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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 201 196
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 +86
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 827 468 477
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.52% 1.42% 1.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.99% 5.45% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 324 344
10th Percentile £380 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £492 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% -6.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £565 £638
90th Percentile £694 £613 £747
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £467 £450
% change year-on-year +7.07% +3.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 6 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £38.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £44.38 £69.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -27.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 £55.00 £74.50
90th Percentile £88.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% -7.69%

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 11,824 8,584 9,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.68% 25.97% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,762 5,692 6,068
10th Percentile £377 £354 £356
25th Percentile £440 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 188 183
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.10 £25.78
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.60 £74.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +19.95% -13.46% +10.11%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +14 636 £525 +6.71% 621
UK excluding London -4 385 £500 +7.07% 369
London +8 327 £535 +1.90% 380
Work from Home -23 192 £500 -0.74% 305
North of England -14 165 £537 +13.05% 122
North West -19 97 £550 +25.71% 76
Midlands -7 79 £558 +55.80% 27
West Midlands +9 73 £575 +15.00% 19
Scotland -6 64 £402 -15.37% 95
Yorkshire +7 51 £488 -11.36% 20
South West -20 30 £500 -0.50% 40
South East -63 23 £297 -34.00% 34
East of England - 19 £495 - 6
North East -35 18 £450 -10.00% 27
Wales -11 9 £413 -13.16% 18
East Midlands -25 5 £400 +44.93% 8
Northern Ireland +9 2 - - 27

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 (3.63%) Apache
2 29 (3.51%) Confluence
3 25 (3.02%) Apache Spark
4 18 (2.18%) Camunda
5 9 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.97%) WebLogic
7 6 (0.73%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.60%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.48%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.48%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.48%) nginx
10 3 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.24%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.24%) Mule
11 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) Solana
12 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.12%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.60%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.48%) Quorum
2 4 (0.48%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.48%) Ripple
3 3 (0.36%) Finacle
3 3 (0.36%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.24%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 473 (57.19%) AWS
2 180 (21.77%) Azure
3 136 (16.44%) GitHub
4 128 (15.48%) GCP
5 88 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
6 65 (7.86%) Serverless
7 60 (7.26%) AWS Lambda
8 58 (7.01%) Amazon S3
9 52 (6.29%) Amazon ECS
10 49 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
10 49 (5.93%) OpenShift
11 45 (5.44%) Amazon SQS
12 35 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 34 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (2.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 17 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
17 16 (1.93%) Anthropic Claude
18 14 (1.69%) GitHub Copilot
19 12 (1.45%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.57%) HTTP
2 7 (0.85%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.36%) SSL
5 2 (0.24%) Firewall
5 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) AMQP
6 1 (0.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (20.68%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (13.54%) MongoDB
3 111 (13.42%) Relational Database
4 94 (11.37%) NoSQL
5 50 (6.05%) MySQL
6 45 (5.44%) SQL Server
7 33 (3.99%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (3.75%) Redis
9 24 (2.90%) Flink
10 21 (2.54%) Amazon Aurora
10 21 (2.54%) DynamoDB
11 16 (1.93%) Metadata
12 15 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (1.81%) Oracle Database
12 15 (1.81%) RDBMS
13 12 (1.45%) Couchbase
14 11 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (1.33%) Big Data
15 10 (1.21%) Data Lake
16 8 (0.97%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 231 (27.93%) Jenkins
2 216 (26.12%) Git
3 148 (17.90%) JUnit
4 141 (17.05%) GitLab
5 136 (16.44%) Maven
6 118 (14.27%) Gradle
7 100 (12.09%) Mockito
8 52 (6.29%) SonarQube
9 46 (5.56%) JIRA
10 34 (4.11%) Cucumber
11 30 (3.63%) REST Assured
12 24 (2.90%) Selenium
13 16 (1.93%) Liquibase
14 15 (1.81%) Gatling
15 13 (1.57%) Bitbucket Server
15 13 (1.57%) Claude Code
16 11 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
17 10 (1.21%) GoCD
18 9 (1.09%) Flyway
18 9 (1.09%) IntelliJ
General
1 194 (23.46%) Finance
2 176 (21.28%) Social Skills
3 151 (18.26%) Public Sector
4 126 (15.24%) Banking
5 74 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.14%) Retail
7 21 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.69%) Investment Banking
