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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 190 195
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 +12
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 747 426 516
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.49% 1.44% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.63% 6.34% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 291 399
10th Percentile £387 £325 £375
25th Percentile £425 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -13.04%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £660 £615 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £450 £481
% change year-on-year +6.53% -6.44% -6.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 9 1
10th Percentile £52.50 £47.00 -
25th Percentile £53.13 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £76.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% -23.61% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81.00 £88.75 £74.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +30.91% -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 9,792 6,720 9,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.57% 22.77% 21.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,434 4,601 6,355
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £768 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 120 265
10th Percentile £30.40 £29.23 £22.20
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.01 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +17.75% -23.08%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.19 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.47 £81.35 £74.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% +15.00% -15.38%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +31 623 £521 +4.10% 100
UK excluding London -5 350 £479 +6.53% 75
London +38 310 £525 +2.44% 37
Work from Home -35 173 £490 -5.77% 51
North of England +6 151 £500 +8.11% 29
North West +5 97 £518 +31.68% 10
South West +19 53 £409 -25.64% 19
Midlands -49 47 £475 +15.57% 3
West Midlands -31 44 £475 - 2
Scotland -29 41 £405 -6.69% 4
Yorkshire -26 37 £475 -9.52% 15
East of England +4 32 £504 +7.70% 2
South East -50 27 £500 -6.89% 15
North East -22 20 £450 -8.16% 6
Wales -12 2 - - 2
East Midlands -34 2 £401 +12.01% 1
Northern Ireland -5 1 - - 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 43 (5.76%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.68%) Confluence
3 18 (2.41%) Apache
4 16 (2.14%) Camunda
5 10 (1.34%) Ethereum
5 10 (1.34%) Hyperledger
5 10 (1.34%) WebLogic
6 9 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.40%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.27%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.27%) Drupal
9 2 (0.27%) Mule
9 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.27%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.27%) WordPress
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.67%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.54%) Quorum
2 4 (0.54%) Ripple
3 3 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.27%) Shopify
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 401 (53.68%) AWS
2 177 (23.69%) Azure
3 126 (16.87%) GCP
4 117 (15.66%) GitHub
5 79 (10.58%) GitHub Actions
6 73 (9.77%) Amazon S3
7 71 (9.50%) Serverless
8 65 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (6.16%) Amazon SQS
10 42 (5.62%) Amazon EC2
11 37 (4.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 37 (4.95%) OpenShift
12 34 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
13 30 (4.02%) Amazon EKS
14 22 (2.95%) Route 53
15 20 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (2.68%) Cloud Run
16 19 (2.54%) Azure AKS
17 18 (2.41%) AWS KMS
18 16 (2.14%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.34%) HTTP
2 9 (1.20%) Firewall
3 4 (0.54%) DNS
3 4 (0.54%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.27%) SSL
5 1 (0.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (20.21%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (12.45%) NoSQL
3 84 (11.24%) Relational Database
4 77 (10.31%) MongoDB
5 61 (8.17%) MySQL
6 52 (6.96%) DynamoDB
7 50 (6.69%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (3.75%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.35%) Amazon Aurora
10 21 (2.81%) Redis
11 19 (2.54%) Big Data
11 19 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (2.28%) Flink
13 14 (1.87%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (1.61%) RDBMS
15 8 (1.07%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.07%) Data Lake
15 8 (1.07%) Db2
16 7 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.94%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 172 (23.03%) Jenkins
2 168 (22.49%) Git
3 120 (16.06%) JUnit
4 111 (14.86%) GitLab
5 72 (9.64%) Gradle
6 69 (9.24%) Mockito
7 60 (8.03%) Maven
8 47 (6.29%) JIRA
9 36 (4.82%) SonarQube
10 24 (3.21%) Selenium
11 22 (2.95%) Cucumber
12 21 (2.81%) IntelliJ
12 21 (2.81%) REST Assured
13 18 (2.41%) Liquibase
14 17 (2.28%) Gatling
15 14 (1.87%) DbUnit
16 13 (1.74%) jMock
17 12 (1.61%) Bitbucket Server
17 12 (1.61%) Serenity BDD
18 10 (1.34%) Mocha
General
1 161 (21.55%) Finance
2 138 (18.47%) Social Skills
3 121 (16.20%) Public Sector
4 82 (10.98%) Banking
5 40 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.81%) Retail
7 17 (2.28%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.61%) Law
9 9 (1.20%) Military
10 6 (0.80%) Publishing
11 5 (0.67%) Automotive
