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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 192 196
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 +30
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 785 482 527
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.49% 1.49% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.64% 6.60% 5.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 342 413
10th Percentile £381 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £545 £625
90th Percentile £663 £609 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £452 £475
% change year-on-year +7.24% -4.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 10 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.75 -
25th Percentile £56.75 £51.25 £69.50
Median hourly rate £76.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% -23.61% -7.69%
75th Percentile £87.75 £83.44 £74.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% -23.61% +15.20%

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 10,274 7,307 9,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.52% 22.58% 21.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,737 4,933 6,359
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £651
90th Percentile £738 £762 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 155 281
10th Percentile £30.00 £29.14 £22.75
25th Percentile £50.00 £36.40 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £74.63 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.43 £79.48 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 10 July 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 +26 632 £523 +10.00% 127
UK excluding London -26 368 £485 +7.24% 97
London +22 317 £525 +5.00% 62
Work from Home -27 179 £490 -4.39% 64
North of England -21 147 £500 +10.01% 25
North West -20 87 £538 +36.77% 11
South West +9 51 £409 -23.91% 11
Scotland -19 51 £405 -10.00% 10
Midlands -46 51 £475 +18.16% 14
West Midlands -38 48 £485 +2.11% 11
Yorkshire -14 44 £475 -9.52% 10
East of England -1 32 £504 +7.70% 3
South East -45 31 £450 -17.20% 25
North East -26 19 £450 -8.16% 4
Wales -18 7 £375 -21.05% 6
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 3
East Midlands -34 2 £401 +20.42% 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 45 (5.73%) Apache Spark
2 24 (3.06%) Apache
3 20 (2.55%) Confluence
4 14 (1.78%) Camunda
4 14 (1.78%) WebLogic
5 11 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.27%) Ethereum
6 10 (1.27%) Hyperledger
7 5 (0.64%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.38%) nginx
9 3 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.25%) Drupal
10 2 (0.25%) Mule
10 2 (0.25%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.64%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.51%) Quorum
2 4 (0.51%) Ripple
3 3 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.25%) Shopify
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 427 (54.39%) AWS
2 197 (25.10%) Azure
3 136 (17.32%) GCP
4 117 (14.90%) GitHub
5 76 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
6 71 (9.04%) Amazon S3
7 69 (8.79%) Serverless
8 61 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (5.73%) Amazon EC2
10 42 (5.35%) Amazon SQS
11 37 (4.71%) OpenShift
12 35 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 33 (4.20%) Amazon ECS
14 28 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (2.42%) Azure AKS
17 18 (2.29%) AWS KMS
17 18 (2.29%) Route 53
18 17 (2.17%) Cloud Run
19 16 (2.04%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.53%) HTTP
2 5 (0.64%) Firewall
3 4 (0.51%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.13%) SMS
4 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (20.25%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (11.97%) Relational Database
3 92 (11.72%) NoSQL
4 83 (10.57%) MongoDB
5 58 (7.39%) MySQL
6 47 (5.99%) Amazon RDS
7 46 (5.86%) DynamoDB
8 34 (4.33%) SQL Server
9 22 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
10 21 (2.68%) Amazon Aurora
11 20 (2.55%) Flink
12 19 (2.42%) Big Data
12 19 (2.42%) Redis
13 15 (1.91%) Apache Cassandra
14 14 (1.78%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.40%) Metadata
16 10 (1.27%) Data Lake
17 9 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (1.15%) Db2
18 8 (1.02%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 191 (24.33%) Jenkins
2 185 (23.57%) Git
3 131 (16.69%) JUnit
4 103 (13.12%) GitLab
5 77 (9.81%) Gradle
6 74 (9.43%) Mockito
7 72 (9.17%) Maven
8 47 (5.99%) JIRA
9 38 (4.84%) SonarQube
10 24 (3.06%) Selenium
11 21 (2.68%) REST Assured
12 20 (2.55%) Cucumber
13 18 (2.29%) Liquibase
14 16 (2.04%) Gatling
15 15 (1.91%) IntelliJ
16 14 (1.78%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.66%) jMock
18 12 (1.53%) Bitbucket Server
18 12 (1.53%) Serenity BDD
19 10 (1.27%) Postman
General
1 170 (21.66%) Finance
2 150 (19.11%) Social Skills
3 140 (17.83%) Public Sector
4 84 (10.70%) Banking
5 49 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.42%) Retail
7 14 (1.78%) Financial Institution
8 13 (1.66%) Military
9 12 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.53%) Law
10 7 (0.89%) Retail Banking
11 6 (0.76%) Publishing
12 5 (0.64%) Automotive
12 5 (0.64%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.38%) Police
14 2 (0.25%) Legal
