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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 186 194
Rank change year-on-year +15 +8 +22
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 759 444 529
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 1.49% 1.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.67% 6.50% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 307 413
10th Percentile £382 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £545 £625
90th Percentile £663 £593 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £450 £481
% change year-on-year +7.36% -6.44% -5.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 9 1
10th Percentile £52.50 £47.00 -
25th Percentile £53.75 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £76.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% -23.61% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85.50 £88.75 £74.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £73.50 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +33.64% -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 9,895 6,827 9,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.54% 22.86% 21.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,500 4,658 6,376
10th Percentile £363 £356 £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 £650
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 283 126 277
10th Percentile £30.10 £29.16 £22.30
25th Percentile £51.88 £39.84 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +10.29% -21.54%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.18 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.63
% change year-on-year +4.00% +12.36% -14.42%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +31 634 £512 +7.17% 105
UK excluding London -12 361 £483 +7.36% 92
London +27 314 £525 +5.00% 42
Work from Home -29 170 £490 -4.39% 47
North of England -8 157 £500 +7.53% 28
North West -8 100 £525 +30.60% 11
South West +15 54 £409 -23.91% 17
Midlands -55 47 £475 +18.16% 4
West Midlands -37 44 £475 - 3
Scotland -23 43 £405 -7.49% 7
Yorkshire -31 39 £500 -4.76% 14
East of England -2 32 £504 +7.70% 3
South East -50 28 £481 -10.38% 20
North East -22 21 £450 -8.16% 5
Wales -12 3 - - 4
East Midlands -37 2 £401 +20.42% 1
Northern Ireland -4 1 - - 9

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 (5.80%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.64%) Apache
2 20 (2.64%) Confluence
3 16 (2.11%) Camunda
4 11 (1.45%) WebLogic
5 10 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.32%) Ethereum
5 10 (1.32%) Hyperledger
6 4 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.40%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.26%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.26%) Drupal
8 2 (0.26%) Mule
8 2 (0.26%) nginx
8 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.26%) WordPress
9 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.66%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.53%) Quorum
2 4 (0.53%) Ripple
3 3 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.26%) Shopify
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 408 (53.75%) AWS
2 180 (23.72%) Azure
3 125 (16.47%) GCP
4 114 (15.02%) GitHub
5 76 (10.01%) GitHub Actions
6 74 (9.75%) Amazon S3
7 70 (9.22%) Serverless
8 65 (8.56%) AWS Lambda
9 44 (5.80%) Amazon SQS
10 43 (5.67%) Amazon EC2
11 38 (5.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 38 (5.01%) OpenShift
12 34 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
13 29 (3.82%) Amazon EKS
14 22 (2.90%) Route 53
15 21 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (2.50%) Azure AKS
17 18 (2.37%) AWS KMS
18 16 (2.11%) AWS Fargate
18 16 (2.11%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.45%) HTTP
2 8 (1.05%) Firewall
3 4 (0.53%) DNS
3 4 (0.53%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.13%) SMS
4 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (20.16%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (12.65%) NoSQL
3 86 (11.33%) Relational Database
4 78 (10.28%) MongoDB
5 61 (8.04%) MySQL
6 52 (6.85%) DynamoDB
7 49 (6.46%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (3.69%) SQL Server
9 24 (3.16%) Amazon Aurora
10 22 (2.90%) Redis
11 19 (2.50%) Big Data
11 19 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (2.37%) Flink
13 14 (1.84%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (1.58%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.19%) Data Lake
16 8 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
16 8 (1.05%) Db2
17 7 (0.92%) Metadata
17 7 (0.92%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 178 (23.45%) Jenkins
2 169 (22.27%) Git
3 125 (16.47%) JUnit
4 107 (14.10%) GitLab
5 75 (9.88%) Gradle
6 71 (9.35%) Mockito
7 63 (8.30%) Maven
8 47 (6.19%) JIRA
9 36 (4.74%) SonarQube
10 24 (3.16%) Selenium
11 22 (2.90%) Cucumber
12 21 (2.77%) REST Assured
13 20 (2.64%) IntelliJ
14 18 (2.37%) Liquibase
15 17 (2.24%) Gatling
16 14 (1.84%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.71%) jMock
18 12 (1.58%) Bitbucket Server
18 12 (1.58%) Serenity BDD
19 9 (1.19%) Mocha
General
1 168 (22.13%) Finance
2 139 (18.31%) Social Skills
3 121 (15.94%) Public Sector
4 86 (11.33%) Banking
5 43 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (2.24%) Retail
7 16 (2.11%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.58%) Law
9 11 (1.45%) Military
10 6 (0.79%) Publishing