11 5 (0.67%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.67%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.40%) Police
13 2 (0.27%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.27%) Legal
13 2 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 411 (55.02%) Developer
2 315 (42.17%) Java Developer
3 162 (21.69%) Senior
4 129 (17.27%) Java Engineer
5 105 (14.06%) Software Engineer
6 84 (11.24%) Senior Developer
7 74 (9.91%) Lead
8 66 (8.84%) Senior Java Developer
9 63 (8.43%) Full-Stack Developer
10 54 (7.23%) Java Software Engineer
11 40 (5.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 34 (4.55%) Backend Developer
12 34 (4.55%) Software Developer
13 32 (4.28%) Lead Developer
14 27 (3.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 26 (3.48%) Senior Java Engineer
16 23 (3.08%) Data Engineer
17 22 (2.95%) Lead Java Developer
17 22 (2.95%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 18 (2.41%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 694 (92.90%) Spring
2 223 (29.85%) Kafka
3 195 (26.10%) RESTful
4 185 (24.77%) REST
5 150 (20.08%) React
6 109 (14.59%) Node.js
7 81 (10.84%) AngularJS
8 63 (8.43%) Hibernate
9 62 (8.30%) JPA
10 55 (7.36%) HTML
11 51 (6.83%) Spring Cloud
12 45 (6.02%) CSS
12 45 (6.02%) Spring MVC
13 43 (5.76%) Web Services
14 39 (5.22%) OAuth
14 39 (5.22%) OpenTelemetry
15 36 (4.82%) OAuth2
16 33 (4.42%) SOAP
17 32 (4.28%) Jest
17 32 (4.28%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 141 (18.88%) Cloud Native
2 85 (11.38%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.02%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (1.87%) Data Structures
6 14 (1.87%) Mobile App
7 13 (1.74%) Public Cloud
8 11 (1.47%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.34%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (0.94%) Management Information System
12 7 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (0.80%) Blockchain
13 6 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.83%) Linux
2 21 (2.81%) Unix
3 6 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.40%) VMS
5 2 (0.27%) Windows
6 1 (0.13%) Android
6 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (59.04%) Microservices
2 430 (57.56%) CI/CD
3 308 (41.23%) Agile
4 293 (39.22%) DevOps
5 254 (34.00%) Containerisation
6 195 (26.10%) Software Engineering
7 158 (21.15%) Full-Stack Development
8 155 (20.75%) TDD
9 134 (17.94%) Event-Driven
10 126 (16.87%) Test Automation
11 116 (15.53%) Scrum
12 112 (14.99%) Observability
13 105 (14.06%) Code Quality
14 104 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
15 100 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
16 88 (11.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 86 (11.51%) Infrastructure as Code
18 72 (9.64%) BDD
19 71 (9.50%) Mentoring
20 62 (8.30%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 724 (96.92%) Java
2 236 (31.59%) SQL
3 110 (14.73%) JavaScript
4 95 (12.72%) TypeScript
5 87 (11.65%) Python
6 39 (5.22%) Kotlin
7 22 (2.95%) PL/SQL
8 16 (2.14%) Shell Script
9 15 (2.01%) Go
10 12 (1.61%) C#
11 7 (0.94%) Scala
12 6 (0.80%) Ruby
12 6 (0.80%) Rust
13 5 (0.67%) Bash
13 5 (0.67%) Perl
13 5 (0.67%) Solidity
14 3 (0.40%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.27%) Korn
15 2 (0.27%) PHP
15 2 (0.27%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 205 (27.44%) Security Cleared
2 167 (22.36%) SC Cleared
3 40 (5.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 30 (4.02%) Degree
5 19 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.87%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.94%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.80%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (10.84%) QA
2 66 (8.84%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.87%) ISO 20022
4 12 (1.61%) WCAG
5 10 (1.34%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.34%) SEPA
6 8 (1.07%) GDPR
7 7 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.80%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.80%) PSD2
9 5 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.54%) NIST
11 3 (0.40%) EMIR
11 3 (0.40%) MiFID
12 2 (0.27%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.27%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.27%) NCSC
13 1 (0.13%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) ITGC
13 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 325 (43.51%) Docker
2 11 (1.47%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 313 (41.90%) Kubernetes
2 85 (11.38%) Terraform
3 82 (10.98%) Grafana
4 58 (7.76%) Prometheus
5 39 (5.22%) Ansible
6 15 (2.01%) Argo
7 11 (1.47%) Istio
8 10 (1.34%) Kibana
9 7 (0.94%) Kiali
10 5 (0.67%) Control-M
11 4 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.27%) Consul
12 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
13 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
13 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 71 (9.50%) Oracle
2 38 (5.09%) Google
3 33 (4.42%) Splunk
4 28 (3.75%) Microsoft
5 17 (2.28%) Jaspersoft
6 15 (2.01%) IBM
7 14 (1.87%) Atlassian
8 12 (1.61%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.47%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.47%) Sybase
10 9 (1.20%) Checkmarx
10 9 (1.20%) Databricks
10 9 (1.20%) Solace
11 6 (0.80%) MuleSoft
11 6 (0.80%) Okta
12 5 (0.67%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.67%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.67%) New Relic
12 5 (0.67%) Teradata
13 4 (0.54%) SAP