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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 195 249
Rank change year-on-year +9 +54 -94
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 641 387 427
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.46% 1.31% 0.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.89% 5.77% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 245 318
10th Percentile £350 £356 £388
25th Percentile £413 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £572 £588 £613
90th Percentile £635 £688 £808
UK excluding London median daily rate £474 £441 £490
% change year-on-year +7.48% -9.91% -7.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 9,301 6,707 8,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.25% 22.69% 20.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,218 4,525 6,239
10th Percentile £358 £363 £334
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.98%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £495
% change year-on-year +0.86% +0.15% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 96 197
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.06 £39.85
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.09 £68.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.53 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 23 March 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 23 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 15 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 23 March 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 +34 540 £479 -9.85% 142
UK excluding London +17 351 £474 +7.48% 102
London +9 225 £525 -8.70% 59
North of England +12 163 £475 +5.56% 55
Work from Home +7 151 £485 -4.90% 111
North West +37 116 £475 +13.16% 31
Midlands -25 52 £469 +11.67% 5
West Midlands -16 51 £470 +11.79% 3
South East -15 50 £450 -16.20% 12
Scotland -14 45 £600 +37.14% 7
Yorkshire -49 33 £500 -4.76% 17
South West -4 30 £384 -28.56% 15
North East -8 16 £475 +7.95% 7
East of England -13 14 £510 +9.09% 3
East Midlands -39 1 £220 -32.52% 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 27 (4.21%) Confluence
2 23 (3.59%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.87%) Camunda
4 9 (1.40%) WebLogic
5 8 (1.25%) Apache
6 6 (0.94%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.94%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.31%) CICS
9 2 (0.31%) CMS
9 2 (0.31%) Drupal
9 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.31%) WordPress
10 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 361 (56.32%) AWS
2 183 (28.55%) Azure
3 118 (18.41%) GitHub
4 97 (15.13%) GCP
5 84 (13.10%) Serverless
6 81 (12.64%) Amazon S3
7 71 (11.08%) AWS Lambda
8 69 (10.76%) GitHub Actions
9 44 (6.86%) Amazon EC2
10 40 (6.24%) Amazon ECS
11 36 (5.62%) Amazon EKS
12 33 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
13 32 (4.99%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 30 (4.68%) OpenShift
16 23 (3.59%) Azure AKS
17 19 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
18 17 (2.65%) Datadog
19 16 (2.50%) AWS Fargate
20 14 (2.18%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.72%) HTTP
2 10 (1.56%) SSL
3 9 (1.40%) Firewall
4 7 (1.09%) HTTPS
5 5 (0.78%) DNS
5 5 (0.78%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.47%) VPN
7 1 (0.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (20.59%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (14.51%) NoSQL
3 77 (12.01%) MongoDB
4 71 (11.08%) Relational Database
5 52 (8.11%) DynamoDB
6 48 (7.49%) MySQL
7 41 (6.40%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (3.28%) SQL Server
9 20 (3.12%) Amazon Aurora
10 15 (2.34%) DocumentDB
10 15 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (2.18%) RDBMS
12 13 (2.03%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (1.87%) Redis
14 10 (1.56%) DB2
15 9 (1.40%) Big Data
16 8 (1.25%) BigQuery
16 8 (1.25%) HBase
17 7 (1.09%) Flink
18 6 (0.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 144 (22.46%) Git
1 144 (22.46%) Jenkins
2 111 (17.32%) GitLab
2 111 (17.32%) JUnit
3 55 (8.58%) Mockito
4 50 (7.80%) JIRA
4 50 (7.80%) Maven
5 48 (7.49%) Gradle
6 43 (6.71%) Cucumber
7 21 (3.28%) Selenium
8 18 (2.81%) SonarQube
9 15 (2.34%) Cypress.io
10 14 (2.18%) IntelliJ
10 14 (2.18%) Postman
11 13 (2.03%) Gatling
12 12 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (1.72%) Artifactory
13 11 (1.72%) REST Assured
14 10 (1.56%) Mocha
15 9 (1.40%) Bitbucket
General
1 146 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 123 (19.19%) Finance
3 112 (17.47%) Public Sector
4 68 (10.61%) Banking
5 27 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.03%) Financial Institution
7 12 (1.87%) Retail
8 7 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (0.78%) Law
10 4 (0.62%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.62%) Automotive
10 4 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.62%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.62%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.62%) Military
10 4 (0.62%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.62%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.47%) Electronics