10 6 (0.79%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.66%) Automotive
11 5 (0.66%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.40%) Police
13 2 (0.26%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.26%) Legal
13 2 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 418 (55.07%) Developer
2 324 (42.69%) Java Developer
3 162 (21.34%) Senior
4 135 (17.79%) Java Engineer
5 108 (14.23%) Software Engineer
6 83 (10.94%) Senior Developer
7 76 (10.01%) Lead
8 67 (8.83%) Senior Java Developer
9 59 (7.77%) Full-Stack Developer
10 57 (7.51%) Java Software Engineer
11 39 (5.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 35 (4.61%) Backend Developer
12 35 (4.61%) Software Developer
13 33 (4.35%) Lead Developer
14 30 (3.95%) Senior Java Engineer
15 25 (3.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 24 (3.16%) Data Engineer
17 23 (3.03%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 22 (2.90%) Lead Java Developer
19 21 (2.77%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 705 (92.89%) Spring
2 230 (30.30%) Kafka
3 201 (26.48%) RESTful
4 183 (24.11%) REST
5 148 (19.50%) React
6 102 (13.44%) Node.js
7 75 (9.88%) AngularJS
8 67 (8.83%) Hibernate
9 63 (8.30%) JPA
10 54 (7.11%) HTML
11 50 (6.59%) Spring Cloud
12 45 (5.93%) Spring MVC
12 45 (5.93%) Web Services
13 44 (5.80%) CSS
14 37 (4.87%) OAuth
15 35 (4.61%) OAuth2
16 34 (4.48%) Redux
17 33 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
17 33 (4.35%) SOAP
18 32 (4.22%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 142 (18.71%) Cloud Native
2 91 (11.99%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (1.84%) Data Structures
7 14 (1.84%) Mobile App
8 13 (1.71%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.45%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.45%) Onboarding
11 7 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
11 7 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (0.79%) Blockchain
12 6 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (0.79%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.46%) Linux
2 21 (2.77%) Unix
3 6 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.40%) VMS
5 2 (0.26%) Windows
6 1 (0.13%) Android
6 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (58.23%) Microservices
2 439 (57.84%) CI/CD
3 320 (42.16%) Agile
4 295 (38.87%) DevOps
5 246 (32.41%) Containerisation
6 198 (26.09%) Software Engineering
7 161 (21.21%) TDD
8 156 (20.55%) Full-Stack Development
9 141 (18.58%) Event-Driven
10 136 (17.92%) Test Automation
11 118 (15.55%) Scrum
12 111 (14.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 106 (13.97%) Code Quality
13 106 (13.97%) Observability
14 103 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
15 94 (12.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 79 (10.41%) Infrastructure as Code
17 73 (9.62%) BDD
18 70 (9.22%) Mentoring
19 63 (8.30%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 742 (97.76%) Java
2 246 (32.41%) SQL
3 108 (14.23%) JavaScript
4 93 (12.25%) TypeScript
5 88 (11.59%) Python
6 42 (5.53%) Kotlin
7 27 (3.56%) PL/SQL
8 15 (1.98%) Go
8 15 (1.98%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.71%) C#
10 8 (1.05%) Scala
11 6 (0.79%) Ruby
12 5 (0.66%) Bash
12 5 (0.66%) Perl
12 5 (0.66%) Rust
12 5 (0.66%) Solidity
13 3 (0.40%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.26%) Korn
14 2 (0.26%) PHP
14 2 (0.26%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 210 (27.67%) Security Cleared
2 173 (22.79%) SC Cleared
3 40 (5.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 30 (3.95%) Degree
5 20 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.71%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.92%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.66%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (11.46%) QA
2 67 (8.83%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.84%) ISO 20022
4 10 (1.32%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.32%) SEPA
4 10 (1.32%) WCAG
5 7 (0.92%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.92%) GDPR
5 7 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.79%) PSD2
7 5 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.53%) NIST
9 3 (0.40%) EMIR
9 3 (0.40%) MiFID
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.26%) NCSC
11 1 (0.13%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) ITGC
11 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 325 (42.82%) Docker
2 11 (1.45%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 313 (41.24%) Kubernetes
2 79 (10.41%) Grafana
3 78 (10.28%) Terraform
4 56 (7.38%) Prometheus
5 39 (5.14%) Ansible
6 10 (1.32%) Kibana
7 9 (1.19%) Argo
7 9 (1.19%) Control-M
8 6 (0.79%) Istio
8 6 (0.79%) Kiali
9 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.26%) Consul
10 2 (0.26%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 78 (10.28%) Oracle
2 35 (4.61%) Google
3 33 (4.35%) Splunk
4 30 (3.95%) Microsoft
5 17 (2.24%) Jaspersoft
6 16 (2.11%) IBM
7 14 (1.84%) Atlassian
8 12 (1.58%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.45%) Sybase
10 10 (1.32%) Databricks
10 10 (1.32%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.19%) Checkmarx
11 9 (1.19%) Solace
12 8 (1.05%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.79%) Okta
14 5 (0.66%) Ab Initio
14 5 (0.66%) ForgeRock
14 5 (0.66%) New Relic
14 5 (0.66%) Teradata
14 5 (0.66%) TikTok