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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 202 197
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 +84
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 854 469 472
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.54% 1.41% 1.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.09% 5.41% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 326 335
10th Percentile £380 £315 £374
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £491 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% -6.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £564 £638
90th Percentile £688 £615 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £469 £458
% change year-on-year +1.28% +2.51% -8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 6 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £38.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £44.38 £69.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -27.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 £55.00 £74.50
90th Percentile £77.70 - -
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 12,053 8,671 9,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.79% 26.06% 24.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,920 5,742 6,020
10th Percentile £375 £358 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 189 165
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.20 £25.21
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -23.08% +10.11%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.60 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.67% -15.38% +13.04%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +12 656 £525 +7.42% 110
UK excluding London +1 404 £475 +1.28% 83
London +15 332 £533 +2.40% 47
Work from Home -28 198 £500 -2.44% 67
North of England -11 175 £522 +10.48% 33
North West -17 104 £550 +23.60% 23
Midlands -3 86 £538 +47.66% 9
West Midlands +7 74 £575 +15.00% 8
Scotland -14 67 £406 -14.53% 10
Yorkshire +9 53 £500 -6.98% 7
South West -18 29 £481 -4.23% 16
South East -58 25 £336 -25.33% 11
North East -34 19 £460 -8.00% 5
East of England -13 15 £475 -
East Midlands -12 11 £402 +38.86% 1
Wales -14 11 £413 -13.16% 3
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 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 30 (3.51%) Apache
1 30 (3.51%) Confluence
2 25 (2.93%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.11%) Camunda
4 9 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.94%) WebLogic
6 6 (0.70%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.59%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.47%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.47%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.47%) nginx
9 3 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.23%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.23%) Mule
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) Solana
11 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.12%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.59%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.47%) Quorum
2 4 (0.47%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.47%) Ripple
3 3 (0.35%) Finacle
3 3 (0.35%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.23%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 482 (56.44%) AWS
2 185 (21.66%) Azure
3 140 (16.39%) GitHub
4 128 (14.99%) GCP
5 88 (10.30%) GitHub Actions
6 75 (8.78%) Serverless
7 70 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
8 62 (7.26%) Amazon ECS
9 59 (6.91%) Amazon S3
10 53 (6.21%) Amazon EKS
11 49 (5.74%) OpenShift
12 46 (5.39%) Amazon SQS
13 35 (4.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 32 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
15 23 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
15 23 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
17 18 (2.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 16 (1.87%) Anthropic Claude
19 12 (1.41%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.76%) HTTP
2 8 (0.94%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.35%) SSL
5 2 (0.23%) Firewall
5 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) AMQP
6 1 (0.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (20.84%) PostgreSQL
2 120 (14.05%) MongoDB
3 114 (13.35%) Relational Database
4 97 (11.36%) NoSQL
5 52 (6.09%) MySQL
6 46 (5.39%) SQL Server
7 33 (3.86%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (3.63%) Redis
9 24 (2.81%) DynamoDB
9 24 (2.81%) Flink
10 21 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (1.99%) Metadata
12 16 (1.87%) Oracle Database
13 15 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
13 15 (1.76%) RDBMS
14 12 (1.41%) Couchbase
15 11 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
15 11 (1.29%) Big Data
16 10 (1.17%) Data Lake
17 8 (0.94%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 234 (27.40%) Jenkins
2 221 (25.88%) Git
3 151 (17.68%) JUnit
4 148 (17.33%) GitLab
5 140 (16.39%) Maven
6 125 (14.64%) Gradle
7 103 (12.06%) Mockito
8 48 (5.62%) JIRA
9 47 (5.50%) SonarQube
10 36 (4.22%) Cucumber
11 30 (3.51%) REST Assured
12 24 (2.81%) Selenium
13 19 (2.22%) Claude Code
14 16 (1.87%) Liquibase
15 15 (1.76%) Gatling
16 12 (1.41%) Bitbucket Server
16 12 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
17 10 (1.17%) GoCD
18 9 (1.05%) Cypress.io
18 9 (1.05%) Flyway
General
1 203 (23.77%) Finance
2 182 (21.31%) Social Skills
3 152 (17.80%) Public Sector
4 137 (16.04%) Banking
5 79 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.16%) Retail
7 23 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.76%) Investment Banking
9 13 (1.52%) Front Office
9 13 (1.52%) Military
