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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 186 202
Rank change year-on-year -14 +16 +62
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 766 505 474
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.43% 1.54% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.54% 6.08% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 354 365
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% -0.24%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £663 £613 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £459 £460
% change year-on-year +7.96% -0.33% -7.72%
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 11,704 8,306 9,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.82% 25.37% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,703 5,615 6,430
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £630 £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 282 183 208
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.35 £23.80
25th Percentile £45.31 £41.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -2.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.88 £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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -9 594 £525 +5.00% 160
UK excluding London -22 356 £495 +7.96% 146
London +7 315 £525 +2.44% 69
Work from Home -49 175 £500 -0.74% 107
North of England -17 149 £510 +9.68% 44
North West -29 85 £550 +27.91% 24
Scotland -9 69 £402 -10.67% 15
Yorkshire +2 47 £500 -9.09% 7
Midlands -55 46 £575 +56.25% 17
West Midlands -23 40 £575 +21.05% 14
South West -17 37 £463 -9.76% 36
East of England +4 26 £500 +6.95% 1
South East -56 23 £294 -44.10% 25
North East -29 18 £450 -8.16% 13
Wales -19 8 £394 -17.11% 7
East Midlands -34 5 £400 +22.51% 3
Northern Ireland -2 2 - - 3

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 33 (4.31%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.26%) Apache
3 18 (2.35%) Confluence
4 15 (1.96%) Camunda
5 10 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.04%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.65%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.52%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.52%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.52%) nginx
8 4 (0.52%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.52%) 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 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.52%) Quorum
1 4 (0.52%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.52%) 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
1 435 (56.79%) AWS
2 180 (23.50%) Azure
3 129 (16.84%) GCP
4 126 (16.45%) GitHub
5 83 (10.84%) GitHub Actions
6 63 (8.22%) Serverless
7 56 (7.31%) AWS Lambda
8 50 (6.53%) Amazon S3
9 46 (6.01%) OpenShift
10 42 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
11 40 (5.22%) Amazon ECS
11 40 (5.22%) Amazon SQS
12 38 (4.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 29 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
16 15 (1.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 11 (1.44%) Amazon Cognito
18 10 (1.31%) AWS KMS
18 10 (1.31%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.44%) HTTP
2 6 (0.78%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.52%) 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 (20.63%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (12.14%) Relational Database
3 85 (11.10%) NoSQL
4 81 (10.57%) MongoDB
5 63 (8.22%) MySQL
6 38 (4.96%) SQL Server
7 31 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
7 31 (4.05%) DynamoDB
8 28 (3.66%) Redis
9 22 (2.87%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (2.22%) Flink
11 16 (2.09%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (1.96%) Metadata
12 15 (1.96%) RDBMS
13 14 (1.83%) Big Data
13 14 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.31%) Couchbase
14 10 (1.31%) Data Lake
15 8 (1.04%) InterSystems Cache
15 8 (1.04%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 207 (27.02%) Jenkins
2 191 (24.93%) Git
3 130 (16.97%) JUnit
4 120 (15.67%) GitLab
5 99 (12.92%) Gradle
6 97 (12.66%) Maven
7 77 (10.05%) Mockito
8 43 (5.61%) SonarQube
9 39 (5.09%) JIRA
10 21 (2.74%) Liquibase
10 21 (2.74%) REST Assured
11 19 (2.48%) Cucumber
12 17 (2.22%) Selenium
13 13 (1.70%) Gatling
13 13 (1.70%) IntelliJ
14 11 (1.44%) Bitbucket Server
15 10 (1.31%) GoCD
16 9 (1.17%) Flyway
17 8 (1.04%) JProfiler
18 7 (0.91%) DbUnit
General
1 176 (22.98%) Finance
2 150 (19.58%) Social Skills
3 133 (17.36%) Public Sector
4 89 (11.62%) Banking
5 54 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (3.00%) Retail
7 15 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.57%) Law
9 11 (1.44%) Military
