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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 192 199
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 716 405 499
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.47% 1.42% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.49% 6.23% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 273 384
10th Percentile £380 £325 £377
25th Percentile £425 £402 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £620
90th Percentile £650 £630 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £441 £489
% change year-on-year +7.71% -9.82% -4.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 8 1
10th Percentile - £45.50 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £69.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -16.67% +2.49%
75th Percentile £81.00 £89.69 £74.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +4.55% -23.61% +20.00%

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 9,564 6,498 8,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.62% 22.74% 20.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 4,458 6,210
10th Percentile £363 £360 £345
25th Percentile £420 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 105 249
10th Percentile £30.87 £27.44 £21.63
25th Percentile £51.25 £37.80 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £72.75 £68.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.22 £74.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.43
% change year-on-year - +34.21% -25.49%

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 27 May 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 27 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 16 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 27 May 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 +25 608 £510 +2.00% 125
UK excluding London -8 350 £475 +7.71% 88
London +22 289 £525 -0.94% 56
Work from Home -7 172 £488 -7.14% 58
North of England +14 160 £478 +2.69% 41
North West +21 109 £500 +24.38% 27
Midlands -54 51 £469 +14.11% 2
South West +9 48 £409 -22.10% 14
West Midlands -33 48 £470 +3.30%
Scotland -26 38 £407 -6.91% 2
Yorkshire -27 36 £475 -9.52% 11
East of England +1 31 £507 +8.45% 6
South East -48 25 £525 -2.23% 16
North East -13 18 £475 +2.15% 4
East Midlands -44 2 £401 +12.01% 2
Wales -16 1 - - 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 41 (5.73%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.49%) Confluence
3 16 (2.23%) Camunda
4 15 (2.09%) Apache
5 8 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.12%) WebLogic
6 7 (0.98%) Ethereum
6 7 (0.98%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.28%) Drupal
9 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.28%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.28%) WordPress
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.14%) CICS
10 1 (0.14%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
1 3 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.28%) R3 Corda
2 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.28%) Shopify
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) Quorum
3 1 (0.14%) Ripple
3 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 378 (52.79%) AWS
2 163 (22.77%) Azure
3 121 (16.90%) GitHub
4 108 (15.08%) GCP
5 76 (10.61%) Amazon S3
5 76 (10.61%) GitHub Actions
6 74 (10.34%) Serverless
7 65 (9.08%) AWS Lambda
8 44 (6.15%) Amazon SQS
9 43 (6.01%) Amazon EC2
10 37 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (4.61%) Amazon ECS
11 33 (4.61%) Amazon EKS
12 31 (4.33%) OpenShift
13 22 (3.07%) Route 53
14 19 (2.65%) Azure AKS
14 19 (2.65%) Cloud Run
15 18 (2.51%) AWS KMS
16 17 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
17 16 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.40%) Firewall
2 9 (1.26%) HTTP
3 7 (0.98%) SSL
4 4 (0.56%) DNS
4 4 (0.56%) HTTPS
4 4 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.28%) VPN
6 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (19.41%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (13.13%) NoSQL
3 81 (11.31%) Relational Database
4 78 (10.89%) MongoDB
5 55 (7.68%) DynamoDB
6 54 (7.54%) MySQL
7 47 (6.56%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (3.63%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.49%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (2.65%) Big Data
11 17 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (2.37%) Redis
12 14 (1.96%) Flink
13 12 (1.68%) DocumentDB
14 10 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
14 10 (1.40%) RDBMS
15 8 (1.12%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.98%) DB2
17 6 (0.84%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 154 (21.51%) Git
2 153 (21.37%) Jenkins
3 111 (15.50%) GitLab
3 111 (15.50%) JUnit
4 69 (9.64%) Gradle
5 67 (9.36%) Mockito
6 53 (7.40%) Maven
7 50 (6.98%) JIRA
8 35 (4.89%) SonarQube
9 25 (3.49%) Selenium
10 23 (3.21%) Cucumber
10 23 (3.21%) IntelliJ
11 22 (3.07%) REST Assured
12 17 (2.37%) Gatling
13 16 (2.23%) Liquibase
14 14 (1.96%) DbUnit
15 13 (1.82%) jMock
16 12 (1.68%) Bitbucket Server
16 12 (1.68%) Serenity BDD
17 10 (1.40%) Jaeger
General
1 146 (20.39%) Finance
2 130 (18.16%) Social Skills
3 123 (17.18%) Public Sector
4 71 (9.92%) Banking
5 35 (4.89%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.65%) Financial Institution
7 17 (2.37%) Retail
8 10 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.26%) Law
10 7 (0.98%) Retail Banking