9 13 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (1.45%) Military
11 11 (1.33%) Front Office
12 8 (0.97%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.97%) Law
13 7 (0.85%) Back Office
13 7 (0.85%) Retail Banking
14 6 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.48%) iGaming
16 3 (0.36%) Corporate Banking
16 3 (0.36%) Police
Job Titles
1 455 (55.02%) Developer
2 367 (44.38%) Java Developer
3 189 (22.85%) Senior
4 151 (18.26%) Java Engineer
5 104 (12.58%) Software Engineer
6 94 (11.37%) Senior Developer
7 87 (10.52%) Lead
8 75 (9.07%) Senior Java Developer
9 66 (7.98%) Full-Stack Developer
10 57 (6.89%) Java Software Engineer
11 48 (5.80%) Senior Java Engineer
12 43 (5.20%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 43 (5.20%) Lead Developer
13 38 (4.59%) Software Developer
14 33 (3.99%) Lead Java Developer
15 27 (3.26%) Architect
15 27 (3.26%) Backend Developer
16 26 (3.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 26 (3.14%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 24 (2.90%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 778 (94.07%) Spring
2 305 (36.88%) Kafka
3 273 (33.01%) REST
4 219 (26.48%) RESTful
5 149 (18.02%) React
6 105 (12.70%) Node.js
7 99 (11.97%) JPA
8 92 (11.12%) Terraform
9 85 (10.28%) AngularJS
10 84 (10.16%) Hibernate
11 80 (9.67%) HTML
12 69 (8.34%) CSS
13 60 (7.26%) Web Services
14 49 (5.93%) RabbitMQ
14 49 (5.93%) Spring MVC
15 48 (5.80%) OAuth
16 45 (5.44%) OpenAPI
17 44 (5.32%) SOAP
18 43 (5.20%) Redux
19 39 (4.72%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 227 (27.45%) Cloud Native
2 147 (17.78%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (8.46%) Product Ownership
4 53 (6.41%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
7 23 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (2.54%) AI Agents
9 17 (2.06%) Data Structures
9 17 (2.06%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 14 (1.69%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.33%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.97%) Fixed Income
14 8 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
15 7 (0.85%) Equities
16 6 (0.73%) Blockchain
16 6 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 52 (6.29%) Linux
2 35 (4.23%) Unix
3 3 (0.36%) Mac OS X
4 2 (0.24%) AIX
4 2 (0.24%) Windows
5 1 (0.12%) Android
5 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.12%) Solaris
5 1 (0.12%) VMS
5 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (65.05%) Microservices
2 509 (61.55%) CI/CD
3 435 (52.60%) Agile
4 297 (35.91%) DevOps
5 259 (31.32%) Software Engineering
6 235 (28.42%) Containerisation
7 223 (26.96%) Test Automation
8 213 (25.76%) Event-Driven
9 179 (21.64%) Scrum
10 168 (20.31%) TDD
11 142 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 142 (17.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 139 (16.81%) Full-Stack Development
13 124 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
14 119 (14.39%) Observability
15 102 (12.33%) Code Quality
16 101 (12.21%) Infrastructure as Code
17 92 (11.12%) Clean Code
17 92 (11.12%) SDLC
18 88 (10.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 816 (98.67%) Java
2 281 (33.98%) SQL
3 128 (15.48%) JavaScript
4 112 (13.54%) TypeScript
5 74 (8.95%) Python
6 40 (4.84%) PL/SQL
7 29 (3.51%) Shell Script
8 21 (2.54%) Kotlin
9 13 (1.57%) Bash
10 11 (1.33%) Scala
11 9 (1.09%) Ruby
12 6 (0.73%) C#
13 5 (0.60%) Groovy
14 4 (0.48%) Solidity
15 3 (0.36%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.24%) Bicep
16 2 (0.24%) Korn
16 2 (0.24%) PromQL
16 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.12%) C++
Qualifications
1 232 (28.05%) Security Cleared
2 200 (24.18%) SC Cleared
3 77 (9.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 42 (5.08%) Degree
5 32 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.06%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.81%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.48%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.36%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.12%) CISSP
10 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (13.18%) QA
2 74 (8.95%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.66%) ISO 20022
4 13 (1.57%) SEPA
5 12 (1.45%) WCAG
6 11 (1.33%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.85%) GDPR
8 6 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.60%) PSD2
10 4 (0.48%) ISO 15022
10 4 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.36%) EMIR
11 3 (0.36%) MiFID
12 2 (0.24%) NIST
13 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 1 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 337 (40.75%) Docker
2 3 (0.36%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 330 (39.90%) Kubernetes
2 60 (7.26%) Grafana
3 44 (5.32%) Prometheus
4 36 (4.35%) Ansible
5 28 (3.39%) Kibana
6 16 (1.93%) Control-M
7 11 (1.33%) Argo
8 5 (0.60%) Istio
9 4 (0.48%) Bosun
9 4 (0.48%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.24%) Consul
10 2 (0.24%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.12%) logstash
11 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 131 (15.84%) Oracle
2 43 (5.20%) Google
3 29 (3.51%) IBM
4 21 (2.54%) Splunk
5 20 (2.42%) Microsoft
6 17 (2.06%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.57%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.21%) Databricks
9 9 (1.09%) New Relic
9 9 (1.09%) Sybase
9 9 (1.09%) Veracode
10 7 (0.85%) FIS
10 7 (0.85%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.85%) Solace
10 7 (0.85%) TikTok
11 6 (0.73%) ION Trading
11 6 (0.73%) Jaspersoft
12 5 (0.60%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.60%) Temenos
12 5 (0.60%) webMethods