14 2 (0.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 447 (56.94%) Developer
2 352 (44.84%) Java Developer
3 162 (20.64%) Senior
4 133 (16.94%) Java Engineer
5 100 (12.74%) Software Engineer
6 84 (10.70%) Lead
6 84 (10.70%) Senior Developer
7 69 (8.79%) Senior Java Developer
8 59 (7.52%) Full-Stack Developer
9 54 (6.88%) Java Software Engineer
10 38 (4.84%) Backend Developer
10 38 (4.84%) Lead Developer
11 37 (4.71%) Software Developer
12 33 (4.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 31 (3.95%) Senior Java Engineer
14 29 (3.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 26 (3.31%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 25 (3.18%) Data Engineer
16 25 (3.18%) Lead Java Developer
17 19 (2.42%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 740 (94.27%) Spring
2 238 (30.32%) Kafka
3 211 (26.88%) RESTful
4 204 (25.99%) REST
5 148 (18.85%) React
6 108 (13.76%) Node.js
7 79 (10.06%) AngularJS
8 66 (8.41%) Hibernate
9 65 (8.28%) JPA
10 61 (7.77%) HTML
11 49 (6.24%) CSS
12 48 (6.11%) Web Services
13 45 (5.73%) Spring MVC
14 43 (5.48%) Spring Cloud
15 39 (4.97%) Redux
16 35 (4.46%) RabbitMQ
17 34 (4.33%) OAuth
18 33 (4.20%) SOAP
19 32 (4.08%) HTML5
20 31 (3.95%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 148 (18.85%) Cloud Native
2 93 (11.85%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (6.75%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (2.04%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (1.78%) Mobile App
8 14 (1.78%) Public Cloud
8 14 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.66%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.40%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 8 (1.02%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.89%) AI Agents
13 6 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.24%) Linux
2 21 (2.68%) Unix
3 6 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.38%) VMS
4 3 (0.38%) Windows
5 1 (0.13%) Android
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Solaris
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 469 (59.75%) Microservices
2 464 (59.11%) CI/CD
3 347 (44.20%) Agile
4 306 (38.98%) DevOps
5 257 (32.74%) Containerisation
6 198 (25.22%) Software Engineering
7 170 (21.66%) TDD
8 150 (19.11%) Event-Driven
8 150 (19.11%) Full-Stack Development
9 148 (18.85%) Test Automation
10 137 (17.45%) Scrum
11 118 (15.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 116 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
13 109 (13.89%) Code Quality
14 102 (12.99%) Observability
15 99 (12.61%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 81 (10.32%) Infrastructure as Code
17 73 (9.30%) BDD
18 72 (9.17%) Mentoring
19 65 (8.28%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 769 (97.96%) Java
2 253 (32.23%) SQL
3 113 (14.39%) JavaScript
4 91 (11.59%) TypeScript
5 88 (11.21%) Python
6 39 (4.97%) Kotlin
7 31 (3.95%) PL/SQL
8 18 (2.29%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.78%) C#
10 13 (1.66%) Go
11 9 (1.15%) Scala
12 6 (0.76%) Bash
12 6 (0.76%) Ruby
13 5 (0.64%) Perl
13 5 (0.64%) Solidity
14 3 (0.38%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.25%) Groovy
15 2 (0.25%) PHP
15 2 (0.25%) PromQL
15 2 (0.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 231 (29.43%) Security Cleared
2 190 (24.20%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 33 (4.20%) Degree
5 24 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.91%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.02%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.64%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.25%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.13%) CISSP
10 1 (0.13%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (11.34%) QA
2 70 (8.92%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.66%) ISO 20022
4 9 (1.15%) SEPA
4 9 (1.15%) WCAG
5 8 (1.02%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.89%) GDPR
6 7 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.51%) PSD2
9 3 (0.38%) EMIR
9 3 (0.38%) MiFID
10 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.13%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.13%) ITGC
11 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 339 (43.18%) Docker
2 11 (1.40%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 327 (41.66%) Kubernetes
2 82 (10.45%) Terraform
3 70 (8.92%) Grafana
4 52 (6.62%) Prometheus
5 38 (4.84%) Ansible
6 12 (1.53%) Kibana
7 11 (1.40%) Control-M
8 7 (0.89%) Argo
9 6 (0.76%) Istio
10 4 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.38%) Kiali
12 2 (0.25%) Consul
12 2 (0.25%) Zipkin
13 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
13 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 91 (11.59%) Oracle
2 40 (5.10%) Google
3 32 (4.08%) Microsoft
3 32 (4.08%) Splunk
4 18 (2.29%) IBM
5 17 (2.17%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (1.78%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.66%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.53%) Sybase
9 11 (1.40%) Databricks
9 11 (1.40%) Solace
10 10 (1.27%) Checkmarx
11 9 (1.15%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.02%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.89%) Okta
14 6 (0.76%) New Relic
14 6 (0.76%) TikTok
15 5 (0.64%) ForgeRock
15 5 (0.64%) Informatica
15 5 (0.64%) Teradata