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 +45 575 £500 -5.66% 132
UK excluding London +7 357 £475 +7.71% 94
London -1 255 £525 -4.55% 55
North of England +14 162 £475 +3.26% 47
Work from Home 0 159 £490 -6.22% 108
North West +32 114 £475 +18.16% 30
West Midlands -22 50 £469 +11.67% 3
Midlands -33 50 £469 +14.11% 5
Scotland -19 45 £588 +36.63% 7
South East -21 41 £487 -9.40% 16
South West -3 39 £400 -25.58% 14
Yorkshire -35 35 £475 -11.63% 10
East of England -9 22 £570 +21.93% 2
North East -10 15 £475 +2.70% 7

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 28 (4.11%) Apache Spark
2 27 (3.96%) Confluence
3 13 (1.91%) Camunda
4 9 (1.32%) Apache
4 9 (1.32%) WebLogic
5 6 (0.88%) Ethereum
5 6 (0.88%) Hyperledger
6 4 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.29%) CICS
8 2 (0.29%) Drupal
8 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.29%) WordPress
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.15%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 383 (56.16%) AWS
2 187 (27.42%) Azure
3 122 (17.89%) GitHub
4 109 (15.98%) GCP
5 91 (13.34%) Serverless
6 85 (12.46%) Amazon S3
7 79 (11.58%) AWS Lambda
8 69 (10.12%) GitHub Actions
9 45 (6.60%) Amazon EC2
10 42 (6.16%) Amazon ECS
11 38 (5.57%) Amazon EKS
12 37 (5.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
14 34 (4.99%) AWS CloudFormation
15 27 (3.96%) OpenShift
16 26 (3.81%) Azure AKS
17 19 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
18 16 (2.35%) AWS Fargate
18 16 (2.35%) Route 53
19 14 (2.05%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.61%) HTTP
2 10 (1.47%) Firewall
2 10 (1.47%) SSL
3 7 (1.03%) HTTPS
4 5 (0.73%) DNS
5 3 (0.44%) VPN
6 2 (0.29%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.15%) FTP
7 1 (0.15%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (19.94%) PostgreSQL
2 95 (13.93%) NoSQL
3 78 (11.44%) Relational Database
4 71 (10.41%) MongoDB
5 66 (9.68%) MySQL
6 60 (8.80%) DynamoDB
7 45 (6.60%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (3.52%) SQL Server
9 22 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (2.20%) DocumentDB
11 15 (2.20%) Redis
12 12 (1.76%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (1.76%) Big Data
12 12 (1.76%) RDBMS
13 10 (1.47%) DB2
14 9 (1.32%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.17%) Flink
16 7 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
17 6 (0.88%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 154 (22.58%) Git
2 146 (21.41%) Jenkins
3 111 (16.28%) JUnit
4 108 (15.84%) GitLab
5 54 (7.92%) Mockito
6 52 (7.62%) JIRA
7 51 (7.48%) Maven
8 50 (7.33%) Gradle
9 29 (4.25%) SonarQube
10 26 (3.81%) Cucumber
11 21 (3.08%) IntelliJ
12 18 (2.64%) Selenium
13 14 (2.05%) Cypress.io
14 13 (1.91%) Postman
15 12 (1.76%) Gatling
16 10 (1.47%) Jaeger
16 10 (1.47%) jMock
16 10 (1.47%) Mocha
17 9 (1.32%) DbUnit
17 9 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 140 (20.53%) Social Skills
2 134 (19.65%) Finance
3 116 (17.01%) Public Sector
4 68 (9.97%) Banking
5 30 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.05%) Financial Institution
7 12 (1.76%) Retail
8 5 (0.73%) Automotive
8 5 (0.73%) Law
8 5 (0.73%) Retail Banking
8 5 (0.73%) Telecoms
9 4 (0.59%) Investment Banking
9 4 (0.59%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.59%) Publishing
10 3 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.44%) Electronics
10 3 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.44%) Marketing
10 3 (0.44%) Military
11 2 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 406 (59.53%) Developer
2 289 (42.38%) Java Developer
3 138 (20.23%) Senior
4 112 (16.42%) Java Engineer
5 85 (12.46%) Senior Developer
6 82 (12.02%) Full-Stack Developer
7 73 (10.70%) Software Engineer
8 65 (9.53%) Senior Java Developer
9 62 (9.09%) Lead
10 44 (6.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 39 (5.72%) Java Software Engineer
12 30 (4.40%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 29 (4.25%) Backend Developer
14 28 (4.11%) Lead Developer
14 28 (4.11%) Software Developer
15 25 (3.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 24 (3.52%) Architect
17 19 (2.79%) Azure Engineer
18 16 (2.35%) AWS Developer
18 16 (2.35%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 631 (92.52%) Spring
2 199 (29.18%) RESTful
3 189 (27.71%) Kafka
4 162 (23.75%) REST
5 150 (21.99%) React
