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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 190 200
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 +24
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 768 467 531
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.49% 1.48% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.65% 6.50% 5.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 330 416
10th Percentile £380 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £545 £626
90th Percentile £663 £601 £757
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +7.36% -5.26% -6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 10 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.75 -
25th Percentile £62.00 £51.25 £69.50
Median hourly rate £76.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% -23.61% -7.69%
75th Percentile £90.00 £83.44 £74.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.50 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +37.27% -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 10,044 7,186 9,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.46% 22.78% 21.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,582 4,863 6,372
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -5.09% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 146 280
10th Percentile £30.00 £28.29 £22.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £35.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.51 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +20 623 £513 +7.89% 183
UK excluding London -6 361 £483 +7.36% 112
London +26 313 £525 +5.00% 100
Work from Home -31 174 £490 -5.08% 91
North of England -16 146 £500 +10.01% 32
North West -18 88 £531 +35.18% 13
South West +7 50 £409 -23.91% 17
Scotland -22 49 £405 -10.06% 10
Midlands -48 49 £475 +18.16% 16
West Midlands -37 46 £480 +1.05% 14
Yorkshire -20 44 £475 -9.52% 13
East of England +2 32 £504 +7.70% 5
South East -42 31 £450 -17.20% 22
North East -26 17 £450 -8.16% 7
Wales -17 6 £375 -21.05% 7
Northern Ireland -1 2 - - 3
East Midlands -35 2 £401 +20.42% 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 45 (5.86%) Apache Spark
2 22 (2.86%) Apache
3 20 (2.60%) Confluence
4 14 (1.82%) Camunda
5 11 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.43%) WebLogic
6 10 (1.30%) Ethereum
6 10 (1.30%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.52%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.26%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.26%) Drupal
9 2 (0.26%) Mule
9 2 (0.26%) nginx
9 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.26%) WordPress
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.65%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.52%) Quorum
2 4 (0.52%) Ripple
3 3 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.26%) Shopify
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 416 (54.17%) AWS
2 191 (24.87%) Azure
3 131 (17.06%) GCP
4 114 (14.84%) GitHub
5 73 (9.51%) GitHub Actions
6 70 (9.11%) Amazon S3
7 68 (8.85%) Serverless
8 61 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
9 44 (5.73%) Amazon EC2
10 42 (5.47%) Amazon SQS
11 36 (4.69%) OpenShift
12 35 (4.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 32 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
14 26 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
15 25 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (2.47%) Azure AKS
16 19 (2.47%) Route 53
17 18 (2.34%) AWS KMS
18 16 (2.08%) AWS Fargate
18 16 (2.08%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.43%) HTTP
2 6 (0.78%) Firewall
3 4 (0.52%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.13%) DNS
4 1 (0.13%) SMS
4 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (19.92%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (12.11%) NoSQL
3 90 (11.72%) Relational Database
4 82 (10.68%) MongoDB
5 58 (7.55%) MySQL
6 48 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
7 47 (6.12%) DynamoDB
8 32 (4.17%) SQL Server
9 22 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (2.47%) Big Data
11 19 (2.47%) Flink
12 18 (2.34%) Redis
13 15 (1.95%) Apache Cassandra
14 14 (1.82%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.43%) Metadata
16 10 (1.30%) Data Lake
17 9 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (1.17%) Db2
18 7 (0.91%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 183 (23.83%) Jenkins
2 179 (23.31%) Git
3 130 (16.93%) JUnit
4 102 (13.28%) GitLab
5 73 (9.51%) Mockito
6 72 (9.38%) Gradle
7 68 (8.85%) Maven
8 47 (6.12%) JIRA
9 37 (4.82%) SonarQube
10 24 (3.13%) Selenium
11 21 (2.73%) REST Assured
12 20 (2.60%) Cucumber
13 18 (2.34%) Liquibase
14 16 (2.08%) Gatling
15 15 (1.95%) IntelliJ
16 14 (1.82%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.69%) jMock
18 12 (1.56%) Bitbucket Server
18 12 (1.56%) Serenity BDD
19 10 (1.30%) Postman
General
1 165 (21.48%) Finance
2 149 (19.40%) Social Skills
3 135 (17.58%) Public Sector
4 81 (10.55%) Banking
5 47 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.47%) Retail
7 14 (1.82%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.56%) Law
8 12 (1.56%) Military
9 7 (0.91%) Retail Banking
10 6 (0.78%) Publishing
11 5 (0.65%) Automotive
