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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
31 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 217 267
Rank change year-on-year +18 +50 -120
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 531 391 376
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.43% 1.17% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.39% 5.35% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 240 267
10th Percentile £343 £356 £418
25th Percentile £419 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £626 £625
90th Percentile £625 £758 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £431 £508
% change year-on-year +8.99% -15.11% -7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £40.00 - £73.05
25th Percentile £52.50 - £73.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £76.50
75th Percentile £57.50 - £77.88
90th Percentile £61.25 - £77.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £76.50
% change year-on-year - - +2.00%

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 8,316 7,307 9,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.45% 21.89% 21.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,510 4,646 6,614
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.97% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £770 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 87 169
10th Percentile £31.25 £21.25 £31.85
25th Percentile £45.00 £30.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year +0.80% +19.74% -19.70%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025. 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 +42 429 £485 -15.65% 872
UK excluding London +24 280 £470 +8.99% 774
London -4 201 £525 -10.87% 166
North of England +35 140 £475 +6.74% 209
Work from Home +21 139 £508 +8.96% 561
North West +49 98 £450 +2.86% 102
Scotland -8 56 £588 +38.24% 32
South East +10 35 £450 +15.38% 190
Midlands -8 28 £449 - 135
Yorkshire -34 25 £500 -35.90% 86
West Midlands -8 24 £469 - 68
North East -2 17 £475 +6.74% 21
South West -10 11 £409 -25.64% 84
Wales +4 8 £475 +18.75% 21
East Midlands - 4 £268 - 59
Northern Ireland -9 2 £425 +54.55% 13
East of England -26 1 - - 99

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 19 (3.58%) Confluence
2 7 (1.32%) Apache
2 7 (1.32%) CMS
3 4 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.75%) Camunda
3 4 (0.75%) Drupal
3 4 (0.75%) JBoss
3 4 (0.75%) Mule
3 4 (0.75%) Tomcat
3 4 (0.75%) WordPress
4 3 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.56%) CICS
4 3 (0.56%) SAS
5 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.38%) Mule ESB
5 2 (0.38%) nginx
5 2 (0.38%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 284 (53.48%) AWS
2 173 (32.58%) Azure
3 94 (17.70%) GitHub
4 90 (16.95%) GCP
5 58 (10.92%) Serverless
6 48 (9.04%) GitHub Actions
7 46 (8.66%) AWS Lambda
8 40 (7.53%) Amazon S3
9 32 (6.03%) Amazon EKS
10 28 (5.27%) Amazon EC2
10 28 (5.27%) OpenShift
11 26 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
12 24 (4.52%) Amazon SQS
13 23 (4.33%) Azure AKS
13 23 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (3.20%) Datadog
16 14 (2.64%) Apigee
16 14 (2.64%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.69%) SSL
2 5 (0.94%) Firewall
2 5 (0.94%) Kerberos
3 4 (0.75%) DNS
3 4 (0.75%) HTTP
3 4 (0.75%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.56%) VPN
5 1 (0.19%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (19.59%) PostgreSQL
2 79 (14.88%) NoSQL
3 77 (14.50%) MongoDB
4 65 (12.24%) Relational Database
5 53 (9.98%) MySQL
6 39 (7.34%) DynamoDB
7 22 (4.14%) RDBMS
8 21 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (3.77%) Redis
10 17 (3.20%) Amazon Aurora
11 16 (3.01%) SQL Server
12 14 (2.64%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (2.26%) BigQuery
13 12 (2.26%) DocumentDB
14 10 (1.88%) Oracle Database
15 8 (1.51%) DB2
15 8 (1.51%) HBase
16 7 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
17 4 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
18 3 (0.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 126 (23.73%) Git
2 116 (21.85%) Jenkins
3 94 (17.70%) GitLab
4 87 (16.38%) JUnit
5 47 (8.85%) Cucumber
5 47 (8.85%) Mockito
6 46 (8.66%) Maven
7 45 (8.47%) Gradle
8 39 (7.34%) JIRA
9 28 (5.27%) SonarQube
10 20 (3.77%) Bitbucket
11 19 (3.58%) Selenium
12 18 (3.39%) Postman
13 16 (3.01%) Cypress.io
13 16 (3.01%) Sonatype Nexus
14 13 (2.45%) REST Assured
15 12 (2.26%) Artifactory
15 12 (2.26%) IntelliJ
16 10 (1.88%) Gatling
17 9 (1.69%) Subversion
General
1 135 (25.42%) Social Skills
2 120 (22.60%) Finance
3 92 (17.33%) Public Sector
4 87 (16.38%) Banking
5 19 (3.58%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.32%) Financial Institution
7 7 (1.32%) Investment Banking
7 7 (1.32%) Retail
8 5 (0.94%) Retail Banking
9 4 (0.75%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.56%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.56%) Electronics
10 3 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.56%) Marketing
