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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 201 253
Rank change year-on-year +7 +52 -102
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 636 390 414
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.47% 1.31% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.78% 5.78% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 245 307
10th Percentile £350 £356 £393
25th Percentile £413 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% +4.00% -18.43%
75th Percentile £572 £588 £619
90th Percentile £630 £695 £815
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £439 £495
% change year-on-year +8.26% -11.27% -9.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £81.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 9,374 6,749 8,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.68% 22.70% 20.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,249 4,526 6,251
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £493
% change year-on-year - +1.42% -3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 96 209
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £40.75 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.48 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 15 March 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 15 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 15 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 15 March 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 +33 534 £481 -9.79% 107
UK excluding London +30 354 £475 +8.26% 88
London -10 217 £525 -8.70% 40
North of England +23 169 £475 +5.56% 42
Work from Home +6 151 £488 -2.50% 99
North West +43 116 £470 +11.97% 22
Midlands -20 51 £469 +11.67% 8
West Midlands -23 50 £469 +11.67% 6
South East -11 49 £450 -16.20% 18
Scotland -12 46 £600 +40.35% 6
Yorkshire -42 33 £500 -4.76% 9
South West -15 29 £384 -28.56% 10
North East 0 22 £475 +7.95% 11
East of England - 13 £555 - 1
East Midlands -34 1 £220 -32.52% 2

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 27 (4.25%) Confluence
2 23 (3.62%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.04%) Camunda
4 9 (1.42%) WebLogic
5 8 (1.26%) Apache
6 6 (0.94%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.94%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.47%) CMS
8 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.31%) CICS
9 2 (0.31%) Drupal
9 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.31%) WordPress
10 1 (0.16%) JBoss
10 1 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 362 (56.92%) AWS
2 180 (28.30%) Azure
3 116 (18.24%) GitHub
4 94 (14.78%) GCP
5 84 (13.21%) Serverless
6 81 (12.74%) Amazon S3
7 71 (11.16%) AWS Lambda
8 68 (10.69%) GitHub Actions
9 44 (6.92%) Amazon EC2
10 40 (6.29%) Amazon ECS
11 39 (6.13%) Amazon EKS
12 33 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
13 32 (5.03%) Amazon SQS
14 30 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 30 (4.72%) OpenShift
15 21 (3.30%) Azure AKS
16 17 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (2.67%) Datadog
17 16 (2.52%) AWS Fargate
18 14 (2.20%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.73%) HTTP
2 10 (1.57%) SSL
3 9 (1.42%) Firewall
4 7 (1.10%) HTTPS
5 5 (0.79%) DNS
5 5 (0.79%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.47%) VPN
7 1 (0.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (20.28%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (14.15%) NoSQL
3 77 (12.11%) MongoDB
4 68 (10.69%) Relational Database
5 51 (8.02%) DynamoDB
6 48 (7.55%) MySQL
7 41 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (3.30%) SQL Server
9 20 (3.14%) Amazon Aurora
10 16 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (2.36%) DocumentDB
12 14 (2.20%) Redis
13 13 (2.04%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.73%) Apache Cassandra
15 9 (1.42%) Big Data
15 9 (1.42%) DB2
16 8 (1.26%) BigQuery
16 8 (1.26%) HBase
17 7 (1.10%) Flink
17 7 (1.10%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 144 (22.64%) Git
2 143 (22.48%) Jenkins
3 116 (18.24%) GitLab
4 109 (17.14%) JUnit
5 53 (8.33%) Mockito
6 51 (8.02%) JIRA
7 50 (7.86%) Maven
8 45 (7.08%) Cucumber
8 45 (7.08%) Gradle
9 22 (3.46%) Selenium
10 19 (2.99%) SonarQube
11 15 (2.36%) Cypress.io
12 14 (2.20%) IntelliJ
12 14 (2.20%) Postman
13 13 (2.04%) Gatling
13 13 (2.04%) REST Assured
14 12 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
15 11 (1.73%) Artifactory
16 10 (1.57%) Mocha
17 9 (1.42%) Jaeger
General
1 144 (22.64%) Social Skills
2 122 (19.18%) Finance
3 115 (18.08%) Public Sector
4 70 (11.01%) Banking
5 27 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.04%) Financial Institution
7 12 (1.89%) Retail
8 9 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (0.79%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.63%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.63%) Automotive
10 4 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.63%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.63%) Law
10 4 (0.63%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.63%) Military
10 4 (0.63%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.47%) Electronics