9 13 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.05%) Financial Institution
11 8 (0.94%) Back Office
11 8 (0.94%) Law
12 7 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (0.82%) Retail Banking
13 6 (0.70%) iGaming
13 6 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.47%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 465 (54.45%) Developer
2 375 (43.91%) Java Developer
3 197 (23.07%) Senior
4 152 (17.80%) Java Engineer
5 106 (12.41%) Software Engineer
6 99 (11.59%) Senior Developer
7 94 (11.01%) Lead
8 78 (9.13%) Senior Java Developer
9 66 (7.73%) Full-Stack Developer
10 56 (6.56%) Java Software Engineer
11 49 (5.74%) Senior Java Engineer
12 47 (5.50%) Lead Developer
13 44 (5.15%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 38 (4.45%) Lead Java Developer
14 38 (4.45%) Software Developer
15 29 (3.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 28 (3.28%) Backend Developer
17 27 (3.16%) Architect
17 27 (3.16%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 25 (2.93%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 804 (94.15%) Spring
2 316 (37.00%) Kafka
3 283 (33.14%) REST
4 227 (26.58%) RESTful
5 156 (18.27%) React
6 104 (12.18%) Node.js
7 102 (11.94%) JPA
8 96 (11.24%) Terraform
9 89 (10.42%) Hibernate
10 87 (10.19%) AngularJS
11 77 (9.02%) HTML
12 69 (8.08%) CSS
13 60 (7.03%) Web Services
14 51 (5.97%) OAuth
15 50 (5.85%) Spring MVC
16 49 (5.74%) OpenAPI
16 49 (5.74%) RabbitMQ
17 43 (5.04%) Redux
17 43 (5.04%) SOAP
17 43 (5.04%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 239 (27.99%) Cloud Native
2 154 (18.03%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (8.20%) Product Ownership
4 64 (7.49%) Enterprise Software
5 33 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (2.81%) AI Agents
8 21 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
9 17 (1.99%) Data Structures
9 17 (1.99%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 14 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.64%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.29%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.17%) Distributed Architecture
14 9 (1.05%) Fixed Income
14 9 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (0.82%) Equities
15 7 (0.82%) Mainframe
16 6 (0.70%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.85%) Linux
2 35 (4.10%) Unix
3 4 (0.47%) macOS
4 3 (0.35%) AIX
5 2 (0.23%) Android
5 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.23%) Windows
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Solaris
6 1 (0.12%) VMS
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 558 (65.34%) Microservices
2 522 (61.12%) CI/CD
3 449 (52.58%) Agile
4 312 (36.53%) DevOps
5 271 (31.73%) Software Engineering
6 239 (27.99%) Test Automation
7 231 (27.05%) Containerisation
8 225 (26.35%) Event-Driven
9 183 (21.43%) Scrum
10 174 (20.37%) TDD
11 151 (17.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 147 (17.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 145 (16.98%) Full-Stack Development
14 133 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
15 129 (15.11%) Observability
16 107 (12.53%) Infrastructure as Code
17 105 (12.30%) Code Quality
18 97 (11.36%) Technical Leadership
19 94 (11.01%) Clean Code
20 90 (10.54%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 843 (98.71%) Java
2 287 (33.61%) SQL
3 127 (14.87%) JavaScript
4 119 (13.93%) TypeScript
5 73 (8.55%) Python
6 41 (4.80%) PL/SQL
7 30 (3.51%) Shell Script
8 23 (2.69%) Kotlin
9 13 (1.52%) Bash
10 12 (1.41%) Scala
11 10 (1.17%) Ruby
12 6 (0.70%) C#
13 5 (0.59%) Groovy
14 4 (0.47%) Solidity
15 3 (0.35%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.23%) Bicep
16 2 (0.23%) Go
16 2 (0.23%) Korn
16 2 (0.23%) PromQL
16 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 231 (27.05%) Security Cleared
2 199 (23.30%) SC Cleared
3 82 (9.60%) BPSS Clearance
4 43 (5.04%) Degree
5 33 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.11%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.76%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.47%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.35%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.12%) CISSP
10 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.12%) OCP
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (13.35%) QA
2 75 (8.78%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.58%) ISO 20022
4 13 (1.52%) SEPA
4 13 (1.52%) WCAG
5 11 (1.29%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.82%) GDPR
7 6 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.59%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.59%) PSD2
9 4 (0.47%) ISO 15022
9 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.35%) EMIR
10 3 (0.35%) MiFID
11 2 (0.23%) NIST
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 340 (39.81%) Docker
2 2 (0.23%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 336 (39.34%) Kubernetes
2 63 (7.38%) Grafana
3 46 (5.39%) Prometheus
4 36 (4.22%) Ansible
5 28 (3.28%) Kibana
6 16 (1.87%) Control-M
7 11 (1.29%) Argo
8 5 (0.59%) Istio
9 4 (0.47%) Bosun
9 4 (0.47%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.23%) Consul
10 2 (0.23%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.12%) logstash
11 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 139 (16.28%) Oracle
2 40 (4.68%) Google
3 29 (3.40%) IBM
4 22 (2.58%) Splunk
5 20 (2.34%) Microsoft
6 18 (2.11%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.52%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.17%) Databricks
8 10 (1.17%) New Relic
9 9 (1.05%) Sybase
9 9 (1.05%) Veracode
10 8 (0.94%) OpenAI
10 8 (0.94%) Solace
11 7 (0.82%) FIS
11 7 (0.82%) ION Trading
11 7 (0.82%) TikTok
12 5 (0.59%) Confluent
12 5 (0.59%) Temenos
12 5 (0.59%) webMethods
13 4 (0.47%) Mistral