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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 201 248
Rank change year-on-year +21 +47 -92
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 646 384 427
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.47% 1.32% 0.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.95% 5.80% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 244 318
10th Percentile £350 £356 £388
25th Percentile £410 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £570 £588 £613
90th Percentile £633 £688 £808
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £441 £490
% change year-on-year +7.26% -9.91% -6.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £67.50 -
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 9,295 6,621 8,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.21% 22.73% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,217 4,492 6,234
10th Percentile £358 £363 £334
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £495 £495
% change year-on-year +1.01% - -2.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 96 196
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.06 £39.29
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.09 £68.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.53 £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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +30 543 £478 -9.91% 135
UK excluding London +21 357 £473 +7.26% 98
London -4 224 £525 -8.70% 56
North of England +13 161 £475 +5.56% 51
Work from Home 0 150 £488 -4.41% 107
North West +34 115 £475 +13.16% 30
Midlands -29 52 £469 +11.67% 4
West Midlands -19 51 £470 +11.79% 2
South East -8 50 £450 -16.20% 13
Scotland -12 47 £588 +34.29% 7
South West -5 35 £400 -25.58% 15
Yorkshire -46 33 £500 -4.76% 14
North East -12 15 £475 +7.95% 7
East of England -13 15 £510 +9.09% 3
East Midlands -36 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 (4.18%) Confluence
2 24 (3.72%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.86%) Camunda
4 9 (1.39%) WebLogic
5 8 (1.24%) Apache
6 6 (0.93%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.93%) Hyperledger
7 5 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.31%) CICS
9 2 (0.31%) CMS
9 2 (0.31%) Drupal
9 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.31%) WordPress
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.15%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 365 (56.50%) AWS
2 181 (28.02%) Azure
3 120 (18.58%) GitHub
4 99 (15.33%) GCP
5 84 (13.00%) Serverless
6 81 (12.54%) Amazon S3
7 71 (10.99%) AWS Lambda
8 70 (10.84%) GitHub Actions
9 44 (6.81%) Amazon EC2
10 40 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
11 36 (5.57%) Amazon EKS
12 33 (5.11%) AWS CloudFormation
13 31 (4.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 31 (4.80%) Amazon SQS
14 30 (4.64%) OpenShift
15 23 (3.56%) Azure AKS
16 19 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
17 17 (2.63%) Datadog
18 16 (2.48%) AWS Fargate
19 14 (2.17%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.70%) HTTP
2 10 (1.55%) SSL
3 9 (1.39%) Firewall
4 7 (1.08%) HTTPS
5 5 (0.77%) DNS
5 5 (0.77%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.46%) VPN
7 1 (0.15%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (20.43%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (14.40%) NoSQL
3 76 (11.76%) MongoDB
4 69 (10.68%) Relational Database
5 54 (8.36%) MySQL
6 52 (8.05%) DynamoDB
7 41 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (3.25%) SQL Server
9 20 (3.10%) Amazon Aurora
10 15 (2.32%) DocumentDB
10 15 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (2.01%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (1.86%) RDBMS
12 12 (1.86%) Redis
13 10 (1.55%) Big Data
13 10 (1.55%) DB2
14 9 (1.39%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.24%) HBase
16 7 (1.08%) Flink
17 6 (0.93%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 145 (22.45%) Git
1 145 (22.45%) Jenkins
2 112 (17.34%) GitLab
2 112 (17.34%) JUnit
3 55 (8.51%) Mockito
4 50 (7.74%) JIRA
4 50 (7.74%) Maven
5 48 (7.43%) Gradle
6 42 (6.50%) Cucumber
7 21 (3.25%) Selenium
8 19 (2.94%) SonarQube
9 15 (2.32%) Cypress.io
9 15 (2.32%) IntelliJ
10 14 (2.17%) Postman
11 13 (2.01%) Gatling
12 12 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (1.70%) Artifactory
14 10 (1.55%) Mocha
14 10 (1.55%) REST Assured
15 9 (1.39%) Bitbucket
General
1 147 (22.76%) Social Skills
2 125 (19.35%) Finance
3 108 (16.72%) Public Sector
4 68 (10.53%) Banking
5 27 (4.18%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.01%) Financial Institution
7 12 (1.86%) Retail
8 7 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (0.77%) Law
10 4 (0.62%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.62%) Automotive
10 4 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.62%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.62%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.62%) Military
10 4 (0.62%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.62%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.46%) Electronics
11 3 (0.46%) Marketing
12 2 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 383 (59.29%) Developer
