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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 185 234
Rank change year-on-year +4 +49 -73
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 686 424 445
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.48% 1.44% 1.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.29% 6.34% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 274 336
10th Percentile £355 £356 £375
25th Percentile £411 £406 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.25%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £644 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £441 £479
% change year-on-year +7.71% -7.93% -8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 6 0
10th Percentile - £45.00 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.88 -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £73.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.73% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £91.56 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £68.75 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

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 9,405 6,685 8,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.32% 22.70% 20.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,253 4,581 6,172
10th Percentile £358 £363 £334
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 104 204
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.22 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.80 £37.49
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.69 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -25.78%

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 21 April 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 21 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 14 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 21 April 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 +32 579 £500 -5.66% 109
UK excluding London -3 354 £475 +7.71% 76
London +12 263 £525 -4.11% 63
North of England +10 160 £475 +2.15% 24
Work from Home -2 158 £481 -8.36% 65
North West +19 113 £475 +18.16% 13
West Midlands -20 51 £469 +11.67% 2
Midlands -35 51 £469 +16.67% 3
Scotland -26 45 £588 +36.63% 7
South East -26 40 £525 -2.23% 22
South West -1 39 £402 -23.38% 11
Yorkshire -49 34 £475 -11.63% 4
East of England -11 21 £570 +21.93% 4
North East -7 15 £475 +2.15% 7

