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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 183 195
Rank change year-on-year -11 +12 +80
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 813 501 473
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.49% 1.53% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.86% 6.01% 5.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 530 349 360
10th Percentile £380 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £630
90th Percentile £688 £613 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £465 £460
% change year-on-year +6.45% +1.09% -7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 10 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £69.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 £83.44 £74.50
90th Percentile £86.10 £92.50 -
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 11,852 8,341 9,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.76% 25.47% 24.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,779 5,612 6,310
10th Percentile £375 £355 £357
25th Percentile £435 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £633 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 181 188
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £46.53 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £61.80
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -15.05% -1.12%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £75.00 £74.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.64% -15.38% +8.33%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -2 636 £525 +5.00% 517
UK excluding London -22 377 £495 +6.45% 305
London +8 339 £528 +4.98% 329
Work from Home -36 186 £500 - 509
North of England -20 159 £537 +15.48% 87
North West -32 93 £550 +30.18% 53
Scotland -16 67 £402 -10.67% 61
Midlands -25 62 £575 +57.97% 38
West Midlands -7 56 £575 +15.00% 30
Yorkshire +6 51 £500 -9.09% 17
South West -26 35 £450 -11.55% 42
East of England +2 26 £500 +6.95% 8
South East -56 24 £291 -47.09% 40
North East -39 16 £450 -6.25% 17
Wales -21 8 £394 -17.11% 6
East Midlands -30 5 £400 +27.80% 8
Northern Ireland 0 2 - - 26

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 32 (3.94%) Apache Spark
2 26 (3.20%) Confluence
3 23 (2.83%) Apache
4 19 (2.34%) Camunda
5 10 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.98%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.62%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.49%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.49%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.49%) nginx
8 4 (0.49%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.25%) Mule
10 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.12%) CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.62%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.49%) Quorum
2 4 (0.49%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.49%) Ripple
3 3 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.37%) Finacle
3 3 (0.37%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.25%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 464 (57.07%) AWS
2 181 (22.26%) Azure
3 136 (16.73%) GitHub
4 135 (16.61%) GCP
5 86 (10.58%) GitHub Actions
6 67 (8.24%) Serverless
7 62 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
8 57 (7.01%) Amazon S3
9 50 (6.15%) OpenShift
10 45 (5.54%) Amazon EKS
11 44 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
12 41 (5.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 40 (4.92%) Amazon SQS
14 34 (4.18%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
16 18 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
17 17 (2.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 14 (1.72%) Anthropic Claude
18 14 (1.72%) GitHub Copilot
19 11 (1.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.48%) HTTP
2 6 (0.74%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.37%) Firewall
4 3 (0.37%) SSL
5 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) AMQP
6 1 (0.12%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (20.54%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (12.67%) Relational Database
3 96 (11.81%) NoSQL
4 94 (11.56%) MongoDB
5 63 (7.75%) MySQL
6 39 (4.80%) SQL Server
7 33 (4.06%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (3.81%) DynamoDB
9 30 (3.69%) Redis
10 22 (2.71%) Amazon Aurora
11 18 (2.21%) Flink
12 16 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (1.97%) RDBMS
13 15 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
13 15 (1.85%) Metadata
14 14 (1.72%) Big Data
15 12 (1.48%) Oracle Database
16 11 (1.35%) Couchbase
17 10 (1.23%) Data Lake
18 8 (0.98%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 222 (27.31%) Jenkins
2 205 (25.22%) Git
3 146 (17.96%) JUnit
4 128 (15.74%) GitLab
5 116 (14.27%) Maven
6 110 (13.53%) Gradle
7 92 (11.32%) Mockito
8 55 (6.77%) SonarQube
9 46 (5.66%) JIRA
10 26 (3.20%) REST Assured
11 24 (2.95%) Cucumber
12 22 (2.71%) Liquibase
13 20 (2.46%) Selenium
14 14 (1.72%) Bitbucket Server
15 13 (1.60%) IntelliJ
16 12 (1.48%) Gatling
17 10 (1.23%) GoCD
17 10 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
18 9 (1.11%) Flyway
19 8 (0.98%) JProfiler
General
1 189 (23.25%) Finance
2 167 (20.54%) Social Skills
3 141 (17.34%) Public Sector
4 107 (13.16%) Banking
5 65 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.83%) Retail
7 17 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.48%) Law
9 11 (1.35%) Military
9 11 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (0.86%) Financial Institution
10 7 (0.86%) Retail Banking