10 8 (1.04%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (0.91%) Retail Banking
12 6 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.78%) Publishing
13 5 (0.65%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.52%) 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
1 438 (57.18%) Developer
2 348 (45.43%) Java Developer
3 160 (20.89%) Senior
4 131 (17.10%) Java Engineer
5 106 (13.84%) Software Engineer
6 85 (11.10%) Senior Developer
7 77 (10.05%) Lead
8 68 (8.88%) Senior Java Developer
9 62 (8.09%) Full-Stack Developer
10 59 (7.70%) Java Software Engineer
11 43 (5.61%) Software Developer
12 38 (4.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 35 (4.57%) Lead Developer
14 34 (4.44%) Senior Java Engineer
15 33 (4.31%) Backend Developer
16 24 (3.13%) Lead Java Developer
16 24 (3.13%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 23 (3.00%) Data Engineer
18 21 (2.74%) Architect
18 21 (2.74%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 723 (94.39%) Spring
2 243 (31.72%) Kafka
3 215 (28.07%) REST
4 211 (27.55%) RESTful
5 158 (20.63%) React
6 107 (13.97%) Node.js
7 83 (10.84%) Terraform
8 77 (10.05%) HTML
9 69 (9.01%) JPA
10 68 (8.88%) AngularJS
11 67 (8.75%) Hibernate
12 66 (8.62%) CSS
13 56 (7.31%) Spring MVC
14 47 (6.14%) RabbitMQ
15 46 (6.01%) Redux
16 45 (5.87%) Web Services
17 44 (5.74%) OAuth
18 38 (4.96%) OAuth2
19 36 (4.70%) OpenAPI
20 33 (4.31%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 188 (24.54%) Cloud Native
2 114 (14.88%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (7.31%) Product Ownership
4 40 (5.22%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
7 20 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (2.09%) Data Structures
10 15 (1.96%) Public Cloud
11 14 (1.83%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.44%) AI Agents
13 10 (1.31%) Algorithms
14 8 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (1.04%) Virtual Team
15 7 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
16 6 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
16 6 (0.78%) Mobile App
17 5 (0.65%) Mainframe
17 5 (0.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.35%) Linux
2 29 (3.79%) 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
1 488 (63.71%) Microservices
2 459 (59.92%) CI/CD
3 380 (49.61%) Agile
4 283 (36.95%) DevOps
5 231 (30.16%) Containerisation
5 231 (30.16%) Software Engineering
6 173 (22.58%) Test Automation
7 170 (22.19%) Event-Driven
8 160 (20.89%) TDD
9 143 (18.67%) Scrum
10 136 (17.75%) Full-Stack Development
11 126 (16.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 113 (14.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 108 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
14 107 (13.97%) Code Quality
14 107 (13.97%) Observability
15 101 (13.19%) Infrastructure as Code
16 85 (11.10%) Clean Code
17 83 (10.84%) Design Patterns
18 77 (10.05%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 757 (98.83%) Java
2 257 (33.55%) SQL
3 120 (15.67%) JavaScript
4 99 (12.92%) TypeScript
5 84 (10.97%) Python
6 32 (4.18%) PL/SQL
7 27 (3.52%) Kotlin
8 22 (2.87%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.70%) Bash
10 10 (1.31%) Ruby
11 8 (1.04%) Scala
12 7 (0.91%) C#
13 5 (0.65%) Groovy
14 4 (0.52%) 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
1 221 (28.85%) Security Cleared
2 182 (23.76%) SC Cleared
3 60 (7.83%) BPSS Clearance
4 29 (3.79%) Degree
5 20 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.70%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.44%) 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 93 (12.14%) QA
2 69 (9.01%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.70%) ISO 20022
4 10 (1.31%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.31%) WCAG
5 7 (0.91%) GDPR
5 7 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (0.91%) SEPA
6 6 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.65%) 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
1 324 (42.30%) Docker
2 5 (0.65%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 305 (39.82%) Kubernetes
2 50 (6.53%) Grafana
3 42 (5.48%) Ansible
4 39 (5.09%) Prometheus
5 20 (2.61%) Kibana
6 16 (2.09%) Control-M
7 9 (1.17%) Argo
8 7 (0.91%) 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%) Packer
Vendors
1 107 (13.97%) Oracle
2 40 (5.22%) Google
3 23 (3.00%) IBM
4 21 (2.74%) Microsoft
5 18 (2.35%) Splunk
6 16 (2.09%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.70%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.31%) Checkmarx
8 10 (1.31%) Solace
9 8 (1.04%) Databricks
9 8 (1.04%) Jaspersoft
9 8 (1.04%) New Relic
10 7 (0.91%) Atlassian
10 7 (0.91%) Sybase
10 7 (0.91%) TikTok
11 6 (0.78%) Okta
12 5 (0.65%) Confluent
12 5 (0.65%) SAP
12 5 (0.65%) Veracode
13 4 (0.52%) FIS