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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 219 269
Rank change year-on-year +16 +50 -130
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 531 387 376
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.43% 1.17% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.37% 5.34% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 238 267
10th Percentile £346 £356 £418
25th Percentile £420 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.48% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £629 £625
90th Percentile £625 £762 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £438 £508
% change year-on-year +7.77% -13.88% -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 8,335 7,252 9,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.47% 21.86% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,523 4,605 6,619
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £770 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 86 173
10th Percentile £31.25 £21.25 £31.40
25th Percentile £44.50 £29.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +14.68% -16.15%
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 £52.50
% change year-on-year +0.80% +19.05% -19.23%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +40 430 £486 -15.43% 197
UK excluding London +19 278 £472 +7.77% 149
London -3 203 £525 -10.87% 73
Work from Home +26 140 £508 +8.96% 106
North of England +27 138 £475 +6.74% 57
North West +40 96 £450 +2.86% 29
Scotland -8 56 £588 +38.24% 5
South East +17 35 £450 +15.38% 47
Midlands -10 28 £449 - 9
Yorkshire -40 25 £500 -35.90% 22
West Midlands -8 24 £469 - 7
North East -1 17 £475 +6.74% 6
South West -15 12 £409 -25.64% 18
Wales - 7 £475 - 5
East Midlands - 4 £268 - 2
Northern Ireland -8 2 £425 +54.55% 2
East of England -24 1 - - 8

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 17 (3.20%) 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%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 286 (53.86%) AWS
2 174 (32.77%) Azure
3 95 (17.89%) GitHub
4 91 (17.14%) GCP
5 58 (10.92%) Serverless
6 49 (9.23%) GitHub Actions
7 46 (8.66%) AWS Lambda
8 40 (7.53%) Amazon S3
9 33 (6.21%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (5.46%) OpenShift
11 28 (5.27%) Amazon EC2
12 26 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
13 24 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (4.52%) Amazon SQS
14 23 (4.33%) Azure AKS
14 23 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (3.20%) Datadog
17 14 (2.64%) Apigee
17 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
1 105 (19.77%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (15.07%) 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
8 21 (3.95%) Redis
9 17 (3.20%) Amazon Aurora
10 14 (2.64%) Apache Cassandra
10 14 (2.64%) SQL Server
11 12 (2.26%) BigQuery
11 12 (2.26%) DocumentDB
12 10 (1.88%) Oracle Database
13 8 (1.51%) DB2
13 8 (1.51%) HBase
14 7 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (0.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 126 (23.73%) Git
2 117 (22.03%) Jenkins
3 92 (17.33%) GitLab
4 85 (16.01%) JUnit
5 45 (8.47%) Gradle
5 45 (8.47%) Mockito
6 44 (8.29%) Cucumber
6 44 (8.29%) Maven
7 37 (6.97%) JIRA
8 26 (4.90%) SonarQube
9 18 (3.39%) Bitbucket
9 18 (3.39%) Postman
10 17 (3.20%) Selenium
11 16 (3.01%) Cypress.io
12 14 (2.64%) Sonatype Nexus
13 13 (2.45%) REST Assured
14 12 (2.26%) Artifactory
14 12 (2.26%) IntelliJ
15 11 (2.07%) Gatling
16 9 (1.69%) Subversion
General
1 135 (25.42%) Social Skills
2 120 (22.60%) Finance
3 92 (17.33%) Public Sector
4 89 (16.76%) 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
1 315 (59.32%) Developer
2 247 (46.52%) 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
8 51 (9.60%) Software Engineer
9 34 (6.40%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 28 (5.27%) Architect
11 25 (4.71%) Lead Developer
12 23 (4.33%) Java Software Engineer
13 21 (3.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 19 (3.58%) AWS Developer
15 18 (3.39%) Backend Developer
15 18 (3.39%) Lead Java Developer
16 14 (2.64%) Technical Architect
17 13 (2.45%) Azure Engineer
18 12 (2.26%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 462 (87.01%) Spring
2 154 (29.00%) Kafka
3 150 (28.25%) RESTful
4 121 (22.79%) React
5 119 (22.41%) REST
6 101 (19.02%) AngularJS
7 59 (11.11%) Hibernate
8 56 (10.55%) HTML
9 52 (9.79%) Node.js
10 42 (7.91%) JSON
11 41 (7.72%) OAuth
12 40 (7.53%) CSS
13 39 (7.34%) JPA
13 39 (7.34%) OAuth2
14 34 (6.40%) Spring Cloud
15 29 (5.46%) OpenTelemetry
16 25 (4.71%) Spring MVC
17 23 (4.33%) Swagger
18 21 (3.95%) J2EE
18 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
3 229 (43.13%) Agile
4 192 (36.16%) DevOps
5 174 (32.77%) Containerisation
6 128 (24.11%) Full-Stack Development
7 115 (21.66%) Problem-Solving
8 113 (21.28%) Test Automation
9 110 (20.72%) Software Engineering
10 102 (19.21%) TDD
11 98 (18.46%) Event-Driven
12 82 (15.44%) Infrastructure as Code
13 69 (12.99%) SDLC
14 64 (12.05%) API Design
15 62 (11.68%) Scrum
16 61 (11.49%) Observability
17 60 (11.30%) Mentoring
18 56 (10.55%) BDD
19 54 (10.17%) Code Quality
19 54 (10.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 495 (93.22%) Java
2 128 (24.11%) SQL
3 83 (15.63%) JavaScript
4 68 (12.81%) TypeScript
5 54 (10.17%) 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%) Rust
11 5 (0.94%) Ruby
12 4 (0.75%) C#
12 4 (0.75%) PHP
13 3 (0.56%) Perl
13 3 (0.56%) Scala
14 2 (0.38%) JCL
14 2 (0.38%) Objective-C
14 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 68 (12.81%) QA
2 38 (7.16%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.33%) ISO 20022
4 15 (2.82%) WCAG
5 13 (2.45%) PSD2
5 13 (2.45%) 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 2 (0.38%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.19%) GDPR
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 235 (44.26%) 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
2 101 (19.02%) Terraform
3 49 (9.23%) Grafana
4 25 (4.71%) Ansible
5 23 (4.33%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.45%) Argo
6 13 (2.45%) Kibana
7 5 (0.94%) Istio
7 5 (0.94%) Kiali
8 4 (0.75%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.38%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.38%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.19%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.19%) Consul
10 1 (0.19%) Control-M
10 1 (0.19%) logstash
10 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%) Confluent
8 6 (1.13%) Virgin Media
9 5 (0.94%) AppDynamics
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