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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 186 206
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 +62
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 803 489 470
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 1.51% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.86% 5.95% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 341 361
10th Percentile £379 £313 £376
25th Percentile £425 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -0.24%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £630
90th Percentile £681 £613 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £464 £466
% change year-on-year +6.74% -0.43% -5.91%
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 11,706 8,223 9,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.82% 25.45% 24.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,704 5,544 6,349
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £435 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £636 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 182 191
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.80 £25.60
25th Percentile £46.39 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.83 £52.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.30% -15.32% -0.80%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £74.75 £74.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +9.22%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +4 627 £525 +5.00% 541
UK excluding London -9 374 £495 +6.74% 329
London +6 332 £525 +3.96% 340
Work from Home -24 186 £500 - 288
North of England -22 159 £537 +15.48% 92
North West -28 92 £550 +27.91% 56
Scotland -11 68 £402 -10.67% 65
Midlands -28 59 £575 +57.97% 41
West Midlands -11 53 £575 +15.00% 33
Yorkshire +2 51 £500 -9.09% 19
South West -21 36 £438 -14.63% 46
East of England +7 26 £500 +6.95% 8
South East -61 22 £291 -47.18% 44
North East -29 17 £450 -6.25% 17
Wales -19 8 £394 -17.11% 7
East Midlands -36 5 £400 +27.80% 8
Northern Ireland +1 2 - - 29

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 32 (3.99%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.11%) Confluence
3 23 (2.86%) Apache
4 19 (2.37%) Camunda
5 10 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.00%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.62%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.50%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.50%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.50%) nginx
8 4 (0.50%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.25%) Mule
10 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.12%) CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.62%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.50%) Quorum
2 4 (0.50%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.50%) Ripple
3 3 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.37%) Finacle
3 3 (0.37%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.25%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 457 (56.91%) AWS
2 179 (22.29%) Azure
3 132 (16.44%) GCP
4 129 (16.06%) GitHub
5 81 (10.09%) GitHub Actions
6 63 (7.85%) Serverless
7 58 (7.22%) AWS Lambda
8 53 (6.60%) Amazon S3
9 50 (6.23%) OpenShift
10 42 (5.23%) Amazon EKS
11 41 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
12 40 (4.98%) Amazon SQS
13 39 (4.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 31 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
17 16 (1.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 12 (1.49%) GitHub Copilot
19 11 (1.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 11 (1.37%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.49%) HTTP
2 6 (0.75%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.37%) Firewall
4 3 (0.37%) SSL
5 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) AMQP
6 1 (0.12%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (20.05%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (12.45%) Relational Database
3 93 (11.58%) NoSQL
4 92 (11.46%) MongoDB
5 63 (7.85%) MySQL
6 38 (4.73%) SQL Server
7 32 (3.99%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (3.86%) DynamoDB
9 30 (3.74%) Redis
10 22 (2.74%) Amazon Aurora
11 18 (2.24%) Flink
12 16 (1.99%) RDBMS
13 15 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
13 15 (1.87%) Metadata
14 14 (1.74%) Apache Cassandra
14 14 (1.74%) Big Data
15 11 (1.37%) Oracle Database
16 10 (1.25%) Couchbase
16 10 (1.25%) Data Lake
17 8 (1.00%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 214 (26.65%) Jenkins
2 198 (24.66%) Git
3 142 (17.68%) JUnit
4 126 (15.69%) GitLab
5 113 (14.07%) Maven
6 108 (13.45%) Gradle
7 89 (11.08%) Mockito
8 55 (6.85%) SonarQube
9 45 (5.60%) JIRA
10 25 (3.11%) REST Assured
11 23 (2.86%) Cucumber
12 22 (2.74%) Liquibase
13 20 (2.49%) Selenium
14 14 (1.74%) Bitbucket Server
15 13 (1.62%) IntelliJ
16 12 (1.49%) Gatling
17 10 (1.25%) GoCD
17 10 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
18 9 (1.12%) Flyway
19 8 (1.00%) JProfiler
General
1 185 (23.04%) Finance
2 162 (20.17%) Social Skills
3 140 (17.43%) Public Sector
4 103 (12.83%) Banking
5 64 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.86%) Retail
7 16 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.49%) Law
9 11 (1.37%) Military
9 11 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.00%) Financial Institution
11 7 (0.87%) Retail Banking
12 6 (0.75%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.75%) Publishing
