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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 177 208
Rank change year-on-year -19 +31 +37
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 753 511 470
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.42% 1.55% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.46% 6.87% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 366 364
10th Percentile £376 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -1.50%
75th Percentile £588 £545 £630
90th Percentile £663 £613 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 10 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.75 -
25th Percentile £53.13 £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 £90.50 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% -5.88%

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 10,090 7,440 8,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.09% 22.61% 21.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,588 5,024 5,854
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £634 £666
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 165 248
10th Percentile £28.72 £30.10 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.59 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% +2.09% -10.42%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £79.48 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.60
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.15% +0.02%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -13 582 £525 +10.53% 345
UK excluding London -19 349 £475 +5.56% 183
London +11 302 £525 +5.00% 227
Work from Home -37 178 £490 -2.73% 251
North of England -12 128 £500 +10.56% 54
North West -41 70 £550 +36.82% 33
Scotland -18 61 £400 -11.11% 31
Midlands -38 58 £480 +30.43% 15
West Midlands -21 55 £505 +6.32% 14
Yorkshire -6 41 £500 -6.98% 11
South West -15 41 £410 -20.96% 23
East of England +12 30 £500 +6.95% 1
South East -57 25 £367 -31.61% 38
North East -31 18 £450 -6.25% 10
Wales -19 7 £375 -21.05% 12
Northern Ireland +1 2 - - 10
East Midlands -31 2 £401 +25.51% 1

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 39 (5.18%) Apache Spark
2 23 (3.05%) Apache
3 19 (2.52%) Confluence
4 15 (1.99%) WebLogic
5 10 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.33%) Camunda
6 5 (0.66%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.53%) Ethereum
7 4 (0.53%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.53%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.40%) nginx
8 3 (0.40%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.27%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.27%) Mule
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.13%) CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.53%) Quorum
1 4 (0.53%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.53%) Ripple
2 3 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.27%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 421 (55.91%) AWS
2 177 (23.51%) Azure
3 131 (17.40%) GCP
4 119 (15.80%) GitHub
5 77 (10.23%) GitHub Actions
6 67 (8.90%) Amazon S3
7 65 (8.63%) Serverless
8 56 (7.44%) AWS Lambda
9 47 (6.24%) Amazon SQS
10 45 (5.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 43 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
12 42 (5.58%) OpenShift
13 41 (5.44%) Amazon EC2
13 41 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
14 23 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (2.52%) AWS KMS
16 18 (2.39%) Route 53
17 17 (2.26%) Cloud Run
18 15 (1.99%) Azure AKS
19 14 (1.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.06%) HTTPS
2 7 (0.93%) HTTP
3 4 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.40%) Firewall
5 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.13%) AMQP
6 1 (0.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (21.65%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (11.82%) Relational Database
3 79 (10.49%) NoSQL
4 78 (10.36%) MongoDB
5 60 (7.97%) MySQL
6 44 (5.84%) DynamoDB
7 40 (5.31%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (3.72%) SQL Server
9 23 (3.05%) Amazon Aurora
9 23 (3.05%) Redis
10 20 (2.66%) Flink
11 17 (2.26%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (1.99%) Big Data
12 15 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (1.73%) Metadata
14 11 (1.46%) RDBMS
15 10 (1.33%) Data Lake
16 8 (1.06%) InterSystems Cache
17 7 (0.93%) Couchbase
17 7 (0.93%) Db2
Development Applications
1 204 (27.09%) Jenkins
2 194 (25.76%) Git
3 126 (16.73%) JUnit
4 103 (13.68%) GitLab
5 90 (11.95%) Gradle
6 88 (11.69%) Maven
7 77 (10.23%) Mockito
8 46 (6.11%) SonarQube
9 42 (5.58%) JIRA
10 20 (2.66%) Liquibase
11 18 (2.39%) Cucumber
12 17 (2.26%) REST Assured
12 17 (2.26%) Selenium
13 14 (1.86%) DbUnit
13 14 (1.86%) Gatling
14 13 (1.73%) Bitbucket Server
14 13 (1.73%) IntelliJ
14 13 (1.73%) jMock
15 10 (1.33%) GoCD
16 8 (1.06%) Serenity BDD
General
1 164 (21.78%) Finance
2 139 (18.46%) Public Sector
3 137 (18.19%) Social Skills
4 81 (10.76%) Banking
5 56 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.19%) Retail
7 12 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.59%) Law
8 11 (1.46%) Military
9 8 (1.06%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (0.80%) Publishing
10 6 (0.80%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.53%) Automotive