6 109 (15.98%) AngularJS
7 96 (14.08%) Node.js
8 67 (9.82%) HTML
9 63 (9.24%) Hibernate
10 51 (7.48%) CSS
11 47 (6.89%) Spring MVC
12 45 (6.60%) JPA
13 41 (6.01%) OpenTelemetry
14 40 (5.87%) OAuth
15 37 (5.43%) Jest
15 37 (5.43%) OAuth2
16 36 (5.28%) Spring Cloud
17 31 (4.55%) HTML5
17 31 (4.55%) Next.js
18 28 (4.11%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 110 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 68 (9.97%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (6.16%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (2.79%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.64%) Mobile App
7 13 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.76%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.47%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.32%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (1.32%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.03%) NHS
12 6 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 5 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.59%) Data Centre
15 3 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 45 (6.60%) Linux
2 13 (1.91%) Unix
3 6 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.44%) Windows
5 2 (0.29%) VMS
5 2 (0.29%) zOS
6 1 (0.15%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (62.02%) Microservices
2 386 (56.60%) CI/CD
3 269 (39.44%) Agile
4 261 (38.27%) DevOps
5 214 (31.38%) Containerisation
6 174 (25.51%) Full-Stack Development
7 141 (20.67%) Software Engineering
8 129 (18.91%) TDD
9 122 (17.89%) Event-Driven
10 118 (17.30%) Test Automation
11 111 (16.28%) Code Quality
11 111 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
12 95 (13.93%) Scrum
13 93 (13.64%) Observability
14 85 (12.46%) Infrastructure as Code
15 84 (12.32%) Continuous Improvement
16 75 (11.00%) API Design
17 74 (10.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 70 (10.26%) Mentoring
19 68 (9.97%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 643 (94.28%) Java
2 186 (27.27%) SQL
3 102 (14.96%) JavaScript
4 92 (13.49%) TypeScript
5 67 (9.82%) Python
6 49 (7.18%) Kotlin
7 19 (2.79%) Go
8 13 (1.91%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.32%) Rust
10 8 (1.17%) C#
10 8 (1.17%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.88%) Perl
12 3 (0.44%) Bash
12 3 (0.44%) PHP
13 2 (0.29%) Ruby
13 2 (0.29%) Scala
14 1 (0.15%) Groovy
14 1 (0.15%) Korn
14 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 180 (26.39%) Security Cleared
2 145 (21.26%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.28%) Degree
4 25 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.17%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.03%) OCP
7 7 (1.03%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (0.73%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.59%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (10.85%) QA
2 52 (7.62%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.49%) ISO 20022
4 14 (2.05%) WCAG
5 9 (1.32%) SEPA
6 8 (1.17%) PSD2
7 7 (1.03%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.59%) HL7
8 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.59%) NIST
9 3 (0.44%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.44%) GDPR
9 3 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.29%) NCSC
11 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 283 (41.50%) Docker
2 8 (1.17%) Postfix
3 3 (0.44%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 305 (44.72%) Kubernetes
2 91 (13.34%) Terraform
3 81 (11.88%) Grafana
4 46 (6.74%) Prometheus
5 24 (3.52%) Ansible
6 12 (1.76%) Argo
7 10 (1.47%) Kiali
8 9 (1.32%) Istio
9 8 (1.17%) Kibana
10 2 (0.29%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.29%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.15%) Consul
11 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 53 (7.77%) Oracle
2 37 (5.43%) Splunk
3 35 (5.13%) Microsoft
4 34 (4.99%) Google
5 12 (1.76%) Jaspersoft
6 10 (1.47%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.32%) Atlassian
7 9 (1.32%) Checkmarx
7 9 (1.32%) Sybase
8 8 (1.17%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.17%) ForgeRock
8 8 (1.17%) IBM
9 7 (1.03%) Databricks
10 6 (0.88%) Adobe
10 6 (0.88%) SAP
10 6 (0.88%) Solace
11 5 (0.73%) Ab Initio
11 5 (0.73%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.73%) Teradata
11 5 (0.73%) Virgin Media