13 4 (0.50%) Police
14 3 (0.37%) Automotive
14 3 (0.37%) Front Office
15 2 (0.25%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.25%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 460 (57.29%) Developer
2 366 (45.58%) Java Developer
3 170 (21.17%) Senior
4 131 (16.31%) Java Engineer
5 104 (12.95%) Software Engineer
6 90 (11.21%) Senior Developer
7 86 (10.71%) Lead
8 72 (8.97%) Senior Java Developer
9 65 (8.09%) Full-Stack Developer
10 56 (6.97%) Java Software Engineer
11 43 (5.35%) Lead Developer
12 42 (5.23%) Software Developer
13 41 (5.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 36 (4.48%) Senior Java Engineer
15 33 (4.11%) Backend Developer
16 32 (3.99%) Lead Java Developer
17 25 (3.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 23 (2.86%) Data Engineer
19 22 (2.74%) Architect
20 21 (2.62%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 756 (94.15%) Spring
2 276 (34.37%) Kafka
3 235 (29.27%) REST
4 215 (26.77%) RESTful
5 163 (20.30%) React
6 105 (13.08%) Node.js
7 84 (10.46%) HTML
7 84 (10.46%) Terraform
8 82 (10.21%) JPA
9 76 (9.46%) AngularJS
9 76 (9.46%) Hibernate
10 72 (8.97%) CSS
11 55 (6.85%) Spring MVC
11 55 (6.85%) Web Services
12 50 (6.23%) RabbitMQ
12 50 (6.23%) Redux
13 44 (5.48%) OAuth
14 40 (4.98%) Spring Cloud
15 39 (4.86%) OpenAPI
16 38 (4.73%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 199 (24.78%) Cloud Native
2 115 (14.32%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (7.60%) Product Ownership
4 43 (5.35%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (2.24%) Data Structures
9 17 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.99%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.87%) AI Agents
12 13 (1.62%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 9 (1.12%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (1.12%) Virtual Team
15 7 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
16 5 (0.62%) Autonomous Agent
16 5 (0.62%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.48%) Linux
2 31 (3.86%) Unix
3 2 (0.25%) VMS
3 2 (0.25%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) AIX
4 1 (0.12%) Android
4 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.12%) Solaris
4 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 515 (64.13%) Microservices
2 476 (59.28%) CI/CD
3 400 (49.81%) Agile
4 290 (36.11%) DevOps
5 246 (30.64%) Software Engineering
6 240 (29.89%) Containerisation
7 195 (24.28%) Test Automation
8 187 (23.29%) Event-Driven
9 169 (21.05%) TDD
10 159 (19.80%) Scrum
11 139 (17.31%) Full-Stack Development
12 137 (17.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 123 (15.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 118 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
15 117 (14.57%) Code Quality
16 114 (14.20%) Observability
17 99 (12.33%) Infrastructure as Code
18 90 (11.21%) SDLC
19 87 (10.83%) Clean Code
20 84 (10.46%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 794 (98.88%) Java
2 269 (33.50%) SQL
3 129 (16.06%) JavaScript
4 105 (13.08%) TypeScript
5 86 (10.71%) Python
6 37 (4.61%) PL/SQL
7 27 (3.36%) Kotlin
8 22 (2.74%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.74%) Bash
10 9 (1.12%) Ruby
10 9 (1.12%) Scala
11 7 (0.87%) C#
12 5 (0.62%) Groovy
13 4 (0.50%) Go
13 4 (0.50%) Solidity
14 3 (0.37%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.25%) Korn
15 2 (0.25%) PromQL
15 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 229 (28.52%) Security Cleared
2 192 (23.91%) SC Cleared
3 67 (8.34%) BPSS Clearance
4 35 (4.36%) Degree
5 27 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.74%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.49%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.25%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.25%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.12%) CISSP
9 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (12.20%) QA
2 70 (8.72%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.37%) ISO 20022
4 12 (1.49%) WCAG
5 11 (1.37%) SEPA
6 10 (1.25%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.87%) GDPR
8 6 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.50%) ISO 15022
10 4 (0.50%) PSD2
11 3 (0.37%) EMIR
11 3 (0.37%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) HL7
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 331 (41.22%) Docker
2 5 (0.62%) Postfix
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 309 (38.48%) Kubernetes
2 58 (7.22%) Grafana
3 46 (5.73%) Prometheus
4 40 (4.98%) Ansible
5 22 (2.74%) Kibana
6 16 (1.99%) Control-M
7 9 (1.12%) Argo
8 8 (1.00%) Istio
9 4 (0.50%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.37%) Bosun
10 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.25%) Consul
11 2 (0.25%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.12%) Kiali
12 1 (0.12%) logstash
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 119 (14.82%) Oracle
2 41 (5.11%) Google
3 30 (3.74%) IBM
4 21 (2.62%) Microsoft
5 19 (2.37%) Splunk
6 17 (2.12%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.62%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.25%) Checkmarx
8 10 (1.25%) Solace
9 9 (1.12%) Databricks
10 8 (1.00%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (1.00%) Sybase
10 8 (1.00%) Veracode
11 7 (0.87%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.87%) New Relic
11 7 (0.87%) TikTok
12 6 (0.75%) FIS
13 5 (0.62%) Confluent
13 5 (0.62%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.50%) Mistral