11 5 (0.65%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.39%) Police
13 2 (0.26%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.26%) Local Government
13 2 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 433 (56.38%) Developer
2 338 (44.01%) Java Developer
3 159 (20.70%) Senior
4 130 (16.93%) Java Engineer
5 98 (12.76%) Software Engineer
6 83 (10.81%) Lead
7 82 (10.68%) Senior Developer
8 67 (8.72%) Senior Java Developer
9 58 (7.55%) Full-Stack Developer
10 52 (6.77%) Java Software Engineer
11 38 (4.95%) Backend Developer
12 37 (4.82%) Lead Developer
13 36 (4.69%) Software Developer
14 33 (4.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 30 (3.91%) Senior Java Engineer
16 27 (3.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 25 (3.26%) Data Engineer
18 24 (3.13%) Lead Java Developer
18 24 (3.13%) SC Cleared Java Developer
19 19 (2.47%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 721 (93.88%) Spring
2 233 (30.34%) Kafka
3 205 (26.69%) RESTful
4 197 (25.65%) REST
5 142 (18.49%) React
6 105 (13.67%) Node.js
7 77 (10.03%) AngularJS
8 65 (8.46%) Hibernate
9 64 (8.33%) JPA
10 58 (7.55%) HTML
11 47 (6.12%) CSS
12 46 (5.99%) Web Services
13 44 (5.73%) Spring Cloud
13 44 (5.73%) Spring MVC
14 37 (4.82%) Redux
15 35 (4.56%) RabbitMQ
16 33 (4.30%) SOAP
17 32 (4.17%) OAuth
18 31 (4.04%) Jest
18 31 (4.04%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 146 (19.01%) Cloud Native
2 91 (11.85%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (1.95%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.82%) Mobile App
8 14 (1.82%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.56%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.43%) Onboarding
12 7 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 7 (0.91%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.78%) AI Agents
13 6 (0.78%) Blockchain
13 6 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 48 (6.25%) Linux
2 20 (2.60%) Unix
3 6 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.39%) VMS
4 3 (0.39%) Windows
5 1 (0.13%) Android
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (59.24%) Microservices
2 454 (59.11%) CI/CD
3 335 (43.62%) Agile
4 301 (39.19%) DevOps
5 251 (32.68%) Containerisation
6 194 (25.26%) Software Engineering
7 165 (21.48%) TDD
8 147 (19.14%) Full-Stack Development
9 146 (19.01%) Event-Driven
10 144 (18.75%) Test Automation
11 128 (16.67%) Scrum
12 115 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 112 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
14 105 (13.67%) Code Quality
15 101 (13.15%) Observability
16 97 (12.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 79 (10.29%) Infrastructure as Code
18 73 (9.51%) BDD
19 72 (9.38%) Mentoring
20 62 (8.07%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 752 (97.92%) Java
2 248 (32.29%) SQL
3 110 (14.32%) JavaScript
4 90 (11.72%) TypeScript
5 86 (11.20%) Python
6 39 (5.08%) Kotlin
7 28 (3.65%) PL/SQL
8 18 (2.34%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.69%) C#
9 13 (1.69%) Go
10 9 (1.17%) Scala
11 6 (0.78%) Bash
11 6 (0.78%) Ruby
12 5 (0.65%) Perl
12 5 (0.65%) Solidity
13 3 (0.39%) Rust
13 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.26%) Groovy
14 2 (0.26%) PHP
14 2 (0.26%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 222 (28.91%) Security Cleared
2 183 (23.83%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.99%) BPSS Clearance
4 33 (4.30%) Degree
5 24 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.95%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.91%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.65%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.13%) CISSP
10 1 (0.13%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (11.33%) QA
2 69 (8.98%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.56%) ISO 20022
4 10 (1.30%) WCAG
5 8 (1.04%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.04%) SEPA
6 7 (0.91%) GDPR
6 7 (0.91%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.52%) PSD2
8 3 (0.39%) EMIR
8 3 (0.39%) MiFID
9 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.26%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.13%) HL7
10 1 (0.13%) ITGC
10 1 (0.13%) NIST
10 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 330 (42.97%) Docker
2 11 (1.43%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 318 (41.41%) Kubernetes
2 80 (10.42%) Terraform
3 71 (9.24%) Grafana
4 53 (6.90%) Prometheus
5 37 (4.82%) Ansible
6 12 (1.56%) Kibana
7 10 (1.30%) Control-M
8 7 (0.91%) Argo
9 6 (0.78%) Istio
10 4 (0.52%) Kiali
10 4 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.26%) Consul
11 2 (0.26%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 83 (10.81%) Oracle
2 39 (5.08%) Google
3 33 (4.30%) Splunk
4 32 (4.17%) Microsoft
5 17 (2.21%) IBM
5 17 (2.21%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (1.82%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.69%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.56%) Sybase
9 11 (1.43%) Databricks
10 10 (1.30%) Solace
11 9 (1.17%) Checkmarx
12 8 (1.04%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.04%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.78%) New Relic
13 6 (0.78%) Okta
13 6 (0.78%) TikTok
14 5 (0.65%) Ab Initio
14 5 (0.65%) ForgeRock
14 5 (0.65%) Informatica