11 3 (0.47%) Marketing
12 2 (0.31%) Legal
Job Titles
1 377 (59.28%) Developer
2 272 (42.77%) Java Developer
3 130 (20.44%) Senior
4 107 (16.82%) Java Engineer
5 80 (12.58%) Senior Developer
6 78 (12.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 70 (11.01%) Software Engineer
8 63 (9.91%) Senior Java Developer
9 56 (8.81%) Lead
10 42 (6.60%) Java Software Engineer
11 40 (6.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 29 (4.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 28 (4.40%) Backend Developer
14 24 (3.77%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 23 (3.62%) Lead Developer
16 22 (3.46%) AWS Developer
16 22 (3.46%) Software Developer
17 20 (3.14%) Architect
18 19 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
19 13 (2.04%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 575 (90.41%) Spring
2 187 (29.40%) Kafka
3 180 (28.30%) RESTful
4 153 (24.06%) REST
5 135 (21.23%) React
6 108 (16.98%) AngularJS
7 82 (12.89%) Node.js
8 64 (10.06%) Hibernate
9 59 (9.28%) HTML
10 47 (7.39%) JPA
11 41 (6.45%) CSS
12 40 (6.29%) OAuth
13 37 (5.82%) OAuth2
13 37 (5.82%) OpenTelemetry
14 33 (5.19%) Spring Cloud
14 33 (5.19%) Spring MVC
15 28 (4.40%) JSON
16 27 (4.25%) Jest
16 27 (4.25%) RabbitMQ
17 25 (3.93%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 93 (14.62%) Cloud Native
2 57 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (5.97%) Product Ownership
4 17 (2.67%) Mobile App
4 17 (2.67%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
7 10 (1.57%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.42%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 7 (1.10%) Data Structures
11 6 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.79%) NHS
13 4 (0.63%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.63%) Data Centre
13 4 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.63%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
14 3 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.60%) Linux
2 10 (1.57%) Unix
3 6 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.47%) Windows
5 2 (0.31%) zOS
6 1 (0.16%) Android
6 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (62.42%) Microservices
2 359 (56.45%) CI/CD
3 264 (41.51%) Agile
4 241 (37.89%) DevOps
5 197 (30.97%) Containerisation
6 162 (25.47%) Full-Stack Development
7 134 (21.07%) Software Engineering
8 125 (19.65%) TDD
9 120 (18.87%) Test Automation
10 112 (17.61%) Event-Driven
10 112 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
11 91 (14.31%) Scrum
12 83 (13.05%) Observability
13 77 (12.11%) Code Quality
14 76 (11.95%) Infrastructure as Code
15 70 (11.01%) Mentoring
16 69 (10.85%) API Design
17 67 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
18 64 (10.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 64 (10.06%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 599 (94.18%) Java
2 158 (24.84%) SQL
3 88 (13.84%) JavaScript
4 84 (13.21%) TypeScript
5 56 (8.81%) Python
6 44 (6.92%) Kotlin
7 18 (2.83%) Go
8 15 (2.36%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.42%) Rust
10 8 (1.26%) C#
11 7 (1.10%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.94%) Perl
13 4 (0.63%) Scala
14 3 (0.47%) PHP
15 2 (0.31%) Bash
15 2 (0.31%) Groovy
15 2 (0.31%) Ruby
16 1 (0.16%) Bicep
16 1 (0.16%) Solidity
16 1 (0.16%) Swift
Qualifications
1 166 (26.10%) Security Cleared
2 135 (21.23%) SC Cleared
3 30 (4.72%) Degree
4 23 (3.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.73%) OCP
6 11 (1.73%) Oracle Certification
7 6 (0.94%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.94%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.63%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (10.53%) QA
2 48 (7.55%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.14%) ISO 20022
4 18 (2.83%) WCAG
5 10 (1.57%) PSD2
5 10 (1.57%) SEPA
6 9 (1.42%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.63%) NIST
8 3 (0.47%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.47%) GDPR
8 3 (0.47%) HL7
8 3 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.31%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.31%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 266 (41.82%) Docker
2 6 (0.94%) Postfix
3 3 (0.47%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 298 (46.86%) Kubernetes
2 89 (13.99%) Terraform
3 85 (13.36%) Grafana
4 45 (7.08%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.30%) Ansible
6 14 (2.20%) Argo
7 12 (1.89%) Kibana
8 9 (1.42%) Kiali
9 7 (1.10%) Istio
10 2 (0.31%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.31%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.16%) Consul
11 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 56 (8.81%) Oracle
2 38 (5.97%) Splunk
3 30 (4.72%) Microsoft
4 29 (4.56%) Google
5 11 (1.73%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.42%) Jaspersoft
6 9 (1.42%) Sybase
7 7 (1.10%) Atlassian
7 7 (1.10%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.10%) ForgeRock
7 7 (1.10%) Virgin Media
8 6 (0.94%) Adobe
8 6 (0.94%) Databricks
8 6 (0.94%) IBM
8 6 (0.94%) PagerDuty
8 6 (0.94%) SAP
9 4 (0.63%) Confluent
9 4 (0.63%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.63%) VMware
10 3 (0.47%) Checkmarx