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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 188 196
Rank change year-on-year +9 +8 +32
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 771 450 527
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 1.47% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.70% 6.47% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 316 414
10th Percentile £380 £319 £375
25th Percentile £425 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £545 £625
90th Percentile £663 £605 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +6.94% -5.26% -6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 10 1
10th Percentile £49.00 £41.75 -
25th Percentile £62.00 £51.25 £69.50
Median hourly rate £76.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% -23.61% -7.69%
75th Percentile £90.00 £83.44 £74.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.50 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +37.27% -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 10,014 6,956 9,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.51% 22.73% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,566 4,715 6,337
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 141 282
10th Percentile £30.00 £27.50 £22.53
25th Percentile £51.25 £35.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £74.82 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +30 635 £512 +7.74% 112
UK excluding London -12 361 £481 +6.94% 84
London +18 319 £525 +5.00% 51
Work from Home -24 172 £488 -5.57% 52
North of England -8 151 £500 +7.53% 27
North West -15 92 £525 +30.60% 11
South West +11 51 £409 -23.91% 16
Midlands -54 49 £475 +18.16% 10
West Midlands -30 46 £480 +1.05% 9
Scotland -23 45 £405 -8.85% 5
Yorkshire -18 44 £475 -9.52% 11
East of England +5 32 £504 +7.70% 4
South East -51 31 £450 -16.20% 15
North East -24 18 £450 -8.16% 6
Wales -13 5 £375 -21.05% 7
East Midlands -36 2 £401 +20.42% 1
Northern Ireland -1 1 - -

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 45 (5.84%) Apache Spark
2 22 (2.85%) Apache
3 20 (2.59%) Confluence
4 15 (1.95%) Camunda
5 11 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.43%) WebLogic
6 10 (1.30%) Ethereum
6 10 (1.30%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.52%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.26%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.26%) Drupal
9 2 (0.26%) Mule
9 2 (0.26%) nginx
9 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.26%) WordPress
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.65%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.52%) Quorum
2 4 (0.52%) Ripple
3 3 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.26%) Shopify
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 416 (53.96%) AWS
2 188 (24.38%) Azure
3 130 (16.86%) GCP
4 118 (15.30%) GitHub
5 77 (9.99%) GitHub Actions
6 75 (9.73%) Amazon S3
7 73 (9.47%) Serverless
8 66 (8.56%) AWS Lambda
9 44 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
9 44 (5.71%) Amazon SQS
10 38 (4.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 38 (4.93%) OpenShift
11 34 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
12 29 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
13 24 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (2.85%) Route 53
15 19 (2.46%) Azure AKS
16 18 (2.33%) AWS KMS
17 16 (2.08%) AWS Fargate
17 16 (2.08%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.43%) HTTP
2 7 (0.91%) Firewall
3 4 (0.52%) DNS
3 4 (0.52%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.13%) SMS
4 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (20.62%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (12.71%) NoSQL
3 90 (11.67%) Relational Database
4 81 (10.51%) MongoDB
5 61 (7.91%) MySQL
6 52 (6.74%) DynamoDB
7 50 (6.49%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (3.89%) SQL Server
9 24 (3.11%) Amazon Aurora
10 22 (2.85%) Redis
11 20 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
12 19 (2.46%) Big Data
12 19 (2.46%) Flink
13 15 (1.95%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (1.69%) RDBMS
15 10 (1.30%) Data Lake
15 10 (1.30%) Metadata
16 9 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (1.17%) Db2
17 7 (0.91%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 185 (23.99%) Jenkins
2 178 (23.09%) Git
3 130 (16.86%) JUnit
4 105 (13.62%) GitLab
5 74 (9.60%) Mockito
6 73 (9.47%) Gradle
7 67 (8.69%) Maven
8 47 (6.10%) JIRA
9 37 (4.80%) SonarQube
10 24 (3.11%) Selenium
11 21 (2.72%) Cucumber
11 21 (2.72%) REST Assured
12 18 (2.33%) Liquibase
13 17 (2.20%) Gatling
14 16 (2.08%) IntelliJ
15 14 (1.82%) DbUnit
16 13 (1.69%) jMock
17 12 (1.56%) Bitbucket Server
17 12 (1.56%) Serenity BDD
18 10 (1.30%) Postman
General
1 167 (21.66%) Finance
2 145 (18.81%) Social Skills
3 127 (16.47%) Public Sector
4 82 (10.64%) Banking
5 46 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.46%) Retail
7 15 (1.95%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.56%) Law
9 11 (1.43%) Military
10 6 (0.78%) Publishing
10 6 (0.78%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.65%) Automotive
11 5 (0.65%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.39%) Police
13 2 (0.26%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.26%) Legal
