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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 189 195
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 +31
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 786 486 523
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.49% 1.49% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.67% 6.58% 5.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 345 414
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% -3.67%
75th Percentile £581 £545 £625
90th Percentile £663 £613 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £452 £475
% change year-on-year +6.83% -4.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 10 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.75 -
25th Percentile £62.00 £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 £90.00 £83.44 £74.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.50 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +37.27% -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 10,251 7,385 9,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.46% 22.60% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,718 4,986 6,286
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% -4.74% -2.18%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 161 277
10th Percentile £30.00 £29.25 £22.65
25th Percentile £50.00 £39.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% +1.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -1.24%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +13 631 £521 +8.54% 225
UK excluding London -12 366 £483 +6.83% 128
London +22 319 £525 +5.00% 148
Work from Home -30 183 £495 -2.94% 85
North of England -18 143 £500 +10.01% 28
North West -26 85 £539 +37.09% 13
Midlands -38 53 £480 +19.40% 19
South West +8 51 £409 -23.91% 34
Scotland -24 51 £405 -10.06% 11
West Midlands -35 50 £493 +3.74% 14
Yorkshire -19 43 £475 -9.52% 9
East of England +10 32 £504 +7.70% 3
South East -60 31 £450 -17.20% 24
North East -24 18 £450 -8.16% 6
Wales -19 7 £375 -21.05% 6
Northern Ireland 0 2 - - 3
East Midlands -34 2 £401 +20.42% 5

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 44 (5.60%) Apache Spark
2 24 (3.05%) Apache
3 20 (2.54%) Confluence
4 14 (1.78%) Camunda
4 14 (1.78%) WebLogic
5 10 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.27%) Ethereum
5 10 (1.27%) Hyperledger
6 5 (0.64%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.38%) nginx
8 3 (0.38%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.25%) Drupal
9 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.25%) Mule
9 2 (0.25%) WordPress
10 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
1 431 (54.83%) AWS
2 201 (25.57%) Azure
3 142 (18.07%) GCP
4 117 (14.89%) GitHub
5 76 (9.67%) GitHub Actions
6 69 (8.78%) Amazon S3
7 67 (8.52%) Serverless
8 59 (7.51%) AWS Lambda
9 44 (5.60%) Amazon EC2
10 41 (5.22%) Amazon SQS
11 37 (4.71%) OpenShift
12 35 (4.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 31 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
14 29 (3.69%) 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 (2.16%) Cloud Run
19 14 (1.78%) 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
1 160 (20.36%) PostgreSQL
2 97 (12.34%) Relational Database
3 88 (11.20%) NoSQL
4 82 (10.43%) MongoDB
5 63 (8.02%) MySQL
6 45 (5.73%) Amazon RDS
6 45 (5.73%) DynamoDB
7 33 (4.20%) SQL Server
8 22 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (2.67%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (2.54%) Flink
11 19 (2.42%) Big Data
11 19 (2.42%) Redis
12 15 (1.91%) Apache Cassandra
13 13 (1.65%) RDBMS
14 12 (1.53%) Metadata
15 9 (1.15%) Data Lake
15 9 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
16 8 (1.02%) Oracle Database
17 7 (0.89%) Db2
Development Applications
1 193 (24.55%) Git
2 192 (24.43%) Jenkins
3 130 (16.54%) JUnit
4 104 (13.23%) GitLab
5 81 (10.31%) Gradle
6 80 (10.18%) Maven
7 74 (9.41%) Mockito
8 47 (5.98%) JIRA
9 40 (5.09%) SonarQube
10 23 (2.93%) Selenium
11 21 (2.67%) REST Assured
12 20 (2.54%) Cucumber
13 18 (2.29%) Liquibase
14 16 (2.04%) Gatling
15 14 (1.78%) DbUnit
15 14 (1.78%) IntelliJ
16 13 (1.65%) jMock
17 12 (1.53%) Bitbucket Server
17 12 (1.53%) Serenity BDD
18 10 (1.27%) Postman
General
1 171 (21.76%) Finance
2 148 (18.83%) Social Skills
3 142 (18.07%) Public Sector
4 84 (10.69%) Banking
5 54 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.42%) Retail
7 14 (1.78%) Financial Institution
8 13 (1.65%) 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
1 453 (57.63%) Developer
2 355 (45.17%) Java Developer
3 159 (20.23%) Senior
4 130 (16.54%) Java Engineer