11 2 (0.38%) Law
12 1 (0.19%) German Language
12 1 (0.19%) Military
12 1 (0.19%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 317 (59.70%) Developer
2 248 (46.70%) Java Developer
3 109 (20.53%) Senior
4 78 (14.69%) Senior Developer
5 66 (12.43%) Java Engineer
6 65 (12.24%) Senior Java Developer
7 64 (12.05%) Full-Stack Developer
8 51 (9.60%) Lead
9 50 (9.42%) Software Engineer
10 34 (6.40%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 28 (5.27%) Architect
12 25 (4.71%) Lead Developer
13 23 (4.33%) Java Software Engineer
14 20 (3.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 19 (3.58%) AWS Developer
16 18 (3.39%) Backend Developer
16 18 (3.39%) Lead Java Developer
17 14 (2.64%) Technical Architect
18 13 (2.45%) Azure Engineer
19 12 (2.26%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 461 (86.82%) Spring
2 152 (28.63%) Kafka
3 149 (28.06%) RESTful
4 123 (23.16%) React
5 119 (22.41%) REST
6 101 (19.02%) AngularJS
7 60 (11.30%) Hibernate
8 58 (10.92%) HTML
9 54 (10.17%) Node.js
10 42 (7.91%) CSS
11 41 (7.72%) JSON
12 40 (7.53%) JPA
13 39 (7.34%) OAuth
14 37 (6.97%) OAuth2
15 34 (6.40%) Spring Cloud
16 28 (5.27%) OpenTelemetry
17 25 (4.71%) Spring MVC
18 23 (4.33%) Swagger
19 21 (3.95%) J2EE
19 21 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 84 (15.82%) Cloud Native
2 53 (9.98%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (5.65%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (2.45%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 10 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.13%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.13%) N-Tier
11 5 (0.94%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
11 5 (0.94%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (0.75%) NHS
13 3 (0.56%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.56%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.52%) Linux
2 10 (1.88%) Unix
3 6 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.13%) Windows
4 3 (0.56%) Android
5 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (68.55%) Microservices
2 296 (55.74%) CI/CD
3 231 (43.50%) Agile
4 194 (36.53%) DevOps
5 172 (32.39%) Containerisation
6 127 (23.92%) Full-Stack Development
7 115 (21.66%) Problem-Solving
7 115 (21.66%) Test Automation
8 109 (20.53%) Software Engineering
9 104 (19.59%) TDD
10 97 (18.27%) Event-Driven
11 80 (15.07%) Infrastructure as Code
12 69 (12.99%) SDLC
13 64 (12.05%) API Design
14 62 (11.68%) Scrum
15 60 (11.30%) Mentoring
16 59 (11.11%) Observability
17 56 (10.55%) BDD
18 54 (10.17%) Code Quality
19 53 (9.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 494 (93.03%) Java
2 129 (24.29%) SQL
3 85 (16.01%) JavaScript
4 68 (12.81%) TypeScript
5 53 (9.98%) Python
6 30 (5.65%) Kotlin
7 12 (2.26%) Shell Script
8 9 (1.69%) Bash
9 7 (1.32%) Groovy
10 6 (1.13%) Go
10 6 (1.13%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.13%) Ruby
10 6 (1.13%) Rust
11 4 (0.75%) C#
11 4 (0.75%) PHP
12 3 (0.56%) Perl
12 3 (0.56%) Scala
13 2 (0.38%) JCL
13 2 (0.38%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 110 (20.72%) Security Cleared
2 88 (16.57%) SC Cleared
3 22 (4.14%) Degree
4 13 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.07%) OCP
5 11 (2.07%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (0.56%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.38%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (12.62%) QA
2 38 (7.16%) Accessibility
3 22 (4.14%) ISO 20022
4 15 (2.82%) WCAG
5 12 (2.26%) PSD2
5 12 (2.26%) SEPA
6 7 (1.32%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.56%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.56%) HL7
7 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.56%) NIST
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.19%) GDPR
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 234 (44.07%) Docker
2 3 (0.56%) ISA Server
3 2 (0.38%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 253 (47.65%) Kubernetes
2 99 (18.64%) Terraform
3 48 (9.04%) Grafana
4 24 (4.52%) Ansible
5 22 (4.14%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.45%) Kibana
7 12 (2.26%) Argo
8 5 (0.94%) Istio
8 5 (0.94%) Kiali
9 4 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.38%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.38%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.19%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.19%) Consul
11 1 (0.19%) Control-M
11 1 (0.19%) logstash
11 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (10.92%) Oracle
2 27 (5.08%) Splunk
3 26 (4.90%) Google
4 22 (4.14%) Microsoft
5 14 (2.64%) Dynatrace
6 9 (1.69%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.32%) CA Agile Central
8 6 (1.13%) Virgin Media
9 5 (0.94%) AppDynamics
9 5 (0.94%) Confluent
9 5 (0.94%) Gigya
10 4 (0.75%) ForgeRock
10 4 (0.75%) IBM
10 4 (0.75%) Sybase
10 4 (0.75%) VMware
11 3 (0.56%) Adobe
11 3 (0.56%) Checkmarx
11 3 (0.56%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.56%) Qualys
11 3 (0.56%) SAP
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