11 3 (0.47%) Marketing
12 2 (0.31%) Legal
Job Titles
1 380 (59.28%) Developer
2 270 (42.12%) Java Developer
3 132 (20.59%) Senior
4 105 (16.38%) Java Engineer
5 81 (12.64%) Senior Developer
6 77 (12.01%) Full-Stack Developer
7 70 (10.92%) Software Engineer
8 63 (9.83%) Senior Java Developer
9 56 (8.74%) Lead
10 42 (6.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 40 (6.24%) Java Software Engineer
12 29 (4.52%) Backend Developer
13 26 (4.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 24 (3.74%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 24 (3.74%) Software Developer
15 23 (3.59%) Lead Developer
16 20 (3.12%) Architect
16 20 (3.12%) AWS Developer
17 19 (2.96%) Azure Engineer
18 14 (2.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 582 (90.80%) Spring
2 188 (29.33%) RESTful
3 187 (29.17%) Kafka
4 154 (24.02%) REST
5 139 (21.68%) React
6 108 (16.85%) AngularJS
7 84 (13.10%) Node.js
8 63 (9.83%) Hibernate
9 59 (9.20%) HTML
10 47 (7.33%) JPA
11 42 (6.55%) CSS
12 41 (6.40%) OAuth
13 38 (5.93%) OAuth2
13 38 (5.93%) OpenTelemetry
14 34 (5.30%) Spring MVC
15 32 (4.99%) Spring Cloud
16 29 (4.52%) JSON
17 28 (4.37%) RabbitMQ
18 27 (4.21%) Jest
19 25 (3.90%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 97 (15.13%) Cloud Native
2 61 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (6.08%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.81%) Mobile App
5 17 (2.65%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 10 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
7 10 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.40%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.09%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.78%) NHS
12 4 (0.62%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.62%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (6.40%) Linux
2 9 (1.40%) Unix
3 6 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.47%) Windows
5 2 (0.31%) VMS
5 2 (0.31%) zOS
6 1 (0.16%) Android
6 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (62.40%) Microservices
2 361 (56.32%) CI/CD
3 259 (40.41%) Agile
4 245 (38.22%) DevOps
5 196 (30.58%) Containerisation
6 165 (25.74%) Full-Stack Development
7 133 (20.75%) Software Engineering
8 120 (18.72%) TDD
9 116 (18.10%) Test Automation
10 115 (17.94%) Event-Driven
11 113 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
12 92 (14.35%) Scrum
13 89 (13.88%) Observability
14 81 (12.64%) Code Quality
15 75 (11.70%) Infrastructure as Code
16 69 (10.76%) API Design
17 68 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
18 67 (10.45%) Mentoring
19 66 (10.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 65 (10.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 604 (94.23%) Java
2 162 (25.27%) SQL
3 89 (13.88%) JavaScript
3 89 (13.88%) TypeScript
4 57 (8.89%) Python
5 47 (7.33%) Kotlin
6 18 (2.81%) Go
7 14 (2.18%) Shell Script
8 9 (1.40%) Rust
9 8 (1.25%) C#
10 7 (1.09%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.94%) Perl
12 4 (0.62%) Scala
13 3 (0.47%) PHP
14 2 (0.31%) Bash
14 2 (0.31%) Ruby
15 1 (0.16%) Groovy
15 1 (0.16%) Korn
15 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.16%) XPath
Qualifications
1 166 (25.90%) Security Cleared
2 134 (20.90%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.15%) Degree
4 22 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.72%) OCP
6 11 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
7 8 (1.25%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.94%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.62%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (10.45%) QA
2 49 (7.64%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.96%) ISO 20022
4 17 (2.65%) WCAG
5 9 (1.40%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.40%) PSD2
5 9 (1.40%) SEPA
6 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.62%) NIST
7 3 (0.47%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.47%) GDPR
7 3 (0.47%) HL7
7 3 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.31%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.31%) NCSC
9 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 261 (40.72%) Docker
2 6 (0.94%) Postfix
3 3 (0.47%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 297 (46.33%) Kubernetes
2 85 (13.26%) Grafana
2 85 (13.26%) Terraform
3 45 (7.02%) Prometheus
4 21 (3.28%) Ansible
5 14 (2.18%) Argo
6 11 (1.72%) Kibana
7 9 (1.40%) Kiali
8 7 (1.09%) Istio
9 2 (0.31%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.31%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.16%) Consul
10 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 54 (8.42%) Oracle
2 37 (5.77%) Splunk
3 32 (4.99%) Microsoft
4 29 (4.52%) Google
5 11 (1.72%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.40%) Jaspersoft
6 9 (1.40%) Sybase
7 7 (1.09%) Atlassian
7 7 (1.09%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.09%) ForgeRock
8 6 (0.94%) Adobe
8 6 (0.94%) Databricks
8 6 (0.94%) IBM
8 6 (0.94%) PagerDuty
8 6 (0.94%) SAP
8 6 (0.94%) Virgin Media
9 5 (0.78%) Solace
10 4 (0.62%) Confluent
10 4 (0.62%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.62%) VMware