11 6 (0.74%) Front Office
11 6 (0.74%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (0.74%) Publishing
12 4 (0.49%) Police
13 3 (0.37%) Automotive
14 2 (0.25%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.25%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 464 (57.07%) Developer
2 370 (45.51%) Java Developer
3 175 (21.53%) Senior
4 132 (16.24%) Java Engineer
5 104 (12.79%) Software Engineer
6 91 (11.19%) Senior Developer
7 88 (10.82%) Lead
8 72 (8.86%) Senior Java Developer
9 64 (7.87%) Full-Stack Developer
10 56 (6.89%) Java Software Engineer
11 43 (5.29%) Lead Developer
12 42 (5.17%) Software Developer
13 41 (5.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 38 (4.67%) Senior Java Engineer
15 33 (4.06%) Backend Developer
16 32 (3.94%) Lead Java Developer
17 26 (3.20%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 24 (2.95%) Architect
19 23 (2.83%) Data Engineer
20 22 (2.71%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 766 (94.22%) Spring
2 281 (34.56%) Kafka
3 242 (29.77%) REST
4 219 (26.94%) RESTful
5 162 (19.93%) React
6 105 (12.92%) Node.js
7 85 (10.46%) Terraform
8 84 (10.33%) HTML
8 84 (10.33%) JPA
9 78 (9.59%) AngularJS
9 78 (9.59%) Hibernate
10 72 (8.86%) CSS
11 56 (6.89%) Spring MVC
12 55 (6.77%) Web Services
13 51 (6.27%) RabbitMQ
14 50 (6.15%) Redux
15 44 (5.41%) OAuth
16 40 (4.92%) OpenAPI
16 40 (4.92%) Spring Cloud
17 38 (4.67%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 206 (25.34%) Cloud Native
2 119 (14.64%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (7.87%) Product Ownership
4 45 (5.54%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (2.21%) Data Structures
9 17 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.97%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.97%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.60%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 11 (1.35%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.11%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 7 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
16 6 (0.74%) Fixed Income
17 5 (0.62%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.41%) Linux
2 31 (3.81%) Unix
3 2 (0.25%) VMS
3 2 (0.25%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) AIX
4 1 (0.12%) Android
4 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.12%) Solaris
4 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (64.58%) Microservices
2 486 (59.78%) CI/CD
3 407 (50.06%) Agile
4 300 (36.90%) DevOps
5 248 (30.50%) Software Engineering
6 246 (30.26%) Containerisation
7 202 (24.85%) Test Automation
8 191 (23.49%) Event-Driven
9 173 (21.28%) TDD
10 165 (20.30%) Scrum
11 141 (17.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 138 (16.97%) Full-Stack Development
13 127 (15.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 120 (14.76%) Code Quality
15 119 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
16 117 (14.39%) Observability
17 102 (12.55%) Infrastructure as Code
18 92 (11.32%) SDLC
19 90 (11.07%) Clean Code
20 86 (10.58%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 804 (98.89%) Java
2 272 (33.46%) SQL
3 130 (15.99%) JavaScript
4 106 (13.04%) TypeScript
5 85 (10.46%) Python
6 37 (4.55%) PL/SQL
7 28 (3.44%) Kotlin
8 22 (2.71%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.72%) Bash
10 10 (1.23%) Scala
11 9 (1.11%) Ruby
12 7 (0.86%) C#
13 5 (0.62%) Groovy
14 4 (0.49%) Go
14 4 (0.49%) Solidity
15 3 (0.37%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.25%) Korn
16 2 (0.25%) PromQL
16 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 232 (28.54%) Security Cleared
2 195 (23.99%) SC Cleared
3 69 (8.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 36 (4.43%) Degree
5 28 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.25%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.25%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.12%) CISSP
8 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (12.55%) QA
2 71 (8.73%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.58%) ISO 20022
4 12 (1.48%) WCAG
5 11 (1.35%) SEPA
6 10 (1.23%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.86%) GDPR
8 6 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.49%) ISO 15022
10 4 (0.49%) PSD2
11 3 (0.37%) EMIR
11 3 (0.37%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) HL7
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 339 (41.70%) Docker
2 5 (0.62%) Postfix
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 316 (38.87%) Kubernetes
2 59 (7.26%) Grafana
3 47 (5.78%) Prometheus
4 40 (4.92%) Ansible
5 22 (2.71%) Kibana
6 16 (1.97%) Control-M
7 10 (1.23%) Argo
8 8 (0.98%) Istio
9 4 (0.49%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.37%) Bosun
10 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.25%) Consul
11 2 (0.25%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.12%) Kiali
12 1 (0.12%) logstash
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 125 (15.38%) Oracle
2 42 (5.17%) Google
3 30 (3.69%) IBM
4 22 (2.71%) Microsoft
5 19 (2.34%) Splunk
6 17 (2.09%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.60%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.23%) Checkmarx
8 10 (1.23%) Solace
9 9 (1.11%) Databricks
10 8 (0.98%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (0.98%) Sybase
10 8 (0.98%) Veracode
11 7 (0.86%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.86%) New Relic
11 7 (0.86%) TikTok
12 6 (0.74%) FIS
12 6 (0.74%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.62%) Confluent
14 4 (0.49%) Mistral