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 30 (4.37%) Apache Spark
2 26 (3.79%) Confluence
3 14 (2.04%) Camunda
4 9 (1.31%) Apache
4 9 (1.31%) WebLogic
5 6 (0.87%) Ethereum
5 6 (0.87%) Hyperledger
6 4 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.29%) CICS
8 2 (0.29%) Drupal
8 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.29%) WordPress
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.15%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 386 (56.27%) AWS
2 183 (26.68%) Azure
3 122 (17.78%) GitHub
4 110 (16.03%) GCP
5 89 (12.97%) Serverless
6 86 (12.54%) Amazon S3
7 77 (11.22%) AWS Lambda
8 70 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
9 46 (6.71%) Amazon EC2
10 43 (6.27%) Amazon ECS
11 39 (5.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 39 (5.69%) Amazon SQS
12 38 (5.54%) Amazon EKS
13 33 (4.81%) AWS CloudFormation
14 26 (3.79%) Azure AKS
14 26 (3.79%) OpenShift
15 18 (2.62%) Route 53
16 16 (2.33%) AWS Fargate
16 16 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
17 15 (2.19%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.60%) HTTP
2 10 (1.46%) Firewall
2 10 (1.46%) SSL
3 7 (1.02%) HTTPS
4 5 (0.73%) DNS
5 3 (0.44%) VPN
6 1 (0.15%) FTP
6 1 (0.15%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.15%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (19.83%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (13.56%) NoSQL
3 77 (11.22%) Relational Database
4 71 (10.35%) MongoDB
5 64 (9.33%) MySQL
6 60 (8.75%) DynamoDB
7 46 (6.71%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (3.35%) Amazon Aurora
9 22 (3.21%) SQL Server
10 17 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (2.19%) DocumentDB
11 15 (2.19%) Redis
12 13 (1.90%) Big Data
13 12 (1.75%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
15 10 (1.46%) DB2
16 9 (1.31%) Flink
17 8 (1.17%) BigQuery
18 7 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
19 6 (0.87%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 152 (22.16%) Git
2 147 (21.43%) Jenkins
3 111 (16.18%) JUnit
4 105 (15.31%) GitLab
5 55 (8.02%) Mockito
6 51 (7.43%) JIRA
7 50 (7.29%) Gradle
7 50 (7.29%) Maven
8 29 (4.23%) SonarQube
9 25 (3.64%) Cucumber
10 21 (3.06%) IntelliJ
11 18 (2.62%) Selenium
12 14 (2.04%) Cypress.io
13 13 (1.90%) Postman
14 12 (1.75%) Gatling
15 11 (1.60%) DbUnit
15 11 (1.60%) jMock
16 10 (1.46%) Jaeger
16 10 (1.46%) Mocha
17 9 (1.31%) REST Assured
General
1 139 (20.26%) Social Skills
2 135 (19.68%) Finance
3 120 (17.49%) Public Sector
4 65 (9.48%) Banking
5 32 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.04%) Financial Institution
7 12 (1.75%) Retail
8 5 (0.73%) Automotive
8 5 (0.73%) Law
8 5 (0.73%) Retail Banking
8 5 (0.73%) Telecoms
9 4 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.58%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.58%) Publishing
10 3 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.44%) Electronics
10 3 (0.44%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.44%) Marketing
10 3 (0.44%) Military
10 3 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 408 (59.48%) Developer
2 294 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 140 (20.41%) Senior
4 113 (16.47%) Java Engineer
5 86 (12.54%) Senior Developer
6 82 (11.95%) Full-Stack Developer
7 73 (10.64%) Software Engineer
8 66 (9.62%) Senior Java Developer
9 62 (9.04%) Lead
10 44 (6.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 39 (5.69%) Java Software Engineer
12 31 (4.52%) Backend Developer
12 31 (4.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 28 (4.08%) Lead Developer
13 28 (4.08%) Software Developer
14 24 (3.50%) Architect
14 24 (3.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 18 (2.62%) Azure Engineer
16 17 (2.48%) Lead Java Developer
17 15 (2.19%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 638 (93.00%) Spring
2 201 (29.30%) RESTful
3 188 (27.41%) Kafka
4 161 (23.47%) REST
5 145 (21.14%) React
6 108 (15.74%) AngularJS
7 97 (14.14%) Node.js
8 68 (9.91%) HTML
9 66 (9.62%) Hibernate
10 48 (7.00%) CSS
10 48 (7.00%) JPA
11 47 (6.85%) Spring MVC
12 42 (6.12%) OpenTelemetry
13 41 (5.98%) OAuth
14 38 (5.54%) OAuth2
14 38 (5.54%) Spring Cloud
15 37 (5.39%) Jest
16 32 (4.66%) Next.js
17 31 (4.52%) Web Services
18 29 (4.23%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 109 (15.89%) Cloud Native
2 72 (10.50%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.83%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (2.77%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.62%) Mobile App
7 13 (1.90%) Data Structures
8 12 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.46%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.46%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (1.31%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (1.02%) NHS
13 6 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 5 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
15 4 (0.58%) Data Centre
16 3 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.85%) Linux
2 13 (1.90%) Unix
3 6 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.44%) Windows
5 2 (0.29%) VMS
5 2 (0.29%) zOS
6 1 (0.15%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (62.10%) Microservices
2 387 (56.41%) CI/CD
3 267 (38.92%) Agile
4 258 (37.61%) DevOps
5 223 (32.51%) Containerisation
6 171 (24.93%) Full-Stack Development
7 140 (20.41%) Software Engineering
8 132 (19.24%) TDD
9 125 (18.22%) Event-Driven
10 118 (17.20%) Test Automation
11 113 (16.47%) Code Quality
12 108 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
13 95 (13.85%) Observability
13 95 (13.85%) Scrum
14 87 (12.68%) Infrastructure as Code
15 84 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
16 77 (11.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 76 (11.08%) API Design
18 71 (10.35%) Mentoring
19 67 (9.77%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 649 (94.61%) Java
2 189 (27.55%) SQL
3 102 (14.87%) JavaScript
4 90 (13.12%) TypeScript
5 69 (10.06%) Python
6 48 (7.00%) Kotlin
7 19 (2.77%) Go
8 13 (1.90%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.31%) Rust
10 8 (1.17%) C#
10 8 (1.17%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.87%) Perl
12 3 (0.44%) Bash
12 3 (0.44%) PHP
13 2 (0.29%) Ruby
13 2 (0.29%) Scala
14 1 (0.15%) Groovy
14 1 (0.15%) Korn
14 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 185 (26.97%) Security Cleared
2 149 (21.72%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.25%) Degree
4 27 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.17%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.87%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.87%) OCP
7 6 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (0.73%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (10.64%) QA
2 53 (7.73%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.48%) ISO 20022
4 13 (1.90%) WCAG
5 9 (1.31%) SEPA
6 8 (1.17%) PSD2
7 7 (1.02%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.58%) HL7
8 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.58%) NIST
9 3 (0.44%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.44%) GDPR
9 3 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.29%) NCSC
11 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 289 (42.13%) Docker
2 10 (1.46%) Postfix
3 3 (0.44%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 304 (44.31%) Kubernetes
2 93 (13.56%) Terraform
3 83 (12.10%) Grafana
4 48 (7.00%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.06%) Ansible
6 13 (1.90%) Argo
7 10 (1.46%) Kiali
7 10 (1.46%) Kibana
8 9 (1.31%) Istio
9 2 (0.29%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.29%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 53 (7.73%) Oracle
2 37 (5.39%) Splunk
3 33 (4.81%) Google
3 33 (4.81%) Microsoft
4 14 (2.04%) Jaspersoft
5 11 (1.60%) Atlassian
6 10 (1.46%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.31%) Checkmarx
7 9 (1.31%) Sybase
8 8 (1.17%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.17%) ForgeRock
8 8 (1.17%) IBM
9 7 (1.02%) Databricks
10 6 (0.87%) Adobe
10 6 (0.87%) SAP
10 6 (0.87%) Solace
11 5 (0.73%) Ab Initio
11 5 (0.73%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.73%) Teradata
11 5 (0.73%) Virgin Media