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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 189 200
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 +8
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 748 428 516
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 1.45% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.64% 6.36% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 292 398
10th Percentile £386 £325 £375
25th Percentile £425 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -13.04%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £657 £615 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £446 £483
% change year-on-year +6.90% -7.76% -5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 1
10th Percentile - £47.00 -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £75.50 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.27% -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 9,789 6,726 9,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.59% 22.85% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,432 4,599 6,367
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £536
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -2.94% -2.59%
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 281 118 263
10th Percentile £31.03 £29.20 £22.10
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.84 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +18.94% -23.85%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.56 £68.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.35 £74.49
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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +37 623 £514 +2.75% 86
UK excluding London +7 351 £476 +6.90% 70
London +36 310 £525 +2.44% 30
Work from Home -21 173 £490 -5.77% 40
North of England +1 153 £500 +8.11% 27
North West +12 99 £518 +31.68% 10
South West +16 53 £409 -25.64% 17
Midlands -56 46 £475 +15.57% 3
West Midlands -37 43 £475 - 2
Scotland -26 42 £405 -7.43% 3
Yorkshire -26 36 £475 -9.52% 13
East of England +9 32 £504 +7.70% 2
South East -62 26 £500 -6.89% 14
North East -21 21 £463 -5.61% 6
Wales -14 2 - - 2
East Midlands -37 2 £401 +12.01% 1
Northern Ireland -5 1 - - 3

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 (5.75%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.67%) 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 (0.53%) 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%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.67%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.53%) Quorum
2 4 (0.53%) 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
1 400 (53.48%) AWS
2 176 (23.53%) Azure
3 125 (16.71%) GCP
4 117 (15.64%) GitHub
5 80 (10.70%) GitHub Actions
6 73 (9.76%) Amazon S3
7 71 (9.49%) Serverless
8 65 (8.69%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (6.02%) Amazon SQS
10 42 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
11 37 (4.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 36 (4.81%) OpenShift
13 34 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
14 30 (4.01%) Amazon EKS
15 22 (2.94%) Route 53
16 20 (2.67%) Cloud Run
17 19 (2.54%) Azure AKS
17 19 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
18 18 (2.41%) AWS KMS
19 16 (2.14%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.34%) HTTP
2 8 (1.07%) Firewall
3 4 (0.53%) DNS
3 4 (0.53%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.27%) SSL
5 1 (0.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (20.05%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (12.43%) NoSQL
3 82 (10.96%) Relational Database
4 78 (10.43%) MongoDB
5 60 (8.02%) MySQL
6 52 (6.95%) DynamoDB
7 50 (6.68%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (3.61%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.34%) Amazon Aurora
10 21 (2.81%) Redis
11 19 (2.54%) Big Data
11 19 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (2.27%) Flink
13 14 (1.87%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (1.47%) 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
1 171 (22.86%) Jenkins
2 166 (22.19%) Git
3 119 (15.91%) JUnit
4 113 (15.11%) GitLab
5 72 (9.63%) Gradle
6 69 (9.22%) Mockito
7 58 (7.75%) Maven
8 47 (6.28%) JIRA
9 35 (4.68%) SonarQube
10 24 (3.21%) Selenium
11 23 (3.07%) IntelliJ
12 21 (2.81%) Cucumber
13 20 (2.67%) REST Assured
14 18 (2.41%) Liquibase
15 17 (2.27%) Gatling
16 14 (1.87%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.74%) jMock
18 12 (1.60%) Bitbucket Server
18 12 (1.60%) Serenity BDD
19 10 (1.34%) Mocha
General
1 158 (21.12%) Finance
2 139 (18.58%) Social Skills