11 6 (0.84%) Military
11 6 (0.84%) Publishing
12 5 (0.70%) Automotive
12 5 (0.70%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.28%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.28%) Legal
14 2 (0.28%) Police
15 1 (0.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 395 (55.17%) Developer
2 289 (40.36%) Java Developer
3 153 (21.37%) Senior
4 127 (17.74%) Java Engineer
5 96 (13.41%) Software Engineer
6 85 (11.87%) Senior Developer
7 72 (10.06%) Lead
8 69 (9.64%) Full-Stack Developer
9 65 (9.08%) Senior Java Developer
10 51 (7.12%) Java Software Engineer
11 44 (6.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 36 (5.03%) Backend Developer
13 32 (4.47%) Software Developer
14 29 (4.05%) Lead Developer
15 25 (3.49%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 23 (3.21%) Senior Java Engineer
17 22 (3.07%) Data Engineer
18 21 (2.93%) SC Cleared Java Developer
19 19 (2.65%) Lead Java Developer
20 16 (2.23%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 663 (92.60%) Spring
2 208 (29.05%) Kafka
3 190 (26.54%) RESTful
4 172 (24.02%) REST
5 144 (20.11%) React
6 101 (14.11%) Node.js
7 81 (11.31%) AngularJS
8 57 (7.96%) Hibernate
9 56 (7.82%) HTML
10 53 (7.40%) JPA
11 52 (7.26%) Spring Cloud
12 47 (6.56%) OpenTelemetry
13 43 (6.01%) OAuth
14 42 (5.87%) CSS
15 40 (5.59%) OAuth2
15 40 (5.59%) Spring MVC
16 37 (5.17%) Web Services
17 36 (5.03%) Next.js
18 33 (4.61%) Jest
19 32 (4.47%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 128 (17.88%) Cloud Native
2 80 (11.17%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (5.31%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (2.65%) Mobile App
6 14 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (1.82%) Data Structures
8 11 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.40%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.40%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.26%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (0.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
15 4 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.84%) Linux
2 14 (1.96%) Unix
3 5 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.42%) Windows
5 2 (0.28%) Android
5 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.28%) VMS
6 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (60.34%) Microservices
2 406 (56.70%) CI/CD
3 277 (38.69%) Agile
4 270 (37.71%) DevOps
5 245 (34.22%) Containerisation
6 178 (24.86%) Software Engineering
7 156 (21.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 145 (20.25%) TDD
9 125 (17.46%) Event-Driven
10 121 (16.90%) Test Automation
11 109 (15.22%) Observability
12 104 (14.53%) Code Quality
13 100 (13.97%) Continuous Improvement
14 97 (13.55%) Problem-Solving
14 97 (13.55%) Scrum
15 82 (11.45%) Infrastructure as Code
16 80 (11.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 70 (9.78%) Mentoring
18 69 (9.64%) API Design
19 67 (9.36%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 688 (96.09%) Java
2 218 (30.45%) SQL
3 111 (15.50%) JavaScript
4 90 (12.57%) TypeScript
5 77 (10.75%) Python
6 48 (6.70%) Kotlin
7 16 (2.23%) Go
8 11 (1.54%) C#
8 11 (1.54%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.54%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.26%) Rust
10 7 (0.98%) Scala
11 5 (0.70%) Perl
11 5 (0.70%) Ruby
12 4 (0.56%) Bash
13 2 (0.28%) PHP
13 2 (0.28%) PromQL
13 2 (0.28%) Solidity
13 2 (0.28%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 202 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 163 (22.77%) SC Cleared
3 34 (4.75%) Degree
4 30 (4.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.82%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.98%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.84%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.28%) OCP
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.80%) QA
2 62 (8.66%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.96%) ISO 20022
4 12 (1.68%) WCAG
5 10 (1.40%) SEPA
6 9 (1.26%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.12%) GDPR
8 7 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.70%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.70%) PSD2
10 4 (0.56%) NIST
11 2 (0.28%) EMIR
11 2 (0.28%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.28%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.28%) MiFID
11 2 (0.28%) NCSC
12 1 (0.14%) HL7
12 1 (0.14%) ITGC
12 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 318 (44.41%) Docker
2 11 (1.54%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 313 (43.72%) Kubernetes
2 92 (12.85%) Grafana
3 80 (11.17%) Terraform
4 61 (8.52%) Prometheus
5 31 (4.33%) Ansible
6 14 (1.96%) Argo
7 10 (1.40%) Istio
7 10 (1.40%) Kiali
8 9 (1.26%) Kibana
9 4 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.28%) Consul
10 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 50 (6.98%) Oracle
2 37 (5.17%) Splunk
3 28 (3.91%) Microsoft
4 27 (3.77%) Google
5 17 (2.37%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (1.96%) Atlassian
7 10 (1.40%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.40%) IBM
8 9 (1.26%) Checkmarx
8 9 (1.26%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.12%) Solace
9 8 (1.12%) Sybase
10 7 (0.98%) Databricks
11 6 (0.84%) Okta
12 5 (0.70%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.70%) Adobe
12 5 (0.70%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.70%) New Relic
12 5 (0.70%) Teradata
13 4 (0.56%) SAP