5 99 (12.60%) Software Engineer
6 84 (10.69%) Lead
7 82 (10.43%) Senior Developer
8 67 (8.52%) Senior Java Developer
9 61 (7.76%) Full-Stack Developer
10 53 (6.74%) Java Software Engineer
11 39 (4.96%) Lead Developer
12 38 (4.83%) Backend Developer
13 37 (4.71%) Software Developer
14 33 (4.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 31 (3.94%) Senior Java Engineer
16 29 (3.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 28 (3.56%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 25 (3.18%) Lead Java Developer
19 24 (3.05%) Data Engineer
20 19 (2.42%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 741 (94.27%) Spring
2 238 (30.28%) Kafka
3 214 (27.23%) RESTful
4 205 (26.08%) REST
5 150 (19.08%) React
6 109 (13.87%) Node.js
7 81 (10.31%) AngularJS
8 67 (8.52%) HTML
9 66 (8.40%) Hibernate
9 66 (8.40%) JPA
10 55 (7.00%) CSS
11 50 (6.36%) Spring MVC
12 48 (6.11%) Web Services
13 42 (5.34%) Spring Cloud
14 39 (4.96%) Redux
15 37 (4.71%) RabbitMQ
16 34 (4.33%) HTML5
16 34 (4.33%) OAuth
17 33 (4.20%) SOAP
18 31 (3.94%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 147 (18.70%) Cloud Native
2 93 (11.83%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (6.87%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (2.04%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.91%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.78%) Mobile App
9 14 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.65%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.53%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 8 (1.02%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.89%) AI Agents
14 6 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.36%) Linux
2 22 (2.80%) 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
1 473 (60.18%) Microservices
2 467 (59.41%) CI/CD
3 351 (44.66%) Agile
4 308 (39.19%) DevOps
5 258 (32.82%) Containerisation
6 198 (25.19%) Software Engineering
7 165 (20.99%) TDD
8 152 (19.34%) Full-Stack Development
9 151 (19.21%) Event-Driven
10 147 (18.70%) Test Automation
11 141 (17.94%) Scrum
12 121 (15.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 121 (15.39%) Problem-Solving
13 114 (14.50%) Code Quality
14 103 (13.10%) Observability
15 100 (12.72%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 82 (10.43%) Infrastructure as Code
17 73 (9.29%) BDD
18 71 (9.03%) Mentoring
19 69 (8.78%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 770 (97.96%) Java
2 257 (32.70%) SQL
3 117 (14.89%) JavaScript
4 90 (11.45%) TypeScript
5 86 (10.94%) Python
6 38 (4.83%) Kotlin
7 32 (4.07%) PL/SQL
8 18 (2.29%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.65%) C#
9 13 (1.65%) Go
10 8 (1.02%) Scala
11 6 (0.76%) Bash
11 6 (0.76%) Ruby
12 5 (0.64%) Perl
12 5 (0.64%) Solidity
13 3 (0.38%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.25%) Groovy
14 2 (0.25%) PHP
14 2 (0.25%) PromQL
14 2 (0.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 239 (30.41%) Security Cleared
2 198 (25.19%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 33 (4.20%) Degree
5 24 (3.05%) 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%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.13%) CISSP
10 1 (0.13%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (11.32%) QA
2 70 (8.91%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.65%) ISO 20022
4 9 (1.15%) SEPA
4 9 (1.15%) WCAG
5 7 (0.89%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.89%) GDPR
5 7 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.51%) PSD2
8 3 (0.38%) EMIR
8 3 (0.38%) MiFID
9 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.25%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.13%) HL7
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.13%) ITGC
10 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 339 (43.13%) Docker
2 11 (1.40%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 326 (41.48%) Kubernetes
2 80 (10.18%) Terraform
3 69 (8.78%) Grafana
4 52 (6.62%) Prometheus
5 38 (4.83%) 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 96 (12.21%) Oracle
2 43 (5.47%) Google
3 32 (4.07%) Microsoft
3 32 (4.07%) Splunk
4 18 (2.29%) IBM
5 17 (2.16%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (1.78%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.65%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.40%) Databricks
8 11 (1.40%) Solace
9 10 (1.27%) Checkmarx
9 10 (1.27%) Sybase
10 9 (1.15%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.02%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.89%) Okta
13 6 (0.76%) New Relic
13 6 (0.76%) TikTok
14 5 (0.64%) Ab Initio
14 5 (0.64%) ForgeRock
14 5 (0.64%) Teradata