3 121 (16.18%) Public Sector
4 81 (10.83%) Banking
5 39 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.94%) Retail
7 17 (2.27%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.60%) 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
1 409 (54.68%) Developer
2 314 (41.98%) Java Developer
3 163 (21.79%) Senior
4 133 (17.78%) Java Engineer
5 107 (14.30%) Software Engineer
6 85 (11.36%) Senior Developer
7 72 (9.63%) Lead
8 67 (8.96%) Senior Java Developer
9 63 (8.42%) Full-Stack Developer
10 57 (7.62%) Java Software Engineer
11 41 (5.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 34 (4.55%) Backend Developer
12 34 (4.55%) Software Developer
13 31 (4.14%) Lead Developer
14 27 (3.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 26 (3.48%) Senior Java Engineer
16 23 (3.07%) Data Engineer
17 22 (2.94%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 21 (2.81%) Lead Java Developer
19 18 (2.41%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 695 (92.91%) Spring
2 222 (29.68%) Kafka
3 194 (25.94%) RESTful
4 186 (24.87%) REST
5 149 (19.92%) React
6 108 (14.44%) Node.js
7 81 (10.83%) AngularJS
8 62 (8.29%) Hibernate
9 61 (8.16%) JPA
10 55 (7.35%) HTML
11 51 (6.82%) Spring Cloud
12 45 (6.02%) CSS
12 45 (6.02%) Spring MVC
13 43 (5.75%) Web Services
14 42 (5.61%) OpenTelemetry
15 39 (5.21%) OAuth
16 36 (4.81%) OAuth2
17 33 (4.41%) Next.js
17 33 (4.41%) SOAP
18 32 (4.28%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 141 (18.85%) Cloud Native
2 85 (11.36%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (5.75%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.74%) 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 12 (1.60%) Public Cloud
8 11 (1.47%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.34%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
11 8 (1.07%) Management Information System
12 7 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (0.80%) Blockchain
13 6 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.55%) Linux
2 20 (2.67%) 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
1 442 (59.09%) Microservices
2 429 (57.35%) CI/CD
3 307 (41.04%) Agile
4 290 (38.77%) DevOps
5 253 (33.82%) Containerisation
6 197 (26.34%) Software Engineering
7 158 (21.12%) Full-Stack Development
8 156 (20.86%) TDD
9 133 (17.78%) Event-Driven
10 127 (16.98%) Test Automation
11 114 (15.24%) Scrum
12 113 (15.11%) Observability
13 105 (14.04%) Code Quality
13 105 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 99 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
15 87 (11.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 86 (11.50%) Infrastructure as Code
17 71 (9.49%) BDD
18 69 (9.22%) Mentoring
19 63 (8.42%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 725 (96.93%) Java
2 233 (31.15%) SQL
3 110 (14.71%) JavaScript
4 96 (12.83%) TypeScript
5 86 (11.50%) Python
6 41 (5.48%) Kotlin
7 21 (2.81%) PL/SQL
8 16 (2.14%) Shell Script
9 15 (2.01%) Go
10 12 (1.60%) C#
11 7 (0.94%) Rust
11 7 (0.94%) Scala
12 6 (0.80%) Ruby
13 5 (0.67%) Perl
13 5 (0.67%) Solidity
14 4 (0.53%) Bash
15 3 (0.40%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.27%) Korn
16 2 (0.27%) PHP
16 2 (0.27%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 204 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 166 (22.19%) SC Cleared
3 39 (5.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 31 (4.14%) 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 79 (10.56%) QA
2 68 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.87%) ISO 20022
4 12 (1.60%) 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 (0.53%) 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
1 326 (43.58%) Docker
2 11 (1.47%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 314 (41.98%) Kubernetes
2 87 (11.63%) Grafana
3 84 (11.23%) Terraform
4 59 (7.89%) Prometheus
5 38 (5.08%) Ansible
6 15 (2.01%) Argo
7 10 (1.34%) Istio
8 9 (1.20%) Kibana
9 8 (1.07%) Kiali
10 4 (0.53%) Control-M
10 4 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.27%) Consul
11 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 69 (9.22%) Oracle
2 36 (4.81%) Google
3 34 (4.55%) Splunk
4 28 (3.74%) Microsoft
5 17 (2.27%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (1.87%) Atlassian
6 14 (1.87%) IBM
7 11 (1.47%) Dynatrace
7 11 (1.47%) Red Hat
8 10 (1.34%) Sybase
9 9 (1.20%) Checkmarx
9 9 (1.20%) Databricks
10 8 (1.07%) Solace
11 6 (0.80%) MuleSoft
11 6 (0.80%) New Relic
11 6 (0.80%) Okta
12 5 (0.67%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.67%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.67%) Teradata
13 4 (0.53%) SAP