11 4 (0.53%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.53%) Police
12 3 (0.40%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 444 (58.96%) Developer
2 357 (47.41%) Java Developer
3 152 (20.19%) Senior
4 122 (16.20%) Java Engineer
5 100 (13.28%) Software Engineer
6 83 (11.02%) Senior Developer
7 76 (10.09%) Lead
8 69 (9.16%) Senior Java Developer
9 59 (7.84%) Java Software Engineer
10 56 (7.44%) Full-Stack Developer
11 44 (5.84%) Software Developer
12 35 (4.65%) Backend Developer
13 34 (4.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 34 (4.52%) Lead Developer
14 30 (3.98%) Senior Java Engineer
15 27 (3.59%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 23 (3.05%) Lead Java Developer
17 22 (2.92%) Data Engineer
18 21 (2.79%) Java Software Developer
19 20 (2.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 711 (94.42%) Spring
2 230 (30.54%) Kafka
3 209 (27.76%) REST
4 208 (27.62%) RESTful
5 144 (19.12%) React
6 110 (14.61%) Node.js
7 72 (9.56%) Hibernate
8 71 (9.43%) AngularJS
9 69 (9.16%) JPA
10 67 (8.90%) HTML
11 57 (7.57%) CSS
12 50 (6.64%) Spring MVC
12 50 (6.64%) Web Services
13 42 (5.58%) Redux
14 40 (5.31%) RabbitMQ
15 39 (5.18%) Spring Cloud
16 36 (4.78%) OAuth
17 33 (4.38%) HTML5
18 32 (4.25%) OAuth2
19 31 (4.12%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 168 (22.31%) Cloud Native
2 116 (15.41%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (6.91%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (2.12%) Data Structures
7 16 (2.12%) Public Cloud
8 15 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.73%) Algorithms
9 13 (1.73%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.46%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (1.20%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.06%) AI Agents
14 7 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
15 5 (0.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.51%) Linux
2 26 (3.45%) Unix
3 5 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.27%) VMS
4 2 (0.27%) Windows
5 1 (0.13%) Android
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Solaris
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (62.55%) Microservices
2 458 (60.82%) CI/CD
3 354 (47.01%) Agile
4 287 (38.11%) DevOps
5 241 (32.01%) Containerisation
6 207 (27.49%) Software Engineering
7 172 (22.84%) TDD
8 155 (20.58%) Event-Driven
9 151 (20.05%) Test Automation
10 148 (19.65%) Scrum
11 127 (16.87%) Full-Stack Development
12 126 (16.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 111 (14.74%) Code Quality
14 109 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
15 107 (14.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 106 (14.08%) Observability
17 96 (12.75%) Infrastructure as Code
18 78 (10.36%) Design Patterns
19 70 (9.30%) Clean Code
20 69 (9.16%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 744 (98.80%) Java
2 257 (34.13%) SQL
3 107 (14.21%) JavaScript
4 92 (12.22%) Python
5 87 (11.55%) TypeScript
6 37 (4.91%) PL/SQL
7 35 (4.65%) Kotlin
8 18 (2.39%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.20%) Bash
9 9 (1.20%) Ruby
10 8 (1.06%) C#
10 8 (1.06%) Scala
11 4 (0.53%) Go
11 4 (0.53%) Perl
11 4 (0.53%) Solidity
12 3 (0.40%) Groovy
13 2 (0.27%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.27%) PromQL
13 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.13%) Korn
Qualifications
1 232 (30.81%) Security Cleared
2 195 (25.90%) SC Cleared
3 51 (6.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 28 (3.72%) Degree
5 22 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.86%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.86%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.66%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.27%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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 89 (11.82%) QA
2 68 (9.03%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.59%) ISO 20022
4 9 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.20%) WCAG
5 7 (0.93%) GDPR
5 7 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.80%) SEPA
7 5 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.40%) EMIR
8 3 (0.40%) ISO 15022
8 3 (0.40%) MiFID
9 1 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.13%) ITGC
9 1 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 326 (43.29%) Docker
2 11 (1.46%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 300 (39.84%) Kubernetes
2 80 (10.62%) Terraform
3 64 (8.50%) Grafana
4 43 (5.71%) Prometheus
5 41 (5.44%) Ansible
6 16 (2.12%) Control-M
6 16 (2.12%) Kibana
7 7 (0.93%) Argo
8 5 (0.66%) Istio
9 3 (0.40%) Bosun
9 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.27%) Consul
10 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.13%) Kiali
11 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 98 (13.01%) Oracle
2 47 (6.24%) Google
3 26 (3.45%) Splunk
4 22 (2.92%) Microsoft
5 17 (2.26%) IBM
5 17 (2.26%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (1.86%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.73%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.59%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.59%) Solace
9 10 (1.33%) Checkmarx
9 10 (1.33%) Databricks
10 9 (1.20%) Sybase
11 8 (1.06%) New Relic
12 7 (0.93%) TikTok
13 6 (0.80%) Okta
13 6 (0.80%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.53%) FIS
14 4 (0.53%) ForgeRock
14 4 (0.53%) SAP