2 274 (42.41%) Java Developer
3 133 (20.59%) Senior
4 106 (16.41%) Java Engineer
5 82 (12.69%) Senior Developer
6 76 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 71 (10.99%) Software Engineer
8 64 (9.91%) Senior Java Developer
9 56 (8.67%) Lead
10 42 (6.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 40 (6.19%) Java Software Engineer
12 29 (4.49%) Backend Developer
13 26 (4.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 24 (3.72%) Software Developer
15 23 (3.56%) Lead Developer
15 23 (3.56%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 21 (3.25%) Architect
17 20 (3.10%) AWS Developer
18 19 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
19 14 (2.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 588 (91.02%) Spring
2 186 (28.79%) Kafka
2 186 (28.79%) RESTful
3 156 (24.15%) REST
4 145 (22.45%) React
5 108 (16.72%) AngularJS
6 85 (13.16%) Node.js
7 65 (10.06%) HTML
8 63 (9.75%) Hibernate
9 48 (7.43%) CSS
10 47 (7.28%) JPA
11 41 (6.35%) OAuth
12 40 (6.19%) Spring MVC
13 38 (5.88%) OAuth2
13 38 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
14 33 (5.11%) Jest
15 32 (4.95%) Spring Cloud
16 29 (4.49%) JSON
17 28 (4.33%) RabbitMQ
18 27 (4.18%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 99 (15.33%) Cloud Native
2 61 (9.44%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (6.04%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.79%) Mobile App
5 17 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (1.55%) Data Structures
7 10 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
7 10 (1.55%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.39%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.08%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.77%) NHS
12 4 (0.62%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (6.35%) Linux
2 9 (1.39%) Unix
3 6 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.46%) Windows
5 2 (0.31%) VMS
5 2 (0.31%) zOS
6 1 (0.15%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (61.61%) Microservices
2 362 (56.04%) CI/CD
3 261 (40.40%) Agile
4 246 (38.08%) DevOps
5 196 (30.34%) Containerisation
6 166 (25.70%) Full-Stack Development
7 134 (20.74%) Software Engineering
8 120 (18.58%) TDD
9 116 (17.96%) Test Automation
10 113 (17.49%) Event-Driven
11 110 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
12 93 (14.40%) Scrum
13 89 (13.78%) Observability
14 88 (13.62%) Code Quality
15 76 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
16 72 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement
17 69 (10.68%) API Design
18 67 (10.37%) Mentoring
19 66 (10.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 65 (10.06%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 608 (94.12%) Java
2 167 (25.85%) SQL
3 95 (14.71%) JavaScript
4 88 (13.62%) TypeScript
5 58 (8.98%) Python
6 47 (7.28%) Kotlin
7 19 (2.94%) Go
8 14 (2.17%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.39%) Rust
10 8 (1.24%) C#
11 7 (1.08%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.93%) Perl
13 4 (0.62%) Scala
14 3 (0.46%) PHP
15 2 (0.31%) Bash
15 2 (0.31%) Ruby
16 1 (0.15%) Groovy
16 1 (0.15%) Korn
16 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 164 (25.39%) Security Cleared
2 132 (20.43%) SC Cleared
3 34 (5.26%) Degree
4 22 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.70%) OCP
6 11 (1.70%) Oracle Certification
7 8 (1.24%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.93%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.62%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (10.53%) QA
2 48 (7.43%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.94%) ISO 20022
4 17 (2.63%) WCAG
5 9 (1.39%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.39%) PSD2
5 9 (1.39%) SEPA
6 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.62%) NIST
7 3 (0.46%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.46%) GDPR
7 3 (0.46%) HL7
7 3 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.31%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.31%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.31%) NCSC
9 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 262 (40.56%) Docker
2 6 (0.93%) Postfix
3 3 (0.46%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 298 (46.13%) Kubernetes
2 86 (13.31%) Grafana
3 85 (13.16%) Terraform
4 46 (7.12%) Prometheus
5 22 (3.41%) Ansible
6 14 (2.17%) Argo
7 11 (1.70%) Kibana
8 9 (1.39%) Kiali
9 7 (1.08%) Istio
10 2 (0.31%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.31%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.15%) Consul
11 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 54 (8.36%) Oracle
2 37 (5.73%) Splunk
3 32 (4.95%) Microsoft
4 31 (4.80%) Google
5 11 (1.70%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.39%) Jaspersoft
6 9 (1.39%) Sybase
7 7 (1.08%) Atlassian
7 7 (1.08%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.08%) ForgeRock
8 6 (0.93%) Adobe
8 6 (0.93%) Databricks
8 6 (0.93%) IBM
8 6 (0.93%) PagerDuty
8 6 (0.93%) SAP
8 6 (0.93%) Virgin Media
9 5 (0.77%) Solace
10 4 (0.62%) Confluent
10 4 (0.62%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.62%) VMware