13 2 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 429 (55.64%) Developer
2 335 (43.45%) Java Developer
3 161 (20.88%) Senior
4 132 (17.12%) Java Engineer
5 102 (13.23%) Software Engineer
6 83 (10.77%) Senior Developer
7 82 (10.64%) Lead
8 68 (8.82%) Senior Java Developer
9 56 (7.26%) Full-Stack Developer
10 53 (6.87%) Java Software Engineer
11 37 (4.80%) Backend Developer
11 37 (4.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 36 (4.67%) Lead Developer
13 35 (4.54%) Software Developer
14 30 (3.89%) Senior Java Engineer
15 25 (3.24%) Data Engineer
15 25 (3.24%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 24 (3.11%) Lead Java Developer
16 24 (3.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 20 (2.59%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 719 (93.26%) Spring
2 237 (30.74%) Kafka
3 206 (26.72%) RESTful
4 197 (25.55%) REST
5 143 (18.55%) React
6 102 (13.23%) Node.js
7 78 (10.12%) AngularJS
8 69 (8.95%) Hibernate
9 66 (8.56%) JPA
10 59 (7.65%) HTML
11 48 (6.23%) CSS
11 48 (6.23%) Spring Cloud
12 46 (5.97%) Web Services
13 45 (5.84%) Spring MVC
14 37 (4.80%) OAuth
15 36 (4.67%) Redux
16 34 (4.41%) OAuth2
16 34 (4.41%) RabbitMQ
17 33 (4.28%) SOAP
18 31 (4.02%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 148 (19.20%) Cloud Native
2 94 (12.19%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (6.49%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (1.95%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.82%) Mobile App
9 13 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.56%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.43%) Onboarding
12 7 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (0.78%) AI Agents
13 6 (0.78%) Blockchain
13 6 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (6.23%) Linux
2 20 (2.59%) Unix
3 6 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.39%) VMS
5 2 (0.26%) Windows
6 1 (0.13%) Android
6 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (58.63%) CI/CD
2 450 (58.37%) Microservices
3 329 (42.67%) Agile
4 304 (39.43%) DevOps
5 251 (32.56%) Containerisation
6 196 (25.42%) Software Engineering
7 166 (21.53%) TDD
8 152 (19.71%) Full-Stack Development
9 148 (19.20%) Event-Driven
10 144 (18.68%) Test Automation
11 127 (16.47%) Scrum
12 114 (14.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 111 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
14 106 (13.75%) Code Quality
14 106 (13.75%) Observability
15 100 (12.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 83 (10.77%) Infrastructure as Code
17 73 (9.47%) BDD
18 71 (9.21%) Mentoring
19 64 (8.30%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 755 (97.92%) Java
2 252 (32.68%) SQL
3 109 (14.14%) JavaScript
4 90 (11.67%) TypeScript
5 87 (11.28%) Python
6 40 (5.19%) Kotlin
7 28 (3.63%) PL/SQL
8 16 (2.08%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.82%) Go
10 13 (1.69%) C#
11 9 (1.17%) Scala
12 6 (0.78%) Ruby
13 5 (0.65%) Bash
13 5 (0.65%) Perl
13 5 (0.65%) Solidity
14 4 (0.52%) Rust
15 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.26%) PHP
16 2 (0.26%) PromQL
17 1 (0.13%) Korn
Qualifications
1 219 (28.40%) Security Cleared
2 182 (23.61%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 33 (4.28%) Degree
5 24 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.82%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.91%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.65%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (11.80%) QA
2 68 (8.82%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.69%) ISO 20022
4 10 (1.30%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.30%) WCAG
5 9 (1.17%) SEPA
6 8 (1.04%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.91%) GDPR
7 7 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.65%) PSD2
9 4 (0.52%) NIST
10 3 (0.39%) EMIR
10 3 (0.39%) MiFID
11 2 (0.26%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.13%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.13%) ITGC
12 1 (0.13%) NCSC
12 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 333 (43.19%) Docker
2 11 (1.43%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 321 (41.63%) Kubernetes
2 83 (10.77%) Terraform
3 73 (9.47%) Grafana
4 54 (7.00%) Prometheus
5 37 (4.80%) Ansible
6 12 (1.56%) Kibana
7 10 (1.30%) Control-M
8 8 (1.04%) Argo
9 6 (0.78%) Istio
10 5 (0.65%) Kiali
11 4 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.26%) Consul
12 2 (0.26%) Zipkin
13 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
13 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 82 (10.64%) Oracle
2 39 (5.06%) Google
3 34 (4.41%) Splunk
4 33 (4.28%) Microsoft
5 17 (2.20%) IBM
5 17 (2.20%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (1.82%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.69%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.43%) Databricks
8 11 (1.43%) Sybase
9 10 (1.30%) Solace
10 9 (1.17%) Checkmarx
10 9 (1.17%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.04%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.78%) New Relic
12 6 (0.78%) Okta
12 6 (0.78%) TikTok
13 5 (0.65%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.65%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.65%) Informatica