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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 190 208
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 +64
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 777 504 474
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.45% 1.54% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.64% 6.07% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 354 365
10th Percentile £377 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £675 £613 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £455 £460
% change year-on-year +8.91% -1.20% -7.40%
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 11,703 8,298 9,492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.82% 25.36% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,703 5,617 6,427
10th Percentile £375 £353 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £634 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 183 208
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.35 £23.80
25th Percentile £45.00 £41.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.83%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.96 £79.74 £74.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.73% -12.00% +4.17%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +2 604 £525 +5.00% 157
UK excluding London -13 362 £495 +8.91% 126
London +3 319 £525 +3.96% 73
Work from Home -44 175 £500 - 105
North of England -22 153 £510 +9.68% 40
North West -36 88 £550 +27.91% 21
Scotland -13 69 £402 -10.67% 19
Yorkshire +3 48 £500 -9.09% 7
Midlands -41 48 £575 +57.97% 16
West Midlands -33 42 £575 +21.05% 13
South West -18 38 £450 -12.20% 33
East of England +1 26 £500 +6.95% 1
South East -61 23 £294 -44.10% 11
North East -31 18 £450 -8.16% 12
Wales -19 8 £394 -17.11% 4
East Midlands -30 5 £400 +27.80% 3
Northern Ireland -3 2 - - 4

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 (4.38%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.22%) Apache
3 17 (2.19%) Confluence
4 15 (1.93%) Camunda
5 10 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.03%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.64%) 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%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.26%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.26%) 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 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.26%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 444 (57.14%) AWS
2 179 (23.04%) Azure
3 129 (16.60%) GCP
3 129 (16.60%) GitHub
4 84 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
5 64 (8.24%) Serverless
6 57 (7.34%) AWS Lambda
7 51 (6.56%) Amazon S3
8 46 (5.92%) OpenShift
9 42 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
10 40 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
10 40 (5.15%) Amazon SQS
11 38 (4.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 29 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
13 22 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (1.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 11 (1.42%) Amazon Cognito
16 11 (1.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 10 (1.29%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.42%) HTTP
2 6 (0.77%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.39%) Firewall
4 3 (0.39%) SSL
5 2 (0.26%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.13%) AMQP
6 1 (0.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (20.33%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (12.10%) Relational Database
3 89 (11.45%) NoSQL
4 87 (11.20%) MongoDB
5 63 (8.11%) MySQL
6 40 (5.15%) SQL Server
7 32 (4.12%) DynamoDB
8 31 (3.99%) Amazon RDS
9 29 (3.73%) Redis
10 22 (2.83%) Amazon Aurora
11 18 (2.32%) Flink
12 16 (2.06%) Apache Cassandra
12 16 (2.06%) RDBMS
13 15 (1.93%) Metadata
14 14 (1.80%) Big Data
14 14 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (1.29%) Couchbase
15 10 (1.29%) Data Lake
16 8 (1.03%) InterSystems Cache
16 8 (1.03%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 207 (26.64%) Jenkins
2 191 (24.58%) Git
3 130 (16.73%) JUnit
4 121 (15.57%) GitLab
5 99 (12.74%) Gradle
6 98 (12.61%) Maven
7 77 (9.91%) Mockito
8 44 (5.66%) SonarQube
9 38 (4.89%) JIRA
10 21 (2.70%) Liquibase
10 21 (2.70%) REST Assured
11 19 (2.45%) Cucumber
12 17 (2.19%) Selenium
13 13 (1.67%) Gatling
13 13 (1.67%) IntelliJ
14 11 (1.42%) Bitbucket Server
15 10 (1.29%) GoCD
16 9 (1.16%) Flyway
17 8 (1.03%) JProfiler
18 7 (0.90%) DbUnit
General
1 177 (22.78%) Finance
2 152 (19.56%) Social Skills
3 135 (17.37%) Public Sector
4 89 (11.45%) Banking
5 55 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.96%) Retail
7 15 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.54%) Law
9 11 (1.42%) Military
10 8 (1.03%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (0.90%) Retail Banking
12 6 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.77%) Publishing
13 5 (0.64%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.51%) Police
15 3 (0.39%) Automotive
15 3 (0.39%) Front Office
16 2 (0.26%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.26%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 445 (57.27%) Developer
2 353 (45.43%) Java Developer
3 163 (20.98%) Senior
4 132 (16.99%) Java Engineer
5 106 (13.64%) Software Engineer
6 86 (11.07%) Senior Developer
7 79 (10.17%) Lead
8 69 (8.88%) Senior Java Developer
9 64 (8.24%) Full-Stack Developer
10 59 (7.59%) Java Software Engineer
11 43 (5.53%) Software Developer
12 39 (5.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 37 (4.76%) Lead Developer
14 35 (4.50%) Senior Java Engineer
15 33 (4.25%) Backend Developer
16 26 (3.35%) Lead Java Developer
17 24 (3.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 23 (2.96%) Data Engineer
19 21 (2.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 21 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 733 (94.34%) Spring
2 255 (32.82%) Kafka
3 216 (27.80%) REST
4 211 (27.16%) RESTful
5 159 (20.46%) React
6 108 (13.90%) Node.js
7 83 (10.68%) Terraform
8 80 (10.30%) HTML
9 70 (9.01%) AngularJS
10 69 (8.88%) CSS
10 69 (8.88%) JPA
11 66 (8.49%) Hibernate
12 56 (7.21%) Spring MVC
13 48 (6.18%) RabbitMQ
14 46 (5.92%) Redux
14 46 (5.92%) Web Services
15 44 (5.66%) OAuth
16 38 (4.89%) OAuth2
17 36 (4.63%) OpenAPI
18 35 (4.50%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 189 (24.32%) Cloud Native
2 114 (14.67%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (7.34%) Product Ownership
4 42 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (3.22%) Greenfield Project
7 20 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (1.93%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.93%) Public Cloud
10 14 (1.80%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.42%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.16%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.03%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
16 5 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
16 5 (0.64%) Mainframe
16 5 (0.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.28%) Linux
2 29 (3.73%) Unix
3 2 (0.26%) VMS
3 2 (0.26%) 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
1 492 (63.32%) Microservices
2 463 (59.59%) CI/CD
3 386 (49.68%) Agile
4 285 (36.68%) DevOps
5 235 (30.24%) Software Engineering
6 231 (29.73%) Containerisation
7 175 (22.52%) Event-Driven
7 175 (22.52%) Test Automation
8 160 (20.59%) TDD
9 145 (18.66%) Scrum
10 138 (17.76%) Full-Stack Development
11 129 (16.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 117 (15.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 110 (14.16%) Code Quality
13 110 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
14 108 (13.90%) Observability
15 101 (13.00%) Infrastructure as Code
16 86 (11.07%) Clean Code
17 84 (10.81%) Design Patterns
18 80 (10.30%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 768 (98.84%) Java
2 259 (33.33%) SQL
3 123 (15.83%) JavaScript
4 101 (13.00%) TypeScript
5 86 (11.07%) Python
6 33 (4.25%) PL/SQL
7 27 (3.47%) Kotlin
8 22 (2.83%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.67%) Bash
10 10 (1.29%) Ruby
11 8 (1.03%) Scala
12 7 (0.90%) C#
13 5 (0.64%) Groovy
14 4 (0.51%) Solidity
15 3 (0.39%) Go
15 3 (0.39%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.26%) Korn
16 2 (0.26%) PromQL
16 2 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 224 (28.83%) Security Cleared
2 185 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 64 (8.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 30 (3.86%) Degree
5 22 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.67%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.42%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.26%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.26%) 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 92 (11.84%) QA
2 69 (8.88%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.67%) ISO 20022
4 10 (1.29%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.29%) WCAG
5 7 (0.90%) GDPR
5 7 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (0.90%) SEPA
6 6 (0.77%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.64%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.39%) EMIR
8 3 (0.39%) ISO 15022
8 3 (0.39%) 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 (41.96%) Docker
2 5 (0.64%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 305 (39.25%) Kubernetes
2 50 (6.44%) Grafana
3 41 (5.28%) Ansible
4 40 (5.15%) Prometheus
5 20 (2.57%) Kibana
6 16 (2.06%) Control-M
7 9 (1.16%) Argo
8 7 (0.90%) Istio
9 3 (0.39%) Bosun
9 3 (0.39%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.26%) Consul
10 2 (0.26%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.13%) Kiali
11 1 (0.13%) logstash
11 1 (0.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 110 (14.16%) Oracle
2 40 (5.15%) Google
3 25 (3.22%) IBM
4 23 (2.96%) Microsoft
5 18 (2.32%) Splunk
6 16 (2.06%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.67%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.29%) Checkmarx
8 10 (1.29%) Solace
9 9 (1.16%) Databricks
10 8 (1.03%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (1.03%) New Relic
11 7 (0.90%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.90%) Sybase
11 7 (0.90%) TikTok
12 6 (0.77%) Confluent
13 5 (0.64%) Okta
13 5 (0.64%) SAP
13 5 (0.64%) Veracode
14 4 (0.51%) FIS